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1. Secret War (2011– )
Episode: Christine Granville

50 min | Documentary, History, War

Beautiful, charismatic, and cunning, Winston Churchill's favorite spy was a Polish woman who seemed to thrive on adrenaline and beating the odds. For five years she did just that, risking ... See full summary »

Star: Alisdair Simpson

2. Secret War (2011– )
Episode: Double Agent Tricycle

52 min | Documentary, History, War

While pretending to spy for the Germans during the war, a young Yugoslav offered his services to the British. Agent Tricycle also gathered intelligence about Japan's plans that the FBI tragically dismissed.

Star: Alisdair Simpson

3. Secret War (2011– )
Episode: The French Triple Agent

53 min | Documentary, History, War

How did the Nazis penetrate the French Resistance? Why were so many British agents captured after landing in France? Part of the answer may lie with an agent who worked with the Germans and... See full summary »

Star: Alisdair Simpson

4. Secret War (2011– )
Episode: The Mafia Connection

49 min | Documentary, History, War

As Britain held out against the Nazis in Europe, the United States was desperate to keep supply lines open to its ally across the Atlantic. To do so, it needed help from an expert on the New York City docks: mobster Charles Luciano.

Star: Alisdair Simpson

5. Secret War (2011– )
Episode: Agent Garbo

52 min | Documentary, History, War

A Spanish civilian spying for Germany was actually an intrepid enemy of fascism. Decorated by Germany and Britain alike, he ran an imaginary network of spies and produced fake intelligence that reached the desk of the Führer himself.

Director: Elliot McCaffrey | Star: Alisdair Simpson

6. Secret War (2011– )
Episode: The Aristocrat and the Balkan Communists

50 min | Documentary, History, War

On Churchill's orders, an SOE agent parachuted into German-occupied Yugoslavia in 1943 to cut a deal with communist partisans who had an agenda far beyond defeating the Nazis. The prime ... See full summary »

Star: Alisdair Simpson

7. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)
Episode: The Face of an Angel

Documentary

The story of Amanda Knox, the young American woman who was falsely convicted in Italy of the murder of her flatmate. She spent four years in jail for a crime she didn't commit.

Director: Ned Parker | Stars: Tilde Jensen, Alisdair Simpson, Chris Cowlin

8. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)
Episode: Unbroken

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary

The story of Louis Zamperini, the Olympian long-distance runner and WW2 US aviator. He survived 47 days at sea after his plane crashed and then several years of brutal treatment by the Japanese in a POW camp.

Director: Steve Baker | Stars: Nicholas Benjamin, Armin Coralic, Ash Holmes, Mark Jarvis

9. Final Fantasy XVI (2023 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

As a malady known as the Blight ravages the land of Valisthea and its realms plunge into war, Clive Rosfield, the firstborn son of the Archduke of Rosaria, sets out on a dark, dangerous journey to revenge following a tragedy.

Directors: Kazutoyo Maehiro, Hiroshi Takai | Stars: Ben Starr, Yûya Uchida, Yuma Uchida, Susannah Fielding

Votes: 1,702

10. Unit - the New Series (2015– )
One Way or Another (2023 Podcast Episode)

Sci-Fi

Kate leads an attack on a Vulpreen prison camp, unaware that UNIT friends are being held there. As paths converge, Kate and Osgood have different perspectives on the attack, and specific dangers to overcome.

Director: Ken Bentley | Stars: Eleanor Crooks, James Joyce, Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Glen McCready

11. Unit - the New Series (2015– )
Traitors' Gate (2023 Podcast Episode)

Sci-Fi

Osgood is a prisoner in the Tower of London, which is now a Vulpreen base. To rescue her friend, Kate must devise a plan to raid her former headquarters. Inside the Tower, the Vulpreen are ... See full summary »

Director: Ken Bentley | Stars: Donna Berlin, James Joyce, Harriet Kershaw, Chris Lew Kum Hoi

12. Unit - the New Series (2015– )
True Nemesis (2023 Podcast Episode)

Sci-Fi

Under Missy's guiding hand, the Vulpreen are ready to strike out, to establish themselves as the new Masters of Time. UNIT's confrontation with Missy in the depths of Portugal's Douro ... See full summary »

Director: Ken Bentley | Stars: Eleanor Crooks, Michelle Gomez, James Joyce, Chris Lew Kum Hoi

13. Doctor Who Unbound (2003–2025)
Episode: Who Am I? (2022)

Sci-Fi

The Tesh and the Sevateem are at war, obeying the orders of their God Xoanon. But they cannot know their battle has a higher purpose, one led by the Time Lord responsible for Xoanon's condition. A Time Lord called - the Master.

