Documentary Shows

Twisted Twins

Like A Shot

The brand-new true crime series from Like A Shot focuses on identical twins embroiled in murder, manslaughter and missing persons.

Why Trains Crash

Windfall Films

On 2 June 2023, a devastating train crash killed nearly 300 people and injured more than 800 at Bahanaga Bazar station in India’s eastern Od...

The Motorway Hotel

BriteSpark Films

Go behind the scenes of the trials of managing a family-run hotel on the M6 which caters to commuters, motorists, and locals.

The War on Britain’s Motorists

BriteSpark Films

Potholes everywhere. Controversial Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and electric vehicle confusion too. Car journalist Ginny Buckley asks is this...

ABBA: 50 Years of Pop

Windfall Films

Fifty years after ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest, this documentary celebrates one of music's big-bang moments with the story of Swedis...

Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370

Windfall Films

A decade after a flight carrying 239 passengers and crew vanished, could advances in radar technology finally lead to the missing aircraft b...

When Whales Could Walk

Windfall Films

In the Sahara Desert a giant fossil skeleton unlocks what life was like over forty million years ago - when the prehistoric whale could walk...

Why Sharks Attack

Windfall Films

After a spate of shark attacks off the coast of Egypt, Windfall Films investigates whether human activity and climate change are altering th...

Pride From Above

Windfall Films

Pride parades and festivals from around the world are captured from above using drones to give a fresh and beautiful perspective on the even...

The Billionaires Who Made Our World

BriteSpark Films

Bill Gates. Jeff Bezos. Mark Zuckerberg. In this documentary series three titans of the modern age go under the microscope to reveal their s...

The Future with Hannah Fry

Windfall Films

Mathematician Hannah Fry explores the big questions about the future of humanity and Earth. Do you want to know what your future holds? A li...

Lost Beasts Unearthed

Lost Beasts Unearthed combines unique access to real-time paleontology investigations, pioneering technology and explosive CGI animations to...

Murder in the Wicked West

BriteSpark Films

Set in an epic landscape where traditions of blood and vengeance run deep as the canyons and murder is still solved the old school way, this...

Cracking Criminal Minds

BriteSpark Films

Cracking Criminal Minds is a true crime short-form interview series that sees criminals and ex-cons interviewed by forensic psychiatrist Dr...

Panorama: Why Is Food So Expensive?

BriteSpark East

Food prices are rising at their fastest rate in more than 40 years. As the cost-of-living crisis continues to squeeze household budgets, Pan...

Forbidden History Podcast

Like A Shot

Forbidden History is a documentary podcast series which explores the past’s darkest corners, sheds light on the lives of intriguing individu...

World War II: Secrets From Above

Windfall Films

WWII: Secrets From Above charts the most extraordinary events of the Second World War from a brand-new perspective. Matching compelling phot...

Europe From Above

Windfall Films

A series of spectacular aerial journeys revealing the secrets of the Europe’s most extraordinary countries.

Train Truckers

Windfall Films

Train Truckers follows an elite crew of heavy-haulage specialists as they race to haul the heaviest, longest and most precious locomotives a...

Why Buildings Collapse

Windfall Films

In 2021, an apartment building near Miami collapsed, killing 98 people. This documentary looks into what happened and asks what went wrong.

Lost Treasures of Rome

Windfall Films

This new series follows International teams of archaeologists on the front line, as they embark on a season of excavations to unravel the se...

Ice Age Footprints

Windfall Films

White Sands, New Mexico: this stunning location is where America’s first atomic bomb test was carried out. But hidden in this landscape are...

The Wall – Climb for Gold

Windfall Films

A uniquely emotional documentary feature film that will touch the heart of audiences around the world. Four female climbers face the sportin...

The Man with a Penis on his Arm

BriteSpark East

This documentary special follows three men with new or replacement penises, including Malcolm, who has a new penis on his arm.

