title: Nature Boy

title: Part 1

overview: Teenage David Witton lives in foster care following his father's departure from home when he was small and his mother's breakdown, and attends a rowdy remedial class. He is happiest communing with nature, nude swimming, and birdwatching with his only friend, fellow loner Fred. Though he impresses his teacher with his knowledge of nature, a school trip to a nature reserve ends in disaster when David has to kill an injured deer. Following the death of his precocious foster sister and the burning down of Fred's hut by a mob who learn that he is an ex-paedophile, David sets free his abusive foster father's captive birds and sets off in search of his real father.

title: Part 1

character: Billy

character: Young David

character: Anna Witton

character: Graeme Connor

character: Fred

character: Penny

character: Robbie

character: Alice

character: Len

character: Jane

character: Anne-Marie

character: Mr Wilson

character: Miss Owthwaite

character: Mr Carr

title: Part 2

overview: David lives off the land, adopting an injured fox as a pet and sleeping in a shed. He meets Miles, the withdrawn, mute son of unhappily married Tom and Martha, and encourages Miles to speak. A grateful Martha goes to bed with David but they're discovered by Tom. David moves on, having met Jenny, a librarian part of a protest group against Blexco, the factory where Martha works and who gives him an address to help find his father.

title: Part 2

character: Jenny

character: Jenny's Mother

character: Ros

character: William Lloyd

character: Tom

character: Martha

character: Miles

title: Part 3

overview: David re encounters Jenny, now a fervent member of a protest camp occupying woods to prevent them being cleared to accommodate an airport runway. He asks her to accompany him on his search but she's determined to stay and fight. Initially uninvolved - and bonding with Ted, the under-sheriff trying to clear the camp peacefully, through a love of fishing - David is caught up in a brawl with invading security guards and, after realising Ted lied to him about the eviction date, joins the protesters in an underground tunnel.

title: Part 3

character: Boycie

character: Ted

character: Cam

title: Part 4

overview: Using the address given him by Jenny, David travels south and gets work as an apple picker. He meets Esther, a woman with whom his father Steve once lived and her daughter and, through them, locates Steve, who is now a wealthy but terminally ill recluse. Initially cool towards David, who confronts him about abandoning his family, Steve lets him stay but his time is coming to an end. David returns to the North, where Jenny is comatose in hospital - however, she seems responsive to his voice and touch.

title: Part 4

character: Katy

character: Esther

character: Col

character: Joanne

character: Jimmy

overview: David Witton is a sullen teenager who feels more at ease with animals than with people. Following the death of his sister, David embarks on a search for the father who deserted him when he was a child.

title: Miniseries

title: Nature Boy

title: Дитя природы

overview: Шестнадцатилетний Дэвид живет в приемной семье после того, как его отец ушел из дома, когда он был маленьким, и у его матери случился нервный срыв, и он посещает шумный коррекционный класс. Ему больше всего нравится общаться с природой, плавать обнаженным и наблюдать за птицами с другом-одиночкой Фредом. Хотя он впечатляет своего школьного учителя своими познаниями в природе, школьная поездка в заповедник заканчивается катастрофой, когда ему приходится убить раненого оленя. После смерти его сводный сестры и сожжения хижины Фреда толпой, узнавшей, что он бывший педофил, Дэвид уходит из города.

character: David Witton

character: Ken Davis

character: Deck

character: Mel

character: Shelley

character: Tracey

character: Steve Witton


title: The King of Chaos

status: Ended

title: The King of Chaos

original_title: The King of Chaos

original_language: en


title: Never Never

Season 1

title: Episode 1

overview: John Parlour works for the local loan agency. Making wishes come true, John is a born seller and friend to all his clients, particularly single mum Jo Weller.

character: Jo's friend in club

type: GuestStar

character: Max

character: Call Centre Woman

title: Episode 2

overview: John and Jo work together to try to make the new business venture a success.

overview: John Parlour and Jo Weller form a credit union but John's predatory lending scheme threatens both the poor residents of a London council estate and their own business.

title: Never Never

character: John Parlour

type: Cast

character: Jo Weller

character: Sandra

job: Executive Producer

department: Production

type: Crew

job: Editor

department: Editing

job: Writer

department: Writing

job: Producer

job: Original Music Composer

department: Sound

job: Art Direction

department: Art

job: Director

department: Directing

original_title: Never Never


title: This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

type: Backdrop

title: Part One

overview: This is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry.

title: Part One

title: Part Two

overview: Part 2 of a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s.

title: Part Two

title: Part Three

title: Part Three

title: Season 1

overview: Dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry.

overview: Dramatisering van het echte onderzoek naar de beruchte moorden op Yorkshire Ripper eind jaren zeventig, waarbij het effect wordt aangetoond dat dit had op de gezondheid en carrière van assistent-hoofdcommissaris George Oldfield die het onderzoek leidde.

character: Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield

character: Det. Supt. Dick Holland

character: Chief Const. Ronald Gregory

character: WPC Sue Neave

character: Christopher Oldfield - Age 9


title: The House

title: Star Struck

overview: As the curtain rises, there's a crisis at the box office and impending disaster on stage as diva Denyce Graves loses her voice. Visits to a Harley Street specialist fail to remedy the problem, leaving just hours to locate a replacement for the leading role in Carmen.

title: Star Struck

title: Horse Trading

overview: It's a stressful time for almost everyone concerned as two productions—an opera and a ballet—go into rehearsals and over budget. Almost everything that can go wrong duly does so.

title: Horse Trading

title: Foot Fault

overview: Not all the staff are happy with the radical changes in the Opera House work schedules planned to be implemented. Meanwhile, the Royal Ballet is off to Washington.

title: Foot Fault

title: High Hopes

overview: A silent war waged behind the famous Crush Bar and further confrontation between management and unions over rates of pay feature in tonight's behind-the-scenes developments at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

title: High Hopes

title: Settling Scores

overview: The new Director at the Royal Opera has the task of finding the right balance between financial and aesthetic considerations.

title: Settling Scores

title: Winning Ticket

overview: The main problem for the Royal Opera House is an ever-present one: to secure the hundreds of millions of pounds needed to keep the opera and ballet companies performing in London while the Covent Garden building is refurbished. But plenty of people are ready to pay £1,750 to join the Princess of Wales in the audience for the Winter Gala.

title: Winning Ticket

overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the Royal Opera House.

title: The House

title: The House

character: Narrator

original_title: The House


title: Bumping the Odds

title: Bumping the Odds

original_title: Bumping the Odds


title: Rhythm: Leaving Home

title: Rhythm: Leaving Home

original_title: Rhythm: Leaving Home


title: The System

title: The System

original_title: The System


title: American Comedy Awards

title: American Comedy Awards

original_title: American Comedy Awards


title: Some Kind of Life

overview: Some Kind of Life is a 1995 TV drama written by Kay Mellor and directed by Julian Jarrold, starring Jane Horrocks and Ray Stevenson.

title: Some Kind of Life

original_title: Some Kind of Life


title: The Precious Blood

title: The Precious Blood

original_title: The Precious Blood


title: The Grand National

title: The Grand National

original_title: The Grand National


title: Hong Kong Handover

title: Hong Kong Handover

original_title: Hong Kong Handover


title: The Hanging Gale

type: Poster

title: Part 1

title: Part 1

title: Part 2

title: Part 2

title: Part 3

title: Part 3

title: Part 4

title: Part 4

overview:
The Hanging Gale is a four-episode television serial which first aired on RTÉ One and BBC1 in 1995. The series was a British–Irish co-production, made by Little Bird Films for BBC Northern Ireland in association with Raidió Teilifís Éireann, with support from the Irish Film Board.

The serial, set in 1846 at the beginning of Ireland's Great Famine, starred the four McGann brothers: Joe McGann, Paul McGann, Mark McGann and Stephen McGann, and was based on an original idea by Joe and Stephen McGann while researching their family's history.

The title of the series comes from the term 'hanging gale', the name for a widespread practice in Ireland at the time, where a landlord would allow new tenants a six-month grace period on payment of their rent, with the expectation that the rent owed would be paid when the land's crops were harvested and sold.

title: The Hanging Gale

character: Sean Phelan

character: Conor Phelan

character: Liam Phelan

character: Daniel Phelan

character: Capt. William Townsend

character: Maeve Phelan

character: Mary Dolan

character: Ferry

character: Coulter

character: James Phelan

character: Joseph Phelan

character: Molly Phelan

character: Michael Dolan

character: Patrick Dolan

character: Sarah Dolan

character: McBride

character: McCafferty

character: Doctor Davis

character: Meagher

character: Harkin

character: Brady

character: Mr Denny

character: Mrs Denny

character: Henry Jenkins

character: Shanahan

character: Constable Coyle

character: Sergeant Major

character: Brewster

character: Kerryman

character: Brian Sweeney

character: Martin

character: Baby Hannah

job: Second Assistant Director

original_title: The Hanging Gale


title: Remembrance Day Service: The Cenotaph

title: Remembrance Day Service: The Cenotaph

original_title: Remembrance Day Service: The Cenotaph


title: Network First

title: Florence and Robin

overview: Documentary set in San Francisco about a lesbian couple who have a long-term relationship and want a child of their own.

title: Florence and Robin

title: Women Who Kill

type: Still

overview: Five women explain why after years of mental and physical abuse they finally killed their partners.

title: Women Who Kill

title: An Everest to Climb

overview: In October 1993 a party of climbers left for the Himalayas, including seven British mountaineers who had mental or physical disabilities. The film follows their attempts to climb the Pokalde peak in the Everest range.

title: An Everest to Climb

title: Supermodels

overview: A revealing look at the fashion industry with supermodels Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington. The programme goes behind the scenes at Paris Fashion Week and tells sad tales about British models trying to cope.

title: Supermodels

title: Bhopal: The Second Tragedy

overview: Mark Tully returns to Bhopal, 10 years after the gas leak, to find that the American chemical giant has wriggled out of its responsibility towards the victims of the world's worst industrial disaster. He travels to the USA, Mexico and Brazil to find if the world has learned any lessons from Bhopal.

title: Bhopal: The Second Tragedy

title: Nightfighters

overview: Follows the formation of the 332nd fighter group in Italy during World War II, the first all black air squadron in the United States Air Force, from its beginnings in Tuskegee, Alabama in July 1941.

title: Nightfighters

title: Children of the Holocaust

overview: History of four Jewish children who survived Auschwitz.

title: Children of the Holocaust

title: Top Chef

overview: Young chefs compete with other chefs at the Ecole Superieure de Cuisine Francaise, cooking classic dishes against the clock. They have five hours to create two perfect dishes for a panel of chefs and cookery writers.

