You're Not Splitting Up My Family (1x90) - Channel 4
A film about the Cox twins and the impact on their lives of a Social Services investigation.
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Richard is My Boyfriend (1x75) - Channel 4
Should a woman with learning disabilities be sterilized to allow her to
enjoy an active sex life? Or would this make her an easy target for
sexual predators? Innovative reality drama
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Absolute Zero (2x60) - BBC4, Nova/WGBH, TPT
Absolute Zero is the ultimate limit of cold – a Holy Grail as
exciting for scientists as the North and South Poles were to the great
polar explorers. This is an epic journey in the quest of cold, from the
dark beginnings to an ultra-cool frontier.
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My Brilliant Brain (3x60) - five, NGCI
Aesthetically, the human brain – a three-pound football-sized
mass of grey tissue – appears unspectacular. But it can mean the
difference between a Sartre and a savant. So what makes a genius?
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Monster Moves : Season 2 (4x60) - five, NGC-US, NGCI Ever wondered what it would be like to move a whole
church? And no, we're not talking about the congregation…More
adventures following Huge Homes, Colossal Cathedrals and Massive
Machines on the move.
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Love Trap (4x60) - Channel 4 Five men from five different countries spend a long
weekend romancing the same girl. See what happens when The Tourist Trap
meets The Truman Show, and a bugged flat becomes the secret laboratory
for an international wooing contest.
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Sea of Fire (1x60) - BBC2 The story of the ill-fated HMS Coventry, that was bombed
and sunk within 20 minutes during the Falklands war. With unprecedented
interview access and new dramatic reconstructions, experience this
catastrophic event through the eyes of the surviving sailors.
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Do You Want To Live Forever? (1x90) - Channel 4
Aubrey de Grey thinks you can. Meet the brilliant Cambridge eccentric
who believes that indefinite life-extension is just around the corner
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RI Christmas Lectures 2006 (5x45) - five Mathematics has successfully cracked some of the biggest
mysteries of all time. Marcus du Sautoy takes us on a journey through
some of maths’ greatest thrillers.
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The Cold War's Missing Fighter Pilots: Revealed (1x60)- five, Nova/WGBH, NGCI
Uncovering the secrets of the Korean War: from Stalin’s theft of
a US fighter-jet to the disappearance of American pilots.
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Victory Is Your Duty (1x45) - Wide Angle/WGBH
Victory Is Your Duty gains intimate access to the Havana Boxing Academy
in Cuba, where boys of nine are turned into Olympic Champions
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The Umbrella Assassin : Revealed (1x60) - five, WNET, Discovery UK
We delve into the real story of the cold war assasination of Bulgarian
dissident Georgi Markov, whose unusual death became known as the
'umbrella murder'.
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Last Orders (3 Minute Wonders) (4x3) - Channel 4
Meet the gardener who dreams of being composted when he dies, the lady
who has trasformed her daughter into a diamond, and the canal-crazy
couple who have dreamed up their own narrowboat coffins.
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Machines of War (5x5) - five, NGC-US, NGCI
One modern machine gun could out-fire an entire 19th century army
regiment. But just how did our weapons evolve? This series traces the
technoligical evolution of the crusie misslie, tank and machine gun.
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Cold War, Dirty Science (1x50) - BBC 4 Weapons of Mass destruciton are seen as a singularly
modern concern. But this film reveals the secret story of Britain's
development of WMD after WWII, half a century before Bush and Blair and
'the axis of evil'.
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The Cutting Club (1x50) - Channel 4 Learning One in ten teenagers will self-harm by the time they're
16. The Cutting Club follows the lives of a group of teenagers and
young adults from 14 to 21 who all have one thing in common: they cut.
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Bioterror Alert (1x60) - NGCI A close-up look at the 6 most dangerous micro organisms on the planet. What could these deadly weapons do in the wrong hands?
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Hunt for Hitler's Scientists: Revealed (1x60) - NGCI, five, WNET
The top-secret battle between the Allies to hunt down elite Nazi
scientists and capture their deadly new weapons at the end of World War
Two.
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Adoption Hell: ONE Life (1x40) - BBC1
What would you do if the kids you adopted grew up to be an arsonist and
an alcoholic? This film follows one family's struggle for justice and
reconciliation.
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Monster Moves: Season 1 (3x60) - five, TLC
Building movers relocate Mammoth Mansions, Tall Towers and Long Loads – wholesale!
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Born With Two Mothers (1x90) - Channel 4
A mix-up in a fertility clinic leads to the birth of a black baby to a
white woman. Which woman should bring up the baby? A real judge
decides. Innovative reality drama.
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The Heist (3x60) - Channel 4
The Heist is a mainstay of the film industry, but how does a real life
crime caper live up to the hollywood glitz? This programme pits 4 real
life ocean's 11 against the high tech security surrounding a painting,
a race hourse and a sports car.
