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Back to Bombay
(2005)
Deepa Shastri was a baby in India when her parents found out she
was deaf. Fearing she would be treated as an outcast, they brought
her to the UK. Twenty five years later she goes back to India for
...
Bacon's Arena
(2005)
A profile of the great British painter Francis Bacon, whose life was as outrageous as his work. In this Arena film Director Adam Low is granted exclusive access to Bacon's work and creates an energeti...
Bad Behaviour
(2003)
Documentary for Channel 4 about a couple's last-ditch attempt to
transform the behaviour of their daughter. Diane and Fred were so
despairing of their daughter Georgina's tantrums that they had
ask...
Bad Boy
(2003)
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
bac...
Bad Sickness in Papua New Guinea, The
(2006)
The first reported case of HIV in Papua New Guinea was in 1987. Since then, this "Bad Sickness", perceived to be a punishment from God, has penetrated into the lives of the people and torn a...
Baghdad: A Doctor's Story
(2006)
Filmed exclusively by an Iraqi doctor this film reveals the terrible conditions of a civilian emergency room in Baghdad. Al Yarmouk Hospital is in the most dangerous area of Baghdad. Sectarian violenc...
Baka: People of the Forest
(1988)
This film, made for Channel 4 Television, is about the Baka Pygmies and their life in the tropical rainforest in Cameroon. In four parts - The Journey, Home, The Scandal and The Arrival - the film cen...
Baked Alaska
(2002)
America's coldest, richest State is warming ten times faster than the rest of the world. So why does Bush want to drill for more oil? He pulled out of Kyo...
Ballad of AJ Weberman, The
(2006)
Bob Dylan once said "I don't think I'm gonna be really understood until maybe 100 years from now". Author of the Dylan To English Dictionary, a Dylanologist and originator of Garbology (the ...
Ballet Changed My Life: Ballet Hoo!
(2006)
Series following a group of disadvantaged and troubled teenagers as they learn ballet, competing to perform in the MacMillan production of Romeo and Juliet live on stage with the Birmingham Royal Ball...
Banged Up Stand Up
(2005)
Lee, John and Vincent are inmates at Brixton Prison, who along with
nine other hapless "career-criminals" have signed up to a unique
and groundbreaking course. In just eight days each con will perfo...
Bata-ville: We are not afraid of the future
(2005)
Bata-ville is a bittersweet record of a coach trip to the origins
of the Bata shoe empire in Zlín in the Czech Republic. Against
the backdrop of regeneration in their local communities, former
...
Battaglia
(2004)
A journey through the life of the extraordinary Sicilian
photographer and anti-Mafia activist Letizia Battaglia. A story of
passion, pain and the struggle for freedom. At 37 Letizia, together
with ...
Battle for the Trees
(1992)
It is a complex battle being fought on many fronts--in corporate board rooms, in legislatures, on the streets, and in the woods.The weapons range from million-dollar public relations campaigns t...
Battle of Orgreave, The
(2002)
This film follows the project by conceptual artist Jeremy Deller to
recreate the climactic battle between miners and police in the 1984
miners' strike.
Structured around the preparati...
Battle of the Bogside
(2004)
On 12 August 1969, the disaffected Catholic population of the
Bogside district of Derry, Northern Ireland, took to the
streets in the wake of a Protestant Apprentice Boys parade in the
ci...
Beating the Bridges
(1998)
In his film, William Raban supports his images with music to show
how the 30 bridges that extend from the rich suburbs of west London
to the industrial flatlands past Dartford Bridge, can provide a
...
Beating the Bullies
(2003)
This film for BBC's One Life looks at a radical new initiative to
tackle childhood bullying: peer mediation. Visiting Heatherbrook
Primary School in Leicester, it looks at several children's
experi...
Because I Sing
(2001)
This film pieces together the story of Because I Sing, the unique
choral event staged in London at The Roundhouse. Featuring 16
amateur choirs ranging from the London Jewish Male Choir and the
W.I....