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- After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
- Celebrities study their lineages and family trees, usually learning surprising secrets they never knew about their families.
- Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request.
- A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.
- Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.
- Phil, a robust middle-aged man suffers a stroke, causing him to lose his memory. Millie, who takes care of him, tells him falsely that they were secretly in love before his accident.
- Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?
- Reality TV programme where thirty-six men, women, and children built a community on a remote Scottish island and lived there throughout the year 2000.
- A German rocket scientist arrives on a small Scottish island in the mid 1930s. He's there to run tests on a new type of rocket that is to be used for mail delivery between the island and the mainland. Initially he's met with skepticism, but slowly the islanders come to like and trust him. One of the young women falls in love with him, but with WWII around the corner life gets complicated.
- Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a restricted and remote community. Set in the Hebrides off Scotland, the story tells how Ewan MacEwan leaves the isle of Eorsa in search of the perfect wife, but finally returns to marry Katie.
- Trials and tribulations of the people of Lewis in Scots Gaelic.
- Historian Bettany Hughes looks at the struggles between man and the environment on the British Isles since 6000 BCE. In collaboration with some of the country's top archaeologists and historians, here's the unofficial history of Britain.
- Inhabitants of the Hebridean isle of Toddaya resist the British government's plan to turn their island home into a missile base.
- The history of the English language.
- Following his enormously successful book "Notes From a Small Island", American travel writer Bill Bryson sets off on a new tour of Britain. Starting at Dover, where he recalls his first disembarkation in 1973 to a land of rain, sweet tea and disagreeable land-ladies, his travels take him from Poole in the South to the Western Isles of Scotland. Along the way he encounters such colourful characters as the pipe smokers of Solihull, ballroom dancers in Blackpool and the caber tossers of Glenfinnan. Bryson brings all his perspective eye, dry wit and outbursts of comic exasperation to this affectionate survey of the British way of life.
- Marram tells the story of a family on a Scottish Hebridean island. While they are going to great lengths to understand and revive a beloved son, the marram grass they need to thatch the roof over their heads recedes from a gradually eroding coastline.
- Two strangers, one desperate to find her child, the other reluctant to attend the funeral of his father, imagine what might await them as they journey towards the haunting beauty of the Outer Hebrides, and just maybe, a better future.
- Set on the remote Scottish island of Lewis the day Elvis dies, the King transforms the life of a young punk.
- A documentary exploring the various ways that Scotland has been portrayed on screen. From the Hollywood tartanry of Brigadoon (1954) and Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) to the harsh reality of Trainspotting (1996). 'Alan Cumming', who despite his more recent Hollywood credentials was born in the Highlands, tours the locations used in various films. Meeting people who live there and asking how the films compare with their reality, talking to film-makers and academics. Some merging of scenes from the films with the footage shot for the documentary gives a "then & now" comparison and even appears to put Alan into scenes from the films he's talking about.
- The Isle of Lewis is an island in Western Isles/Outer Hebrides of Scotland, often referred to as "remote" or "behind", yet this is not actually the case. Cianalas is a short documentary that shows the Western Isles as they are rarely seen: just as they are.
- A tour of the landscape and wildlife of the Western Isles in Scotland.
- How Harris Tweed is made by the islanders in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
- Three crofters encounter the spirits of the ancient past.
- A trip through the islands off Scotland's west coast, following the route of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
- A documentary about the lives of a community of shepherds on the island of Berneray on the Outer Hebrides of Scotland filmed over the period of a year in 1978/79.
- A look at the history and unique wildlife of the Scottish island of St Kilda, inspired by the 1697 visit by Martin Martin.
- The changing face of life in the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland islands of Scotland.
- A poetic history of the British Isles and it self-sufficient industries. The film is divided into four chapters: 1.Eriskay; 2.Guernsey; 3.Inner Farne and 4.Great Britain.
- Comadaidh Óir returns on 16th November bigger, brighter and better. The comedy series with more than a hint of reality sees five aspiring writers fighting it out in six locations to see who will be crowned King or Queen of Comadaidh Óir. Contenders for the crown in series two are - Iain MacKenzie (originally from Lewis), Cailean Collier (South Uist), Murdo MacSween (Lewis), Catriona Lexy Campbell (Plockton) and Janet Evans (originally from Eglinton in Ireland). The writing muse will be able to take inspiration from some fantastic locations. This year the Comadaidh Óir team travel to Oban, Inverness, Benbecula, Stornoway, Skye and Glasgow. Writers have just three days to prepare their comedy sketches, drawing on inspiration from the location and it's a punishing schedule as they take in six locations in just three weeks.
- The Polish theater company Song of the Goat Theatre create an entertainment drawing on traditional Gallic songs and perform it during the Edinburgh Festival.
- A short documentary exploring the working lifestyles of the fishermen in the Outer Hebrides.
- Mainland revolves around Colin Macleod and Colin Mackenzie, who both see the island they call home change fast.
- Q: When is a boat not a boat? A: When it's a story. In A Boat Retold, artist Ian Stephen, writer Robert Macfarlane and others tell stories in and around the restored Orkney boat Broad Bay, as it sets off for the Shiant Islands. The boat and its history become the narrative focus for movements in time over three generations, spinning tales of fishing, boat-building and family history - a ballad of Hebridean island traditions, experiences and arts.
- An account of HRH Prince Charles' 1973 visit to the Highlands and Islands. We follow him in awe of the beauties of the landscapes as well as the remarkable craftsmanship of the Scottish people.
- Scenes of islanders and seabirds on the remote island of St Kilda
- Life and work in the Scottish Highlands.
- A couple is exposed to the unforeseen elements in a remote and testing environment.
- A voyage from Stornoway to Castlebay in the Outer Hebrides.
- A portrait of life in the Outer Hebrides group of islands off the west coast of Scotland.
- A year following traditional boat builder, John MacLeod, making the last Lewisian "Sgoth".