Projects in categories: Documentary

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Brit Muslim: a community profile is an exclusive insight to the contemporary life of two million British Muslims, challenging the very important issues of identity and Britishness, and contribution of Muslims to British society. The film shows a realistic portrait of the present situation of Muslims in Britain from different historical, political, economic, social, religious, artistic and scientific perspectives. Many scholars, academics, scientists, senior politicians, entrepreneurs, artists and journalists have been participated in this film. By presenting facts and realities and putting forward key questions to evoke discussions on Muslims in Britain from different points of view, this informative, educative and thought provoking film distinguishes itself from other similar works.

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From October 2008 - April 2010, Leighton House Museum closed for extensive restoration and refurbishment. This was an important moment in the history of the house, reinstating the historic interiors to as close as they would have appeared before Frederic Lord Leighton's death in 1896. The film-maker and photographer Frederique Cifuentes Morgan was commissioned to record the project from beginning to end. This film tells the story of this significant project and celebrates the work of the outstanding craft specialists who brought the work to completion.

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A conflict is raging in the US. Protests, political movements and murder have taken place in the name of an unlikely ideal: clotheslines. Tens of millions of individuals across Northern America are banned from outdoor line drying by the very communities they live in, forcing them to turn to the dryer. Homeowners who break the rules are fined, sued and even foreclosed on. This ban is not only infringing on civil rights, it's contributing to the environmental and energy crisis. The dryer is responsible for 6% of the average household's energy bill and it costs residential ratepayers in the US an estimated $5 billion annually. Corporate America has sold the dryer and the consumption of electricity as a status symbol, and now they have their eyes on a much bigger prize - the world.

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Frame On Frame team visited Mackeys. Join us as we we go back in time to the John Wayne/Marion Robert Morrison Rifles. First and Second World War guns. Harry gives us the lowdown on every thing about firearms and the way the American's live with their guns. You will have a very different view on firearms after watching this documentary.

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I. D. is a one minute documentary about a teenager searching for her identity in the intimacy of the photo booth.

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It's been 20 years since Peri the Kurd first walked into the town of Halabja in the aftermath of the chemical gas attack Saddam Hussein launched against the Kurdish people. 20 years since he buried his best friend and his Kalashnikov and walked west. West and West and West and until I ended up in Glasgow, which was as west as I could get. Filmed over 5 years, Kurdi tells the story of a man in search of himself, his people, his gun and a country that doesn't exist.

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Life In A Day is a historical global event to create the first user generated feature film documenting a single day on Earth. From Academy Award winning director Kevin MacDonald and producer Ridley Scott.

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Filmmaker Hannah Rothschild was granted access to all areas of Peter Mandelson's life from October 2009, shadowing the then First Secretary of State and Business Secretary through to June this year, following Labour's election failure.

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At three, Budhia Singh had already run six 13-mile half-marathons. Born into the slums of Bhubaneswar in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Budhia's mother sold him to a peddler for 800 rupees. Not long after Biranchi Das, a judo teacher who also runs an orphanage, bought him back, and soon discovers Budhia's talent for running. But when Biranchi has the four year old Budhia run 42 miles, the debate begins: is he providing Budhia with a rare opportunity, or is he exploiting a boy too young to know what he really wants. When the government gets involved the case becomes a political football, and rumours of vast sums of money attract gangsters eager to drive a wedge between Biranchi and Budhia. What starts out as a real Slumdog Millionaire turns into a the stuff of film noir, a tale of dreams, greed, and envy, with a child at its centre.

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Bitten by the Moonbug, photographer Steve Pyke sets out on a journey across America in his search to meet and photograph the Apollo space pioneers. A journey in which he was to meet the adventurers, risk takers and dreamers who were behind one of the most historic endeavours of our time. From living rooms, and moonscape deserts, to Cape Canaveral, Steve captures these men in frank, revealing portraits, while unravelling their very personal and divergent memories. With rare archive footage and an original score by Matt Johnson (The The), Moonbug is both a photographic road trip and an exploration of how photographs become signposts for history.

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The most dangerous journey needs a helping hand.