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Series 2

1987 · 10 episodes

  1. 1. The Trial of Klaus Barbie

    1987-07-15

    Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice

  2. 2. Land

    1987-07-22

    The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are hiring gunslingers to evict peasants from their land. The peasants look to their priest for help. should they resist the Violence passively - or defy the church's teaching and take up arms? When a stranger on the run arrives in town, the answer becomes clear.

  3. 3. Lily My Love

    1987-07-29

    Lily is 13, Colin is 39 and a vagrant. They run away together. 'One and a half to the English Lakes, single, because we're never coming back, we're going on.'

  4. 4. Carianai and the Courtesans

    1987-08-05

    A painter falls in love with a woman whom he suspects may be a thief and a prostitute.

  5. 5. Our Lady Blue

    1987-08-12

    In a Liverpool convent a touching and unusual friendship is forged between Rachel, a young volunteer, Paul, doing 100 hours of community service, and Sheila, a dying prostitute. It results in a strange and forbidden journey to Lourdes.

  6. 6. White Lady

    1987-08-26

    In a derelict farmhouse, deep in the English countryside, Gil struggles alone to bring up his little daughters 'to need very little. - strong against all harm'. But unknown to any of them, in the surrounding fields of wheat and barley, and in the nodding branches of the fruit trees, there lurks a deathly power.

  7. 7. The Shutter Falls

    1987-09-16

    A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking fish gutting girls

  8. 8. Christine

    1987-09-23

    Depiction of the everyday life of a teenage heroin addict.

  9. 9. The Interrogation of John

    1987-09-30

    A man is brought into a small London police station and charged with gross indecency. A terrible murder has also been committed in the area. Is there a connection? Might the assembled officers have an early result? Not if he refuses to say anything or even give his name.

  10. 10. Road

    1987-10-07

    Your tour guide for the night is one drunken man called Scullery. Prepare yourself for the experience of your lifetime as he shows you an average night along a derelict Lancashire road in the 1980s.

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