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This Academy Award-nominated documentary-study is a coming-of-age saga drawing on over 12 years of footage in Rockford, Illinois, hit hard by decades of recession. A quest to understand why so many of the...
Photographer Richard Billingham makes his feature-film debut with this intricate family portrait, inspired by his own memories of growing up in the West Midlands in the late 70s and early 80s, and then his...
The human body is the most sophisticated organism on earth. It is a scientific marvel and much about it remains a mystery. This BBC series uses cutting-edge graphics to effectively peel back the skin and...
The remarkable story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to communicate by immersing themselves in the world of classic Disney...
The relationship between technological change and social behaviour is a significant one for sociologists and this film explores some of the ways new communication technologies, such as mobile phones and...
This short film uses a simple, contemporary case study - fashion and the possible sexualisation of girls - to examine and explore three related questions: What is childhood? What does it do for children? Is...
'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ was published in 1865, and revolutionised children’s writing. It made a mockery of much that had preceded it; the cautionary tale where young mischievous children...
Michael Morpurgo presents a history of British childhood from the year 1000 to the present, using a wide range of primary sources. He examines how the idea of childhood has been constantly reinvented down...
A behind-the-scenes look at the world of junior beauty pageants in the southern states of the USA, open to children from six months to 17 years. Explores the themes of lost childhood and naked ambition by...
An autobiographical account of the film-maker’s experiences of growing up as a child of mixed race. Born in Newcastle to an English mother and a subsequent absent father in an area where there were no...
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