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.
Showing Season 13 of 14
Season 13
1993
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01. Shattered Dreams
1993-11-16
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02. War Artist
1993-11-23
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03. Girl Friends
1993-11-30
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04. Police Surgeon
1993-12-07
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05. Moscow Gold
1993-12-14
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06. Latin Nights
1993-12-21
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07. The Making of Them
1994-01-04
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.
08. Caraline's Story
1994-01-11
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09. Heads and Tales
1994-01-18
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10. Behind the Mask
1994-01-25
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.
11. Squeegies
1994-02-01
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.
12. Spent Forces
1994-02-08
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13. Why Blame the Mother?
1994-02-22
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14. Portrait of a Mid-Life Crisis
1994-03-01
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15. Manila - The Real Thing
1994-03-08
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16. A Case of Corporate Murder
1994-03-15
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17. After the Bomb
1994-03-22
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18. Wonderful Land
1994-03-29
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19. Fay Presto - Illusions of Grandeur
1994-04-05
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20. Living in a Boom Time
1994-04-12
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21. Times Remembered
1994-04-19
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