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This innovative documentary combines scientific knowledge and CGI animation to reveal the diverse world below water
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Last broadcast: 05 March 2011, on
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An intimate look behind the doors of one of the few residential care homes in Britain exclusively for the Asian elderly.
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Last broadcast: 04 March 2011, on
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First Cut follows the experiences of four families whose babies were born too prematurely to survive without an incubator
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Last broadcast: 27 August 2010, on
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Louie Psihoyos' Oscar-winning documentary shows in chilling detail the illicit slaughter of dolphins at Taijia, a rural Japanese cove
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Last broadcast: 20 July 2010, on
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Documentary series following the lives of some of the UK's most gifted children as they grow up. How will these children develop, and what unique problems are faced by such talented prodigies?
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Last broadcast: 28 October 2010, on
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The dramatic story of Alexander McQueen's rise to fashion stardom, his relationship with his eccentric, aristocratic muse and patron Isabella Blow, and of both their tragic suicides
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Last broadcast: 25 February 2011, on
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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
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Last broadcast: 06 August 2010, on
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Mark Henderson was taken hostage in Colombia in 2003. Now he's returning to Colombia to meet one of his kidnappers and understand the truth behind his imprisonment.
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Last broadcast: 22 February 2011, on
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Cutting Edge takes an unflinching look at motherhood as acclaimed filmmaker Daisy Asquith returns with a follow-up to the multi award-winning documentary Fifteen
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Bafta Award-winning film-maker Jezza Neumann's shocking portrait of Palestinian children living in the aftermath of war
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Last broadcast: 15 February 2011, on
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Ordinary British families up sticks and travel the globe in search of life-changing experiences
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Last broadcast: 23 October 2010, on
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Relationships, friendships, minicabs, love and loneliness in Essex, as First Cut spends a busy night with a Romford taxi firm
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Last broadcast: 04 February 2011, on
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A fascinating insight into the British TV industry, going behind the scenes at the Cultural Diversity Awards 2010
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Last broadcast: 04 February 2011, on
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In this True Stories documentary, David Bond decides to try and disappear off the face of the earth for a month. Can private investigators track him down? The results are both astonishing and scary...
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Jewish survivors of the Second World War tell their inspiring stories from the childhood years they spent in hiding and on the run
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Last broadcast: 26 January 2011, on
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Pinny Grylls' First Cut film follows one man's attempt to discover whether it is possible to remember something that happened before birth, under past life regression
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Last broadcast: 03 September 2010, on
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Filmed over a year, this documentary follows three troubled Glasgow schoolchildren on a journey to recapture their childhood
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Last broadcast: 18 January 2011, on
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Minutes into US Airways flight 1549 from New York, a flock of birds strikes the plane, taking out both engines. With no power, the captain must attempt the impossible: to land in the Hudson River.
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Cutting Edge examines how much children shape their parents' lives as two families - one with four daughters, the other with four sons - swap kids for a long weekend to find out
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Last broadcast: 11 August 2010, on
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Doug Block's film follows his relationship with his daughter Lucy as she, now aged 17, is just a year away from leaving home for college
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Last broadcast: 11 January 2011, on
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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?
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Last broadcast: 05 January 2011, on
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Based on Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Guns, Germs and Steel traces humanity's journey over the last 13,000 years, from the dawn of farming to the realities of life in the 21st century
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First Cut explores love in the digital age, from internet dating to long-distance relationships, keeping tabs on a crush, and obsessing about exes... and partners' exes
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Last broadcast: 23 July 2010, on
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Deborah Scranton's powerful film looks at the 1994 genocide in Rwanda from both political and personal perspectives
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Last broadcast: 04 January 2011, on
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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
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Last broadcast: 27 October 2010, on
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Jacques Peretti lifts the lid on how the weird world of Hollywood really operates behind the scenes
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Last broadcast: 30 December 2010, on
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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?
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The story of Landina Seignon - the baby pulled from the rubble of the Haiti earthquake in January and brought to the UK for specialist surgery - and the attempt to reunite her with her mother
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Last broadcast: 28 December 2010, on
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The Bafta Award-winning documentary series One Born Every Minute presents a festive special
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Last broadcast: 28 December 2010, on
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Kevin McCloud travels to India to explore one of the most extreme cities on earth
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Last broadcast: 15 January 2010, on
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A look at the power of laughter, and the popularity of laughing clubs in contemporary Bombay - part of a movement that now has over 6000 clubs in 60 countries
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Last broadcast: 25 December 2010, on
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The story of Sampat Pal, who fights to defend lower caste Indian women from domestic abuse and social injustice, which in many cases is perpetrated by their husbands' families
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Last broadcast: 25 December 2010, on
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First Cut meets two teenagers each striving to balance an ordinary teenage life with their shared dream: to work as undertakers
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Last broadcast: 20 August 2010, on
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Documentary series examining the global story of drugs, from Afghanistan's poppy fields to the streets of New York and the estates of Edinburgh
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Last broadcast: 16 August 2010, on
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Jason Massot's moving film follows African American couple Vanessa and Maurice Melton as they leave Alaska for Las Vegas in search of their fortunes
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Last broadcast: 14 December 2010, on
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John le Carre speaks with unprecedented candour about his life, and about his career as both special agent and celebrated author
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Last broadcast: 10 December 2010, on
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Laura Poitras' film tells how two men whose lives were caught up with Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden ended up taking very different paths after the invasion of Iraq
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A dream film about a Kurdish-Iraqi village in a part of the world normally only portrayed in current affairs programmes
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The tragic story of Dale 'Kanga' Tryon, a rival to Camilla Parker Bowles for the affection of Prince Charles, for a period in the 1970s
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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
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Last broadcast: 30 November 2010, on
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The Lazarus Effect follows the stories of four people living with HIV/AIDS, whose lives have been transformed by antiretroviral medication
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First Cut paints a chilling portrait of Thanos Papalexis, the Gatsby-like Brit who, in a year, went from hosting fundraising parties for US President Bill Clinton to being convicted of murder
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Last broadcast: 09 July 2010, on
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Claudia Lawrence went missing in 2009. With no sign of any clues, sightings or leads, and no witnesses coming forward, First Cut meets her family and friends.
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Last broadcast: 13 August 2010, on
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The incredible story of Pablo Escobar, the infamous boss of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, told by his son, Sebastian, and his widow, Maria Isabel Santos
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She was a princess, at one time second in line to the throne, and he was one of London's most notorious and violent criminals. Together, they would create one of the biggest hidden scandals in royal history.
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The amazing but largely forgotten story of the meteoric rise and pitiful fall of Britain's first black superstar, Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson
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Seven Days captures the last week in the life of one neighborhood's most colourful characters, in the documentary series where what you see has only just happened
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Last broadcast: 09 November 2010, on
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The astonishing story of Mike Campbell, a courageous Zimbabwean farmer who stood up against the illegal land grabs of the Mugabe regime
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Last broadcast: 18 May 2010, on
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The Taking of Prince Harry examines the risks of redeploying Prince Harry to the frontline in Afghanistan, by examining what would happen if he was kidnapped while on military duty
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Last broadcast: 21 October 2010, on
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Actor Eric Bana's documentary tells of his love for the treasured 1974 Ford GT Falcon Coupe his father gave him - nicknamed The Beast
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