Explore TV Series

Explorer Levison Wood tracks down some of the most iconic but endangered animals on earth, and gets a better understanding of how they are surviving against worsening odds.

People Like Us is a British reality documentary series broadcast on BBC Three. The programme tries to reflect the true lives of some of the residents of the Harpurhey district of the city of Manchester, which according to the programme has continually ranked as one of the most deprived in the UK. It has been critically panned both in Manchester as well as the wider UK for showing a very stereotypical view of the residents. Each episode lasts 60 minutes. The narrator of the programme is Natalie Casey.

Explore the tropical forests, dense jungles, and vast grasslands of Colombia, where a tremendous array of animals face a daily struggle against fierce predators and harsh weather. Watch as young tamarins face deadly boa constrictors, capuchins dodge hungry jaguars, capybaras share streams with caimans, and dazzling hummingbirds engage in an endless quest for nectar. In these unforgiving landscapes, stunning creatures and hidden dangers are waiting to be discovered around every corner.

Follow teens in treatment as they work to reclaim their lives in the face of eating disorders, suicidal depression and other mental health issues.

It's picture perfect cakes, the people who make them and the emotional stories behind the epic treats. Life is sweet at Gareth and Ryan's warm-hearted insta-bakery in Cardiff.

Truck mechanic and motorcycle racer Guy Martin goes on an off-beat 2500-mile journey around Japan to find out how it really works.

"Keeping Up with the Khans" explores the lives and aspirations of new migrants to Britain, and the impact that immigration has on one community: Page Hall in Sheffield

Explores the phenomena of why street sex workers are targeted by predators as potential victims. ‘Murder In The Red Light’ takes the crimes of serial killer, Steve Wright, as the starting point for a deep dive in to this phenomena. Infamously known as the Suffolk Strangler, during a six-week murder spree in 2006.

Channel 4 documentary about the restoration of Big Ben.

This unique series narrated by Sir Tony Robinson uses home movie archive to reveal life in 20th Century Britain as never seen before. From the Blitz to the Beatles, the last days of steam trains and working canal boats to royal coronations, these filmmakers captured everything. Each episode is devoted to the decades of the Thirties, World War Two, The Fifties and ending with the roaring Sixties.

Dr Pamela Cox presents this three-part series following the journey of the shopgirl from an almost invisible figure in stark Victorian stores, to being the beating heart of modern shops.

With access to one of Israel's most orthodox Hasidic communities, a look at the scandal that erupted the rabbi who established and led the community died.

Welcome to Human Mutants – the three-part series in which scientist Armand Marie Leroi explores the sometimes weird, sometimes wonderful, and always very ordinary world of the human mutant. From conjoined twins to dwarfs, giants and hairiness, Leroi explores the extraordinary variety that the human genome can throw up. His journey takes him from the person, via all manner of scientific experiments, to the minute mutated molecule that is the cause of their condition. Forgetting the weird and wonderful for a moment, Leroi has another more serious point – we all are mutants, every last one of us. If we weren't we'd all be clones of each other, a world full of identical twins, and how weird would that be? Being a mutant is what makes me, me, and you, you. It's what makes us unique, special and different.

The intimate and endearing stories of lion, leopard and cheetah cubs living in the Masai Mara in Kenya

Jimmy Doherty discovers what other farmers have achieved

Two-part series taking the sketched confession John Wayne Glover left before he completed suicide and using it to determine whether he was responsible for the unsolved murders of nine more victims.

A two-part documentary following obese mothers at Leicester Royal Infirmary's high risk maternity unit.

Documentary providing access to the community of Rockland Ranch in the middle of the Utah desert, where 14 Mormon families have made a home for themselves. Half the men here are polygamists, including father-of-16 Enoch Foster. He is one of the most influential men in the community and has two wives, who adore him and each other. But their family is set to expand again, with baby number 17 on the way - and Enoch is also courting a third wife, 25-year-old nanny Lydia.

