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Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice
2024
An exploration of the Met’s investigation into Sarah’s murder, how this devastating crime unfolded and its impact. Told by those closely involved in the case from the outset, many of whom are speaking on camera for the first time, including the Senior Investigating Officer, the Prosecuting Barrister and Sarah’s local MP.
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Tommy Jessop Goes to Hollywood
2023
Line of Duty actor Tommy Jessop is on a mission to create his own movie with the help of his brother Will. Is Hollywood ready for a superhero with Down's syndrome?
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Freedom: 50 Years of Pride
2022
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This documentary reveals the surprising and overlooked history of Pride: its origins, its struggles and its triumphs. Made in creative and editorial collaboration with acclaimed filmmaker Stephen Daldry and playwright Joe Robertson, it tells the story of Pride primarily through first-person testimony and archive footage.
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Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust
2022
We follow a project spearheaded by the Prince of Wales, who has commissioned seven leading artists to paint seven survivors of the Holocaust. Throughout the programme, we hear the testimonies of the remarkable men and women who were children when they witnessed one of the greatest atrocities in human history, as well as meeting the artists as they grapple with their paintings.
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Emin/Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed
2020
This documentary charts the affinities between Edvard Munch’s art and Tracey Emin’s, exploring the many unexpected ways that this godfather of expressionism resonates with one of Britain’s pre-eminent artists.
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Lucy Worsley's Royal Palace Secrets
2020
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Chief curator of historic royal palaces Lucy Worsley provides an exclusive tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces: the Tower of London, Hampton Court, and Kensington Palace.
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Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
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A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the British Library as they search to tell that story through objects in their collection, in an ambitious new exhibition: Harry Potter: A History Of Magic. J.K. Rowling, who is lending unseen manuscripts, drawings and drafts from her private archives (which will sit alongside treasures from the British Library, as well as original drafts and drawings from Jim Kay) talks about some of the personal items she has lent to the exhibition and gives new insight into her writing, looking at some of the objects from the exhibition that have fired her imagination.
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The Bridge of Bosnian Blues
2005
Chronicling the formation of a multi-ethnic band, Mostar Sevdah, after a Bosnian city was devastated by war in the 1990s. Included: footage of the conflict; stories of the musicians.
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Murder Case: The Digital Detectives
2024
The next generation crime series revealing the ground-breaking police techniques used to solve murders on Britain's streets.
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Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution
2023
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7.7
From the basement bars of 70s New York to the peak of the global charts, this is the story of how disco conquered the world: its origins, its triumphs, its fall and its legacy.
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Scouting for Toys
2022
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Behind the scenes at internationally renowned Vectis Toys Auctioneers in Teesside, where buyers and sellers from all over the world come to trade every toy imaginable.
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Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets
2020
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In this 3-part documentary series, Lucy Worsley travels across Britain and Europe visiting the locations where royal history was made. In palaces and castles and on battlefields she investigates how royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology.
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Thatcher: A Very British Revolution
2019
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The irresistible rise and dramatic downfall of Margaret Thatcher. Her inner circle reveal how a political outsider won power and dominated British life through a turbulent decade.
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Superstar DJs With Annie Mac
2014
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Lost Gold
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This three-part limited series that traces the rise and fall of maverick scientist and explorer Tommy Thompson — from his life-changing discovery of the wreck of the S.S. Central America to the turmoil that led to his prison sentence.
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