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- A documentary on the Argentina icon's final days as an international at the 1994 World Cup and the scandal that surrounded it.
- The playwright Brian Friel stands among the giants of Irish literature. Those closest to him along with stars such as Sineád Cusack, Stephen Rea and Liam Neeson examine the man who transformed Irish theatre in the 20th century.
- Vogue model, artist's muse, fearless war photographer: Lee Miller had many lives. Built on images of Lee and by Lee, LEE MILLER - A LIFE ON THE FRONT LINE explores a pioneering female artist who broke taboos and defied expectations.
- The Dorados, Culiacan's local team, are at the bottom of the rankings when Maradona arrives, looking for a fresh start. The experts predict disaster.
- Dorados, Culiacán's local team, are at the bottom of the table when Maradona arrives, looking for a fresh start. Experts predict disaster.
- Maradona is generous and warm towards his players. Many, like him, come from poor families. But the passionate coach also has a temper.
- The Dorados supporters are thrilled with Maradona's coaching. Suddenly, Dorados look like contenders, an unlikely prospect just a year ago.
- Dorados are on the verge of gaining promotion to Liga MX when Maradona blows his top at the referees. Still, hope reigns, and the team keeps fighting.
- The story of Sylvia Plath's seminal novel The Bell Jar as well as the parallels between her life and the book. The film includes an exclusive testimony from Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes about her mother.
- An investigation into sex abuse by United Nations peacekeepers in world's conflict zones.
- In 1983, the Epsom Derby winning racehorse Shergar was stolen from a stud in Kilkenny, Ireland, leading to a major investigation and a media sensation.
- The Colombian photographer Jesús Abad Colorado looks back into his photographic work portraying the Colombian armed conflict and visits territories affected by it, including San José de Apartadó, Ganada and Bojayá to show the photographs he took to those who appeared in them. He reflects on the horrors of war and the future of peace in Colombia.
- Documentary exploring the harassment charges against Harvey Weinstein and his relationship with the UK film business.
- Two pilots fly a solar-powered airplane around the world.
- OINK looks at man's relationship to pigs, exploring the confused mix of violence and sentimentality, from factory farming to pigs as pets. Veering wildly from a talking baby pig to live zeno-transplantation, Ralph Steadman's cartoons for George Orwell's Animal Farm to wild hogs being machine-gunned from a helicopter, the film is a mad bad journey from China via Brooklyn to Wiltshire reflecting on who we are and how we deal with the world around us.
- British surrealist Leonora Carrington was a key part of the surrealist movement during its heyday in Paris and yet, until recently, remained a virtual unknown in the country of her birth.
- In a Phnom Penh karaoke bar in 2009 Australian musician Julien Poulson hears the extraordinary voice of poor village girl Srey Thy. The result is romance and the birth of the Cambodian Space Project, a thrilling musical explosion that wows audiences worldwide with sounds from the 1960s and '70s golden age of Cambodian rock. Filmed over five years this intimate documentary tells the story of performers whose struggle to overcome poverty, trauma and obscurity has never been easy.
- Documents first contact with members of a previously isolated tribe called the Txapanawa on the bank of the Envira River in the village of Simpatia in Brazil. The Anthropologist is José Carlos Meirelles.
- In August 2013 Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum were jailed for six years and eight months each for trying to smuggle 1.5 million pounds worth of cocaine from Peru to Spain. Their arrest highlighted that Peru has taken over from Colombia as the cocaine capital of the world. This remarkable documentary has secured unprecedent access to every link in the drugs chain across Peru. In the film, the gangs who are sending the mules speak on camera; from those who groom them to those who make the bags for transportation.
- A Documentary about two filmmakers who wanted to interview El Chapo Guzman. Who was leader of one of the biggest drug cartels in history. Was finally captured in 2014 but escaped again in 2015.
- A cross-cultural rock'n'roll romantic odyssey of intergalactic dimension.
- 'Gabo, The Magic of Reality' is a story about the incredible power of human imagination, which follows the interwoven threads of Gabriel García Márquez's life and work - "Gabo" to all of Latin America - with the narrative tension of an investigation.
