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Last broadcast: 09 March 2009
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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Last broadcast: 08 March 2009
Tony Robinson presents this spectacular five-part series investigating the history of natural disasters, from the planet's beginnings to the present day
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Last broadcast: 08 March 2009
In the first weeks of February 2009, Britain suffered its worst snow falls in 18 years. This film explores the possible factors behind the highly unusual weather.
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Last broadcast: 06 March 2009
Eight-part history of the Christian faith, looking at its origins, development and turbulent past. High-profile British personalities examine a religion that has particular resonance for them.
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Last broadcast: 04 March 2009
Parvez Sharma's compassionate and moving exploration of Islam and homosexuality talks to men and women of the Muslim faith who are courageous and defiant about their sexuality and choice of lifestyle
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Last broadcast: 01 March 2009
When TV producer Angela Howard-Bent was told that she had terminal breast cancer she decided to make a film about the last months of her life. This moving film is her very personal story about life and death.
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Last broadcast: 27 February 2009
Don Letts' documentary about the recording of Tony Christie's album, Made in Sheffield
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Last broadcast: 25 February 2009
Kimberly Rivers Roberts' chilling, Oscar-nominated home video captures the ferocious force of Hurricane Katrina as it lays waste to the city of New Orleans
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Last broadcast: 24 February 2009
Ten boys and ten girls, aged between eight and eleven, are given the chance to experience life without adults for two weeks
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Last broadcast: 23 February 2009
Architecture expert Charlie Luxton takes a high rise hike around the world's most iconic skyscrapers, discovering the stories of power, politics and daring design that lie behind their construction
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Last broadcast: 22 February 2009
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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Last broadcast: 21 February 2009
A tribute to John Updike, who died earlier this month. Acclaimed by many as America's greatest novelist, Updike talks to Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan about his views on American life.
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Last broadcast: 17 February 2009
Harry Burton's film is an intimate close-up of famed playwright and essayist Harold Pinter at work on several of his plays
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Last broadcast: 15 February 2009
This insightful documentary considers whether it is possible that, in receiving a transplanted organ, a patient could inherit some of their donor's memories and tastes as well
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Last broadcast: 14 February 2009
Professor Tudor Parfitt's search for the fabled Ark of the Covenant, the sacred container for the stone tablets on which Moses inscribed the Ten Commandments, which has been lost for over 2500 years
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Last broadcast: 11 February 2009
This True Stories documentary unravels the tangled tale of Venezuela's oil industry, which was taken into state control by President Hugo Chavez in 2002
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Last broadcast: 04 February 2009
As westerners sip designer lattes and cappuccinos, Ethiopian coffee growers live in hardship. Black Gold travels from Ethiopia to Seattle to reveal the grinding poverty behind our daily cup of luxury.
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Last broadcast: 01 February 2009
Boy George recently spent time in jail for false imprisonment of a male escort, but this is not the first time he's been in trouble with the law. This 2006 documentary looks at the story of the pop legend's previous fall from grace...
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Last broadcast: 31 January 2009
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tries to change the way Britain consumes chicken by setting up his own intensive poultry farm to demonstrate how cheap chickens are currently produced
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Last broadcast: 28 January 2009
Jane Treays' moving documentary tells of the turmoil and heartbreak of Kate Mackenzie, whose daughter Hannah is addicted to heroin
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Last broadcast: 21 January 2009
The inquisitive comedian drives the full width of the USA in an atttempt to discover what's left of non-corporate America. Along the way, he must not spend money at any kind of chain or franchise.
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Last broadcast: 21 January 2009
This innovative series tells the story of eight battles to design and build the fastest cars, ships, planes, boats and trains
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Last broadcast: 20 January 2009
Taking the form of a fast-paced detective story, this is the story of Charles Dickens - the greatest Victorian of them all - and the great hidden love of his life, Nelly Ternan
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Last broadcast: 15 January 2009
Paul Burrell reads extracts from his autobiography in a film that is as revealing of the man as it is of the dramatic events he recounts
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Last broadcast: 11 January 2009
Moving documentary about a family trying to cope with a father and ex-husband who has issues with mental health and alcohol - and who happens to be one of the most famous men in the country
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