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- A brawl broke out near the end of a game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons on November 19, 2004. Nearly 17 years later, we re-examine that night and all the consequences that came from it.
- We look back to the bombing of London and other cities by the German Luftwaffe in 1940 and 1941, examining life between the air raids and the effects that they had on British society.
- The Jesus Army, aka the Jesus Fellowship Church and the Bugbrooke Community, was a neocharismatic evangelical Christian movement based in the United Kingdom, part of the British New Church Movement. Founded by Noel Stanton, the Jesus Army is no more after allegations of child abuse.
- Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay return to Everest to celebrate their historic ascent.
- The story of the pioneers who sailed to America on the Mayflower, and their very different dreams of what the 'New World' could be.
- 2020– 53mTV EpisodeAlthough only 20, Vahine Fierro is undaunted by the Teahupoo wave, considered the most dangerous in the world. Vahine surfs as no other Polynesian girl has ever surfed.
- Examines the nature of the Indonesian occupation of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor. Reviews the personal and collective calvaries experienced by the people of East Timor, and considers Australia's inaction before the litany of human rights abuses committed by the Indonesian regime, in particular, the Dili Massacre of 1991 (Shot both in East Timor and Australia).
- 2010– 1h 32m8.0 (23)TV EpisodeDuring World War II, Russian writers gathered around the famous authors and war correspondents Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman documented the destruction of the Jews in the Soviet territories conquered by the Nazis, in an unpublished work, "The Black Book". But the manuscript is ultimately not published and its authors are hunted down, assassinated or muzzled by the Stalinist authorities. Despite the three million dead, half of the victims of the Holocaust, the memory of the events is erased from official history, until the breakup of the USSR when the manuscript is found and published by the daughter of Ilya Ehrenburg .
- Mairead Farrell was three Irish Republican Army terrorists gunned down by British security forces on Gibraltar in March 1988.
- Documentary charting the rise, fall and rise again of veteran British DJ Tony Blackburn.
- A look at how mid-20th century Montreal celebrated Christmas.
- By 1991, health care for AIDS patients in United States could cost an estimated $16 to $22 billion.
- 2006–20243m8.4 (13)TV EpisodeThere's a reason music videos look strange. I could just talk about framerate, cuts and continuity - or I could get an actual music video director. And a leaf blower.
- From the beginning, German dictator Adolf Hitler had a lot of women around him who helped him. They prevented him from committing suicide, payed his debts, but most of all they worshiped him.
- A film about the railway transition from steam locomotives to diesel engines.
- A look at the people, places and wildlife of the Vale of the White Horse.
- A day spent harvesting and threshing grain on a dairy farm, using methods already becoming old-fashioned in 1958.
- With unprecedented access, award winning filmmaker Dodge Billingsley tells the story of India Company 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine regiment, crack U.S. frontline troops in Iraq. With some as young as 19, the invasion of Iraq was the first time any of them had actually been sent into combat. Experience a day in the life of these young men as they play a vital role in the liberation of Iraq. With remarkable battle footage, Virgin Soldiers reveals the true story of men who fought their way into the heart of Baghdad. "I have never seen a more accurate portrayal of war than Virgin Soldiers. The documentary's greatest strength is showing the perspective of war as lived by our junior enlisted Marines." - Captain Jeff Pool, Public Affairs Officer for the 2nd Marine Division "With unprecedented access to US troops during the war in Iraq, Billingsley documented a month of fear, doubt, frustration and boredom as 'India Company' made its way towards Baghdad. He captured a picture of what life was really like for frontline soldiers, many of them very young - and in combat for the first time - who fought their way into the heart of the city. Judge's Comment: You can feel that the soldiers trusted him, which makes it one cut above other features of embedded journalists. Technically outstanding."
- The misbehaving public performs for the camera in a half-hour miscellany of misdeeds. In a behind-the-scenes look at the hour-by-hour operation of a large metropolitan police force, this film presents a fair sampling of what keeps Toronto's police officers busy twenty-four hours a day.
- In late 1989, local authorities of Roche-Ã-Bateau, Haiti, arrested Belavoix Doricent, a destitute local man, for the murder of his nephew Wilfrid Doricent. Belavoix's trial would become a singular case in the annals of 20th-century jurisprudence-in Haiti or anywhere else. For the chief witness for the prosecution was none other than the victim himself, Wilfrid. The state argued that the uncommunicative, blank-faced man standing in the courtroom had been positively identified by his parents as their long-dead son, turned into a zombie by his malevolent uncle Belavoix.
- Documentary about the Afghantsi who are the military veterans of "Russia's Vietnam", the Afghan war. The film follows the Red Army from the start of the withdrawal in May 1988. It goes in the barracks of the crack paratroop regiment; the wards of Kabul's military hospital; on a helicopter gunship to a mountain outpost where Soviet conscripts serve unrelieved for 18 months.
- 2018– 52mTV EpisodeWith a touch of self-mockery, journalist and documentary-maker Serge Moati admits his dream of being admitted to the Académie Française. Not (yet) a member, he takes his camera to visit Quai Conti, a building dating back nearly four centuries. History, rites, customs, traditions and codes: the Académiciens reveal their secrets.
- When the Japanese invaded China in 1941, the subsequent loss of the fossilised Peking Man sparked one of the most intriguing rescue missions of our time.
- A portrait of the English composer Gordon Jacob, shown at home and at work and interspersed with visualizations of his music.
- 1958–19657.0 (15)TV EpisodeA tour of how Britons are enthusiastically taking up the guitar in all sorts of ways.
- A documentary on one of the Goons from 'The Goon Show'- Spike Milligan.
- An illustration of various mechanical instruments, from the musical-box to 1950s electronica.
- Todays theme is The Light Fantastic.
- 1958–19657.4 (10)TV Episode
- A partly dramatised account of the life of Sir Edward Elgar classical composer. Huw Wheldon narrates the life story over backdrops of beautiful mountain scenery, especially memorable is the image of young Elgar riding his horse around Malvern Hills.
- Todays theme is Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill.
- A portrait of pop artists Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, and Peter Phillips.
- An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.
- 1958–19658.1 (17)TV EpisodeHuw Wheldon Meets Alfred Hitchcock.
- 1962–196825m3.8 (11)TV Episode