Projects in categories: Documentary

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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.

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Psychologist Dr Howard Hall, travels from Ohio to Baghdad to visit a School of Sufis to assess their claims to possess a paranormal ability to heal the wounds inflicted on themselves during religious ceremonies. Impressed, Dr Hall invites a Sufi to visit Cleveland, to pierce himself under controlled medical conditions.

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The Spectre of Hope is a moving documentary about the present moment on our planet, based on the internationally renowned photographs of Sebastiao Salgado. Essential viewing for anyone concerned about the state of humanity at the start of the 21st century.

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Veerapan is India's most wanted criminal. Wanted for murdering 130 people and poaching 2000 elephants, he has been on the run for 12 years. Chris Hooke sets out to find him.

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Interactive drama-documentary (online, broadband, full-screen full-motion video) about oral cancer.

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The story seeks to give some semblance of truth about the initial arrival of Europeans in Africa, which eventually leads to slavery and colonisation. In the advent colonisation in Africa, one woman, Yaa Asantewa, refuses to hand over her land for British rule. She leads a tiny army to wage war against the British. This country was the centre of the slave trade and also had the largest reserve of gold at that time. The story unfolds in late 1471 when the Portuguese arrived on the West African coast in search of gold to mint coin currencies in Europe. Before their arrival, the Arabs were the main traders who also indulged in human trafficking. This factual documentary looks at the part various African tribes and Europeans play in slavery and its consequential effect. When slavery was abolished, colonisation also took over culminating into the scramble for Africa.