Projects in categories: Documentary

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La Muette housing estate in Drancy, outskirt of Paris: today houses people on low incomes, yesterday interned a total of 67,000 Jews on their way to death camps. If The Walls Could Speak is a documentary which traces the history of this building and brings the past into the present in a dynamic, contemporary way.

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The Amber Room was one of the world's greatest cultural treasures, until the Nazis invaded Russia in 1941 and ripped it from the walls of Catherine Palace. The secret of its fate has been kept for over fifty years. The documentary focuses on the relationship between art and war and encounters some of the people who have become obsessed with revealing the dark secrets of the Amber Room.

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83 year old Alphonse le Gastelois has lived entirely alone on an island for 14 years. Once sentenced for a crime he did not commit, he still keeps away from people.

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John Boorman's documentary records his personal quest to understand this 'complex, colourful crazy man' who had such a profound effect on his own life and work.

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The first and last encompassing view of the Three Gorges area before it is changed irrevocably, flooded by the building of the Three Gorges Dam in the heart of China. No area of China represents more emotional or historical importance to its people for it was in these gorges and mountains that Chinese life began.

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An experimental film concentrating on individuals within the Gay and Lesbian community, including lawyers, politicians, artists, porn stars, strippers, performers, teachers, health workers, journalists, etc

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Michaela Strachan reports on the emotional and dramatic race against time to rescue hundreds of injured and orphaned baby orangutans following the devastating forest fires in Indonesia.

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In January 1993 the Braer Oil Tanker was swept by storms onto the rocks of Shetland. The media reported that the 85,000 tons of crude oil would cause an environmental catastrophe. The film follows seal and bird rescue teams as they work to save as many victims as they can find. Five years later we assess the true damage of Britain's largest oil spill.

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Soldiers blinded in action share and show individual stories of how they rebuilt their lives. Each character portrays a new life after an incredible journey and a fight to live again. They reflect on both the sorrows and the new strengths they had to find to survive. A film about courage.

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Tattoo explores tattoos: history; women; ancient tattoos as protection; scarification; crusader tattoos; initiation into tribes; a Marquises Islands' tattoo; social outcasts; current fashion. It includes interviews with the founder of the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum, the foremost British tattoo artist, a professor of 19th Century History identification marks; and a psychiatrist.

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For centuries the Chinese have tried to tame the Yangtze and stem its murderous floods. In this documentary special spanning fields of science, technology, and engineering, Transatlantic Films will chart the building of the new Great Wall of China that will stop the flooding - the world's largest concrete structure . . . THE THREE GORGES DAM.

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Following a rising number of winter accidents in the Scottish mountains, the British Mountaineering Society sponsored this film in order to make climbers, trekkers and mountain walkers more aware of the dangers. Amid stunning scenery we look at the skills needed for safe and satisfying outdoor activities in a northern British winter.