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The Gene Revolution: Changing Human Nature
The biggest tech revolution of the 21st century isn't digital, it's biological. A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of ...
11-12-2024
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Until I Fly
Five-year-old Veeru has to endure relentless bullying and discrimination. Born to an Indian mother and a Nepalese father, in the Indian Himalayan village where he lives, he is t ...
26-11-2024
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Queendom
A Storyville documentary following Gina, a queer artist from a small Russian town, who stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism – a ...
21-11-2024
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Agent Of Happiness
Amber works as a happiness agent for the government of Bhutan, which has devised Gross National Happiness, a way of measuring and collating the contentment of the nation.\n\nWe ...
19-11-2024
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Hollywoodgate
With unprecedented access to one of the most secretive cabals in the world, the Taliban, this extraordinary film begins on the day after the last US soldier left Afghanistan in ...
05-11-2024
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Eternal You
A Storyville documentary exploring the digital afterlife business.\n\nWhat if a person's death did not mean the end of their life? What if their loved ones could still talk to t ...
29-10-2024
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Dogs Of War
A Storyville documentary that tells the untold story of a seemingly ordinary Englishman who spent more than 40 years as a mercenary, fighting other people’s wars for money ...
22-10-2024
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On The Morning You Wake (to The End Of The World)
On 13 January 2018, Hawaiians were suddenly confronted by an urgent nuclear threat. This was the text message they received from their country's emergency management agency: \n\ ...
08-10-2024
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War Game
A Storyville documentary that sweeps viewers into an elaborate simulation which dramatically escalates the threat that was posed in the USA by the Capitol attack on 6 January 20 ...
01-10-2024
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The Village That Fought Back: Five Broken Cameras
Oscar-nominated film compiled from the video diary of a Palestinian farmer who documents unrest in his West Bank village. Emad Burnat starts filming with his first camera follow ...
25-09-2024
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Undercover Oap: The Mole Agent
A recently widowed 83-year-old goes undercover in a Chilean nursing home in a warm-hearted and surprising look at age, isolation and loneliness. \n\nSergio is a Chilean spy - so ...
24-07-2024
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Attica: America’s Bloodiest Prison Uprising
A Storyville documentary about the violent five-day standoff between inmates and law enforcement which gripped America in 1971.
23-07-2024
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Inheriting The Castle
Justina, an indigenous Argentinian, has been rewarded by her former employer for her lifelong work as her maid with an enormous crumbling mansion deep in the Argentine Pampas. T ...
02-07-2024
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Bad Press
In 2018, out of 574 federally recognised tribes, the Muscogee Nation (the fourth largest Native American tribe) was one of only five to establish a free and independent press - ...
25-06-2024
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Citizen Ashe
Documentary that tells the little-known story of sports legend Arthur Ashe off the tennis court. Known to most on account of his stellar sports career – he became the firs ...
23-06-2024
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Flee
A Storyville documentary, mostly animated, that charts the extraordinary true tale of Ali, a gay Afghan man, and the desperate measures he is forced to take to escape persecution.
18-06-2024
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Copa ’71: The Lost Lionesses - Storyville
In August 1971, football teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark and Italy gathered in Mexico City for a watershed tournament. With lavish sponsorship, extensive ...
11-06-2024
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Against The Tide
Indian fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh are Kolis, the ancient indigenous fishing community of Bombay. \n\nRakesh has inherited a boat and the knowledge of catching fish from his fat ...
04-06-2024
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Dalton's Dream
In 2018, Jamaican national Dalton Harris won The X Factor and became the first non-British black singer to win the UK’s biggest TV singing competition, in its final series ...
28-05-2024
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The Gullspång Miracle: A Nordic Mystery
When two sisters buy an apartment in the small Swedish town of Gullspång, they experience their own divine premonition. To their surprise, the seller is identical to their ...
21-05-2024
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Praying For Armageddon
Praying for Armageddon is a political thriller that explores the power and influence of American Evangelical Christians as they aim to fulfil the Armageddon prophecy. \n\nThe fi ...
14-05-2024
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Murder In The Bush: Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investig ...
09-04-2024
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Jonestown: Terror In The Jungle: Episode 2
On 18 November 1978, over 900 men, women and children lost their lives at Jonestown, a remote settlement established by the People’s Temple in northern Guyana. They were l ...
