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- The true story of the Christmas Day truce between opposing British and German forces that took place in No Man's Land during World War 1. Told through archive interviews and reconstructions of the event.
- Our hero Adam gets drawn into a web of intrigue as evidence is planted on him of a gay royal affair.
- Jack the Ripper, the world's greatest ever serial killer. For over a hundred years he has eluded every investigator. Could it be that they have all been looking in the wrong place - and that the identity of Jack the Ripper is to be found not in London but in ... America? Ed Norris, former head of the NYPD Cold Case Squad, investigates this startling possibility. Starting with the unsolved murder of Carrie Brown, a New York prostitute, in 1891, found mutilated in the City's seedy Lower East Side. Because of the many gruesome similarities with the Whitechapel Murders three years before, the police name Jack the Ripper as their number one suspect. The press splash the news across their front pages; Jack the Ripper is in New York. But Carrie Brown's murderer is never caught. Did the NYPD let the world's most famous serial killer slip through their net?
- Using a mix of songs, animation and archive footage an American peanut looks at how his experiences are compared to other nuts around the world. The end result is an amusing look at Trade Liberalisation and why it works for some countries but not for others.
- The life and career of the prodigiously talented Chinese immigrant, Bruce Lee, who overcame Hollywood prejudice and changed the concept of martial arts around the world.
- Hitler's Hidden City is a subterranean adventure under the streets of Berlin, following the work of a team of German archaeologists and historians exposing and exploring the last remaining structures of the Third Reich. We gain rare access to an underground city ordered and -- in part -- designed by Hitler himself, part of a vast network of over 1000 bunkers and many miles of tunnels, much of which has remained sealed since the war. Eyewitnesses and historians add colorful stories to cutting edge CGI that bring to life this network of bunkers, how they were built and how they were used in the dark days of the downfall of Berlin.
- Echoing the title of a definitive film in British cinema, A Matter of Life and Death captures an equally definitive reality of British society in the nineties: the scourge of AIDS that cost thousands of people their lives. What's it like to live and die of a "big illness with a small name"?
- A documentary in which filmmaker William Jessop follows his brother Tommy Jessop, a TV actor with Down Syndrome, as his career takes off with roles in "Coming Down the Mountain" and "Holby City."
- Fab Four fans seeking to learn more about their favorite pop quartet than ever before are offered a guided tour from the dive bars of Hamburg, Germany to the biggest venues that the world has to offer in a documentary that speaks with friends, family, colleagues, and lovers of John, Paul, George, and Ringo in to offer an insider's perspective on Beatlemania. From their darkest hours to their greatest achievements, no story is left untold as the personal and professional secrets of each band member are recounted in vivid detail
- A look at "Greek love" and the reality of homosexuality in Greece in 1991. Leaders of the once-called GLBT movement (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender) or simply people who dared to stand in front of the camera and speak about their lives, paint us a clear portrait - a bigger picture that might not have changed much in the last three decades.
- Satirical comedy series staring a cast of blue hand puppets conducting interviews with concerned citizens about the malevolent activities of multinational corporations, and reliably concluding that there is nothing to be worried about.
- In 2009 metal detecting enthusiast Terry Herbert discovered the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold in Britain.
- It's April 1975 and the Khmer Rouge are marching on Phnom Penh. Just three days before the city falls, a small orphaned girl, Li-Da Men, is flown out of the country. Eventually, she ends up as the adopted daughter of the British cook and business woman, Prue Leith and her husband Rayne Kruger. Li-Da has a comfortable and privileged upbringing whilst the country of her birth is returned to Year Zero by the murderous Khmer Rouge, whose Killing Fields claim nearly two million Cambodians. Now, twenty six years later, Li-Da returns to Cambodia in search of the truth: the truth about her past, the truth about her country's past and the truth about what is going on in that country today. This powerful film is the story of that search. A search which at every turn forces Li-Da to re-examine not just her past and opinions but also challenges the way in which the West regards Cambodia; a search which has the most astonishing and moving denouement. Within a week of Li-Da arriving in Cambodia, two families come forward believing they may be related to her. In the following weeks more people appear, often travelling long distances at their own expense: none searching for a rich Western relative, all searching for personal peace, having lost children and sisters during Cambodia's bloody war and its aftermath. Li-Da forms very strong bonds with some of these people - gradually realizing that it is irrelevant whether they are blood relatives or not, as she is bound to them by the much stronger bond of history. For this is a country which has little evidence of its past, so detail becomes less important while truth and belonging is what and where you perceive it to be. In what is almost a miraculous turn of events, Li-Da does discover something of the truth about what happened to her natural parents but this is not the most important discovery of her quest. As she is drawn more and more into the lives and homes of ordinary Cambodian people, she forms a deep attachment to them and for one in particular. By the end of the film Li-Da Kruger returns to Britain a transformed person - in love with a Cambodian, committed to return to Cambodia and not at the end of a process, but at the beginning. This is a film with a gripping personal narrative, with tears and triumph, with some humor as well as disappointment. And in the most painful and poignant way shows life in Cambodia today: how a country wrestles with the concepts of justice and truth in relation to its past and yet in the end offers hope and optimism for the future.
- Was a painting bought some 25 years ago for a relatively small sum really painted by Leonardo Da Vinci? This documentary covers the authentication of a lost painting, "The Holy Infants" representing a meeting between the infants Jesus Christ and John the Baptist.
- Put on your dancing shoes. A documentary about the roots, the tradition, and the impact of disco music; about its "gay gene" and the fever it brought onto the dance floor; and about the way it got its revenge, by inspiring the music of the present and winning the acclaim it deserved.
- A series of 4 short films that arrange 471 people from around Britain according to 4 scales. 1. Age. A person of every age between 1 and 100. 2. Birth. 34 women from 4 to 41 weeks pregnant. 3. Love. 48 couples arranged by length of their relationship (in descending order). 4. Home. 73 households in descending order of yearly income (£400,000 - £3,240)
- 2001– 44mTV-PG7.8 (72)TV EpisodeThe nine remaining teams began the leg in Scotland and raced through to Lisbon, Portugal to face a Detour 'Old School' or 'New School'. In Old School teams had to deliver a ninety-pound barrel of port wine to a nearby restaurant in the town of Porto. In New School teams had to load crates of Port wine bottles and from there they must take it into the city where they had to deliver it. The first choice was less physically demanding but both choices were seemingly tricky.
- The ten remaining teams take off from the Pit Stop in Cancun and are now instructed to fly to London, England.
- 2009 saw a big increase in numbers of stray dogs recorded as being picked up in UK.
- A metal detecting enthusiast strikes gold when he uncovers over 3500 Saxon artifacts.
- Nabil Shaban argues that disabled people are misrepresented by Hollywood, the bad guy always being portrayed with a limp and scars and heroes are physically perfect. If there is a disabled part on offer it is played by an able-bodied actor.