Smoke & Steel

Like A Shot

Smoke & Steel: Secrets of the Modern World revisits magnificent bridges, tunnels, mines, and more to link past, present, and future.

Why Ships Crash

Windfall Films

When the Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal, it triggered a global crisis. Using eye-witnesses speaking for the first time, this investigatio...

Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard

Windfall Films

In 2017, in a gravel quarry near Swindon, two amateur fossil hunters found an extraordinary collection of Ice Age mammoth remains and a ston...

New York Super Airport

Windfall Films

This series charts the exclusive inside story of the 8-billion-dollar race to build America’s first major new airport in 25 years. 30 millio...

The Emirates From Above

Windfall Films

The Emirates From Above is a spectacular aerial journey charting the nation’s extraordinary transformation over the past 50 years. Exclusive...

Peckham’s Finest

Bandicoot

Peckham's Finest follows a diverse and aspirational group of young people from the area living everyday life in this eclectic pocket of Lond...

Black Panthers of WW2

Like A Shot

Narrated by David Harewood, Black Panthers of WW2 follows the story of the 761st tank battalion composed of African-American servicemen, the...

Lost Tombs of the Ancient Maya

Windfall Films

Lost Tombs of the Maya follows archaeologists as they search for clues to how the Maya lived and what happened to them. With exclusive acces...

Abandoned Engineering

Like A Shot

These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were...

Inside Tesco: 24/7

Studio Leo

An in-depth look at how Britain’s biggest supermarket retailer survived the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

Windfall Films

Scafell Pike is England’s tallest mountain and home to a flock of native Herdwick sheep. Every summer, their shepherd must gather these noto...

Dispatches: Royals for Hire

BriteSpark Films

Antony Barnett goes undercover to see what some of the Queen's family might be prepared to do for cash, including offering access to Kensing...

World’s Most Scenic River Journeys

BriteSpark Films

Narrated by Bill Nighy, this series showcases beautiful and distinctive rivers in Europe and North America, from the Hudson to the Shannon,...

WWII By Drone

Like A Shot

WWII By Drone presents an exciting, different way of telling some of the great stories from WW2- by ‘uncovering’ and revealing places long-b...

When Disaster Strikes

Windfall Films

Natural disasters are happening with increased frequency and ferocity, as the planet warms, unleashing extreme weather. What happens when di...

Lost Tombs of the Pyramids

Windfall Films

For centuries Egyptologists have believed that the Great Pyramids of Giza were designed as tombs. But why have no bodies or treasures ever b...

Lost Pyramids of the Aztecs

Windfall Films

The Aztecs ruled one of the most powerful civilisations ever seen in the Americas. They were ruthless warriors and ingenious engineers, who...

Operation Bridge Rescue

Windfall Films

OPERATION BRIDGE RESCUE follows the race to rebuild the Blenheim Covered Bridge in New York  – an icon of early American engineering. 

Einstein’s Quantum Riddle

Windfall Films

The remarkable story of perhaps the strangest phenomenon in science – Quantum Entanglement.  It’s a story of mind-bending concepts and brill...

Britain’s Viking Graveyard

Windfall Films

A team of archaeologists is hunting for the remains of one of the largest armies ever to invade Britain, one of the most significant Viking...

Missing Las Vegas

Leopard USA

Observational documentary series with extraordinary access to the Missing Persons Unit of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Forbidden History

Like A Shot

Jamie Theakston attempts to uncover the truth about historical mysteries, ancient relics, hidden treasures, conspiracy theories and lost civ...

Private Lives

Like A Shot

Their iconic images, captured in famous portraits and paintings, are part of the very fabric of national culture. In carefully-arranged pose...

Shipwreck Secrets

Like A Shot

Scattered across the world, over 3 million shipwrecks line the floors of our oceans, seas and lakes. Most are waiting to be discovered, have...

Henry VIII: The Kings Men

Like A Shot

Tracy Borman, Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces, looks at the World’s most famous King, Henry VIII. But not through the lens of th...

