Firecracker Films

The Blind Me

• BBC 3
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 21/07/10

Growing up is hard enough for most young people but how different would it be if you couldn’t view the world through your eyes. This film follows four young blind people on the rollercoaster ride to …

ALONE AMONG GRIZZLIES WITH RICHARD TERRY

• Animal Planet
• 2 x 60mins
• TX: 07/06/10

Find out what happens when cameraman Richard Terry spends two months camped out in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness with just a bear obsessed Swiss man and some of the largest predators in the world …

Our Daughter The Mermaid

• Channel 4
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 18/05/10

Nine-year old Shiloh Pepin wants to be just like any other girl her age, but she suffers from an extremely rare disease. She is the world’s only living mermaid.

Shiloh has Sirenomelia or ‘mermaid syndrome’, a congenital …

Autistic Driving School

• BBC Three
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 29/04/10

Learning to drive is a daunting and stressful experience even for the calmest of individuals – but much more so when you have Autism. It can also be much more important for people with Autism than …

The Autistic Me: One Year On

• BBC Three
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 22/04/10

The Autistic Me was a high rating and critically acclaimed documentary that followed the lives of three young men with autism as they struggled with the transition to adulthood: trying to find work, looking for love …

Single, Together, Whatever

• BBC Switch
• 6 x 30mins
• TX: 06/03/2010

Single, Together, Whatever is a six part observational documentary series aimed at 12-17 year olds.  The series follows the lives of 18 teenagers as they boldly open the door to their personal lives revealing their inner …

My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

• Channel 4 (Cutting Edge)
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 9pm 18/02/2010

Entering the world of 21st Century gypsy and traveller weddings, where ancient traditions meet modern fashions in an ostentatious culture clash, this film follows four gypsy and traveller families on their wedding day.

Considered …

Daredevils: The Human Spider Returns

• Channel 4
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 12/10/2009

Preferring glass and steel to rock and stone, and without ropes or safety equipment one man has taken the art of climbing to dangerous new heights… Having already conquered 80 of highest building’s on earth, Alain …

Mermaid Girl: A New Chapter

• TLC
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 11/10/2009

Shiloh Peppin who was born with an extremely rare condition known as Mermaid Syndrome. This sequel to the successful first film ‘The Little Mermaid’, will follow Shiloh as she approaches her a landmark birthday doctors told her …

Daredevils: The Sky Walker

• Channel 4
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 05/10/2009

Dean Potter is a unique breed of daredevil. He is the only person in the world practicing extreme slacklining – a hair-raising variation of tightrope walking which sees him crossing a bouncy stretch of 1-inch …

Daredevils: The Ice Man

• Channel 4
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 21/09/2009

Dutch daredevil Wim Hof is planning to run a full 26-mile marathon 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, clad only in shorts and open sandals. Wim won’t be doing any physical training. He sees this as …

Daredevils: The Human Bird

• Channel 4
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 14/09/2009

The incredible spectacle of proximity wingsuit flying involves wearing a state-of-the-art Teflon winged suit, jumping off a cliff edge thousands of feet up and flying terrifyingly close to some of the world’s most dangerous mountain faces …

The Autistic Me

• BBC THREE
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 11/08/09

Becoming an adult is a long and treacherous journey – but if you’re a young person with Autism that adventure can be fraught with hurdles.

“The Autistic Me” follows three young guys with Autism at pivotal moments …

Baboon Woman

• Five
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 21/04/09

Baboons are the most vicious primates on the planet, but that hasn’t stopped Karin Saks from forming a unique bond with them. Having rejected human society, she has been able to enter and gain the trust of …

Stranger Among Bears

• Animal Planet
• 6 x 30mins
• TX: 17/04/09

Featuring some of the most intimate footage of wild bears ever seen, this moving series follows Charlie Vandergaw, an extraordinary man who has been living a potentially lethal existence deep in the Alaskan wilderness for over …

Kids With Guns

• Channel 4
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: (on MSNBC) 22/03/09

Provocative and explosive, this character-led documentary follows families that live to pull the trigger. These parents are passionate about guns, the bigger the better, and are eagerly training their children to use them whether …

The Little Mermaid

• Five’s Extraordinary People Strand
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 09/10/08

Against all odds, Shiloh Pepin of Portland, Maine turned 8 years old in August 2007. She was born with Mermaid Syndrome, or Sirenomelia, one of the rarest conditions known to man. This condition means …

Alesha: Look But Don’t Touch

• BBC Three
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 07/07/08

In this entertaining and informative documentary, Alesha Dixon, former lead singer of Mis-teeq and winner of “BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing”, sets herself a mission. To explore the world of digital retouching, highlighting the effects that perfect …

The Human Spider

• Channel 4 (Cutting Edge)
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 03/04/2008

Alain Robert is on the 88th floor of a skyscraper. Looking down at the city below, his heart is pounding, his palms sweating. It wouldn’t be so bad – except that he’s on the …

