Projects in categories: Documentary

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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.

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This programme helps teachers and parents prepare their children for the challenging and complex world of the Primary School. The film shows how parents, grandparents, carers, and sisters and brothers can play a vital role in developing the learning potential of the pre-school child.

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Lying between Lambeth Palace and the site of Bedlam is Hercules Road. From 1790 to 1797 William Blake lived here writing a large proportion of his major work. A multi-layered exploration of ideas from Blake's poetry.

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Individual stories about the special bond between human and horse. Filmed in Europe, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, we meet trainers, sportsmen, aspiring cowboys, and Horse Whisperer Monty Roberts, joining them through the challenges, sacrifices and the rewards.

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'. . . we're all scared of flying but we lull ourselves in to a false sense of security . . . it becomes like a video game, it's unreal, it's not really the ground, it's not really the wind, you're suspended in space and immortal.' Welcome to the world of aerobatics.

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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.