Catch up TV
Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction
Episode 15-05-2024
Musician, actor and dad of three Matt Willis may seem to have it all. He’s part of the hugely successful noughties pop band, Busted, has a flourishing acting career and is ...
15-05-2024
BBC 1
Natural World
2009-2010: 8. Birds Of Paradise
Living in the depths of the New Guinea rainforest are the spectacular birds of paradise - creatures so beautiful that the first Europeans believed they must have fallen from hea ...
04-05-2024
BBC 4
Victorian Sensations
Series 1: 3. Seeing And Believing
In the final episode of this series, psychotherapist Philippa Perry time-travels back to the 1890s to explore how the late Victorian passion for science co-existed with a deeply ...
28-04-2024
BBC 4
The Cult Next Door
Episode 22-04-2024
This documentary by acclaimed director Vanessa Engle tells the extraordinary story of a strange cult, which came to light in 2013 when a sensational news story broke about three ...
22-04-2024
BBC 2
The Irish Rock Story: A Tale Of Two Cities
Episode 15-03-2024
Film telling the story of how rock music helped to change Ireland. The 40-year-old story of Irish rock and pop music is grounded in the very different musical traditions of the ...
15-03-2024
BBC 4
The Arts Interviews
Christopher Nolan
The BBC's Culture editor Katie Razzall talks to Christopher Nolan, one of the world's most renowned film directors and the man behind films such as Memento, Inception and Dunkir ...
11-03-2024
BBC 4
Storyville
Beyond Utopia: Escape From North Korea
A suspenseful, immersive look at the lengths to which people will go to gain freedom. The film follows various individuals as they attempt to flee North Korea, one of the most o ...
30-01-2024
BBC 4
Christmas At St Paul's
Episode 25-12-2023
This film goes behind the scenes at St Paul's Cathedral for their most magical time of year - Christmas. What is it like for the people who make the magic happen, and how do the ...
25-12-2023
BBC 2
Wild Cameramen At Work
2. Land
Some of the world's rarest and most dangerous animals live on dry land. Capturing them on film requires great patience and specialist skills. In this episode, Gordon Buchanan an ...
25-10-2023
BBC 2
Joan Armatrading: Me Myself I
Episode 13-10-2023
Joan Armatrading is one the most influential singer-songwriters in Britain. A national icon, she is known for her singular vision, both as a writer and as a performer. She has p ...
13-10-2023
BBC 4
Blitz Spirit With Lucy Worsley
Episode 20-09-2023
Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived, worked and volunteered during the Blitz. Using the same style as Lucy's film about the Suffragettes, the film shows ...
20-09-2023
BBC 1
Tommy Jessop Goes To Hollywood
Episode 15-09-2023
Line of Duty actor Tommy Jessop is on a mission to create his own movie with the help of his brother Will. Is Hollywood ready for a superhero with Down's syndrome?\n\nTommy is a ...
15-09-2023
BBC 1
Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane
Episode 22-08-2023
Crossfire Hurricane, directed by Brett Morgen, provides a remarkable new perspective on the Stones' unparalleled journey from blues-obsessed teenagers in the early 60s to rock r ...
22-08-2023
BBC 1
Brave Britain With Fergal Keane
Episode 21-07-2023
In this emotionally powerful film, award-winning reporter Fergal Keane goes in search of the same people he first met over 20 years ago in some of Britain’s most hard-pres ...
21-07-2023
BBC 1
Storyville
Blue Bag Life
Storyville documentary in which UK artist and film-maker Lisa Selby turns the camera on herself as she tries to understand her relationships with her late mother and her partner ...
09-05-2023
BBC 4
Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, The Horse And Me
Episode 10-04-2023
Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has touched millions of readers around the world and is now an animated film. This is the story of the man behin ...
10-04-2023
BBC 2
Listening Through The Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films
Episode 05-03-2023
A tribute to Christopher Nupen, who became Britain’s first independent television producer in the 1960s at the dawn of the documentary era. It is also the story of how the ...