Director: Barnaby Kay | Stars: Colin Baker, Geoffrey Beevers, Jason Forbes, Philip Hurd-Wood

14. Unit - the New Series (2015– )
The Man From Gallifrey (2022 Podcast Episode)

Sci-Fi

As Osgood works flat out to rescue a lost friend, Kate is at a demonstration of a new UK spaceship, the Starseeker. There she meets two people. Lieutenant Jimmy Tan looks like potential ... See full summary »

Director: Ken Bentley | Stars: Mark Bonnar, David Holt, James Joyce, Chris Lew Kum Hoi

15. Unit - the New Series (2015– )
Ten Minutes in Hell (2022 Podcast Episode)

Sci-Fi

On the alien world on the far side of the Arch, the Vulpreen put their human prisoner through an ordeal. Osgood must lead a desperate rescue attempt - and she's got ten minutes to do it.

Director: Ken Bentley | Stars: Mark Bonnar, Susie Emmett, James Joyce, Chris Lew Kum Hoi

16. Unit - the New Series (2015– )
The Vulpreen Encounter (2022 Podcast Episode)

Sci-Fi

When a forty-mile-long asteroid drifts into the solar system, Osgood and new UNIT recruit Lt Jimmy Tan are sent to investigate on board the newly-built UK spaceship Starseeker. Kate Stewart... See full summary »

Director: Ken Bentley | Stars: David Holt, Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Ingrid Oliver, Jemma Redgrave

17. Unit - the New Series (2015– )
By Jacqui McGee (2022 Podcast Episode)

Sci-Fi

As Kate Stewart and the UNIT team race to escape a Vulpreen assassination squad, Jacqui McGee uploads the most important report of her career. Vulpreen Commander Krillen is coordinating a ... See full summary »

Director: Ken Bentley | Stars: Eleanor Crooks, Daniel Easton, David Holt, James Joyce

18. Unit - the New Series (2015– )
Axos Unleashed (2022 Podcast Episode)

Sci-Fi

With the threat of a Vulpreen invasion imminent, a new menace presents itself in the shape of golden humanoids. A foe from UNIT's past. Axos has escaped the Time trap it was placed in years before and has returned to feed off the Earth.

Director: Ken Bentley | Stars: Mark Bonnar, Eleanor Crooks, Richard Goulding, James Joyce

19. Unit - the New Series (2015– )
Time of the Vulpreen (2022 Podcast Episode)

Sci-Fi

UNIT coordinates a worldwide response to the arrival of Vulpreen Arches around the globe. Troops stand ready to face the invaders. Kate Stewart and Osgood form an uneasy alliance with the ... See full summary »

Director: Ken Bentley | Stars: Mark Bonnar, Eleanor Crooks, Daniel Easton, James Joyce

20. Whitstable Pearl (2021– )

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Local restaurant owner Pearl Nolan sets up a local detective agency after undergoing police training in an earlier career. She is soon embroiled in her first case when she discovers the body of her close friend Vinnie.

Stars: Howard Charles, Frances Barber, Isobelle Molloy, Sophia Del Pizzo

Votes: 3,476

21. Ancient Apocalypse (2021)

50 min | Fantasy, History, Mystery

Ancient Apocalypse investigates six catastrophic stories of how the world's greatest civilizations collapsed.

Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Mary-Ann Ochota, Iszi Lawrence, Jeff Rose

Votes: 330

22. Hitmen (2020–2021)
Episode: Reunion (2021)

TV-MA | Comedy, Crime

Misfits, friends, and contract killers - Jamie and Fran are back and ready to put on their 80s gear for a school reunion, where a vengeful assassin lies in wait.

Director: David Sant | Stars: Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Chizzy Akudolu, Sanjeev Bhaskar

Votes: 28

23. Whitstable Pearl (2021– )
Episode: The Man on the Blue Plaque (2021)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A 30-year-old skeleton washes up on the shore, and the victim has a very personal connection to Pearl. Pearl's budding romance with Mike is threatened when he identifies a suspect close to home.

