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- StarsRupert GravesCondoleezza RiceSergei IvanovFour-part documentary exploring how Russia has been resurrected by Vladimir Putin.
- DirectorNat SharmanStarsHannah FryTilly BlythDoron SwadeAda Lovelace was a most unlikely computer pioneer. In this film, Dr Hannah Fry tells the story of Ada's remarkable life. Born in the early 19th century Ada was a countess of the realm, a scandalous socialite and an 'enchantress of numbers'. The film is an enthralling tale of how a life infused with brilliance, but blighted by illness and gambling addiction, helped give rise to the modern era of computing.
- StarsHelen CzerskiPhysicist Dr Helen Czerski journeys to the extremes of the temperature scale, where the everyday laws of physics break down and a new world of scientific possibilities begins.
- StarsGilles KepelWilliam KristolMelvin GoodmanA series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain.
- StarsAdam CurtisStewart BrandAl GoreA series of films about how humans have been colonized by the machines we have built. Although we don't realize it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.
- DirectorJohn MacLavertyStarsAndy CameronStuart CosgroveKenny DalglishIn 1978 Scotland had a team of brilliant footballers and mercurial manager Ally McLeod. Featuring rare archive footage, this is the story of when a nation dared to dream.
- DirectorRussell EnglandStarsBen MacintyrePeternel HankinJeremy MontaguA documentary that looks at the World War 2 deception of 1943. British Naval intelligence devised a plan so ludicrous that Churchill loved it, the German High Command fell for it, and Allied forces acted on it, allowing them to invade southern Europe via Sicily. A plot so far fetched, you'll think it was fiction. Not since the Trojan horse has a military deception had such an impact on the world.
- DirectorDeborah PerkinStarsChris NauntonJeffrey BlakelyDebbie ChallisDocumentary about English Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, the pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. Ancient Egypt was vandalised by tomb raiders and treasure hunters until this Victorian adventurer took them on. Most people have never heard of him, but this maverick undertook a scientific survey of the pyramids, discovered the oldest portraits in the world, unearthed Egypt's prehistoric roots - and in the process invented modern field archaeology, giving meaning to a whole civilisation.
- DirectorMark LuceyStarsBob MonkhouseMike YarwoodJon CulshawRecorded in 2003 live on stage, interspersed with interviews with comedians and celebrities that were in the audience that night.