40 Minutes

E1 Episode 1: Shattered Dreams

• Now playing
• 40m
• Nov 16, 1993

E2 Episode 2: War Artist

• 40m
• Nov 23, 1993

E3 Episode 3: Girl Friends

• 40m
• Nov 30, 1993

E4 Episode 4: Police Surgeon

• 40m
• Dec 7, 1993

E5 Episode 5: Moscow Gold

• 40m
• Dec 14, 1993

E6 Episode 6: Latin Nights

• 40m
• Dec 21, 1993

E7 Episode 7: The Making of Them

• 40m
• Jan 4, 1994

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.

E8 Episode 8: Caraline's Story

• 40m
• Jan 11, 1994

E9 Episode 9: Heads and Tales

• 40m
• Jan 18, 1994

E10 Episode 10: Behind the Mask

• 40m
• Jan 25, 1994

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.

E11 Episode 11: Squeegies

• 40m
• Feb 1, 1994

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.

E12 Episode 12: Spent Forces

• 40m
• Feb 8, 1994

E13 Episode 13: Why Blame the Mother?

• 40m
• Feb 22, 1994

E14 Episode 14: Portrait of a Mid-Life Crisis

• 40m
• Mar 1, 1994

E15 Episode 15: Manila - The Real Thing

• 40m
• Mar 8, 1994

E16 Episode 16: A Case of Corporate Murder

• 40m
• Mar 15, 1994

E17 Episode 17: After the Bomb

• 40m
• Mar 22, 1994

E18 Episode 18: Wonderful Land

• 40m
• Mar 29, 1994

E19 Episode 19: Fay Presto - Illusions of Grandeur

• 40m
• Apr 5, 1994

E20 Episode 20: Living in a Boom Time

• 40m
• Apr 12, 1994

E21 Episode 21: Times Remembered

• 40m
• Apr 19, 1994