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A tour into the unexplored and hitherto unconsidered sunnier side of Islam as two explorers travel across the Muslim world to speak with people who share the name 'Osama'
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An examination of the issues surrounding pedigree dog breeding
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Last broadcast: 14 March 2010, on
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From the director of the cult film Radio On comes this evocative 21st century ambient road movie
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Chris Petit's film journeys through the stories and places hidden in and around the world's biggest bypass, the M25.
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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
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Cutting Edge meets the people propping up the bar in some of the country's 600 Red Lion pubs, creating a unique snapshot of British drinking habits
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This long-term series follows seven obese children for a decade, revisiting them every two years to discover what it's like to grow up as an obese child in Britain today
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This film about the plight of honeybees focuses on three American apiarists whose colonies are destroyed by unknown forces
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Cutting Edge reveals what life is like for a little girl whose insomnia has become more than a childhood habit. Three-year-old Jess has a condition that has baffled medical experts.
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Sally Ashby's intriguing First Cut film lifts the lid on the exclusive world of super rich Russians who want an English public school education for their children
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A series of visually stunning films following some of the world's most extreme individuals, who risk their lives pushing themselves to the physical and mental limits of human capability
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Last broadcast: 20 October 2009, on
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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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As parents everywhere struggle to balance the competing demands of work and home life, Kidnapped by the Kids finds out what would happen if, just for a while, the children were in charge
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Politicians swap their comfortable homes and move into council estates across the country, encountering first-hand the reality of residents' lives
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Last broadcast: 01 February 2010, on
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Documentary following a team of experts as they investigate the carcass of a one-month-old baby mammoth who lived around 40,000 years ago in the hope of discovering more about the creature's life
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This exclusive Cutting Edge tells the inside story of what it's like to be Nadya Suleman - a single unemployed mother with 14 kids
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First Cut meets a teenager considering joining the BNP, and attempts to understand what makes a young person think of joining a party with such a controversial manifesto and image
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As the USA maintains a strict policy on immigration from Mexico, the Oscar-nominated Which Way Home shows the personal side of migration through the eyes of children trying to cross the border
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First Cut journeys into the hidden world of the bedroom with this telling and humorous peek beneath the sheets at the bed-sharing politics of couples all over the UK
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This film takes a look at ten momentous and defining days in Queen Elizabeth II's life and reign
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In May 1958, a longstanding aristocratic ritual came to an end as the last debutantes took their curtsies before the Queen. This evocative documentary tells the story of that final 'season'.
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Sir Gerry Robinson, one of Britain's most respected businessmen, comes to the rescue of several companies across the UK, armed with his personal cheque book
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Innovative film drawing parallels between Anarchist attacks on Victorian London and today's radicalism, examining how feelings of oppression, persecution and anger can lead to extremism
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This documentary from the Race: Science's Last Taboo season asks is it a biological advantage to have parents of different ethnic backgrounds?
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Eco-campaigner Tracy Worcester investigates the intensive pig farming industry, arguing that it harms both human and environmental health
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Last broadcast: 30 June 2009, on
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A moving, humorous film which follows two families of Burmese refugees as they start a brand new life in Sheffield
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Two documentaries from the Race: Science's Last Taboo season examine the growing trend for deracialisation surgery
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In this documentary from the Race: Science's Last Taboo season, Rageh Omaar explodes myths about race and IQ and reveals what he thinks are important lessons for society
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In the early 1970s, a group of idealistic young adults chose to raise their children collectively. So what happened next? This intriguing documentary goes in search of the grown-up Wild kids.
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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
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The True Stories strand, which showcases the best international feature documentaries, presents Simon Chambers' travelogue in the Indian region of Orissa
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Tony Robinson sets out to find the truth behind Dan Brown's blockbuster, The Lost Symbol
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Last broadcast: 26 December 2009, on
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This ground-breaking series explores all things penile. The penis is the organ most central to a man's sense of self, and the quest for penile perfection has driven some men to incredible lengths.
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In this True Stories documentary, Yoav Shamir embarks on a controversial, personal exploration to answer the question, 'What is anti-Semitism today?'
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Sixteen-year-old Alexander Prior is one of Britain's most talented and prolific young composers. Now he's bringing together some of the world's greatest young musical talent to perform his new concerto.
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Amanda Knox is currently serving 26 years in an Italian jail for the murder of her flatmate, Meredith Kercher. This True Stories documentary asks: who is the real Amanda Knox - and was she really capable of murder?
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Albert and David Maysles' film tells the true story of distressed Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, whose plight touched a nation's heart
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The life story of Farrah Fawcett, the beautiful Texan actress who became America's leading sex symbol in the 1970s. Fawcett was diagnosed with cancer in 2006 and died in June 2009,
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This intimate documentary, filmed by Fawcett, her family and friends, follows the final two years of the star's life as she battled bravely against bowel cancer
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This documentary sets out to reveal the story behind one of most controversial relics in Christianity as the age and authenticity of the Shroud of Turin is again open to debate
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This emotional First Cut film follows a brother and sister as they travel from England to Belgium to collect their father's remains, and to uncover the extraordinary story of who he was and how he died
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This intimate one-off film follows leading ballet choreographer Christopher Wheeldon as he becomes the first Englishman to be invited to create a new work for the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet
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The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures have been inspiring children and adults alike since 1825, with the express purpose of teaching science to young people
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Werner Herzog's Oscar-nominated film finds the legendary director in Antarctica, at the McMurdo Research station where he meets the scientists who inhabit a remote, magical world
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The critically acclaimed observational documentary series The Family returns for a one-off Christmas special. It's the week before Christmas and things are far from calm in the Hughes household.
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Last broadcast: 24 December 2008, on
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An in-depth look at Sam Taylor-Wood's debut feature film Nowhere Boy, which charts John Lennon's formative years, and includes interviews with cast stars Aaron Johnson and Kristin Scott Thomas
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More4 celebratest the 2009 Nobel Prizes with three documentaries: two focusing on the Literature and Peace Nobel Laureate winners, and one that features highlights on the remaining Laureates.
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A group of 11-year-olds negotiate the biggest challenge of their life so far: starting secondary school
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Drawing on the personal diaries of the late, great comedian, this programme offers a fascinating insight into the private world of fears and disappointments of the funny man
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Richard Butchins' extraordinary film is a road trip with a difference, as he follows the journey of a self-described travelling Freak Show through America
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Last broadcast: 15 December 2009, on