Projects in categories: Documentary

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Hinterland is a resonant documentary that focuses on a community which lives on the fastest eroding coastline in England. The film asks how it feels to live in such a precarious situation with homes threatened by the elements.

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Between 1969 and 1999 over 1000 died in police custody in Britain. In this controversial documentary four women fight to find out how their own loved ones died. Each family is met with a wall of official silence and the film documents how they unite and challenge this together. The documentary uses powerful exclusive footage filmed over a five year period and witnesses the families' pain and anger at the killings.

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One year ago, Bob Sutton and George Lloyd entered the walls of The Royal Hospital, Chelsea - a grand palatial refuge for old British soldiers. Having lost their wives and sold most of their possessions, they have been forced to adapt to an environment both surreal and depressing.
 

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A humorous and moving documentary about the meaning of life for five disparate members of a unique men's group on a housing estate in SW Burnley, Lancashire. Through the men's life experiences emerges a portrait of a working class town with very little work. Compassionate and thought provoking.

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These were the babies born at the beginning of the twentieth century, amongst them Rosa Mintz, daughter of immigrants, who served in the Red Cross with the Allies liberating Belsen concentration camp and Gai Eaton, entering his eighth decade when we encountered him still working at the Central London Mosque.

This is a celebration of the diverse community of older Britons.

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Nobody Someday is a feature film about Robbie Williams. It was shot during his five week tour of Europe. Robbie had just given up alcohol and drugs and was trying to decide whether he wanted to continue being a popstar. Although he is the main attraction, the film also examines the circus that surrounds a modern celebrity.

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A fever dream of myths, taxes and housing. Once upon a time in England. Windows were bricked up because of the window tax. Today windows are bricked up - although nowhere near as elegant a feature as found in the city's old houses - in houses facing demolition, preventing illegal entrance.

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Interactive drama-documentary (online, broadband, with full-screen full-motion video) about avoiding legal pitfalls in dental practice.

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Film maker Carol Morley retraces the journey to India she took years before: where her friend and travelling companion, Corky, nearly died in an accident.

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Tells the story of the conservation of a rare 18th century folding screen painted by Utagawa Toyoharu. It presents a unique opportunity to share the expertise of Mitsuhiro Abe, master restorer at the British Museum as he uses traditional Japanese tools and techniques to conserve these remarkable paintings.

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Veteran BBC Radio DJ John Peel takes his first visit to Derry and discovers for himself the band that forged his favourite pop song 'Teenage Kicks'.

The film, through the use of archive footage, including previously unseen material of Derry and The Undertones, takes us back to 1975. To a time when it would have been normal, even expected, for five Derry teenagers to get together and have a riot. The Undertones got together, formed a band and created their own form of riot, bursting into a vigorous and joyous celebration of their own existence. The band was made up of former choirboy and distinctively voiced lead singer Feargal Sharkey, the O'Neil brothers, John and Damian, played guitars. Michael Bradley joined in with bass and Billy Doherty beat the drums.

Peel takes us on a journey of discovery in which he expresses his amazement at the band's innocence, the completely artless way in which they resisted all hype and packaging. The Undertones would play to packed houses of adoring fans and then go home to Derry, to parents who waited up for them. Reared in a town where the most abhorred social disgrace was to get above yourself, they refused to take it seriously.

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The Christian community of Methernitha, which invented the Testatika, lives in Switzerland where they guard their new technology from a world desperate for an answer to global warming and ecological disaster.