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- DirectorDylan HowittStarsErla BolladóttirSævar CiesiekskiTryggvi LeifssonIceland, 1976. Six suspects confess to two violent crimes. This is the strangest criminal investigation you've never heard of.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsSergio ChamyRomulo AitkenMarta OlivaresA private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.
- DirectorFeras FayyadSteen JohannessenStarsKhaled Umar HarahBatulMahmoudKhaled, Mahmoud and Subhi volunteer with the White Helmets trying to save lives of hundreds of victims in the besieged city of Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War.
- DirectorJairus McLearyGethin AldousStarsBrian NazarofChris RentonAlvin 'Bud' WheelerSet inside a single room in Folsom Prison, three men from the outside participate in a four-day group-therapy retreat with a group of incarcerated men for a real look at the challenges of rehabilitation.
- DirectorJack RamplingStarsLouis TherouxCarole BaskinHoward BaskinThis special sees Louis travel to America to investigate the story of a man who has become one of the most controversial and captivating icons of recent times: the gun-toting, self-described 'gay hillbilly' and 'Tiger King' Joe Exotic.
- DirectorGeoffrey O'ConnorStarsLouis TherouxFred PhelpsBethany HockenbargerLouis Theroux returns to visit the Westboro Baptist Church in the wake of the death of its leader.
- DirectorMark CasebowStarsLouis TherouxTrudi SeneviratneRobin SchachtLouis Theroux visits specialist psychiatric units which treat mothers experiencing serious mental illness whilst allowing them to live alongside their babies.
- DirectorLottie GammonStarsLouis TherouxSaif KhanMargaret ValoisLouis Theroux heads to the USA to meet college students accused of sexual assault.
- DirectorArthur CaryStarsLouis TherouxJimmy SavileKat WardIn light of numerous allegations of abuse and sexual violence against the late Sir Jimmy Savile, Louis Theroux re-examines his media relationship with the enigmatic public figure.
- DirectorJamie PickupStarsLouis TherouxEarl LintonYasmin PreciousLouis Theroux meets people living with the long-term effects of a brain injury.
- DirectorJohn DowerStarsLouis TherouxTom CruiseMarty RathbunLouis Theroux documents his investigation into what goes on behind the scenes of the infamous Church of Scientology.
- DirectorTom BarrowStarsLouis TherouxCamilleCaseyLouis Theroux travels to San Francisco where a group of doctors help kids who claim to be born in the wrong body.
- DirectorJason MassotStarsLouis TherouxXander CorvusBrad ArmstrongIn 1997, Louis made a documentary on the booming Californian porn industry. In 2012, he returns to find an industry that has been decimated by illegal Internet tube sites.
- DirectorJamie PickupStarsLouis TherouxJoe ExoticJohn ReinkeIn America's heartlands, Louis looks at private collections of tigers and chimpanzees.
- StarsLouis TherouxLouis spends time in one of Miami County Jail's most notorious sections
- DirectorEmma CooperStarsLouis TherouxLauren DrainSteve DrainLouis returns to the Phelps family to find that several members have left the cult, and that they are being sued.
- DirectorDanny HoranStarsLouis TherouxLouis meets parents who have turned to medication to keep their children under control.
- DirectorEmma CooperStarsStuart LinderLouis TherouxLouis Theroux gets under the skin of the plastic surgery patients of Beverly Hills.
- DirectorGeoffrey O'ConnorStarsLouis TherouxLauren DrainSteve DrainLouis meets the Phelps family, who protest against an America that tolerates homosexuality
- DirectorStuart CabbStarsLouis TherouxRichard WilkLouis Theroux goes to the heart of gambling culture in Las Vegas.
- DirectorStuart CabbStarsLouis TherouxApril GaedeBill GaedeLouis Theroux travels to California to meet the man dubbed "the most dangerous racist in America"; Tom Metzger, his family and his publicity manager. Louis also meets 'Prussian Blue' an American white-nationalist preteen musical sibling duo.
