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Student Callum takes French lessons from ex-headmaster McAllister on a Scottish isle. McAllister photographs local life, including a nurse's wedding, while Callum readies for university.

A Hebridean Western about the remarkable MacDonald family who dedicate their lives to breeding iconic Highland cattle which sell throughout Europe. At 79, Ena still drives out every day to the tidal island where they keep the cattle in the far west of Scotland. From one year to the next, this film shows Ena with her son Angus and his family working through all weathers and personal difficulties to achieve a record price for their black bull at the annual Highland Cattle sale to a buyer from Germany.

Come on a thrilling journey into the world of fairies and folklore with Ingrid Henderson. Thigibh air turas a-steach gu saoghal shìthichean agus creutairean os-nadarra eile le Ingrid NicEunraig.

The Irish song entitled "The Laughing Boy" was written by a teenage rebel called Brendan Behan in memory of another iconic rebel, Michael Collins - the centenary of whose death was commemorated in 2022. But this song also had an extraordinary and dramatic afterlife as "To Yelasto Paidi," the powerful left-wing anthem of resistance against the dictatorship that ruled Greece in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Translated by the poet Vasilis Rotas, Behan's words in Greek were set to music by the legendary Mikis Theodorakis. The song remains an enduring and potent cultural force in the heart of Greece today. The film takes poet Theo Dorgan on an odyssey of his own, as he attempts to uncover the truth of the story behind the song. It is a narrative that interweaves the tragic and bloody birth pangs of both modern Ireland and modern Greece. But these histories are also bound together by something more profound and transcendent: the power of a song.

Iron Women explores the extraordinary history of women's golf in Scotland. From the early pioneers of the 18th century, to formidable role models who challenged the patriarchal constraints of male dominated golfing arenas, this story celebrates the trailblazers who put Scottish women's golf firmly on the world map.

Medieval fable of sorcery and witchcraft in a remote corner of the Scottish Highlands.

In 1991, as the town of Motherwell faced the crippling social, economic and cultural impact of the closure of the Ravenscraig steelworks, its football club, locally known as the Steelmen, lifted the prestigious Scottish Cup for the first time in 39 years, the victory a glimmer of light in the ensuing darkness.

Denied a pathway to football as children, The Women Who Built Glasgow City is the inspiring journey of Carol Anne Stewart and Laura Montgomery, the formidable duo who had a vision of creating opportunities for women and girls in Scotland. They founded Glasgow City FC in 1998 with aspirations to become a dominant force in Scottish football and a strong contender in Europe. They delivered, creating Scotland's most successful women's football team winning 13 League titles in succession and reaching the UEFA Women's Champions League quarter finals twice. Sustaining their legacy is the club's thriving Academy, enabling girls to follow their footballing dreams.

An immersive cinematic journey into the past and present of the Outer Hebrides, mixing Gaelic voices, stories and songs from the mid-20th century with observational images of island life today.

"The closing titles say THE TWO SIGHTS was "collected" on various islands of the Outer Hebrides from 2017-19, but what does the film gather? There are the images, captured on a 16mm camera, which survey all this ravishing landscape contains, taking in its rocky cliffs, beaches and plains, alighting on its flora and fauna and the houses and ships sprinkled over it, picking out currents, reflections and shifts in light. Then there are the sounds, recorded with the mic visible in the first shots, keening birds, the roaring wind, the crashing, gurgling, trickling of the water. In voiceover, a whole anthology of tales can be heard, narrated in both English and Gaelic, stories of dog skeletons, drowned villages, and family members passing away, although songs, silence and the shipping forecast are just as at home there. But like any great collection, it's not about the individual elements, but how they overlap, about how the crow hanging on barbed wire conjures up another story never told, about how the ripples seem to reverberate along with the woman's harmonies, about how each anecdote floats over the rushing air. Sight by eye, sight by ear, two sights that ripple and flow together."

In 1967, as it edged towards its centenary, a much-loved social and cultural institution was consigned to history. Following 95 years of emotional highs and lows, Glasgow's Third Lanark Athletic Club was bankrupt, and the gates to Cathkin Park were closed. Third Lanark is the fascinating story of this iconic community club, exploring its formation and existence, as well as its catastrophic collapse.

Celebrated as one of the masters of the short story, Frank O'Connor was also an important translator of classical Irish poetry. Cork poet and writer Liam O'Muirthile tells O'Connor's forgotten story. He argues you cannot understand O'Connor's voice in English without understanding his natural writing voice, which is rooted in Irish.

An empowering role model, talented Scottish tennis player Elena Baltacha was just 30 years old when she died from cancer in 2014. Her family, friends and coaches tell the story of her remarkable resilience to become British No.1 and achieve a top fifty world ranking, despite struggling with severe illness throughout her career.

When the Scotland hockey team was invited to play against West Germany in Berlin in September 1961, it was just weeks after the Berlin Wall had been constructed. Many feared the world was on the verge of war. In Cold War Hockey, four women from the Scotland team recall playing hockey and politics as they came face to face with the shocking reality of the Berlin Crisis. With aggression and war once again on the agenda in Europe, two of the team, Jenna and Valerie, revisit the city for the first time in sixty years, understanding the significance of the trip to their lives, and to the history of the Cold War.

Based on the life of KaiCarra, international recording artist and child advocate. In 1985, Kai is anxious to graduate high school, to avoid watching her family's break-up with an impending divorce, and to begin her own life. A better life. So, she flies away from the only family she has known since she was 5 yrs old to Dallas and begin college. But one month later, the unthinkable happens. Coerced by various manipulations and threats, she keeps a soul-killing secret. She endures an abusive relationship, as she buys into the shame that she had somehow caused the situation. Compartmentalizing her reality, she continues to grasp at her future, only to realize she is running out of time. Desperate, she asks for help from her favorite teacher. With the help of a school counselor and her teacher, a bold plan of escape is created. But they are discovered. And ultimately, KaiCarra, alone, must fight for her own life in the midst of hundreds of travelers at the DFW Airport. Just as it looks she has reached freedom, the door to her future literally closes. The only power she has left is her voice: to find her courage and speak her truth.

The remarkable story of Smith, Johnstone, Reilly, Turnbull and Ormond; Hibernian FC's talented "Famous Five" forward line who dominated Scottish football in the post-war period. Celebrating the best of Hibs, the factual entertainment documentary is the remarkable story of Smith, Johnstone, Reilly, Turnbull and Ormond, collectively known as the 'Famous Five' forward line. In the post-war period, they entertained football fans at home and abroad, even earning plaudits whilst playing in Brazil. The inspirational story of their journey from humble working class backgrounds to the most talked about footballers of a generation and beyond is compelling and historically and culturally significant.

In 1872 Scotland played England in the first international football match in the world, creating the genesis for a story of emotional, cultural and historical significance that continues to resonate in Scottish society in 2014. Documentary looking at the oldest international football fixture in the world, Scotland v England, and how its significance continues to resonate in present-day Scotland.

A working class miner from a small village in Lanarkshire became Scotland's greatest ever football manager and one of the biggest names in world football. 'Jock Stein' is the RTS Scotland award winning story of the miner, the man, and the football legend.

Sir Alex Ferguson recounts the season he led Aberdeen FC to European glory in Gothenburg. This is a programme about people, about social history, and of course about a spectacular and memorable victory that gave the North-east of Scotland great cause for celebration. It's a story embedded in folklore; the memories are cherished by fans, footballers and their families; fundamentally it is about the narrative that they shared. The football action is pivotal in the programme, it unfolds the drama in a real and dramatic way, but the memories of those that shared the journey - the players and the fans - is key, their journey is just as important as the winning goal in the final.