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Billy Hull was a prison officer in The Maze/Long Kesh. Against prison policy Billy collected items from various individuals, incidents and occurrences. On his retirement Billy organised a display of the objects. The public has never seen this collection.

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Cabinet is a meditation on the fetish objects of the Unabomber's story: wilderness, typewriting, cabin, and bomb. The film includes DV and Super 8 footage shot in Montana, archive, computer animation and S16mm live action, a Shaker song, an Edison cylinder recording, and bird song recordings from Cornell University.

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This documentary tells the story of the protracted war in Chechnya from the perspective of Soviet and current Russian dissidents. Comparisons are drawn between the Chechen invasion and that of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and how the Chechen invasion helped to bring the ruthless KGB to absolute power in Russia today.

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1855. An English cavalryman returns from the Crimean intent on marrying his sweetheart, only to find she is expected to wed another. To resolve the issue he accepts the challenge of a duel; for a love you would not die for is no love at all.

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Afterlife is a film about love and filial responsibility. It's the story of two siblings, Kenny and Roberta Brogan. Kenny is an ambitious young journalist, standing on the brink of a fantastic career opportunity in New York. Roberta has Down's syndrome and still lives at home with their mother, May. Two very different siblings. Two very different lives. But everything is about to change when tragedy strikes and they are forced to reassess their future.

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Theirs is, at heart, a love story: Andrew and Jeremy met each other at Bromptons Club, a legendary gay bar in Earls Court, London. Despite a considerable age gap (Andy is 49, Jeremy 69) and stark social differences, they fell in love and began sharing their lives together. Five years later, in May 2004, they got married at an emotional and intimate Town Hall ceremony.

Andy is a retired bus driver from South London, handsome in that rough and roguish way. Jeremy is an English professor -  cute, fussy, vivacious and clearly from a patrician world. Both men experienced painful early struggles with their sexuality. Jeremy had a failed marriage to a woman, followed by a misguided attempt to 'cure' himself. Andy cruised public washrooms and indulged with much promiscuity - gay bars, drug addiction, crime, prison and rehabilitation. Jeremy has literary connections and moves in a sphere of chic dinner parties, poetry readings and gay picnics. Between their homes in London and their exploits in Palm Springs and Hollywood, we get to know these likeable, complex and sensitive men in a way that is rare in movies - which is to say we begin to care deeply about them and their relationship.

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An observational documentary about Natty, a 19-year-old from Birmingham, who has just been released from prison, where he was sent for violent crime. Will financial and peer pressure lead Natty back into gang crime? Through the course of filming, Moby Longinotto raises difficult questions - should we be observing these lives and if and when should we be getting involved?
 

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Brothers of the Head  is the story of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe - a freak show turned proto-punk sensation.

As teenagers in the early 1970s, the Howe twins were plucked from obscurity by a music promoter who groomed them into a rock-and-roll act. Against all expectations, the boys - performing as The Bang-Bang - quickly appropriated their status as 'freaks' and spat it back in the form of searing, aggressive rock.
Grasping at the truth from an array of often unreliable accounts, the story follows the twins as they negotiate love, artistic rivalry, and the cruel suppression of their unique voice.

Brothers of the Head  investigates our impulse to celebrate the extraordinary, and our tragic compulsion to claim, de-mystify and destroy it.

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Luke Goss teams up with Steven Berkoff to tell the real life story of Charlie Richardson, the head of the notorious ‘torture gang’.

In the 1960s, London was owned and ruled by two families, north of the river the Krays, to the south the Richardsons. Now for the first time in his own words Charlie reveals what really happened.

London, 30 July 1966, England win the World Cup, a fabled day in English history. But also on that day Charlie Richardson's life was about to change forever. He was arrested and tried in what became known as the ‘torture trial’, a trial of gravest importance to British society. The case was so significant that even today the files remain sealed. 104 jurors were finally whittled down to 12 , each of whom was given a personal bodyguard. At a time when The Beatles ruled the world and young Americans were fighting in Vietnam, for ten weeks the British public was glued to the events at the Old Bailey, where Charlie Richardson was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

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Creep is an intimate family drama set in Yorkshire. Christopher, seven years old, lives with his mum and wayward half brother. Christopher's dad disappeared without trace six months ago leaving the family to struggle with daily life and idle gossip. Christopher decides to confide in an elderly neighbour, Reg.

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Two war correspondence are escorted to a recently bombed town. The apparent perpetrators are about to be executed in front of a baying mob of survivors. One journalist doubts the guilt of the adolescent prisoners; the other believes they are not there to take sides but to take pictures.

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Thirty years in the future, mankind has been forced underground by a deadly virus. The surface is thought to be a lifeless wasteland. Loki and Sash, two members of the 'Subtropolis' special forces, are thrust into a deadly adventure when they accept a new mission:

Return topside, rescue a lost recon team and come back alive.
One problem: they've been lied to. Cut off from civilisation and slowly being infected by the deadly disease, their ordeal is just beginning. Before long the inhabitants of this apocalyptic world show up and are hungry. For them.

A thrill-a-minute sci-fi horror that will infect you with fear.