Popular Documentary TV Series - Page 444

Fry's Planet Word

2011

Fry's Planet Word

2011
8.2
Fry's Planet Word sees Stephen Fry finding out more about linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have changed. He dissects language in many of its guises.
What Lies Beneath

2018

What Lies Beneath

2018
Gripping real-life cases of some gruesome murder trials, featuring genuine CCTV footage as well as shocking courtroom video recordings used to piece together the truth and find the killer.
The Hairy Bikers' Comfort Food

2017

The Hairy Bikers' Comfort Food

2017
5.1
The Hairy Bikers cook some of their favourite comfort food. From feasts for friends and family to meals inspired by pub grub, they create the ultimate feel-good dishes.
Girls Incarcerated

2018

Girls Incarcerated

2018
7.1
An eight-part documentary series that goes behind the scenes at Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility in Indiana, where teenage girls struggle to overcome their troubled pasts and find hope for the future.
Great Art

2018

Great Art

2018
The life and work of the world's most celebrated artists. Each episode reveals unique insights into the life of the artists, from exploring the places they lived and worked to uncovering their formative relationships through private letters. Great Art will also provide privileged access to the artists' masterpieces, going behind-the-scenes at the world's leading museums.
Le grand move

2021

Le grand move

2021
Mariloup Wolfe meets up with families who moved to remote areas to improve their quality of life. She reveals the questions, doubts and decisions behind these moves, as she profiles one family per episode.
Beef Buddies

2013

Beef Buddies

2013
10
Shut up - or die

2016

Shut up - or die

2016
9
Shut up - or die is a series about the right to say what you think. The author and journalist Lena Sundström meet people who stand up against totalitarian regimes and risk their lives for the truth.
Sasha Reid and the Midnight Order

2024

Sasha Reid and the Midnight Order

2024
6
This documentary series follows Dr. Sasha Reid and her secret society who share a common obsession — the dark psychology of those who commit harm and the desire to protect those that law enforcement has ignored. They band together to work outside the system to protect the vulnerable, solve cold cases, and dive into the dark minds of killers using forensic expertise and world-class data skills. Their motto is to have compassion first, but let the evidence lead.
Ekaant

2014

Ekaant

2014
India is known for its remarkable architecture and serene landscapes. Its rich history is steeped in mystery; its vastness - lends itself to several stories and urban legends. Ekaant takes you through the abandoned roads and alleys of some of India’s historic locations. Travelling through the spread out palaces and deserted forts, the show documents and investigates the eerie processes of abandonment of each site. How flourishing towns and cities came to be in ruins, is the question each episode seeks to answer. Ekaant explores the ceasing of life and the triumph of nature even in the most populated of places and takes you on the road no longer travelled.
C'est cool d'aimer Céline Dion

2021

C'est cool d'aimer Céline Dion

2021
The documentary series looks at the star through the eyes of the artists who admire her and examines the fascination Millennials and Generation Z have for the internationally renowned songstress.
Inside Secret Societies

2016

Inside Secret Societies

2016
7.5
Dig into the hidden side of organized crime, including hardcore gangs, fanatical religious groups, shady cults, esoteric societies and criminal fraternities – all of them seeking to gain control of our world.
Important Thing is Love (1971)

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Important Thing is Love (1971)

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10
"It's queer, it's kinky" - the average man on the street might find lesbianism strange, but for the women interviewed in this surprisingly nuanced TV documentary, it's just an ordinary part of their lives. The women - butch, femme and everything in between - articulately discuss their lives, experiences and struggles with everyday discrimination, busting the myths that homosexuality is a disease and that gay women are doomed to loneliness. Among the interviewees are Esme Langley (speaking outside in woolly hat and coat), founder of the Minorities Research Group, Charlotte Wolff, a psychotherapist and sexologist whose 1971 book Love Between Women offered some of the first serious research into lesbianism, and Doreen Cordell, a social worker with the Albany Trust, a charity providing counselling and support to the LGBT community.
Tajemství výchovy

1969

Tajemství výchovy

1969
3
Our World

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Our World

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Our World is an American television news series that ran for 26 episodes, from September 25, 1986 to May 28, 1987. The show was anchored by Linda Ellerbee and Ray Gandolf. Each episode of the series examined, through the use of archival film and television footage, one short period in American history. Our World aired on ABC. Our World grew out of an earlier ABC News special called 45/85, whose producer, Avram Westin, would go on to produce Our World. Each episode was produced on a budget of $350,000, less than half of the budget of a typical hour of prime time programming at the time. Our World premiered to indifferent critical response but as the series progressed critics became effusive with their praise. Despite being critically well received and profitable for the network, Our World performed poorly in the Nielsen ratings, as its first half-hour was programmed against the extremely popular The Cosby Show. ABC canceled the show after one season. Ellerbee tried to move the series to PBS but was unsuccessful.
Chronik Fiction - Le Coroner

2018

Chronik Fiction - Le Coroner

2018
8
Adam Hills: Grow Another Foot

2023

Adam Hills: Grow Another Foot

2023
Comedian and rugby fanatic Adam Hills fulfils a lifelong dream by participating in the first ever Physical Disability Rugby League World Cup. But should he play for Australia or England?
Model Killers

2013

Model Killers

2013
Models are the epitome of beauty, fame and glamour. They are the lucky few - blessed with faces and bodies worshiped and envied around the world. But what happens when that model high life all little girls dream of turns into a nightmare?
Jonathan Meades on Jargon

2018

Jonathan Meades on Jargon

2018
10
In this provocative television essay, writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades turns his forensic gaze on that modern phenomenon that drives us all up the wall - jargon. In a wide-ranging programme he dissects politics, the law, football commentary, business, the arts, tabloid-speak and management consultancy to show how jargon is used to cover up, confuse and generally keep us in the dark. He contrasts this with the world of slang, which unlike jargon actually gets to the heart of whatever it's talking about even if it does offend along the way. With plenty of what is called 'strong language', Meades pulls no punches in slaying the dragon of jargon.
The Root of All Evil?

2006

The Root of All Evil?

2006
9
The Root of All Evil?, later retitled The God Delusion, is a television documentary written and presented by Richard Dawkins in which he argues that humanity would be better off without religion or belief in God. The documentary was first broadcast in January 2006, in the form of two 45-minute episodes, on Channel 4 in the UK. Dawkins has said that the title The Root of All Evil? was not his preferred choice, but that Channel 4 had insisted on it to create controversy. The sole concession from the producers on the title was the addition of the question mark. Dawkins has stated that the notion of anything being the root of all evil is ridiculous. Dawkins' book The God Delusion, released in September 2006, goes on to examine the topics raised in the documentary in greater detail. The documentary was rebroadcast on the More4 channel on the 25 August 2010 under the title of The God Delusion.