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Film following the closure of a hairdressing salon in Italy after 43 years in business.

Documentary observing life at three busy hairdressing salons in the town of Blackpool.

Film following a 17-year-old girl from Marseille as she prepares for a marriage arranged before she was born.

The story of right-wing American Politician George Wallace, who campaigned for racial segregation and on whom an assassination attempt was made in 1972.

After the attempt on his life, which left him paralysed from the waist down, George Wallace showed remorse for his emotive policies and sought reconciliation with the black community.

An award-winning documentary telling the story of three Australian prospectors, whose search for gold in the 1930s led them to the previously unexplored highlands of Papua New Guinea.

A documentary programme filmed in the spectacular highlands of Papua New Guinea, where the expansionist policy of a coffee plantation owner has led to a bitter intertribal war.

Following the fortunes of two entrepreneurs, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, in their quest to develop a new media solution for connecting citizens with the US government via the internet. Will the project suffer the same fate as so many similar ventures?

Documentary about Robert Eads, a female-to-male transsexual who faces certain death from ovarian cancer after being refused treatment by 20 different doctors.

Eight camcorders were given out to students in Los Angeles. They filmed their lives for a week and then passed the camera on to someone else. The project lasted for a year and the resulting film describes what teenage life is like in a multi-ethnic environment on the west coast of America in the year 2000.

Barry Stevens believes he has hundreds of half brothers and sisters because his parents were one of the early beneficiaries of artificial insemination. Half a century on, Stevens tries to trace his biological father.

Documentary following a group of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip on a three-day organised tour through Israel in 1999. For many, this is a first visit to Israel, while others take the chance to see homes they lost when they went into exile.

A documentary, directed by DA Pennebaker, Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus, and facilitated by film-makers the Coen brothers, of a reunion of some of the greatest names in bluegrass music at the Ryman theatre in Nashville. The stars featured include Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss. John Hartford and Ralph Stanley.

Scandinavia has the reputation of being a land of beautiful natural blondes and midnight sex romps. This film, by Torben Skødt Jensen and Ghita Beckendorff, charts the history of attitudes to sex and reveals the reality to be somewhat more complicated.

Documentary makers DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus's film record of a raucous debate on "women's liberation" that took place in New York's City Hall in 1971, between novelist Norman Mailer, critic Diana Trilling and three members of the Women's Movement - Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston and Jacqueline Ceballos.

The War Room presents a compelling behind the scenes account of the 1992 US Presidential campaign of the then relatively unknown Democratic hopeful Bill Clinton. The film's stars are spin doctors George Stephanopoulous and James Carville, communications director and campaign strategist respectively, completely different in background and personality, but singular in mission. The War Room, released in 1993, follows their rollercoaster ride to Election Day in a documentary classic about the selling of a President.

The strand celebrates William Shakespeare's birthday with a film by Michael Rubbo which examines the authenticity of his work. To what extent was the Bard's contemporary Christopher Marlowe the inspiration behind his work, or was he - as some have suggested - the hidden hand behind it?

The international documentary strand showcases a film by American director Marina Zenovich which attempts to find out the real identity of French polymath Bernard Tapie , whose extraordinary life has included stints as a singer, actor, politician, businessman, author, football team owner and convict.

The slave trade was officially abolished throughout the British Empire in 1807. This documentary reveals one of Britain’s darkest secrets: a form of slavery that continued well into the 20th century – the story of Indian indentured labour. Coolies: How Britain Reinvented Slavery tells the astonishing and controversial story of the systematic recruitment and migration of over a million Indians to all corners of the Empire. It is a chapter in colonial history that implicates figures at the very highest level of the British establishment and has defined the demographic shape of the modern world. Combining archive footage and historical evidence the programme includes interviews with Gandhi’s great-grandaughter, Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, about Gandhi’s campaign to end indentured labour and David Dabydeen – author and academic – whose great-grandfather was an indentured labourer in British Guyana. Coolies: How Britain Reinvented Slavery traces family stories through epic voyages across South America, the South Pacific and Africa, as descendants investigate their past and trace the last surviving witnesses.

The international documentary strand features Azza El-Hassan's film portrayal of her neighbourhood of Ramallah, a town under fire in the current Middle East conflict. With the threat of violence severely limiting locals' activities, filming becomes the main event, especially for a group of children.

Naomi Horowitz and her six children are one of seven Jewish families to settle in Tel Rumeida, a community in the heart of Palestinian self-rule territory. Ruth Walk's film looks at why they feel they belong there, their devout religious observance and their efforts to ignore their Arab neighbours.

Brigid Berlin had a comfortable uptown upbringing that her mother hoped would end in her becoming a respectable socialite. Instead, she found cult recognition as an acolyte of Andy Warhol, appearing nude in many photographs and Warhol films. Vincent Fremont and Shelly Dunn Fremont's film shows how, at 60, the outrageous star's life now revolves around her twin obsessions of slimming and housekeeping.