title: Top Chef

title: Ballet School

overview: A behind-the-scenes look at a term in London's Central School of Ballet.

title: Ballet School

title: Last Voyage of the Lusitania

overview: Documentary on the sinking by a U-boat of the 'Lusitania' in 1915 in which nearly 1200 men, women and children were drowned. Dr Robert Ballard investigates the wreckage to see if the ship was really carrying arms, according to the Germans.

title: Last Voyage of the Lusitania

title: Stigmata: A Modern Miracle?

overview: A documentary examining evidence from people claiming to receive the open wounds of the stigmata. The programme features stigmatics from around the world, including the three from the UK, and throughout history from St Francis to Padre Pio. It covers the various theories that have been put forward to explain the phenomenon: multiple personality disorder, self-infliction of wounds, the psychosomatic reproduction of injuries of trauma years after the event.

title: Stigmata: A Modern Miracle?

title: The War Against the Mafia Part 1: The Founding Father

overview: How America's law enforcement agencies tackled the Mafia. Concentrates on the Gambino family from 1980 to 1993. Includes secret FBI recordings, interviews and allegations that the family were responsible for the deaths of 200 people.

title: The War Against the Mafia Part 2: Death in the Family

overview: The programme begins with the funeral of Carlo Gambino, the model for The GODFATHER. His successor, Paul Castellano, turned the Mafia into a billion dollar business by controlling New York's waste disposal and construction industries.

title: The War Against the Mafia Part 3: The King of Little Italy

overview: The programme looks at the rise and fall of gangster, John Gotti, who took charge after arranging the murder of Paul Castellano. Bribing his way to freedom, justice finally caught up with him and he is now doing a life sentence.

title: Mandela: From Prison to President

overview: An intimate portrait of South Africa's President-in-waiting, looking at the sacrifices Mandela made in his quest for peace and power and examines the problems he will face in the future.

title: Mandela: From Prison to President

title: Inside the Channel Tunnel

overview: The story of the bi-lingual company Eurotunnel which has taken possession of the Channel Tunnel, opening on Friday, 6th May 1994.

title: Inside the Channel Tunnel

title: The Professional Beggar

overview: Documentary about the Orbis International Flying Eye Hospital, a charity-funded medical service that works at restoring sight to the blind in Third World countries.

title: The Professional Beggar

title: Apollo: When the World Held Its Breath

overview: Documentary telling the stories of Apollos 11 and 13, two of the most important missions in space exploration, revealing how close they came to fatal disasters.

title: Apollo: When the World Held Its Breath

title: Murder in the Family

overview: Documentary about Roderick and Newall, the brothers accused of murdering their wealthy parents in New Jersey, USA.

title: Murder in the Family

title: Date Rape: The Investigation

overview: Documentary drama of a typical "date-rape" case, using actors to represent the victim, the accused and their friends; but real professionals to represent the police, medics, judge and lawyers; followed by a dramatised trial.

title: Date Rape: The Investigation

title: Date Rape: The Trial Day 1

overview: The alleged victim gives her evidence and is cross-examined.

title: Date Rape: The Trial Day 1

title: Date Rape: The Trial Day 2

overview: The prosecution witnesses are now taking the stand.

title: Date Rape: The Trial Day 2

title: Date Rape: The Trial Day 3

overview: The alleged rapist is cross-examined and the summing-up begins.

title: Date Rape: The Trial Day 3

title: Date Rape: The Verdict

overview: Follows the alleged victim's case through the Crown Court, giving her evidence to the Court and the defence demanding graphic details of the alleged rape. We hear the jury's deliberations before they reach a final verdict.

title: Date Rape: The Verdict

title: Waking from Coma

overview: Report from the Royal Hospital in Putney, London, where pioneering work is carried out on severely brain-damaged patients who are in deep comas.

title: Waking from Coma

title: Inside Castro's Cuba

overview: Documentary on Cuba after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Features an interview with President Fidel Castro who speaks about their economic crisis, the US economic blockade and Cuba's success in pharmaceuticals and tourism.

title: Inside Castro's Cuba

title: Miami Front Line

overview: Documentary about the tragedy taking place on the coastal waters off Florida, where thousands of Cuban and Haitian refugees have perished - the victims of sharks, storms and the sun, as they flee persecution in their homeland.

title: Miami Front Line

title: The Secrets of Porton Down

overview: Documentary about human guinea pigs being used at the secret Porton Down research facility to help with the development of chemical weapons. Former volunteers talk about their health problems, and about their struggle to win compensation.

title: The Secrets of Porton Down

title: Nicholas and Alexandra Part 1: Anointed by God

overview: First of a two part programme about the assassination of the last Tsar, Nicholas, and his wife Alexandra amid the bloody Russian revolution. Includes testimonies, letters, diaries, photographs and tape-recorded descriptions of the murders.

title: Nicholas and Alexandra Part 2: The Slaying of the Tsars

overview: Prince Michael of Kent reveals details of the tragic deaths of the last Tsar and his family, and the consequent discovery and identification of the family's remains in woods close to Ekaterinburg.

title: Stalker Investigates

overview: Former deputy Chief Constable John Stalker investigates the murder of Hilda Murrell in 1984, including her involvement in anti-nuclear activities and the sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands War.

title: Stalker Investigates

title: The Russian Love Connection

overview: Documentary offers an insight into the burgeoning industry in Post-Communist Russia of supplying Russian women as brides for Western men. Also follows the women as they leave their family and friends for a new life in America.

title: The Russian Love Connection

title: Flying the Flag - Arming the World

overview: The British arms business and its implications in World politics.

title: Flying the Flag - Arming the World

title: The Visit: Coma - Connie's Story

overview: A return visit to Connie Taylor, who was knocked down by a car outside her house eight years ago and nearly died. Featured in THE VISIT in 1987,she was starting to recover from her coma. Now she is taking driving lessons.

title: The Visit: Coma - Connie's Story

title: The Visit: Chariots of Wire

overview: Documentary about three young British businessmen who design and manufacture a revolutionary cheap wheelchair which they make available to people all over the world through a charity they set up named 'Motivation'.

title: The Visit: Chariots of Wire

title: The Visit: A Life for Polly

overview: Documentary on Polly East, a five-year-old who has been diagnosed with leukaemia. Follows her family as she undergoes the painful and distressing course of treatment.

title: The Visit: A Life for Polly

title: Between Life and Death

overview: Documentary about the Near Death Experience, and scientific research which has tried to explain how people who have technically died can make astonishing recoveries and remember inexplicable encounters or religious experiences.

title: Between Life and Death

title: Talking to the Enemy

overview: Documentary about IRA's foot-soldier Dermot Finucane. The programme also records the moving testimony of Robert Ewart-Briggs, whose father was blown up in 1976 by an IRA landmine, and who refuses to dismiss the IRA as criminals.

title: Talking to the Enemy

title: The Plague Monkeys

overview: Documentary about a group of viruses, known as filoviruses, which can kill within two weeks and which are transmitted via monkeys.

title: The Plague Monkeys

title: UFO

overview: Documentary about the phenomena of UFO sightings, and the history of authorities ignoring or debunking theories associated with them.

title: UFO

title: Love, Lies and Bigamy

overview: Documentary about the experiences of four modern bigamists - three men and a woman - who were prosecuted.

title: Love, Lies and Bigamy

title: The Man Who Saved Animals

overview: Profile of conservationist Richard Leakey, the Director of the Kenya Wildlife Service, who for many years has been a prolific campaigner to save the world's wildlife.

title: The Man Who Saved Animals

title: Commando

overview: Documentary from behind the scenes with a Royal Marines commando unit as it takes part in a dramatic training exercise in Norway.

title: Commando

title: Desperately Seeking Asylum

overview: Report on the treatment of people arriving in Britain seeking asylum. Follows the stories of some of the refugees through each stage of the complicated process, and includes secretly recorded footage of a deportation taking place.

title: Desperately Seeking Asylum

title: The Yardies

overview: Profile of the Yardies, a crime syndicate that's more powerful than the Mafia, originating from Kingston, Jamaica, now moving into Britain and America. A special police unit has been set up to combat them.

title: The Yardies

title: Confronting Crime

overview: Report on the pioneering work of Leeds Mediation and Reparation Service, as it brings victims and offenders face to face for the first time.

title: Confronting Crime

title: Hollywood Vice

overview: Profile of the career of detective Fred Clapp, who has been with the Los Angeles Vice Squad for 25 years, involved in undercover operations into prostitution and drug dealing to the Hollywood elite.

title: Hollywood Vice

title: The Troubleshooters

overview: For the last 25 years Belfast's leading press agency, Pacemaker, has built up a stunning visual record of The Troubles. It's photographers have witnessed the grief and suffering of others, and have put themselves in danger to bring us those unforgettable images. In a momentous 12 months, Network First cameras have followed them as Ulster has moved from violence to uneasy peace.

title: The Troubleshooters

title: Paul McKenna's Secrets of Hypnosis

overview: Documentary about hypnosis, exploring the uses for its technique, such as learning, pain control, and eyesight enhancement. Also looks into the more sinister uses of hypnosis for mind control by cults, advertisers, and politicians.

title: Paul McKenna's Secrets of Hypnosis

title: Escape from Tibet

overview: The fortunes of a group of Tibetans as they try to escape from the Chinese over the Himalayas.

title: Escape from Tibet

title: Small Miracles

overview: Documentary about the work of a London surgeon who operates on babies still in the womb, following a mother whose seriously ill unborn twins might be saved by womb surgery at the Harris Birthright Unit at King's College Hospital.

title: Small Miracles

title: What Makes Linford Run?

overview: Profile of the world class athlete Linford Christie and his relationship to his coach of 16 years, Ron Roddan.

title: What Makes Linford Run?

title: Confession

overview: The subject matter of the television broadcast was a purported account by Mr Eamon Collins of his activities and experiences as a member of the Provisional IRA.

title: Confession

title: Vietnam: The Last Battle

overview: Documentary examining how Vietnam has fared since the end of the conflict with America twenty years ago. There is also a look at Hollywood distortion of the Vietnam War.

title: Vietnam: The Last Battle

title: Confronting the Hit Men

overview: Documentary about the South African "Truth Commission", a reconciliation program, where former leaders of both black and white terror campaigns meet with the victims they orchestrated to see if past horrors can be forgiven.

title: Confronting the Hit Men

title: Last Letters Home

overview: Re-creates nine Second World War stories through the letters that passed between forces abroad and their friends, families or lovers back home, including some servicemen who wrote "last letters" in the event of their deaths.

title: Last Letters Home

title: Igor, Child of Chernobyl

overview: Documentary about Igor Pavlovets, who was conceived shortly after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, and was born with deformities. The film follows Igor as he travels to England and documents the suffering of the children left behind in Minsk.

