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- Three retired police officers are drafted in to solve cold cases, with a touch of comedy and drama
- Celebrities study their lineages and family trees, usually learning surprising secrets they never knew about their families.
- This is the stark, moving, and ultimately redemptive story of the bonds these children make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future.
- Documentary style show that explores in depth how drugs in modern day society are sold, processed, and how police are cracking down on it.
- A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the same night. They become a companionable, if odd, couple until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival of an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.
- An extinct species or subspecies of the genus Homo which is closely related to modern humans. They are known from fossils, dating from the Pleistocene period, which have been found in Europe and parts of western and central Asia.
- In his most personal project to date, Michael K. Williams journeys into the dangerous world of illicit trade.
- A modern English family embark on a real-life time-travel adventure to late Victorian London.
- Modern families time-travel to 1883 Montana for homesteading, learning hard work, community, and sacrifices. Back in 21st century, they reflect on past and present values.
- 21 people from the 21st century are being brought together in an Edwardian Country House. 6 of them are the Upstairs family and the 15 others are the servants. For three months, these people have only the rulebook and each other...
- A landmark series using drama and high-end CGI to explore the life and death of six extinct animals.
- Set in 1843, the film tells the story of Lyddie, an impoverished farm girl whose father has been gone for three long years, and whose mother has left her to fend for herself. Feeling that she is little more than a slave to the neighbors who have taken over the family farm, Lyddie decides to improve her lot by taking a job as a factory worker in a nearby town. Though the living conditions in the company boarding house are far from ideal and the working conditions in the mill are dangerous, Lyddie at least has a sense of freedom. She makes friends with a co-worker, Diana, who resents the working conditions and has an influence on Lyddie's way of thinking. The young girl also discovers the joys and importance of reading, and by the end of the film is ready to take an another adventurous step forward in her personal life.
- A look at the life of Ian Fleming from when he was in Naval Intelligence as a Commander until his death in 1964. This docudrama gives an insight into what Fleming was really like and how he wrote the Bond novels.
- 'They would say that wouldn't they' - recounting the events of 'The Profumo Affair', including contemporary interviews with Christine Keeler and Johnny Edgecombe, plus Lord Denning.
- A group of ordinary people arrive on a boat to 1628 and have to build a functioning colony, using only time appropriate resources. Their goal: survive for 4 months and pass the final evaluation.
- Each of the four separate episodes -rather independent chapters- presents some of the findings of Egyptology, largely in the form of realistically presented docudrama, a splendid spectacle by peplum-standards, yet unusually true and hence surprising for non-specialist viewers in various details. Remarkable is the revealed contrast between the image-building clichés presented by the official, mostly monumental sources, glorifying deified pharaohs' glorious reign and triumphs and 'celestial' deities, and the more mundane reality, deduced largely from other archaeological findings, showing more human vices, misery, crime...
- Guided by Annabel Crabb, an Aussie family, the Ferrones, are on a time-travelling adventure to discover how we eat has transformed the way we live, the fabric of the nation and defined family roles over the past 60 years.
- Spoof documentary on the life of the main protagonist of the television prison comedy "Porridge", Mr. Norman Stanley Fletcher.
- 200,000 years ago we took our first steps in Africa. Today there are 7 billion of us living across the planet. How did our ancestors spread from continent to continent? This is a global detective story, featuring the latest archaeological discoveries and genetic research. On each continent, we track down the earliest members of our species, Homo sapiens. Who were these First Peoples? What drove them to the ends of the earth?
- This is the true-crime story of the multimillion-dollar yuppie drug ring run by a then, twenty-six year old Larry Lavin and two of his classmates. In the high-flying 1980's, Larry Lavin was a clean-cut, Ivy-League-educated dentist living the good life in suburban Philadelphia. But, what his upper crust neighbours didn't know was that Lavin led a double life - one that would finally be exposed by a shocking narcotics investigation. Awash in sex, drugs and money, Lavin oversaw a cocaine conglomerate, buying and selling enough white powder to anesthetize thirteen Eastern seaboard states ... until the FBI cracked the ring. How was he able to create such a well-oiled network? And what brought about his untimely downfall?
- Reality show. A couple, their daughter and two grandchildren volunteer to spend several weeks living under wartime conditions. That includes all their clothing, including underclothes and nightwear; being constantly pushed to keep up with traditional grooming methods and dealing with severe shortages of all grooming products such as tooth care products, all types of soap and shampoo, shaving supplies for Michael; learning to live with rationing (12 ounces of candy a month, 4 ounces of ham a week, etc.,) and digging up the back yard partly for extra vegetables and partly for an "Anderson" air raid shelter. Several historians and "experts" formed a War cabinet to direct events, and push the family through 6 years of war in those weeks.
