The Z Word

A young boy and his father arguing on the road while the son teaching his father how to drive. Gradually, the tension between the two increases and causes a conflict between them.

In the year that marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the Holocaust, this powerful documentary reveals a little-known story of 300 young orphaned Jewish refugees who began new lives in England's Lake District in the summer of 1945.

By the time Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols was released, on 28 October 1977, both the band and the punk culture that had formed around them had begun to unravel.

Discover the story of how a mute, blind, and deaf person obey their silent words to be understood. An inner love that delivers us peace by understanding our differences. A story about love of ourselves and love of our own country.

A selection of some of the best performances by African-American artists of the 1980s from the BBC archives, featuring Cameo, Shalamar, Salt-n-Pepa, Chaka Khan, Kid Creole, Doug E Fresh, Whitney Houston and Luther Vandross.

Nicole and Kristan are a queer Bay Area couple who want to adopt a child from foster care. As they prepare to have their home inspected, they child-proof their apartment and invite a couple of kids over to examine their handy work. Will they pass the safety check?

Part 1, The Word explores how the written and spoken word consisting of scriptures, sermons and creeds have remembered and celebrated God's story throughout centuries of Christianity.

This film brings to light the hidden history of the first ever British Army hospital run entirely by women. The all-female medical staff of the Endell Street Military Hospital, founded by prominent suffragette doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson, treated over 26,000 wounded patients and performed over 7,000 operations during WWI. Bringing together previously unseen photographs and letters from the Women’s Library LSE with archive film from IWM, this film tells the story of the 180 women who worked at the hospital under the suffragette motto, ‘Deeds, not words’.

PROGRESS Wrestling returns to live action in front of their fans, and the first show under new ownership.

The filmmaker travels to West Africa to search for his friend, a Liberian man who fled the horror of Liberia along with hundreds of thousands of others. The journey probes into a world overrun with warring factions, refugees, arms dealers and profiteers.

Determined to conquer his social anxiety, Ben throws a dinner party that challenges his harmonious limitations.

The film mixes sci-fi with a critical approach to current proposals to colonize Mars. Presenting three possible Martian worlds, it was produced using the GPT-3 language processing model and is inspired by space ecology, interplanetary law, non-human sign systems and data science

The two sides of the end of culture–in all the aspects of knowledge as well as in all the aspects of perceptible representations exist in a unified manner in what used to be art in the most general sense. In the case of knowledge, the accumulation of branches of fragmentary knowledge, which become unusable because the approval of existing conditions must finally renounce knowledge of itself, confronts the theory of praxis which alone holds the truth of them all since it alone holds the secret of their use. In the case of representations, the critical self-destruction of society’s former common language confronts its artificial recomposition in the commodity spectacle, the illusory representation of the non-lived.

A stranger's quest in Chicago, particularly Chinatown, for a sense of being in a uncertain time. It derives from experiences of translation and transportation, negotiations with foreignness and intimacy, and attempts to physically and emotionally inhabit a place.

Best friends Mieko and Makio meet a university student, Eiji, who ends up falling for Makio. Despite everyone being against the relationship, Mieko decides to watch over them as they grow, and their bonds and relationships gradually change.

Nikos Mamangakis speaks from his heart for the last time. Familiar and unknown, international and local, elitist and popular, this composer served many musical genres and left an emblematic legacy. Important audiovisual material comprising unique salvaged clips from his last concert and rehearsals frame 84 years of a life in music: a passionate heritage for humanity, for art and life.

A short documentary about Puerto Rico's most popular 'New Wave' music group.

Documentary telling the story of some of the most important scientific thinkers of the modern age - an epic tale of men and women obsessed by intellectual challenges but dogged by their human failings - of bitter personal rivalries, clashes of ideology and unlikely collaboration. These are the people who discovered the structure of DNA and worked out how our genes work, who changed our view of life forever. The film is an unvarnished account of the scientists who dared to discover the secret of life - told through fascinating and revealing archive - in their own words. Contributors interviewed include: Sir Paul Nurse - biologist, Nobel laureate and President of the Royal Society, Professor Lisa Jardine - historian of science and daughter of Jacob Bronowski, who hence knew many of the Cambridge scientists involved with the DNA story as a child and an undergraduate, and Professor Steve Jones, a geneticist at UCL.

"In 'The D Word,' a severely mentally distressed man, rejected by his wife, spirals into an affair, grappling with his fractured sanity. As he navigates the complexities of acceptance and rejection, his subconscious connection to Frankenstein's monster emerges, symbolized by the haunting mask he carries, blurring the line between fractured relationships and the monstrous echoes within."