Unearthed

Windfall Films

UNEARTHED investigates new evidence that reveals the myths and mysteries behind ancient civilizations and the iconic megastructures they bui...

Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords

BriteSpark Films

This series delves into the dark side of Britain’s overheating rental market. Gaining unique access into the lives of the haves and the have...

Welcome to Murdertown

BriteSpark Films

WELCOME TO MURDERTOWN follows the baffling murder mysteries where it's not just one person who's hiding something – it’s everybody. From sma...

What’s It Like to Catch Coronavirus?

BriteSpark Films

It’s the question everyone is asking: what’s it actually like to catch the virus. Presented by Dr Saleyha Ahsan, who herself has Covid-19, w...

Mutiny

Windfall Films

In a unique experiment 21st century men are challenged to re-live one of the greatest feats of maritime adventure and endurance in naval his...

Building The Ultimate

Windfall Films

Building the Ultimate reveals the engineering secrets built into six modern wonders – from Europe’s fastest passenger train and largest luxu...

Polar Extremes

Windfall Films

Stark, cold, and seemingly frozen in time, our Earth’s poles feel other-worldly, unchanging, and completely removed from our everyday existe...

How to Stop Your Nuisance Calls

BriteSpark Films

We’ve all had them – from incessant calls about PPI, an accident that wasn’t your fault or an automated voice pretending to be your bank, 3....

World’s Most Secret Homes

Windfall Films

From secluded houses in forests and luxury bunkers buried underground to cabins on remote islands and homes hidden in mountains. The series...

Alastair Campbell: Depression and Me

Windfall Films

In an intensely personal and often surprising film for BBC Two, Alastair Campbell candidly talks about his experience living with depression...

The Blitz: Britain on Fire

Windfall Films

Presented by Michael Buerk, Angellica Bell and Rob Bell, this three-part stripped event focuses on eight critical days in May 1941, when Bri...

Dispatches: Jeremy Kyle: TV on Trial

BriteSpark Films

In the wake of the cancellation of the popular long-running The Jeremy Kyle Show following the apparent suicide of Steve Dymond who had been...

Carry Ons at the Castle

BriteSpark Films

Bickleigh is England’s oldest inhabited castle - witness to a thousand years of bloody wars, revolting peasants and blue-blooded aristocrats...

Banged Up: Teens Behind Bars

BriteSpark Films

Eight British teen tearaways are incarcerated in one of America's toughest jails in a bid to divert them from a life of crime.

Mountain Vets

Welcome to the ancient Kingdom of Mourne, where animals outnumber people ten to one and no two days are the same for the busy mountain vets.

Snowtrapped

Leopard Films

In this powerful documentary we tell extraordinary and very different stories of people trapped in the snow.

Rise of the Machines

Windfall Films

20 x 60' (2 Seasons) Rise of the Machines uses mind-blowing CGI animations to ‘explode apart’ some of the world’s most extreme machines to r...

Wonder of Dogs

Windfall Films

3 x 60' No other land mammal displays such dazzling diversity as man’s best friend. It’s hard to believe that a Great Dane and a Chihuahua b...

Spider House

Windfall Films

1 x 89' Ever wondered what spiders really get up to in your home? In this documentary special Alice Roberts overcomes her arachnophobia to e...

The Secret Life of Baby Owls

Windfall Films

2 x 60' Owls - with their huge eyes, flat faces and distinctive hoot – they are truly iconic! creatures. But how much do we really know abou...

Fearless Mr Fox

Windfall Films

1 x 60' The fox: portrayed as a sly and cunning character in stories and mythology across the globe. In reality, the fox is one of the most...

Born In The Wild

Windfall Films

4 x 60' Presented by anatomist Prof Joy Reidenberg and vet Mark Evans, Born In The Wild explores the reproductive behaviours and biology of...

