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- A mother has cancer that will slowly eat her away until she eventually dies. She turns to her son, Ricky to help her die and they plan one final evening in together where he will cook her favourite food before he helps her. However not everything can go right on this difficult night.
- Molly Henderson believes she is pregnant. However she doesn't know if the father is her boyfriend or an one-night-stand she had recently. Unsure what to do she turns to church and the Virgin Mary for advice. While there, various options play in her mind.
- 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 man finishes his breakfast and heads out of town, gradually seeing busy roads become deserted and overgrown country lanes. It is on one of these roads that he abandons his car, heads across a field, knocks the door of an isolated house and then shoots the inhabitant dead. He pauses to make a cup of tea but then heads off on his way home - only to realise that he has forgotten something.
- A boy nips into his flat and borrows money out of his parent's drawers in order to go down to the arcades and play the fruit machines. Soon the money is all gone save for a solitary pound coin that he plans to buy in chips with. Unfortunately the chip shop has a fruit machine and, in the time it takes to fry chips, the pound is gone. Fleeing with the chips he finds his urge to play the machines making him rob and fight.
- In the 1970's the British tabloids and indeed the world was set alight by the most convincing pictures of the Loch Ness Monster ever taken. All the shots were taken by photographer Frank Searle and they brought him as much fame as they did to the monster. However the scientific community were doubtful to say the least - even those who were also looking for the monster were less than complimentary about Searle and his work. In 1984, against a background of violence, threats and intrigue, Frank Searle simply disappeared and was never heard from again. Director Andrew Tullis travels to Loch Ness to try and understand the enigma of Frank Searle.
- A young woman grows a garden of love with her tears, which also make her see things that aren't really there. A robotic fish comes into her life and shows her a man who is growing a garden of hate and literally p*ssing his life away. She uses her love to try and reach him.
- A young boy leaves his house on a rundown estate and starts hanging around the streets. Spying a woman on a mobile phone he runs up on her, stealing her bag and phone that he then uses to get money and buy drugs. As the day continues he keeps doing all he can to get his score, although the actions run together as he finds himself just living for the next day and the next small-time hustle that will bring him his gear.
- An elderly Turkish migrant now living in New Zealand recounts his early days as a refugee in Auckland, as told to his grandson Joel. Memories are animated to echo the colourful, stream of consciousness storytelling and to capture the mindset of an aging man whose memory is starting to fade and sometimes struggles to be understood.
- A young girl lives with her mother and her cat. One day the cat has several kittens. The mother gathers them up after a few days and she and the girl go for a walk with the kittens. All seems well but where are the mother and the girl going with the newly born litter?
- Jacques uncovers the importance of product lifespan - revealing how some products are still made to break, how fashion and aspiration are used by companies like IKEA and Apple to keep us constantly 'upgrading' - and how even brand new goods get sent for recycling.
- Looking through her old books and CV, elderly dancer Diana Payne-Myers looks back over her career, touching on a few stories as she does so. As she talks and reminisces, the pages of her old book slowly start to come to life and add colour and vitality to her memories.
- With a healthy mix of imagination, balls and roughly remembered Newtonian physics, a kiwi bloke jumped off a bridge in 1980 and started what has become a worldwide phenomenon. 'The Jump' is an original story of bungy jumping and its unsung creator Chris Sigglekow. Unearthed video footage from the 80s uncovers this amazing period of bungy's beginnings.
- A young man falls into a hallucinatory vision where he is undergoing an initiation ceremony. He walks through doors in fog, pulled by a mysterious force leading him to witness things that he will never forget but always wish to have never seen.
- Kate's hen weekend is beset with disasters, culminating in a vodka-fuelled revelation.
- 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.
- Sue is a young teenager in Leeds who hangs around with her friend Tom in the local dump, smoking, shop lifting and just fooling around for the lack of anything else to do with her time. Her mother worries about her and resents the lack of help she has looking after the two of them, however Sue continues her way.
- When walking in the hills to take pictures, Tom gets a text from his girlfriend that distracts him and sees him fall down a steep slope. He is taken to hospital for a long recovery but nobody can find out who to contact - his girlfriend worries. Tom's phone is found by a young man who lives in the hills and struggles with his homosexuality as a result. When he finds the phone he carries on the text flirting, thinking it is a guy that is interested in him. With so much confusion, could everything work out in the end?
