Lost and forgotten documentaries

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As the title suggests, there are programmes I remember watching. But they can not be found on YouTube, or there's not much about them online. Especially as I want to know how the people featured progressed since broadcast. The ones I remember are:
1.I can't remember the name of the documentary, but it was about bipolar disorder. I saw it in the early 00s. A man with the condition was fired from his university job previously and was starting up his own kite business. I remember his wife was particularly verbally and emotionally abusive to him and, by the end of the program, left him for another man (who would bully him).
2.Another one was called 'Lost kids' (I think that was its name) shown on Channel 4 in October 1999. The one I saw was filmed in Leicester and Nottingham and followed a group of homeless (younger end of the teenage age spectrum) youths. It was harrowing seeing the bit where they were high on heroin or "downers'. Also the fact they were befriended by older men who in many ways protected them was also disturbing. I think there was another one filmed in Brighton. I really want to know if the youths featured managed to get proper help and lead better lives.
3.Another one I remember was called Amsterdamaged (1999). It was about British ex pats living in Amsterdam, who got caught up in the drug culture. It was harrowing but funny and warm at the same time.
4.Also, in the same year, 'Jailbirds' about a women's prison. There was one particular girl who was addicted to drugs and fell out with her parents prior to getting sent down. The thing I remember most about it was the prison governor. His message was along the lines of "any parents watching, watch out for your daughter's boyfriends. Because most of the women and girls are here because of a boyfriend!".
5.In summer 2003 there was a documentary about socioeconomic class. It featured a poor family and an upper middle class family who both lived on the same street. I particularly remember the oldest daughter of the poor family was so sad yet very intelligent. Regarding the richer family, the parents were well meaning but their kids seemed really bratty. The speech they gave their son when they found out he was smoking weed. And "I know I'll go to university and won't be a street cleaner! No offence." 😬😡. I can't remember the name of the program and what happened to the families featured.

Does anyone know where to find the documentaries, or what happened since they were broadcast. Also does anyone else remember any memorable but hard to find documentaries?

Re: 3. Was it this?

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2166240/

@Lalgarh yes.

I always remember seeing a very poignant, fascinating documentary made by Chris Terrell, about 30-odd years ago, called Through The Eyes Of The Old.

I'd love to see it again, but I check every now and again on YouTube, and I've never seen any sign of it. There's barely any mention of it at all online.

Also, they're not necessarily documentaries, but I'd love to see all of the old episodes of Play For Today made available to watch. They were a great snapshot of life and art at the time, but apart from a few such as Cathy Come Home, Abigail's Party and Nuts In May, you hardly ever hear anything about them - even though they made hundreds of them altogether.

Also (these are a bit more upbeat):

1. It was about drug free alternative treatments. One woman started to take (health orientated ) Kung Fu classes for her physical pain and another woman takes up cold water swimming for her mental health. The cold water lady couldn't really keep up with it as it clashed with work. I forgot the name but it was around 2015-17???
2. Broadcast in spring 1999, it was about a dating agency (long before OLD). The boss, I think he was called Alun, was so slimy and pompous and seemed to alienate everyone he came across. So amusing as he was so Partridge-esque.
3. The one where Jarvis Cocker looked at outsider art all over the world.

No. 2 sounds like The Matchmaker. Review here https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/television-review-1087853.html

The art programme is on YouTube:

The kung fu and cold water swimming must be https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b4nxwt

I remember a three part documentary on Channel 4 a long time ago, about a journalist who wanted to speak to paedophiles and find out what made them the way they were. I remember she got really angry when she was speaking to one old man and I think she had to walk away from him. I worked shifts at the time and back then there was no catch up or streaming and I missed the last one! I think there was "love" in the title, but I can't remember much else...

Oh! I can’t help with yours I’m afraid OP, but can i add one I saw 10-15 years ago following some laplanders who herded reindeers. It focused on the teenagers choosing between university or their traditional way of life, and on the year cycle of life including getting the reindeer to an island for predator-free grazing. It was fascinating! Any help to id it would be fab.

The 60 Minutes (later cut to 40 minutes) strand on BBC used to have some gems. One I remember was Many Happy Returns about children apparently who remembered previous lives.

There is a documentary which has always stuck in my mind, but I‘ve never been able to trace it. I think it was on BBC2 in the early nineties. It was about a young Jewish female photographer in London, who was documenting people’s lives. She got to know an elderly Jewish camp survivor (I think), in the course of making the documentary, and photographed him, but he developed a kind of obsession with her, and shockingly it ended with him murdering her. I can’t remember much more of the detail, but it was such a sad and bizarre story that it left a lasting impression.

I've just remembered one! I guess it would be classed as a documentary. It was about a young man who was a heroin addict. He had been bought a camera and he decided to use it to document his life. The photos and his voice over went up to his death as he died of an overdose. It was very moving.

In the 1990s Channel 4 showed a documentray called "The Animal Film"

Because of the subject matter it was shown without any commercial breaks .and IIRC it was something like 4 hours long .

It was (in short) the way the human race uses and abuses animals from the food chain to vivisection to warfare to circuses to dog fights to hunting/baiting and more .
Hideous , it left me feeling numb and horrified in equal measure

Cannot even imagine what it must've been like to film and edit this.

Was that the one where they showed footage of a pedophile who had lured a boy into his home and filmed it - and the pedophile had later killed himself?

There was a ch4 documentary in the early -mid 00s called 'the strangest village in Britain' about a community of people with special needs. They lived and worked on the land and in a workshop. There were 2 older gentleman (possibly non- verbal autistic) who seemed to be communicating and having full on conversations and making eachother laugh with indecipherable noises.

This was it! Not sure they'd get away with that title nowadays
landmarkfilms.com/strangest-village-in-britain/

@SevenSeasOfRhye I can't remember that bit unless it was on the last part which I missed.

I remember a spoof documentary in early 1990s about a Cornish village called Tresoddit.

Based on cartoon strips by posy simmonds it told of a small fishing villages taken over by London second homers.

My dh and I talked about it for years but there are mentions of it on social media but no actual clips of the documentary.

Rain in my heart. A story on 3 alcoholics. It's on YouTube. It captures it so well. Never forgot it.

Also another on alcoholics a programme called The Wet House. Harrowing. But such a good insight into alcoholics and the descent into a no return sort of ending for them. Played in my mind for weeks after. It made me re think about my drinking.

Quick ref for Three Salons at the Seaside which gained cult status and got parodied as 2 hairdressers in Bagglyport

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0d2pngh/three-salons-at-the-seaside

I loved this!

I remember watching a police documentary, could be 20 years ago now and before police programmes became popular.
They had gone to a property after reports of domestic violence. The husband opened the door and denied any problems, told them that everything was fine but the police insisted on entering and seeing his wife.
Her face was black and blue with bruises and she just looked so cowed down and scared.
They arrested him but the memory of her has never left me

I remember a really disturbing one interviewing paedophilles. One said he wanted a wife and his own children children and he told himself he would never abuse his own children, but at the same time knew he would as it would be okay to do so as they were ‘his’.

Another said he was no longer a risk to children but drew lots of pictures of little girls with knives going into their vaginas. He said this was just his art and in no way indicated he was still a danger.

It was a truly disturbing programme. I would not want to watch it again.

The Boy David, a series of programmes by Desmond Wilcox about a South American boy whose face had been destroyed. He was with the family of a Scottish plastic surgeon who rebuilt it.
Early eighties, very moving.