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Playing the China Card
(1999)
This documentary concerns the relationship between the USA and
China since the end of World War Two. The love affair between these
two powers consitutes one of the world's oddest international
rela...
Police
(1982)
This 9-part verité series for BBC1 went behind the scenes at Thames
Valley Police with unprecedented access. Showing life at Reading
police station, warts and all, the series covered a range of
inc...
Pop Goes the Museum
(2002)
The story of Sheffield's £15million National Centre for Popular Music that opened with much fanfare in March 1999 and closed after just six months. Clad in stainless steel, the four giant 'drums' cele...
Pornography: The Musical
(2003)
A sideways peep at the British porn industry and the women who work
in it. With porn culture and overtly sexual attitudes becoming
pervasive in society, Pornography: the Musical takes an oblique,
p...
Portrait As
(2005)
A visual portrait of the disabled avant garde filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin, as represented by his environment. The film is a very personal movement through Steve's past and present, as seen through the h...
Power in the Blood
(1989)
A film produced for BBC's Arena focusing on Vernon Oxford, a
country and western singer-turned-preacher on a missionary journey
from his home in Tennessee to Northern Ireland.
Pride Of Place
(1976)
Kim Longinotto burst onto the UK documentary scene thirty years ago with her NFTS graduation film, Pride of Place. Filmed under a pseudonym at the Buckinghamshire boarding school from which Longinotto...
Pride of Place
(1976)
Kim Longinotto's NFTS production is a documentary about the
boarding school she attended, the sub-culture of which is as
exotic, bizarre and cruel as anything she encountered in her later
travels. ...
Prince, the Showgirl and Me, The
(2004)
A documentary reconstructing the infamous shoot of
The Prince and the
Showgirl, with Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. Based on
the novel by Colin Clark,...
Principles of Lust, The
(2003)
An intense tale of one mans struggle to choose between a settled
life with his girlfriend and the darker, nihilistic pleasures
offered to him by his closest friend. Acclaimed British filmmaker
Penn...
Prisoner of Paradise
(2002)
German Jewish actor and cabaret performer Kurt Gerron was recruited
by the Nazis to create a propaganda documentary about the
Theresienstadt camp, in order to divert the suspicions of the Red
Cross...
Privatisation Tapes, The
(1986)
1. The Awareness Campaign (20 mins)
2. Value for Money? (16 mins)
3. Competitive Tender (16 mins)
4. The Darlington Tape (15 mins)
5. The Ingham Tape (15 mins)
6. The Pub...
Project, The
(2002)
This two-part chronicle about the rise to power of Tony Blair's
Labor Party follows a group of young Labor activists who discover
the seedier side of politics. In 1992 a group of Labour activists,
...
Promised Land
(2004)
Nora Meyer, a British Jew, accompanies the New York organisation
'Friends Of Israel's Defence Force' on their annual military tour
of the West Bank; a bizarre journey to the very heart of 21st
Cent...
Protectors, The
(2004)
This two part series investigates how the authorities deal with dangerous offenders when they return to the community after serving their time.
In Portrait of a Paedophile, watch The Prot...
Proud to be British
(1973)
Made while Broomfield was studying at the National Film and
Television School, the film talks to people from across the class
divide and looks at attitudes relating to 'Britishness' and the
institu...
Public Enemy: Mother and Son
(1999)
An hour-long documentary charting the extraordinary story of mother
and son, Sante and Kenneth Kimes, an alleged con-artist team who
are awaiting trial for murder in New York. Acclaimed documentary
...