Mythical Beasts

Windfall Films

Series 1: 10x60 | HD | 2018 For thousands of years, civilizations have believed in mythical beasts – Dragons, Cyclops, Giants, Vampires and...

Mystery of the Northern Lights

Windfall Films

1 x 60', BBC (UK), CBC (Canada), Discovery Science (US), Planete+ Exploring the mysteries of the Aurora Borealis Exploring the greatest myst...

Saving Planet Earth: Fixing a Hole

Windfall Films

1 x 60', Channel 4(UK), PBS(USA) The story of how nations came together and saved the world. Ozone Hole: How We Saved the Planet tells the f...

Lost Secrets of the Pyramids

Windfall Films

2 x 60', CBC(Canada), Channel 4(UK), Discovery Science (US), France TV (France) Unearthing the deepest secrets of the Great Pyramid of Giza....

Machines: How They Work

Windfall Films

Machines: How They Work answers all the questions we have ever had about the machines we use often in our daily lives. How does a hand-held...

Building Hitler’s Supergun

Windfall Films

1 x 60 min - Channel 4 The biggest gun the world had ever seen and the unbelievable efforts to take it down. Building Hitler’s Supergun: The...

Great British Ships

Windfall Films

Presenter Rob Bell reveals the secrets of the historic ships that shaped the world. Visiting the ships as they stand today, Rob reveals how...

Hidden Britain By Drone

Windfall Films

Britain may be small, but everywhere you turn there are places that are hidden from public view - their secrets locked away behind high wall...

The World’s Forgotten Army

Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2017 Channel 4 This documentary explores the untold and secret history of the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC): One hundred...

The Incredible Hulk Woman

Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2013 Channel 5 Following Helen Stephens, a mum-of-three who is believed to suffer from one of the rarest neurological...

The Bubble Wrap Boy

Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2017 Channel 5 16-year-old Mithun Chauhan suffers from an extremely rare genetic condition. which has left him with la...

The Boy Who Wants His Leg Cut Off

Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2015 BBC Three Documentary about Dillon, an 11-year-old boy who suffers from an aggressive form of neurofibromatosis,...

The Baby With A New Face

Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2012 Channel 5 Viet was born with one of the world's rarest facial deformities: A cleft palate and bilateral facial cl...

Nelly The Snakeskin Woman

Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2017 Channel 5 At just 32 years old, Nusrit (Nelly) Shaheen has defied odds to become the world’s oldest known survivo...

I Do At 92

Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2017 Channel 4 Up and down the country OAPs are proving you’re never too old to say ‘I Do’. These three couples are no...

Granny Ink

Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2016 Channel 5 With a shocking rise in OAPs going under the needle, whether it’s to complete a full body tattoo suit o...

Erick: The Boy With No Face

Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2016 Series 2: 1x60 | HD | 2017 (A Year On) Channel 5 17-year-old Erick from Uganda has a rare tumour the size of his...

Inside Oxford Street

4 x 60' Channel 5, UK Inside Oxford Street takes you behind the scenes of the busiest shopping precinct in Europe. With access to London Und...

Egypt From Above

Windfall Films

Egypt – an ancient land famous for its great pyramids, temples and tombs. This was once home to one of the most powerful and pioneering empi...

The Channel Tunnel: 25 Years

Windfall Films

The Channel Tunnel is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but what did it take to build the longest undersea tunnel ever constructe...

A Very British Brothel

A Very British Brothel reveals the day-to-day workings of the only parlour in the street run by a mother and daughter duo.

Hunting Nazi Treasure

BriteSpark Films

8 x 60' The series chronicles one of the greatest heists in history and the present-day efforts to locate gold and artwork stolen by the Naz...

White Kid Brown Kid

Windfall Films

A one-off film for C4's First Cut series explores racial integration in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, one of Britain’s most segregated areas. Pa...

Massive Engineering Mistakes

BriteSpark Films

Humans have been building for more than 10,000 years - we’re engineering experts and yet every year tales emerge of construction calamities...