19-03-2024
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Jonestown: Terror In The Jungle: Episode 1
On 18 November 1978, over 900 men, women and children lost their lives at Jonestown, a remote settlement established by the People's Temple in northern Guyana. They were led to ...
19-03-2024
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The Trials Of Oppenheimer
J Robert Oppenheimer was one of the most celebrated scientists of his generation. Shy, arrogant and brilliant, he is best known as the man that led the Manhattan Project to spec ...
11-03-2024
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Total Trust: Surveillance State
A Storyville documentary that explores, in intimate detail, state surveillance and digital social control in China by following the experiences of two families and a journalist. ...
20-02-2024
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The Eternal Memory
An extraordinary portrait of unconditional love and devotion, directed by Oscar-nominated documentary director Maite Alberdi.\n\nAugusto Góngora and Paulina Urrutia have ...
13-02-2024
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Another Body: My Ai Porn Nightmare
When 22-year-old American engineering student Taylor discovers that her face has been digitally altered to appear in online hardcore porn videos, she is devastated and doesn't k ...
06-02-2024
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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
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Revenge: Our Dad The Nazi Killer
Hundreds of Nazi war criminals fled to Australia after World War Two hoping to start over and avoid prosecution. Not all of them found the refuge they had sought; quite a few di ...
23-01-2024
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Keeping It Up: The Story Of Viagra
Twenty-five years ago, Viagra kick-started the second sexual revolution and a controversy unlike any drug before it. From Wales to New York, this is the big story of the little ...
04-01-2024
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Songs Of Earth
The dizzyingly beautiful mountainous landscapes of Norway provide the backdrop for this immersive story of a family whose lives are linked intrinsically to their environment. Se ...
25-12-2023
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Pianoforte
Considered to be one of the most prestigious competitions in classical music, the International Chopin Piano Competition, held in Warsaw every five years since 1927, has been a ...
17-12-2023
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The Truffle Hunters
Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of elderly men hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle. This award-winning film follows these truffle hunters, who l ...
31-10-2023
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Made Of Steel: Wheelchair Rugby’s Fiercest Rivalry
Back in November 2022, England played host to the Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup. The unflinching action and raw passion on display took many new fans by surprise, and as the ...
10-10-2023
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If The Streets Were On Fire
This is London from an exhilarating, rarely seen perspective. With knife violence rising, social activist Mac creates BikeStormz, a movement for kids across the city to express ...
03-10-2023
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Tanja: Terrorist Or Freedom Fighter?
What would make a middle-class Dutch woman want to join a revolutionary struggle thousands of miles from home? This Storyville film tells the story of Tanja Nijmeijer, the forme ...
26-09-2023
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Winning Hearts And Minds
In the aftermath of the war in Afghanistan, western troops were part of a Nato force, working with the then-new Afghan authorities to help ‘win the hearts and minds’ ...
19-09-2023
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Benjamin, Joshua And The Crown Shyness
When high school ends and adulthood begins, Benjamin and Joshua Israel, two identical twins of Jewish origin, start feeling burdened. While friends and schoolmates are planning ...
12-09-2023
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Blue Box
Blue Box is a brave account of how the Jewish National Fund acquired land in Palestine before and after the creation of the State of Israel. Film-maker Michal Weits' great-grand ...
05-09-2023
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Ihuman
A Storyville documentary. Artificial intelligence now permeates every aspect of our lives, but only a handful of people have any control over its influence on our world. \n\nWit ...
29-08-2023
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8 Bar: The Evolution Of Grime
They called it young black kids’ punk rock - a genre that radio stations wouldn’t play and records that labels refused to sell. But grime would not be stopped. With ...
24-08-2023
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Pepe The Frog: Feels Good Man
Pepe the Frog started life in 2005 as a cute cartoon character in Boy’s Club, an American indie comic on Myspace. Today, he is known as an international hate symbol after ...
23-07-2023
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The Queen Of Africa: The Miriam Makeba Story
A Storyville documentary that takes a look at the life of South African singer and civil rights activist Miriam Makeba. Forced into a life of exile for exposing the harsh realit ...
30-05-2023
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Inside Kabul
When the Taliban returned to power in 2021, the lives and destinies of two young Afghani women, Raha and Marwa, were changed forever. \n\nInside Kabul is an animated film based ...
23-05-2023
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Welcome To Chechnya: The Gay Purge
Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge lays bare the Russian Federation republic's deadly war against its gay citizens. Countless victims have been killed and hundreds more are miss ...
