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Daniel Tammet has autism. He is also a savant. He can perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations at breakneck speeds. But unlike other savants, who can perform similar feats, Tammet can describe how he does it. He speaks seven languages and is even devising his own language. Now scientists are asking whether his exceptional abilities are the key to unlock the secrets of autism. This documentary follows Daniel as he travels to America to meet the scientists who are convinced he may hold the key to unlocking similar abilities in everyone. He is challenged to learn Icelandic, one of the world’s hardest languages, in just one week. Will Daniel do it? And what can we learn from this prodigious talent?

A man finds a strange box in the woods, so takes it home to investigate - unaware of the strange supernatural forces at work.

Ludvig travels to an island to spend time with his grandmother and his grandfather who is dying. To escape reality, Ludvig draws pictures and imagines that he is an explorer on a mystic island.

At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to local shops and cafés.

An extended sequence in which a man tortures a woman psychologically, physically and sexually. The woman is bound and restrained throughout and the man in question is in a position of absolute power and control over her. The man tortures the woman in order to make her confess her crimes against an unnamed 'State' but his ultimate aim is to break her down and make her fully compliant, eradicating her individuality and making her a mere number, 'NF713.

A journey across the UK to showcase Triumph motorcycles and their owners

Documentary about Queen Victoria's Grandchildren - King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm & Tsar Nicolas - and their involvement in the start of WWI.

A behind the scenes documentary included on the "World's Strongest Man - Thirty Years of Pain" DVD.

The relationship of a mother and daughter is strained when the daughter converts to the religion of her mother's former captors.

During 2007, a Duke production team was tasked with producing the definitive documentary about Colin McRae. With full access to all the WRC recordings of Colin's championship years, plus other rally and family archive, director Mark Cross was able to compile the most comprehensive career record yet of this remarkable sportsman.

Singer Eva Cassidy died of cancer at a young age. After her death in 1996, her music was only widely picked up and sold. The American was at home in all markets, as can be seen on this DVD; she plays jazz, pop, country and folk together. Covers like What A Wonderful World, Time After Time and Autumn Leaves are beautifully performed in a unique way. The performance was filmed somewhat amateurishly with one camera, 9 months before her death on January 2 and 3, 1996, at the Blues Alley Jazz Club in Washington. The sound is perfect and Cassidy sings flawlessly.

This is the story of Finkle, an unfortunate young writer whose inspiration has dried up.

Set to the soundtrack of Papa Wemba's extraordinary music, this outrageous, funny and eye-opening film depicts the underground world of a flamboyant African cult. Papa Wemba is a well-known Congolese singer. He is also a big cheese in Le Sape, the Société des Ambianceurs et Persons Élégants, which translated into English means a society of people who spend huge amounts of money on designer clothes with the motive of making themselves as conspicuously elegant as possible. The film is a splendid evocation of Papa Wemba's music, but it is also an unusual insight into what it means to be an immigrant in contemporary Europe. The sapeur have borrowed from our own culture, creating something rich and strange and wholly Congolese. Don't miss the scene where they try on fur coats.

Back in 2009 Rob Spence, a cyborg film maker, worked together with a team of ocularists, inventors, engineering specialists on a prosthetic eye which can capture and stream video. He then started the project: EyeBorg. Commissioned by the makers of 'Deus Ex: Human Revolution', a game which tells the story of the year 2027 where cyborgs are the norm, he needed to figure out how far we currently are from that future. In his 12 minute documentary he meets leading scientists in biotechnology and fellow cyborgs. It shows we are not far from a future where cyborgs are the norm. Rob says: "People are going to have the option of having superior arms, superior eyes at some point. People say no one would ever cut off their own arm and replace it, but if the technology gets there - and it looks like it will - people will think about it. They might be early adopters."

A poignant tale about a young girl, Seonag, who travels back in time to visit her recently deceased Grandfather.

Colin takes his dog Cumberland to the park for a game of fetch but Cumberland has other ideas.

