Archive
The Boy Who Lived Before
DocumentaryFive-year-old Cameron has persistent memories of a past life. Accompanied by psychiatrist Jim Tucker, he and his mother travel to a remote island in search of the house and family he believes were once his. Are there rational explanations for the remarkable coincidences which follow? or are there stranger forces at work?
Broadcaster: Channel 5
Year: 2006
Producer: Brenda Goldblatt
Director: Lesley Katon
The Importance of Being Elegant
DocumentaryThe story of Papa Wemba, one of world music's most famous characters, and his Congolese fans who empty the fashion houses of Europe in their determination to keep abreast of high fashion at any cost.
Broadcast: BBC4
Year: 2004
Produer: Tom Roberts
Director: George Amponsah
David Niven
DocumentaryAn intimate portrait of the suave, debonair actor and writer and archetypal English Gentleman.
Broadcaster: Channel 4
Year: 2003
Producer/Director: Guy Evans
The Last Peasants
DocumentaryEighteen months in the making, The Last Peasants follows the lives, loves and tragedies of three farming families in Romania – and the dreams which lead to the streets of Western Europe.
Broadcaster: Channel 4
Year: 2003
Directed/Producer Angus Macqueen
The Lost Boys
DocumentaryA feature length documentary which follows three boys who have escaped the war in Sudan as they leave their remote refugee camp in northern Kenya to take up the offer of a new life in America.
Broadcaster: Channel 4
Year: 2002
Director/Producer: Clive Gordon
Inside the Mind of the Suicide Bomber
DocumentaryAn in-depth study and examination of the motives and rationalisations behind the suicide bombings held in Israel. In this Documentary, we hear first hand from failed suicide bombers and bomb makers in an attempt to better understand the thought processes behind attacks of this nature.
Broadcaster: Channel Four a
Year: 2003
Producer: Israel Goldvicht
Written and Directed by: Tom Roberts
Jamie's Wish
DocumentaryThe moving story of how the wish of one dying young boy gave life to another.
Broadcaster: BBC 1
Year: 2003
Producer/Director: Liesel Evans
Jesus Comes to London
DocumentaryThe story of a Russian policeman turned Messiah
Broadcaster: Channel 4
Year: 2003
Director: Donovan Wylie
Producer: Liana Pomerantsev
Who Killed Thomas Becket?
DocumentaryThe untold story of the mysterious 'fifth man' responsible for the murder that shocked medieval England.
Broadcaster: Channel 4
Year: 2004
Director/Producer: Andrew Chater
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