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Anton Ferdinand: Football, Racism and Me
A scar on the game
The personal story behind the headlines - and the lasting impact on the man and the game.
59 minsAvailable for 11 months
* Documentary
Defending Digga D
The drill artist dilemma
With his music so rigorously policed, can rapper Digga D achieve success under scrutiny?
58 minsAvailable for 11 months
* Documentary
The Trials of Oscar Pistorius
All episodes available now
In 2013, Oscar Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The question was why?
91 minsAvailable for over a year
* Documentary Film
Storyville
Locked In: Breaking the Silence
Xavier Alford shares his fears on the life-changing illness that's slowly paralysing him.
75 minsAvailable for 11 months
* Documentary
Hospital
Candid, challenging, courageous
Staff at the Royal Free London Hospital try to resume normal service after the pandemic.
59 minsAvailable for over a year
* Factual
12 Puppies and Us
1/6 The ups and downs of new dog-owning families
The delights and disasters in those first crucial months together for puppies and owners.
59 minsAvailable for over a year
* History
My Family, The Holocaust and Me
Bearing witness to the past
Robert Rinder helps Jewish families discover what happened to relatives in the Holocaust.
58 minsAvailable for 11 months
* Current Affairs
Panorama
Business on the Brink - Panorama
Panorama follows businesses fighting to survive the pandemic.
29 minsAvailable for 11 months
* History
Who Do You Think You Are?
Liz Carr
Liz Carr gets forensic about her ancestry, uncovering secrets that leave her speechless.
57 minsAvailable for 11 months
* Documentary
Catch Her if You Can
Respectable businesswoman. Secret con artist.
A wild game of cat and mouse to expose convicted fraudster Miriam Mola.
30 minsAvailable for 10 months
* Current Affairs
Panorama
Return from ISIS: A Family’s Story
One family's journey from a small town in America to the heart of ISIS and back.
59 minsAvailable for 11 months
* Documentary
Sweet Sixteen: A Transgender Story
A ground-breaking transition
This coming-of-age film follows Welsh transgender teenager Llyr Jones as she turns 16.
39 minsAvailable for 11 months
* 100 Women
Women Run the World: Finland’s Female Leaders
The BBC has behind-the-scenes access to Finland's coalition government, led by five women.
27 minsAvailable for 28 days
* History
Thatcher: A Very British Revolution
Making Margaret
The startling rise and incredible fall of one of Britain’s most divisive Prime Ministers.
60 minsAvailable for 6 months
Louis Theroux
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* Documentary
Louis Theroux
America’s Most Dangerous Pets. With the Tiger King
Louis met the notorious Joe Exotic as he discovered some amazing animal collections.
60 minsAvailable for 3 months
* Documentary
Louis Theroux's LA Stories
2. Edge of Life
Louis Theroux meets patients battling for their lives in LA's most famous hospital.
60 minsAvailable for 3 months
* Documentary
Louis Theroux: Altered States
Birth, love and death
How changing social attitudes have transformed Americans’ most intimate moments.
59 minsAvailable for 9 months
* Documentary
Louis Theroux
Surviving America's Most Hated Family
Louis returns to visit the Westboro Baptist Church in the wake of the death of its leader.
59 minsAvailable for 1 month
* Documentary
Louis Theroux
Selling Sex
Louis Theroux meets the women legally providing sexual services to paying clients.
58 minsAvailable for 1 month
* Documentary
Louis Theroux
Life on the Edge: 1. Beyond Belief
Louis Theroux explores how some people’s most fervent beliefs can lead to conflict.
59 minsAvailable for 9 months
* Documentary
Louis Theroux
A Different Brain
Louis Theroux meets people living with the long-term effects of a brain injury.
59 minsAvailable for 3 months
* Documentary
Louis Theroux
Mothers on the Edge
Louis Theroux meets mothers experiencing mental health problems postpartum.
59 minsAvailable for 1 month
Documentaries on BBC Three
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* Documentary
Hometown: A Killing
Mobeen Azhar faces some ugly truths
Mohammed Yassar Yaqub was shot dead by police. But where does the truth lie?
29 minsAvailable for 6 months
* Documentary
25 Siblings & Me
Humour, heart, and hard truths of being a sperm donor child
Oli meets his donor dad and siblings, but will his Aspergers make it difficult to bond?
86 minsAvailable for 9 months
* Documentary
Being British East Asian
Caught between the cultures of West and East
Elaine Chong explores the dilemma of body image, sex, and beauty as a British East Asian.
22 minsAvailable for 10 months
* Documentary
Trump in Tweets
An incredible communicator?
Trump's love-hate affair with social media and how it's revolutionised politics.
70 minsAvailable for 6 months
* Documentary
Nudes4Sale
Undressed for success
Selling naked photos of yourself can be a moneymaker, but what's the cost of baring all?
46 minsAvailable for 3 months
* Documentary
Is This Coercive Control?
Would you know it's happening?
When do a person's actions cross the line into being a crime? Ellie Flynn investigates.
59 minsAvailable for 10 months
* Documentary
The Insider
Reggie Yates in a Texan Jail
For one week Reggie Yates will eat, sleep and work alongside the inmates of a Texan jail.
60 minsAvailable for 7 months
* Documentary
Can Sex Offenders Change?
An unsettling investigation
Becky Southworth’s father was convicted of sex offences. Could he be rehabilitated?
55 minsAvailable for 8 months
True Crime
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* Documentary
The Shipman Files: A Very British Crime Story
All episodes available now
A chilling betrayal of trust - the crimes and victims of GP serial killer Harold Shipman.
58 minsAvailable for 9 months
* Documentary
Dark Land: Hunting the Killers
Wales' notorious cold cases
Four murders. Four killers evading justice. Will these cases finally be put to rest?
59 minsAvailable for 10 months
* Documentary
Unsolved
A night in 1996
Alys and Bronagh establish the events of the night in 1996 Damien Nettles went missing.
15 minsAvailable for 6 months
* Documentary
The Dark Shadow of Murder
The mother of murder victim Moira Jones shares intimate writings on her loss.
80 minsAvailable for 8 months
* Documentary
Life and Death Row
Crime and the ultimate punishment in the US
Capital punishment through the eyes of young people whose lives have been shaped by it.
60 minsAvailable for 11 months
* Documentary
The Mysterious Murder of Nipsey Hussle
Who wanted him dead?
Murdered - by the LAPD, the government or a gang?
44 minsAvailable for 3 months
* Documentary
Gemma: My Murder
Brutally murdered – by those she thought of as friends
The shocking story of a young woman who was abandoned by the system.
30 minsAvailable for 4 months
* Documentary
Murder 24/7
True crime - in real time
Murder cases, minute by minute, from the critical first days through to conviction.
59 minsAvailable for 3 months
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