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2009
2009x1
Blast!
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Documentary which follows the story of Mark Devlin and his team of scientists as they try to figure out how all the galaxies formed by launching a revolutionary new telescope under a .. show full overview
2009x2
Wild Art: Olly and Suzi Paint Predators
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Documentary following Olly Williams and Suzi Winstanley, two unique wildlife artists who simultaneously work on the same painting of exotic and endangered animals while on location in .. show full overview
2009x3
Heavy Load
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Documentary about punk band Heavy Load, subject to the combustible flux of ego, ambition, fantasy, expectation and desire that fuels any emerging band, but uniquely made up of musicians .. show full overview
2009x4
Ghosts of the 7th Cavalry
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Powerful documentary from Emmy award-winning director Tom Roberts which explores the profound human consequences of America's frontier wars through the moving personal journey of retired .. show full overview
2009x5
Maradona: In the Hands of the Gods
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Documentary telling the true story of five young British freestyle footballers' journey across the Americas to Argentina in the hope of meeting their hero, Diego Maradona, a .. show full overview
2009x6
Bulletproof Salesman
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Documentary about self-confessed war profiteer Fidelis Cloer, who, in a career spanning two decades of global turmoil, has supplied kings, presidents and the occasional dictator with the .. show full overview
2009x10
Robert Capa - In Love and War
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Profile of iconic war photographer Robert Capa, whose career spanned five epic conflicts across three continents before his untimely death at the age of 40. The film traces Endre .. show full overview
2009x12
The Children's Ward
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Documentary about two children who have been directly affected by wars in their respective countries.
2009x13
The Jazz Baroness
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Documentary, made by her great niece, about the British Jewish baroness who fell in love with the jazz genius Thelonious Monk. Pannonica Rothschild was born with everything, got .. show full overview
2009x14
Up for Debate: Team Qatar
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Qatar is said to be the world's richest country, while competitive debating is said to be a training ground for future world leaders. So when the Qatari Emiress charged two recent Oxford .. show full overview
2009x15
The Baby and the Buddha
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Nati Baratz's documentary chronicles a former disciple's search for his reincarnated Tibetan master. After 26 years of isolated meditation in a mountain cave, Lama Konchog became one .. show full overview
2009x12
The Jew who Dealt with Nazis: Killing Kasztner
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After 50 years, will the Jew accused of collaborating with the Nazis during the Holocaust be exonerated? How much should you negotiate with the enemy? In Israel, the debate over that .. show full overview
2009x13
The Genius and the Boys
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D Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Prions - the particles that would emerge as the cause of Mad Cow disease - while working with a cannibal tribe on New Guinea. .. show full overview
2009x14
Blind Sight: Everest the Hard Way
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Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, this documentary follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers on a climbing expedition up the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri, on .. show full overview
2009x19
Angels of Rio
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Detective Bechara Jahlk is the most famous private eye in Brazil, specialising in 'corporate crime' and employing a team of young female agents. This documentary follows the case .. show full overview
2009x16
The Trials of Oppenheimer
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J Robert Oppenheimer was one of the most celebrated scientists of his generation. Shy, arrogant and brilliant, he is best known as the man that led the Manhattan Project to spectacular .. show full overview
2009x21
The Time of their Lives
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Set in a north London residential home for the active elderly, this documentary paints a portrait of life at the Mary Feilding Guild and of three of its oldest residents. With a combined .. show full overview
2009x22
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
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The definitive film biography of a mythic American figure, a man that Tom Wolfe called 'our greatest comic writer', whose suicide led Rolling Stone magazine, where Thompson began his .. show full overview
2009x23
Man on Wire
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Documentary based on Philippe Petit's autobiographical book To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers. In August 1974, French wire-walker Philippe Petit spent .. show full overview
2009x24
How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
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Documentary which tells the extraordinary unknown story of how the Beatles helped to destroy the USSR. In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's .. show full overview
2009x21
Napoli: City of the Damned
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When thinking of devastated cities in the Second World War, Naples is often forgotten, but when it was liberated by the Allies it was on its last legs, with 200,000 homeless and no .. show full overview
2009x26
Men of the City
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People who work in the city either make money out of money, or from the proximity of money. But what do they feel about their jobs? In Men of the City, filmmaker Marc Isaacs goes behind .. show full overview
2009x27
War Heroes: Section 60 Arlington Cemetery
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Documentary focusing on Section 60 of the historic Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia - the 'saddest acre in America' - where US service men and women from the Iraq and Afghanistan .. show full overview
2009x28
Hi Society: The Wonderful World of Nicky Haslam
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Nicky Haslam, renowned socialite, bon viveur, wit and best friend to all is also one of the world's most respected and highly paid interior designers, whose clients include royalty, rock .. show full overview
2009x29
The Horse Boy
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Filmmaker Michel Orion Scott captures a magical journey into a little-known world, in a documentary which chronicles Rupert Isaacson and Kristin Neff's personal odyssey to make sense of .. show full overview
2009x30
Simon Mann's African Coup: Black Beach
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A failed coup attempt ... a British mercenary in a grim African prison ... a dictator accused by the West of torture ... and beneath it all, a spectacular underwater oil reserve that the .. show full overview
2009x31
The Age of Stupid
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Drama-documentary-animation hybrid starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking why climate change wasn't stopped before it was too late.