Director: Chanya Button | Stars: Kerry Godliman, Howard Charles, Frances Barber, Isobelle Molloy

Votes: 199

24. Ancient Apocalypse (2021)
Episode: Sodom and Gomorrah (2021)

50 min | Fantasy, History, Mystery

Sodom stood for 1000s of years as a powerful lesson of the perils of wickedness. According to the Bible, the men of Sodom were so wicked that God destroyed the city in a shower of fire and brimstone. But did the city of Sodom ever exist?

Director: Kim Lask | Stars: Martin Archer, Robert R. Cargill, Steven Collins, Helen Farr

Votes: 24

25. Ancient Apocalypse (2021)
Episode: Doggerland (2021)

50 min | Fantasy, History, Mystery

8000 years ago, a lush paradise, home to mammoth, deer, and hunter-gatherers connected Britain and mainland Europe - Doggerland. It was wiped out by a single devastating event, leaving it hidden beneath the waves of the North Sea.

Director: Patrick Dickinson | Stars: Luc Amkreutz, Bryony Coles, Helen Farr, Simon Fitch

Votes: 30

26. Ancient Apocalypse (2021)
Episode: The Lost City of Helike (2021)

50 min | Fantasy, History, Mystery

In 373 BCE the Greek city of Helike disappeared beneath the waves. In myths, Poseidon destroyed it. It's hauntingly similar the story of Atlantis. Could it be possible to rediscover the lost city and could Helike actually be Atlantis?

Director: Nicky Bolster | Stars: Dora Katsonopoulou, Paul Kronfield, Jeff Rose, Alisdair Simpson

Votes: 22

27. Ancient Apocalypse (2021)
Episode: Akkadian Empire (2021)

50 min | Fantasy, History, Mystery

In 2334 BCE the Akkadians conquered and united the Sumerian city state kingdoms to create the world's first empire. After only 140 years the Akkadian Empire fractured. Why did they collapse?

Director: Justin Rickett | Stars: Rebecca Bradshaw, Robert R. Cargill, Marie-Agnes Courty, Helen Farr

Votes: 25

28. Ancient Apocalypse (2021)
Episode: The Mystery of the Sea People (2021)

50 min | Fantasy, History, Mystery

In 1,200 BCE the Hittite Empire, the Mycenaeans, and the Egyptian Empire imploded and the Bronze Age period of history collapsed. What, or who, was to blame? Evidence points to what is known as the Sea People. Were they responsible?

Director: Nicky Bolster | Stars: Carol Bell, Robert R. Cargill, Eric Cline, Iszi Lawrence

Votes: 21

29. Ancient Apocalypse (2021)
Episode: The Maya Civilization (2021)

50 min | Fantasy, History, Mystery

Between 250 and 900 CE the Maya civilization perfected mathematics, astronomy, architecture and the calendar. From around 900 CE the Maya's luck ran out and their great cities were largely abandoned. Why?

Director: Justin Rickett | Stars: William Carlsen, Arthur Demarest, Ty Hurley, Hamza Murtaza Jafri

Votes: 24

30. Hitmen (2020–2021)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Crime

Fran and Jamie are best friends and business partners - they just happen to kill people for a living. Having stumbled into a career in contract killing, the misfit duo are definitely not your typical killers for hire.

Stars: Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Katherine Parkinson, Asim Chaudhry

Votes: 1,241

31. Doctor Who: The First Doctor Adventures (2017– )
Return to Skaro (2020 Podcast Episode)

Sci-Fi

A new plan to return to Earth actually returns the TARDIS to another place its crew have recently visited - Skaro, home-world of the Daleks.

Director: Ken Bentley | Stars: David Bradley, Nicholas Briggs, James Camp, Jamie Glover

32. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)
Episode: United 93 (2019)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary

The heroic acts of the passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93.

Director: Lou Westlake | Stars: Linda-Jean Barry, Gordon Felt, Keith Hide, Bashir Hussein

Votes: 8

33. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)
Episode: The Boston Strangler (2019)

Documentary

Women are found raped and strangled in early 1960s Boston, causing widespread panic.

Director: Pascal Hughes | Stars: F. Lee Bailey, Nathanjohn Carter, John Dinatale, Antti Hakala

34. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)
Episode: 13 Hours (2019)

Documentary

A look at what went wrong and the truth behind why Chris Stevens was left exposed.

Director: Chris Roberts | Stars: AJ Blackwell, Richard Dee-Roberts, Dawan Ismael, Hugh Lehane

Votes: 6

35. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)
Episode: Lone Survivor (2019)

Documentary

A secret US Navy SEAL mission in Afghanistan is ambushed, and only one man survives.

