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Behind the Rent Strike
(1979)
Broomfield's graduation project from the National Film and
Television School, the film is about the rent strike in Kirkby New
Town in 1973, when 3000 residents protested against the Housing
Finance...
Behind The Vote
(1984)
Produced by Amber’s Current Affairs Unit, the video looked at the 1984 Chesterfield by-election, which saw the left wing politician Tony Benn return to parliament as the town’s new Labour ...
Being Mick
(2001)
Being Mick is a behind-the-scenes look at the world of rock legend
Mick Jagger, providing an intimate, economical portrait that
encompasses both his personal and professional life, both in the
stud...
Being Victoria Beckham
(2002)
Biographical documentary that goes through the different stages in the life of the WAG formerly known as Posh Spice. Starting with her childhood, then going through her time in the Spice Girls up unti...
Belgrade Blitz
(1999)
Video diary of a Serbian woman living with the daily bombing of Belgrade, shown on Channel 4.
Bella And The Boys
(2004)
This powerful drama is about a group of children growing up in a residential care home in south London. Rather than looking at the familiar territory of abusive care workers, this film explores some o...
Beneath the Veil
(2001)
Journalist Saira Shah returns to Afghanistan, where her father grew
up and where she had worked several years earlier. Often filming
undercover, she has extraordinary access to women living under
T...
Beshencevo: A Current History
(2006)
The village of Beshencevo in Central Russia lying beside Nizhni Novogorod and the Volga entertains a camera crew in the home of the Chiline family who have lived in the village. The family have lived ...
Betrayed, The
(1995)
Produced for Channel 4's True Stories, this documentary captures
the horror and destruction of the Chechen war. On New Year's Eve
1994, 3,500 untrained Russian conscripts were ordered to take the
C...
Beyond the Horizon- Episode 1
(2007)
Sudan is in the headlines everyday for one reason: Darfur. Beyond the horizon takes the audience past what the news covers to reveal a rich and diverse country that is in a constant struggle to get ba...
Big Families
(2001)
This film took a look at life in three families that have bucked the trend for fewer children and have at least nine children each. Through observational style filming with the three families over one...
Big Kids
(2005)
Two part documentary looking at the human stories behind the
shocking rise in rates of childhood obesity in the UK.
Big Red Bus
(2005)
The red bus is the global icon of London. There's 8,000 of them on London's streets, racking up a million miles a day. What does it take to become one of the 22,000 drivers?
With exclusiv...
Biggie and Tupac
(2002)
In typical Broomfield style, the documentary maker investigates the
now infamous deaths of two of hip hops biggest stars, drawing links
between their deaths, one of rap's most successful record labe...
Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
(2006)
In career spanning nearly 20 years, from 1972 to 1991, Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas only made four films and three of those were shorts. And yet he was highly acclaimed, winning the Silver Bear at ...
Biography: Elizabeth: The Reluctant Monarch
(2004)
First hosted by veteran actor Peter Graves, and later by Jack
Perkins, this popular Arts and Entertainment Network series
profiled the lives of notable figures in the history of
entertainment, spor...
Black Gold
(2006)
Black Gold is an alarming and timely documentary about our obsession with coffee and the damaging consequences this has on the people who produce it. Following the story of coffee from Ethiopian bean ...
Black on Red
(1990)
A documentary for Timewatch BBC-2 and part of the BBC's flagship
historical series, this film looks at the personal experiences of a
black American car worker in 1930s Russia.