title: Igor, Child of Chernobyl

title: Eilish: Life Without Katie

overview: Documentary about six-year-old Eilish Holton from Ireland, three years after she was surgically separated from her conjoined twin sister Katie, who sadly did not survive. This documentary shows Eilish starting school and her journey with learning to walk with a prosthesis. We also get to follow Eilish on a trip to the US to meet the still conjoined sisters Abigail and Brittany Hensel, who are about five years old here.

title: Eilish: Life Without Katie

title: When a Woman Kills Her Man: The Investigation

overview: Documentary about domestic violence, portraying a hypothetical case of Rachel and Peter Palmer. Peter is found fatally wounded; and Rachel was charged with the murder.

title: When a Woman Kills Her Man: The Trial

overview: Concludes the dramatised examination of domestic violence, following the fictional trial of Rachel Palmer through to the verdict.

title: When a Woman Kills Her Man: The Trial

title: A Very Special Baby

overview: Documentary about the lives of four people involved in a surrogate birth. Christine had a hysterectomy at age 31, with the possibility of never having children. Then, her husband's brother suggested surrogacy, which was accepted.

title: A Very Special Baby

title: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

overview: Documentary from behind the scenes of British racing, revealing the way racehorses are treated, and what happens to them when they are too old or injured to race.

title: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

title: Fear and Counting in Las Vegas

overview: Documentary following the fortunes of Dominic O'Brien, World Memory champion, as he tries his luck at the card tables of Amerian casinos in Biloxi, Tunica, Foxwoods and finally, Las Vegas.

title: Fear and Counting in Las Vegas

title: Defender of the Children

overview: Documentary about the efforts of Irish priest Shay Cullen to rid the Philippines of the child sex industry. Includes evidence of organised paedophilia tourism, with Britain providing one of the largest markets.

title: Defender of the Children

title: Gettys - A Tragedy of Riches: Part 1

overview: Examines the life of the wealthy American Getty dynasty, focusing on John Paul Getty.

title: Gettys - A Tragedy of Riches: Part 1

title: Gettys - A Tragedy of Riches: Part 2

overview: History of the Getty family focusing on J Paul Getty's grandchildren - Mark, who is a businessman; Balthazar, an actor; and Aileen who works promoting various AIDS charities with her former mother-in-law, Elizabeth Taylor.

title: Gettys - A Tragedy of Riches: Part 2

title: Man and Animal

overview: New York dogs model Larry Roth canine fashions while Chinese cats marinate in the kitchens of Guan's Cantonese restaurants, the Jain monks in India commit a crime if they kill even the smallest insect while bulls are ritually tortured in the name of religion in Spain. Award-winning filmmaker Antony Thomas travels to nine countries to examines the absurd contradictions and shockingly contrasting traditions which make up man's relationship with the animal world.

title: Man and Animal

title: Midnight Callers

overview: Documentary about those who phone a late night radio show in Bradford, discussing their personal problems: one seducing other men's wives; and a woman being the victim of a paedophile who is dreading his imminent release from prison.

title: Midnight Callers

title: Peace for the Wicked: Tales of Ethnic Cleansing

overview: Documentary about a period after the Second World War in Germany, when many Germans were expelled from parts of their country, sent to ghettos and camps, and often murdered.

title: Guys as Dolls

overview: Documentary about transvestism and the effect it has on marriages and social relations.

title: Guys as Dolls

title: Entertaining Angels Unawares

overview: Documentary examining the history of angels, looking at orthodox and unorthodox views of scientists and churchmen on the subject, and featuring interviews with people who claim they have seen and been helped by angels.

title: Entertaining Angels Unawares

title: Frontline Britain: Part 1

overview: First part of a two-part documentary reporting on rising crime in Great Britain and the connection between crime and poverty.

title: Frontline Britain: Part 1

title: Frontline Britain: Part 2

overview: Final part of a documentary examining the divisions in British society, and its fight against drugs. In London, violence and gang warfare from drug use is examined, and in Bristol, a large-scale heroin use on one community is spotlighted.

title: Frontline Britain: Part 2

title: The Killing of Kathleen Waugh

overview: Investigation into the death of Kathleen Waugh, a woman with learning difficulties, who went missing four years ago. Irregularities in the management of the residential care home, concerning anti-depressive drugs, have been highlighted.

title: The Killing of Kathleen Waugh

title: Inside Burma: Land of Fear

overview: Documentary about the military ruling regime in Burma, its use of forced and child labour to build road and rail links, and how the participation of Western countries aid the system by investing in poorly run projects.

title: Inside Burma: Land of Fear

title: Miss Popular's Crack City

overview: Documentary about two women whose crack-cocaine habits lead them to prostitution. Wendy was 13 when she started to sleep with men to support her habit; Karen Lawson was a middle-class housewife who became hooked.

title: Miss Popular's Crack City

title: High Stakes at Highclere

overview: Documentary about life behind the scenes at Highclere, the Earl of Carnarvon's estate in Hampshire. A new castle manager is appointed, and makes changes to the tea room, the housekeeping, and the castle tour to encourage more visitors.

title: High Stakes at Highclere

title: HMP Dartmoor

overview: Documentary about life inside Dartmoor Prison in Devon.

title: HMP Dartmoor

title: A View to a Kill

overview: Documentary about a Texan family who exercised a new state right to watch the execution of the man who brutally killed two of their children.

title: A View to a Kill

title: Three Men and a Balloon

overview: Documentary following Richard Branson and his fellow balloonists as they made plans to fly a balloon non-stop around the world. Bad weather, politics and financial squabbles prevented the attempt from taking place.

title: Three Men and a Balloon

title: Riddle of the Gaul

overview: Documentary about the 1974 sinking of the Hull trawler Gaul, in which all 36 crew members were lost. Inquiry concluded the Gaul had succumbed to bad weather; although there has been speculation that the ship was captured by the Russians.

title: Riddle of the Gaul

title: The Connection

overview: Documentary following the heroin drugs trail from the poppy fields in Columbia to the streets of Britain. Carlton were fined £2,000,000 by the ITC over this documentary, as the programme contained a number of faked scenes.

title: The Connection

title: Cut-price Package

overview: Documentary about nine British women who travel to Wroclaw in Poland for cut-price plastic surgery.

title: Cut-price Package

title: Going to Chelsea

overview: Follows Stephen Woodhams, society florist and garden designer, as he prepares and creates a garden for the world famous Chelsea Flower Show.

title: Going to Chelsea

title: Psychosurgery

overview: Documentary following three people who have suffered from depression and have decided to try psychosurgery, where parts of the frontal lobes of the brain are destroyed in an attempt to damage the parts of the brain which controls emotions.

title: Psychosurgery

title: Breaking the Cycle

overview: Documentary about disruptive children and the help available to families to deal with them. Visits the Marlborough House Day Unit in Swindon, where children spend one day a week in structured discipline, and whose results were positive.

title: Breaking the Cycle

title: The Widow, the Terrorist and the SAS

overview: Documentary about the aftermath of the October 1977 hijacking of a plane by Palestinian terrorists. The four terrorists killed the pilot and held the passengers hostage for five days before the SAS stormed the plane.

title: The Widow, the Terrorist and the SAS

title: Silent Victim: The Untold Story of the Yorkshire Ripper

overview: Documentary re-examining the case of Peter Sutcliffe, asserting that he may have been responsible for many more crimes than those he was convicted for.

title: Conspicuous Consumption

overview: Documentary about the fashionable and exclusive department store Harvey Nichols, visiting the London and Leeds branches, talking to staff and customers.

title: Conspicuous Consumption

title: Forgotten Mothers

overview: Documentary in which five women talk about how they gave their babies up for adoption in the 1950s and 60s, and the profound sense of loss and guilt they still feel.

title: Forgotten Mothers

title: Return to the Place of the Dead

overview: Documentary following two British soldiers - Bob Mann and Richie Mayfield - as they return to Borneo, where in 1994 they almost died. Bob Mann looks for a video he made containing an emotional farewell message to his wife and son.

title: Return to the Place of the Dead

title: Born to Be Small

overview: Stories of four families affected by dwarfism: a couple's baby with achondroplasia; a couple expecting their first baby; a teenager's operation to add three inches to her height; and a couple fighting for equal rights for small people.

title: Born to Be Small

title: Igor, the Boy Who Dared to Dream

overview: Sequel documentary about a year in the life of Igor Pavlovets, who was deformed by the Chernobyl blast. Igor is on holiday in Spain, captaining his team in the school sports day, camping with the Cubs, and receiving visitors from Russia.

title: Igor, the Boy Who Dared to Dream

title: Breaking the Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

overview: Programme in which journalist John Pilger makes a tribute to the Daily Mirror newspaper. He traces the history of the tabloid, considering the influence of Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell and how the standard of journalism has dropped.

title: Breaking the Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

title: All in the Genes

overview: Documentary examining genetic engineering and cloning, and how it is transforming medical science, showing scientists at work in efforts to prevent genetical disorders such as Hunters syndrome, cancers and Alzheimers.

title: All in the Genes

title: Stolen Brides

overview: Documentary about two girls who left Britain to join their Yemeni father in 1982 for a holiday, but were married and prevented from leaving the country. The programme follows their mother's attempts to bring the girls back to England.

title: Stolen Brides

title: The Blind School

overview: Behind the scenes at the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh to record the inspiring story of how its pupils learn to overcome their visual disabilities.

title: The Blind School

title: The Boy Business

overview: Documentary about British paedophiles who prey on homeless and vulnerable children. The programme confronts the men who trade in child pornography, investigates the recruitment of young boys, and talks to the victims and relatives.

title: The Boy Business

title: Between the Lines

overview: Documentary about Paul Malone, who spent nearly ten years in jail after being found guilty of four armed robberies. The programme follows his attempts to have his convictions overturned.

title: Between the Lines

title: Victoria & Albert Part 1: He Influenced Me in Everything

overview: His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent presents his great great grandparents - Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg. This programme deals with Albert's courtship of the impressionable young queen.

title: Victoria & Albert Part 2: A Queen Alone

overview: The programme follows the life of Queen Victoria following the death of her husband, her self-imposed isolation during her long mourning, and her relationships with Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and her Highland servant John Brown.

title: Victoria & Albert Part 2: A Queen Alone

character: The Munshi

title: For the Love of Roy

overview: Documentary about the legacy of Roy Castle's battle against lung cancer. and the world's first lung cancer research centre in Liverpool. Friends of Castle pay tribute to him and his wife talks about continuing his campaigning work.

title: For the Love of Roy

title: Out of the Shadows

overview: First part in a two-part documentary following the then shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown during the run-in to Labour's election victory in May 1997.

title: Out of the Shadows

title: We Are the Treasury

overview: Second part of a two-part documentary following Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's transition into government, featuring his first month in office and events leading to his maiden budget.

title: We Are the Treasury

title: Life with Grace

overview: First part in a two-part documentary about Monaco's Princess Grace, from her Hollywood career and fairy-tale marriage to her dark side - troubled marriage, rumoured lovers, the paparazzi and her tragic early death in a car crash.

title: Life with Grace

title: Life After Grace

overview: Concluding part of a two-part documentary about Monaco's Grimaldi dynasty. After the early death of Princess Grace, the media turned their attention to her children, Albert, Caroline and Stephanie.

title: Life After Grace

title: Windsor Restored

overview: Documentary in which The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales and The Duke of York give their personal accounts of the fire that ravaged the north-east corner of Windsor Castle in November 1992; and following the restoration process.

title: Windsor Restored

overview: Network First is a wide-ranging documentary strand broadcast on ITV in the U.K. from January 1994 to December 1997, and was a part replacement for First Tuesday.

title: Season 1

overview:
Network First is a wide-ranging documentary strand broadcast on ITV in the U.K. from January 1994 to December 1997, and was a part replacement for First Tuesday.