Director: Chris Roberts | Stars: Alin Balascan, AJ Blackwell, Seelan Gunaseelan, Dawan Ismael

36. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)
Episode: American Made (2019)

Documentary

A legendary '80s drug smuggler named Barry Seal flips as a DEA agent after being caught in a sting.

Director: Lou Westlake | Stars: Jake Francis, Thomas Greenhaf, John Harpley, Yann Morine

37. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)
Episode: Captain Phillips (2019)

Documentary

The struggle of chief engineer Mike Perry as he disables the ship and works to save the crew.

Director: Ian Bremner | Stars: David Hopper, Jay Junior, John Kamau, Russell Meyers

38. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)
Episode: Selena (2019)

Documentary

Singer Selena Quintanilla rises to fame before being gunned down by the manager of her fan club.

Director: Patrick Dickinson | Stars: Ramiro Burr, David Galea, Priscilla Gomez, John Harpley

39. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)
Episode: The Infiltrator (2019)

Documentary

The team goes under cover to infiltrate the dangerous world of the Medellin cartel.

Director: Justin Rickett | Stars: David Galea, Fermin Galeano, Andy Wolf, Derek Gibbons

40. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)
Episode: All Eyez on Me (2019)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary

Born to a Black Panther mother, Tupac Shakur's childhood was steeped in social injustice.

Director: Stan Griffin | Stars: Angela Ardis, Natasha Burnett, Leon Dean, Peter Parker Mensah

Votes: 6

41. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)
Episode: American Gangster (2019)

Documentary

Small-time crook turned drug baron Frank Lucas was the first Harlem gangster.

Stars: Paulo Andre Aragao, Christian Cipollini, Manny Jae, Faith Kiggundu

42. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)
Episode: Argo (2019)

Documentary

CIA legend Tony Mendez masterminded the escape of six diplomats from revolutionary Iran.

Stars: Alex Francis, Cora Amburn-Lijek, Bob Anders, Matt Baglio

43. The Real Story of... (2016–2020)
Episode: Serpico (2019)

Documentary

New York cop Frank Serpico lamp lights the corruption within the NYPD.

Director: Alice Smith | Stars: Daniel Booroff, Frank Serpico, Larry McShane, Michael Armstrong

Votes: 11

44. A Private War (2018)

R | 110 min | Biography, Drama, War

One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontline of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

Director: Matthew Heineman | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Alexandra Moen, Tom Hollander, Faye Marsay

Votes: 21,026 | Gross: $1.63M

45. Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)

TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

This is the story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich told like the drama it really was: through the personal relationships of the movers and shakers of the Nazi Party.

Stars: Guy Walters, Alisdair Simpson, Jay Osborne, Michael Lynch

Votes: 5,075

46. The Churchill Years (2016–2018)
Churchill Victorious (2018 Podcast Episode)

Sci-Fi

VE Day, 1945. The war is over. The PM has seen the crowds and made his speech. Now he wishes to soak up the atmosphere, moving incognito among his fellow countrymen. But an alien interloper... See full summary »

Director: Ken Bentley | Stars: Ian McNeice, Nicholas Asbury, Alisdair Simpson, Susan Tracy

47. Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Episode: Rise of Antisemitism (2018)

TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Himmler, Goebbels and Göring fight for their position within in the party while its influence grows in Germany.

Director: Chris Roberts | Stars: Nigel Jones, Michael Lynch, Guy Walters, Toby Thacker

Votes: 208

48. Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Episode: Heroes and Misfits (2018)

TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Warheroes, unsatisfied workers, a rich playwright, and the mysterious veteran Adolf Hitler start a movement based on mythology and racism.

Director: Ashley Morris | Stars: Guy Walters, Frank McDonough, Richard Overy, Emma Craigie

Votes: 257

49. Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Episode: Regrouping (2018)

TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

It's 1923, Hitler is imprisoned and he has little support. His career seems at an end until he and Rudolf Hess think of a new way to get power.

Director: Matthew Hinchcliffe | Stars: Guy Walters, Nigel Jones, Michael Lynch, Richard Overy

Votes: 227

50. Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Episode: The Fall of Rohm (2018)

TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The financial crisis in the USA makes the Nazis look good. But in order to keep their new supporters they need to cleanse the party.

Director: Matthew Hinchcliffe | Stars: Guy Walters, Richard Overy, Toby Thacker, Michael Lynch

Votes: 214