- DirectorWill YappStarsLouis TherouxDavid BlaineUri GellerIn 2001, Louis Theroux decides to set out on a journey to interview Michael Jackson. When Michael comes to the UK, Louis approaches Uri Geller but gets turned down. He then finds out that ITV has been granted an interview and Louis sets out for LA to meet a close friend of the Jackson family, promoter and magician Majestik Magnificent, who claims he can set up an interview with Joe Jackson, Michael's father. However nothing seems to go easily for Louis and his target seems further away.
- DirectorGeoffrey O'ConnorStarsLouis TherouxLouis stays with the residents of a soon to open brothel in Nevada for a few weeks.
- DirectorKatie RiceStarsStacey DooleyPeter HughesAndy PlumbStacey Dooley experiences life on the front-line of mental health services.
- DirectorSam SokoStarsBoniface MwangiNjeri MwangiKhadija Mohamed-ChurchillPolitical activist Boniface "Softie" Mwangi runs for office in a regional Kenyan election, which puts pressure on his young family and his convictions.
- DirectorNick AldridgeStarsBrian HoustonTristan AlmarioCharlie BlytheFilmed over 5 years this film details the story of celebrity favorite and globally trending megachurch Hillsong. With rare access it follows church leaders, its congregation and ex members, who tell their stories and shed light on scandals
- DirectorCamilla HallTells the extraordinary story of the child abuse scandal that erupted on the idyllic island of Jersey in 2007. For a long time, the victims' voices had remained unheard, but when widespread allegations of sexual abuse resurfaced in the late 2000s, Jersey's then health minister Stuart Syvret spoke out about the scale of this historic child abuse and the damage done to the victims.
- DirectorArthur JonesStarsMatt FurieAiyana UdesenChris SullivanArtist Matt Furie, creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.
- DirectorJohn DowerStarsJo WeberDuane WeberTim CollinsA documentary that looks at the well-known case, which is largely regarded as the greatest unsolved heist in American history.
- DirectorJohn O'KanePier WilkieStarsBenjamin ZandKaren HassanSam Thorpe-SpinksBenjamin Zand hosts a social experiment in which a group of people watch a drama in 3 parts, debate what constitutes sexual harassment, hear from people whose life has been affected and from a barrister who explains the law.
- DirectorJoyce TrozzoStarsBenjamin ZandGerald GriggsR. KellyBenjamin Zand investigates the bizarre and disturbing allegations surrounding the sex life of the U.S. R&B star, including accusations of holding women against their will at his home in Atlanta and running a degrading 'sex cult'.
- DirectorFrida BarkforsLasse BarkforsStarsWilliam J. Fuery Jr.Tracy HutchinsonJames BroderickPervert Park follows the everyday lives of the sex offenders in the park as they struggle to reintegrate into society.
- DirectorFrida BarkforsLasse BarkforsStarsSue KleboldAs the disaster of yet another school shooting hits, some parents are faced with a brutal fact: their child was the one pulling the trigger.
- DirectorDavid FranceStarsOlga BaranovaDavid IsteevRamzan KadyrovA group of activists risk their lives fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in Chechnya.
- DirectorEmily JamesMark LewisStarsGary AlfordAlex Ryan BauerAustin BerglasThe Silk Road, described as the Amazon of illegal drugs, appeared on the Dark Web in 2011. The brainchild of a mysterious, libertarian intellectual who evaded all attempts to track him down until a young IRS inspector cracked the case.
- DirectorLuke McMahonStarsJames FoxLike many people, Cambridge University art historian Dr James Fox has never really "got" conceptual art. In this documentary he sets out to provide an open-minded guide to the art form for the perplexed.
- DirectorAdam CurtisStarsAdam CurtisDonald TrumpVladimir PutinAdam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.
- DirectorJacques MitschStarsAndrew AdamatskyFrantisek BaluskaAudrey DussutourThis documentation outlines the unique properties and latest studies of "Physarum Polycephalum", also known as Blob.
- DirectorJennifer DeschampsStarsMatthew LeeAnton ValukasOliver BuddeInside Lehman Brothers is the autopsy of a crime by those who tried to prevent it from within. Mortgage brokers from California and a handful of New York executives called out these fraudulent transactions. But nobody listened.
- StarsVernon GosneyLeslie Wagner-WilsonTim CarterDocuseries looking back on the Jonestown Massacre on the 40th anniversary.
