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- An innovative 'magic realist' documentary set in Iraq. Filmmaker Mark Cousins, who was brought up in a Northern Irish war zone, travels to Goptapa, a Kurdish-Iraqi village of just 700 people on a tributary of the Tigris river, and tries to make a dream film about a place that is normally only portrayed in current affairs programmes. He gives the kids cameras. They make little movies about war, love, a fish that goes to a magical place, and a chicken who debates justice. Despite the production being stopped twice by the Iraqi secret police, The First Movie is about wonder and the power of the imagination.
- A year ago, 36-year-old Jonny Kennedy died. He had a terrible genetic condition called Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) - which meant that his skin literally fell off at the slightest touch, leaving his body covered in agonizing sores and leading to a final fight against skin cancer. In his last months Jonny decided to work with filmmaker Patrick Collerton to document his life and death, and the result was a film, first broadcast in March, that was an uplifting, confounding and provocatively humorous story of a singular man. Not shying away from the grim reality of EB, the film was also a celebration of a life lived to the full.
- At California State University Dr Eric W Hickey devised a model showing the development of the murderous personality, based on research into more than 200 cases of serial murder. These findings are applied to the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, who between 1978 and 1991 killed 17 young men. Shows conversations between Dahmer and his forensic psychologist and footage of the trial. Behavioural psychologists and criminologists explain how Dahmer and other serial killers such as Ted Bundy, Peter Sutcliffe and John Wayne Casey came to kill.
- In October 2011 in the tiny town of Le Roy, New York, a handful of teenage girls from the same high school suddenly developed symptoms that looked like Tourette's syndrome; facial twitching, violent limb gestures and uncontrollable verbal outbursts. The epidemic strangely seemed to affect only teenage girls and resulted in panicked parents and theories coming in thick and fast. Some doctors who saw the girls believed they were victims of conversion disorder, where real physical symptoms - in this case tics - are triggered not by a physical cause, but by psychological trauma. However this solution didn't convince all the families, who claimed their perfect girls, from cheerleaders to high-achievers, were from stable backgrounds and couldn't possibly be suffering from anything 'in the mind'.
- As an energy crisis and cost of living crisis collide, this 3-part series will see the Lincolnshire lorry mechanic and motorcycle racer investigate the past, present and future of British power stations to work out how the country makes its most valuable commodity of all: electricity. The series is set to have a raft of fascinating moments including Guy making his own spectacular contribution towards Britain's 'Net Zero' goals, by helping to blow up a coal-fired power station. He'll be putting himself through an intense safety course and learning how to escape from an underwater helicopter so that he can work on the world's biggest offshore wind farm, then he'll work with the British Army in their brand new solar-powered workshop. Plus he'll be tasked with "the hardest job in the country" - manually making the second-by-second adjustments required to balance the nation's supply of electricity with its ever-changing demand. Guy will also drive to the very end of the National Grid - the Orkney Islands - and find out how the world's biggest tidal generator and a fledgling hydrogen economy are teaching the world about future fuels. Additionally, he'll investigate what part nuclear has to play in keeping the country's lights on and will put in a shift at Hinkley Point C, the nuclear building site reputed to cost £7m a day to run.
- For many people, rats conjure up images of disease or vermin, and inspire horror, disgust and fear. But some people feel very differently about these furry rodents. Kate and Kevin Rattray are members of the Yorkshire Rat Club and are keen rat enthusiasts. Their brood began with two in 2006 and has grown to 27 strong. Having never had the parental instinct for children, Kate and Kevin describe themselves as a 'weird couple, with no kids but lots of rats'. Jenny Popplewell's First Cut film explores the Rattrays' unique household and their unconventional love affair with rats. From losing a beloved member of the family to throwing birthday parties, this is a portrait of a very different couple, but one who are in some ways exactly the same as any loving parents.
- "Street Sound and Style" is a four part documentary series that traces the journey of how music and street style subcultures have changed the face of pop culture forever, utilising i-D's unique position at the forefront of British style culture to bring authenticity and authority to this retrospective.
- About the mission of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) in the UK film industry and import. All classification decisions are based on the BBFC's published and regularly updated Guidelines. The Guidelines are the product of extensive public consultation, research and the accumulated experience of the BBFC over many years. They reflect current views on film, DVD and video game regulation. Some do still get banned.
- Hank Wangford loves duets like he loves waltzes and duet harmonies are everywhere in country music. The Brother duets are a spine running through the story of Country music and Hank celebrates this with the Louvin Brothers, Wilburn, Delmore, Monroe and Everly Brothers and many many more. We hear the tragic stories of the brothers and how they all fell out and ended their lives not talking to each other. Hank spends time with Charlie Louvin at the Louvin Brothers music park in Alabama and hears Charlie sing "Stormy Horizons" for the first time. Hank sings a Delmore Brothers song with Lionel Delmore. We also explore boy/girl duets like Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn or George Jones and Tammy Wynette and many earlier duets. The emotional lives of the duets. brothers or lovers, are as rich as the harmonies they sing.
- China is a manufacturing colossus. Britons are surrounded by products sporting the legend 'Made in China'. Gok Wan returns to his ancestral home to explore the largely unseen world of Chinese mass production, meeting the people working in the factories that supply the West. He visits the village his father grew up in for the first time as part of a journey of discovery round a country that now produces one in every four man-made objects on the planet. Gok goes to 'Jeans Town', 'Bra Town', the factory that makes London cabs, and 'Thames Town', as well as to ultra-modern Shanghai, where he meets a stylist pushing the boundaries in Chinese fashion.
