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2021
S5 E2Britain's Lost Masterpieces
Britain's Lost Masterpieces1 2021 HD
Series tracking down lost, hidden, and misattributed paintings from local museums and galleries across Britain.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Bendor Grosvenor
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2020S1 E3
The Mole - Infiltrating North Korea
The Mole - Infiltrating North Korea8.30 2020 HD
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Mads Brügger
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2018S3 E6
Shakespeare Uncovered
Shakespeare Uncovered6.00 2018 HD
Celebrity hosts guide viewers through William Shakespeare's plays in performance. Each episode serves as a primer for newcomers to Shakespeare while...
Genre: Documentary
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2018S1 E8
Snatches: Moments from Women's Lives
Snatches: Moments from Women's Lives9.00 2018 HD
Monologues inspired by women who have spoken out, challenged the status quo or made a stand – often at great personal cost.
Genre: Drama
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2005S1 E3
Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky
Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky5.33 2005 HD
A story of unrequited love set in 1930s London, against the backdrop of grimy streets and public houses.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Phil Davis
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2020S1 E3
H2O: The Molecule that Made Us
H2O: The Molecule that Made Us8.00 2020 HD
A landmark, three-part series that tells the human story through our relationship to water. We find out how our success is intimately connected to...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Kelly McEvers
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2015S1 E3
Blood and Gold: The Making of Spain with Simon Sebag Montefiore
Blood and Gold: The Making of Spain with Simon Sebag Montefiore8.00 2015 HD
Simon Sebag Montefiore embarks on a fascinating journey to unlock 2,000 years of Spain's history.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Simon Sebag-Montefiore
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2019S1 E6
Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World
Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World8.00 2019 HD
Take a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic objects that modern people take for granted, and see how science,...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jim Al-Khalili
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2017S1 E8
Queers.
Queers.6.00 2017 HD
A series of eight monologues set in the same pub over many years of gay history in response to the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act.
Genre: Drama
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2014S1 E2
The Secrets of Quantum Physics
The Secrets of Quantum Physics6.40 2014 HD
Professor of physics Jim Al-Khalili investigates the most accurate and yet perplexing scientific theory ever - quantum physics.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jim Al-Khalili
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2011S1 E4
The Beauty of Books
The Beauty of Books1 2011 HD
Series combining human stories, expert interviews, book illustrations and historic archive to reveal the beauty of books.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Richard Dormer
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2018S1 E3
Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths
Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths7.70 2018 HD
Documentary series in which Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. Is it invented like a language or is it discovered and part of the fabric of...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Hannah Fry
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2008S1 E5
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery10.00 2008 HD
From the pioneering work of Galen on Roman gladiators to the latest advances in plastic surgery, this five-part series illustrates the evolution of...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Michael Mosley
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2023S4 E4
Canal Boat Diaries
Canal Boat Diaries9.50 2023 HD
Travelling through England’s landscapes, towns and villages, Robbie Cumming offers a personal take on life aboard his narrowboat the Naughty...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Robbie Cumming
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1987S1 E6
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood8.00 1987 HD
Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Ed Asner
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2006S1 E3
Folk Britannia
Folk Britannia1 2006 HD
Three 1-hour films exploring British folk music from the rebirth of English romance to the latter day revival.
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2017S1 E6
Killing for Love
Killing for Love1 2017 HD
Obsessed young lovers, heinous murders, a sensational trial, and a shocking miscarriage of justice. Killing for Love is a riveting dissection of the...
Genre: Documentary
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2019S1 E2
I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock
I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock1 2019 HD
Offers a reappraisal of "yacht rock", a critically neglected era of music popularized by a boom in FM radio stations and its smooth sound. The...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Katie Puckrik
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2010S1 E3
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea1 2010 HD
A mini-odyssey along the coast from Cornwall to Wales in the company of the actor Timothy Spall and his wife Shane on their Dutch barge.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Timothy Spall
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2016S1 E23
Secret Knowledge
Secret Knowledge1 2016 HD
In a series of authored films, some of our most engaging experts reveal their favourite hidden objects, forgotten places and artistic passions.
Genre: Documentary
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