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- After the planes hit on 9/11, Morgan Stanley security chief Rick Rescorla put into effect plans that he had developed years before. Rick had seen the potential for an airborne suicide attack on the twin towers as part of evaluating the risk posed to his wards within their building. After the attack in 1993 Rick took it personally to prepare and avoid the chaotic scenes that came with the 93 attack. This documentary tells the story of the man who predicted the 9/11 attacks and saved thousands of lives and died in the process.
- Interlocking interviews of 4 women interred in various Magdalene asylums and/or orphanages because of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, being sexually assaulted, or just being "too pretty".
- With child sex abuse scandals breaking on almost a weekly basis, Britain has become overwhelmed. Dangerous predators appear to be everywhere and our children never at more risk.
- Documentary about the roughly one million horses that were used by the British army during the first world war.
- The story of controversial package holiday company, Club 18-30. The company was said to offer drunken mayhem, outrageous nights out and sex. The documentary traces its rise due to shock advertising schemes and an untapped market.
- Linda Carty is a woman who is on death row in Texas. She was convicted and sentenced to death in February 2002 for the 2001 abduction and murder of 25-year-old Joana Rodriguez, in order to steal her newborn son.
- Immediately after 9/11, rumors emerged of someone who had 'surfed' the debris to safety. A Discovery Channel documentary on the 11th anniversary of the tragedy told the story of survivor Pasquale Buzzelli, who may or may not be the surfer.
- The story of the 14 guests and staff trapped in a hotel beneath the Twin Towers on September 11, and their narrow escape.
- This moving documentary tells the personal stories of those who searched tirelessly for their loved ones, sifting through tonnes of debris at Ground Zero to bring them home to rest.
- In the 1950s Ford of America began to introduce its dream of "happy families on wheels" to the UK, producing cars at Dagenham for the average British family - and in the 1960s and 1970s, for boy racers as well.
- A fitting and deeply moving tribute to the experience and service of those who fought in WW1.
- Documentary series which looks at aspects of Britain's social heritage which have disappeared from modern life.
- The remarkable story of Raleigh, the bicycle manufacturer who grew from humble beginnings in the backstreets of Nottingham to rapidly become the biggest bike maker in the world.
- Documentary series that tells the stories of the extraordinary last survivors of the generation who fought or lived through World War II.
- Lucy Beaumont presents this documentary marking the 50th anniversary of the triple trawler tragedy of 1968 and the protest by trawler-men's wives against the dangerous working conditions.
- The First World War was the cause of the biggest loss of fathers in modern British history. This documentary features recollections from the children who had to face the loss of the fathers they barely knew.
- A look at the history of children's indoor and outdoor games across different social classes,time periods and locations.
- Britain's Boy Soldiers: In the British army in World War I, an estimated 250,000 soldiers were actually underage, some as young as 14 and 15. Interviews with the few survivors reveal how these teenagers came to fight - and some to die - for their country and how the government turned a blind eye. A 'Secret History' programme for Channel 4, made by Testimony Films. The programme told the story of the hundreds of thousands of lads who joined the British Army under age during The Great War. The programme won 'Best Network Documentary' at the 2004 RTS Awards.
- David Suchet follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, Fleet Street photographer Jimmy Jarche, in a quest to capture on camera how Britain has changed in the past century.