Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World

Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World 2013

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This Shiver (ITV Studios) documentary reveals what happened behind-the-scenes on some of the most momentous breaking news events in our lifetime - as told by those caught up in the real-life drama, those in the newsrooms and those responsible for delivering these newsflashes into millions of people's homes. News stories covered include the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997); the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas (1963); the coal-tip landslide in Aberfan (1966); the Lockerbie Air Disaster (1988); the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York (2001); the start of Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War (1991); the dramatic end of the Iranian Embassy siege in London (1980); and the announcement of the death of the Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (2002).

2013

63 Up

63 Up 2019

7.17

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

2019

Eric & Ernie's Home Movies

Eric & Ernie's Home Movies 2017

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Morecambe & Wise are arguably the most popular and loved double acts ever to have been on television, but off it they built up quite an archive too - largely unseen until now - which reveals what Eric and Ernie were really like in the company of family and friends. Both Eric and Ernie were avid home movie makers, chronicling their rise to fame and recording key moments in their private and family lives, at home and abroad. Now for the first time, with access to Morecambe & Wise's entire home movie collection, this documentary shows Eric and Ernie at work and at play, on tour and on holiday, from summer season in Blackpool to trying to make it in the USA, from their pre-television fame days to the height of their career.

2017

King Fishers: Battle Of The Nordics

King Fishers: Battle Of The Nordics 2013

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Three of the best fisherman in Norway, Denmark and Finland try to prove their home fishing is the best on the planet and win the title of King Fisher.

2013

Our Cilla

Our Cilla 2015

6.50

Tribute to entertainer Cilla Black.

2015

Being Poirot

Being Poirot 2013

7.70

After 25 years playing Hercule Poirot, British actor David Suchet explores the enduring appeal of his most legendary character.

2013

Churchill:  100 Days That Saved Britain

Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain 2015

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Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain brings to life letters, diaries, speeches and personal testimony to depict the months of May, June and July 1940. This was a period when France was collapsing, the Nazis had the Allies on the run, the British Army was being defeated at Dunkirk, and - at any moment - Britain faced invasion by Hitler’s troops.

2015

Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood

Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood 2016

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Friends and fans pay tribute to a great comic talent in this celebration of the life and work of the hugely popular Victoria Wood, who died of cancer in April 2016 at age 62. Victoria wrote some of television's greatest comedy sketches and musicals, won two BAFTAs for her drama Housewife, 49, and was once voted by the British public as the person they would most like to have as their next door neighbour.

2016

The Miners' Strike and Me

The Miners' Strike and Me 2014

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Documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike, one of the bitterest industrial disputes in British history, with stories from both sides of the conflict.

2014

Hot Tub Britain

Hot Tub Britain 2014

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Britain has gone mad for hot tubs. Thousands of people are splashing out on the latest icon of social status - even if their backyards are too small and the neighbours don't like it. At the centre of the craze is Hot Tub Superstore; a family run business specialising in the weird and wonderful world of hot tubs. This quirky ob-doc follows the showroom exploits of the sales team and their customers. It reveals the often comical efforts of ingenious delivery men manoeuvring hot tubs down narrow British streets. Most tantalising of all, Hot Tub Britain takes a peek over the proverbial garden fence to examine the social politics bubbling underneath the hot tub obsession.

2014