Picture This (BBC)Staffel 2
TV-PG
A series of individual documentaries from a mixture of new and experienced directors.
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- Identity UnknownF2
Identity UnknownA film about the work of PC Peter Clements , the Thames Division Identification Officer, whose job is to investigate all the corpses found in the River Thames. On a cold January morning in 1995, a man's body is fished out of the river by a patrol. His pockets contain no documents at all and so the search for his identity begins. - Last Voyage of the ThistlegormF3
Last Voyage of the ThistlegormDeep in the Gulf of Suez lies the wreck of the SS Thistlegorm. A merchant ship, it was on its way to North Africa when it was sunk by German bombers in 1941. Nine of the crew died on that moonlit night. This film tells the story of the death of the ship, tracks down the remaining survivors, returns to the site of the wreck, and dives to the seabed to discover an underwater world full of ghosts and the wreckage of a fantastic military cargo. - Internal FlightF4
Internal FlightAs a fostered black boy in a totally white community, it was not until his teens that Manchester-based poet Lemn Sissay started to ask questions about his background. This film follows his search as he travels from the North of England to the beautiful Simien Mountains of Ethiopia to try to find the father he has never seen. Once there, he makes some surprising and emotional discoveries. - An Island in Time.F5
An Island in Time.Twice a day Holy Island is cut off from the Northumbrian mainland by the tide, and its inhabitants find themselves marooned. For one year, Pcture This followed five of them, and this programme, using timelapse photography, conjures up images of a life lived at a tranquil pace. - Close Friends in Distant RoomsF6
Close Friends in Distant RoomsBrendan Wilson is a photographer with schizophrenia. His experiences, and those of three others with the illness, are recorded in frank interviews inter cut with an animation sequence - made with the help of Oscar-winning Aardman Animations - representing a psychotic experience. - No Ordinary PeopleF9
No Ordinary PeopleThe final documentary in the series is a celebration of the experiences of a group of people who worked for the French Resistance in the Second World War, and their courage in the face of fear - a powerful reminder of how ordinary people can be transformed by the extraordinary events of war. Narrated by Zoe Wanamaker.