40 Minutes Season 13, Episode 19: Fay Presto - Illusions of Grandeur

Shattered Dreams

40 min

War Artist

40 min

Girl Friends

40 min

Police Surgeon

40 min

Moscow Gold

40 min

Latin Nights

40 min

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.

40 min

Caraline's Story

40 min

Heads and Tales

40 min

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.

40 min

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.

40 min

Spent Forces

40 min

Why Blame the Mother?

40 min

Portrait of a Mid-Life Crisis

40 min

Manila - The Real Thing

40 min

A Case of Corporate Murder

40 min

After the Bomb

40 min

Wonderful Land

40 min

Living in a Boom Time

40 min

Times Remembered

40 min