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40 Minutes: When the Canaries Stop Singing (1991) The documentary that inspired the Todd Haynes feature “Safe”.
“John Edginton’s film would stretch credibility in a Stephen King novel, but this is real life modern traged...
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A13 (1994) Through sound and image, William Raban said, he was trying to see how far it was possible to construct meaning. In this film Raban aims to show the effects which building the Limehouse Road Link th...
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African Footsteps (1995) Personalities undertake journeys in Africa travelogue series. West Indies Cricket captain Viv Richard visits post-apartheid South Africa in search of his hero, Nelson Mandela. Comedian David Baddiel g...
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African Political Broadcasts (1995) Eight African Leaders deliver a party political broadcast directly to the British people. Democracy, mutual tolerance and the new African reality feature throughout. With Wole Soyinka, Gerry Rawlings ...
Agas and their Owners (1998) A 50 minute special for BBC 2, Aga and their Owners is a cleverly researched and beautifully filmed pieces on English eccentrics that treads the uneasy ground between an affectionate portrait and b...
AIDS Chronicle, The (1994)
Courtesy of Nick Broomfield
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992) Aileen Wuornos, the alleged first woman serial killer, was convicted of killing seven of her clients. Nick Broomfield tries to arrange an interview with her, first through her friendly but inept la...
Airline (1998) Airline is a reality program that has been shown on ITV since 1998. Easy Jet, the travel company that has revolutionized the conception of British travel, opens its doors to a camera crew that show ...
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Airport (1996)

This is early example of reality tv shows everything that goes on inside Britain's busiest airport, London Heathrow. Its fly-on-the-wall style follows a large number of  passengers, reuniti...

An Everyday Story of Country Life (1996) A centenary celebration of Country Life magazine.
Anne Frank Remembered (1995) Combining testimony from those close to Anne Frank, including Otto, her father (and the only surviving member of her family) and Miep Gies, Otto's employee who risked everything to help the family, ...
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Ark, The (1993) An award-winning series going behind the scenes at London Zoo, during a crucial period when it has to turn its fortunes around or face closure. With only a two-person crew, the film secures intimate a...
Battle for the Trees (1992)  It is a complex battle being fought on many fronts--in corporate board rooms, in legislatures, on the streets, and in the woods.The weapons range from million-dollar public relations campaigns t...
Beating the Bridges (1998) In his film, William Raban supports his images with music to show how the 30 bridges that extend from the rich suburbs of west London to the industrial flatlands past Dartford Bridge, can provide a ...
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Belgrade Blitz (1999) Video diary of a Serbian woman living with the daily bombing of Belgrade, shown on Channel 4.
Betrayed, The (1995) Produced for Channel 4's True Stories, this documentary captures the horror and destruction of the Chechen war. On New Year's Eve 1994, 3,500 untrained Russian conscripts were ordered to take the C...
Black on Red (1990) A documentary for Timewatch BBC-2 and part of the BBC's flagship historical series, this film looks at the personal experiences of a black American car worker in 1930s Russia.
Boogie Nights in Suburbia (1999) A revealing documentary about the very distinctive world of British video pornography. Shot in black and white, it focuses on some of the wild and comic characters who make their living making both ha...
Breaking the Cycle (1997) School exclusions now begin at five or younger, leaving restless children at home or on the streets. It labels them as troublemakers and can blight the rest of their lives.

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Bukharin and the Terror (1990) Jane Treays' documentary about the case of Nikolai Bukharin, Lenin's advisor and editor of Pravda and Izvestia in the 1920s and 1930s. Bukharin was executed in 1938 after the last of Stalin's show tri...
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