From Lift to The Road: The Films of Marc Isaacs
17 Movies
From Lift to The Road is a comprehensive collection of the films of Marc Isaacs, presented in a 2-Disc Blu-ray Limited Edition Box Set together with a newly-published 80-page book ‘The Human Element’. Recognised as one of the foremost documentary filmmakers of his generation, Marc Isaacs creates intimate portraits fuelled by insight, compassion and humour. His empathetic and deeply moving documentaries explore the extraordinary world of the everyday, presenting a unique vision of modern Britain.
ALL MOVIES IN ORDER
1. Lift
2001 · ★ 7.3
Director Marc Isaacs installs himself in the lift of a typical English tower block. People start tal…
2. Travellers
2003 · ★ 4.8
A very emotional look at the loneliness and heartache often conjured whilst travelling by train.A po…
3. Calais: The Last Border
2003 · ★ 5.8
A stark portrait of a town in decline. Brilliant juxstaposition between the scoff faced English day …
4. Philip and His Seven Wives
2005 · ★ 6.2
Philip and His Seven Wives (2006) a film made for the BBC’s prestigious Storyville strand, tells the…
5. Someday My Prince Will Come
2005 · ★ 0.0
An exposed Cumbrian village by the sea surrounded by windmills, fields and factories provides a stri…
6. All White in Barking
2007 · ★ 5.8
All White in Barking is a compassionate and illuminating documentary probing the attitudes of Barkin…
7. Men of the City
2009 · ★ 5.6
In Men of the City, Isaacs takes a more stylised approach to the lives of workers in the City of Lon…
8. Outside the Court
2011 · ★ 0.0
They arrive, they smoke, they wait - armed robbers seeking redemption, life-long thieves, addicts an…
9. The Old Man and His Bed
2011 · ★ 0.0
Over a single night, the filmmaker invites the viewer to experience the life of an elderly man tied …
10. The Road: A Story of Life and Death
2012 · ★ 5.3
On the oldest Roman road in the capital, filmmaker Marc Isaacs weaves together numerous poignant sto…
11. Outsiders
2014 · ★ 0.0
Our host Ben Ferguson and director Marc Isaacs travel to the Lincolnshire town of Boston to reveal a…
12. Touched by Murder
2016 · ★ 0.0
The body of a young Polish woman is found in a suitcase on a London canal adjacent to a block of fla…
13. Men Who Sleep in Trucks
2016 · ★ 0.0
Award winning filmmaker Marc Isaacs explores the secret life of Britain's truckers, discovering an u…
14. Sisters
2017 · ★ 0.0
Two ageing siblings sit next to each other in a pub, waiting for instructions from the filmmaker whi…
15. Moments of Silence
2017 · ★ 0.0
Built from the ground up from a series of introspective shots throughout Marc Isaacs's significant b…
16. Notes on Bangladesh
2017 · ★ 0.0
The residents of a Bangladeshi village anxiously wait for the heavy monsoon rains to clear. However,…
17. Rainy Days
2017 · ★ 0.0
Splices together images from Isaacs's documentaries to create an experimental montage set to a sound…