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Bowes Line
(1975)
Built in the 1820s by George Stephenson, the Bowes Railway linked Kibblesworth Colliery with Jarrow Staithes. The full sets of coal wagons were hauled up the steep hills until they reached Springwell,...
Boy Can't Help It, The
(2001)
The filmmakers return to catch up with John Davidson, the teenager with Tourette's Syndrome who featured in the famous BBC documentary John's Not Mad and who i...
Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, The
(2003)
Mir Hussain is a normal young boy, living what he considers a normal life, but which to a westerner's eye is extraordinary. He and his family live in the caves that used to sit behind the great Buddha...
Boy Whose Skin Fell Off, The
(2004)
Jonny Kennedy is 36 and suffers from a genetic condition called
Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a skin condition that means
his skin literally falls off at the slightest touch. He has been
d...
Boys Keep Gaming
(2006)
The brave new world of the Digital revolution offers unprecedented access to audio visual technology, but within this apparent democratisation, archaic gender divisions aggressively reassert themselve...
Breaking the Cycle
(1997)
School exclusions now begin at five or younger, leaving restless
children at home or on the streets. It labels them as troublemakers
and can blight the rest of their lives.
If they an...
Breaking up with the Joneses
(2006)
Lynne and Stephen Jones were married for nine years, but now it's over. Like one in three couples in Britain, they have decided to separate. Breaking up with the Joneses charts their separation and th...
Brick In The Wall Kids, The
(2007)
Through interviews with the former pupils of one London comprehensive whose maverick music teacher took them to sing on the iconic Pink Floyd record, this film tells the story of what happened to the ...
Brief History of Cuba in D Minor, A
(2000)
A musical documentary recounting the history of Cuba, using cabaret
style musical numbers, archive footage, graphics, and illustrations
to present an ironic look at a particular American perspective...
Brief History of Errol Morris, A
(2000)
Kevin Macdonald meets Errol Morris, the man responsible for some of
the most thought-provoking documentaries of the 80s and 90s. A
former philosophy student and private investigator, Errol Morris
h...
Brighton Bomb, The
(2004)
Marking the 20th anniversary of the IRA's attempt to blow up the cabinet, this film revisits the tragedy and heroism of the Brighton bombing. The film tells of the events that led to Margaret Thatcher...
Britain: The Lie of the Land
(1987)
Series of films broadcast on Channel 4 that includes Sanctuary Challenge, directed by John Akomfrah, and The End of the...
British Isles: A Natural History
(2004)
An eight-part series, during which Alan Titchmarsh journeys through
Britain's natural history.
1. 3 Billion Years in the Making: peeling back the layers of
Britain's past and its natu...
Britten's Children
(2004)
In this film Benjamin Britten's world of childhood and the music it
inspired are explored, and some of the boys who were close to him
talk for the first time about their relationships with the man. ...
Bronislaw Malinowski: Off the Verandah
(1985)
Bronislaw Malinowski was the anthropologist who really changed the way field studies were carried out. He worked on a remote group of Pacific islands and lived for long periods among the people he was...
Brute Force
(2007)
A ground breaking investigation revealing previously unreported rates of rape occurring within the US military. Two former female soldiers talk exclusively about their experiences of being sexually as...
Bukharin and the Terror
(1990)
Jane Treays' documentary about the case of Nikolai Bukharin, Lenin's advisor and editor of Pravda and Izvestia in the 1920s and 1930s. Bukharin was executed in 1938 after the last of Stalin's show tri...
Burgled
(1999)
A six-part series looking at the many sides of burglary, from the victim to the young burglar struggling to find employment after a jail term and finding the lure of crime growing as his success dimin...