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- A young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.
- A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.
- Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker.
- Things go drastically wrong for a group of British holidaymakers in Spain.
- Lena, a young Polish immigrant working as a cleaner at an airport, is invited to the family home of a co-worker, which turns sinister quickly as the family intend to 'adopt' her.
- Follows Hartley as he assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers for a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history.
- Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.
- A young couple on a motorway journey are drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a truck driver following a near accident.
- A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.
- A worried new teacher has to juggle a pregnant wife and a class of children on a road trip to the National 'Song for Christmas' Competition.
- A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.
- 7 strangers search for faith, hope, love and chocolate at a Cornish support group. Rose nicknames it The Chocolate Club, as everyone is surviving on something sweet. Can confectionery and creativity lift the spirits of the lost souls?
- The story of the history-making Nottingham Forest team that won back-to-back European Cups in 1979 and 1980, led by the mercurial Brian Clough and his assistant Peter Taylor.
- A father has to go and kill one more time; his son has to deal with the consequences.
- Joseph is a man plagued by a violence and rage who is driving him to self destruction. As he falls further into turmoil, Joseph scours the landscape in search of a single grain of redemption that might restore hope to his fractured life.
- The Devil Outside is a story of everyday madness.
- A humorous look at life for a loser in love.
- Nina is easy to find. She is on the industrial estate, near the gas tower, She is fifteen, addicted to drugs and on the game. George is one of her nastier punters. His arrival turns the temperature up on her already combusting life. He is the scummiest of scummy men, someone you really don't want to be involved with, at all. A magician and a taxi driver offer Nina a quick fix but doesn't everyone want something in return? She won't take it lying down. Scummy man is a gripping glimpse into the lost and misplaced lives on todays back streets. The film is brutally honest, intense and not afraid.
- An aspiring journalist accidentally becomes ringleader of the very cult he is supposed to be investigating.
- Greer is a girl on the cusp of womanhood. Like some curious fabled creature she lives in a remote, rundown woodland farmhouse with her Dad, Ivan, a former gamekeeper whose mind has been ravaged by chronic mental illness. Father and daughter are suspected and ostracized by the nearby village. Greer spends her working days tending to elderly, failing residents of the local care-home and the rest of her time looking after her dad. But despite her loving devotion to Ivan, Greer imagines life beyond the narrow confines of her own and is troubled by the heavy burden she bears. Greer romanticises about a life lived in colour. The impossibly glamorous Francoise and Seamus crash into the care-home to visit his mother. Greer is entranced. They seem to epitomize everything she's dreamt of: beauty, success, sophistication and access to the world in all its glory. She attaches herself to them, flattered by their awareness of her and enraptured by the atmosphere of decadence they inhabit. But Greer's reality cannot withstand the magical intrusion of her new companions. Not enchanted but threatened, the village keeps them at a distance. Their visit to Greer's home provokes a much darker and more visceral reaction. This ravishingly visual short takes the audience on a beautiful journey to its dark heart with compelling performances by Kim Chapman, Finbar Furey, Elisa Lasowski and Martin Compston. Ruth Paxton has written and directed a captivating tragedy where virtue is not rewarded and dreams don't come true.
- Before the Premier League and multi-million pound salaries, in England 'football' was a dirty word. The game was in disgrace, the fans, hooligans, the nation, it seemed, were all played out. Then there was Italia '90 - The World Cup - a shot at redemption. But this was no ordinary World Cup and no ordinary time. The manager, Sir Bobby Robson, was under intense media scrutiny, and his team described as 'donkeys'. Yet over six short weeks, through their heroic exploits they united a nation, coming within a heart beat of reaching the World Cup Final. Narrated by Gary Oldman, featuring match action - from Platt's last-gasp winner against Belgium to the silky skills of Gazza and the cool finishing of Linekar - and previously unseen footage, this is the definitive story of England's greatest footballing adventure on foreign soil....so far.
- Let Joey Frisk tell you about the worst week of his life.
