Movies: Docudrama

People of different nationalities from Central Europe attempting to reach the West by crossing the controls and “European” rules....

A black and a white woman meets in Dar es Salam because of their men, and starts a friendship, despite their different background....

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath it. Hunger marches organised by the National Unemployed Workers' Movement drew attention to the cause, but this left-wing collective picked up a cine-c...

Virus H5N1 mutation takes the world by surprise and sprays over to the four corners of the globe at a dazing speed....

In the Eighteenth Century, London was the biggest city in the world - a global centre for trade, manufacturing and industry. Bigger and richer than ever before there was money to spend - and much of that money was spent on sex. The capital was a hotb...

Fictionalized look at life on a ranch...

Two different women, from opposite sides of the country, look for distractions from the mundane and the malaise of modern life....

“The Forgotten Faces (1961), a film reconstruction of the Hungarian revolution of 1956, won Watkins another amateur Oscar, and to this day, the film is praised in England as "one of the most memorable amateur films ever made"....

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A re-enactment of the Jules Durand case. “In 1910 [leader of the French socialist movement Jean] Jaurès took the lead in defending a working-class coal miner, Jules Durand, accused of complicity in and condemned to death for the murder of a labor lea...

A docudrama aimed at propagandizing the prevention of venereal disease...

Saggi Kaita, his wife and three children (born in Spain), along with his brother, Mahamadou, travel home to their village, Diabugu, Gambia, for the first time since they emigrated to Spain over ten years ago. The reason for the journey is the wedding...

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The film is based on the story by I. Sysolyatin about the Soviet hero Fyodor K. Popov. A documentary story about the fate of Popov, his life and the feat of our fathers and grandfathers -- the generations who won the Great Patriotic War....

From bespoke baubles to extravagant gifts and £615000 diamond-encrusted tree toppers, this programme meets the people supplying and buying a top-end Christmas....

A little boy's Christmas wonders, and adults' reality....

Real-life drama about why, in a beautiful and quirky rural town, film- maker Jez Lewis' childhood friends are killing themselves. Beginning with a personal quest for understanding, the film moves into a year-long drama of human tragedy and redemption...

A documentary by Justin Arment that explores the 1991 rename of Michigan city 'East Detroit' to 'Eastpointe', and the racially motivated reasonings behind it....

Conversations between a mother and her son on their way back home from work in the course of a couple of days....

Through mordant social commentary and symbolic irony, Amiralay focuses this film on the chicken farming industry in the rural Syrian village of Sadad. He documents the burdened livelihoods of farmers and the economic policies of the government that e...