Documentaries

The 1900 House

10 Episodes

In an experiment in living history to investigate how radically our lives have been changed by technology in the last 100 years, a modern family swap the luxury of1999 for a life of urban Victorian domesticity

24 Hours in A&E

2 Episodes

With 91 cameras filming round the clock, 24 Hours in A&E offers unprecedented access to one of Britain's busiest A&E departments, at King's College Hospital

3 Minute Wonder

2 Series, 5 Episodes

Budding new directors, who haven't yet had the opportunity to make a film for broadcast, are given the chance to make four films destined for television

419: The Internet Romance Scam

1 Episode

Barney Lankester-Owen's First Cut film examines the complex psychology of internet romance scams and features rare access to a former Nigerian scammer

8 Boys and Wanting a Girl

1 Episode

Cutting Edge meets women who suffer from the psychological condition of 'gender disappointment', including the mother of eight sons who is desperate to have a daughter

9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers

1 Episode

An insight into some of the lives lost in the September 11 terrorist attack, demonstrated by the poignant phone calls made by some of the thousands of people trapped inside the World Trade Center

9/11: The Falling Man

1 Episode

This documentary examines the story behind one of the most unforgettable images of 9/11: a photograph of a man falling from one of the towers

9/11: The Tenth Anniversary

2 Episodes

Two films marking the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks

A Bipolar Expedition

1 Episode

Paul Downes, a successful businessman with bipolar disorder, invites 12 Ukrainian women to join him at a castle in Jamaica, hoping that one of them can be persuaded to marry him

A Boy Called Alex: The Concert

1 Episode

Highlights from the remarkable performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion conducted by Alex Stobbs at London's Cadogan Hall

A WI Lady's Guide to Brothels

1 Episode

Middle England meets the sex trade head-on when the Hampshire WI emerges as an unlikely champion of the reform of prostitution laws

Accused: The 74 Stone Babysitter

1 Episode

The story of one of the most incredible murder trials America has witnessed, following the twists and turns in the case of Mayra Rosales and the death of her two-year-old nephew

Adopt Me - I'm a Teenager

1 Episode

An observational film looking at adoption stories in the USA. The programme features teenagers between the ages of 15-17 who are on an epic emotional journey in search of a permanent family.

After the Apocalypse

1 Episode

The story of the people of Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, who were used as guinea pigs in the Soviet Union's testing of nuclear weapons

The Air Hospital

1 Episode

Cutting Edge gets on board the Ministry of Defence's C-17 Globemaster plane as its elite medical staff and pilots bring injured service personnel back from Afghanistan

Alex: A Passion for Life

1 Episode

Cutting Edge catches up with Alex Stobbs, the musical prodigy and cystic fibrosis sufferer originally featured in A Boy Called Alex, who is now studying music at Cambridge

Ambreen: The Girl Boxer

1 Episode

First Cut follows a young Muslim female boxer's preparations for her championship fight

America's Serial Killer

1 Episode

True Stories examines an unsolved case of serial murder and the online sex trade

Amish: World's Squarest Teenagers

4 Episodes

Five Amish teenagers leave their closed communities in the American mid-West for the very first time, to travel to Britain on an extraordinary cultural exchange

The Ancient World with Bettany Hughes

5 Episodes

A new film about Alexandria provides the centrepiece of Bettany Hughes' definitive history of the ancient world and classical civilisation

Animal Farm

3 Episodes

Presented by Olivia Judson and Giles Coren, this series looks at advancements in GM, cloning and tissue engineering in animals

Ashes to Diamonds

1 Episode

Filmmaker David Brindley meets families across the country who have chosen some of the most surprising, adventurous and unusual ways to say goodbye to their departed's ashes

Asian Gracefully

1 Episode

An intimate look behind the doors of one of the few residential care homes in Britain exclusively for the Asian elderly.

