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Calais: The Last Border
(2003)
Made for BBC2 and premiered at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, this film looks at the transient nature of Calais in Northern France where refugees and migrants from all over the worl...
Campest Men in Britain, The
(2002)
Men with powder puffs. Men in dresses. Men with limp wrists. Men
throwing hissy fits in hat shops. They're not all gay: John
Williams has been married for 20 years while Pink Peter is a lethal
ladi...
Cancer Wars
(1998)
A moving and informative 'social' history of cancer for Channel 4
and WETA.
Can't Beat It Alone
(1985)
Made by Amber’s Current Affairs Unit, the video grew out of the engagement with the campaign against pit closures, the anti-nuclear and the peace movement. The context was the Miners’ Stri...
Care House
(2003)
John and Rose Cusick run a care home in York, looking after people with learning difficulties and 'challenging behaviour' - some of whom have previously been in trouble with the police. Over six month...
Cathy Come Home
(1966)
The film that it is said led to the birth of homeless charity
Shelter, this drama by Ken Loach tells the story of Cathy and her
husband Reg, who struggle against poverty when an injury puts him
out...
Ceausescu: The King of Communism
(2002)
This film explores the Romanian dictator's extraordinary use of theatrical propaganda. Nicolae Ceausescu created a unique personality cult in the 1970s and 1980s, transforming communist Romania into o...
Celebration: Lush Life
(1994)
American writer Cheryl Martin presents a programme in which questions of home, race, gender and identity are discussed by young black British artists and writers.
Century's End
(2004)
A film poem about London in the last hours of the twentieth century. It is composed of documentary footage shot between midday and midnight on 31st December 1999.
Chaplin's Goliath
(1996)
Chaplin's Goliath is a film about Eric Campbell, the tall actor who was most famous for playing the archetypal villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character. Using rare footage, historical documents a...
Chappaquiddick
(1994)
First shown in the UK as part of the BBC’s “Inside Story” series. The filmmaker probes the stench of deceit around Senator Edward Kennedy’s infamous 1968 carcrash that resulted...
Cheat Neutral
(2007)
Since the sixties, concentrations of heartbreak in the atmosphere have risen dramatically. CheatNeutral.com offers a unique market-based solution to this essential problem of modern life. For the cost...
Cheese and the Worm, The
(1996)
Historical documentary on Christianity, heresy and witchcraft in
Northern Italy. Historian Carlo Ginsberg tells the true story of
Mennochio, a 16th-century Italian peasant burnt at the stake for
da...
Chicken Ranch
(1983)
A legalised brothel in the middle of the Nevada desert, where a
group of girls work, argue and make friends, looked over by a
patrician brothel owner and a madam with a sharp business mind.
Filmed ...
Child Against All Odds: Ice Babies, A
(2006)
A Child Against All Odds is a six-part BBC series on different aspects of IVF presented by fertility expert and well-known TV personality Robert Winston.
Child Miners
(2007)
A story depicting the lives of two child miners whose families depend on them to survive. Both boys want to fulfil their dreams of attending school and living normal lives, but medical experts say the...
Children of Beslan
(2005)
This film looks at the tragedy of the deadly Russian school siege
through the eyes of child survivors, exploring the devastating
impact of violent conflict on children. On September 1, 2004, a
grou...
Children of Chernobyl
(1991)
Showed in the Channel 4 Banned season, this film reveals for the
first time the true depths of the tragedy at Chernobyl through
exclusive archival film and eyewitness accounts and the continuing
hu...