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Liberace of Baghdad, The
(2004)
McAllister's award-winning documentary is a different experience to
the countless news items about the lawlessness and violence in
occupied Iraq to which we have become immune. It makes tangible the...
Liberia: An Uncivil War
(2004)
Two revered journalists and a cameraman are in Liberia in 2003. US
reporter Jonathan Stack is in the besieged capital of Monrovia.
British photojournalist James Brabazon is embedded with the LURD
(...
Life After the Fall
(2008)
Shot over five years by exiled Iraqi director Kasim Abid, Life After the Fall is the story of one Iraqi family after Saddam.
Abid returned to Iraq...
Life and Death in the War Zone
(2004)
This film captures a period of the conflict in April and May of 2003 when Combat Support Hospital units faced a deluge of injured Iraqi soldiers and civilians who had little support from their country...
Life Apart, A
(1973)
A film about deep-sea fishermen trawling in Icelandic waters. Often
compared to Grierson's Drifters in its lyrical tone and
preoccupation with the terrible might of nature, this film has a
clear po...
Life of an Orchestra, The
(1984)
A four-part documentary about musicians, their lives and their
relationships with their instruments, providing a close-up look at
the London Symphony Orchestra as it celebrated its 80th anniversary
...
Lifer - Living with Murder
(2003)
In the 1970's and early 1980's, acclaimed producer and director,
Rex Bloomstein, made a number of films addressing aspects of the
criminal justice system previously closed to public scrutiny.
...
Lift
(2001)
Filmmaker Marc Isaacs sets himself up in a London tower block lift
with his camera, unsure as to how the residents would react. They
come to trust him and reveal the things that matter to them. The
...
Lifters
(2001)
A series on shoplifting for BBC Two.
Junkie Run: Filmmaker Saul Dibb falls in with a disparate and
desperate group of shoplifters who steal on a daily basis to feed
their drug habits....
Lillian Hellman
(1979)
Biography of the American playwright for the BBC's Omnibus strand.
Lily Tomlin
(1986)
Portrait of the actress and comedienne as she prepares for her
one-woman show 'The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe'.
The filming went disastrously wrong and ended up in a...
Lin and Ralph: A Love Story
(2005)
A moving, sometimes funny and ultimately uplifting story about the
love and commitment of two extraordinary people.
Lin 54, is blind and has cerebral palsy, husband Ralph, 70, is her
...
Listen to Britain
(1942)
With no spoken commentary or interviews, the film employs a series of tableaux of everyday life in wartime Britain, linking them into a coherent whole with the use of associative editing. The importan...
Live Forever
(2003)
At the begining of the Nineties something happened in Britain,
something that created a spirit of euphoria and brought a rock star
to Number 10 for tea. This is a film about a period in the Nineties...
Living on the Edge
(1987)
Recording the lives and attitudes of four families, Grigsby's
poetic work on the fragmentation of British society in the 1980s
creates an impressionistic mosaic of the forces that affected the
live...
Living on the Edge: Real Life
(2002)
Life on our violent inner city estates from the point
of view of the children who survive there. Produced for ITV.
Living with Cancer
(2002)
This six-part series filmed at University College of London
Hospitals takes a powerful look at our attitudes towards cancer by
following the personal journeys of patients attending UCLH for
treatme...