Films of Record

Requiem for Detroit?

BBC Two TX: (1x75)

Films of Record, has been commissioned by BBC Two to produce Requiem for Detroit? (1x75’), a documentary that will tell the roller coaster story of the city’s automotive industry through the testimony of the people who lived through it.
Powered by extraordinary archive - vivid projections of the city’s heyday on it’s now abandoned buildings – and the irrepressible music that continues to come out of Detroit, from ragtime and rap to techno, the documentary will chart the rise and fall of the ‘Big Three’, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, and the impact the decline of these giants has had on the city.

It is directed by Julien Temple, Producer George Hencken and Executive Producer Roger Graef

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The Child Protectors

Monday 2nd November 8.30pm on BBC One

Films of Record have gained unique access to the highly controversial world of child protection social workers.

TRUTH ABOUT CRIME

TX: 9:00pm From Tuesday 21st July 2009, BBC 1

The Truth About Crime is based on a unique event: taking two weeks in a average British city to find out just how much crime happens in that period. We call it our Crime Audit.

UR SO V41N

TX: 3rd July 2009, 7:35 pm, Channel 4

A documentary exploring the competitive world of the personalised car numberplates and some of the people who spend thousands to own the right combination of numbers and letters.

AFTER THE BREAK

Coming soon...

Twenty years ago, the Children Act was hailed as enlightened legislation. In a major documentary series for BBC2, Films of Record examines whether the law is actually reducing the anguish for separating couples and their children. Following families as they put their access agreements to the test, After The Break explores the impact of the family courts on people’s lives. For many, the judge’s decision is only the beginning.

PANORAMA: May Contain Nuts

TX: 8:30pm Monday 20th April BBC 1

The 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act began with the noble aim of making Britain safer, protecting workers from dangerous conditions of heavy industry. Yet today, health and safety officials seem to be ready to pounce on all aspects of our lives, from music-making to leaving the dead to rest in their graves.

MALARIA: RETURN TO FEVER ROAD

(1 x 80 mins) TX: BBC 4 Sunday 15th March at 22:00

Fever Road is a close personal account which reveals the harsh realities of Malaria within a rural Kenyan village community.

REVENGE OF THE BIN MEN

TX: 2nd March 9pm

A war has broken out in Britain. It’s about rubbish. The battle is between the people who are putting out too much of it and the councils, whose job it is to dispose of it all.

PLANNING WARS

TX: 6th Jan 2009, 8:00pm ITV

Linda McCutcheon is one of an army of campaigners battling against the odds to prevent a third runway being built at Heathrow Airport.

THE GREAT 9/11 HOAX

TX: 11th September at 9pm, Channel 4

Part of the Cutting Edge series
This film tells the extraordinary story of Tania Head – the woman who became 9/11’s most famous survivor. Her amazing and moving story – of how she escaped from the 78th floor of the South Tower whilst her fiancé was tragically killed in the North Tower – inspired everyone who heard it.