Historian Lisa Hilton discovers how, in just fifty tempestuous days, Charles I’s rule collapsed, laying the foundations for civil war, the loss of royal power and, ultimately, the king’s head.

My name is Jonathan Meades and this Series is called 'Even Further Abroad'. It peels off the drab grey overcoat of preconception to reveal the lime green posing pouch of reality beneath.

Celebrity chefs try out different recipes from around the world.

The Museum is British television documentary series. It is a behind-the-scenes look at the British Museum, narrated by Ian McMillan and first broadcast on BBC Two on Thursdays at 7.30pm from 10 May 2007. It is produced by BBC Wales. It is in 10 half-hour parts. There is an accompanying hardback book by Rupert Smith.

The fly-on-the-show will rig cameras around couples homes to capture everything from their rows to the make-up sex that follows

Revelations about ten of the world's most infamous human catastrophes, from substandard materials to failures in communication.

Motivated by his love of animals, BAFTA award-winning actor Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) travels to South Africa, Botswana and Tanzania aiming to uncover the truth about why poaching has reached crisis levels and to see for himself what can be done to stop the killing.

Out of Step is a documentary series made by Associated-Rediffusion in 1957, in which presenter Daniel Farson looks for unconventional opinions' - surrounding a particular topical issue. Episodes lasted approximately 16 minutes, and the show was placed at 10.30pm in ITV's Wednesday schedule. When the show returned in 1958 it was retitled Keeping in Step.

The work of a Thailand hospital devoted solely to treating elephants. The two-part documentary reveals the day-to-day challenges of dealing with supersized patients suffering everything from deadly viruses to cuts and parasites. It also shows how the facility teaches baby elephants new commands and even turns elephant poo into fertiliser.

This series goes inside the nerve centre of policing - the police communications and control centre known as Force Control - to shed fresh light on law and order in modern Britain.

Uplifting series following the extraordinary work of NHS staff in Newcastle's hospitals, as world-class medics and dedicated support teams work all hours to save and transform lives forever

Cathedral is an educational television miniseries of five episodes first broadcast in 2005 by the BBC. It describes the construction of five cathedrals in the United Kingdom: ⁕Canterbury Cathedral ⁕Lincoln Cathedral ⁕Winchester Cathedral ⁕St. Giles' Cathedral ⁕York Minster The show features historical re-enactments using actors and CGI.

Extraordinary stories of romance fraud, exposing the lies and jaw-dropping scams of heartless manipulators; and the fight to bring them to justice.

A warm and honest exploration of what life's like for students and their teachers at Harrop Fold, a secondary school at the heart of a changing community in Salford.

A series of stories produced regionally within the UK each reflected a local relevance to WWI.

Michel Roux sets out on a personal mission to train eight young people as front-of-house superstars.

On 12th February 1993, a CCTV camera captured footage of two young boys leading a two-year-old child away from the Strand shopping centre in Liverpool. This two-part documentary tells the definitive story of the case, examining in forensic detail what happened on that tragic day, how the young killers were caught and the devastating legacy of the murder on James's family and the community. With access to his mother Denise Fergus, his brothers speaking exclusively for the first time, along with the police and others closely involved in the case.

The plot was to get Modi safely across a shallow river without being attacked by any tiger, crocodile, snake or elephant (whilst his security staff stayed close behind but out of view of the cameras.

Historic coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Saturday 6 May.

British military historian Professor Richard Holmes takes the viewer through four major battles of world war two. The Battles of Cassino, El Alamein, Arnhem (Operation Market Garden), & the RAF Bomber Command. An insightful overview of each of these diverse campaigns is given in each of the four episodes.

