My Childhood

The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland.

Opening up about his mum’s OCD, eating disorder and anxiety, as well as his dad’s heroin addiction and depression, Joe Wicks goes on an emotional journey to discover how his parents’ mental health issues affected him as a child, and the shocking scale of the problem today.

Thousands of women across West Africa have been enslaved by a centuries-old practice called 'Trokosi', whereby girls are forced to live and work with priests in religious shrines to 'pay' for the sins of family members. Brigitte Sossou Perenyi was one of those girls, until she was adopted by an American and moved to the US. Twenty years later, Brigitte goes on a journey to understand what 'Trokosi' really is and why her family gave her away.

A chronicle of the childhood of a post-World War I leader.

The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's Maxim Gorky trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in Детство Горького (1938) and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Maxim Gorky reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom.

Oti Mabuse returns to her childhood home to revisit the people and places that inspired her to be the dancer and woman she is today.

In this celebration of one of Britain's best-loved artists, the illustrator and author Sir Quentin Blake tells the story of his 70-year-long career in his own words and with his own pictures. Specially for this documentary, he has been filmed creating an extraordinary new work: a canvas 30 feet long and seven feet high, on which self-portraits and classic characters emerge in the instantly recognisable, energetic and ebullient style that has taken root in the imaginations of successive generations of children and parents.

A pair of childhood friends end up falling for each other when they grow up.