Watch the greatest documentary films you'll ever see.
1984: Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster.
1988: An Ocean Apart. Episode One "Hats Off to Mr. Wilson” (concerning the process by which the United States was involved in the First World War).
1992: Pandora's Box examined the dangers of technocratic and political rationality. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series.
- Watch episode 1 - The Engineer's Plot
- Watch episode 2 - To The Brink of Eternity
- Watch episode 3 - The League of Gentlemen
- Watch episode 4 - Goodbye Mrs Ant
- Watch episode 5 - Black Power
- Watch episode 6 - A is For Atom
1995: The Living Dead investigated the way that history and memory (both national and individual) have been used by politicians and others.
- Episode One - On the Desperate Edge of Now
- Episode Two - You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough
- Episode Three - The Attic
1996: 25 Million Pounds a study of Nick Leeson and the collapse of Barings Bank. Won the Best Science and Nature Documentary in the 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival.
- Watch - 25 Million Pounds
1997: The Way of All Flesh tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, the "woman who will never die". It received the 1997 Golden Gate Award.
- Watch - The Way of All Flesh
1999: The Mayfair Set looked at how buccaneer capitalists were allowed to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, focusing on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, James Goldsmith, and Tiny Rowland, all members of The Clermont club in the 1960s. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series or Strand in 2000.
- Episode One - Part One | Part Two
- Episode Two - Part One | Part Two
- Episode Three - Part One | Part Two
- Episode Four - Part One | Part Two
2002: The Century of the Self (BBC Two) documented how the rise of Freud's individualism led to Edward Bernays' consumerism. It received the Broadcast Award for Best Documentary Series and the Longman-History Today Award for Historical Film of the Year. It was released in the US through art house cinemas and was picked as the fourth best movie of 2005 by Entertainment Weekly.
- Episode One - The Century of Self
- Episode Two - The Engineering of Consent
- Episode Three - There is a policeman in my head he must be destroyed
- Episode Four - Eight People Sipping Wine
2004: The Power of Nightmares (BBC Two) suggested a parallel between the rise of Islamism in the Arab world and Neoconservatism in the United States in that both needed to inflate a myth of a dangerous enemy in order to draw people to support them. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series in 2004.
- Episode One - Baby It's Cold Outside (20/10/04)
- Episode Two - The Phantom Victory (27/10/04)
- Episode Three - The Shadows in the Cave (03/11/04)
2007: The Trap - What Happened to our Dream of Freedom (BBC Two - working title Cold Cold Heart), a series regarding the modern concept of freedom.
- Episode One - Fuck you Buddy (11/03/07)
- Episode Two - The Lonely Robot (18/03/07)
- Episode Three - We will Force you to be Free: (25/03/07)
2009: Curtis provided another mini-documentary for Charlie Brooker and his new current affairs programme Newswipe, this time focussing on the rise of "Oh Dear"-ism
2009: July 2 saw the release of a new mixed media documentary, called It Felt Like A Kiss.
- Watch the trailer
2010: Curtis provided a third mini-documentary on paranoia and moral panics for the fourth episode in the second series of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe.
More to come.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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