- At the Apollo is a live album and video release by Arctic Monkeys of the final concert of their 2007 world-tour, filmed in Manchester, England. It was filmed on super 16mm film and in surround-sound. It was directed by Richard Ayoade and photographed by cinematographer Danny Cohen (This Is England). It was edited by Nick Fenton (Heima, All Tomorrow's Parties), and produced by Diarmid Scrimshaw (Dog Altogether, Tyrannosaur).
- A blackly comic recession-hit crime thriller. Bob Bass, a hit-man with a bad back, gives his latest victim the chance to live a little longer -by digging his own grave deep in the woods. Big-hearted Bob takes pity on crooked accountant Sammy Smith - who's bent on outliving everyone so he can enjoy the loot he embezzled from Bob's Boss. Cut-backs in the underworld see The Boss dispatch a gang of ruthless freelancers to sort out a tangled low-budget plot that recalls the off-beat B&W heyday of the British B-movie. As Bob's colleagues circle like vultures, an innocent family and their dog wander into the crossfire - and a simple job turns into a bloody nightmare.
- A fantastical love story. Millie, Camilla Rutherford (Gosford Park, The Darjeeling Limited) discovers how far she will go for love when the Taxidermist is threatened with eviction.
- A misunderstanding between three young boys and a group of teenagers sparks a frightening chain of events in the British countryside.
- Richard, bored of his mundane existence as a cycle courier, attempts to make his film "A Distance Too Far" in a bid to escape to a better life. Driven by the belief that it will propel him, his friends and his girlfriend to fame and fortune, and the fear of ending up like his family, the completion of his 'masterpiece' becomes the sole focus of Richard's life.
- Past & present collide as a man relives the tragic events of his childhood through the world of his model railway.
- The story of the Welsh international football team's rise through the FIFA World Rankings, and onto their first international tournament for 58 years.
- A boy tries to join a gang of inner-city kids, but learns that initiation comes at a price.
- Wandering from a dead house party and out through the wilderness, a woman witnesses a man setting fire to clothes on a secluded bridge. Intrigued, she follows him into the night, watching as he engages in more acts of destruction. Drawn closer towards the man and his increasingly bizarre behavior, the woman chooses to intervene.
- When Lauren and Amy hear there is a man who 'likes children' living in the area, they decide to track him down to show him their handstands.
- Into the Wind captures the life and wartime experiences of over 50 former Bomber Command veterans from the Second World War. As well as a document of unique historical value and significance, Into the Wind is a record of deeply personal stories, tales of friendships gained and lost, the perpetual possibility and proximity of death, the importance of love and family, the shared passion for flying and the moral implications of warfare. The documentary features interviews with former aircrew originating from Poland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom, all of whom nevertheless share the weight and responsibility of having helped change the course of history.
- A weather beaten drifter on the fringe of a city takes refuge in a broken factory. There he finds an old coat, and in the pocket a notepad with a photo of a girl he later realizes is a missing person. Ignored by an eerily cold public, but with a sense of purpose he attempts to find her - traversing the decaying guts of the city he follows phantom clues which are driving him to a point beyond all reason ...
- A class of teenage schoolboys are oblivious to their teacher's attempts to question them about the wider world. They are about to get a lesson they will never forget ... one that will change their lives forever.
- When Danny and Joe spot Sadie sitting at the bus stop they can tell she's gagging to show these two sex gods a good time. Sadie sidles into their car, well honoured to get a ride with two older boys. The threesome have a right laugh driving around and checking each other out. But when Joe suggests they go for a drive into the woods to "look for the ghost of Lady Margaret," Sadie starts to feel uncomfortable. Sadie wants to go home. Joe says they'll take her. After she's proved herself.
- The only show on TV dedicated to Nottinghamshire Sport, featuring everything from the biggest names to grassroot local legends.
- Sophia goes to work with her stern emotionally distant father. Tony, a bitter factory worker comes between them and challenges their loyalty for one another.
- On a dilapidated boat Eddie waits. He's sure she'll come. But, with another storm brewing on the horizon, will it be soon enough...?
- A meditative story of a parent-child relationship, Heilig is an intimate portrait of Jewish Kindertransport refugee Gerhard Heilig, now 85 and living in retirement in Vienna. Heilig explores not only Gerhard's own escape from Nazi Austria but the imprisonment in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps of his father Bruno Heilig, an anti Nazi political journalist and later the writer of one of the first eye witness accounts of life in the concentration camps.
