An Alcoholic is a drunk for whom nothing can be done, until they decide that they want to get well. A day will come when they can get no lower into the mire of self abuse. A day when there is only recovery available to them, or death. Paul Watson's film follows four alcohol abusers from the impoverished Medway Towns of North Kent. Filmed over a year, Watson's camera follows them from Gillingham's Medway Maritime Hospital to their homes.

Breaking up with the Joneses, filmed over eight months, is a heartbreakingly honest portrayal of an issue that devastates one in three couples in Britain: divorce. Lynne and Stephen Jones are separating after nine years of marriage. With two young sons caught in the middle, they’re hoping to make the split pain-free. But with arguments over access and maintenance payments, their story becomes a tug of love for the children.

This film intimately observes how three dads grapple with raising a family alone because they have lost their mum. Carl lost his wife to cancer and is determined to bring up 12 year old Naomi, their severely disabled daughter, as a normal teenager. John is caring for his three children after Kelly, his wife, decides to leave and pursue a career. Piers is left holding the baby after his wife, Marilyn, dies giving birth.

As the world watched in horror, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005. Declaring that the city had avoided the worst of the storm, city and state officials were caught off-guard when the levees that had been designed to protect low-lying areas of the city from flooding were breached, and the 9th Ward District was inundated. Like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news, director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and disorganised response of the emergency and recovery effort.

An enlightening, intelligent, and profoundly shocking feature documentary film about our most valuable, non-renewable resource: oil. Whilst hinting at just how dark the post-oil world could be, this highly entertaining yet disturbing exposé provides not only questions but a glimmer of possible solutions to the most perplexing and important economic, environmental, and public policy issue of our time.

Every day families are forced to leave their homes all across Britain. We follow three young girls and their families into the nightmare of homelessness - a frightening, and rarely seen world of dingy hotels and temporary accommodation. This film powerfully illustrates that 40 years on from the seminal social drama, Cathy Come Home, little has changed for Britain’s homeless families. Through the eyes of the children we see how vital a home can be, as they struggle to deal with adult anxieties about where they will end up next, and try to understand why they have been evicted.

Christine Lyall-Grant is 65 and has early on-set dementia. Her daughter, Fiona, is 38 and lives on the same street in Cambridge. For 22 years, Chris worked as a literary editor at the Cambridge University Press but had to stop working when she started to make mistakes and began having trouble with her memory. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Chris uses charm and wit to deal with her situation. She now relies on Post-it Notes and other people for her memory and struggles to differentiate between what's real and what is not. Chris' daughter, Fiona has to come to terms with her mother’s increasing dependence upon her, whilst Chris is determined not to lose her life to Alzheimer’s and is resistant to outside help. Filmed over one year, this is a poignant film charting two women's struggle to deal with their changing relationship and with Alzheimer's.

At a time of violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims, Once Upon a Time in Iran follows a bus full of Iranian pilgrims through the sacred cities of Iran to the holy sites of Iraq – Karbala and Najaf. Once Upon a Time in Iran is a breathtaking journey into hidden heartlands of Shia Islam, revealing how two ancient crimes – the murder of Mohammed’s grandson and the disappearance of a six-year-old boy – became the founding legends of Shiism and still shape events in the Middle East today.