Unlike other documentary series on ITV such as World in Action, Network First, was not centred on current affairs or politics, but broadcast a range of one-off programmes covering various subjects such as biography, history, and science. Programmes were usually transmitted in the 22:40 slot after News at Ten, each usually running for an hour. The strand was not "owned" by any one ITV franchise, and individual programmes were contributed by the various ITV companies.

As a strand, Network First never became a household "name" - unlike the likes of World in Action or This Week - possibly because of its diverse subject matter. The series appears to have been dropped quietly by ITV in the lead up to the high-profile axing of both World in Action on 7 December 1998 and News at Ten on 5 March 1999.

title: Network First

original_title: Network First


title: Secret Asia

title: Secret Asia

original_title: Secret Asia


title: An Evening With Sir Peter Ustinov

title: An Evening With Sir Peter Ustinov

original_title: An Evening With Sir Peter Ustinov


title: Children of the Revolution

title: Children of the Revolution

original_title: Children of the Revolution


title: Pauline Calf's Wedding Video

title: Pauline Calf's Wedding Video

original_title: Pauline Calf's Wedding Video


title: As Seen On TV

overview: Practical items found on infomercials.

title: As Seen On TV

original_title: As Seen On TV


title: Young MacGyver

type: Logo

status: Pilot

Pilot Episode

title: Unaired Pilot

overview: Angus MacGyver's nephew Clay leaves school and winds up joining his uncle's organization, the Phoenix Foundation, on a lark. He begins to discover that, with time, his talents could closely match his uncle's. The show was scheduled to start in the fall of 2003.

title: Unaired Pilot

overview: Unaired Pilot episode

title: Pilot Episode

title: Young MacGyver

title: Юный МакГайвер

overview: Ангус МакГайвер возглавляет секретную организацию The Phoenix Foundation. Его племянник Клэй МакГайвер, закончив школу, по рекомендации дяди присоединяется к организации, чтобы бороться с преступностью.

title: Young MacGyver

overview: Angus MacGyver leidt de geheime organisatie The Phoenix Foundation. Zijn neef Clay MacGyver sluit zich, na zijn afstuderen, op aanbeveling van zijn oom, aan bij de organisatie om de misdaad te bestrijden.

character: Young MacGyver

character: The General

character: Taylor

character: Tracy

character: Agent

character: Firefighter

job: Cinematography

department: Crew

job: Art Department Manager

job: Costume Design

department: Costume & Make-Up

job: Production Design

original_title: Young MacGyver


title: Coping With Grown-Ups

title: Coping With Grown-Ups

original_title: Coping With Grown-Ups


title: Facing the Music: The Return of Torvill and Dean


title: Today At The Paralympics

title: Today At The Paralympics

original_title: Today At The Paralympics


title: Out of Ammunition...God save the King Arnhem 50 Years On


title: D-Day Remembered: Minute by Minute

D: Day Remembered - Minute by Minute

site: YouTube

type: Trailer

Season 1

title: Episode 1

overview: The last eye witness survivors tell of their experiences from the war.

title: Episode 2

overview: The last eye witness survivors tell more of their experiences  from the war.

overview: On 6th June 1944, 156,000 men took part in D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history. Its aim: to land in France and liberate Europe from four years of Nazi domination. In this series, the first 24 crucial hours of this incredible story is told — minute by minute — by the last surviving men who witnessed the horrors and victory unfold. Diaries and stories, told by those left behind, recount the personal experience of the men who were there. It was a day that not only changed their lives, but changed the course of the Second World War.

title: D-Day Remembered: Minute by Minute

title: D-Day Remembered: Minute by Minute

overview: Op 6 juni 1944 namen 156.000 man deel aan D-Day, de grootste amfibische invasie uit de geschiedenis. Het doel: landen in Frankrijk en Europa bevrijden van vier jaar nazi-overheersing. In deze serie worden de eerste 24 cruciale uren van dit ongelooflijke verhaal verteld – van minuut tot minuut – door de laatste overlevende mannen die getuige waren van de verschrikkingen en de overwinning. Dagboeken en verhalen, verteld door de achterblijvers, vertellen de persoonlijke ervaringen van de mannen die erbij waren. Het was een dag die niet alleen hun leven veranderde, maar ook de loop van de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

original_title: D-Day Remembered: Minute by Minute


title: The Trust

title: The Trust

original_title: The Trust


title: Body & Soul

Miniseries

title: Part I

overview: Sister Gabriel (Anna), a nun in a Silent Order, is informed of the tragic death of her brother and has to leave the convent for the first time in 16 years. During that time she has to come to regard her tiny cell as a prison, and at 34 is becoming acutely aware of her own desire to have a child. This family tragedy is about to change her life forever.

title: Part I

title: Part II

overview: Anna, is caught between two different worlds. We witness her struggle to come to terms with an alien world, as she tries to remember what her father taught her. She is confronted by pain and sadness from her sister-in-law, and sexual hostility from the man who manages the family mill.

title: Part II

title: Part III

overview: Anna, is torn between her life in the convent and trying to save her brother's failing business. She also has to face her own physical and emotional desires in her relationship with Hal, the foreman at the family mill.

title: Part III

title: Part IV

overview: The outside world becomes more alarming as Anna, has to deal with the banks in her desperate efforts to save the mill. She discovers that men are beginning to perceive her more as a woman than a nun.

title: Part IV

title: Part V

overview: Anna, is driven back to the convent by a frightening sexual encounter, only to realize that she no longer belongs there. She asks for a release from her vows to undertake the responsibility of the family business.

title: Part V

title: Part VI

overview: Anna, with everyone's help, manages to secure the future of the family mill in spite of efforts to sabotage her work. Anna returns to the convent to sign the papers which will release her and walks out of the convent gates for the last time to face her future.

title: Part VI

title: Miniseries

overview: A nun leaves the convent temporarily to help save her family knitting mill from bankruptcy following the death of her brother. Outside the convent she becomes a fairly shrewd businesswoman and feels attracted to one of the men who work at the mill, and thus begins to feel conflict about her religious vows.

title: Body & Soul

title: Тела и души

overview: Това е група приятели от Лондон, които се опитват да се справят с житейските си проблеми. Търсенето на щастие и реализация е обърнато с главата надолу от безразсъдни действия, в борба със самотата и търсене на любов на най-неочаквани места. Когато получиш, това, което искаш, то вече започва да изглежда не толкова привлекателно. Кой е виновен?

title: Body & Soul

title: Body & Soul

character: Sister Gabriel / Anna

character: Peggy

character: Sister Dominic

character: Sister Julian

character: Mother Emmanuel

character: Leila

character: Stan Beattie

character: Lynn

character: Hal

character: Sister Vincent

character: Sister Aelred

character: Sister Peter

character: Rene

character: Sister Godric

character: Sylvie

character: Sister Thomas-A-Kempis

character: Sister Rosalie

character: Linda

character: Doris

character: Jamie Gibson

character: Dawn

character: Daniel Stern

character: Walter Street

character: Terry Singh

character: Charlie Faulkner

character: Miss Hara

character: Priest

character: Doctor

job: Screenplay

job: Sound

job: Sound Recordist

job: Director of Photography

department: Camera

job: Novel


title: A History of British Art

Season 1

title: Dreams and Hammers

title: Dreams and Hammers

title: North and South

title: North and South

title: My Wife, My Horse and Myself

title: My Wife, My Horse and Myself

title: Modern Art

title: Modern Art

title: All Change

title: All Change

title: Our House

title: Our House

overview: Six-part series tracing the history of British art from 1066 to the modern day, written and presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon.

title: A History of British Art

character: Presenter

original_title: A History of British Art


title: VJ-50

title: VJ-50


overview: The Taking Of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story, also marketed as The Flight on video, is a 1988 made-for-TV film based on the actual hijacking of TWA Flight 847 as seen through the eyes of Uli Derickson, the chief flight attendant. Derickson herself acted as a consultant for the movie.


title: Save the Dog!

title: Save the Dog!

original_title: Save the Dog!


title: American Visions

Miniseries

title: The Republic of Virtue

title: The Republic of Virtue

title: The Promised Land

title: The Promised Land

title: The Wilderness and the West

title: The Wilderness and the West

title: The Gilded Age

title: The Gilded Age

title: A Wave from the Atlantic

title: A Wave from the Atlantic

title: Streamlines and Breadlines

title: Streamlines and Breadlines

title: The Empire of Signs

title: The Empire of Signs

title: The Age of Anxiety

title: The Age of Anxiety

title: Miniseries

overview: Time magazine critic and writer of the highly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America.

title: American Visions

character: Self - Presenter

job: Executive Producer

original_title: American Visions


Season 1

title: Whole Lotta Shakin'

overview: In the fifties, a new musical force appeared, shaking up clean-living America – rock 'n' roll. Following Fats Domino's lead, Little Richard burst onto the scene in New Orleans. In Memphis, the new music also emerged, and a young Elvis Presley recorded his first songs.

title: Whole Lotta Shakin'

title: Whole Lotta Shakin'

overview: Au début des années 50 dans le Mississipi, naissent les débuts du Rock'n'Roll. Fats Domino repousse les limites du Rythm'n'Blues. Et un jeune conducteur de camion de 18 ans paie 3,95 dollars pour enregistrer "My Happiness".

title: Be My Baby

overview: Girl groups, the surf sound, and perfect pop take over the charts.

