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Whittingham
(1980)
Observational film about life in a mental hospital, produced for Granada.
Who Am I Now?
(2003)
In 1999 Sheena McDonald suffered serious head injuries when she was
struck by a police van answering a 999 call. She was in a coma for
several weeks.
Many of those who cared for her thought s...
Who Cares
(1971)
Broomfield's first film, and the one that got him a place on the
new documentary course at the National Film and Television School.
Who Cares is about the residents of rundown inner-city Liverpool
...
Who Killed Martin Luther King?
(1989)
First shown in the BBC’s Inside Story series
Did elements in the US government engineer Dr King’s assassination?
“This complex, but logically argued and important film .&...
Why Men Wear Frocks
(2005)
The Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry, a life-long
transvetite, explores the reasons why some men cross-dress, and
asks what transvestism tells us about gender and sexuality in our
society ...
Wisconsin Death Trip
(1999)
A disturbing and darkly humorous account of the disasters that
befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the
19th century. The film is inspired by Michael Lesy's 1973 book of
th...
Witchcraze
(2003)
This is the story of the East Lothian witchcraze - the cruellest
and bloodiest witch-hunt in British history.
What began as a break down of law and order in the villages during
the fa...
With the Nomads
(2006)
With the Nomads opens with
an elderly Tuareg man predicting that none of his people will still
be living as nomads in fifty years' time. It contemplates the
...
Witness: The Making of an Englishman
(1995)
A documentary about the director's own grandfather, Emeric
Pressburger, a Jewish Hungarian
Woman with 7 Personalities, The
()
After fourteen years without contact, school friends Ruth Selwyn
and Helen meet each other on a train. Helen tells Ruth she has
Multiple Personality Disorder and that she has seven different
person...
Women Facing War
(2001)
Eleven women tell their own individual stories of how their lives
have been affected by war. Coping with displacement, physical and
sexual violence, missing relatives, widowhood and detention, these...
Women on the Edge: The Truth About Styal Prison
(2006)
‘My daughter died when she was just 18 years old. She got to the prison on Friday and was dead by the following night. In that 24 hours she was vomiting, fitting, having cardiac arrests and even...
Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong, The
(1999)
Feature documentary creating a definitive portrait of bandleader,
composer and actor Louis Armstrong, one of the most influential
musicians of the 20th Century.
Screened on BBC 1 as p...
Working for the Enemy
(1997)
Sean McAllister's bleak but intimate film offers an insight into
the lives of 35-year-old Kevin, who hasn't worked in 18 years, and
his 19-year-old girlfriend Robbie, who earns £70 a week as a
seam...
World at War, The
(1974)
More than 30 years after it was first broadcast in 1973, The World
at War remains the definitive account of humankind's most terrible
conflict, leaving a lasting impression on anyone who watches it....
World Without Water, A
(2006)
Every day 300,000 children die due to lack of water and poor sanitation. Billions of people do not have access to safe water. Environmental change threatens to make this situation worse but a more imm...