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- Jean Dubois is the latest in a seven generation tradition of truffle hunters and, without a doubt, he is the worst of them. He lives with his pig Carinne with whom he has quite a close relationship. When his landlord serves notice due to an unpaid back rent of 126 months, Jean reaches his lowest point and decides on a fateful course of action. But just when things appear to be at their worst, a discovery changes his life.
- All manner of family secrets are out when the lawnmower man is invited inside one fateful day.
- With no diagnosis for her mother's illness, Yuki knows its time to face her demons before her mother is lost forever.
- A man in a canary outfit sits at the edge of a cliff behind a small desk. He watches as other people in animal outfits come up to the edge of the cliff and throw themselves off - making a tally in his book of what animal it was and treating himself to a jelly bean corresponding to the animal suit that just jumped.
- A young man works as a windscreen washer at a busy traffic lights in Essex. He works hard but has small hopes for the future. He looks after his Nan and visits her in the nursing home when not working with his mate Chris. However one moment in his day leads to changes in the direction of his life.
- A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.
- To mark his 21st anniversary in broadcasting, the commentator Darcus Howe picks up on his chosen topic for another piece of work; racism. However, when Howe came to England "racism" was something that all ethnic groups faced from white people and it bonded the community together. Now Howe travels to the Midlands and several other areas of England to find that racism is rife within the ethnic community. He interviews those within the West Indian, Indian, Pakistani and Somalis communities to find that they are split with hatred and racism views of one another bringing the communities to the boil.
- Filmmaker Arthur Crudd interviews an ex-postal worker who believes his wife has been abducted by aliens.
- Blood makes up of 8% of your body weight and the average adult has about 5 litres in them. This documentary looks at the history of the understanding of blood. From blood letting, through transfusions up till the recent advances in the past 50 years. However, despite the advances there are still plenty of assumptions about giving blood that aren't really correct.
- A man arrives in town to visit a friend, using a map to try and find the house. Cutting up an alley he finds a woman chasing kids who photographed her sunbathing. He grabs one of the kids to stop him getting away but CCTV pictures make it look a lot more suspicious and soon he is on the cover of all the newspapers as a child molester. His progress to his friend's house suddenly becomes a lot more perilous.
- From Sandai, a teenage girl (Yuka Asai) writes to her friend in France. She met Jean Franasi on a visit to France. We hear her letters as she writes them. However when Jean comes to visit Tokyo for work and we hear his thoughts, it transpires that their feelings towards each other do not match.
- The Ztems are massive in Finland but have yet to break in the UK despite having released over 17 albums, one of which spent three weeks at number 2 in Finland's main download chart. In order to try and make it big, they have arranged a series of 9 gigs in the UK. The cameras follow them on their road trip, with small venues, cheap hotels, motorway service station dinners and rhythmical differences.
- A wasp exterminator travels to a large stately home to deal with a wasp infestation problem. However when he arrives he is greeted by a dysfunctional, hate filled family that attacks each other with spite and hurtful remarks. He reassesses his feelings towards the wasps that only sting in self defence.
- A mock-documentary looks at three different style of those involved in walking. One is an Executive Walker - trained to walk around urban areas in a suit and help the economy by making the place look busy and thus bolstering confidence in the city. Another is a young freestyle walker who has built in skateboard tricks to walking and is looking for that next buzz or move. The final is a solo walker who does the more traditional form of walking for long distances across country.
- With racial tension mounting throughout the country, St. Augustine, Florida becomes the center of the world in the fight for equality and civil rights. Based on actual events "Wait No Longer" is the story of the brave teenagers who fought for equality and won.
- While working at the local video store, Vicky meets Sam, who quickly becomes a regular costumer. Both fall in love, ignoring the true reason for their rendez-vous.
- A teenager rides the same bus to school everyday. One Monday a pretty girl gets on the bus and sits in front of him. Although they don't even exchange glances he tells his friend of a love at first sight relationship between himself and the beautiful Veronique.
- Nagoro is a small village in rural Japan. Once it was home to many when there was a dam bringing employment but now the population is down to below 40 people. In this village Ayano Tsukimi lives and spends her time making life-sized dolls to represent people working in the fields, sitting in the school and so on - she has done this for around a decade and the doll population is now in the hundreds, with people coming to take photographs and see for themselves. This film talks to Tsukimi about her activities.
- A disgraced cop is given just 10 days to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
- In the urban landscape of Coventry, UK, two wild tribes roam free. In this ten-minute documentary we are able to study them in their natural habitat as the "Townies" and the "Skaters" operate within their strictly structured groups. And it is as simple as that sounds; basically this is nature programme that has a very Attenborough-esque voiceover while we look at a group of skater kids and chavs doing what those young people tend to do.
- Shopping for a new couch pushes Sam over the edge and he announces that he can't do this anymore with Judy and that they are finished. The two break-up and begin to split up their possessions. However, like the song says, breaking up is hard to do.
- Two men emerge from the sea onto the beach carrying a large wooden wardrobe with a mirror on its front. After the two men clean up and rejoice being in this new environment, they proceed to enter the nearby town, they carrying the wardrobe wherever they go. They just want to meet people and experience their new surroundings, but are largely shunned or ignored. In some instances, they are shunned even when their presence helps the situation. And in other instances of being shunned, they are beaten. And when they are ignored, the world just keeps going without them, often at the detriment of humankind. Ultimately, the two men, with their wardrobe, make a decision about what to do in light of their experiences.
- With his best friend George Bush coming to see him in London, Tony Blair has even more problems to worry about. Not only is he rapidly running out of friends, but he has lost the trust of the common people. Focus groups say he will be re-elected, but they also say that they mistrust everything he says!