title: Be My Baby

title: Be My Baby

overview: L'époque des "groupes de filles" noires, produits par un producteur de génie.

title: So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star

overview: When Bob Dylan arrived in New York, he stirred up not only the placid world of folk music but also rock'n'roll, influencing everyone from the Beatles to the Byrds. Meanwhile in Britain, the Beatles were expanding on the legacy of the Shadows and skiffle to open out British rock music.

title: So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star

title: So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star

overview: La folk music se prend très au sérieux. En 1961, Bob Dylan arrive à New York. Un nouveau mouvemen tpolitique naît et la musique pop s'électrifie et se développe dans différentes directions. Et la pop anglaise envahit l'Amérique.

title: Respect

overview: An examination of the birth of soul music, from Ray Charles's first adaptation of gospel through Sam Cooke's death to the start of the Motown empire and, in Memphis, the sound of Stax Records.

title: Respect

title: R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

overview: Confrontés à la British invasion, les artistes soul et R'n'B américains retrouvent leurs racines. Le son de Detroit, Stax, Chicago rumble apparaissent...

title: Crossroads

overview: In the early sixties Chicago blues is adopted by British listeners and the music of artists such as Muddy Waters gives birth to a succession of new British rhythm-and-blues artists.

title: Crossroads

title: Crossroads

overview: Les racines du hard rock. Les Rolling Stones et les Animals se tournent vers le blues. Jimmy Hendrix et Led Zeppelin apparaissent.

title: Eight Miles High

overview: In 1966, San Francisco became the centre of rock's psychedelic era. Meanwhile in London, Pink Floyd were emerging with an experimental new sound.

title: Eight Miles High

title: Eight Miles High

overview: La scène pop est désormais californienne. Les hippies, la drogue, les festivals en plein air, le psychédélisme et la contre-culture accompagnent l'émergence du Greatful Dead, des Byrds, de Janis Joplin, du Jefferson Airplane. Pendant ce temps, les Beatles et les Stones passent de plus en plus de temps en studio.

title: Hang on to Yourself

overview: Musicians are left nursing a hangover after the failure of the summer of love. Into the breach step some of the most outrageous figures yet to grace a rock stage, like Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop and David Bowie.

title: Hang on to Yourself

title: Hang On To Yourself

overview: Les chansons solaires californiennes s'assombrissent, deviennent théâtrales : l'exhibitionnisme, le sexe, le cynisme. C'est le temps du Velvet, de Bowie, d'Iggy Pop...

title: No Fun

overview: In the mid-seventies, the American music business was shaken out of its complacency by the eccentric sounds of artists like Jonathan Richman. But it was when the anarchic style was picked up in Britain by bands including the Sex Pistols and the Clash that the punk revolution really took off.

title: No Fun

title: No Fun

overview: Dans les années 70, les stars du folk-rock comme The Eagles vivaient dans le luxe, loin du monde de leurs fans, acheteurs de disques. Le rock devient savant, riche, trop léché. Les punks vont lui insuffler une nouvelle adrénaline. Modern Lovers, Patti Smith, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones, Siouxsie and the Banshees arrivent.

title: Make It Funky

overview: In the seventies, James Brown's musical innovations earned him the sobriquet of the godfather of funk. This episode remembers the revolution he instigated, plus the work of other funk figureheads such as Sly and the Family Stone, Bootsy Collins and George Clinton.

title: Make It Funky

title: Make It Funky

overview: Le Funk s'ajoute à la Soul et au Rhythm 'n Blues. James Brown est monté sur scène. Sly and Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind and Fire, Kool and The Gang et The Jacksons. Et quelque chose appelé Rap apparaît dans les rues...

title: Planet Rock

overview: The concluding episode looks at how the passage of time has not compromised music's ability to innovate, excite and induce outrage. With interviews with New Order, Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys, Run DMC and The Orb.

title: Planet Rock

title: Planet Rock

overview: La musique rock était trop décontractée et elle n'avait plus faim. De nouvelles planètes vont bientôt être explorées. Grandmaster Flash, Kraftwerk, New Order, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Run DMC, Beasty Boys, Public Enemy, De La Soul sont arrivés.

overview: Rock & Roll (U.S. title) or Dancing in the Street: a Rock and Roll History (U.K. title) is a 10-part American-British television documentary series about the history of rock and roll music produced by the BBC and WGBH, and which screened in 1995 on PBS in the United States and on BBC Two in the United Kingdom during 1996.

title: Dancing In The Street : 40 ans de rock

overview: L'histoire du rock en 10 épisodes. Diffusé en France sur Canal Jimmy.

overview: Rock & Roll (Amerikaanse titel) of Dancing in the Street: a Rock and Roll History (Britse titel) is een 10-delige Amerikaans-Britse televisiedocumentaireserie over de geschiedenis van rock-'n-roll-muziek, geproduceerd door de BBC en WGBH, en die vertoond in 1995 op PBS in de Verenigde Staten en op BBC Two in het Verenigd Koninkrijk in 1996.


title: Unnatural Pursuits

title: I'm the Author

title: I'm the Author

title: I Don't Do Cuddles

title: I Don't Do Cuddles

overview: An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.

title: Unnatural Pursuits

title: Unnatural Pursuits

overview: Een Engelse toneelschrijver offert zijn gezondheid op in afwachting opening van zijn toneelstuk op Broadway die hem beroemd kan maken of hem breken.

character: Hamish Partt

character: Blossom

character: Hector Duff

character: Skateboard

character: Digby Mason

character: Jenny McDaish

character: Amanda

character: Harmony Cast

job: Editor

job: Property Buyer

job: Standby Carpenter

job: Associate Producer

job: Property Master

job: Construction Coordinator

job: Makeup Designer

job: First Assistant Director

job: Third Assistant Director

job: Graphic Designer

job: Construction Manager

job: Assistant Makeup Artist

job: Line Producer

job: Unit Production Manager


title: Nice Girl

title: Nice Girl

original_title: Nice Girl


title: Royals and Reptiles

status: ReturningSeries

title: Divine Beings

title: Divine Beings

title: Unleash the Greyhounds

title: Unleash the Greyhounds

title: Dangerous Liaisons

title: Dangerous Liaisons

overview: In three fifty minute films,this series reveals the deals and the betrayals,the polite letters from palace press secretaries and the bollockings from tabloid editors,the telephone calls to the BBC Governors and the intercepted mobile phone calls from royal paramours which form the recent history of the relationship between the Royal Family,politicians and the media.

title: Royals and Reptiles

character: Self - Narrator

character: Self - Editor, The Daily Telegraph

character: Self - Editor, The Daily Times

character: Self - Editor, The Sunday Times

character: Self - Photographer, Daily Star

character: Self - Editor, The Sunday Telegraph

character: Self - Deputy Editor, The Sun

character: Self - Queen's Deputy Private Secretary

character: Self - Royal Reporter, The Daily Star

character: Self

character: Self - Assistant Editor, The Sun

character: Self - Press Secretary to the Queen

character: Self - Editor, The Daily Mirror

character: Self - Photographer, The Sun

character: Self - Editor, The Spectator

original_title: Royals and Reptiles


title: Breaking Point

overview: Families battle the destruction caused by loved ones' criminal spirals. Faced with intervention - treatment or jail - an ex-convict interventionist guides them, striving to avoid tragedy.

title: Breaking Point

original_title: Breaking Point


title: My Crazy Obsession

Specials

title: Season 0

title: 5,000 Kids & Tickled Pink

overview: Extreme collectors and people infatuated with certain lifestyles are profiled in this reality series, which begins with a couple's assortment of more than 5000 Cabbage Patch Kids; and a woman's fascination with the color pink.

title: 5,000 Kids & Tickled Pink

title: Mouse Mania & Wigged Out

overview: A woman with more than 5000 Mickey Mouse memorabilia items; a woman obsessed with wearing wigs who has more than 2000 of them.

title: Mouse Mania & Wigged Out

title: House of Dolls & Flashback to the 50's

overview: A couple with hundreds of love dolls who are fond of taking them out in public; a woman obsessed with the year 1950, from her wardrobe to her car.

title: House of Dolls & Flashback to the 50's

title: The Cats' House & My Oval Office

overview: A couple with nine cats and a customized house for their pets; a man's obsession with U.S. presidents includes a replica of the Oval Office in his home.

title: The Cats' House & My Oval Office

title: Grown-Up Baby

title: Grown-Up Baby

title: Mannequin Invasion & Carrot Queen

overview: A man's mannequin collection numbers in the hundreds and occupies every room in his house; a woman's obsession with carrots includes 35 tattoos and a home full of carrot-theme decorations.

title: Mannequin Invasion & Carrot Queen

title: Spin Cycle & Newborn Dolls

overview: A look at a collection of vintage washing machines 15 years and more than $40,000 in the making; a woman who has more than 1,800 homemade vinyl dolls.

title: Spin Cycle & Newborn Dolls

title: Airline Addict & Crazy for Capybaras

overview: A man's collection of aviation memorabilia features a replica of a 1970s first-class cabin in his garage; a woman's love for her pet capybara includes taking it for walks and teaching it tricks.

title: Airline Addict & Crazy for Capybaras

title: Christmas Collection

overview: My Crazy Obsession: Christmas Collection takes you inside the lives of extreme collectors who have taken holiday decorating to the max. For most people the holiday season lasts just weeks, but for these obsessed collectors, it's Christmas year round.

title: Christmas Collection

title: Season 1

Season 2

title: Raggedy Ann and A Rats Tale

overview: Chantal's considers her 19 pet rats to be her children; Robyn is obsessed with Raggedy Ann.

title: Raggedy Ann and A Rats Tale

title: Star Chaser and The Little Merman

overview: A man obsessed with mermaids has turned himself into a merman; Vanessa is obsessed with celebrities and spends her day searching for them.

title: Star Chaser and The Little Merman

title: This Little Piggy and All Dolled Up

overview: Sharon's collection of pig items exceeds 6,000; Rebecca's Barbie doll obsession.

title: This Little Piggy and All Dolled Up

title: Love Bunnies and Worlds Strongest Family

overview: The Best family spends hours lifting weights; Steve's collection of bunny items has reached nearly 30,000.

title: Greg Dreams of Jeannie and the Amazing Squirrel

overview: Greg's obsession with 60s pop-culture has taken over his home; Kelly's life revolves around her pet squirrel and his photo appearances.

title: Ketchup and Mustard

title: Ketchup and Mustard

title: Buggin Out and Dumpster Diet

overview: Bugs have been a part of David's diet for over twelve years; Kelly's daily diet consists of food gathered from the dumpster.

