Taboo: Mating
How far would you go in the name of love? Would you drink your partner's blood to secure your bond? Or carve their hand print into your flesh to show your devotion? Could you marry someone behind bars, knowing...
Year of Release 2008 - 3
The Strangest Dream
This is a documentary on the life of Jo Rotblat, who mobilized the world’s leading scientists to save the world from nuclear annihilation and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his life-long dedication. Rotblat and the Pugwash movement have...
Climate Change
The Climate Change series explains how greenhouse gases work, looks at alternative theories to climate change, and debunks the huge number of urban myths that are zipping round the Internet. A basic look at how climate scientists infer that...
Heaven Earth
Heaven Earth explores the practice and commercialization of amazonian ayahuasca-shamanism in Iquitos. The feature-length documentary film portrays all day activities of Percy - a Peruvian healer and another western ayahuasquero, named Ron. Both live near Iquitos and host nightly...
The Winter of the Beard
In the fall of 2005, two filmmakers invited six men across America to join them in an experiment. They would all stop shaving for six months. No trimming allowed. Each was provided a video camera and weekly interview questions...
The Lost Gospels
Documentary presented by Anglican priest Pete Owen Jones which explores the huge number of ancient Christian texts that didn't make it into the New Testament. Shocking and challenging, these were works in which Jesus didn't die, took revenge on...
World's Strictest Parents
Unruly teenagers are sent abroad to live with strict families in an experiment to find out the right way to bring up a child. These series document the journey of unruly teens from different families as they are forced...
Secrets of Body Language
Whether we're watching an important address from a national politician, gawking at movie stars as they conduct interviews on the red carpet, or simply engaging in conversation with one of our friends, we can't always find the...
Such Hawks Such Hounds
Such Hawks Such Hounds explores the music and musicians of the American hard rock underground circa 1970-2007, focusing on the psychedelic and '70s proto-metal-derived styles that have in recent years formed a rich body of unclassifiable sounds. This is...
Poison Fire
The Niger Delta is an environmental disaster zone after fifty years of oil exploitation. One and a half million tons of crude oil has been spilled into the creeks, farms and forests, the equivalent to 50 Exxon Valdez disasters,...
Tiger: Spy in the Jungle
David Attenborough narrates the lives of four growing tiger cubs using footage collected by hidden-camera-carrying elephants. Over two years, the elephants help capture the most intimate portrayal of tigers ever filmed. As they...
Red Light Blues
This documentary is about the Red Light district of Amsterdam, as it is going through radical, far-reaching changes, the consequences of which might be felt all over Europe. Red Light Blues starts with the Red Light district’s Open Day,...
Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World
The Money Programme's Fiona Bruce gains exclusive access to Bill Gates as he prepares to step down from full-time involvement with Microsoft, the company he helped found. Gates's company has changed the world, but he's a controversial figure, with...
Tania Head: The 9/11 Faker
Alicia Esteve Head is a Spanish woman who claimed to be a survivor of the World Trade Center September 11 attacks under the name Tania Head. She joined the support group World Trade Center Survivors' Network. She later became...