The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
7.9
2014
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Famous fans and fellow musicians discuss the career of one of the most influential figures that British music has ever produced.
The Last Survivors
7.5
2019
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Documentary compiling the testimonies of the last remaining Holocaust survivors living in Britain, all of whom were children at the time, and following them over the course of a year as they embark upon personal and profound journeys.
Peter Taylor: My Journey Through the Troubles
8.2
2019
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An Engineer Imagines
7.2
2019
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A cinematic homage to Peter Rice, one of the most distinguished engineers of the late 20th century. Tracing Rices extraordinary life and career, from his Dundalk childhood to his work on the Sydney Opera House,The Pompidou Centre and the Lloyds Building, to his untimely death in 1992, Marcus Robinson uses stunning time-lapse photography and revealing interviews to tell the story of a genius who stood in the shadow of architectural icons. Until now.
Orson Welles Over Europe
6.9
2009
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When Orson Welles went into self-imposed exile in Europe, he first found stardom with The Third Man and then immersed himself in challenging films, television, theatre and bullfighting. Simon Callow trails the complex actor-director.
Franco Building with Jonathan Meades
6.3
2019
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Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades turns his gaze onto Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
James May at the Edge of Space
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2009
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James May at the Edge of Space is a British documentary in which television presenter James May came close to fulfilling his lifelong dream to be an astronaut by flying to the edge of space in a Lockheed U-2 spy plane. It was first aired on BBC Four on 21 June 2009 as part of commemorations of the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing, and tied in with another May documentary an hour earlier on BBC Two called James May on the Moon. The programme followed Mays three days of training with the United States Air Force at Beale Air Force Base in which he practised safety drills and learnt how to use a space suit correctly. With training complete, he was taken on a three-hour flight reaching an altitude of over 70,000 feet (21,000 m), piloted by instructor pilot Major John \Cabi\ Cabigas.
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
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2002
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The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.
Cleopatra: Portrait of a Killer
6.5
2009
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Cleopatra - the most famous woman in history. We know her as a great queen, a beautiful lover and a political schemer. For 2,000 years almost all evidence of her has disappeared - until now. In one of the worlds most exciting finds, archaeologists believe they have discovered the skeleton of her sister, murdered by Cleopatra and Mark Antony. From Egypt to Turkey, Neil Oliver investigates the story of a ruthless queen who would kill her own siblings for power. This is the portrait of a killer.
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
7.6
2019
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How Britains wartime leader and its only ever movie mogul changed the course of history.
Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
7.2
2008
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A look at the history of British B-movies.
Breakthrough
6.9
2019
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Breakthrough tells the story of a renegade scientist’s quest to find a cure for cancer, the disease that killed his mother. Texan Jim Allison is a 2018 Nobel Prize winner for discovering how to prompt a cancer patient’s own immune system into defeating their disease, but for decades he waged an often-lonely struggle against the painful skepticism of the medical establishment.
Take It with You
6.6
2012
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AKA Jane Roe
6.9
2020
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Final series of interviews prior to Norma McCorveys death and reveals the unvarnished truth behind her journey from pro-choice to pro-life and beyond - in what she calls her deathbed confession.
The Secret World of Haute Couture
7.1
2007
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The Satanic Verses: 30 Years On
6
2019
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Mobeen Azhar examines the lasting effects of Salman Rushdies novel The Satanic Verses.
The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities
7
2015
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This musical celebration charts the lives and careers of some of the biggest selling acts in Irish rock, punk and pop from Van Morrison and Thin Lizzy to The Undertones and U2. From the pioneers of the showbands touring in the late 50s through to the modern day, the film examines their lineage and connections and how the hardcore, rocking sound of Belfast merged with the more melodic, folky Dublin tradition to form what we now recognise as Irish rock and pop.
Japan’s Secret Shame
7.9
2018
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Me, My Selfie and I with Ryan Gander
7.8
2019
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Celebrated conceptual artist Ryan Gander investigates the selfie – the icon of a new kind of self-regard that hardly existed just ten years ago. He discovers the roots of the selfie go back hundreds of years before smartphones. In the age of social media, when we are told to be our best selves and live our best lives, he investigates what that really means and what technology is doing to our sense of self.
Lula: Behind Bars
5.2
2019
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How to See a Black Hole: The Universe's Greatest Mystery
8.3
2019
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A BBC documentary about one of the greatest discoveries of humans by a team of top scientific minds from different parts of the world known as the Event Horizon Telescope project team guided by Dr Sheperd Doeleman of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, on a mission to capture the first ever picture of a black hole with a mega virtual telescope the size of the earth, by combining radio observatories and telescope facilities from all over the world to make up this earth-size virtual telescope.
Iraq: A State of Mind
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2019
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As Iraq picks up the pieces after the defeat of the Islamic State group, this film reveals the mental health crisis currently gripping a country that has just one psychiatric hospital for a population of 38 million. A year in the making, this highly acclaimed BBC documentary has won three awards: the BUPA Mind Media Documentary Award, Foreign Press Association and the Grierson Best Current Affairs Documentary Award in 2019.
Christmas at St Paul's
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2018
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For the first time in its history, St Pauls has granted the BBC privileged access to film behind the scenes in the countdown to Christmas and on the big day itself.
No Safe Spaces
7.6
2019
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No Safe Spaces contends that identity politics and the suppression of free speech are spreading into every part of society and threatening to divide America.