title: Buggin Out and Dumpster Diet

title: Troll Takeover & Stuffing Animals

title: Troll Takeover & Stuffing Animals

title: Season 2

overview: Americans who have an obsession for a certain item or entity are interviewed and discuss their obsessions on reality TV.

title: My Crazy Obsession

title: Minha Estranha Obsessão

overview: Pessoas apaixonadas por algum assunto ou personagem fazem de suas casas verdadeiros santuários dedicados às suas coleções. Durante oito episódios, os colecionadores abrem seus lares para as câmeras, explicando os detalhes da natureza de suas obsessões. Quem são eles, como vivem, quanto tempo gastam e qual é o investimento pessoal feito para que seus acervos floresçam é o tema desta série, que revela, sem pudores ou julgamento de valor, alguns dos membros mais destacados da nação de colecionadores que dedicam silenciosamente a vida às suas paixões.

title: Omituinen pakkomielteeni

overview: Dokumenttisarja paljastaa, kuinka pitkälle pakkomielteistä kärsivät ovat valmiita menemään ongelmansa vuoksi, ja kuinka paljon aikaa, rahaa ja energiaa pakonomaiseen keräilyyn tai tietynlaisen elämäntyylin ylläpitoon kuluu.

original_title: My Crazy Obsession

production_countries: HK US


title: Shakespeare On the Estate

overview: Award-winning documentary in which theatre director Michael Bogdanov tries to persuade residents of a Birmingham estate to perform the Bard. After initial indifference, in three weeks he builds a company of enthusiastic amateur actors whose performances of scenes from the plays are riveting. Here's a thuggish Caliban, a black Shylock full of conviction, and exuberant gang members from Romeo and Juliet. It's only a temporary triumph, but it does demonstrate the power and appeal of Shakespeare, and you wonder at the talent going to waste.

title: Shakespeare On the Estate

original_title: Shakespeare On the Estate


title: The Nicholas Brothers: We Sing and We Dance


title: Next People

title: Next People

original_title: Next People


title: Without Walls

Specials

title: Hang the D.J.

overview: Looks at the cult of the Radio1 DJ. Links from Mike Smash (Paul Whitehouse) and featuring Tony Blackburn, Gary Davies, Mike Read and Dave Lee Travis.

title: Hang the D.J.

job: Director

character: Mike Smash - Presenter

character: Himself

title: Unknown Season

overview: A weekly arts-based documentary series covering a diverse variety of subjects, everything from Roman orgies and the Elgin Marbles through The Yardbirds and Ike Turner to Aleister Crowley and Mother Teresa.

title: Without Walls

original_title: Without Walls


title: Video Diaries

Season 1

title: Pagan Belfast

overview: Successful young novelist Robert Wilson goes home to Belfast after six years of voluntary exile in England. By turns hilarious, miserable, angry and hopeful his 'diary' is a refreshingly honest account of his tribulations as he asks himself and his friends, 'Is there a worthwhile future in Belfast?'

title: Pagan Belfast

title: Three Weeks in Calcutta

overview: A young Londoner, Lisa Chidell, makes an emotionally draining visit to Calcutta, where she becomes immersed in the struggles of the Marie Stopes family planning agency which is facing an explosion in the number of births.

title: Three Weeks in Calcutta

title: My Demons

overview: In her adult life, artist Willa Carroll has battled severe emotional problems, the result of the physical abuse that she suffered in her American childhood. In this remarkable diary, she returns to her home town with a camera, to confront the past.

title: My Demons

title: Spike and Clinton

overview: Spike Ambrose and Clinton Smith both live in a hostel for homeless teenagers in London's run-down King's Cross area. Their frank record of contemporary teenage life, both inside and outside the hostel, is by turns provocative, comical and revealing. And it is always honest.

title: Spike and Clinton

title: Just for the Record

overview: David Francis's plan to record family relationships changed when his grandmother became ill. His video diary became a difficult portrayal of the effects of bereavement on both his family and himself.

title: Just for the Record

Season 2

title: On the March with Bobby's Army

overview: Kevin Allen, a 28-year-old actor and long time 'student of the game', has made a unique fan's-eye view of the 1990 World Cup football finals in Italy in this 'road movie'. Armed only with a small video camera, he set out to travel and live on the campsites with Bobby Robson's unwanted and unloved army of England supporters. What emerged is an epic of chaotic wit, intrigue, fear and despair, and a deep affection for the game.

title: On the March with Bobby's Army

title: Off the Rails

overview: Stephen Hawthorne 's parents discovered he was gay two years ago. Rather than face them he left home. In his absorbing and humorous diary he tries to open a dialogue with his parents by involving them.

title: Off the Rails

title: Au Revoir Stepney

overview: Artist Vicky Hawkins and marble mason Tony Chircop had lived in London's East End all their lives. When, last year in France, they discovered the farmhouse of their dreams, they decided to sell Vicky's studio in London and move to start a new life. Their diary records the joys and traumas they experienced as their dream became a nightmare.

title: Au Revoir Stepney

title: Surviving Memories

overview: Jo Spence discovered she had lymphatic leukaemia, and possibly the return of the cancer she thought she conquered eight years ago. Until then, she and her brother Mike Clode , who lives in Devon, had had only a sporadic relationship. When he heard the news, he sent her a self-made video, wishing her strength. Thus began an extraordinary journey which eventually brought them closer in adversity.

title: Surviving Memories

title: The Man Behind the Shotgun

overview: Jack Murton is serving a 12-year prison sentence for armed robbery. Destined to a lifetime pattern of crime and prison, his outlook was challenged by the suicide of a close friend in his cell at Maidstone Prison and Jack's subsequent move to Blantyre House. There, surrounded by long-term prisoners and armed with a video camera, he attempts to understand and explain himself and his unusual surroundings.

title: The Man Behind the Shotgun

title: War, Lives and Videotape

overview: Photojournalist Nick Danziger is no stranger to the horrific suffering and imagery of war. Two years ago in Kabul, Afghanistan he discovered a group of orphans, abandoned in a derelict asylum, growing up among chained inmates. He resolved then to try and have them removed to a safer, more secure environment. His video diary is the remarkable story of what happened when he returned to negotiate the children's release, and is a shocking portrait of a city under siege and devastated by a forgotten war.

title: War, Lives and Videotape

title: In Black and White or in Colour

overview: As a young Brazilian film-maker, Sergio Goldenberg is normally concerned with serious issues such as the rainforest or street kids; but for his video diary he points the camera at his own family in Rio de Janeiro: a psychoanalyst, an architect, a doctor, a computer analyst and an engineer - in his eyes, an ordinary middle class Jewish Brazilian family. Yet, with humour and irony, he provides an insight into his family relationships.

title: In Black and White or in Colour

title: Sweet S.A.

overview: Fritz Joubert and his black British wife Jenni left London to try starting a new life in South Africa. Fritz had fled his country six years ago to avoid being conscripted into the South African Defence Force. His return could lead to imprisonment; certainly he would have to face his father who had disowned him because of his marriage. Their diary records the problems they face as they decide if a 'new' South Africa is to be their chosen home.

title: Sweet S.A.

title: Promise You Won't Let Them Out on the Street

overview: Steve Cribb is an active campaigner for Civil Rights. He is also disabled and lives his life with the help of a team of volunteers in London. For three months, he recorded his day-to-day experiences - with dramatic results. An intimate and funny account, which centres on his arrest by the Metropolitan Police.

title: Crossing the Frontier of Fire

overview: When photographer Mirella Ricciardi travelled to the Brazilian rainforest to capture images of its endangered people, she developed an intriguing relationship with her young assistant Sofia.

title: Crossing the Frontier of Fire

Season 3

title: Teenage Diaries: Justice Sucks

overview: Justice Sucks is 16-year-old Vonnie's story. At 12, she was taken into care by the social services after being abused by her stepfather. Thus began an unhappy journey through a succession of children's homes. Vonnie uses her diary to expose her own pain and to highlight the inadequacies of the system.

title: Teenage Diaries: Justice Sucks

title: Teenage Diaries: In Bed with Chris Needham

overview:
Seventeen-year-old Chris Needham is Loughborough's leading heavy-metal philosopher. He's putting together a band - but Manslaughter's bassist has no bass, the drummer can't play and Chris's mum says he's got to be in bed by nine o'clock.

His confident public face often collapses, leaving him depressed, confiding in the video camera. Hilarious but touching, his diary is the inside story of so many bored and energetic youths who hang around the shopping arcades and dream of becoming rock stars.

title: Teenage Diaries: The World's Greatest Director

overview: Aged 13, Daniel Moss thinks life is too short to wait for adulthood before starting on the ladder to success. His unrelenting sprint on the path to greatness leaves a trail of exhausted parents and relatives in its wake. But he also has a bar mitzvah to get through, a stage play to write and direct, and school exams to take. Daniel's parents are divorced, but he maintains a close relationship with both of them, offering a unique view of modern family life from the perspective of a child in the middle. Fast and funny, Daniel's video diary keeps pace with the breathless routine of his life as a young Jewish boy - under pressure, and frustrated by the slow adult world.

title: Teenage Diaries: The Daughter Sent from Hell

overview: Jennifer is 15 and desperately wants to be "a normal teenage girl", but she has what she declares to be a disadvantage - her mother is severely disabled with multiple sclerosis. She loves her mother, but is sometimes frustrated by having to be a carer instead of carefree like her friends. In her diary, Jennifer examines this conflict of emotions, and her camera becomes a friend and confidant.

title: Teenage Diaries: Julie Through the Looking Glass

overview:
Julie is severely anorexic and lives with five other anorexic girls in a special home. Her camera is her intimate and only friend, to which she reveals her life with shocking honesty.

Motivated by a desperation for other people to understand her illness, Julie is determined to hide nothing and spare nobody's feelings, especially her own.

title: Teenage Diaries: Raging Bullock

overview: For Ben May , living in Peckham and boxing mad, adolescence is not an angst-ridden phase full of problems, it is simply an extended training session on the road to a professional boxing career. At the age of 15, he has already been boxing for seven years and is the British ABA champion at his weight. For him there is no dilemma - boxing is much more than a punch-up, it is a highly developed skill which demands dedication. It also represents his only chance to "earn bundles".

title: Teenage Diaries: Raging Bullock

title: Teenage Diaries: Between Two Worlds

overview: At 13, Rachel has been a traveller most of her life. She has never been to school, and her home is wherever the old converted coaches and tepees happen to be. Her mother is part of the more "conventional" travelling community, but Rachel is drawn towards the New Age lifestyle, with its raves and festivals. Suspended between two worlds, she uses her video diary to search for an identity she can call her own.

title: Teenage Diaries: Between Two Worlds

title: Searching for a Killer

overview: While in Haiti during the 1987 election, Geoffrey Smith and a friend stumbled across a horrific massacre at a polling station. A gunman returned to the scene and opened fire, killing the man in front of him and shooting Geoffrey through the leg. Ever since the shooting, Geoffrey has been plagued by nightmares and fear, and earlier this year he decided to return to Haiti to find the man who shot him, hoping that this may be the key to his recovery. He arrives to find Haiti living under an international trade embargo; violence, fear and oppression are rife under the brutal military junta. Despite his friends' warnings, Geoffrey braves fear, intimidation and silence in his search. He makes friends with a voodoo priest who tries to persuade him to pursue a more Haitian solution-to his problem by immersing himself in the culture and voodoo religion.

title: Searching for a Killer

title: Desperately Seeking Nessie

overview:
At the age of 28, Steve Feltham was dissatisfied with his life and work installing burglar alarms in Dorset. When a friend asked him what he would really like to do, he replied, "Find the Loch Ness monster." He sold his home and business to finance an indefinite vigil on the shores of Loch Ness, bought a caravan, and set off for Scotland to be a full-time monster hunter.

