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La Famille Martin (1948) An educational film designed to pep up French teaching in school, La Famille Martin, along with Kay Mander's other two films of this kind, was praised at the time for its entertainment value despite...
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Lager, Mum and Me (2003) The film, produced for the BBC One Life strand, follows the struggles of mother of four Diane to overcome her alcoholism, with the help of her youngest daughter. Twelve-year old Nanzer documents he...
Lagos Airport (1999) This documentary series for Channel 4 by Charlotte Moore takes a look behind the scenes at extremely busy Lagos Airport in Nigeria.
Lakenheath (2004) Lakenheath tells the story of a god-fearing military family from Oklahoma who move to the largest US air base in England. A good family of strong faith and ideals, they are happy to find the base i...
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Langan Behind the Lines (2001) Know your enemy. A phrase that's always been considered good advice in military circles. And surely now, at a time when we are informed by a salivating media that we are "at war" there could...
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Langan In Zimbabwe (2002)

The miniaturisation of television cameras is only partly a matter of technology: they have also been shrunk by our familiarity with them, and our consequent lack of interest in them. If you compar...

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Last Angel of History, The (1995) A sci-fi drama-documentary on Afro-futurism and black unpopular culture. A computer hacker enters a Faustian pact in which he trades his soul for secrets of his future. With interviews from Ishmael...
Last King of Scotland, The (2005) The first feature-length drama of Scottish documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald, The Last King of Scotland is based on the fictional novel by Giles Foden of the same name, but nonetheless contains ele...
Last Men Standing (2005) Ten years after the mass pit closure of 1984 the miners of the Tower Colliery pooled their severance pay and bought their own pit. They believed they were securing the future of their community. Wh...
Last Peasants, The (2003) Following three families in a remote Romanian village in the Maramures area, where every family has an illegal immigrant abroad. Shot in Romania, London, Paris and Dublin over eighteen months, it i...
Last Shift (1976)     Adamsez, the well known bathroom ware manufacturers, went out of business in 1975. One of the casualties of the closure was a small self-contained operation housed in an ancient col...
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Launch (1974) The gradual emergence of a ship at the end of the street and its sudden subsequent disappearance was part of the annual cycle in Wallsend. To the unsuspecting visitor, the first encounter with a ship ...
Laurie (1978)     I've always had that desire to do something big, you know, in a funny kind of way ... I'm a manual worker really. I like working with me hands, and sculpturing is the essence of wor...
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Lawless (2001) A series of drama-documentaries looking beyond the familiar surface of Britain to a shadowy culture. The films dramatise interviews with real people in three different worlds:

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Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife, The (1991) South Africa, towards the end of Apartheid: While trying to gain access to far-right AWB leader Eugene Terreblanche, director Nick Broomfield meets his driver, JP, and his wife Anita. JP promises to...
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Leaving Home, Coming Home - A Portrait of Robert Frank (2004) The South Bank Show presents a first ever documentary about the legendary but reclusive photograher and filmmaker whose work reflects his life in an unflinchingly honest way. Shot in New York and Nova...
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Lefties: Property is Theft (2006)
Lemons Can Run (2006) Although she only died six years ago, Tom Whitemore is having a lot of difficulty remembering his mum, Sheila Lemon. Somehow he has blanked her out, and it bothers him. So he decides to set off on a v...
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Letters To Katja (1994)

A chronicle of Finnish-born photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's return to her roots in Finland with her daughter Katja, after 23 years in Britain. An intimate journey of the heart, revealing the ...