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Unknown white male a true story

"Just imagine waking up tomorrow with no memory of today or any other since the day of your birth. Imagine living without a history, without experience, no relationships and no past troubles. Imagine starting your life over again, making a new set of friends, finding new talents and falling in love for the first time. On the 2nd of July 2003, Doug Bruce left his apartment on the Lower East Side at about 8pm. No one knew where he was going and no one knew he had gone. He turned up, eleven hours later, on the New York subway heading to Coney Island and he had no idea who he was. This documentary tells the story of a man who, for no apparent reason, lost 37 years of life history, who lost every memory of his friends, his family and every experience he had ever known. This true story follows Doug in the hours and months following his amnesia, as he tries to piece his life back together and has to discover the world anew. (From the US, in English) M (L) CC WS "--SBS website.

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  • ""Just imagine waking up tomorrow with no memory of today or any other since the day of your birth. Imagine living without a history, without experience, no relationships and no past troubles. Imagine starting your life over again, making a new set of friends, finding new talents and falling in love for the first time. On the 2nd of July 2003, Doug Bruce left his apartment on the Lower East Side at about 8pm. No one knew where he was going and no one knew he had gone. He turned up, eleven hours later, on the New York subway heading to Coney Island and he had no idea who he was. This documentary tells the story of a man who, for no apparent reason, lost 37 years of life history, who lost every memory of his friends, his family and every experience he had ever known. This true story follows Doug in the hours and months following his amnesia, as he tries to piece his life back together and has to discover the world anew."
  • ""Just imagine waking up tomorrow with no memory of today or any other since the day of your birth. Imagine living without a history, without experience, no relationships, no past troubles. Imagine starting your life over again, making a new set of friends, finding new talents and falling in love for the first time. Imagine what it's like to see the world anew. On the 2nd July 2003 Doug Bruce left his apartment on the Lower East Side at about 8pm. No one knew where he was going. No one knew he'd gone. He turned up, 11 hours later, on the New York subway heading to Coney Island. He had no idea who he was. ... The startling story of a man who, for no apparent reason, lost 37 years of life history, who lost every memory of his friends, his family and every experience he had ever known. This true story follows Doug in the hours and months following his amnesia, as he tries to [piece] his life back together and has to discover the world anew. The film dramatically reconstructs those first terrifying hours in Coney Island as Doug wandered around disoriented before asking the police for help and being sent to Coney Island Hospital Psychiatric ward where he was given an identity wrist tag reading 'unknown white male.' Doug had nothing to identify him and whilst he discovered after a few hours that he was able to sign his name, no one could read his signature and reveal his name. Unable to leave until someone could identify him, all attention turned to the single phone number in his possession. The woman on the other end, Eva, didn't recognize him. Finally Eva sent her daughter Nadine to investigate. Nadine recognized the man she had recently become friends with, Douglas Bruce, a good looking, English 37 year old wealthy ex-stockbroker and photography student. She took him home. The film recounts the next crazy few weeks as Doug tried to reconstruct some kind of life; re-learning the streets around his apartment, re-meeting his family, re-learning the history of the world and what it feels like to swim in the ocean. It's an overwhelming voyage of discovery as Doug discovers art, music, movies the taste of every kind of different food and much of it was filmed by Doug himself who started recording his re-entry into the world just one week after the amnesia. Doctors were unable to find any physical basis for the amnesia and over the following months we follow Doug as he returns to his photography school where his tutor believes his work has greatly improved. He falls in love with a girl he has just met and slowly re-meets old friends including director Rupert Murray who filmed their first meeting even though he has known Doug for over 15 years. Will they still like one another? Together they travel back to London for a reunion with Doug's oldest friends. One year after the amnesia ... his friends in London offer him a toast to his first birthday. Everyone seems sure that Doug has changed since the amnesia. Many people prefer the new Doug, find him more sincere and reflective, but others miss the old Doug's edge and cynicism. Yet for the first year and a half, Doug didn't want his memory or his old self back. He was happy with his new life, believed it was possible to live without a past, and simply looked forward to his future, but in the last few months all this has begun to change as the full implications of his loss have begun to resonate in his life and Doug has started to question who he really is"--Internet movie database summary by Jess Search, as viewed on March 13, 2009."