05-03-2023
BBC 4
Catching A Predator
Episode 23-02-2023
In 2020, it was made public that Reynhard Sinaga had been prosecuted for 159 counts of rape and other sexual offences, against 48 men. But police found evidence relating to more ...
23-02-2023
BBC 2
Expedition Rhino: The Search For The Last Northern White
Episode 03-01-2023
With the death of the last captive male, Sudan, the northern white rhinoceros was officially declared extinct in 2018. But in recent years, possible sightings from a remote regi ...
03-01-2023
BBC 2
Simon Schama's History Of Now
Series 1: 1. Truth And Democracy
In his most personal project to date, Simon Schama looks back at the dramatic history that has played out in his lifetime. Best known for writing history, he has lived a fair bi ...
16-12-2022
BBC 2
Ibiza: The Silent Movie
Episode 04-11-2022
A 90-minute feature film that drills into the soul of this extraordinary, magical Island and releases the story of 3,000 years of Ibizan history. Julien Temple’s iconic tr ...
04-11-2022
BBC 4
Calculating Ada: The Countess Of Computing
Episode 26-09-2022
Ada Lovelace was a most unlikely computer pioneer. In this film, Dr Hannah Fry tells the story of Ada's remarkable life. Born in the early 19th century, Ada was a countess of th ...
26-09-2022
BBC 4
Ethel & Ernest
Episode 10-08-2022
Based on the award-winning book by acclaimed British author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, this beautifully hand-drawn animated feature film tells the true story of Raymond's o ...
10-08-2022
BBC 1
Seven Days In Summer: Countdown To Partition
Episode 09-08-2022
Today India and Pakistan are home to one fifth of the world's population. They are rising powers but hostile neighbours. Their enmity can be traced back to the week of their bir ...
09-08-2022
BBC 2
Haftar’s Russian Mercenaries
Episode 25-05-2022
BBC News Arabic and BBC News Russian uncover evidence of war crimes carried out in Libya by mercenaries working for the Wagner Group, a shadowy Russian private military contract ...
25-05-2022
BBC 2
David Stratton’s Stories Of Australian Cinema
Series 1: Episode 1
Much-loved film critic David Stratton tells the fascinating story of Australian cinema, focusing in on the films that capture this idiosyncratic nation with drama, emotion and h ...
10-04-2022
BBC 4
Miss World 1970: Beauty Queens And Bedlam
Episode 06-03-2022
This film tells the story of the infamous 1970 Miss World contest, when protestors dramatically disrupted the event, kickstarting a feminist revolution in front of an audience o ...
06-03-2022
BBC 2
Marianne And Leonard: Words Of Love
Episode 13-02-2022
The beautiful yet tragic love story between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Their love began on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra in 1960 as part of a bohem ...
13-02-2022
BBC 4
Arena
The Most Beautiful Boy In The World
In 1970, film-maker Luchino Visconti travelled throughout Europe looking for the perfect boy to personify absolute beauty as the character of Tadzio in his adaptation for the sc ...
13-02-2022
BBC 4
My Generation
Episode 01-01-2022
British film icon Michael Caine narrates and stars in My Generation, the vivid and inspiring story of his personal journey through 1960s London. Based on personal accounts and a ...
01-01-2022
BBC 2
Saturday Night Fever - The Ultimate Disco Movie
Episode 17-12-2021
John Travolta and Barry Gibb star in Saturday Night Fever - The Ultimate Disco Movie, with Bruno Tonioli. This documentary celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the 1977 blockb ...
17-12-2021
BBC 2
Arena
The Vasulka Effect
An exploration of the life and work of video art pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka. The film examines the artistic processes of the pair and their profound effect on the 1960s N ...
28-11-2021
BBC 4
My Father And Me
Episode 10-11-2021
For decades among the foremost names in documentary, Nick Broomfield has often implicated himself in the film-making process with honesty and candour. Yet never has he made a mo ...
10-11-2021
BBC 2
Catching A Predator
Episode 06-10-2021
In 2020, it was made public that Reynhard Sinaga had been prosecuted for 159 counts of rape and other sexual offences, against 48 men. But police found evidence relating to more ...
