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Living With Refugees
(2004)
Award-winning journalist Sorious Samura is increasingly gaining a reputation for a new kind of journalism which not many others can do. It's 'real' reality TV - stories that offer a unique perspective...
Lock Them Up or Let Them Out
(2006)
Filmed over two years, this series follows prisoners as they attempt to get out of prison early, on parole licence. The first documentary shows three violent offenders: an illegal immigrant incarcerat...
Lockerbie: A Night Remembered
(1998)
Director Michael Grigsby returns to the Scottish town of Lockerbie
ten years after it became the centre of international media
attention following the terrorist bomb that exploded on Pan Am
Flight ...
London Programme: Destination Britain
(2006)
This programme sheds light on the experience of a group of asylum seekers from the Sangatte refugee centre in France, who came to the UK under unique circumstances under the full glare of the media.
Looks that Kill
(2000)
First ever documentary about the little known and surprisingly
pervasive psychological condition Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) or
Perceived Ugliness/Elephant Man Syndrome. The director/writer, a
f...
Lord's Tale, The
(2002)
A look at the House of Lords as heriditary peerage is phased out in one of the country's biggest constitutional reforms in its history. Something of a departure from Dineen's usual style, it was broad...
Lost Boys, The
(2003)
Three young men who have escaped the war in Sudan for a refugee
camp in northern Kenya take up the offer of a new life in America,
from the 3500 who were selected for resettlement. As they struggle
...
Lost Civilizations
(1995)
This series from Time-Life details the histories, legends and
customs of history's most fascinating societies. Using original
location footage in 25 countries, digital effects technology and
vivid ...
Lost in Gainesville
(2005)
“I’ve changed a lot too. Except the only thing is I don’t forget where I come from. I still admit I speak Spanish, I still tell people I’m 100% Mexican, because I was born ther...
Lost in La Mancha
(2002)
This is a 'making of' documentary with a difference: it's about the
making of a film that never got made. With intimate access to the
process, this documentary goes behind the scenes of the producti...
Lost World Of Tibet, The
(2006)
A recently restored treasure-trove of colour films from the 1940s and 1950s provides the core of this astonishing film, which allows us to see what Tibet was like before its brutal occupation by China...
Lost Worlds: Secrets of the Sands
(2002)
Documentary following Dr Farouk El-Baz, a geologist and space scientist at Boston University, who believes that space satellite photographs hold the key to the origin of the pyramids, still a mystery ...
Lotte Lenya: Omnibus
(1979)
Biography of the actress and singer, a woman best known for her collaborations with Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Produced for the BBC's Omnibus strand.
Louis Theroux: Behind Bars
(2007)
San Quentin State Prison was built in 1852 and suffers from chronic overcrowding. The 5,000 inmates live in a world far removed from normal society. Louis quickly discovers a prison population segrega...
Love & Money
(2007)
We’re told that marriage is ‘for richer, for poorer’, but with the never-ending pressure of mounting debt, unpaid mortgages and credit card bills, can a relationship survive? Love an...
Love Is Blind
(1999)
This film looked at love, attraction and blindness, from the perspective of four blind people, with the central narrative thread being the intimate tales of how they formed relationships with their pr...
Love Supreme, A
(2002)
This short film, inspired by the boxing sequence in 'Raging Bull',
was Nilesh Patel's tribute to his mother suffering from rheumatoid
Arthritis. The audio-visual essay on how his mother prepared
sa...
Lovestruck
(2003)
Lovestruck is a sensitive and frank exploration of the turbulent emotional world of 15 year-old first love.
Fleur and Joe are in love but complications arise when Joe comes out as gay an...
Loving Lenin
(1998)
Russian, with English subtitles
A profound exploration of the cult of personality surrounding Lenin, and the extraordinary impact the man had on the world.
Lenin railed against r...