- DirectorStephanie SoechtigJeremy SeifertStarsSue BaileyBucky BaileyKen WamsleyA group of citizens in West Virginia challenges a powerful corporation to be more environmentally responsible.
- DirectorHogir HiroriShinwar KamalStarsFakhir BerwariSheyma IbrahimAbdulla FakhirA portrait of a Kurdish colonel, who disarmed thousands of roadside bombs and mines armed only with his courage and a pair of wire cutters.
- DirectorJanus MetzSine PlambechIn the small northern region of Jutland, Denmark, over 900 Thai women are married to Danish men, a trend that started 25 years ago when a former sex worker from Northeastern Thailand married a Jutland native and has since helped lonely local men and impoverished women from her village find someone to marry and share life with. Acclaimed filmmaker Janus Metz and his anthropologist wife, Sine Plambech, follow four of these Thai-Danish couples over ten years in an intimate chronicle that explores universal questions of love and romance, dreams and everyday hardship, life and death, and the very nature of family.
- DirectorMike LernerMaxim PozdorovkinStarsNadezhda TolokonnikovaMariya AlyokhinaYekaterina SamutsevichFollows the court case of three members of the Russian feminist punk protest group Pussy Riot after their performance in a Russian Orthodox cathedral.
- DirectorTomer HeymannStarsJonathan AgassiMichael LucasJonathan Agassi is one of the world's most successful gay porn stars. This is a rare and intimate look at the world of porn and escorting, as well as on a unique relationship between a mother and son.
- DirectorErica JenkinKatie RiceStarsStacey DooleyStacey Dooley returns to Springfield Hospital to work with the team once again and meet patients in crisis. This time she must be in scrubs and wear a mask, as she assists front line staff treating a wide range mental health conditions and takes part in the tough decisions necessary to keep patients safe.
- DirectorDavid McConnellStarsStacey DooleyMark WankeyJacon WankeyStacey Dooley moves into an African big-game hunting lodge to train for two weeks with die-hard trophy hunters.
- StarsStacey DooleyNadiaXate ShingaliThe BBC's Stacey Dooley embeds with a battalion of Yazidi women headed to the frontline to fight ISIS in Iraq, where they seek to avenge the genocide and sexual slavery of their people.
- DirectorAdam CurtisStarsGeorge BushGeorge W. BushJoanne HerringAn experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.
- DirectorSébastien LifshitzThe touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still invested in a biological boy-girl way of thinking.
- DirectorLiana StewartStarsJay BladesProblems reading and pronouncing words, But this has not stopped him from getting on with his life he has found ways of steering clear of the written word and after dark times turned his life around and helped others.
- DirectorAlice BowdenStarsStacey DooleyStacey Dooley is spending ten days living alongside the nuns of St Hilda's Priory in Whitby. Will she cope with the sisters' strict lifestyle, and what can she learn to make her life more meaningful?
- DirectorJeanie FinlayStarsGavin BainBilly BoydScottish rappers Billy Boyd and Gavin Bain reinvent themselves as West Coast Homeboys after they were signed by Sony.
- DirectorErica JenkinStarsEmmalea D'amelioThe story of how Instagram became the dominant force it is today, told by former staff and insiders and through powerful testimony from users who have been negatively impacted.
- DirectorMads BrüggerStarsMads BrüggerSimon Jul JørgensenTommy KenterTwo Danish comedians join the director on a trip to North Korea, where they have been allowed access under the pretext of wanting to perform a vaudeville act.
- Ellie Simmonds, a five-time gold Paralympics winner, investigates a controversial new drug that promises to make children with dwarfism grow closer to average height.
- DirectorPhilip McCreeryStarsGemma CollinsNikki MattocksGemma Collins is well known for sharing her life with the public on screen. But there are some struggles she has been afraid to talk about until now. In this documentary, she opens up about her personal relationship with self-harm.
- DirectorSam HobkinsonStarsMisha DefonsecaKaren SchulmanJane DanielMisha and the Wolves is the dramatic tale of a woman whose holocaust memoir took the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher - who turned detective - revealed an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.
- DirectorDebbie LumStarsAlvan CaiShealand FairchildRachael SchmidtSeniors at one the best public high schools in the country face the pressure of applying to elite colleges.
