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Macbeth on the Estate (1997) Penny Woolcock stages the play on a contemporary Birmingham housing estate, using Shakespeare's language to tell the story, not of Scottish Thanes, but of street gangs, drug dealers and criminals. ...
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Magic Bridge, The ()
Mai (1974) Mai is affectionate film portrait of an irrepressible eccentric who makes you question the sanity of conformity. A lapsed Catholic and eventually a committed Anarchist, Mai combined her contradictions...
Courtesy of Century Films
Make me Honest (2004) Five ordinary members of the public volunteer to help young offenders go straight by acting as their mentors, and this five-part series follows their efforts. A Chelsea interior designer is paired ...
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Make Me Proud (2002) Mike is an ex-boxer who lives in Salford with his son Thomas and tries to give Thomas a way out of poverty and crime - the art of boxing. As Thomas' first big fight approaches, his father asks: 'Are y...
Making of a Film Idol, The (2005) "A documentary following a UK film talent search held in 2003, to cast 86 unknowns in a film about East End hardman Lenny McLean. The film follows the progress of the team and it becomes a guide ...
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Malcolm and Barbara... A Love Story (1999) Malcolm and Barbara have two sons and shared careers in music at Cambridge University. At the age of 51, Malcolm was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. A love story as the title sugges...
Man on Wire (2008)

In 1974 New York's Twin Towers were nearing completion, and for some years previous it was one man's dream to walk a tightrope between them.

Man on Wire is the hugely entertaining tale of t...

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Man Ray (1972) Documentary about the artist for BBC Review.
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Man Who Ate His Lover, The (2004) Documentary looking at the case of Armin Meiwes, the German computer engineer recently convicted of manslaughter after killing, dismembering and eating a man he met over the internet on a cannibal web...
Man With the Extended Mind, The (2006) In 1981, A New Science of Life-- The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance was declared by editorials “a book for burning” and its author Rupert Sheldrak...
Man With The Seven Second Memory, The (2005) An astounding C4 documentary in 1986 recorded the plight of former renowned conductor and musician Clive Wearing, who has one of the most extreme cases of amnesia in the world. Since 1985 when a vir...
Man's World (Behind the Scenes Documentary), A (2003) A detailed behind ths scenes documentary on how to make an ultra-low budget short film. From rehearsing with professional boxers to the final shoot.
 
Players include professional...
Mardi and the Monkey (1953) A film spanning drama and documentary, Mardi and the Monkey was made for The Children's Film Foundation and tells of a small boy who catches a monkey and makes a pet of it in spite of his mother's ...
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Mariah Carey: The Billion Dollar Babe (2003) The Cinderella story of a teenager from Long Island, New York, who signed the largest contract in recording history with Virgin/ EMI Records for a reported $100m. The story of Mariah Carey: the bigges...
courtesy of Nick Broomfield
Marriage Guidance (1977) An intimately shot film about couples undergoing marriage guidance therapy.
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Martin Luther King - Days of Hope (1997) Made for BBC's Reputations series, the film is
A revealing portrait of the private life and inner struggles of Martin Luther King Jr., champion of non-violent protest and martyr of the Civil Righ...
Martin Tomos - Stopping My Stammer / Atal Yr Atal Dwevd (2006) Martin Thomas can't say his name. The 33 year old Welsh builder has had a severe stammer since a bicycle accident in primary school, and finds his name the toughest thing to say of all. He's now embar...
Marvelling Lens, The (2004) "He was an older man with the face of a tired actor. He had evolved over a legendary number of documents, glass plate negatives, prints, albums, books…but what documents! With the marvelling lens o...
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Matchmaker (2003) Jobeda Ali travels to Bangladesh to find husbands for three sceptical British Bangladeshis.