When he arrived on the banks of the loch, Steve realised he had a few tests to pass if he was to be accepted as a resident hunter. Not the least of these was surviving a hard Highland winter, which helped to gain him the respect of the locals. His dream of escaping the rat race is frequently shattered by the arrival of TV crews, April Fool jokers, and David Bellamy.

title: Desperately Seeking Nessie

title: The Reluctant Mamoushka

overview: Last year Edel O'Brien went to Russia as unpaid chaperone to nine Irish teenage girls beginning their first term at the Perm Ballet School. With no school lessons or activities set up for the girls, and virtually no contact with the Irish organisers, Edel's job soon becomes a nightmare of chaos and frustration. Struggling to look after the group, whose major preoccupations are Russian boys and chocolate, she tries to combat their boredom and homesickness. Meanwhile, the ballet school seems totally unprepared for its western pupils and more interested in the money they are paying than their dancing abilities.

title: The Reluctant Mamoushka

title: Elvis: The Yorkshire Years

overview: After 12 years, singer and Elvis impersonator Scott Davis feels trapped and disillusioned by the pub and club circuit of the north east. He rebels against his agent and, in true Hollywood style, books himself a mini-tour in Orlando, Florida. The fabulous reception he receives from the audiences there give him a tantalising glimpse of another world. Back home in England life seems even harder to take as the recession hits the entertainment business.

title: Elvis: The Yorkshire Years

title: Not a Transvestite

overview: All her life, Mjka Scott has battled with her sexual identity. As Michael she was a truck driver, a stuntman and an actor. She married and became a father but finally decided to become fully what she always believed she was - a woman. Enter Mjka, a flamboyant trans-sexual actress and model. After years of hormone treatment and cosmetic surgery she prepares herself for the final operation. First she has to live as a woman for two years and convince her psychiatrist that she is ready for the point of no return.

title: Not a Transvestite

title: The Man Who Loves Gary Lineker

overview:
Rural GP Dr Ylli Hasani risked imprisonment in totalitarian Albania by listening to the BBC World Service to keep up to date with world events, especially English football.

His film is the first programme to portray in depth the lives of ordinary Albanians as they live through massive social upheaval. Hasani tries to leave his country to work in the west, but his first visit to London is to supervise the completion of his film - and to try to meet some of his football idols, particularly Gary Lineker.

title: The Man Who Loves Gary Lineker

title: My Demons - The Legacy

overview:
In 1990, Willa Woolston returned to America to persuade her sisters to join with her in uncovering a buried family history of violence inflicted on them by their stepmother. The video diary she made, My Demons, treated the subject of extreme child abuse with honesty and shocking detail.

In her second film, Willa revisits her family in Philadelphia to find out what effects those dreadful secrets have had on their lives, and while there, she discovers that her stepmother still has the power to disrupt the family. Armed with the knowledge that abusers have themselves often been abused, Willa determines to find out more about her stepmother's past.

title: My Demons - The Legacy

title: Family Scenes, Stones and M16s: A Settler's Story of Samaria

overview: The controversial situation of the Jewish settlers in Palestine (beyond the "green line"), is represented through the everyday life of the Oppenheim family. The action goes back 15 years before the 1992 Israeli legislative election.

Season 4

title: Teenage Diaries: Natalie's Baby

overview:
Finding herself pregnant at 14, Natalie never even thought about having an abortion.

Instead she set out to live up to her responsibility with the support of her boyfriend and family. But things aren't going as smoothly as she hoped as she fights to keep her young family together, and living in one crowded room of a council flat doesn't make life any easier.

title: Teenage Diaries: Natalie's Baby

title: Teenage Diaries: Cheaptalk and Blinker-Blinker

overview: David Antunes "Cheaptalk", 13, and Valter Antunes "Blinker-Blinker", 15, are part of a family of musicians who play the clubs and cafes of the thriving Portuguese community in London's Brixton and Vauxhall areas. Despite the frustration of having to go to school, the boys still manage to have a hectic time with their video camera.

title: Teenage Diaries: The Bad Sax Guide

overview: At 13, Polly is a bright and articulate girl who leads a normal teenage life but develops an extreme terror of school. Confused, she searches for a sympathetic environment in which she can learn. Her diary offers an insight into the life of a teenager impatient with adolescence and is a sensitive record of her desperate attempts to adjust.

title: Teenage Diaries: The Bad Sax Guide

title: Teenage Diaries: Anyha and the Temple of Doom

overview:
Anyha is 12. She lives in Bristol with her single-parent mum, is mad on sport and dreams of Olympic stardom. She also wants to go on holiday with her mother but that's not easy on income support. Once the idea has grown it becomes imperative that they should have a holiday and somehow the money has to be found.

Her diary offers an insight into the mind of a young girl, a child on the verge of adolescence. It is the philosophy of life according to Anyha: Clearasil, The jungle Book, sport, death, Jesus and Baywatch.

title: Teenage Diaries: Wet Dreams

overview:
Gabriel Davies dreams of surfing in Hawaii but has to make do with the polluted waves off England's north-east coast. But now he has an unexpected invitation to compete in South Africa.

His video diary captures the struggle to balance his sporting passion with the need to get his A-levels as insurance for the future.

title: Teenage Diaries: Wet Dreams

title: Teenage Diaries: In and Out of Africa

overview:
Josephine Okelo lives in Nairobi, Kenya, with her wealthy family. At 17, feeling the need to establish her own identity, she leapt at the chance of a place at Marlborough College in England. Her film records the experience of her first year.

She was amazed by the freedom she found there, but was dismayed by how little anyone knew about Africa and how much prejudice she had to overcome. This made her question some of her own attitudes, especially to the hundreds of thousands of Somalian refugees living in camps in Kenya. During her Easter holidays she set out to meet some of these refugees.

title: Teenage Diaries: In and Out of Africa

title: Major, the Miners and Me

overview: Miner's wife Brenda Nixon uncovers the effects, both dramatic and more intimate, of the recent pit closures on herself, her marriage and her children. Her routine life as a housewife and mother is thrown into turmoil when she decides to fight for her family's future. Her passion and commitment defy apathy, violence, police arrest and exhaustion as she struggles through the cynicism of politics. Her diary is a moving tribute to a woman who fights from the heart.

title: Major, the Miners and Me

title: Time for Tom

overview: A mother records with uncompromising honesty the end of the life of her 4-year-old son. Aged 10 months, Tom was diagnosed as suffering from Tay Sachs disease and given only a few years to live under constant care. Christine decided to make her diary because she wanted as many people as possible to know her son in his short life. As her family grieves, Christine is released from caring for Tom, but the new sense of freedom is overtaken by a longing to have her son back again. Her diary is a personal, powerful and deeply moving record of a family struggling to come to terms with a child's life and death.

title: Time for Tom

title: Grope - The Movie

overview: When two writers were told that their sitcom Grope was a touch too bawdy for broadcasting, they decided to turn it into a play and produce it themselves - a tough task when you're on the dole. This personal video diary records the laughs and frustrations which follow Jane Eller and Michele Howarth 's attempts to make their dream come true.

title: Grope - The Movie

title: Dying for Publicity

overview: Photo-journalist Chris Steel-Perkins 's video record of the effect of media attention on Somalia's famine.

title: Dying for Publicity

title: Love Is the Drug

overview: Jane married Steve at the age of 19. Three years later she found herself in New York with two young daughters and a husband addicted to crack cocaine. She escaped back to England to rebuild her life and now returns to New York to seek a divorce. In the process, she reveals the realities of life on the streets of a city devastated by drugs.

title: Love Is the Drug

title: Blood, Sweat and Cheers

overview: Four evenings a week Robbie Brookside, a top professional wrestler, plays the town halls of Britain. But while the characters of the American scene are TV superstars, Brookside earns little.

title: Blood, Sweat and Cheers

title: Rebel Without a Pause

overview: At the age of 20 Bob was fighting in the Spanish Civil War. He is now 77, and wants a memorial established in recognition of the dead. He travels to Spain to lobby the Spanish authorities, and visits a concentration camp in which he was imprisoned.

title: Rebel Without a Pause

title: Ice-Cream Justice

overview: Thom Campbell was convicted in 1984 for six murders during the so-called "ice-cream wars' in Glasgow. Consistently protesting his innocence, he campaigned for a re-trial, going on hunger strike five times. After beatings by prison officers while he was in solitary confinement, he successfully took the authorities to the European Court. Finally, he was moved to Barlinnie Prison Special Unit. He and wife Liz have made this diary offering insights into life in the unit and their struggle for family unity.

title: Ice-Cream Justice

Season 5

title: Mad, Bad or Sad

overview: The first of eight programmes offers an unprecedented insight into the lives of the mentally ill, as told by a woman who has been diagnosed schizophrenic.

title: Mad, Bad or Sad

title: The Life and Loves of a Sea Devil

overview:
Nineteen-year-old Rob Hunt loves the sea. At least he loves surfingand swimming and soaking up the rays. What he doesn't like, as becomes clear in this film he made himself, is deep-sea fishing. And that is what he does for a living to pay off a debt of National Insurance contributions.

