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Silent War, The (1990)

The second of three films Grigbsy has made about the Northern Ireland conflict, the first being Too Long a Sacrifice and the latest 2005's Rehearsals. This film focuses on the familie...


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Simon Schama's Power of Art: Van Gogh (2006) The power of the greatest art is the power to shake us into revelation and rip us from our default mode of seeing. After an encounter with that force, we don't look at a face, a colour, a sky, a body,...


Sisters in Law (2005) Fighting to eradicate corruption from their country's patriarchal legal system, Sisters in Law follows the women endeavouring to make an impact in the courtroom. With the number of reported cases of...

Courtesy of Michael Beattie Media
Sitting for Parliament (2004) Director John T Davis follows fellow Belfast native artist Noel Murphy as he completes a commission to portray in paint all 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The film is a...

Situation Vacant (1994) A candid, fly-on-the-wall BBC television documentary portrait of extremist Russian Nationalist politician, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, of the so-called Liberal Democratic Party. The film shows the leader ...

Size Doesn't Matter (2003) Caroline Miller is a successful career woman who enjoys the good life. She also has achondroplasia and is a dwarf, and has not yet had a proper boyfriend. Size Doesn't Matter follows Caroline as she e...

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Skipper, The (1993) A year in the life of a Cornish trawler fisherman working out of Newlyn harbour.

Courtesy of True Vision
Slavery (2000) Taking three separate industries where slaves are still to be found: the cocoa industry in the Ivory Coast, domestic slavery in Britain and the USA and the carpet industry in northern India, the film ...

sleep furiously (2008) sleep furiously is set in a small farming community in mid Wales, about 50 miles north of Dylan Thomas’ fictional village of Llareggub – and there ...

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Sleeping With The Au Pair (2004) Interviews are used to tell the compelling stories of love triangles between the husband, the wife and the au pair.

‘A brilliant and rather prurient look at three men who ran off w...

Small Pain for Glory (2005) In 2002 the Sierra Leone athletics team visited Manchester for the Commonwealth Games. Out of 23 participants, 21 failed to go home.

This film takes up the story after their desertio...

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Small Town Girl (2007) Shot over five years, this unique portrait of three girls growing into adolescence shows the harsh realities of life in two poverty stricken small towns at either end of England at the start of the 21...

Smalltown Boy (2007) Fed up with being shunned for his sexuality, fifteen year old David plans to show everyone that he's proud of who he is, and is intent on becoming the first male carnival queen in his village. A poign...


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Sneaker Freaks (2001) An exploration of the obsessional world of the trainer and those who compulsively buy them. Tracing the first explosions in trainer popularity during the early hip hop days of the 80's to the super ...

courtesy of Nick Broomfield
Soldier Girls (1981) An observational film following a group of female recruits through US Army Basic Training in Georgia.

Solitary Life of Cranes, The (2008) “You’re removed from the hustle and bustle, so you can observe it from almost an outsider’s point of view.” Tony, crane driver working in London

Part city symphony...

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Somalia- Hearts, Minds and Holy War (2006) An eye opening account of the Islamic revolution after 9/11 and the establishment of a new Taliban style state which threatens to export the war throughout the horn of Africa. Western governments fear...

Someday My Prince Will Come (2005) Visually stunning set by the harsh Cumbrian coastline among windmills, fields and factories, this is a poignant reflection on the loss of childhood innocence. A melancholy, heartrending and sometim...