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The life of Jimmy Savile, a man who, for decades, became one of the UK’s most influential celebrities, but in death has become one of the most reviled figures of modern history following revelations of extensive and horrific abuse.

The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part 1987 British television comedy-drama serial written by Alan Plater. The second installment in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, it stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne. When a tape recording of a conversation about nuclear waste inadvertently falls into Chaplin's hands, he and Swinburne find themselves being pursued by national security agents.

For five years, from 1975 to 1980, the Yorkshire Ripper murders cast a dark shadow over the lives of women in the North of England. 13 women were dead and the police seemed incapable of catching the killer. No one felt safe – and every man was a suspect.

The last remaining production of Le Prince's LPCC Type-16 (16-lens camera) is part of a gelatine film shot in 32 images/second, and pictures a man walking around a corner. Le Prince, who was in Leeds (UK) at that time, sent these images to his wife in New York City in a letter dated 18 August 1887.

As grief seeps into waking life, a young man drifts through Leeds across fractured moments in the year after his sister’s death, where memory, hallucination, and fleeting encounters blur past and present—forcing him to confront loss to rediscover his creative voice.

Three young gardeners reflect on their experiences at a Leeds allotment.

When a young Northerner kills his driving examiner, he and his best friend embark on a misguided trip to Wales to hide the body. Nothing goes to plan...

Terrific portrait of Bobby and Jackie Charlton, pillars of football history, at the height of their playing careers.

Toby lives a life lacking in sexual and moral restraint, his disregard for 'normal' conventions exploits his grip on reality as he lusts for those dark and seedy pleasures.

Using rare and unseen cine footage taken by Leeds United fans, a match dogged by controversy that defined a club and its supporters.

A fuller record of this plaice is snared in a net.

That is the question in this experimental short from Nicholas Adamson (The Don't Tell Show)

In a city full of lovers, Podge walks alone. Feeling ignored by the world around him, he sips a pint and waits for Otto, hoping their date will be the first of many. He'll be waiting a while...

A young couple meeting for the last time struggle to say goodbye.