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Sadler Story, The (1985)     Made by Amber’s Current Affairs Unit, as part of its engagement with the peace movement, the film chronicles the life of the Tyneside pacifist Jack Sadler, who was born in 188...
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Salt of the Earth ()
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Sarajevo (1992) A series of two-minute films featuring a Sarajevo street during its long siege, when snipers hid in the hills above the city, threatening residents for four years. Showing nightly, it was picked up...
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Sargy Mann (2006) Sargy Mann is a successful figurative painter who, despite being registered blind since 1987, has continued to make work about what he sees. In May 2005 Sargy Mann undertakes a research trip to Spain...
Schindler: The Documentary (1982) The film that is said to have inspired Spielberg to make Schindler's List tells the story of Oskar Schindler, the factory owner who is credited with saving the lives of hundreds of Jews during the ...
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Schoolgirl Killer () Fourteen year-old Aberash was abducted from her village in Ethiopia's 'Wild South' and raped by a 28 year-old man. This effectively meant that she became that man's wife, in a tradition so old that no...
Score, The (1998) A group of football fans head to their team's ground on a Saturday afternoon for a match between Sheffield United and Wolverhampton Wanderers. Using football chants to create a musical score, the f...
Scott Walker - 30 Century Man (2006) Scott Walker, labeled the “greatest voice of his generation" was lead singer of 60's sensation The Walker Brothers (‘The Sun Aint’ Gonna Shine Anymore’, ‘No Regrets&...
Courtesy of True Vision
Screws: Inside Belmarsh (2004)

This film follows a group of newly recruited prison officers through training at the country's most controversial jail: HMP Belmarsh in South East London; the first time that cameras ...

Seacoal (1985) Betty and her daughter Corinna are introduced to the harsh seacoaling way of life by Ray, an ex-seacoaler returning from a job with ICI. His offer of a caravan on a cliff top and promises of the Klond...
Seafarers (2004) This is a film is an exploration of male solitude. Jason Massot follows four seamen - a Swede, a Croat, a Polynesian, and a Nigerian - as they wait in Rotterdam, the world's largest port, to return...
Seafront, The (2006) A meditative portrait of a forgotten slice of British life at the seaside. Steve, seaching for his fortune with a metal detector says there is more gold in the sea than on land. Penpa, who originally ...
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Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2003)

With its long, fluid takes across barren and gothic landscapes, and portrait shots of still musicians revealed by the camera as it sweeps across the scene, Searching for the Wrong Eye...

Sebastián (2006) Cotita's siblings were killed and kidnapped during Argentina's bloodiest dictatorship in the late 70's. Her brother (along with his pregnant partner) and her sister (also pregnant) were kidnapped and ...
Second Russian Revolution, The (1991) Eight part series chronicling the inside story of Mikhail Gorbachev's political revolution, including the only documentary interview with him as Soviet President.
Episode 1 - Enter Gorbachev...
Second Sight (2007) With a ready smile, eighty-year-old Donald Angus MacLean invites us to discover the truth about ghosts on the mysterious Isle of Skye. A man of the church and a lover of women, he takes us on a journe...
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Secret History - The Chair (1998) The bloody and disreputable origins of the most barbaric means of judicial execution - the electric chair.
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Secret History: Deep Sleep (1992) First shown in the Channel Four “Secret History” series
One of the most scandalous episodes in the history of psychiatry. How Deep Sleep therapy caused a string of deaths in an Austr...
Secrets and Lines (1999) Laying bare the gritty twilight world of drug dealing, Secrets and Lines combines dramatised interviews, based on real testimony from drug dealers, with expert opinion from people whose professions ...
Seeds of Despair (1984) The film that first broke the story of Ehiopia's famine back in 1984. Filmmakers Charles Stewart and Malcolm Hirst were in the country to produce a report on soil erosion when they realised that so...