Adam Curtis
Director
40 Minutes (1981)
Season 13
40 Minutes was a BBC TV documentary strand broadcast on BBC Two between 1981 and 1994. The documentaries could be on any possible subject, the only connection being that they last forty minutes. Some documentaries in the original series were revisited and updated in a 2006 version, Forty Minutes On.
Released Oct. 1, 1981
Episode 40 min
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Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.running-time-in-the-title, imdb.two-word-title
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S13E1 - Shattered Dreams
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Nov. 16, 1993, midnight
S13E2 - War Artist
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Nov. 23, 1993, midnight
S13E3 - Girl Friends
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Nov. 30, 1993, midnight
S13E4 - Police Surgeon
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Dec. 7, 1993, midnight
S13E5 - Moscow Gold
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Dec. 14, 1993, midnight
S13E6 - Latin Nights
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Dec. 21, 1993, midnight
S13E7 - The Making of Them
Independence, self-reliance, confidence. These are some of the qualities that the traditional single-sex English boarding school gives the children in its care. 40 Minutes follows some 8-year-old boys off to different boarding schools for the first time. Their parents and headmasters are confident that they are doing the right thing. But some ex-boarders are not so sure. These men feel that the experience of boarding at a young age was damaging.
Jan. 4, 1994, midnight
S13E8 - Caraline's Story
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Jan. 11, 1994, midnight
S13E9 - Heads and Tales
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Jan. 18, 1994, midnight
S13E10 - Behind the Mask
This film looks at a theatre group who specialise in prison remedial work. By turning hardened criminals into actors, they challenge them to reveal human emotion from behind their masks of hardness.
Jan. 25, 1994, midnight
S13E11 - Squeegies
The engaging lives and intimate stories of Squeegies - people who wash car windows at traffic lights for small change - in South London. Del, living with the effects of having grown up in care up that stunted his promising career as a musician, Tony, struggling with abandonment and alcoholism and Leah, the mother figure of the group, who is pregnant, bringing new life and hope into the tough circumstances they inhabit.
Feb. 1, 1994, midnight
S13E12 - Spent Forces
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Feb. 8, 1994, midnight
S13E13 - Why Blame the Mother?
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Feb. 22, 1994, midnight
S13E14 - Portrait of a Mid-Life Crisis
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March 1, 1994, midnight
S13E15 - Manila - The Real Thing
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March 8, 1994, midnight
S13E16 - A Case of Corporate Murder
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March 15, 1994, midnight
S13E17 - After the Bomb
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March 22, 1994, midnight
S13E18 - Wonderful Land
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March 29, 1994, midnight
S13E19 - Fay Presto - Illusions of Grandeur
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April 5, 1994, midnight
S13E20 - Living in a Boom Time
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April 12, 1994, midnight
S13E21 - Times Remembered
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April 19, 1994, midnight
BBC Two
40 min/ep
12880 min
Oct. 1, 1981
April 19, 1994, midnight
Ended
NR
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