- A documentary that chronicles the hunt for the notorious Mexican drug lord El Chapo.
- The Choice tells Suu Kyi's extraordinary personal and political story, how she turned from Oxford housewife into national leader and then an international icon of resistance. Filmed over a year of tumultuous change in Burma, the film has two long interviews with Suu Kyi as well a colleagues in Burma and with family and friends outside. Hillary Clinton describes the impact of meeting this woman, whom she had long admired, as "seeing a long lost friend" whilst comparing her to Nelson Mandela. Suu Kyi talks of sadness but no regrets over the decision she took, while her colleagues outline clearly the ongoing gamble that they are all taking in compromising with the regime. Made over an extended period, The Choice uses a range of unseen archive - not least the moment she meets her husband and son for the first time after five years. A mix of current affairs and biography, the film captures a country and internationally revered politician at a crossroads. BBC (2012)
- In this provocative gonzo documentary, journalist Storm Theunissen uncovers the ethics of the body parts trade by trying to sell every bit of herself that she legally can.
- Redzo pretended to be insane in order to escape the war in Bosnia in 1992. Little did he know that he would spend 17 years locked up in Hungarian refugee camp.
- In February 2011, millions of Egyptians came together to bring down President Hosni Mubarak in what became the defining moment of the Arab Spring. For the past year Children of the Revolution has followed three young revolutionaries as their differing visions for the new Egypt collide. Ahmed Hassan hoped a new Egypt would mean finding work. Western-educated Gigi Ibrahim's desire was for an open and liberal country. Tahir Yasin, tortured in Mubarak's jails, joined a new ultra-conservative party hoping to realise his vision of Egypt as an Islamic state. Children of the Revolution goes into homes, markets and mosques, witnessing families at war and personal dreams of revolution unravel.
- When 33 Chilean miners emerged from underground before a worldwide audience of over a billion, they made a pact not to speak about what happened underground. Now six of them remember the untold story of the first seventeen days - when no one outside knew if they were alive. Filming down a Chilean mine with fellow miners, 17 Days Buried Alive explores the nightmare of living in dark tunnels half a mile underground, eating a spoonful of tuna every two days and not knowing if they would ever be found.
- After confronting death deep below the Chilean desert, the 33 trapped miners were then thrust into the glare of the international media's spotlight. Invitations flooded in from around the world for guest appearances on TV shows and charity events, even from Sir Bobby Charlton. This film is a vivid and moving account of how three of the miners have coped with the pressures of fame. They may now be the toast of the world, but many of the miners suffer from the anxieties that come with recurring nightmares and some from post traumatic stress and addiction - all of which have an inevitable impact on their wives and families. This is the story of how these ordinary working men and their families are struggling with the pressures of sudden fame and wealth, whilst still coming to terms with the trauma of 70 days underground.
- The story of the kidnapping of Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and her assistant Clara Rojas. Both of them spent six years in the jungle before their rescue.
- Angus MacQueen explores drug legislation across the world and questions whether the law works.
- Two families in search of justice.
- Neda Agha Soltan became the international symbol of protest after the disputed elections in Iran in June 2009 when her death was caught on a phone camera and uploaded onto the internet. This film pieces together the story of her death in the context of the elections and the violence that followed. Driven by the astonishing footage of the protests caught on tens of phone cameras, this is a moving story told by people who were there and whose lives have since been forever altered. An Iranian Martyr attempts to understand what happened and how and why the Iranian Government responded in the way it did - both at the time and in the months that followed.
- Frontline examines the death of Neda Agha-Soltan and the protests against the controversial 2009 Iranian presidential election.
- A documentary on Alexis Arquette and the process of her sex reassignment surgery.
- Lovelorn Vince Peart, a 21-year-old coal-boy from Alston in Cumbria, launched a campaign to attract single women to his hometown. This simple quest to find a girlfriend would end in his transformation into Britain's unlikeliest local hero.
- This film travels to Russia's 'Wild Wild East' to follow Vitaly Dymochka as he tries to go legit in order to pursue the unlikeliest of dreams: making it as a film director with an action trilogy based on his own violent past - starring himself and other real life bandits. Featuring unique access into a secret world, Once Upon a Time in Siberia is a comic yet ultimately chilling look at everyday life inside the Russian mafia.