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RI Christmas Lecture 2004 (3x60) - Channel 4
Antarctica. A beautiful place. A deadly place. This
accursed land could kill you in seconds. Yet it holds fascination for
adventurers and scientists alike.
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Mummy: The Inside Story (1x50) - five, The British Museum, History Channel US
Take a journey inside Neperennub, an Egyptian mummy whose inards have been investigated without removing a single bandage.
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Whatever: A Teenage Musical (1x50) - Channel 4
A groundbreaking musical combining documentary, drama and orginal rhymes and beats.
Brighton teenagers tell their stories of love, sex and violence and provide their own soundtrack to their lives.
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D-Day: The Ultimate Conflict (1x50) - five, NGCI, WNET
This is the difinitive account of what really happened on D-Day. From
the motley crew of behind-the scenes inventors, creating the machines
of amphibious attack, to the thousands of soldiers determined to change
history.
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Escape (4x50) - BBC1, WGBH Four one hour documentaries examining the history and development of escape and survival systems.
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Men of Iron (3x50) - Channel 4
In the 19th century, Britain was an industrial giant. Engineers were
superheroes. This is the story of the engineers who shaped the modern
world.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai : Revealed (1x50) - five, WNET, NGCI
The search for the lost railway built by Allied prisoners. Engineer
Bashar Altabba tracks the iconic wartime structure and discovers the
tragedy in its history.
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RI Christmas Lectures 2003 (5x60) - Channel 4 Meteorite-hunter Dr Monica Grady takes us on a 'Voyage in Space' from the Big Bang to the latest news from Mars.
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SAS : The Real Story (4x50) - Channel 4
The men behind the myth: for the first time on television comes a
comprehensive history of the SAS, revealing fantastic and compelling
true-life 'boy's own' stories of grit, heroism and bravery.
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Machines Time Forgot (4x50) -Channel 4, Discovery, History Canada, France5 Ancient engineering mysteries are unraveled by engineers
and archaeologists, as they reconstruct achievements of the past using
only the tools available at the time.
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Battle of the Sexes (2x50) - Channel 4, Discovery
Men v Women. The scientific perspective. Men and women are different,
but did you realise that the person sitting next to you on the sofa
might as well be a member of a different species?
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The Real Ned Kelly (1x50) - Channel 4, ABC, NGCI Australia’s Robin Hood or a murderous thug? The
real story of Australia's infamous outlaw hero, brought to life with
dramatic reconstructions and the decendents of his followers and those
he killed.
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DNA (5x50) - Channel 4, WNET
An award-winning oral history of DNA to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the double helix with Dr Watson himself.
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RI Christmas Lectures 2002 (5x50) - Channel 4
Did you know the same glue that holds your trainers together also stops
a jumbo jet from falling apart at 40,000 feet? Discover the molecular
miracles behind the everyday objects that define the modern world.
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Marrying A Stranger (2x50) - Channel 4
Boy meets girl. East meets West. This film follows two young British
Muslims as they struggle with their parents wishes for an arranged
marriage.
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Dam Busters: Revealed (2x50) - five, WNET, NGCI
This is the technical story behind the greatest bombing raid of WW2,
using rare interviews with surviving veterans and the first computer
animated reconstruction of the raid.
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Africa Unmasked (3x50) - Channel 4
Why is Africa a continent in crisis? Follow two writers in exhile,
Aminatta Forna and Peter Godwin, as they return to the land of their
birth to search for answers.
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Commando (4x50) - Channel 4
An epic oral history of the Special Forces in WWII, combining the
testimony of over 100 survivors with stylised reconstruction and film
archive.
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The Anatomists (3x50) - Channel 4
The gruesome history of anatomy from today's 'event anatomist' Gunther
Von Hagans to the dissection of hanged murderers in the 18th century
and the gladiators in Rome.
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Lost! (15x30) - Channel 4
Blindfolded and abandoned somewhere in the world: 3 teams race to get
home from remote locations with just $200 in their pockets.
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Escape From Colditz (3x50) - Channel 4, Nova/WGBH
For the first time the Allied Officers of three nations return to
Colditz to reopen the tunnels and retrace the routes of their legendary
escapes.
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Pyromania, A History of Fireworks (1x50) - Channel 4, WGBH
A journey through the history and science of fireworks, from the
earliest experiments conducted by Chinese peasants and Italian
alchemists, right up to the enthusiasts and pyrotechnicians involved in
creating modern spectacles.
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Curse of the Methusleah Tree (1x50) - Channel 4 “I am not part of history. No. History is part of
me.” This is the story of the oldest living thing on earth and
its unique view of human civilization, with narration and
specially-commissioned poetry by Roger McGough.