In an absorbing study, Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the story of a national art that conveys passion, precision, hope and renewal. He juxtaposes escapism with control and a deep affinity with nature against love for the machine. The fascinating story takes us from the towering cathedral of Cologne, the woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer and paintings of Grünewald to the gothic fairytale Neuschwanstein Castle, the Baltic landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich and the industrialisation lent expression of Adolph Menzel and Käthe Kollwitz. As the series progresses, it presents a rare focus on the cultural impact of Hitler's obsession with visual art, reveals how art became an arena for the Cold War and examines the redemptive work of the "visionary" Joseph Beuys – the most influential artist of modern times.

The disappearances of six women in the 1990s

Swapping spatulas for spanners, the Hairy Bikers restore amazing relics of Britain's past.

The series follows Sean James yet again, around the Colorful world off a repossession agent. Each episode retells the story of actual events that have happened to this mean, lean, repoing machine, veteran of debt collecting for nearly 2 decades. Each episode is different, each episode is unique. If you ever wanted to know what it would be like to be a debt collector then look no further. As you experience it through the eyes of Sean as he takes you on an exciting journey. You get to experience the highs and lows of the job, sometimes sad, sometimes funny, ruff, and even unbelievable at times.

Former marine JJ Chalmers gives a unique perspective on the evacuation of Dunkirk.

Extreme Male Beauty is a British documentary series which began airing on Channel 4 and features television presenter Tim Shaw as he explores the various lengths men will go to in order to achieve the beauty standards placed on them. The series criticises the modelling industry and the 'perfect' body images shown in the media and, whilst Shaw attempts to conform to the desirable body images sold by advertisers. Some criticised the show for having an over-complicated format.

The Big Question is a five-part science documentary television series broadcast in the United Kingdom on the Five channel, beginning January 2004 and continuing into 2005. In the North American market, it has been re-released on the Discovery Science network. Each half-hour episode is hosted by a renowned authority, and examines the following provocative questions: ⁕Part 1 - "How Did the Universe Begin?" presented by Stephen Hawking ⁕Part 2 - "How Did Life Begin?" presented by Harry Kroto ⁕Part 3 - "Why Are We Here?" presented by Richard Dawkins ⁕Part 4 - "Why Am I Me?" presented by Susan Greenfield ⁕Part 5 - "How Will It All End?" presented by Ian Stewart The series attracted controversy and criticism from creationists, as well as praise from other reviewers.

When a young woman goes missing, a team of detectives find themselves caught up in an evil game of cat and mouse with a murderer.

Horrors of World War I are relived as last survivors tell their tales in this new series. A unique and harrowing six-part documentary series featuring testimonials from more than 100 WWI veterans. This culmination of interviews captured over the last 15 years has been put together in one series for the first time, along with historic newsreel footage and dramatic reconstructions. Winner of a Royal Television Society Documentary Award (2009), this breathtaking series is praised for providing a unique historical record of a lost generation.

Rob Bell brings to life the stories of six important battles that shaped British history.

Police officers use surveillance and equipment to combat dog-fighting and illegal pet trading.

Follows the grandchildren of Major Jesse A Marcel, the first person on the scene of the Roswell crash in July 1947. His family believe Major Marcel was pressured by the US government to retract his original statement of what he discovered at the crash site and deny he ever saw evidence of a UFO.

Rob Bell looks at the history of two famous vessels with links to the British Royal Family, revealing some little known facts about each of them.

How should art depict the relationship between man and God? How can art best express eternal values? Can you, and should you, portray the face of Christ? For over a thousand years these were some of the questions which taxed the minds of the greatest artists of the early West. In this three-part series, art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon sets out to unravel the mysteries of the art of the pre-perspective era. Why has this world been so frequently misunderstood and underrated? His journey takes him from the mysterious catacombs of ancient Rome to Coptic Egypt, to the Orthodox Christian world of Istanbul and then onwards to medieval Italy and France. This programme was first broadcast on BBC Four in 2007, and later repeated on BBC Two.

An anthology series with each episode focused on the life of a renowned composer.

Historian Sam Willis traces the story of Britain's castles and their unique role in our history, art and literature.