Last night a DVD saved my life

A teenager diagnosed herself with cancer after watching her illness depicted in the Cameron Diaz weepie My Sister's Keeper, writes Ben Child

Michael Apted: 56 Up and still going strong

Andrew Anthony: He's a feted Hollywood director, whose career started with a bunch of children in Seven Up! And he is still charting their lives 49 years later in a landmark of documentary broadcasting

Danger! The world’s scariest films!

Drowning, rabies, electrocution: 70s public information films suggested you could die at any moment. And they were so frightening, they still haunt people today