23-05-2023
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In The Name Of The Father
Extraordinary film based in the Breslov Hasidic community in Yavniel, Israel.\n\nThe community was founded in the 1980s and led by charismatic leader Rabbi Schick, also known as ...
16-05-2023
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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
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Nelly And Nadine: Ravensbrück, 1944
A Storyville documentary about two women who fall in love in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
25-04-2023
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The Night Notre-dame Burned
A Storyville documentary that tells the dramatic story of the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral on 15 April 2019. Blow by blow, it follows the team of brave firefighters ...
04-04-2023
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The Pm, The Playboy And The Wolf Of Wall Street
A Malaysian wealth fund is robbed of US$3.5 billion. It is the world’s biggest white-collar heist involving government corruption at the highest level, an abuse of power a ...
14-03-2023
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Scandalous! The Tabloid That Changed America
Sex! Gossip! Scandal! Over the course of 60 years, the National Enquirer became the most infamous tabloid in America, pumping out salacious stories, stretching the limits of jou ...
12-03-2023
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Sex On Screen
A Storyville documentary that explores the process of creating sex scenes in Hollywood, the toll on those involved in filming them, and the impact such images have on women and ...
28-02-2023
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Inside Russia: Traitors And Heroes
Despite the huge risks, two Russian film-makers have been filming the impact of the invasion of Ukraine in their country. Many thousands have fled. Those that have stayed have h ...
26-02-2023
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The Spy In Your Mobile
A Storyville documentary that investigates a powerful and terrifying spyware called Pegasus, sold to governments around the world by Israeli company NSO Group and used on journa ...
18-02-2023
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Casa Susanna
In the 1950s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskill mountains, there was a small wooden house with a barn behind it called Casa Susanna, a holiday ...
04-02-2023
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Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Three minutes of footage is all that remains of the Jewish community of Nasielsk, Poland, filmed in 1938 by photographer David Kurtz. This Storyville documentary unravels the ta ...
29-01-2023
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A Bunch Of Amateurs
A bunch of amateur film-makers, with nothing left to lose, tackle one of Hollywood's greatest musicals in order to save their beloved Bradford Film Club.\n\nAs its members grow ...
13-12-2022
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A House Made Of Splinters
Tears turn to soap bubbles, and hugs turn to fights, in this award-winning film about an orphanage in eastern Ukraine, filmed before Russia’s invasion in February 2022. \n ...
08-11-2022
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The Fire Within
On 3 June 1991 at 3.18pm, a pyroclastic flow erupted from Mount Unzen in Japan. A cloud of superheated gases and particles descended at more than 100mph from the peak of the vol ...
22-10-2022
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Beneath The Surface
In 2014, following a tip-off, a group of journalists exposed a troubled history for indigenous Sámi women, men and children in Norway. It revealed generations of negligen ...
15-10-2022
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Stranded! The Andes Plane Crash Survivors
In October 1972, a student rugby team boarded a small plane in Montevideo to fly across the Andes for a long weekend of playing rugby and partying in Chile. But they never reach ...
11-10-2022
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Midwives
Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of an under-resourced medical clinic in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya (a Muslim minorit ...
08-10-2022
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Collective: Unravelling A Scandal
In 2015, a fire at a nightclub in Bucharest, Romania, leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon afterwards, the burn victims recovering in hospital - from seemingly non-life-threaten ...
04-10-2022
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And Still I Sing
Controversial Afghan pop star and activist Aryana Sayeed mentors young hopefuls as they prepare to appear on their country’s hit TV show Afghan Star. With two young women ...
27-09-2022
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One Day In Ukraine
A snapshot of one day in a country under siege. Filmed on 14 March 2022, the 2,944th day of the Russian-Ukrainian war, by a collective of Ukrainian film-makers who wanted to doc ...
24-09-2022
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Gorbachev. Heaven
Mikhail Gorbachev helped to shape the 20th century, being the architect of glasnost and perestroika. His actions brought down the Berlin Wall, giving countries of the former Sov ...
17-09-2022
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The Hijacker Who Vanished: The Mystery Of Db Cooper
A mysterious fugitive, a hijacked airplane and a daring mid-air escape. This is the extraordinary, real-life tale of one of the greatest unsolved heists in American history and ...
07-08-2022
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Into My Name
A compelling coming-of-age story of four friends, sharing important turning points in their lives as they transition to a new gender.\n \nNic, Leo, Raff and Andrea meet in Bolog ...
