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Behind The Light
A short documentary exploring the lost way of life of British lighthouse keepers. As our world is increasingly automated, this isolated occupation has quietly disappeared from our coastlines, and this film records the stories of remarkable human nature before they too disappear.
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Operation Crossbow
A documentary telling the little-known story about how the Allies used 3D photographs to thwart the Nazis’ super-weapons, Vergeltungswaffen, before they could devastate Britain.
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Glamour’s Golden Age: Beautiful and Damned
Beautiful and Damned traces the growth of 1920s London’s bright young party set whose antics were enjoyed and scorned in equal measures by a watching nation.
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The Suffolk Strangler
Steven Gerald James Wright is an English serial killer, also known as the Suffolk Strangler.
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Civilisation
Civilisation is a 13 episode television documentary series, hosted by Kenneth Clark, outlining the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages.
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Sicko
Michael Moore’s documentary film Sicko investigates health care in the United States, focusing on its health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Ghosts on the Underground
The London Underground is built on countless gravesites and plague pits, and is the site of many human disasters, could this account for the hundreds of reported ghostly sightings?
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Blood of the Vikings
Julian Richards examines the story of the Vikings in Britain, from their first raids, to the settlement of the British Isles. The Viking legacy is traced through archaeology, history and a genetics survey of Britain’s current inhabitants.
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Hooligans: The Untold Story
The shocking untold story of the 2006 World Cup – the mindless violence, the racism, the unseen riots and the running battles in German cities as the police tried to protect the hundreds of thousands of genuine fans who were attending the sporting extravaganza.
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Elizabeth I
Presented by eminent historian David Starkey, Elizabeth I explores the turbulent life and times of England’s Virgin Queen.
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The Living Dead
This series investigates the way that history and memory (both national and individual) have been used by politicians and others.
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