Bill Paterson Movies

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

A man dazzles a girl on the perfect first date but why won't she text back? He retraces his steps, reexamining the date.

Private investigator Nick Sharman accepts a case which at first seems intriguing, but ends up causing him bitter regret.

A panorama of the Clyde, from Biggar to Brodick, with Billy Connolly as your guide. Directed by Murray Grigor for the Films of Scotland Committee.

Documentary charting the history of the supernatural on British TV, revisiting classic ghost stories and controversial shows. Contributors include...

When Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution nearly 150 years ago, he shattered the dominant belief of his day – that humans were the...

In 1926 Janet ‘Nettie’ Harbison crafted what would become the most valuable bottle of wine or spirit ever sold at auction.

A man shows the gentle and agressive side of Brown and Black Bears living with and around them. After "Grizzly Man" died in Alaska trying to do the...

Nathaniel Box, a self-styled prophet, along with his daughter Barbara and her fiancé Curtis, holds a night time press conference in an...

An award-winning comedy set in a depressed town in the South Wales Valleys. When the local cinema is closed down, the former projectionist, plagued...

The Entity is a documentary into the phenomenon of sleep paralysis, the state in which a person cannot move as they pass from sleep to a woken state.

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...

A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.

When the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, north London, celebrated its centenary year in 2010, On-Par Productions were invited to document the...

Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and...

Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.

A shy, awkward Scottish lad secretly carries a torch for a local lass.

Anthony Steadman, a child murderer, is being released from prison after 17 years. Sally McCann, a mother whose child disappeared around the time of...

On 27 August 1979, Lord Mountbatten, great uncle to Prince Charles, was blown up at sea by the IRA off the west coast of the Republic of Ireland....

The Garden Beyond is a dramatised portrayal of the life of bed-ridden Perth poet William Soutar - the first independently produced Scottish film to...