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.
More than 150 of Britain’s railway stations are request stops. You have to put out your arm to get the train to stop at the platform. In this series, Paul Merton will travel around the country by train, only getting off at request stops. He’ll explore the history of the stations, and meet the people who live and work around them to learn more about at these unusual and often-overlooked stations.
Guy Martin investigates autonomous vehicles, attempts to build a robotic Ford Transit, and takes on an artificially intelligent race car. What's fastest, man or machine?
In a brand new take on Channel 4’s flagship Daytime show, previous winners will take part in a high-pressure tournament to be crowned a Come Dine With Me Champion of Champions. Taking place in a large country manor house, long-running narrator of Come Dine With Me, Dave Lamb will step out from behind the microphone to present this brand new format. The series will feature former contestants cooking against each other in a series of challenges; they’ll be marking one another’s efforts but also be judged by some special mystery guests who will bring a super critical edge to proceedings! After four days of heats, the daily winners will return to battle for that week’s title of Champion of Champions.
Groundbreaking series with unprecedented access to a police murder investigation, telling the true story, as a drama, from the perspective of the police and the victim and suspect's families.
Seven Ages of Britain is a 2003 British documentary television series. The seven part series was shown by Channel 4 between 15 November and 20 December 2003.
A Brief History of the F Word (2000), a comprehensive, if over-long, study of a word that was afraid of being used in the programme's title but had its etymology analysed from its medieval origins to its socially common usage today
Robert's Web was a topical comedy show hosted by Robert Webb looking at the latest news, happenings, videos and pictures from the internet in the last week.
An extraordinary look at what happens when people have the experience of fear removed through the use of a powerful new drug. Derren examines the psychology of religious belief, performs a satanic rite and attempts to give an atheist a religious conversion.
Who is Arthur Knight? A bookish nice guy just woken up from a coma? Or Nicholas Rossi in disguise - a sexually aggressive narcissist and one of America's most wanted?
Grayson Perry explores the landmark events in all of our lives—Birth, Coming of Age, Marriage and Death. He works alongside people who are going through those universal experiences with the aim to try and reinvent these rites of passage so he can mark and celebrate them for modern secular Britain.
Jon Richardson takes his mother-in-law Gill on a retirement road trip to Spain to find her a perfect home - that isn't his in Yorkshire! But there's one problem: Gill wants to grow old disgracefully!
Boys and Girls Alone was a British reality TV programme made for Channel 4 and first broadcast in 2009. Dubbed "Kid Brother" by the press, for its similarity to the channel's major show Big Brother.
For generations the French Foreign Legion has been romanticised as a refuge for men seeking a second chance in life. But what is it really like?
Bear Grylls sets off for the Sahara desert to find out. Along with 11 other volunteers, from ex-criminals to struggling businessmen, Bear puts himself through a month's brutal training at an ex-Legion fort in the Western Sahara that is designed to replicate the rigours of the Legion's own basic training.
The recruits discover the truth behind the Beau Geste image about the unique military culture that makes the Legion among the toughest fighting forces in the world.
Nine men recreate a voyage by William Bligh in 1789, when he and his loyal crewmen crossed 4,000 miles of the Pacific Ocean from Tonga to Timor after being cast adrift from HMS Bounty by mutinying seamen and left for dead.