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.
See moreMen 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...
See moreCalais: 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...
See moreAll 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...
See moreThe 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...
See moreSomeday 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...
See moreThis Blessed Plot
A young Chinese documentarian visits a small English village in which she encounters the friendly ghosts of its former residents and inadvertently...
See morePhilip 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...
See moreRainy Days
Splices together images from Isaacs's documentaries to create an experimental montage set to a soundtrack.
See moreOutside the Court
They arrive, they smoke, they wait - armed robbers seeking redemption, life-long thieves, addicts and anxious fathers of wayward children. Hard...
See moreThe 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...
See moreTravellers
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...
See moreOutsiders
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...
See moreNotes on Bangladesh
The residents of a Bangladeshi village anxiously wait for the heavy monsoon rains to clear. However, the rain continues and catastrophic flooding...
See moreOxygen: 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...
See moreTouched 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...
See moreMen 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...
See moreMoments 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...
See moreSisters
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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