- DirectorLeo BurleyStarsMo FarahSir Mo Farah reveals the shocking truth about his childhood, the journey he made from Somaliland to the UK as a young boy, and the subsequent years that led to him winning two gold medals at the London 2012 Olympics.
- DirectorEmily CoddlingEddie Hutton-MillsAfi KhanStarsHannah FryRaj AroraLuca BarbarossaCovid-19 is on the rise again in the UK. After multiple lockdowns and more than 197,000 deaths, experts are warning we're now entering a fifth wave of the pandemic. So why are around four million adults in the UK still yet to receive a single dose of the vaccine? In this timely, eye-opening investigation Professor Hannah Fry seeks to understand why so many remain unvaccinated against Covid-19. To fully explore this complex and deeply divisive debate, Hannah brings seven unvaccinated participants together under one roof to unpack long-held opinions, beliefs and fears that have prevented them from getting the vaccine. Together, they meet leading experts, confront the latest science and statistics to emerge in the field, and dissect how misinformation spreads on social media. At the end of the experiment, each contributor is asked if what they have learned has changed their mind, and whether they will now take up the vaccine.
- DirectorEmma AilesOwen KeanWhen unexpected sleepwalking claims turn a rape case on its head, Jade fights back. Filmed over three years, this is the remarkable story of one woman's battle for justice. Will she win?
- DirectorLuke HollandAn urgent portrait of the last living generation of Hitler's Third Reich in never-before-seen interviews raising vital questions about authority, conformity, national identity, and their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.
- DirectorCamilla NielssonStarsNelson ChamisaA young and charismatic leader takes on the corrupt ruling party in Zimbabwe's 2018 presidential election.
- DirectorMichael DweckGregory KershawStarsPiero BottoSergio CaudaMaria CicciùDeep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years old, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle-which to date has resisted all of modern science's efforts at cultivation.
- DirectorFranny ArmstrongStarsPete PostlethwaiteJehangir WadiaAlvin DuVernayA future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.
- DirectorAshley Francis-RoyStarsYinka BokinniTo mark the 20th anniversary of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor's violent murder on the North Peckham Estate, former resident of the estate and childhood friend of Damilola, Yinka Bokinni explores the impact his death had on the community.
- DirectorBen SteeleStarsEmma ReillyInvestigation into wrongdoing, corruption and whistle-blowing in the United Nations.
- DirectorSimon Lereng WilmontStarsOleg AfanasyevAlexandra RyabichkinaJarikTHE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village of Hnutove. Having no other place to go, Oleg and Alexandra stay and watch as others leave the village. Life becomes increasingly difficult with each passing day, and the war offers no end in sight. In this now half-deserted village where Oleg and Alexandra are the only true constants in each other's lives, the film shows just how fragile, but crucial, close relationships are for survival. Through Oleg's perspective, the film examines what it means to grow up in a war zone. It portrays how a child's universal struggle to discover what the world is about grows interlaced with all the dangers and challenges the war presents. Thus, THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS unveils the consequences of war bearing down on the children in Eastern Ukraine, and by natural extension, the scars and self-taught life lessons this generation will carry with them into the future.
- DirectorJamie RobertsStarsOari Salahuddin AyubiSofia Flesch BaldinJoe BidenFeatures never-before-seen archival footage of the historic confrontation at Kabul airport, from the U.S. withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan through the subsequent evacuation of Afghan citizens after the Taliban seized the city.
- DirectorJane PrestonStarsApril AshleyDavid BaileyBoy GeorgeA look at the life of April Ashley, the first person to ever be publicly outed as transgender in the United Kingdom.
- DirectorJohn HowlettJohn O'KaneStarsMark AsanteFo CullenEllie FlynnA group of 20 young people aged 18-25 gather for a social experiment, to see if they understand what constitutes coercive control. Over two days they watch a specially-written drama unfold and decide if a crime has been committed.
- DirectorDanielle SpearsA documentary exploring the story of Fri Martin, who in 2014, killed her childhood sweetheart and the father of her children, Kyle Farrell, following an argument in her kitchen in Toxteth, Liverpool. Claiming self-defense at her trial, what really happened?
