Browsing: 1999
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Belgrade Blitz
(1999)
Video diary of a Serbian woman living with the daily bombing of Belgrade, shown on Channel 4.
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...
Burgled
(1999)
A six-part series looking at the many sides of burglary, from the victim to the young burglar struggling to find employment after a jail term and finding the lure of crime growing as his success dimin...
Correspondent: Condemned to Live
(1999)
This was the first program in the current affairs series Correspondent produced by the BBC. The first documentary, reported by Isabel Hilton, looks at the thousands of Tutsi women who were victims of ...
Correspondent: Dead Kid Walking
(1999)
Sean Sellars was only 16-years-old when he murdered a shopkeeper for no apparent reason in 1986. Six months later he shot his mother and stepfather in the head whilst they slept. He was imprisoned for...
Cutting Edge: Shot
(1999)
The moment of the firing of a gun. Dramatic testimony from both
sides of the exchange between shooter and shot produced for Channel
4's Cutting Edge.
Deaf Century
(1999)
Documentary series viewing the century through the eyes of the deaf community.
Execution at Camp 21
(1999)
This film examines the hanging of war prisoner Wolfgang Rosterg in
1944 after SS officers found him guilty of being an informer. It
includes dramatised footage of Rosterg's transferral to a
c...
Eyes of a Child, The
(1999)
In today's affluent Britain almost one in three children live in
poverty. Denied a childhood, they are forced to make adult
decisions and bear adult responsibilities long before they should.
This f...
Geri
(1999)
Geri Halliwell approached Dineen soon after her departure from the
Spice Girls with an invitation to make a documentary about her next
move. The resulting film mixes intimacy with detachment, and
f...
Gulag
(1999)
An epic journey from the banks of the Volga Canal outside Moscow to the arctic wastes of Siberia via the heart of Russia and its people.
Haka - The Legend of the All Blacks
(1999)
The All Blacks are New Zealand's most successful sports team. This
documentary looks at the history of the rugby team and finds out
why they are once again the World Cup favourites.
Hemingway Adventure
(1999)
Michael Palin is off on another unconventional adventure
documentary for the cameras. Starting at the bullfights in
Valencia, Spain he follows in the footsteps of his favourite
author, the mad, bad...
Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail
(1999)
Unveiling the Nazi's perversion of history, from the swastika and the grail to Atlantis, used to justify the horrors of the holocaust and medical experimentation. Nominated of an Indie Award 2000 - Ar...
I Was a Slave Labourer
(1999)
Based on archival footage and interviews, this film reconstructs
the history of those who worked as slave labour under the Third
Reich. More than ten million people, apart from the prisoners in
the...
Kew Gardens Paradise Pruned
(1999)
TV documentary looking at the famous Kew Gardens in London and how this 250-year-old botanical institution is facing up to the demands of the business world of the 1990s.
Lagos Airport
(1999)
This documentary series for Channel 4 by Charlotte Moore takes a
look behind the scenes at extremely busy Lagos Airport in Nigeria.
Love Is Blind
(1999)
This film looked at love, attraction and blindness, from the perspective of four blind people, with the central narrative thread being the intimate tales of how they formed relationships with their pr...
Malcolm and Barbara... A Love Story
(1999)
Malcolm and Barbara have two sons and shared careers in music at
Cambridge University. At the age of 51, Malcolm was diagnosed with
early-onset Alzheimer's disease. A love story as the title
sugges...
Mersey Blues
(1999)
Unprecedented access and four years in the making, this
ground-breaking five part series for BBC 2 covered stories of
gangland warfare, murder and police corruption in the Merseyside
police force.<...
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