- Molly is taken on holiday by her parents to Lanzarote. However Molly is really on her first mission as a secret agent, her mission: to free Yatkumchatka from whatever it is that is enslaving it. She cannot fail yet there are many obstacles in her way before she can succeed.
- An old woman feels like she's going through the daily motions as she cleans and cooks in a poor house - only seeing her husband when he comes in from the pub and falls into bed. However at night she is visited by Columbine who makes her feel alive and allows her to experience her dreams. However with all fantasy - it only feels special when it is fantasy and exists only at night away from reality.
- The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
- Torn is a short film centered on the lives of a small suburban family that focuses on the broken relationship between two brothers, Michael and Nathan Conners. At a young age, their father was killed which has stressed the relationship between the brothers over time. Once Nathan is evicted and has to move in with his brother and his family, some buried secrets are slowly uncovered as the two brothers clash.
- Two children hang out in rural England. Jo constantly torments his friend Nathan and tries to make him do harmful things. However when a smaller child (Tony) enters into their group Jo finds that they have the potential for even more fun - with serious consequences.
- Each week four contestants come together as a team to recreate a historical battle via computer simulator. With two of the group playing generals with an overview of the battlefield, the other two play Lieutenants who are more in touch with the progress of the battle. When they lose or win, two military historians take them through on the simulator what actually happened in the real battle.
- A stressed out single dad is forced to take calls as his daughter prepares for school before rushing her out the door with barely a kiss or a goodbye or any show of affection. However he cannot remain on the periphery of his daughter's life for very long when her two 'imaginary' friends take him to deserted woodland to do battle with a mysterious world threatening force.
- A broken hearted man is still latched to his feelings for a past lover. In his efforts to find her, memories come about. His only way of finding her: a cracked watch that was given to him from the girl. However, this watch is unique. It only has one hand, and acts as a compass that guides him to her.
- In December 2001 the world's media focused on the small town of Fargo, North Dakota, where the body of Takako Konishi was found in the woods by a hunter. The media reported that she had left Japan with the misunderstanding that the Coen brother's "Fargo" really was a true story and that there was a stash of money hidden somewhere in the snow on a road by a tree. This documentary traces the background to the story and finds that the media, quick to jump on a "funny" story of foolishness, had gotten the story totally wrong.
- A police officer returns to his neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica to find himself in conflict with his childhood friend who is now the right-hand-man of the local gang-lord in a gun-running racket. Jamaica's highest-grossing film to date.
- A senior civil servant is condemned to hang for murder but he claims to have top secret security information...
- Nine-year-old Daisy wrote a novel in 1890 about an awkward gentleman meeting a young lady on a train. He invites her to his London home. She wants to meet high society, so he takes her to a lord's country estate.
- In the middle of woods inhabited by wolves, an astrologist imagines what it would be like to be a werewolf, running and howling through the woods in a schizophrenic blur instead of sitting in his home watching videos. Then the moon calls to him.
- The Ken Fox Troupe are a close-knit group of traveling entertainers who put on a very specific show across the UK - the motorcycle wall of death. The film watches the group set up and perform the show to thrilled crowds while Ken provides narration and input.
- Quiz show which rewards players for patience.
- Expect plenty of hard-edged action in The Twin Swords in which Jimmy Wang Yu and Chin Ping play a couple who stumbles on to a kidnapping plot at the Red Lotus Temple. Will they be able to foil the bad guys?
- Having gotten a career in the mainstream media, journalist David Matthews found himself under attack from his friends, who accused him of selling out, "acting white" and playing "their" game. Incensed by this, Matthews looks at black men, claiming they are generally lazy, promiscuous and obsessed with street culture. Looking at the job market, parenthood, schools and other areas, Matthews looks at the subject in depth to back up his claims.
- Aisling Hunter is out walking on the road at night when a car accident leaves her bloodied and badly hurt by the side of the road. This is the end of her story and from here we jump back 15 hours to find Aisling blackmailing popular girl Geri, shunning former best friend Laura and chatting with a mysterious user [blue-eyed-boy] about the whereabouts of her long vanished mother. All of this occurring against the background of a school community still struggling to recover in the wake of a fire where the mother of a pupil (Danny) was killed with no reason found for the fire or for his mother being there in the first place.
- A Dickensian tale of rats, recompense and retribution.
- The adventures of a young married sword fighting couple, Lianzhu and Gui Wu, and the sword fighting members of their different clans.
- A documentary about the residents of the village of Botton in Yorkshire.
- In a house on a cliff by the sea, a man and a woman live together and eventually have children. When the mother disappears and the father goes for a swim in the sea, the baby is left to be raised by the twin brothers and the cruel, older sister. When they grow up secrets can only be kept for so long.
- It's the morning after a party at Bill and Sara's house. Bill wakes up with a sore head, a bruised face and no real memory of what happened. Sara is no use to helping him remember, as she is not speaking to him; although Bill can't stop talking. As he talks he begins to work out that somehow she may have found out about something he did with another woman.
- Simon makes his way through London taking various touristy shots and selfies on his phone as he goes. Although he seems to be enjoying his day, the fact that his photographs are all empty of other people appears to be weighing on him; something that plays a factor when sees a girl also alone and also taking photographs.
- On Christmas Eve a group of men are in their local, the Earl of Essex when a new face comes in. Claiming to be Jesus he receives a cold welcome but when he starts to change water to wine and heal the blind he hopes to win them over. However much has changed in 2000 years and reverence is just one of those things.
- The true story of Joyti De-Laurey, a wife and mother whose job as a secretary at investment bankers Goldman Sachs eventually led her to spend millions of pounds of her employers' money without their knowledge.
- A psychiatrist is compelled by his patient, an obsessive mathematician, to consider the existence of a secret integer between three and four.