Rocky Mountain Railroad

Windfall Films

Rocky Mountain Railroad follows the resilient crews who battle ferocious weather and treacherous terrain to keep Canada’s critical freight a...

Left for Dead

BriteSpark Films

Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, the ‘Moors Murderers’ are Britain’s most infamous serial killer couple. In the mid 60s they abducted and killed...

Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots

Windfall Films

Evolutionary biologist Dr Ben Garrod and electronics engineer Professor Danielle George explore if machines built to enhance our lives could...

Operation Lighthouse Rescue

Windfall Films

1 x 60x (Nova/WGBH, France TV) A community coming together to save a piece of American history. Operation Lighthouse Rescue charts the epic...

Ghost Chasers

BriteSpark Films

Model and musician Kay Nambier doesn’t believe in ghosts. But he’s always wondered what lies behind the stories. So he’s travelling to some...

The Science of Thrills

BriteSpark Films

Engineer and adventurer Rob Bell takes an unforgettable ride on some of the world’s greatest roller coasters. He discovers how these enginee...

World’s Biggest Shipbuilders

Windfall Films

In World's Biggest Shipbuilders a dedicated team of designers and engineers strive to build, test and launch three unique maritime machines,...

Mountain Made

Windfall Films

At the foot of the stunning Kootenai Valley Mountains, lies the small town of Libby, Montana, where a close-knit Amish community thrives, aw...

Manchester’s Serial Killer?

BriteSpark Films

In the last six years, the remains of over 90 people have been recovered from the canals of Greater Manchester; most are young men. Now head...

Railroad Alaska

Windfall Films

Railroad Alaska follows an elite crew of workers - brakemen, engineers and drivers - as they battle ferocious weather and treacherous terrai...

Beyond Magic With DMC

Windfall Films

What the eyes perceive the mind believes – master of illusion DMC (Drummond Money-Coutts) is on an international journey to explore the thri...

The Wives Did It

BriteSpark Films

One man. Many wives. From the outside, it’s a cosy picture of contented sister-wives raising a house full of kids. But, on the inside, it ca...

Your Inner Fish

Windfall Films

Using fossil evidence and our DNA history Neil Shubin traces back different parts of our body’s anatomy to animals that lived millions of ye...

Incredible Engineering Blunders: Fixed

BriteSpark Films

This entertaining science series follows leading engineering journalist Justin Cunningham and his team of intrepid reporters as they uncover...

Big Kitchens

Windfall Films

Big Kitchens explores the mindboggling logistics, colossal cuisine and extraordinary characters behind the world’s biggest, most extreme kit...

Natural World: The Bat Man of Mexico

Windfall Films

Natural World. Rodrigo 'The Bat Man of Mexico', has been saving the amazing bats of his homeland since childhood, when he kept vampires in h...

Did He Do It?

BriteSpark Films

A dynamic new true-crime drama-documentary series that puts the accused centre stage. At the top of each episode, we introduce one murder vi...

Left for Dead by the Yorkshire Ripper

BriteSpark Films

Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper, is one of the most notorious British serial killers of all time. He murdered 13 women and attempted t...

Monster Moves

Windfall Films

6 x 50' Hauling the heaviest structures across land, sea and air - Monster Moves returns for a fourth series.

Murder Trial

Windfall Films

1x120 A television first inside a British Courtroom.

Handsome Devils

BriteSpark Films

You think you’ve met your prince charming. Before long you discover he’s the prince of darkness. This drama-documentary series tells the rea...

Operation Maneater

Windfall Films

Veterinarian Mark Evans uses technology to tackle three deadly predators: the great white shark, Nile crocodile and polar bear. When these a...

Diamond Geezers and Gold Dealers

BriteSpark Films

In a television first, we go inside the hidden world of Hatton Garden, London’s historic jewellery quarter. For over 200 years, gold, silver...

Attack of the Zeppelins

Windfall Films

The Zeppelin, the most terrifying weapon in the Great War. Attack of the Zeppelins explores how the Germans unleashed a new terror campaign...

