Highlights
Documentary & Factual Features Film
Documentary & Factual:
ENEMIES OF HAPPINESS

ABC1 Adults

True Stories: Enemies of Happiness provides a revealing portrait of Malalai Joya, a remarkable young woman who stood in Afghanistan's 2005 parliamentary elections. Forced to campaign surrounded by armed guards following repeated assassination
attempts, the film follows Joya as she wins the hearts of voters, and offers a snapshot of life in war-torn Afghanistan.

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SHRINK RAP SERIES

ABC1 Adults

More 4 series following Dr Pamela Connolly analysing celebrities.

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TAKING LIBERTIES

ABC1 Adults

Critically-acclaimed and BAFTA-nominated first feature by British director Chris Atkins, True Stories: Taking Liberties reveals how our fundamental civil liberties have been eroded during ten years of New Labour. Irreverent and polemical, the film combines remarkable real-life stories with comment from celebrities and politicians.

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THE GIRL WITH 8 LIMBS: A BODYSHOCK SPECIAL

ABC1 Housewves

For a few weeks in 2007 she was the most famous little girl in the world. This BodyShock Special tells the story of Lakshmi Tatma, the girl with eight limbs. Two-year-old Lakshmi was born with one of the world's rarest physical abnormalities. Joined at the pelvis to her half-formed conjoined twin, she has four arms and four legs. In her remote Indian village she is revered as a living god. With exclusive access, this film follows Lakshmi's family on an epic emotional journey from their rural home to a hospital in Bangalore where her parents must decide whether to proceed with potentially life-threatening surgery to remove her extra limbs.

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TRUE STORIES: CARNY

Men 16-34

The True Stories strand, which showcases the best of both international and domestic feature documentaries, continues with this intimate documentary which takes an inside look at the outsider culture of the itinerant carnival worker across America.

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TRUE STORIES: OUR DAILY BREAD

ABC1 Adults

This beautiful and evocative documentary is a powerful look at the industry of agriculture throughout Europe.

Since the turn of the millennium the issues of food production and sustainability have become ever more serious.

This documentary addresses growing awareness levels and the impact of our eating habits on our bodies and on the Planet.

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TRUE STORIES: REUNION

ABC1 Women

This funny and heartbreaking film is one of the first to be funded by Britdoc, the Channel 4 Documentary Film Foundation. True Stories: Reunion focuses on the very first reunion of a big, extended Jewish family over the Memorial Day Weekend in Buffalo, New York.


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