Battle Scarred

1 Episode

A powerful exploration of the stories of soldiers returning from combat zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan, from award-winning filmmaker David Modell

The Battle for Barking

1 Episode

Laura Fairrie's film records the battle between Labour's Margaret Hodge and BNP leader Nick Griffin in the London borough of Barking during this year's election

The Battle of Hood and Bismarck

2 Episodes

Two-part documentary that uses unique archive footage, eyewitness testimony, dramatic reconstruction and state of the art computer graphics to tell the definitive story of this epic sea battle

The Bed

1 Episode

Toby Paton's First Cut film, written and narrated by performance poet Luke Wright, tells the story of life in a busy hospital from the perspective of the Accident and Emergency trolley

Best of British

4 Episodes

Documentary series following Paralympic athletes in their sporting and private lives as they aim to be selected for the 2012 London Paralympic Games

Better by Design

1 Episode

Multi-award-winning designers Richard Seymour and Dick Powell rethink malfunctioning everyday objects, from unsound burglar alarms to rubbish kitchen bins

Big Fat Gypsy Weddings

15 Episodes

Revealing documentary series that offers a window into the secretive, extravagant and surprising world of gypsies and travellers in Britain today

Big Snake

1 Episode

The prize: $50,000. The challenge: capture the world's largest snake, alive. Enter Robert Twigger - poet, martial artist and rap artist - who believes he's the man to do it. Shame he's scared of snakes...

Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill

1 Episode

The complete story of the operation to find and kill Osama Bin Laden

Bitches and Beauty Queens

1 Episode

A unique behind-the-scenes look at one of India's most prestigious and intensive beauty camps, where pretty young women are turned into beauty godesses

Bleach, Nip, Tuck: The White Beauty Myth

1 Episode

Two documentaries from the Race: Science's Last Taboo season examine the growing trend for deracialisation surgery

Blind Young Things

1 Episode

A thought-provoking, heart-warming film from Cutting Edge following three blind or partially-sighted teenage students at the Royal National College for the Blind

Blitz: London's Firestorm

1 Episode

The story of the night when the German Luftwaffe attacked London with devastating results

Bodyshock

11 Episodes

Long-running documentary strand that investigates extraordinary and moving real-life stories about the extremes of the human body

Born to Be Different

6 Series, 11 Episodes

A candid and unsentimental documentary filmed over nearly 10 years that chronicles the pressures and joys of family life for parents bringing up a disabled child

Bouncers

1 Episode

Funny, irreverent and often surprising film following the boys of Newport's biggest security firm over a summer of booze and brotherhood

The Boy Who Was Born a Girl

1 Episode

Julia Moon's First Cut film follows Jon, a 16-year-old boy who was born a girl, through three months of life-changing treatment as testosterone pushes his female body into male puberty

The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off

1 Episode

A frank and moving film about Jonny Kennedy, an extraordinary man with a terrible condition - Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) - which means his skin literally falls off at the slightest touch

Britain's Big Freeze

1 Episode

The start of 2010 has been one of the coldest winters in Britain for decades: why has this happened and is it a sign of more freezing winters to come?

Britain's Fattest Man

1 Episode

Can Paul Mason, Britain's fattest man, get the surgery he needs to keep him alive? And will Paul's dream of walking again come true?

Britain's Supreme Court

1 Episode

True Stories goes behind the scenes of Britain's new Supreme Court, where the country's top judges hear high-profile cases that will shape the nature of our society

The British Woman on Death Row

1 Episode

The story of Linda Carty, a British grandmother awaiting execution in Texas for a crime in which she has always denied any involvement

Building Britain's Ultimate Warship

1 Episode

Channel 4 gains special access to the construction, launch and testing of the billion-pound HMS Daring, the Royal Navy's revolutionary new ship with cutting-edge technology, and the first new destroyer built in Britain since 1985

Building of the Year: RIBA Stirling Prize

1 Episode

From Old Billingsgate in London, Kevin McCloud announces the winner of Building of the Year in the coveted RIBA Stirling Prize 2009

Bums, Boobs and Botox

1 Episode

Behind the scenes at Britain's biggest provider of cosmetic surgery, exploring a world where staff and patients undergo treatments to become glossier, perkier and thicker-haired versions of themselves

Buried Alive: The Chilean Mine Rescue

1 Episode

This documentary has unprecedented access to the extraordinary story of the 33 Chilean miners feared lost for over two weeks and trapped underground for 70 days after their mine collapsed