The last show of the Mantaray and More Tour, which took place on 29 September 2008 at London's KOKO in Camden. A live performance by Siouxsie Sioux, including tracks from Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Creatures and the solo album "Mantaray".

Marital ping-pong.

'Kiss' (2009), which concentrates on one of the gestures most intrinsic to cinematic language: the kiss. The work is filmed as an uncut ten-minute observation of a seemingly endless kiss on the top deck of a London double-decker bus. Disengaged from their immediate environment, a young couple begins an intimate game of desire. Over the course of the film their exchange of embraces gathers intensity, growing increasingly passionate and demanding. The camera follows waves of desire, at times verging on pain and aggression then again full of joy and lightness.

A man, alone in a barren wasteland, encounters another survivor...as well as a zombie.

"Hot as a Pistol, Keen as a Blade", released December 5, 2006, captures that tour's scintillating concert in Montreal, Canada, spotlighting songs from the album as well as other Elvis Costello gems spanning four decades, from "Watching The Detectives" and "Pump It Up" to lesser-known songs, most of them given special arrangements by Allen Toussaint.

A documentary film crew follow Shaun Ryder for a year. The result of a fly on the wall look at Shaun Ryder's struggles both physically and mentally

Cassandra discovers by accident the Bureau of Shadows, responsible for making, measuring and resizing our shadows while we are asleep, in this post-modern fairy tale.

The Ambulance Man is a story about a paramedic who faces a difficult time at home, as he lives with an abusive partner.

A young blind woman dumps her oppressive boyfriend at the motorway service station and hitches a ride with a recovering sex-and-love addict.

The tombs of the grand lords of Moche civilization - one of Peru's most important pre-Hispanic civilizations -- are in constant danger from grave robbers, but archeologist Walter Alva has managed to find some priceless treasures and recreate the lives of this ancient people of northern Peru.

In October 2006 Melanie released her first ever live DVD called "Live Hits". Recorded before a sold-out audience at London's The Bridge in August earlier that year, it features 19 blistering hit singles and showcases Melanie's talent as both a writer and live performer. The DVD consists of two sets; an acoustic set and an electric set.

Anna struggles to establish a new life in Scotland, while trying to save her long-distance relationship with childhood sweetheart Pawel, who remains waiting in Poland.

The months-long battle of Monte Cassino, one of the bloodiest of the second World War, is related by the Germans and Allied troops who fought it. Men of the 1st/4th Essex Battalion and the German paratroop regiment are to the fore here, as they were 60 years ago.

With a wife, child and steady 9 to 5 job, Chris Hopkins is tired of his sterile, mundane lifestyle. Looking for change, he begins surfing adult sex sites and he soon connects with a woman that has everything he has been looking for.

Level 42 started out as a jazz-funk fusion band, slowly moving towards a more commercial pop and funk feel. The group had a number of hits during the 1980's including the number 1 hit 'Lessons In Love,' followed by the successful track 'Something About You.' Their next two recordings 'Running In The Family,' and 'Staring At The Sun' were also big hits in the UK. 'Live In Reading' sees the band perform some of their hits, the concert was recorded at Reading Concert Hall, December 2001.

Annie sends video diaries to her son who is fighting in Iraq with the British Forces. It isn't long before it becomes more than just a diary.

A blind man receives corneal transplants. He is fifty years old. For the first time since he was ten months old he has complete functional use of his eyes. What does he see? This is the story of a man’s struggle to learn to see.

Documentary looking at the design and layout of the World Trade Center twin towers and considering the reasons why they both collapsed so quickly after terrorists flew two aeroplanes into them on September 11 2001. Includes input from engineers and those who designed and built the towers.

"Tholos" focus on a Mycenaean tomb at Nichoria in Messenia, Greece.

Natasha visits some of the UK's nudist clubs.

With full access to Rod Shuffler during the making of Attack of the Clowns this documentary not only charts intimately the highs and lows of a career, but also it illustrates the differences and compromises that are common to any film, no matter what its budget.

