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A real-time multi-platform history event telling the story of D-Day in a new way, following the stories of seven people who were there
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Last broadcast: Thursday 06 June, 9PM on Channel 4
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Filmed 24/7 with police, fire and ambulance teams in Blackpool, 999: What's Your Emergency? looks at Britain through the eyes of the emergency services on the front line
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Last broadcast: 19 November 2012, on
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A warm, funny and extraordinary film exploring the different ways disabled people deal with the barriers they can face trying to fulfil that most basic human need: sexual intimacy
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Last broadcast: Thursday 09 May, 10PM on Channel 4
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This First Cut film goes behind the scenes at Britain's biggest male stripper agency as they audition new recruits
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Last broadcast: Wednesday 29 May, 11PM on Channel 4
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Donating one of your kidneys: an inspirational act of kindness or a naïve and irrational gesture?
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Last broadcast: 19 October 2012, on
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An extraordinary insight into a murder that gripped and baffled America and that led to a 12-year-old boy being sentenced to 30 years in jail
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Last broadcast: Thursday 02 May, 10PM on Channel 4
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This documentary uncovers the tensions and conflict between the Queen Mother and Prince Philip in the build up to Princess Elizabeth's coronation in 1953
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The story of Prince Philip's mother, who fled revolution in Greece, suffered a breakdown, was experimented on by Sigmund Freud, hid Jews from the Nazis, gave all her possessions away to help the poor, and founded her own religious order
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Last broadcast: 21 August 2012, on
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A fascinating look at the romance, politics and spin that lay behind the Queen Elizabeth's marriage to Prince Philip in 1947
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David Starkey puts Prince William's marriage to Kate Middleton into a historical context, to examine whether it really does constitute a break with royal tradition
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Last broadcast: 27 April 2011, on
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A revelatory film about Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang, who was at the centre of a group of establishment big-wigs and grandees who came together in 1936 to oust King Edward VIII
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Last broadcast: 09 May 2012, on
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This explosive film examines recently discovered letters written by Wallis Simpson that reveal her secret love, and chart her fear as she found herself becoming trapped into marrying Edward VIII
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Last broadcast: 24 August 2011, on
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The extraordinary story of Edward VIII's first love affair, involving a high-society murder trial, a secret cache of missing letters, and an establishment cover-up to save his reputation
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Last broadcast: Tuesday 23 April, 9PM on Channel 4
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The story of Queen Victoria's relationship with her Indian servant Abdul Karim, which violated Victorian taboos and stoked royal jealousy, threatening her diamond jubilee celebrations
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Last broadcast: Saturday 09 March, 7PM on Channel 4
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Wealthy benefactors donate their time and money to causes close to their hearts
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Last broadcast: 08 December 2011, on
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A powerful Cutting Edge film following members of Victim Support's National Homicide Team as they work closely with families who've been bereaved by murder or manslaughter
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Last broadcast: Thursday 16 May, 9PM on Channel 4
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Documentary series following young Brits over a summer in Kavos, Corfu, to get a glimpse of what really happens in the hedonistic party town away from parents and surrounded by temptation
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Last broadcast: Monday 21 January, 10PM on Channel 4
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Ancient bodies lie buried beneath Stonehenge, but what can they tell us about Britain's greatest prehistoric monument? One man has found vital clues to this ancient puzzle.
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Last broadcast: Sunday 10 March, 8PM on Channel 4
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Fat Family Tree sets out to unlock the secrets of an overweight family's genes, to help resolve their lifelong weight problems
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Last broadcast: Thursday 23 May, 8PM on Channel 4
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Millionaire benefactors say goodbye to their luxury lifestyles and go undercover in deprived areas to find out who needs their help
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Last broadcast: 24 June 2012, on
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The award-winning series that gets under the skin of the largest animals on the planet. Most wildlife documentaries show how animals behave, but by exploring their anatomy, Inside Nature's Giants reveals how these creatures really work.
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Last broadcast: 23 April 2012, on
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Filmmaker Storm Theunissen explores the lucrative body-parts industry as she sets out to sell every bit of her body she legally can, and discover if her body's worth more dead or alive
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Last broadcast: 02 November 2012, on
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With unique access to names of note and noteriety, this series opens a window into a world of privilege, as aristocrats reveal what they think about their place in a changing society
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Last broadcast: 29 November 2012, on
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Channel 4 joins forces with the Big Lottery Fund to make £10 million available for radical ideas tackling some of Britain's big social issues
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Last broadcast: Sunday 28 April, 8PM on Channel 4
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The greatest faux pas on Social Media, from friends arrested on terror charges for a joke tweet to a model suspected of harassing a celebrity
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Last broadcast: Tuesday 08 January, 10PM on Channel 4
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Cameras follow the game of cat and mouse between shoplifters, pickpockets and police, revealing the secret tricks of the trade
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Last broadcast: Tuesday 16 April, 9PM on Channel 4
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What's life like when you have enough children to field your own football team?
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Last broadcast: Tuesday 09 April, 9PM on Channel 4
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Cambridge engineer Dr Hugh Hunt tries to recreate Barnes Wallis's famous Second World War bouncing bomb, and blow up a specially constructed dam in Canada
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Last broadcast: Friday 17 May, 9PM on More4
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The humorous, heroic story of how a Cold War-era Vulcan flew the then-longest-range bombing mission in history with a Second World War bomb that changed the outcome of the Falklands War
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Last broadcast: 18 March 2012, on
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Olympian Michael Johnson makes a personal genealogical and scientific journey to discover if African American and Caribbean athletes are successful as a result of slavery
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Last broadcast: 05 July 2012, on
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Jaws: The Great White Myth reveals the stories of how lives and the natural world were significantly influenced by this infamous movie monster from 1975
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Last broadcast: 06 October 2012, on
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An uplifting, warm, and often eye-watering documentary discovering, through candid interviews, what leads people to go under the needle
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Last broadcast: 18 October 2012, on
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The story of Pasquale Buzzelli, who rode a blizzard of falling debris from a 22nd-floor World Trade Center stairwell on 9/11 and somehow survived
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Last broadcast: 10 September 2012, on
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Irish millionaires go undercover in some of the most disadvantaged parts of Ireland, where they meet extraordinary individuals working to help people in their own communities
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Last broadcast: Saturday 27 April, 12.40PM on Channel 4
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Is the truth really out there? Defence journalist Nick Cook investigates the best UFO stories and asks what can be explained away by science - and what defies any rational explanation.
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A look at the new wave of extraordinary stress-related sleep disorders linked to life in 21st-century Britain
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Last broadcast: 25 October 2012, on
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The American version of Undercover Boss shows high-flying executives taking extraordinary steps to ensure their companies are fighting fit by going undercover in their own businesses
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Last broadcast: 15 October 2012, on
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Idris Elba reveals the defining moments in street music and culture over the last 35 years, featuring rare archive material, seminal music videos and insight from hip hop stars
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Last broadcast: 12 August 2011, on
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Derren Brown looks at some extraordinary claims from around the world, documenting a medium, a ghost hunter and a psychic expert who claims to make the blind see
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Last broadcast: 31 May 2010, on
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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
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Last broadcast: Thursday 21 March, 9PM on Channel 4