Rob shot his film over two years and it captures the monotony of the fishing trips, the frustrations of enforced fishingquotas and the fight to beat Spanish and French boats to a decreasing fish stock.

title: The Life and Loves of a Sea Devil

title: By Any Means Necessary

overview: Tony Thomas-Hall is an athlete trainingforthe World Games in Berlin in a bid to become the fastest above-the-knee amputee. Formerly an able-bodied athlete, Tony developed cancer at 24. Now secondary cancers have appeared in his lung, but he remains determined to compete.

title: By Any Means Necessary

title: The Cuban Nipple Crisis

overview: Photographer Paul Harvey offers an insight into the supposedly glamorous world of photographers' models and exotic locations, as Fidel Castro's communist enclave plays host to the preparation of a topless calendar.

title: The Cuban Nipple Crisis

title: Ratcatcher

overview: Council ratcatcher Paul Taylor knows about fascism. He says: " I was a Nazi when I was an active member of the National Front". Now he is an activist with the Anti-Nazi League. He is deeply concerned that fascism did not die with Adolf Hitlerand that a new generation of Nazis is on the rise throughout Europe. Paul is divorced and divides his time between his twin children, work and confronting the fascists. His diary includes the story of his part in the campaign to stop the BNP adding to their one council seat in East London in the 1994 local government elections.

title: Ratcatcher

title: Sunshine 13

overview: After twenty-five years of being a hard-working cabbie and single parent, Maria Perriera is determined to spend the rest of her days in Antigua. Family tensions explode as she prepares to leave, and when she arrives at her tranquil destination, more domestic drama erupts to tax her. A frank and no-holds-barred look at a close but stormy and difficult family relationship.

title: Sunshine 13

title: Raiders of the Lost Lake

overview: Benedict Allen is an adventurer and real-life Indiana Jones. But the snakes, alligators and big cats in his jungle are not part of a Hollywood set. They are very real. When offered the challenge of an expedition to an unexplored part of the Peruvian rainforest to find the giant snake of the Amazon, Allen cannot resist. The snake lives in the legendary Wild Lake which terrifies the local Jaguar people. Dodging drug traffickers, prospective child brides, hostile tribes and wild animals, he is left alone to confront the terrifying guardian of the lake, armed only with his camcorder and a machete.

title: Raiders of the Lost Lake

title: Living with the Enemy

overview: Captain Richard Bramford's first posting as a UN military observer is to the heart of Serbian Bosnia. His diary offers a glimpse behind the scenes in this the last programme in the series.

title: Living with the Enemy

Season 6

title: Suitable Boy

overview:
Omerjit Brar, a 19-year-old aspiring model, longs for excitement in her life. In spite of being discouraged by a top agency, she enters the Miss Asia UK competition to help her career.

Romantically, however, her life has turned upside down: the suitable boy her parents have arranged for her to marry has a rival for her affections - a new boy called Ranjit.

title: Suitable Boy

title: Chester PD Blue

overview: As part of Chester police's new pro-active squad, Detective Constable Tim Roberts fights on the frontline in the escalating war against drugs. After setting up surveillance operations against dealers suspected of operating from a nightclub, he has to watch and wait with his own promotion prospects hanging on an informer's tip.

title: Chester PD Blue

title: Steve, Su and Alice Too

overview: Steve and Su Pearce have tried almost everything to have a family of their own. When they decide to adopt a baby from China, they embark on a process that is fraught with difficulties and tensions. Finally, a letter brings unexpected changes, forcing them to confront impossible dilemmas.

title: Steve, Su and Alice Too

title: Year Zero

overview: Coinciding with South African president Nelson Mandela's first state visit to Britain, this film charts the first year of democracy for three people from Kwazulu-Natal who, having completed a psychological counselling course in London, were determined to help heal the wounds suffered under apartheid. Thuli Myeni's main work is Aids education and counselling; half the people tested at the local hospital for HIV get a positive result. Meshack Madonsela, an inspector for black schools, wants to use his new skills to help teachers under pressure. And Bheki Ntombela returns to his job as a psychiatric nurse - under the same management that were in place before the election.

title: Year Zero

title: Child Slave Rescue

overview:
The first in this four-part documentary series travels to India to tell the story of Kailash

Satyarthi, whose organisation attempts to rescue children from the country's child slave trade.

title: Child Slave Rescue

title: Oils and Oilskins

overview: Lifeboat coxswain Eric Ward comes from St Ives, Cornwall, a town known both for its fishing industry and its vibrant artistic community. Ten years ago, Eric applied brush to canvas and tapped into a hitherto hidden talent for life-painting.

title: Oils and Oilskins

title: Ghostbuster - the Real Thing

overview:
Maurice Grosse , aged 76, is a psychic investigator. In 1977 he led the team that hunted the Enfield poltergeist, a widely publicised event which he says inspired the hit Hollywood movies Ghostbusters and Poltergeist.

Investigating claims by people who believe they have witnessed manifestations of the supernatural, Maurice Grosse 's video diary includes footage of an all-night vigil at Charlton House, a building in London believed to be haunted.

title: Ghostbuster - the Real Thing

title: Show Boys - the Naked Truth

overview:
Zeus is 23-year-old Justin Richards's alter-ego, a body-beautiful male stripper who parades in front of adoring men and women at gay clubs and hen parties.

This uninhibited account looks at the lengths to which Richards will go in the quest for fame and fortune, as well as financial and romantic complications he is facing in his hectic personal life.

title: Show Boys - the Naked Truth

Season 7

title: The Secret Diary of Joseph Erber (Aged 12¾)

overview: The documentary series of personal video histories begins a four-part run with an insight into the life and thoughts of Joseph Erber, a child with a mild form of autism. Last year, he became the youngest composer ever to have his work performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.

title: The Flying Scotswoman.

overview: An account of the first months at Westminster of Anne Begg , Britain's first wheelchair- using MP, who entered Parliament at the last election after 19 years as a teacher in Scotland. Her hectic schedule includes her maiden speech, an invitation to 10 Downing Street and the problems of finding somewhere to live in London. Although expecting some press interest on account of a hereditary condition that results in brittle bones, she isn'tfully prepared forthe overwhelming degree of press preoccupation.

title: The Flying Scotswoman.

title: The Last Resort

overview: An insight into the high-pressure life of Steve Malone, head of a night-time mental-health team based in Paddington, London. The team he leads are summoned to attend to people who require more help than the traditional emergency services can provide.

title: The Last Resort

title: Gene Genie

overview:
Paul Nurse , leading scientist and director-general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, has devoted his career to helping find a cure for the highly complex disease.

The fund needs a weekly injection of £1 million in order to operate and, with only one per cent of this sum coming from the Government, Nurse is also at the forefront of fund-raising. This film follows him as he tries to balance the demands on his time.

title: Gene Genie

title: Our Man in Othello

overview: A candid record of the Royal National Theatre's tour of the Far East with their production of Othello. Filmed by David Harewood, who was the first black actor to play the lead role at the National.

title: Our Man in Othello

title: Last Chance on Thin Ice

overview: For explorer David Hempleman-Adams, reaching the North Pole has always been his most elusive goal. This year, with his Norwegian companion Rune Gjeldnes, he used a camcorder to record every stage of their tortuous walk.

title: Last Chance on Thin Ice

title: Video Diaries

overview: Businessman Jivi, who has lived all his life in Birmingham, decides to pay a visit to his grandmothers in India, then sets off to see the rest of the country.

title: Video Diaries

Season 8

title: Lost Cowboys

overview:
Hank Wangford and his band travel to meet real cowboys in the Falklands during Camp

Sports - the week in which the islanders let their hair down after a year's work on farms.

As well as uncovering a passion for country music, Wangford encounters the local wildlife, including penguins, dolphins and albatrosses, and displays his aptitude for shearing sheep.

title: Lost Cowboys

title: The Perfect Hostess

overview: When Tim and Debbie Stevenson made a decision that Debbie should become a surrogate mother for her cousin, they had little idea of how it will impact on their lives. After first attempts at an implant failed to reap rewards, regular hormone treatment - and the accompanying emotional strain and physical discomfort - became part of their daily life. However, the problems really began when the long-awaited baby was finally due to be born.

title: The Perfect Hostess

title: Not Stupid

overview: Anna is prepared to go to any lengths necessary to make sure her sons are afforded a decent education. But no school within an hour's drive from her house in west London is prepared to admit them because they are autistic. Frustrated at officialdom's lack of positive response, she applies to renovate a derelict school and run it herself as one of Europe's largest specialist establishments. This film follows Anna as she tries to balance the demands of being a full-time carer for her sons with raising funds, running a charity and wading through bureaucracy.

title: Not Stupid

title: Giving Away Baby

overview:
Following an accident, Frances Rodgers 's life fell apart in the space of six months: she lost her job, her flat and her boyfriend. Now, five months pregnant, she tries to survive on just £37 a week in a council flat in Chesterfield.

Determined to give her unborn child the happy family she never had, she has decided on adoption. Cameras follow her in the final months of pregnancy until the day comes when she must walk away from her baby.

title: Giving Away Baby

title: Spit It Out

overview: Actions most people take for granted, such as making phone calls and buying travel tickets, are daily struggles for Anuraag Parashar, who has a stammer. Recently graduated and looking for work, Parashar decides it's time to take action. Armed with a camcorder to record his progress, he embarks on a speech therapy course in London.

title: Spit It Out

Season 9

title: The Silence of the Farms

overview: Welsh hill farmer William Jenkins records his ongoing struggle to make a living.

title: The Silence of the Farms

title: Only a Girl and Horses

overview: The second of two countryside specials follows 26-year-old Emma Lavelle, the youngest racehorse trainer in Britain, as she tries to make a success of her Hampshire stables.

title: Only a Girl and Horses

overview:
Video Diaries was a BBC television programme produced by the Community Programme Unit. The series of programmes was created in 1990 by producer Jeremy Gibson. The programme's production team offered members of the public basic video training and ongoing support. The diarist was then left to gather their material with a camcorder. They would then have further support in editing and post-production

During 1991 - 1992 Bob Long was a producer. By 1993 the programmes was developed into the Video Nation project.

title: Video Diaries

original_title: Video Diaries


title: Langan Behind The Lines

title: Langan Behind The Lines

original_title: Langan Behind The Lines


title: The Dying of the Light

title: The Dying of the Light

original_title: The Dying of the Light


title: Frankie's House

Miniseries

title: Episode 1

title: Episode 2

title: Episode 3

title: Episode 4

title: Miniseries

overview: In 1964 in Laos, young Tim Page discovers his vocation as a photo journalist and is given a job, a camera, and a trip to Vietnam. There, he learns the ropes, learns about the war first in Saigon, and then in country on patrol with troops. He and his colleagues, including the sons of Errol Flynn and John Steinbeck, capture the war in pictures, recover from their wounds, swap stories, battle censorship, and support each other between the explosions at the brothel run by Tranh Ki: Frankie's House.

title: Frankie's House

character: Tim Page

character: Sean Flynn

character: Anthony Strickland

character: Steve Cotler

character: Martin Stuart-Fox

character: Kate Richards

job: Music

job: Writer

job: Book

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Frankie's House

production_countries: AU GB US