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Song For London
(2006)
Is music a universal language? Director Ben Roy scours London to prove so. His quest: to find at least one person from every country in the world to sing for him a song from their homeland. All...
Song of Ceylon
(1934)
One of the most critically-acclaimed films of the documentary
movement, Song of Ceylon's message is that native traditions and
nature can coexist with modernity, providing a fairly benign take
on p...
Songbirds
(2005)
Prison is a different experience for women, who are more likely to
suffer mental health difficulties and to self-harm than men. Nearly
half have children under 16 and far more women prisoners are
f...
Sons & Soldiers
(2006)
Sons and Soldiers, a series of four 3 minute films shown as a part of the 3 Minute Wonder strand on Channel 4, captures poignant moment from the real lives of those caught up in the life and death dra...
Sophiatown
(2002)
A docu-musical celebrating the great popular jazz music of South
Africa's Harlem in the late 40's and 50's. Through a legal quirk,
black people were able to own property in this area, and a black
m...
South Africa: Apartheid did not Die
(1998)
After being banned from South Africa thirty years earlier for his
reporting during the apartheid era, award winning filmmaker and
journalist John Pilger goes back with Alan Lowey to witness the
ben...
South Bank Show
(2006)
South Bank Show featured feminist author and English literature professor Germaine Greer, satirical cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, and singer/songwriter Paul McCartney, setting the tone of the programme as...
Spare Time
(1939)
A filmic survey of leisure pursuits in Northern England and Wales, including a male voice choir and a colliery brass band.
With a subtle commentary by Laurie Lee, the film is similar to J...
Sparky
(2006)
A story of pregnancy told through the eyes of Gwen, her partner and their chosen donor. Sparky, is the successful result of fertility treatment, forming bonds outside of their sexuality, and creating ...
Special Inquiry: Has Britain a Colour Bar?
(1955)
A programme in the Special Inquiry series, a BBC- documentary
series (1952-1957), which concerned itself primarily with
investigation into contemporary social issues. It was the first
full-length B...
Specky
(2006)
Anne-Claire Piggey hates wearing her spectacles, so vows to go a month without them in a drive to improve her vision. The trouble is, without them she is legally blind. An enjoyable, pacy romp through...
Srebrenica - Never Again?
(2005)
Director Leslie Woodhead returns to the site of his award-winning
film A Cry From the Grave to see what has changed in the ten years
since the massacre. The outlook isn't completely optimistic: the
...
Srebrenica: A Cry From the Grave
(1999)
Srebrenica, Bosnia, the world's first United Nations Safe Area, was
the site of the worst case of genocide in Europe since World War
II. In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb army staged a brutal takeover ...
Stalin's Skyscraper
(2004)
Director Pavel Louguine meets the residents of an enormous
skyscraper in Moscow, built by German prisoners to house the
Communist elite and now a piece of valuable real estate inhabited
by their de...
Stalkers
(2000)
Drama-documentary on stalking for Secret Britain series, going behind enemy lines of this nightmarish world. Mixing dramatisation of six psychiatric case studies and interviews with stalkers, with ana...
Stalking Pete Doherty
(2005)
When part-time academic and occasional filmmaker Max Carlish chose
ex-Libertine Pete Doherty, the UK's most famous heroin addict, as
the subject of his documentary it was set to end in tears - and
...
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
(2003)
A moving portrait of one musician's lifetime achievement. In a
career spanning 60 years as pianist and composer, Tracey, widely
regarded as Britain 's greatest living arranger, recalls his life
wit...