Season 2002
45 episodes · Jan 14, 2002
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- S6E1
Closing Down
Jan 14, 2002Film following the closure of a hairdressing salon in Italy after 43 years in business.
- S6E2
Three Salons at the Seaside
Jan 14, 2002Documentary, originally shown in 1994, observing life at three busy hairdressing salons in the town of Blackpool.
- S6E3
Baria's Big Wedding
Jan 28, 2002Film following a 17-year-old girl from Marseille as she prepares for a marriage arranged before she was born.
- S6E4
George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire - Part 1
Feb 11, 2002The story of right-wing American Politician George Wallace, who campaigned for racial segregation and on whom an assassination attempt was made in 1972.
- S6E5
George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire - Part 2
Feb 12, 2002After 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.
- S6E6
First Contact
Feb 18, 2002An 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.
- S6E7
Black Harvest
Feb 25, 2002A 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.
- S6E8
Startup
Mar 4, 2002Following 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
- S6E9
Southern Comfort
Mar 7, 2002Following Robert Eads, a female-to-male transsexual from Georgia, who is dying from ovarian cancer. Robert resolves to beat the odds and take his partner on a visit to America's pre-eminent transgendered gathering in Atlanta.
- S6E10
Chain Camera
Mar 14, 2002Eight 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.
- S6E11
My Sperm-Donor Dad
Mar 21, 2002Barry 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.
- S6E12
The Tour
Mar 24, 2002Following a group of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip on a 3 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.
- S6E13
Down from the Mountain
Mar 28, 2002A 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. Directed by DA Pennebaker, Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus
- S6E14
More Sex Please, We're Scandinavian
Mar 30, 2002Scandinavia has the reputation of being a land of beautiful blondes and midnight sex romps. This film, by Torben Jensen and Ghita Beckendorff, charts the history of attitudes to sex and reveals the reality to be somewhat more complicated.
- S6E15
Town Bloody Hall
Apr 4, 2002The raucous debate on "women's lib" 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.
- S6E16
The War Room
Apr 11, 2002Following the Democrat's 1992 election trail of Bill Clinton, focusing on communications director George Stephanopoulos and campaign strategist James Carville as they attempt to sell the nation a new leader.
- S6E17
Much Ado about Something
Apr 23, 2002Celebrating William Shakespeare's birthday with an examination of the authenticity of his work. To what extent was Christopher Marlowe the inspiration behind his work, or was he - as some have suggested - the hidden hand behind it?
- S6E18
Who is Bernard Tapie?
Apr 25, 200285mPart 3 looks at the strong sense of duty implicit in family relationships in China. Waitress Peng has sacrificed her own education to support her sister's studies, while owner Qin Linzi discusses her own difficult childhood and introduces us to her privileged daughter. The restaurant prepares a 70th birthday banquet for Sun and her family, with special dishes including steamed longevity buns and stir-fried turtle.
- S6E19
Coolies: How Britain Re-Invented Slavery
Apr 29, 2002The slave trade was officially abolished throughout British Empire in 1807. This documentary reveals Britain's darkest secrets: a form of slavery continued well into 20th century - story of Indian indentured labor.
- S6E20
This Is Palestine
May 2, 2002Azza 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.
- S6E21
The Settlers
May 3, 2002Naomi 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.
- S6E22
Pie in the Sky
May 6, 2002Brigid 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 his films.
- S6E23
Nico Icon
May 6, 2002Known for singing with the Velvet Underground, Nico was a troubled soul whose iconic beauty was offset by a self-destructive urge. Susanne Ofteringer's film charts Nico's life, from her birth in postwar Germany to her heroin-ravaged death.
- S6E24
Ajax
May 14, 200285mThis 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.
- S6E25
Gods of Brazil
May 17, 200285mBrazilian 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.
- S6E32
Domestic Violence
Jul 18, 200285mDirector Frederick Wiseman's unblinking portrait of the circumstances in which the crime of domestic violence occurs, and what is being done to combat it.
- S6E33
The Bonzos
Jul 29, 200285mThe 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.
- S6E34
Life And Debt In Jamaica
Aug 4, 200285mA look at the price paid by Jamaica for seeking help from the International Monetary Fund during the 1970s.
- S6E35
Dark Days
Aug 8, 200285mMarc Singer 's film follows a community of people eking out a living in the subway tunnels beneath the streets of New York.
- S6E36
Shadowplay
Aug 15, 200285mThe human cost of the terror campaign waged against the people of Indonesia in the 1960s.
- S6E37
The Cuban Game
Aug 19, 200285mManuel 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.
- S6E38
Steps For The Future: Sincerely Yours
Aug 28, 200285mSex, love, relationships and Aids are examined as Dumisani Phakathi explores his community in Soweto, South Africa.
- S6E39
Louis Malle's India
Sep 3, 200285mA compilation of the French director's TV series, L'inde Fantôme, which followed his trip to India.
- S6E41
Cry for Argentina
Sep 24, 200285mAngus Macqueen's film captures the desperate situation as Argentineans try to make the best of life with their economy in freefall.
- S6E42
Kabul Emergency Room
Oct 7, 200285mIn 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
- S6E43
Scottsboro
Oct 7, 200285mExploring the arrest, in 1931, and subsequent trial of nine black boys accused of gang rape.
- S6E44
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
Oct 15, 200285mChronicling the events that shaped the legendary US boxer, including 1974's "rumble in the jungle".
- S6E45
Ghosts of Attica
Oct 29, 200285mBrad 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 Yor
- S6E46
Last Party 2000
Nov 5, 200285mActor Philip Seymour Hoffman attempts to discover why the American electorate is so apathetic.
- S6E47
Journeys With George
Nov 5, 2002After a year shadowing George W Bush, Alexandra Pelosi presents a profile.
- S6E48
The Somme
Nov 10, 200285mAn 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.
- S6E49
My Terrorist
Nov 12, 200285mIn 1978, film director Yulie Cohen-Gerstel was the victim of a terrorist attack in London in which several of her colleagues died.
- S6E50
Aids 2002: Simon & I
Dec 3, 200285mProfiling South African gay activists Simon Nkoli and Bev Ditsie.
- S6E51
Milosevic: How to be a Dictator
Dec 10, 200285mExploring 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.