Programmes: Documentaries

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  • Last broadcast: Friday 11 September, 11.45PM on More4

    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

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  • Last broadcast: Friday 11 September, 8.30PM on More4

    Essex girl Rebecca Arnold is 28, single and broke, and has never had a long-term relationship. She sets out to find a man, and a rich one at that, in this light-hearted First Cut.

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  • Last broadcast: Friday 11 September, 3.15AM on Channel 4

    This Georgian Underworld documentary tells the remarkable story of ex-slave Bill Richmond, and his rags-to-riches rise to fame through the violent and gruesome sport of bare knuckle boxing

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 10 September, 11.05PM on Channel 4

    Tim Treadwell lived among the Alaskan grizzlies - only to suffer a fatal bear attack. A failed actor, he often filmed himself, and Werner Herzog used the footage to make this extraordinary film.

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 10 September, 8.30PM on More4

    The realisation that a child, brother or mother has committed a crime forces a difficult moral choice: keep it secret, or turn them in to the police. Meet two parents who faced this dilemma.

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 10 September, 3.10AM on Channel 4

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

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  • Last broadcast: Wednesday 09 September, 8.30PM on More4

    This moving documentary examines a life lived in the wrong colour skin. It focuses on three sufferers of albinism as they attempt to regain their confidence and discover their own identity.

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  • Last broadcast: Wednesday 09 September, 1.10AM on More4

    This is a story of tears, breakdowns and hysterics - and that's just the parents. Nursery University follows five New York families as they battle to get their toddlers into the top preschools in the city

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  • Last broadcast: Tuesday 08 September, 8.30PM on More4

    This First Cut film explores a growing online-dating phenomenon. Thousands of men looking for romance are turning to specialist 'jail date' sites to hook up with women in American prisons.

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  • Last broadcast: Monday 07 September, 9PM on Channel 4

    Documentary joining together hundreds of pieces of footage of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center into a seamless historical record, much of it never seen before

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  • Last broadcast: Monday 07 September, 8.30PM on More4

    Filmmaker Molly Clarke follows Frank Evans, a 65-year-old British bullfighter, as he steps back into the ring, in spite of undergoing replacement knee surgery and a quadruple heart bypass.

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  • Last broadcast: Sunday 06 September, 3.05AM on More4

    In a series of emotional testimonies, news footage and personal archive, 9/11: Millionaire Widows relates the poignant stories of those who continue to suffer in the wake of the tragedy

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  • Last broadcast: Friday 04 September, 8.30PM on More4

    Director Mark Craig's portrait of community life and social change, guided by the examination of the heap of junk mail he has collected over the past five years

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 03 September, 8.30PM on More4

    Four women who are desperate to be old-fashioned housewives all hanker after life in a different era. And it's not just about vintage clothes and vintage décor, they have vintage values!

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 03 September, 2.10AM on More4

    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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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 03 September, 1.10AM on More4

    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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  • Last broadcast: Wednesday 02 September, 8.30PM on More4

    Steve Wright was given life imprisonment for the murders of five women from Ipswich. His unsuspecting partner Pam is still picking up the pieces of her shattered life.

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  • Last broadcast: Tuesday 01 September, 10PM on More4

    Based on Naomi Klein's book, The Shock Doctrine argues that America's 'free market' policies now dominate the world through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries

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  • Last broadcast: Monday 31 August, 9PM on Channel 4

    Kwame Kwei-Armah retraces Queen Elizabeth's 1953 Commonwealth Tour, a six-month journey across five continents to persuade the Colonies to stay attached to Britain as part of the Commonwealth

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  • Last broadcast: Sunday 30 August, 1.30AM on More4

    The remarkable story of 'Operation Anaconda,' the 1981 mission to kidnap Ronnie Biggs from Rio and bring him back to British soil

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  • Last broadcast: Sunday 30 August, 12.25AM on More4

    This Cutting Edge film explores the shocking mystery of what drove self-made millionaire Christopher Foster to destroy all he owned and everyone he loved

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  • Last broadcast: Saturday 29 August, 11AM on 4Music

    A look back at Michael Jackson's incredible life story, from child star with The Jackson Five to solo stardom as the King of Pop, with amazing archive and some of his classic tracks

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  • Last broadcast: Friday 28 August, 8.30PM on More4

    Light-hearted documentary that follows first-time director and anxious groom Piers Sanderson's attempts to calm his pre-marriage nerves. Can he learn anything from a 1940s marriage handbook?

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 27 August, 8.30PM on More4

    Meet the country's most ardent feline fanatics, including Anne, who lives in a Welsh farmhouse with a colony of 83 cats

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 27 August, 2.50AM on More4

    Presenting a seldom seen side of Queen Victoria, this documentary examines her childhood and life as a young queen. Through diaries and letters it explores her intense and complex relationships with men.

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