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- Vogue model, artist's muse, fearless war photographer: Lee Miller had many lives. Built on images of Lee and by Lee, LEE MILLER - A LIFE ON THE FRONT LINE explores a pioneering female artist who broke taboos and defied expectations.
- 'Gabo, The Magic of Reality' is a story about the incredible power of human imagination, which follows the interwoven threads of Gabriel García Márquez's life and work - "Gabo" to all of Latin America - with the narrative tension of an investigation.
- The Colombian photographer Jesús Abad Colorado looks back into his photographic work portraying the Colombian armed conflict and visits territories affected by it, including San José de Apartadó, Ganada and Bojayá to show the photographs he took to those who appeared in them. He reflects on the horrors of war and the future of peace in Colombia.
- In the three decades following the Second World War, half a million women had a child adopted - most were babies born to young unmarried mothers. Told in their own words, this documentary special in the Exposure strand featured the stories of some of the many thousands of women who were pressured by Church and State into giving up their babies for adoption. Decades later, the film reveals how young women were coerced, denied their rights to financial support and at times subjected to punishing and degrading treatment by the professionals who had a duty to protect them. The programme led the Archbishop of Westminster to issue an apology - for the first time - for the "hurt caused" by agencies acting in the name of the Catholic Church. The Church of England too expressed its "great regret" for the "great hurt" caused. The programme prompted a legal call for a public inquiry into historical adoption practices. On the morning following its broadcast, a delegation of birth parents, represented by lawyers from Bhatt Murphy and Matrix Chambers, submitted a formal request to the Home Secretary for a public inquiry. The documentary generated widespread news coverage in the broadsheet and tabloid press, including a double-page spread in the Daily Mirror. The film's contributors were interviewed on Radio 4's Today programme, BBC Breakfast News, ITV National News bulletins, BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show and numerous other broadcast outlets. It trended on Twitter, its finding were reported in The Washington Post, and it prompted The Guardian to launch its own investigation into historical forced adoption practices. The film received strong reviews in The Daily Telegraph, The Times and Daily Mail, among many. According to the Daily Mail, the film "built to a devastating emotional pitch and delivered a seismic shock at the end...One tale of heartbreak makes moving television; the same tale repeated over and over becomes a national travesty."
- A cross-cultural rock'n'roll romantic odyssey of intergalactic dimension.
- After a young woman was publicly gang-raped on a bus in Delhi in 2012, Indian authorities set up a series of police stations across the country manned by women officers, with the intention of encouraging women to report domestic abuse and sex crimes committed against them--crimes that have a history of not being a top priority to male police officers. This show focuses on one particular female officer in the Sonipat station in Haryana state, and the problems she encounters in her everyday work.
- In February 2011, millions of Egyptians came together to bring down President Hosni Mubarak in what became the defining moment of the Arab Spring. For the past year Children of the Revolution has followed three young revolutionaries as their differing visions for the new Egypt collide. Ahmed Hassan hoped a new Egypt would mean finding work. Western-educated Gigi Ibrahim's desire was for an open and liberal country. Tahir Yasin, tortured in Mubarak's jails, joined a new ultra-conservative party hoping to realise his vision of Egypt as an Islamic state. Children of the Revolution goes into homes, markets and mosques, witnessing families at war and personal dreams of revolution unravel.
- Follows the experiences of four families whose babies were born too prematurely to survive without an incubator.
- When 33 Chilean miners emerged from underground before a worldwide audience of over a billion, they made a pact not to speak about what happened underground. Now six of them remember the untold story of the first seventeen days - when no one outside knew if they were alive. Filming down a Chilean mine with fellow miners, 17 Days Buried Alive explores the nightmare of living in dark tunnels half a mile underground, eating a spoonful of tuna every two days and not knowing if they would ever be found.
- In August 2013 Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum were jailed for six years and eight months each for trying to smuggle 1.5 million pounds worth of cocaine from Peru to Spain. Their arrest highlighted that Peru has taken over from Colombia as the cocaine capital of the world. This remarkable documentary has secured unprecedent access to every link in the drugs chain across Peru. In the film, the gangs who are sending the mules speak on camera; from those who groom them to those who make the bags for transportation.
- The story of the kidnapping of Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and her assistant Clara Rojas. Both of them spent six years in the jungle before their rescue.
- In a uniquely personal journey, award-winning reporter Peter Taylor revisits the films he has made over the past 50 years to reflect on the controversial issue of a united Ireland.
- After confronting death deep below the Chilean desert, the 33 trapped miners were then thrust into the glare of the international media's spotlight. Invitations flooded in from around the world for guest appearances on TV shows and charity events, even from Sir Bobby Charlton. This film is a vivid and moving account of how three of the miners have coped with the pressures of fame. They may now be the toast of the world, but many of the miners suffer from the anxieties that come with recurring nightmares and some from post traumatic stress and addiction - all of which have an inevitable impact on their wives and families. This is the story of how these ordinary working men and their families are struggling with the pressures of sudden fame and wealth, whilst still coming to terms with the trauma of 70 days underground.
- Neda Agha Soltan became the international symbol of protest after the disputed elections in Iran in June 2009 when her death was caught on a phone camera and uploaded onto the internet. This film pieces together the story of her death in the context of the elections and the violence that followed. Driven by the astonishing footage of the protests caught on tens of phone cameras, this is a moving story told by people who were there and whose lives have since been forever altered. An Iranian Martyr attempts to understand what happened and how and why the Iranian Government responded in the way it did - both at the time and in the months that followed.
- In a Phnom Penh karaoke bar in 2009 Australian musician Julien Poulson hears the extraordinary voice of poor village girl Srey Thy. The result is romance and the birth of the Cambodian Space Project, a thrilling musical explosion that wows audiences worldwide with sounds from the 1960s and '70s golden age of Cambodian rock. Filmed over five years this intimate documentary tells the story of performers whose struggle to overcome poverty, trauma and obscurity has never been easy.
- In this provocative gonzo documentary, journalist Storm Theunissen uncovers the ethics of the body parts trade by trying to sell every bit of herself that she legally can.
- The playwright Brian Friel stands among the giants of Irish literature. Those closest to him along with stars such as Sineád Cusack, Stephen Rea and Liam Neeson examine the man who transformed Irish theatre in the 20th century.
- OINK looks at man's relationship to pigs, exploring the confused mix of violence and sentimentality, from factory farming to pigs as pets. Veering wildly from a talking baby pig to live zeno-transplantation, Ralph Steadman's cartoons for George Orwell's Animal Farm to wild hogs being machine-gunned from a helicopter, the film is a mad bad journey from China via Brooklyn to Wiltshire reflecting on who we are and how we deal with the world around us.
- This film travels to Russia's 'Wild Wild East' to follow Vitaly Dymochka as he tries to go legit in order to pursue the unlikeliest of dreams: making it as a film director with an action trilogy based on his own violent past - starring himself and other real life bandits. Featuring unique access into a secret world, Once Upon a Time in Siberia is a comic yet ultimately chilling look at everyday life inside the Russian mafia.