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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.
Chaplin's Goliath (1996) Chaplin's Goliath is a film about Eric Campbell, the tall actor who was most famous for playing the archetypal villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character. Using rare footage, historical documents a...
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Cheese and the Worm, The (1996) Historical documentary on Christianity, heresy and witchcraft in Northern Italy. Historian Carlo Ginsberg tells the true story of Mennochio, a 16th-century Italian peasant burnt at the stake for da...
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Fetishes (1996) Filmed at Pandora's Box, the luxurious S&M parlour in New York, the film reveals a full range of fetishes; from rubber and infantilism, to asphyxiation and mummification.

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House: Programmes 1, 5, 6, The (1996)
How to be Happy (1996) Dawn's a harassed working mother, Keith's dissatisfied and approaching forty, Caroline's a full-time carer for her elderly mum. Happiness doesn't seem to come naturally to any of them.

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Inside Burma: Land of Fear (1996) Filmmakers John Pilger and David Munro uncover the untold brutalities taking place by the ruling military regime in Burma, where thousands of people have been killed, subjected to slavery, tortured...
Island Race (1996) Between the spring of 1994 and the summer of 1995, William Raban filmed on the streets of the East End of London. The film contrasts the everyday lives of people living there with the actions of rig...
Knife to the Heart (1996) A four-part series on the history of transplant surgery, featuring the doctors who made the first transplants, the patients who received them and the people who sell their own organs for money.
Miracle Babies: The Story of the Dionne Quintuplets (1996) Jane Treays' film telling the story of the Dionne quintuplets gained a 7.2 million audience against strong opposition and was repeated twice in August 1996 and April 1998 due to public demand.
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Modern Times: Dog Trouble (1996) A fast, funny and furious romp through the social mayhem wrought by canis familiaris.
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Modern Times: Tracy and Joey (1996) Love and betrayal - how a young mother was burned to death by killers looking for her drug-dealing husband.
Mumia Abu Jamal: A case for reasonable doubt? (1996) John Edginton’s incendiary HBO-funded feature documentary  about  the African American political activist /journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, who is  on death row for a crime he may not ...
Real ER, The (1996) Cook County Hospital in Chicago is one of the largest and most famous public hospitals in the United States - and it's also the real-life inspiration for the hugely popular TV drama ER. Director Ed...
Rock Wives (1996) Filmed in New York, LA and the UK, this 50-minute documentary for Channel 4's 'Fame Factor' features a series of interviews with the wives of legendary rock musicians.
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Short Stories: We Love You Alan Shearer (1996) The documentary series visits Tyneside to sample the fervour which has been maintained by the move to Newcastle United of soccer superstar Alan Shearer and witness the effect he has had on local child...
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Superhighway Robbery (1996) Million dollar heists at the click of a button. This is the story of how twenty seven year old Vladimir Levin from St Petersburg stole over 10 million dollars from CityBank on New York's Wall St wi...
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Voices in the Dark (1996) Biography of the historian Carlo Ginsburg
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