- Monday 14th May in San Francisco. A muffin is sold to a couple of friends who are sitting talking about a woman that the man is seeing. They don't touch the muffin and the waiter replaces it behind the counter where it is bought by a businessman in a rush. The same businessman leaves the muffin on the dash of his car as he gets oral sex from a woman who then takes the muffin when she's finished. Later the woman goes home to her live-in partner and child.
- A woman describes how she notices a girl wearing headphones who is of this place but also part of somewhere else. As she talk about her we learn that the two are similar but cannot come together or be in one place without rejecting the other.
- When a dancing bear is gunned down by a man and a bear in an attack helicopter, the dead bear's boyfriend swears revenge. Removing the man's brain is the first step as it produces such feelings of guilt that it drives the man to madness. Meanwhile the rest of the dancing bears prepare for their final act.
- The clothes we wear affect who we see ourselves as and thus how we act. Or at least that is how fashion "expert" Angela Buttolph sees it and she feels it is important that those with a rather bland personae and personal issues tackle their problems by forcing themselves to wear a different outfit each day over one week to change themselves, open their hearts and confront their fears. In episode one of the series, we tackle Diane Metcalfe, a mumsy housewife who has lost her individuality in a daily routine of responsibility, school runs, cooking, cleaning and such. Angela forces her into a series of outfits to help her explore herself and rediscover her youthful spontaneity.
- Opening with John falling to his death out of a bedroom window we follow the story back, as loving husband Guy plays squash away from home regularly. One weekend he has a conference but, returning from a cancelled flight he finds his wife Linda in bed with John leading to his sudden demise. However from the perspective of the other players is this really the full picture?
- An out of work daytime TV presenter and an unpublished author devise a very simple get rich scheme # find and capture Osama Bin Laden and claim the US Government reward of $27 million. Starting their search in West London they interview Muslim clerics, Hans Blix, an ex-member of the CIA and right through to the private ranch of George Bush in Texas.
- A black (and rather manly) nun bounces around on her bed while, next door, a white and feminine nun sleeps peacefully. After getting dressed, the two meet by chance in the ladies toilet where they find all the stalls to be engaged. Their physical competition to be next in the queue starts confined to the ladies but quickly spills out onto a train and an open field where cattle are grazing.
- With America and Britain pushing the UN to put Hans Blix's weapons inspection team into Iraq, Mark Thomas forms a citizen's weapon inspectors team in order to examine the performance of the two super powers. Starting with Buckingham Palace the group go round a lab in America making anthrax, a nuclear submarine base and a military weapons store just off the M4.
- The truth about Dr Stephan Hassan, better known around North London as "The Edgeware Walker"
- 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.
- Lo-Fi authored documentary where the protagonist is shrunken to 2" tall in order to explore their familiar, everyday world afresh.
- In a small fishing village in the UK something crawls out of the sea and hides in a cave. Later it transpires that the thing is the father of one of the fishermen. The man's mother helps dress the thing but the son is not keen to be reacquainted.
- 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!
- A documentary looking at the new craze within the inner cities areas in LA; clowning. Clowning involves groups of kids getting together, putting on face paint and dancing; essentially a modern version of break dancing. Those involved talk about how they use it as an option that doesn't involve gangbanging, drugs or crime.
- A young man is a massive fan of pop star Jay Pecks, singing his songs in the street, buying all his singles and even dreaming about him at night. When he realises he cannot ever really be with Pecks, he decides to take his own life without success. Hearing that Pecks himself has just died pushes him even further.
- Having been subject to "improvement" by digital technology herself, Alesha Dixon sets out on a mission to understand the impact all these "perfect" images are having on society. Discovering the extent to which photo-shoots are touched up, Alesha also decides to find a magazine that would be willing to put her on the cover without any touching up.
- Quiz in which people enter their pets in a series of "wacky" competitions to reach the final where their prize is decided by a cat called "The Professor".
