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2021
S10 E14
Classic Albums
Classic Albums7.70 2021 HD
A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a...
Genre: Documentary
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2025
S29 E7
Storyville
Storyville7.60 2025 HD
Showcasing the best in international documentaries, Storyville has developed an enviable reputation since its inception more than a decade ago....
Genre: Documentary
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2024
S9 E6
Shetland
Shetland7.50 2024 HD
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Ashley Jensen
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2024
S2024 E8
The Sky at Night
The Sky at Night8.42 2024 HD
Your monthly journey through the fascinating world of space and astronomy with the latest thinking on what's out there in space and what you can see...
Genre: Documentary
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2025
S20 E28
Only Connect
Only Connect6.40 2025 HD
The fiendishly difficult quiz show in which two teams of three contestants have to find the connection between seemingly unrelated clues, where...
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Cast: Victoria Coren Mitchell
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2023
S2023 E1
Arena
Arena6.71 2023 HD
Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50...
Genre: Documentary
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2012
S4 E7
The Thick of It
The Thick of It8.00 2012 HD
Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Peter Capaldi
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2010
S1 E3
A History of Horror
A History of Horror7.50 2010 HD
Mark Gatiss examines the history of the horror film, from classic Hollywood monsters to Hammer's glory days and beyond.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Mark Gatiss
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2024
S78 E25
BBC Proms
BBC Proms7.50 2024 HD
The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and...
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2007
S1 E8
Party Animals
Party Animals6.90 2007 HD
Party Animals presents Westminster from the ground up – the young researchers and advisors shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic,...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Peter Wight
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2017
S17 E3
Timeshift
Timeshift7.00 2017 HD
Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and...
Genre: Documentary
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2024
S59 E3
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures5.10 2024 HD
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each...
Genre: Documentary
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2008
S5 E5
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe8.10 2008 HD
Charlie Brooker's acerbic take on recent TV contains reviews of current shows, as well as stories and commentary on how television is produced.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Charlie Brooker
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2006
S3 E2
Days That Shook the World
Days That Shook the World6.30 2006 HD
Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various...
Genre: Documentary
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2012
S3 E6
Getting On
Getting On7.00 2012 HD
Darkly comic series about life on a hospital ward and a nursing team who have to get on with the job despite challenges thrown up by the modern NHS.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Jo Brand
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2021
S3 E3
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema7.14 2021 HD
Mark Kermode reveals the film-making tricks and techniques behind classic movie genres, from romcoms to horrors.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Mark Kermode
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2017
S3 E6
Detectorists
Detectorists8.20 2017 HD
The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Mackenzie Crook
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2019
S2 E4
Vic and Bob's Big Night Out
Vic and Bob's Big Night Out8.00 2019 HD
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer provide songs, sketches and silliness in buckets.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Vic Reeves
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2018
S3 E6
Shakespeare Uncovered
Shakespeare Uncovered6.00 2018 HD
Celebrity hosts guide viewers through William Shakespeare's plays in performance. Each episode serves as a primer for newcomers to Shakespeare while...
Genre: Documentary
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2014
S1 E2
Bunkers Brutalism and Bloodymindedness
Bunkers Brutalism and Bloodymindedness1 2014 HD
Two-part documentary in which Jonathan Meades makes the case for 20th-century concrete Brutalist architecture in an homage to a style that he sees a...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jonathan Meades