- Unable to afford a fully-functioning boat, three characters have each bought a dilapidated craft, but will they make it out of the boat graveyard? Is there any need for a real destination?
- Documentary chronicles the life and crimes of notorious Bob Dylan obsessive and Garbology inventor A.J Weberman.
- West Yorkshire, early 1760s. David Hartley is returning to his family's remote moor-top dwelling after seven years away in Birmingham. Gravely wounded and dragging a mysterious bag of tools, he receives help from six mythical stag-men.
- It's 1986 and Combo is out of prison following his near-fatal attack on Milky whilst Shaun leaves school certain of two things - he's failed his exams and his mother,Cynth,won't have bought him a scooter like his contemporaries have.Lol and Woody are getting married with catering courtesy of Meggy and flowers stolen from the graveyard by Gadget. However,at the registry office Woody gets cold feet, though the occasion is overshadowed by Meggy having a heart attack, The 'reception' takes place in his hospital room though a disgusted Lol spends more time confiding in Milky that she may have dated the wrong man. Shaun,hit over the head after a stunt to pull a girl by a bullying scooter rider goes wrong,turns up at casualty,thanks to Lol's estranged mother and her boyfriend Mick. He has his wound stitched but does not join the rest of the group.
- On the anniversary of Shaun's father's birthday Shaun is persuaded by Smell to return home and patch things up with his mother,which he does after she has caught them having sex on the sofa. Though living together Lol and Woody are drifting apart and Woody,unaware that Lol is having regular sex with him,asks Milky to act as go-between,which he attempts - unsuccessfully.Gadge,exhausted by Trudy's sexual appetite,leaves her on Harvey's advice but whilst everybody else is watching England play Poland in the World Cup on television,Mick rapes Lol's sister's friend,a girl called Trev,and a badly beaten Combo crashes into Shaun's house.
- After Smell tells Woody and the gang she saw Shaun at the hospital they steal golf buggies to give him a rowdy serenade in the middle of the night and he returns to the fold.He gets a job at Mr. Sandhu's video rental shop but is appalled to find that he is Cynthia's new boy-friend when he catches them in bed and leaves home,sleeping in a toilet. Lol feels no happier. Reluctant to move into the filthy flat Woody has found them - where a junkie died and then putrefied - she returns home but is appalled that her mother has allowed Mick,who once apparently molested her,to come back. She confides in,and sleeps with,Milky,before going to Woody's flat. Gadge has a night of passion with the older single parent Trudy but is amazed to see that her little boy looks just like Meggy.
- After sleeping on Cynth's sofa overnight Combo explains that he has come back to see his terminally ill mother,but by the time he gets to her flat she has died. Lol and Woody sort themselves out and he plans a surprise wedding for her but she fails to show up,having found out about Mick's rape of Trev. She confronts him just as he is about to run out of the house and they have a fight,during which he tries to rape her too and she brains him with a hammer. As she is sitting,stunned,on the floor,help arrives from an unexpected source in an extraordinary act of redemption.
- Dover Castle is the setting for the opening pro-gramme. King Henry II's magnificent castle will take centre stage as well as the huge array of secret tunnels cut into the White Cliffs underneath it. These tunnels were where the Dunkirk rescue mission was masterminded from and they housed a fully functioning hospital, barracks and secret telecommunications hub.
- Dan Snow and Sian Williams continue to bring history to life - live to the nation's living rooms. This week, the team are in Stratford-upon-Avon at an archaeological dig at Shakespeare's home. This is an impressive dig excavating the foundations of the New Place, a grand townhouse that Shakespeare bought and lived in for the last six years of his life. Dan and Sian get their hands dirty as they bury a time capsule, intended as a gift for the archaeologists of the future. In a lively mix of film reports, a team of reporters and the nation's favourite celebrities reveal some of the country's most mysterious, surprising and compelling stories. Tonight, Ruby Wax explores the history of psychiatry and learns whether the first Victorian asylums were the hotbeds of sadism and cruelty that gothic tradition suggests.