Animal Superpowers

Windfall Films

3 x 60' Patrick Stewart investigates the incredible superpowers of nature’s deadliest animals.

Escape from Colditz

Windfall Films

1x90 A crack team recreate the most audacious escape plan in history; flying from the roof of Colditz Castle in a home-made glider.

Foxes Live: Wild In The City

Windfall Films

An interactive live event for Channel 4. Foxes provoke either love or hate: urban menace or furry friend?

THE WORLD OF MATTHEW BOURNE

Leopard Films

A 90' film for Channel 4. For 25 years, Matthew Bourne has been delighting audiences with adaptations of the best-known ballets and operas....

BACH: A PASSIONATE LIFE

Leopard Films

A 90 minute film for BBC2. Internationally renowned conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner goes in search of Bach the man AND the musician. The u...

Inside Nature’s Giants

Windfall Films

Most wildlife documentaries show how animals behave, but by exploring their anatomy, veterinary scientist Mark Evans, comparative anatomist...

Sons of Cuba (Victory Is Your Duty)

Windfall Films

1 x 45' 1 x 56' 1 x 88' Behind the scenes access to the Havana Boxing Academy in Cuba, the breeding ground for future Olympic Champions.

Generals At War

Windfall Films

6 x 50' Commanders from the great battles of WWII go head-to-head in a game of skill, bluff and counterbluff.

The Operation: Surgery Live

Windfall Films

4 x 60' Four patients go under the knife for pioneering life-changing operations. Broadcast live with interactive elements.

Missing Live

Leopard Films

Missing Live is Leopard's flagship interactive series on BBC1. The series has been inundated with calls from the public offering help to fin...

The Day the Immigrants Left

Leopard Films

A 60' film for BBC1. What happens when you deprive a British town of its foreign work-force? Hosted by Evan Davies The Day The Immigrants Le...

Absolute Zero

Windfall Films

2x60' An epic journey into the quest for cold, from the dark beginnings to an ultra-cool frontier.

The Umbrella Assassin

Windfall Films

1 x 60' The real story of the Cold War assassination of Georgi Markov - known as the 'Umbrella Murder'.

Richard is my Boyfriend

Windfall Films

1 x 75' An innovative ‘reality drama’ from the same team who made 'Born With Two Mothers'.

My Brilliant Brain

Windfall Films

3 x 50' Three films exploring the very thing that makes us human - the brain.

DNA

Windfall Films

5 x 50' An EMMY award-winning history of DNA - to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the double helix discovery with Dr Watson himself.

Dambusters

Windfall Films

1 x 50' The amazing technical story behind the most audacious bombing raid of WWII.

Escape from Colditz

Windfall Films

3 x 50' Allied Officers return to Colditz Castle to retrace the routes of their legendary escapes.

The Day The World Took Off

Windfall Films

5 x 50' This landmark series on the origins of the Industrial Revolution challenges traditional views of this dramatic period in history.

Fifteen

Windfall Films

3 x 50' The agony and ecstasy of being 15 years old.

The Tourist Trap

Windfall Films

6 x 30' The prototype of all Reality Shows as we know them today.

Twockers

Windfall Films

1 x 50' Bonfires, thieving and love in Halifax- teenagers act out their lives in a West Yorkshire council estate.

Oil On Canvas

Windfall Films

6 x 30' This series answers everyone’s first questions about the art, craft and science of painting.

Metropolis

Windfall Films

6 x 30' How technology shaped our modern city.

Lost Civilisations

Windfall Films

15 x 30' Seven Millennia of history come to life again in 10 ancient civilisations.

Reality on the Rocks

Windfall Films

3 x 50' Ken Campbell's oddysey to the heart of ultimate meaning in the universe.

Love in the Cold War

Windfall Films

1 x 60 The two sons of the US Communist party leader; one brought up in the USSR, the other in the USA.