Emmalou's First Year

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Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.

A filmmaker and rapper duo revive Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” protocols - a set of filmmaking “rules” with which groups of strangers can conceive, shoot, and screen a film in just two and a half hours. Against the grim backdrop of the stringent Shanghai lockdown, the event soon turns into a sanctuary for individuals to forge collective dreams.

A collection of amateur films made by photographer Roderic Vickers and friends.

Equal parts punk and psychedelia, the Flaming Lips emerged from Oklahoma City as one of the most bracing bands of the late 1980s. The Fearless Freaks documents their rise from Butthole Surfers-imitating noisemakers to grand poobahs of orchestral pop masterpieces. Filmmaker Bradley Beesely had the good fortune of living in the same neighborhood as lead Lip Wayne Coyne, who quickly enlisted his buddy to document his band's many concerts and assorted exploits. The early footage is a riot, with tragic hair styles on proud display as the boys attempt to cover up their lack of natural talent with sheer volume. During one show, they even have a friend bring a motorcycle on stage, which is then miked for sound and revved throughout the performance, clearing the club with toxic levels of carbon monoxide. Great punk rock stuff. Interspersed among the live bits are interviews with the band's family and friends, revealing the often tragic circumstances of their childhoods and early career.

The wharf in Landskrona launches its final boat as the workers get ready for unemployment.

Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.

A documentary following Zhou Yuanquiang, a cultural worker in Jingdezhen, China who makes movies with untrained local actors.

A group of teenagers from Flint, Michigan filmed themselves kidnapping and terrorizing a new acquaintance, before taking her out to a woods and dumping her in a shallow grave. They then taunted their terrified and blindfolded victim asking if she had any last requests before they cut her throat. But was the kidnap real or just a game? Three days later the tape was in the hands of the police and the 5 teenager friends were in custody facing life imprisonment. This program talks to the people at the heart of this story - including two of the defendants - in an attempt to understand what really happened in the woods around Flint last year. It also screens the video of the 'abduction'. What is revealed is an extraordinary and disturbing record of a night when something went terribly, terribly wrong.

A stunning trek from the vale of Kashmir, via Sind Valley and Kargil and Lamayaru Monastry.

Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.

A fun tour of 1950s West End with international film star Yoko Tani.

A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.

Grand buildings and missionary work come together in the 1947 Indian tour of construction magnate John W. Laing.

Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.

Traditional games, dancing and music among the people of Sikkim - in vivid colour.

A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.

Tyneside shipyard Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson turns out a beast of a tanker for the Argentine Navy.

Vintage vehicles on parade in this amateur film record of the longest-running motor event in the world.

Boys’ canoe trip on the Thames in London.