BBC True North – Pride of Place (2021)
English | Size: 429 MB
Category: Documentary
Follows an LGBTQ+ committee planning the first rural Pride parade in Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland’s conservative and evangelical heartland. [Read more…]
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BBC True North – Pride of Place (2021)
English | Size: 429 MB
Category: Documentary
Follows an LGBTQ+ committee planning the first rural Pride parade in Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland’s conservative and evangelical heartland. [Read more…]
BBC True North – Keeping Up with the Maileys (2021)
English | Size: 559 MB
Category: Documentary
Primary school teacher Tricia Mailey is mum to Cara, twelve, Noah, five, and one-year-old Bethany. [Read more…]
BBC True North – Tanorama (2021)
English | Size: 355 MB
Category: Documentayr
What fuels our fixation with being bronzed? And is it worth putting our health at risk? [Read more…]
BBC True North – The Disability Paradox (2020)
English | Size: 848 MB
Category: Tutorial
Explores fundamental questions about what makes us happy and how we can improve the quality of our life. [Read more…]
BBC True North – The First Generation (2020)
English | Size: 463 MB
Category: Documentary
As Northern Ireland approaches its centenary in 2021, Stephen Walker meets some of the men and women who are as old as the state of Northern Ireland itself. In this heartwarming programme, Stephen encounters four women and one man born in 1921: Aileen Pollock, Martin Charters, Isobel Lavery, Eileen Sweeney and Mairead Liddy. Through conversations with them, he discovers how they all witnessed great social, economic and political change over the decades. [Read more…]
BBC True North – Belfast to Baghdad (2020)
English | Size: 1.13 GB
Category: Documentary
When a group of painters and decorators from Northern Ireland arrived in Baghdad 30 years ago to paint Saddam Hussein’s palace, they found themselves at the centre of an international crisis. Held as human shields it was five months before they managed to get home. Now they come together to share their story for the first time. [Read more…]
BBC True North – Saving the Shipyard (2020)
English | Size: 481 MB
Category: Documentary
With its yellow cranes framing the Belfast skyline, Harland and Wolff is one of Northern Ireland’s most iconic companies. Famous for building the ill-fated Titanic, the legendary yard dominated global shipbuilding during the twentieth century and at its height employed more than 30,000 people.
But like much of the UK’s shipbuilding industry, Harland and Wolff suffered a steady decline in recent years. [Read more…]
BBC True North – Restoring Ormiston (2020)
English | Size: 446 MB
Category: Documetnary
Ormiston House in East Belfast is one of the city’s most historic buildings. Built in 1867 for a local mill owner, it was once home to distinguished businessmen Edward Harland and Lord Pirrie. But after years of neglect the house had fallen into a state of total disrepair – and was at risk of collapse. In 2014, it was bought by local entrepreneur Pete Boyle and wife Ciara. After decades of decline, the couple were faced with one the one of the most challenging and ambitious private restoration projects this island has ever seen – from dealing with dry rot to restoring Ormiston’s overgrown 13-acre gardens. [Read more…]
BBC True North – When Boxing Ends (2020)
English | Size: 516 MB
Category: Documentary
Fighters make the ultimate sacrifices to pursue their dream of becoming champions. As their careers come to an end, they face their toughest fight – stepping away from the ring and adjusting to life after boxing. [Read more…]
BBC True North – The Bat Catchers (2019)
English | Size: 398 MB
Category: Documentary
Bat-crazy volunteers Robin and Karen are on call 24/7 to save their favourite flying mammals. With a small team of volunteer ambulance drivers, they patrol the country rescuing bats from the most unlikely places. They have turned their homes into bat hospitals, and their living rooms into test-flight runways draped in nets and sheets. All in aid of getting these little mammals fit to be released back into the wild. [Read more…]