- Abi Titmus was the girlfriend of television presenter John Leslie when he was accused of rape and torn to shreds by the tabloids. She stood by him in the court case until he was found innocent and then she decided to "make something good of this situation" and left her £16k pa nursing job and hired a publicity agent. This got her some nice work (Richard & Judy for one) and the money was coming in nicely - until a tabloid broke a "story" about her having group sex with Leslie and some strangers. She denies it at first but then milks it by getting £50k for a "confession" to a Sunday paper - a confession she says the papers twisted. However, her denials were for naught when a sex tape showing the whole thing hit the internet. However, getting the profits from that film when it was released on dvd, Abi also found herself in demand from the tabloids and men's magazine. Owning half the rights to the photographs is a nice earner for her, along with the publicity do's, the calendars and other deals put her firmly on the A list in the UK but is she a model for others to follow?
- Contra El Mar (Against The Sea) is a portrait of a young marriage struggling to find common ground amid hardship and uncertainty.
- Having discovered a Jackie Collins book where the main character is called Nick Angel, the real Nick Angel felt strange reading the sexual exploits of someone with his own name. It is this book that leads him to wonder what it must be like to have famous namesakes. Scanning the electoral register, Nick learns that pretty much every famous fictional or real famous person has a namesake somewhere in the UK and he sets out to meet and interview them to hear their stories and see if it has affected their lives.
- A young girl is teased at school for being fat, despite being great at the butterfly stroke. However she is constantly moody and upset. Everyday her mother sends her to the store to get bread where she is given donuts to keep quiet about being sexually abused by the shop keeper.
- Post war Iraq is bust. The country owes $383,000,000,000 to various companies, banks and countries from loans/credit which it took to build palaces, buy weapons and such. Mark Thomas decides to try and help out by taking it onto himself to try to raise money to help them out.
- Having spent over two years with the British supermodel, Jordan, Richard Macer has seen everything. He has seen her robbed, giving birth, dealing with tabloids, dealing with a blind son and dealing with cancer. In this final instalment of this documentary trilogy, he continues to follow her life as she attempts to branch out of her 9-year career as a glamour model into the world of music as a singer.
- 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.
- Two men sit in their local pub during the day when one decides to take a quick walk down to the bookies to place a bet on a horse. When he arrives at the bookies he places his bets with the couple of other punters there. He also bumps into the son of an old friend of his in there as well. However things get complicated when the boy holds up the shop and demands all the money from behind the counter.
- A life form wakes up in an unknown mysterious world. As he explores it, he slowly understands what kind of place it is. This world seems to be a beautiful place, but it is also fantasy, lacking what real life can offer. The being must consider to stay in the fantasy or return to the real.
- When Mr. Gough, an undertaker, sees the image of Barbara's face printed in the eyes of a drowned man, he sets about capturing her image for himself.
- 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.
- In response to the march of the German army across Europe, thousands of young British men were sent to the front lines to push them back into Germany and it was believed that they would never be able to penetrate the British lines. However this signalled the beginning of the Blitzkrieg, and the German forces invaded Holland and Belgium, pushing into France managing to take everyone by surprise and totally cutting off the BEF (British Expeditionary Force). Made up of a large number of 18 and 19 year olds who had just joined the previous year, the BEF begin a retreat that turned into one of the worst defeats of a British Army in recent history and the massive evacuation at Dunkirk. With war footage, many former soldiers recall their first time abroad, their hopes, their fears at being under fire and the terrible things they experienced in the name of war
- At 23:29 a young bespectacled awaits the last train back home on a deserted station platform. His nerves become even more frayed when he is joined by a large group of hooligan types who have clearly been drinking a lot. At this point the platform becomes a jungle # populated by these violent dangerous animals.
- In the small fishing village of Koh Panyee in Southern Thailand resides one of the most successful football youth teams. Produced as part of an advertising campaign, the Thai Military Bank introduce this dramatized documentary which looks at the roots of football in a village built on stilts with almost no space at all. Inspired after watching the 1986 World Cup on television, the local children build a floating wooden pitch with open sides and the occasional exposed nail and honed their skills on the wet wood with bare feet; however their first real challenge came when they went to the mainland for their first tournament.
- Alice lives with her mother and her mother's boyfriend. She is quite immature but when she is given a bag of flour to look after as part of sex education class at school she begins to take it too seriously. However this changes her views on life to her mother's concern.