Baby Bible Bashers

• Channel 4 (Cutting Edge)
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 14/02/2008

Preacher Samuel Boutwell takes his vocation to save sinners from the fires of Hell extremely seriously, and spends every Saturday trying to turn women away from his local Mississippi abortion clinic. Samuel is seven …

The Man Who Lives With Bears

• Five
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 03/01/08

Charlie Vandergaw lives alone in the Alaskan wilderness with one of the world’s most dangerous carnivores, the bear. For more than twenty years he’s been trying to habituate man and both black and grizzly bear, to prove …

My Penis & Everyone Else’s

• BBC Three
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 03/09/2007

Film maker Lawrence Barraclough’s follow up to “My Penis and I”, one of the most watched and talked about documentaries on BBC Three. It is a film about penis size, men and why that thing that …

Erotomania

• Channel 4
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 07/02/07

Mania is a 3 x 60′ highly visual series that looks inside the mind of the maniac and attempts to understand the overwhelming impulses that can take over the human body.

Erotomania is the delusuional belief that …

Pyromania

• Channel 4
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 06/02/07

Mania is a 3 x 60′ highly visual series that looks inside the mind of the maniac and attempts to understand the overwhelming impulses that can take over the human body.

Pyromania follows those with an unhealthy …

Egomania

• Channel 4
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 05/02/07

Mania is a 3 x 60′ highly visual series that looks inside the mind of the maniac and attempts to understand the overwhelming impulses that can take over the human body.

Egomania focuses on Narcissistic Personality Disorder …

The Man With No Past

• Five’s Extraordinary People Strand
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 21/01/07

Imagine not knowing your mother, your father, your brother or sister? Imagine having no recollection of the world in which you live. Or anything that has ever happened to you. On December 4, 2005 …

My New Face

• Channel 4
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 15/11/06

In 2001, two of the world’s leading plastic surgeons, pioneering the latest technology and surgical techniques set up the UK’s only charity to offer surgery to overseas children suffering with facial disfigurement.

With unprecedented access, …

The Man Whose Arms Exploded

• Five’s Hidden Lives Strand
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 14/08/06

A permanent erection, massive quantities of speed and cocaine, peanut-sized testicles, thick brown urine, handfuls of downers, horse steroids, Frankenstein’s monster syndrome, bitch tits, massive trauma, total shut-down, sudden death. Welcome to the disturbing …

I Love You. And You. And You.

• Channel 4
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: TBC

A growing number of people are choosing a new way of life. They have rejected monogamy and turned their backs on conventional relationships. They believe their lifestyle is the future. They believe in polyamory.

Polyamory is the …

The Boy Who Will Never Grow

• Sky One
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 12/06/06

Jack seems like any other 8 year-old boy. He goes to school, he loves sport, and his favourite thing is swimming. The problem is that Jack has Morquiose, a rare genetic condition that means his skeleton …

Hunting Emmanuelle

• Channel 4
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 12/04/06

“Emmanuelle” was the biggest cult soft-porn movie of the 1970s, spurning the most sequels to any film ever made and watched by an audience of 300 million people worldwide.

Featuring in Channel 4’s “Dark Side of Porn” …

The Seven Year-Old Surgeon

• Five’s Extraordinary People Strand
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 20/03/06

“The Seven Year-Old Surgeon” profiles Akrit Jaswal, a child prodigy from a remote village at the foothills of the Himalayas. By the age of five, Akrit was reading Shakespeare and by seven had performed …

Attack Of The 50ft Woman

• Channel 4’s Sexology Strand
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 15/10/05

This film looks at ‘macrophilia’, described as one of the world’s most bizarre syndromes. It draws on some of men and women’s deepest desires to conquer and be conquered. While most admit that tall …

Four Weddings And An Execution

• Channel 4
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 08/09/05

This films examines what attracts ordinary women to some of the world’s most dangerous men as well as highlighting the difficulties of maintaining such relationships when the man is locked up for life. The film also …

The Black Widow

• Channel 4’s Cutting Edge Strand
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 07/07/08

This film tells the incredible story of Dena Thompson, dubbed ‘The Black Widow’, a woman who married men, and then tried to kill them after conning them out of everything they owned.

After sending …

B.T.K.

• Five
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 30/05/05

In 1974, a serial killer terrorised Wichita, Kansas. Known as the BTK Killer due to the method in which would Bind, Torture and Kill his victims, his killing spree lasted for 7 years in which time he …

The World’s Strongest Boy

• Five
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 27/09/04

An observational film that follows Richard Sandrak, an 11 year-old child who since the age of 6 has been described pound for pound as the “strongest human being in the world”.

Following Richard’s dreams of becoming Hollywood’s next …

Lock Up Your Sons

• Channel 4
• 1 x 60mins
• TX: 23/10/03

A subculture exists throughout contemporary suburban Britain that many find hard to comprehend: educated teenagers regularly gather in ‘federations’ to inflict terrible wounds on one another.

This sport, originally based on professional wrestling, contains all the ritual …