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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

"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."

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.

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.

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.

A powerful drama on the removal of the Stone of Destiny.

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.

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.

2017 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the year that Dundee United FC delivered on what many believed to be an impossible goal; reaching the final of the UEFA Cup. Tannadice 87 tells the remarkable story of this European adventure, a year in which dreams became reality, and Dundee, a city with a reputation for jam, jute and journalism added a fourth 'j' to its trademark: jubilation.

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.

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.

A decade on from his death, Jimmy Johnstone examines the life of a phenomenal Scottish sporting talent, telling the story of the highs and the lows of an unforgettable working class footballer, Celtic legend, husband and father who lost his life to motor neurone disease age 61.

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.

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.

The search for the origins of Beethoven's "Scottish Songs" leads researcher Michael Klevenhaus from Bonn to Imperial Vienna and Scotland's rugged North-West. It is also a musical journey back in time, to Ludwig van Beethoven's era and the first ethnic cleansing in modern Europe. The film explores what remains of Gaelic song today and the impact it had on Beethoven's work.