Projects in categories: Documentary

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A science and wildlife special about how animals adapt to the world's extreme environments. In the face of extreme and dramatic changes, an animal species has only one choice - it must adapt.

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Apple experts Dr Joan Morgan and Bob Sanders search for the lost variety of apple known as 'Kitchen Door'. On their journey, they discuss the history of apples from the Roman Empire to the present day. A light-hearted, irreverent trip through the world of apples and its extraordinary characters.

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April Diary is the poetic chronicle of a descent to the horrors behind the Falklands War. A highly subjective and personal search for the fragments of an ongoing war in Argentina, which resonates throughout the whole of Latin America.

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Follows eight people, including a mother and child in their search for complementary, non-drug therapies to treat their Asthma. We meet and observe the practitioners treating them and hear from experts in the field. Treatments covered in the programme are: Acupuncture, Hypnotherapy, The Buteyko Method, Yoga, Cranio-Sacral Therapy.

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This film follows eight women giving birth in a variety of circumstances. No attempt is made to promote one method of childbirth in favour of another and all births are seen as a triumph.

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The Edinburgh Samba School has been playing Brazilian samba around Scotland for ten years. This year they and their kilted mascot, Hamish, join the drag parade kicking off Brazil's famous Olinda Carnival.

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Carol and Nancy is the story of how a tragedy brought two very different families together.

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This documentary is more than anything a film about punk ideology told by punk survivors. The characters have been faithful to the 70's riot, have developed their aggression into reflective thoughts and opinions. In making our film we have discovered the extremes within this community and how, after more than twenty years, the music is still as popular today.

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This programme presents the experience of fatherhood through the eyes of 10 very different men. Their personal stories will help all prospective fathers understand and cope with the changes in their lives that parenthood brings.

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DIY is a serious and irreverent film framed by the search of contemporary gay artist, Michael Atavar, for clues to his culture and his past. Through the location of a disused public toilet and notorious cottage in Islington, a cottage once frequented by playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell, the film explores changes in Britain and changes in gay life.

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A documentary about Harold and Marian, two old friends living in Grantham. As they reach the ends of their lives they tell their stories, bridging past and present and revealing the secret of their contentment.

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Wilford Rafael Baptiste came from an island to an island and built an island. In his tiny pocket-handkerchief back yard he has become a true master of gardening inventions and has rebuilt his own miniature paradise.