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- Cri takes as its inspiration the experience of mostly verbal aggression and violence in and caused by an urban environment and its possible influence on the individual.
- A powerful, experimental feature film juxtaposing political drama and challenging interviews with T Dan Smith and other key figures associated with his controversial reign as Leader of Newcastle City Council in the 1960s.
- The unexpected gift of a fridge puts the freeze on love.
- Middle-class parents have bought a run-down school in the country. Their two children, plus an assortment of friends, are staying there over the summer. One day an old lady is found in the school, claiming she used to work there. The children hold her to ransom, but no-one takes any notice.
- Bert Newton counts down films that dared to push the boundaries from 20 to 1.
- A portrait of a south London amateur football team.
- Documentary short about the University of Sheffield's infamous Pyjama Jump, where the students invade Sheffield's city centre each November dressed in drag. The idea behind it is to raise money for different charities, but the evening generally ends up with the students drinking lots of alcohol, causing a lot of mischief and mayhem, and having a lot of sex. This particular year, it follows two second-year students, Alex and Adam, as they prepare to hit the town.
- Agent 0016, a wind-up clockwork aubergine toy pear is attacked by plastic ninjas and painted black on a beach in the tropics a la Goldfinger (1964). Agent 0017, a Ray Bans wearing 4 inch green toy Godzilla who is sent on a mission to investigate by Um, who is a wind-up clockwork toy pea pod. See also Miss Money Yenny who is an oriental xylophone-playing toy doll. Agent 0017 is a real ladies' man, that is, a real Barbie dolls' man and a monster in bed. He can often be heard to say 'My name is Bonk. James Bonk" in this pastiche and spoof of the James Bond movies.
- Ann cleans for a living. She shares everything she has with her two moody children and her equally erratic neighbours but she also shares everything her rich and constantly out-of-town employers have. When Ann's not sorting out the lives of her family and friends, she's thinking about her father's property in the country and how nice it would be to live there. Only one little international mining company stands in her way. But Ann, used to beating the system in her own quiet way, is not about to let that spoil her plans.
- In Thailand half a million women work as prostitutes while men leave country as low-paid labourers in Gulf Emirates.
- Bert Newton counts down the sexiest moments in movies and TV from 20 to 1.
- Sir Robert Clarke looks back on his life and the summer when as a 16-year-old he first fell in love with Louise St. Leger.
- Poignant drama series depicting the pressures and conflicts that lead to separation and divorce.
- Set during the political upheaval following Ayatollah Khomeini's rise to power in Iran, Les Blair's gripping work tells the story of Shahin Mohamedi, a young Iranian woman studying in London. When the cheques her father sends from home are intercepted by the Khomeini government, she is threatened with repatriation by vicious British immigration officers. To remain in England she must be granted 'Leave To Remain'. Enter Jimmy Johnstone, an English wide-boy strapped for cash and willing to perform the paper marriage that will ensure Shahin's freedom. Jimmy wants to build on the relationship, but Shahin's heart is a thousand miles away with her old fiance.
- Bert Newton counts down Hollywood's hottest hunks from 20 to 1.
- Documentary on black American singer/dancer Josephine Baker (1906-1974), who emigrated to France where she was a major artist from 1927 until her death.
- Intrigued by the desire to have been a Bunny Girl, the director takes a look at what it meant. Interviewing several of the original Bunnies she learns the rules and expectations on the girls as well as the more sinister side of a 1976 murder.
- Documentary on the gruesome 1993 gay-bashing murder of Nicholas West in conservative Tyler, Texas and the subsequent justice system response up to an including interviews with the killers on death-row.
- Unemployed Anthony announces he is joining the police, much to the horror of his girlfriend and friends.
- She remembers nothing before standing at a hotel reception and signing the first, and only, name that comes into her head - Nelly Dean (Dame Eileen Atkins). Then in her room, our mystery woman opens her suitcase to find it filled with a fortune in bank notes. Completely without memory, Nelly must try to unravel the chain of events that led her to the room. This is the starting point for Maurice Hatton's thrilling mystery.
- When 10-year-old Willie is evacuated from the East End of London, he is chosen by Zander, 13-year-old son of an army captain, to be his companion in a rambling country house. Zander's upbringing makes him snobbish and a bully. Willie does not enjoy shooting birds, playing with toy soldiers, or boxing; his only friends are Zander's nanny, and a young soldier called Blake. His father turns up in the nearby woods, having deserted the army. The nanny gives him food till one night, in panic, Blake shoots him.
- Gitai visits a valley outside Haifa in 1981 to document Arab and Jewish squatters on the margins of Israeli society, then returns 10 years after to see whether social relations have changed.
- Gok Wan presents coverage of the UK Premiere of 'Sex and the City 2' in London's Leciester Square.
- A solo show whose subject - the controversial Scottish psychiatrist Ronald David Laing - has largely faded from public view, starring an actor who doesn't impersonate him.
- Undiscovered Berlin painter Banuscher has his girlfriend/muse Francis in his pocket. It is also she who arranges an exhibition for him and thus finally brings him success. In thanks, Banuscher drops it. The humiliated takes revenge.
- A film about the early life of the acclaimed British artist William Scott the father of the director of the film James Scott.
- An exiled Ghanaian politician returns to Ghana two decades after the 1966 coup.
- A straight man goes into a gay bar in Scotland and sits uncomfortably at the bar as a drag artist sings on stage. The drag artist joins him at the bar and the two talk - angrily at first but with a little more understanding. However neither man is entirely comfortable with his feelings and both react differently when push comes to shove.
- A hung-over woman wakes up after a night out. Her cat reminds her it is her wedding day and she forces herself up to get ready. A furry die stuck in her clothing is the only reminder of a misspent night of passion in the front of someone's car. She carries on regardless despite the many obstacles to her getting to the church for noon.
- An informative documentary film celebrating the life of 1970s British sex symbol, Mary Millington (who died in 1979). Interviews with her friends and colleagues are interspersed with archive footage from her many popular films, including 'Come Play with Me' (1977).
- An Australian couple strive to prove that chemical companies have polluted the water supply, giving their daughter leukemia.
- Two Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupation and she sorrowfully emigrates to the US, come together again in Jerusalem some 18 years later. He works for an agricultural aid organization, she is a scholar researching the meaning of sacrifice in Palestinian society. Around them rages the turmoil of the first Intifada
- A drama about one boy caught up in the horror of the war in Bosnia
- Documentary about Gordon Kahl, a tax protester who was killed in a shootout with local law enforcement officials in Smithville, Arkansas in 1983.
- This documentary examines the dozens of Yiddish-language talking films made in the United States and Europe between the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927 and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.