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Documentary about Hugues de Montalembert, blinded in a random street mugging in 1978, but who defied expectation and continued to travel the world, alone. Us... read more

Documentary looking at Shanghai Circus school, where the gruelling training regimes result in some of the best acrobats and circus performers in the world. C... read more

Based on David Maraniss's book 'They Marched into Sunlight', a documentary telling the story of two seemingly unconnected events in October 1967 that changed... read more

David Grubin's probing and perceptive biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of Bobby Kennedy, whose early life was spent in the shadow of his e... read more

Documentary which deconstructs the mythologies and controversy surrounding the JFK assassination. Featuring interviews with Norman Mailer, Gary Hart, Tom Hay... read more

Documentary in which Ivy Meeropol tells the story of how her family was torn apart in 1953 when her grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed f... read more

Alexandra Pelosi's informal portrait of George W Bush, filmed over nearly a year as she followed the then president-to-be as part of the press corps travelli... read more

What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine. W... read more

Documentary which examines the history of the Third Reich through the jokes told by and about the Nazis and the fate that befell some of the joke tellers. I... read more

Oscar-nominated documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, filmed over the course of three years on all seven continents. Stunning techniques help contr... read more

Mark Kidel's film looks at the unique licensed brothels of Paris which remained a central part of French life until their closure in 1946.

First of a four-part series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing in the Indian town of Chennai. It's based around ambitious Of... read more

Documentary in which filmmaker Jamie Kastner goes on a personal journey to find out what it means to be Jewish in the modern world. Along the way he meets a... read more

Four-part series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing in the Indian town of Chennai. It's based around the ambitious Office Ti... read more

Four-part series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing in the Indian town of Chennai. It's based around the ambitious Office Ti... read more

The seventies in America were a time of growth and experimentation. Clothes became different, hairstyles exotic, and music was heading in strange new directi... read more

Documentary about drug addiction. When he got a camera at the age of 14, Rick Kirkham began recording his life on tape. After his first break on TV he rose f... read more

Documentary which follows five families as they deal day-to-day with the challenges of living with children suffering from cancer, a film in which a possibly... read more

In 1974, a teenage newspaper heiress and Berkeley undergrad was kidnapped at gunpoint from her apartment, setting off one of the most bizarre episodes in rec... read more

Behind the scenes at FC Barcelona, during their turbulent 2003/04 season, as a new management team try to claw the club out of debt and towards glory. Barca... read more

A Storyville documentary first broadcast on 24 November 2003. Director Leslie Woodhead recalls his experiences as a 19-year-old National Serviceman in the la... read more

First of a two-part documentary telling the story of Cuba's interventions in Africa from the 1960s onwards and the USA's response, which captures the superpo... read more

Second of a two-part documentary telling the story of Cuba's interventions in Africa from the 1960s onwards and the USA's response, which captures the superp... read more

The remarkable story of a 13-year-old Japanese girl abducted by North Korean agents while on her way home from school. For twenty years, her parents remained... read more

Weijun Chen's film takes us into the world of Chinese schoolchildren, learning about democracy for the first time as they try to vote for their class monitor... read more

Documentary about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system and its effect on American culture. Implemented in 1968, the system, with its ag... read more

Documentary telling the story of legendary Brazilian footballers Pele and Garrincha, whose emergence following Brazil's defeat at home in the 1950 World Cup ... read more

The chicken, generally regarded as dinner, is offered a chance to proudly strut its stuff in this unusual documentary about the birds and the people who love... read more

Documentary telling the real history of Communism through jokes told by ordinary people.

The story of the 1979 hostage crisis at the American Embassy in Iran, when 52 US diplomats were taken hostage and held for 444 days.

James Marsh spends six months with members of the American team for the inaugural Homeless World Cup in Austria.

Classic rock film documenting David Bowie's last public appearance as his androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. This memorable final concert at the Hammersmi... read more

For three years before his death from poisoning, former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko had been making a documentary with his friend Andrei Nekrasov about a... read more

Documentary about the Nagorno-Karabakh War (1989-1994), one of the first signs of Soviet collapse. Journalist Vardan Hovhannisyan was in the trenches alo... read more

A Storyville documentary first broadcast on 24 November 2003. Director Leslie Woodhead recalls his experiences as a 19-year-old National Serviceman in the la... read more

In 1989 a youth radio station, B-92, started up in Belgrade. It almost immediately became a symbol of the resistance to Serbian nationalism and all that Slob... read more

When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became Africa's first ever elected female head of state, filmmakers Siatta Scott-Johnson and Daniel Junge were there to follow her... read more

Weijun Chen's film takes us into the world of Chinese schoolchildren, learning about democracy for the first time as they try to vote for their class monitor... read more

Documentary in which three Egyptian women, unable to sit by while their country is on the brink of drastic change, start a grass roots movement to educate an... read more

Humorous and insightful documentary in which Japanese/American filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda follows his friend Yamauchi on the campaign trail. He's been 'parachut... read more

Documentary about Russian patriot and businessman Mikhail Morozov, who owns Durakovo - the 'Village of Fools' 100km southwest of Moscow. When people come to ... read more

Documentary. Oscar-nominated director Alex Gibney investigates the story of Dilawar, a young Afghan taxi driver arrested and questioned by the US forces at B... read more

Documentary which looks at how, after winning the Bolivian election, ex-coca leaf farmer Evo Morales nationalised the oil industry and passed laws on agraria... read more

Documentary in which President Musharraf explores the different worlds and influences on political life in Pakistan at a dinner in his official residence, th... read more

Documentary in which Indian filmmaker Lalit Vachani retreads the route taken in the 1920s by Mahatma Gandhi as he led a march that was to change India's dest... read more

Filmmaker Richard Symons asks members of the British government to support his campaign for truth in the Houses of Parliament, and attempts to get a pledge f... read more

Documentary about ex-Labour MP Oona King. Only the second black female MP and one of the most media friendly of the 'Blair Babes', her support for the Iraq W... read more

Life and livelihood were threatened when a small Danish newspaper chose to print a selection of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Karsten Kjaer looks ... read more

Storyville documentary account of the Rolling Stones' turbulent free concert at the Altamount Speedway.

Showing as part of the Why Democracy? season. Following Belfast artist Noel Murphy as he completes a commission to paint all 108 members of the Northern Irel... read more

Storyville documentary about the two men behind Europe's worst act of terrorism, in the Spanish capital.