- A countdown of the top 50 documentaries, based on a vote by documentary filmmakers.
- Follow Maria Cristina Chirolla, head of Colombia's Attorney General's anti-money-laundering office, as she struggles to fight the extraordinary reach of drug money in Colombia.
- An intimate, brutal story of violence, poverty and drugs in Rio de Janeiro. Former gang boss Zé talks candidly about how poverty drove him to crime, but he finally got out.
- A three-part documentary series investigating the cocaine trafficking, distribution, usage and state control.
- Meet the Peruvian coca farmers who are totally dependent on the paltry money they make from growing coca leaves, and the cocaine-makers who turn the leaves into 'dandruff of the Andes'.
- The world is challenged with the reality of global warming. Marcel Theroux takes us on a pragmatic journey assessing the principle causes of excessive carbon emissions. He then considers various alternative energy sources and the reality of applying each alternative in reducing or even reversing global warming. His analysis is simple and clear, using experts in each field with undeniable credentials to critique each option and the pros and cons of the solution. What Marcel describes is confronting, as is the logical outcome he arrives at which is the best of many evils.
- Inauguration of the 1st Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards (83 minutes) followed by interviews backstage (30 minutes) with the recipients, honourees and presenters of the evening of February 21st 2004.
- This powerful documentary follows a family ripped apart by the drug gangs that control their favela.
- In December 2001, the Argentinian government defaulted on $155 billion in public debt. Since then, this once-wealthy country has gone through five presidents and watched its currency fall by more than 70 percent. How do people survive in a broken economy? The solutions range from the ingenious -- barter clubs where members can exchange goods and services without money -- to the brutal, including outbreaks of rioting. With the most basic government services now only a memory and the army camped around the capital, how can the people of Argentina begin to put their society back together? What does a financial meltdown look like? And where do American interests or responsibilities lie?
- Interviews with veteran survivors of Soviet prison camps in Siberia, who had been imprisoned for political offences. Also interviewed are former prison guards who remain unrepentant. All this is contrasted with archive footage of Soviet propaganda.
- Croatia recaptures most of the territory of the Republic of Serbian Krajina. Bosnian Serb forces commit massacres. NATO forces the Bosnian Serbs to return to negotiations. The Dayton Agreement effectively ends the Bosnian war.
- After the war between Serbia and Croatia ends with the signing of an agreement, Serbia involves itself in Bosnia where a lot is at stake. Here begins the longest and the most tragic part of the conflict.
- The situation in Bosnia worsens, there is further conflict between the Serb and Bosnian forces. There is increasing UN involvement and NATO steps in. The Bosnians and Croats reach a treaty mediated by the UN, whilst another falls through.
- Slovenia and Croatia soon declare their independence and ask for international recognition. But Belgrade (the capital of both Serbia and Yugoslavia) does not see it this way because this means the collapse of Yugoslavia.
- Series documenting the history of the twentieth century through the testimony of those who lived through it.
- Serbs in Croatia feel threatened by Croatia's newly elected President and they begin a Log Revolution. In 1991, Croatia holds an independence referendum. The Battle of Vukovar is the first major battle in the Croatian War of Independence.
- This captivate documentary covers the struggles of the Yugoslavian people during the collapse of their country, and the subsequent wars to finally find hope with the signing of the Final Peace Accords.
- After the death of Josip Broz Tito, rising nationalism grips Yugoslavia. This is exacerbated after Slobodan Milosevic takes power in Serbia and turns against the Kosovar Albanians.
- Historical events are extensively re-explored both through written records and systematic examinations in the field.
- Weekly documentary series focussing on political and social issues.
- Documentary seeks to answer why the majority of the German people were so willing to follow Hitler, even as he led them into war.
- A thoughtful, detailed exposition of how and why the end of the Great War led inevitably to the Second World War, the most horrific in human history. Narrated by the great journalist Eric Sevareid.
- FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world and American television's top long-form news and current affairs series since 1983
- Science documentaries about various topics.