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Dancer's Body, The
(2002)
The Dancer's Body is a series of three programs presented by former
Royal Ballet ballerina Deborah Bull. The aim of the documentary is
to make a connection between science and the performing arts. T...
Dancing for Dollars
(1997)
These two films are about Russian ballet - the Bolshoi losing 2 million dollars in Las Vegas and the Kirov mired in corruption in St Petersburg, all played out against a background of a glorious archi...
Dark Days
(2000)
Few directorial debuts have been as unusual as that of Marc Singer, whose documentary film Dark Days follows the lives of the homeless people living in the train tunnels beneath Manhattan, engaged in ...
Day after Peace, The
(2008)
The Day After Peace charts the 10-year long world journey taken by filmmaker Jeremy Gilley to establish a day of peace on September 21st. During the course of ...
Day I Will Never Forget, The
(2002)
Kim Longinotto examines the practice of female genital mutilation
in Kenya and the pioneering African women who are bravely reversing
the tradition. Women speak candidly about the practice and expla...
Day in the Life of Women in Iraq, A
(2007)
It is very rare that the lives of Iraqi women are truly uncovered since the invasion of their country. Everywoman special, based in Baghdad meets women the whose lives have been affected by the Wester...
Day of the Fight
(1951)
Stanley Kubrick's first film, Day of the Fight, is a short documentary that chronicles a day in the life of Irish middleweight boxer Walter Cartier, a very pro...
Days in the Life
(2000)
Three seminal days in the sixties, a decade whose significance has
gone beyond the era of sex and drugs and rock and roll are explored
in this series.
Gathering of the Tribes focuses ...
D-Day
(2004)
An epic drama-documentary which begins in January 1944 as the
Allies and Germans race to prepare for the long awaited invasion of
Europe and leads onto the dramatic 24 hour story of June 6th -
D-Da...
D-Day: The Ultimate Conflict
(2004)
In the spring of 1944 the Allies chanced the whole fate of the
Second World War on a single day. In one steamroller offensive,
over 200,000 troops would land on the coast of France in a
last-ditch ...
Deaf Century
(1999)
Documentary series viewing the century through the eyes of the deaf community.
Death in Gaza
(2004)
In May 2003, James Miller was shot dead by an Israeli soldier in
the Gaza Strip. Miller and his close friend, reporter Saira Shah,
had set out to follow up their award-winning films Beneath The Veil...
Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
(1994)
Filmmaker and journalist John Pilger travels to East Timor, an island 300 miles north of Australia, which was plunged into civil war in the summer of 1975. In September of that year, Indonesian ...
Death of Klinghoffer, The
(2003)
This is a film adaptation of The Death of Klinghoffer, John Adams'
and Alice Goodman's 1991 opera directed by Peter Sellars, which is
based on the 1984 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille
...
Death of Yugoslavia, The
(1995)
This 5-part documentary looks at the origins and results of the
Balkan Wars of the 1990s. It begins with Milosevic and his break
from Communist Party policy by supporting Serb nationalists in
Kosov...
Death on the Rock
(1988)
Highly controversial investigation into the shooting dead of three IRA terrorist suspects by British security forces in Gibraltar. The programme was transmitted by Thames TV on the ITV current affairs...
Debris Tunnelling
(1943)
A film by Kay Mander and sponsored by the Ministry of Information,
Debris Tunnelling is about rescue procedures for casualties trapped
in bombed-out buildings
Deep Water
(2006)
The true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who entered the most daring nautical challenge ever - the very first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race.