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  1. Exodus: Our Journey to Europe (2016)

    Subject
    Social Studies

    Three part documentary series filmed using camera phones by people smuggling themselves into Europe. Episode one begins with a look at the thousands of Syrian refugees arrive in the Turkish port of Izmir....

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  2. Bricks! (2016)

    Director
    Claire Beavan
    Subject
    Art

    Documentary celebrating the artwork that captured a nation’s imagination: the exhibition of Carl Andre’s Equivalent VIII, a minimalist sculpture consisting of 120 fire bricks laid out on the floor of the...

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  3. James Joyce Goes to China (2016)

    Director
    Ian Madden
    Subject
    Drama; Literature

    Documentary following Glasgow’s Tron Theatre Company as they tour China with a stage adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses. [60 minutes]

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  4. Secrets of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, The (2016)

    Subject
    Music

    Ian Hislop and John Eliot Gardiner present a documentary about the circumstances behind the writing of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. [89 minutes]

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  5. From Eastenders to Hollywood: Antonia Bird (2016)

    Subject
    Drama; Film studies; Television studies

    Documentary about director and producer Antonia Bird whose career spanned theatre, television and film, taking her from the Royal Court Theatre to the BBC and eventually a career in Hollywood. [90 minutes]

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  6. Prosecutors, The: Real Crime and Punishment (2016)

    Director
    Sara Hardy; Blue Ryan
    Producer
    Sara Hardy; Blue Ryan
    Subject
    Law

    Three part series about the Crown Prosecution Service. Filmed over 18 months with prosecutors in Merseyside, Cheshire and the South East, including the Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, this...

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  7. New Town (2016)

    Subject
    Architecture; History

    In 1752 Edinburgh launched a competition to design a ‘New Town’ for the Scottish capital. The city desperately needed an upgrade - it was overcrowded, filthy and crumbling. With Scotland a partner in the...

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  8. Black Nurses: The Women Who Saved the NHS (2016)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies

    Documentary which tells the story of the thousands of Caribbean and African women who answered the call 70 years ago to come to the UK to save the then ailing health service. [60 minutes]

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  9. Brexit: The Battle for Britain (2016)

    Subject
    Politics & government

    The BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg tells the inside story of how David Cameron’s referendum plan on whether or not the UK should leave the European Union, backfired, and Vote Leave won....

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  10. Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism (2016)

    Subject
    Architecture

    Jonathan Meades investigates the architecture of Mussolini’s Italy. He finds a dictator caught between the forces of modernism and a revivalism that harked back to ancient Rome.

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