When a ruthless assassin's payment goes missing, he tracks the unwitting thief across town before kidnapping his wife, demanding his money back. Bullied and bruised, Nathan isn't going to take it lying down.

Orphaned by the war in Sudan, and raised in a refugee camp in the Kenyan desert, Moses and his young friends are one day invited by the U.S. government to start a new life in Boston.

A BBC Timewatch documentary examining history's first major attempted terrorist attack. His attempt to blow up Parliament has seen Guy Fawkes go down in infamy, but the attempted coup was about much more than just one man. Hatched by a group of 13 conspirators, the 1605 plot came after decades of simmering religious tension in England. Fed by an atmosphere of fear and alienation, a group of disaffected young Catholics decided to assassinate King James I and the entire political establishment. Now with the help of CGI to recreate early 17th-century London, see how much damage would have been caused by the explosion, while dramatic reconstructions uncover the men behind the plan and explore what drove them to radicalism.

UK police investigation into paedophiles accessing images of child abuse on the internet. Out of over 7,000 suspected paedophiles, only 2,000 were investigated. Many famous names were reported to be on the list.

Jonathan Meades examines the cult of Stalinism through its buildings and monuments.

The Palestinian Film Archive contained over 100 films showing the daily life and struggle of the Palestinian people. It was lost in the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982. Here interviewees describe from memory key moments from the history of Palestinian cinema. These scenes are drawn and animated. Where film survives, the artist’s impressions are corroborated. This is a film about reconstruction and the idea that cinema is an expression of cultural identity – that cinema fuels memory.

In this tour de force filmed lecture, Slavoj Žižek lucidly and compellingly reflects on belief - which takes him from Father Christmas to democracy - and on the various forms that belief takes, drawing on Lacanian categories of thought. In a radical dismissal of todays so called post-political era, he mobilizes the paradox of universal truth urging us to dare to enact the impossible. It is a characteristic virtuoso performance, moving promiscuously from subject to subject but keeping the larger argument in view.

It's a special day for Annie, but things don't go to plan and a nasty incident with the pet budgie forces her to run away from home.

Philosopher and heart transplant recipient Jean-Luc Nancy meditates on the history and integrity of bodies in a number of visual and literary passages exploring his onscreen presence, a surgical organ in search of a body and an unaccounted for, displaced invertebrate at sea. Outlandish is a journey between shores and environments, the touching of and proximity between bodies, the vanishing and appearance of crew, dimensions of form and, above all, our relations with strange foreign bodies.

Documentary about Band Aid, the bold 1980s initiative to highlight the plight of starving Ethiopian children. We learn how Bob Geldof recruited artists to record the anthemic single Do They Know It's Christmas?

An animated short directed by Matt Abbiss.

She Said He Walks, He Said She Walks (2008) is nostalgia, bitter love and postures encapsulated in a skilled short film by Dominican Nelson Carlo de los Santos. Presents a resounding account of a relationship, subject to contemplation of four minutes. Sleazy love disoriented by the wandering wanderings of what was wanted and felt, within a complaint about the industrialized and prefabricated image that pollutes the natural feeling.

An essay film occupying the ground between narrative, documentary and experimental film-making. It is a work of fragmented histories: of the catastrophes of empire, war, terror and resistance of our times. Its unseen narrator 'encounters' the inhabitants of an undisclosed port city in old Europe as they stroll along a jetty in the melancholy fading light of evening. These meetings are with terrorists, philosophers, writers, photographers, shopkeepers whose subjective accounts and conjecture create a rupture within twentieth century history and beyond.

Sometimes little questions need big answers.

The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.

Ché Guevara died in Bolivia trying to bring revolution to South America. Forty years later, his admirer Evo Morales becomes the continent's first elected indigenous president with the promise of continuing Che's unfinished revolution. Will he be able to do it?

The meeting of Hollywood’s most famous choreographer, and one of it’s most famous quotes “Is that a gun in your pocket?” (Mae West).