Best known for her appearance in Fellini's La Dolce Vita and her singing with the Velvet Underground, Nico was nevertheless a troubled soul whose iconic beauty was offset by a self-destructive urge and an inability to reconcile herself with life. Susanne Ofteringer's film charts Nico's life, from her birth in postwar Germany to her heroin-ravaged death.

Ajax is by far the most successful Dutch football club, noted for an attractive approach and winners of 27 national championships and 25 international competitions. But the 1999-2000 season was not a happy one. This film is a behind-the-scenes look at how a high-profile football club, celebrating its centenary year, survives in a modern sport where money rules and business comes first.

Brazilian football suffered a dark day on 16 July 1950: the national team lost the World Cup final at home in front of 175,000 fans. But it heralded the dawn of a golden age made possible by two players, Pele and Garrincha. This documentary tells the story of these two football legends.

In March 1986 seven young men were gunned down by the South African police, who were insistent that the shooting was legitimate. Lindy Wilson's film follows the inquiry by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into the facts behind the events.

The international documentary strand presents Thomas Heurlin's film following the fractious relationship between a father and the daughter he did not meet until she was ten years old - from their initial encounter to the revelation that she was now pregnant.

Myeloma is a form of bone-marrow cancer that claims 3,000 new patients in the UK every year. Luke Holland's observational film for the documentary strand follows his charismatic brother Peter's five-year experience of living with the illness, and the effect of his terminal condition and its treatment on Peter's relationship with Jeanette, his wife and partner of 20 years' standing.

The story of North Korea's shock success in the World Cup, during which they beat the highly fancied Italians 1-0. The film features interviews with the team's seven surviving members, who remain national heroes to this day.

In the 1990s investors poured money into Thailand, making it one of the most prosperous "Asian tigers", but success was short-lived and was followed by a dramatic slump. In Pascal Vasselin's film, entrepreneurs, speculators and workers talk about an economic riches-to-rags story.

Director Pierre-Henri Salfati explores the medieval myth of the Golem in the light of contemporary robot-building programmes at Palo Alto in California. He explores a question that has occupied the minds of theologians and scientists for centuries - whether humans could ever be replaced by a race of automatons?

Director Frederick Wiseman's unblinking portrait of the circumstances in which the crime of domestic violence occurs, and what is being done to combat it. Filmed in Tampa, Florida, the film follows the police as they respond to calls, and goes inside the principal shelter for victims, the Springs.

The story of a 2,000-strong collection of priceless paintings stolen from European galleries by the Nazis - and of the British agents, nicknamed "the Bonzos" who saved them from oblivion.

A look at the price paid by Jamaica for seeking help from the International Monetary Fund during the 1970s.

Marc Singer 's film follows a community of people eking out a living in the subway tunnels beneath the streets of New York.

The human cost of the terror campaign waged against the people of Indonesia in the 1960s.

Manuel Martin Cuenca's documentary tells of how the Cuban national sport, baseball, turned into a battleground with the revolution in 1959, and how the sport became emblematic of Cuba's frosty relations with America.

Sex, love, relationships and Aids are examined as Dumisani Phakathi explores his community in Soweto, South Africa.

A compilation of the French director's TV series, L'inde Fantôme, which followed his trip to India.

Profile of film-makers DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

Angus Macqueen's film captures the desperate situation as Argentineans try to make the best of life with their economy in freefall.

In November 2001, as western forces began the bombardment of Afghanistan, members of the NGO emergency crew dealt with the casualties. This film captures the hardship of their work.

Exploring the arrest, in 1931, and subsequent trial of nine black boys accused of gang rape.

Chronicling the events that shaped the legendary US boxer, including 1974's "rumble in the jungle".

Brad Lichtenstein's film tells the story of the bloodiest uprising in US penal history, which occurred in September 1971 when over 1,000 inmates gained control of the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York.

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman attempts to discover why the American electorate is so apathetic.

After a year shadowing George W Bush, Alexandra Pelosi presents a profile.

An account of the one of the pivotal conflicts of the First World War, using archive film and interviews with survivors to portray the reality of warfare. Originally shown as part of the landmark BBC series from 1964, The Great War.

In 1978, film director Yulie Cohen-Gerstel was the victim of a terrorist attack in London in which several of her colleagues died. This film chronicles her attempts to free the last surviving terrorist involved in the attack from prison.

Profiling South African gay activists Simon Nkoli and Bev Ditsie.

Exploring the character and ambitions of the former Yugoslavian President, who for ten years orchestrated Europe's most ruthless dictatorship since the Second World War. Including interviews with insiders who served in the regime.

Documentary from director Knut Erik Jensen, following the eccentric members of a male voice choir in a beleaguered Norwegian fishing village and their trip to Murmansk.