21-06-2022
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John Curry: The Ice King
One of the greatest ice skaters of all time, John Curry transformed a dated sport into an art form and made history by becoming the first openly gay Olympian in a time when homo ...
05-06-2022
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The Trial Of Ratko Mladic
The Trial of Ratko Mladic, the worst times in Europe since the Second World War and the man at the heart of them.\n\nOn the 22nd of November 2017, the Bosnian Serb general, Ratk ...
16-05-2022
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College Behind Bars: Episode 2
A two-part Storyville documentary that tells the inspiring story of a group of men and women in the USA struggling to earn college degrees while in prison for serious crimes.\n\ ...
10-05-2022
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College Behind Bars: Episode 1
A two-part Storyville documentary that tells the inspiring story of a group of men and women in the USA struggling to earn college degrees while in prison for serious crimes.\n\ ...
03-05-2022
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The Earth Is Blue As An Orange
Single mother Anna and her four children are living under siege in Ukraine in 2019. Eldest daughter Mira dreams of becoming a film-maker and so, as bombs descend on neighbouring ...
30-03-2022
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Tango With Putin
In Putin’s Russia, former music radio producer Natasha Sindeeva dreams of becoming famous and decides to build her own TV station to focus on pop culture. \n\nTango with P ...
24-03-2022
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The Distant Barking Of Dogs
Ten-year-old Oleg lives with his grandma in eastern Ukraine, close to the front line of the war between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces. His village, Hnu ...
23-03-2022
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Writing With Fire
In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, a group of women set up India’s only newspaper run entirely by women. All of them are from the lowest caste, Dalit, and are ...
09-03-2022
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Price Of Gold
The world could not keep its eyes off two athletes at the 1994 Winter Games – Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. Just weeks before the Olympics in 1994, at the US Figure Sk ...
24-02-2022
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Try Harder!
The American college application process can be stressful at the best of times. For the super-smart, mostly Asian-American students at San Francisco’s Lowell High School, ...
16-02-2022
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President
When Robert Mugabe was ousted by his own party, Zimbabwe’s new leaders promised a democratic presidential election – the first since the start of Mugabe’s rul ...
09-02-2022
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Misha And The Wolves
The dramatic tale of a woman whose Holocaust memoir took the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher – who turned detective – revealed an audacious deceptio ...
02-02-2022
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Final Account
A portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in the Third Reich. Men and women ranging from former SS officers to children who grew up in Hitler&rs ...
26-01-2022
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The Age Of Stupid
Drama-documentary-animation hybrid starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and aski ...
30-10-2021
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Carlos Ghosn: The Last Flight
In December 2019, Carlos Ghosn, former CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, charged with financial crimes, stunned the world by fleeing Japan in a box supposedly containing a pri ...
10-10-2021
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United Skates
When America's last standing roller rinks are threatened with closure, a community of thousands battles in a racially charged environment to save an underground subculture - one ...
02-10-2021
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Hurt Locker Hero
The heart-stopping story of 'Crazy Fakhir', a Kurdish colonel in the Iraqi army and legendary bomb disposal expert who single-handedly disarmed thousands of landmines across the ...
25-09-2021
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Toffs, Queers And Traitors: The Extraordinary Life Of Guy Burgess
It was a scandal that shook the British establishment to its roots. In June 1951, the government was forced to admit that two Foreign Office diplomats had disappeared. One of th ...
28-08-2021
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Under The Wire
On 13 February 2012, war-correspondent Marie Colvin and photographer Paul Conroy entered war-ravaged Syria to cover the plight of civilians trapped in the besieged city of Homs, ...
21-08-2021
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Eagle Huntress
Aisholpan is a 13-year-old girl from a remote Mongolian tribe, who dreams of becoming an eagle hunter - just like her father and her grandfather before him. The ancient traditio ...
31-07-2021
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Hillsong Church: God Goes Viral
This Storyville documentary details the story of celebrity favourite and globally trending megachurch Hillsong. In a relatively short time it has grown explosively, from small f ...
21-07-2021
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Raising A School Shooter
As the disaster of yet another school shooting hits, some parents are faced with a brutal fact: their child was the one pulling the trigger. In this powerful and sensitively tol ...
07-07-2021
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Petite Fille
Petite Fille (Little Girl) is a moving and sensitive portrait of a young French girl called Sasha, who was assigned male at birth. This poignant and emotional documentary follow ...
04-07-2021
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