- DirectorVera KrichevskayaStarsNatalia SindeevaAleksandr VinokurovVera KrichevskayaIn 2008, Natasha, a newly rich woman, decides to open an independent TV station in Russia and builds an open-minded team of outcasts. By 2020, Natasha has lost everything to Russia's war between Propaganda and Truth.
- DirectorIryna TsilykStarsDanylo DydenkoGanna GladkaOlena GladkaTo cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children are making a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.
- DirectorKlaartje QuirijnsStarsKlaartje QuirijnsFilm maker Klaartje Quirijns decided after bad medical news to aim the camera at herself and her family what has not been dealt with from the past and the way her life is shaped by this.
- DirectorKaren EmsleyEmma PentecostStarsKatherine JakemanDocumentary telling the story of the Bruderhof, a radical Christian movement living a remarkable back-to-basics life in the quiet British village of Darvell, in Sussex.
- DirectorRob GillStarsJames Arthur
- DirectorCraig WilliamsScottish rugby legend Doddie Weir was diagnosed with MND in 2016. Doctors said he would be in a wheelchair within a year. But instead, he is battling the disease and on a mission to find a cure.
- Japan's secret sex scandal. A music executive with a long history of allegations of sexual abuse made by boys in his talent agency. We examine the suffocating reality of being a J-pop idol and the media cover up over decades.
- DirectorHnin Ei HlaingTwo midwives, one Buddhist and one Muslim, defy strict ethnic divisions to work side by side in a makeshift clinic in western Myanmar, providing medical services to the Rohingya of Rakhine State.
- DirectorGavin SturgeonStarsHazel IrvineDes ClarkeJill DouglasA profile of Scotland's most decorated track cyclist, Neil Fachie, who has overcome near-total blindness to set records on the tandem at the Paralympics, Commonwealth Games and World Championships.
- DirectorJamie TahsinStarsMatt SheaAndrew TateHe became known for his provocative views on women, sexual abuse and harassment. Then he himself was arrested, suspected of human trafficking.
- DirectorMike BrettArnaud ColinartSteve JamisonStarsLilibet BiutanasevaLitiana BiutanasevaTalei Biutanaseva13 January 2018, Hawaii. Media and text messages inform "ballistic missile threat to Hawaii". For 38 minutes, chaos ensues. The alert will be denied.
- DirectorSimon Lereng WilmontStarsMarharyta BurlutskaAnjelika StolyarovaOlga TronovaChildren and staff in a special kind of home: an institution for children who have been removed from their homes while awaiting court custody decisions. Staff do their best to make the time children have there safe and supportive.
- DirectorGwenllian HughesStarsGreg DaviesRhod GilbertSian HarriesRhod details his recent diagnosis, treatment and recovery from cancer. He is brutally honest about his experiences, and it's heartbreaking to watch as he reports on the radiotherapy and chemotherapy he endures.
- DirectorDarius BazarganZaghari-Ratcliffe's husband Richard and his family as he campaigns to bring his wife Nazanin home from detention in Iran.
- DirectorFazila AmiriStarsAryana SayeedZahra ElhamSadiqa MadadgarUnder the mentorship of controversial pop star Aryana Sayeed, two young singers vie to become the first-ever female winners of Afghan Star. As their dreams are within grasp, their lives are changed when the Taliban returns to power.
- DirectorAlexander Irvine-CoxA tip-off in 2014 gives a group of journalists access to silenced stories of abuse from indigenous Sámi women, men and children in Norway.
- DirectorGonzalo ArijonStarsJose AlgortaRoberto CanessaAlfredo DelgadoFor the first time ever, survivors of the famous 1972 Andes plane crash tell in their own words their harrowing story of survival.
- DirectorClaire WhalleyStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashSteve CooganA celebration of the unique life and talent of Caroline Aherne, featuring unseen photographs and contributions from a cast of her lifelong friends, including Steve Coogan, Jon Thompson, Craig Cash and producer Andy Harries. Aherne's pioneering representation of working class and family life in The Royle Family won her two Baftas and changed comedy writing forever, while her alter ego Mrs Merton's question to stage performer Debbie McGee - 'So what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?' - has been voted the greatest comedy put-down in British TV history.