06-10-2021
BBC 2
The Last Mountain
Episode 26-09-2021
The compelling story of 30-year-old climber Tom Ballard who disappeared on one of the Himalayas most deadly mountains in February 2019. Tom was the son of mountaineer Alison Har ...
26-09-2021
BBC 2
My Life
Series 10: 1. Blood Sugar Brothers
A CBBC viewer is given the opportunity to make a film about his younger brother Alfie, who has diabetes. Sixteen-year-old Billy works with film maker Sunny Kang and researcher M ...
01-08-2021
CBBC
Ptsd: The War In My Head
Episode 13-05-2021
This film tells the stories of three British soldiers who died last year following lengthy battles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). John Paul Finnigan from Liverpool, ...
13-05-2021
BBC 2
Danceworks
Series 2: 4. María Pagés: An Ode To Flamenco
A film that transports us to Spain and the mesmerising work of flamenco star María Pagés. María’s passion for flamenco is infectious. A child prodigy, ...
11-05-2021
BBC 4
Danceworks
Series 2: 2. Sharon Eyal: A Basic Instinct
Sharon Eyal, a former star dancer and in-house choreographer at Tel Aviv’s pioneering Batsheva Dance Company, has become one of the most exciting and powerful choreographe ...
10-05-2021
BBC 4
True North
Series 13: 1. The Disability Paradox
This new film explores fundamental questions about what makes us happy and how we can improve the quality of our life. Non-disabled people often take a sympathetic, even pitying ...
18-11-2020
BBC 3
Ella Fitzgerald: Just One Of Those Things
Episode 13-11-2020
Tracing the story of Ella Fitzgerald’s life, this documentary film explores how her music became a soundtrack for a tumultuous century.\n\nFrom a 1934 talent contest at th ...
13-11-2020
BBC 4
Inside Cinema
Black History Month: 4. Ryan Coogler
An exploration of the work of Ryan Coogler, a record-breaking film director, whose Oscar-winning and box office-conquering superhero adventure Black Panther scaled new heights f ...
19-10-2020
BBC 4
Being Blacker
Episode 12-10-2020
After a ten-year absence, acclaimed film-maker Molly Dineen is back with a new feature documentary, Being Blacker.\n\nThe film tells the story of the renowned reggae record shop ...
12-10-2020
BBC 2
Stacey Dooley Investigates
Locked Up With The Lifers
Stacey Dooley travels to Iowa to investigate one of the most radical women’s prisons in America. The Correctional Institute for Women is a new 80-million-pound facility wh ...
05-10-2020
BBC 3
My Life
Series 10: 4. I Will Survive
My Life ‘I Will Survive’ was filmed over the summer of 2018 and follows the life of Vlogger Nikki Lilly. Combining observational footage, video diaries and her own v ...
23-08-2020
CBBC
Storyville
Jailed In America
For director Roger Ross Williams, prison was not a distant possibility when he was growing up, but a daily threat. 'As a young black man in a chaotic environment, I always felt ...
01-07-2020
BBC 4
Talking Pictures
Barry Norman
Rory Bremner explores the BBC archives for an affectionate look back at the career of Barry Norman, who hosted the BBC's Film Review show for 26 years, and passed away in June 2 ...
21-06-2020
BBC 2
Mark Kermode's Secrets Of Cinema
Series 1: 4. Science Fiction
Mark Kermode continues his fresh and very personal look at the art of cinema by examining the techniques and conventions behind classic film genres, uncovering the ingredients t ...
30-04-2020
BBC 4
A Day In The Life Of Andy Warhol
Episode 31-03-2020
Andy Warhol created some of the most instantly recognisable art of the 20th century. But perhaps his greatest work of art was himself - the cool, enigmatic pop art superstar.\n ...
31-03-2020
BBC 4
Hokusai: Old Man Crazy To Paint
Episode 06-01-2020
The first UK film biography of the world-renowned Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), whose print The Great Wave is as globally famous as Leonardo's Mona Lisa. With ...
06-01-2020
BBC 4