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Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer and The Big Melt
9.79*
(Country: United Kingdom, Brazil; Year: 2012; Director: Daniel Gordon)
The story of athletes and drug taking at the Seoul Olympics, 1988.
Basically, Johnny Moped
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Fred Burns)
Tracking the history of proto-punk band Johnny Moped, who are often cited as the pioneers of punk music. Amongst their former members are Captain Sensible and Chrissie Hynde.
The Best Medicine
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Martin Morrison, Gary Thomas)
How laughter therapy helped a man with sleep apnea.
Bette Bourne: It Goes With The Shoes
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Jeremy Jeffs, Mark Ravenhill)
An encounter with an unforgettable legend: Bette Bourne, reveals his varied life through a series of interviews, partly based on a theatre collaboration between Bourne and Ravenhill.
The Big Melt (The Big Melt: How Steel Made Us Hard)
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Jarvis Cocker, Martin Wallace)
Celebration of the steel industry.
The Moo Man and The Great Hip Hop Hoax
Big River Rising
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2012; Director: Matthew Gonzalez Noda, Emma Wigley)
How Filipino slum-dwellers embrace scientific solutions to fight flooding.
Boys
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Marc Williamson)
Story of two boys at a school aiming to help kids with emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Bradley Wiggins - A Year in Yellow
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2012; Director: John Dower)
The man behind the cycling myth as he steps increasingly into the spotlight.
The Bubbleologist
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2012; Director: Jan Bednarz)
Multiple Guinness World Record champion, Samsam Bubbleman, shares his love for the liberating power of bubbles.
Carlo's Vision
(Country: Italy; Year: 2011; Director: Rosalind Nashashibi)
The film is based on Pasolini's novel Petrolio, a book cloaked in mystery, which Pasolini was working on until his death. Nashashibi translated one scene from it into contemporary Rome, bringing in questions on class and sexuality in modern-day Italy.
The Spirit Of '45 and Salma
Closure
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Ed Cartledge), Official Site
Amid a surge of pub closures, Una campaigns to save her childhood home, The Becconsall Hotel, once a vibrant community hub in Sheffield.
Confessions of a Male Stripper
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Rachel Tracy)
Girls, money and a good time are the promises made to the young men who join the 'Dreamboys', one of Britain’s most popular male strip companies - but what is it really like to bare all for thousands of women every year?
Dogging Tales
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Leo Maguire)
Insight into the subculture of those who like to engage in or watch sexual activity in front of strangers in public areas, under the cover of darkness.
Educating Yorkshire
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: David Brindley, Grace Reynolds)
Part of an eight-part Channel 4 series, exploring what really happens behind the school gates.
Everybody's Child
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Garry Fraser; Writer: Lorna Hutcheon)
Autobiographic film about addiction and getting clean.
Exploding Cinema's Phone Made Films
(Country: United Kingdom, United States; Year: 2013; Director: Exploding Cinema)
London's longest running film club Exploding Cinema presents the new wave of short documentaries all made using mobile phones.
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 1998; Director: Nick Freand Jones)
Mark Kermode examines the hysterical cultural phenomenon of The Exorcist for this BBC 25th anniversary film.
The Fear of Thirteen
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2014; Director: David Sington)
Described as "in effect, a one-man play constructed from a four-day interview.", concerning a death row inmate. Work in progress.
From the Sea To The Land Beyond
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Penny Woolcock)
Documentary about Britain's coastline.
Geoff - The Gravedigger
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2012; Director: David Beazley)
Portait of a cemetery worker.
The Great Hip Hop Hoax
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Jeanie Finlay; Stars: Gavin Bain, Billy Boyd)
The true story of a lie.
The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Anna Hall)
Exploration of one of the biggest child sex abuse cases in the UK, following the investigation as it proceeds.
Invisible Picture Show
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Tim Travers Hawkins)
Transmedia exploration through voice recordings of children and young people currently detained in immigration facilities around the world.
In the Blood
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Brian Harrington)
The career Lucy Murphy, determined to find her own way into boxing despite her father's success at the sport.
A Life Apart: Anxieties in a Trawling Community
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 1973; Director: Michael Grigsby)
Archive documentary about a deep sea fishing community.
