Lift

Lift

Director Marc Isaacs installs himself in the lift of a typical English tower block. People start talking to him, and we discover their lives.

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Men of the City

Men of the City

In Men of the City, Isaacs takes a more stylised approach to the lives of workers in the City of London during the recent financial meltdown...

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Calais: The Last Border

Calais: The Last Border

A stark portrait of a town in decline. Brilliant juxstaposition between the scoff faced English day trippers searching for cheap booze, and the...

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All White in Barking

All White in Barking

All White in Barking is a compassionate and illuminating documentary probing the attitudes of Barking's white residents toward their new immigrant...

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The Road: A Story of Life & Death

The Road: A Story of Life & Death

On the oldest Roman road in the capital, filmmaker Marc Isaacs weaves together numerous poignant stories of loss and the search for belonging into...

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Someday My Prince Will Come

Someday My Prince Will Come

In the Cumbrian seaside village of Siddick, 9-year-old Laura-Anne narrates a year in her life in rhyming couplets, as she navigates the pitfalls of...

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This Blessed Plot

This Blessed Plot

A young Chinese documentarian visits a small English village in which she encounters the friendly ghosts of its former residents and inadvertently...

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Philip and His Seven Wives

Philip and His Seven Wives

Philip and His Seven Wives (2006) a film made for the BBC’s prestigious Storyville strand, tells the intriguing story of a former messianic rabbi...

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Rainy Days

Rainy Days

Splices together images from Isaacs's documentaries to create an experimental montage set to a soundtrack.

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Outside the Court

Outside the Court

They arrive, they smoke, they wait - armed robbers seeking redemption, life-long thieves, addicts and anxious fathers of wayward children. Hard...

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The Filmmaker's House

The Filmmaker's House

When the Filmmaker is told his next film must be about crime, sex or celebrity to get funded, he takes matters into his own hands and begins...

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Travellers

Travellers

A very emotional look at the loneliness and heartache often conjured whilst travelling by train.A powerful and stunning piece with a focus on love...

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Outsiders

Outsiders

Our host Ben Ferguson and director Marc Isaacs travel to the Lincolnshire town of Boston to reveal a local story about communal fears about change...

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Notes on Bangladesh

Notes on Bangladesh

The residents of a Bangladeshi village anxiously wait for the heavy monsoon rains to clear. However, the rain continues and catastrophic flooding...

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Oxygen: The Old Man and His Bed

Oxygen: The Old Man and His Bed

There are 94 naturally occurring elements, from Hydrogen to Plutonium. Together they make up everything in the world. The stories of the elements...

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Touched by Murder

Touched by Murder

The body of a young Polish woman is found in a suitcase on a London canal adjacent to a block of flats. The filmmakers invite the residents to...

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Men Who Sleep in Trucks

Men Who Sleep in Trucks

Award-winning filmmaker Marc Isaacs explores the secret life of Britain's truckers, discovering an uncharted world of isolation, loneliness and the...

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Moments of Silence

Moments of Silence

Built from the ground up from a series of introspective shots throughout Marc Isaacs's significant body of non-fiction work, Moments of Silence...

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Sisters

Sisters

Two ageing siblings sit next to each other in a pub, waiting for instructions from the filmmaker which never come. They watch the time go passing by.

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