  • ""Just imagine waking up tomorrow with no memory of today or any other since the day of your birth. Imagine living without a history, without experience, no relationships and no past troubles. Imagine starting your life over again, making a new set of friends, finding new talents and falling in love for the first time. On the 2nd of July 2003, Doug Bruce left his apartment on the Lower East Side at about 8pm. No one knew where he was going and no one knew he had gone. He turned up, eleven hours later, on the New York subway heading to Coney Island and he had no idea who he was. This documentary tells the story of a man who, for no apparent reason, lost 37 years of life history, who lost every memory of his friends, his family and every experience he had ever known. This true story follows Doug in the hours and months following his amnesia, as he tries to piece his life back together and has to discover the world anew. (From the US, in English) M (L) CC WS "--SBS website."@en
  • "On July 3 2003 Doug found himself travelling on a New York subway near Coney Island. He had no idea who he was, where he lived or what country he was in. Struck by a rare and profound form of amnesia a distraught Doug turned himself into the police and then the local hospital but doctors could offer no explanation nor predict when his memory would return. On that day thirty seven years of his life experiences including all memories of family and friends were wiped out."@en
  • "Sometime between 8pm on July 1st and 7am on July 3rd, 2003, Doug Bruce lost himself. That morning, riding alone on a New York subway headed towards Coney Island, he could not remember his name, where he worked, who his friends were, even his mother and father. He was without his identity. Unknown white male is the true story of how Doug struggles to learn who he was and who he will become."
  • "Documentary about Doug Bruce, an amnesiac from England who was found on a subway train in New York with no idea how he came to be there."
  • "One day in 2002 Doug Bruce, a handsome, successful Brit, woke on the New York subway - not only did he not know where he was, he had no idea who he was. British filmmaker and personal friend Rupert Murray, tells Doug's fascinating and moving story as he comes to terms with - and discovers the surprising positive aspects - of his sudden and inexplicable amnesia."@en
  • ""Just imagine waking up tomorrow with no memory of today or any other since the day of your birth. Imagine living without a history, without experience, no relationships and no past troubles. Imagine starting your life over again, making a new set of friends, finding new talents and falling in love for the first time. On the 2nd of July 2003, Doug Bruce left his apartment on the Lower East Side at about 8pm. No one knew where he was going and no one knew he had gone. He turned up, eleven hours later, on the New York subway heading to Coney Island and he had no idea who he was. This documentary tells the story of a man who, for no apparent reason, lost 37 years of life history, who lost every memory of his friends, his family and every experience he had ever known. This true story follows Doug in the hours and months following his amnesia, as he tries to piece his life back together and has to discover the world anew."--SBS website."@en
  • "The true story of how Doug Bruce, successful former stockbroker, loses his memory and struggles to learn who he was and who he will become."@en
  • "Through reconstruction, video diaries and interviews, tells the story of Doug Bruce, who for no apparent reason in July 2002, lost 37 years of life history. Follows Doug as he tries to piece his life back together and has to discover the world anew."
  • "Explores the true story of Doug Bruce, a successful former stockbroker who suffers sudden and rare retrograde amnesia as he tries to rebuild his life."@en
  • ""Just imagine waking up tomorrow with no memory of today or any other since the day of your birth. Imagine living without a history, without experience, no relationships and no past troubles. Imagine starting your life over again, making a new set of friends, finding new talents and falling in love for the first time. On the 2nd of July 2003, Doug Bruce left his apartment on the Lower East Side at about 8pm. No one knew where he was going and no one knew he had gone. He turned up, eleven hours later, on the New York subway heading to Coney Island and he had no idea who he was. This documentary tells the story of a man who, for no apparent reason, lost 37 years of life history, who lost every memory of his friends, his family and every experience he had ever known. This true story follows Doug in the hours and months following his amnesia, as he tries to piece his life back together and has to discover the world anew." -- Container."

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  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Documentaries and factual films and video"
  • "Features"
  • "Personal narratives"@en
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Personal narratives"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en

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  • "Unknown white male a true story"@en
  • "Unknown white male"
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  • "Unknown white male a documentary by Rupert Murray"

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