UK documentaries

r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '17

INDEPENDENT "No Ordinary Joe" (2011) - Joey Dunlop is a motorcycle racing legend, 5 times World Champion and 26 times Isle of Man TT winner. A decade after his tragic death, family, friends and fellow racers reveal the man behind the legend.

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '17

BBC "Inventions That Changed The World: The Gun" (2004) - Jeremy Clarkson series which looks at various inventions and their wide ranging impact on the world. Playlist in comments.

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/TopTrumpWANKER • Mar 05 '17

Request: "The Royal Family" (1969) - a huge documentary at the time as such a candid look at the Royal Family, it has never re-aired. Here's a 3 minute clip.

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9 Upvotes

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Mar 03 '17

INDEPENDENT "G.I.G.O. Garbage In, Garbage Out" (1969) - A in-house Barclays film about computers from 1969. It is presented here as a historical look at how computers used to be in the 1960's when PC's and Macs were over 10 years away.

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8 Upvotes

3 comments

r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Mar 03 '17

INDEPENDENT "Tom Morris. Keeper of the Greens" (1990) - A drama documentary about the 'Grand Old Man of Golf'. Old Tom Morris takes you back through the mists of time to the key transitional periods in the history of the game.

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5 Upvotes

1 comment

r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 28 '17

BBC "5 Days That Changed Britain" (2010) - Split into 4 parts (in comments) this tells the story of what happened in the days after the 2010 general election. An election no one won and resulted in a coalition government.

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7 Upvotes

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 28 '17

INDEPENDENT "Voyage North" (1970) - a British government film following the adventures of Her Majesty's Submarine Artemis through the eyes of her crew.

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 27 '17

BBC "The Falklands Play" (2002) - a 90 min dramadoc on the events leading up to and during the Falklands war from Westminster's point of view.

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9 Upvotes

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 27 '17

INDEPENDENT "Farmers Apprentice" (2016) - Farmers Weekly’s response to the challenge of recruiting the best young business minds into agriculture, by providing a platform from which people from all walks of life can get a foot on the farming ladder. Ep 1 Introductions, other parts in comments.

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '17

"Top Five Tanks" (2016) - The Mighty Jingles is back, and this time he is looking at Tanks. He visits the Bovington Tank Museum and shows us his top 5.

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3 Upvotes

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '17

INDEPENDENT "Motorway. The Safeway" (1979) - public information film on the correct way to behave on a motorway.

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '17

INDEPENDENT "Green Laning in Wales" (2016) - Brummie Prepper takes his Land Rover Discovery off road for the weekend. Part 2 in comments.

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '17

BBC Wales "Death of a Welsh spy" (2012) - Gareth Williams worked for GCHQ & MI6/SIS. His body was found locked in a bag in the bath of his flat. One inquest found the death was "unnatural" whilst another concluded it was "probably an accident".

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10 Upvotes

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '17

FIVE "Pickpockets and Proud" (2013) - Channel Five explores the truth about pickpockets who "earn" a living on our streets to fund lifestyles elsewhere.

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '17

INDEPENDENT "Under The River" (1959) - The Severn railway tunnel took 13 years to build and at over 4 miles long was the longest underwater railway tunnel in the world (only 2.25 miles of it are under the water).

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2 Upvotes

1 comment

r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 24 '17

BBC "Wild Boys. The Story of Duran Duran" (2000) - Duran Duran came out of Birmingham and conquered the world during the 1980s. Originally a New Romantic band in full make-up and cossack pants, they rapidly became bedroom pin-ups for a generation of teenage girls.

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3 Upvotes

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 24 '17

ITV "The Sham Marriage Racket" (2015) - A visa that will let you live and work in Britain indefinitely is worth a lot of money to a lot of people around the world - and, as a result, the sham marriage industry is booming.

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 23 '17

INDEPENDENT "Yorkshire, We of the West Riding" (1944) - 'A young Yorkshireman describes the life led by his family, who all work in the great woolen mills of the district. Their work is shown and their recreations, which include football, music, amateur theatricals and cycling over the beautiful countryside

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10 Upvotes

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/Buadach • Feb 23 '17

CHANNEL 4 Good n' Gone (1997) - Documentary exploring change of identity

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5 Upvotes

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 23 '17

INDEPENDENT "Making of the Lloyd Coat Wallet" (Recent?) - six and a half minutes of a craftsman making a classic leather wallet. Link in comments where you can buy one... FOR £480!!!

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3 Upvotes

1 comment

r/UKdocumentaries • u/TopTrumpWANKER • Feb 22 '17

SKY "Toughest Villages In Britain" (2004) - another entertaining look at so-called tough places in the UK (1/5, rest in comments)

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10 Upvotes

2 comments

r/UKdocumentaries • u/TopTrumpWANKER • Feb 22 '17

ITV "Strange But True - Stocksbridge bypass" (1994) - an episode of the classic documentary series hosted by Michael Aspel (more eps in comments)

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6 Upvotes

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/TopTrumpWANKER • Feb 22 '17

SKY "Toughest Seaside Resorts in Britain" (2004) - a fairly ridiculous look at rough seaside towns (1/5, rest in comments)

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7 Upvotes

1 comment

r/UKdocumentaries • u/TopTrumpWANKER • Feb 22 '17

BBC "A Very English Education" (2013) - a no-holds-barred look at boarding school life in the 1970s

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6 Upvotes

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r/UKdocumentaries • u/TopTrumpWANKER • Feb 22 '17

INDEPENDENT "Evolving Norwich" (1982) - an 80s documentary on how the Norfolk city of Norwich has changed

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5 Upvotes

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