- Late in 1926 acclaimed mystery writer Agatha Christie disappears after marital problems and creates a media frenzy.
- This show follows a team of experts as they restore and bring new life to neglected and forgotten vintage vehicles.
- Dramatization of the turbulent life of Elizabeth David, the original domestic goddess. She published her first book of Mediterranean Food in 1950, and went on to write eight more books that have sold more than two million copies worldwide. Her public image was of an elegant, respectable and somewhat austere figure. In reality, Elizabeth was a deeply unconventional person with a profound passion for food, life and men.
- Singer Will Young lived with his twin's alcoholism for 20 years. Rupert died in 2020. In this shockingly honest, moving film, Will and family speak of the pain and drama of a loved one's addiction.
- Lynette organises a Nodge (a saving scheme) for her friends struggling in Glasgow's inner city. The live for the day the Nodge pays out to treat themselves. When friend Terry gets involved with a local villain relationships become toxic.
- Eight ordinary members of the public undergo a crash training course in espionage, trained by former spies and put through authentic spy training missions set in the real world.
- Dramatised biography of writer George Orwell.
- Sonia and Woody are forced to come to terms with the loss of their only son who was killed in a hit-and-run accident and the driver did not stop. Woody's grief knows no bounds and refuses to believe that the man accused of the crime is actually responsible. Over the Christmas holidays his loss becomes unbearable and his marriage starts to crumble. However, the real culprits of the crime start to feel guilty and volunteer information about the real criminals which puts the investigating officers in a dilemma about what should be done.
- RTS Award nominated series in which celebrities go on an emotionally charged personal journey to investigate their family's experience of life in the workhouse.
- One day in the near future, a rail strike, traffic congestion and a mid-air plane collision bring the UK's transport system to a halt.
- Reality TV show featuring fifteen young British women queueing up to get the man of their dreams who lives the lifestyle of a millionaire. The only problem is that he is not a millionaire!
- A devastating terrorist strike wipes out much of Saudi Arabia's oil production; the same day a trader of Saudi origin disappears from UK investment bank Sun First Credit (SFCB). Managers soon discover the missing trader, Samir Badr, has built up crippling debts, multiplied a hundred fold by the attacks in Saudi. SFCB, once the toast of the city, is suddenly heading for bankruptcy, taking a whole raft of other banks down with it. The resulting market crash and banking crisis will push Britain and the US into a 21st Century recession: pension funds are slashed, unemployment soars and the housing market collapses. Following the discovery that Badr has committed suicide, a new Al-Qa'eda tape surfaces, in which Bin Laden appears to claim responsibility for the financial turmoil. Suspicion grows that Badr was an Islamic extremist who deliberately sabotaged the bank. As the authorities and the media launch a massive investigation into the apparent Al-Qaeda assault on the pillars of the Western Economy, an alternative explanation emerges. Could greed and incompetence be the real cause of the collapse of Britain's economy?
- Examines how a team of doctors saved Ronald Reagan's life after an attempted assassination in 1981.
- A couple tells the things that they "hate" about the other. They illustrate their complaint via video as a crew follows them for days. A panel of 3 rates each of their issues on a scale of 1-10 and the scores are cumulated and the winner gets a prize, often based on the things their partner hated about them. Mo Racca talks to the couples while the panel views the film with the couple's voice overs.
- Escaping with her children from her abusive husband, Chloe Marsh acquires a plot of land on a rural site where the residents construct their own basic houses.
- This film documents the preparations and the impact of an important historic change to the UK's political process: the abolition of many hereditary peers - Lords whose title is handed down from father/mother to son/daughter as opposed to those whose title is earned by their actions. Who and what will replace these hereditary peers as the upper house at Westminster?
- Through numerous personal interviews, professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. examines the past, present, and future of black/white race relations in the USA.
- Sophie Grigson discovers a range of appetizing and unusual ways to prepare, cook and serve freshly-grown vegetables.
- An exploration of how World War One changed British society. The stories behind some of the names listed on war memorials are investigated by tracking down the descendants of the soldiers.
- Documentary series based in 17th century England, which examines the great plague of London in 1665, the great fire of London in 1666, the Civil War between Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.
- Magazine series on the subject of bringing up babies and toddlers.
- Sophie Grigson rediscovers meat, showing viewers how to cook the finest cuts in exciting ways, but always with an eye on cost and practicality.