The Last Man on the Moon

The Last Man on the Moon 2016

6.50

The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Americans were preoccupied with other developments like NASA, the game-changing space programme that put Neil Armstrong on the moon. Yet it was astronauts like Eugene Cernan who paved the uneven, perilous path to lunar exploration. A test pilot who lived to court danger, he was recruited along with 14 other men in a secretive process that saw them become the closest of friends and adversaries. In this intensely competitive environment, Cernan was one of only three men who was sent twice to the moon, with his second trip also being NASA’s final lunar mission. As he looks back at what he loved and lost during the eight years in Houston, an incomparably eventful life emerges into view. Director Mark Craig crafts a quietly epic biography that combines the rare insight of the surviving former astronauts with archival footage and otherworldly moonscapes.

2016

Armstrong

Armstrong 2019

7.30

Dramatic, moving and deeply human, ARMSTRONG offers the definitive life story of Neil Armstrong: from his childhood in Ohio to his first steps on the Moon, and beyond.

2019

Spitfire

Spitfire 2018

7.20

A feature documentary about the people and the planes that helped win World War War II. Through people personally connected to the events, the film investigates the story of how the Spitfire, its stable-mate, the Hawker Hurricane and its great adversary, the Messerschmitt 109 came into being during the huge advances in aviation in the interwar period—and then how the pilots fared in combat, three miles up in the skies over Europe, Africa and Asia.

2018

How to Go Faster and Influence People: The Gordon Murray F1 Story

How to Go Faster and Influence People: The Gordon Murray F1 Story 2012

1

In the secretive world of F1 designers, Professor Gordon Murray is a legendary figure. Having spent 40 years designing one innovative car after another, his portfolio includes the most successful F1 car ever raced and what is widely considered to be the greatest sports car of all time. But today Professor Murray has set himself even more challenging goals as his focus turns from racetrack to public road.

2012

Graham Hill: Driven

Graham Hill: Driven 2008

8.00

Graham Hill was an eccentric, charismatic Englishman from a bygone era of sporting endeavour. With great determination he won the Formula 1 World Championship, the Indy 500 and the Le Mans 24 hours race, thereby achieving the 'triple crown' of motor racing - a unique feat that remains unmatched to this day. Graham also won the glamorous Monaco Grand Prix five times during an era when drivers routinely met violent death. Graham's illustrious racing career spanned three decades, which at its height saw him routinely slugging it out with fellow F1 champions Jim Clark and Jackie Stewart. Close friends yet intense rivals on the track, they were the 'Three Musketeers' during a golden era of motor racing. But what was the truth behind Graham's popular public image? 30 years on from his death, his family, close friends and former colleagues paint an intimate, revealing and entertaining portrait of a sporting hero tragically killed in a plane crash in 1975.

2008

Stewart

Stewart 2023

6.40

Stewart follows Jackie Stewart's rise from humble beginnings outside Glasgow, through the dark years of the early 1970s when Stewart, despite opposition, tried to improve safety at the races.

2023

Jackie Stewart: The Flying Scot

Jackie Stewart: The Flying Scot 2004

1

An authorised (and 'definitive') profile of racing-driver turned team-leader Jackie Stewart, the Scottish grand prix maestro who claimed 27 victories from 99 starts. Winning his first championship in 1969 with BRM, he achieved further success in 1971 and 1973 driving for Tyrrell-Ford. Keeping in touch with the sport after his retirement as a commentator and ambassador, Stewart launched his own, Ford-backed, team in the late 90s.

2004