The Man Whose Mind Exploded
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2012; Director: Toby Amies)
Story of Drako Zarhazar, who suffers from anterograde amnesia, which means he can't create new memories.
Melaku Belay
(Country: United Kingdom, Ethiopia; Year: 2013; Director: Henrique Goldman)
Documentary concerning one of Ethiopia's foremost dancers, who mixes the ancient and the modern.
Mirage Men
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: John Lundberg, Mark Pilkington, Roland Denning, Kypros Kyprianou; Writer: Mark Pilkington)
The story of a man who came up against a deliberate disinformation campaign which encouraged belief in UFOs.
The Moo Man
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Andy Heathcote, Heike Bachelier; Stars: Stephen Hook)
The year in a life of a dairy stockman and his herd.
The Murder Workers
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Jessie Versluys)
Cutting Edge documentary following members of Victim Support’s National Homicide team as they work closely with families who have been bereaved by murder or manslaughter.
Notes from the Inside with James Rhodes
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2012; Director: Ursula Macfarlane)
Away from the confines and formalities of a darkened concert hall, acclaimed "maverick pianist" James Rhodes visits a mental health institution and connects with four patients, each with their own tale to tell.
No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Callum Macrae)
No Fire Zone is the definitive story of the final awful months of the 26-year-long Sri Lankan civil war told by the people who lived through it. A chilling expose of some of the worst war crimes and crimes against humanity of recent time
No Ordinary Passenger
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Cabell Hopkins)
Stan Dibben recalls his hair-raising, tarmac-skimming career as a world champion side-car passenger.
The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2012; Director: Luke Fowler)
Documentary on the work of the Marxist historian Edward Palmer Thompson, who was employed from 1946 by the Workers’ Education Association to teach literature and social history to adults in the industrial towns of the West Riding.
Project Wild Thing
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: David Bond)
A concerned dad tries to 'sell' nature to families swamped by modern marketing.
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
(Country: Russia, UK; Year: 2013; Director: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin)
A documentary telling the story of both a band and a message, of a court case and in effect the trial of the entire Russian nation.
Reindeer
(Country: UK, Finland; Year: 2011; Director: Eva Weber)
Portrait of reindeer herding in Lapland.
The Runners
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Matan Rochlitz, Ivo Gormley), Official Site
Confessions and insights of runners as they go about their training.
Salma
(Country: UK, India; Year: 2013; Director: Kim Longinotto; Writer: Ollie Huddleston)
The story of a woman shut away by her family for 25 years, who became a published poet, politician and activist.
Scientologists at War
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Joseph Martin)
Documentary examining the burgeoning Independent Scientology movement through the eyes of high level-defectors.
The Secret Life of Uri Geller - Psychic Spy?
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Vikram Jayanti)
The spoonbender reveals how he was used by international intelligence communities as a psychic spy.
Soliloquy
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2012; Director: Magda Dragan)
From his overflowing flat, the musician Michael Garrett shares his passion for composing.
Solipsist Part 1
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2012; Director: Andrew Huang)
A psychedelic fantasy film about otherworldly beings whose minds and bodies converge into one entity.
The Spirit Of '45
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Ken Loach; Writer: Ken Loach)
A documentary about the spirit of unity that developed in the UK during the Second World War and contributed to the formation of the Welfare State.
Stave
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Shaun Bloodworth, Anthony Bennett)
Documentary concerning Sheffield’s last jobbing grinder.
Steel - A Celebration
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: John Eldridge, Peter Sachs, Ronald H.Riley)
A programme of archive films documenting the manufacture of steel.
The Stuart Hall Project
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: John Akomfrah)
Antinuclear campaigner, New Left activist and founding father of Cultural Studies, this documentary interweaves 70 years of Stuart Hall’s film, radio and television appearances, and material from his private archive to document a memorable life and construct a portrait of Britain’s foremost radical intellectual.
Top Ten Ldn
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Tara Manandhar)
Portrait of London’s cultural melting pot.
Urbex
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Stephen MacLean)
Weaving through the buildings that Sheffield forgot, two explorers from the underground community of ‘urbexing’ share their experiences and passion for these artifacts.
We Are Poets
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Alex Ramseyer-Bache, Daniel Lucchesi)
Leeds Young Authors deliver their angry, political poetry at an prestigious American competition.
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