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- Brothers addicted to speed. At any price. Motorcycle road racing is the most dangerous of all motor sports. One in which men compete at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour on closed country roads. Roads that are lined with trees, telegraph posts, stone walls. Ireland and the Isle of Man are two of the few places in the world where the sport still survives. Narrated by Liam Neeson, this is the dramatic and poignant story of two sets of brothers from Northern Ireland who have dominated road racing for over thirty years. Two generations of one family that have been united by success. And united by tragedy.
- When Tomás returns to his remote island holiday home, he discovers that his reclusive wife and child have vanished. With nowhere to turn and a storm approaching, he is forced to place his trust in the small community's lone retired police officer, Labhaoise, to investigate. As the search takes an unexpected turn, some uncomfortable truths are revealed. Meanwhile, the storm looms ever closer.
- Monkey Love explores the life of American research psychologist Harry Harlow, a man responsible for some of the most controversial experiments to have been performed in animal laboratories.
- Tony Robinson walks our oldest roads to find the truth behind the megaliths, burial sites, ley lines and hidden caves along their path, and connect the clues they have left hidden in the British landscape.
- Genius, guts and glory. From Best to Keane, Shankly to Ferguson, they were the players and managers who elevated England's biggest clubs to greatness.
- Powerful documentary which revisits the Heysel Stadium disaster of May 1985, when 39 fans were crushed to death before the European Cup Final between Liverpool FC and Juventus.
- Described as a photographic discovery of the century, this documentary uncovers the remarkable story of Lance Corporal George Hackney.
- Gloria Hunniford looks back at her extraordinary career and reveals what it has been like to be woman, mother and grandmother on television and radio for more than half a century.
- In 1967, four unknown actors in a kids TV show became the biggest pop band in the world. In America, they outsold Elvis and The Beatles combined. They were The Monkees. But The Monkees were not a real band, they were a man-made money making machine, driven by ego and ambition. A machine that would ultimately crash and burn. This is the inside story of pop music's first manufactured band.
- Frank Carson was one of Britain and Ireland's most loved comedians. Dan Gordon explores the story of the Belfast funny man as he prepares to stage a one-man show on the comic's life.
- Cilla Black examines the less 'swinging' side of the UK's most influential decade of the 20th century.
- Roy Walker, one of Northern Ireland's most popular comedians, reflects on the extraordinary highs and lows of his remarkable life as he approaches his 80th birthday.
- On the centenary of the end of the conflict, Dan Cruickshank reveals the extraordinary story behind the design of the WW1 cemeteries and memorials and of the remarkable man whose vision created them.
- Tracing the rise of camping in the UK from its middle class "escape to the country" roots to the present trend of festival and family holiday camping.
- To celebrate the centenary of flight in Ireland, presenter Eddie Irvine tells the dramatic but little-known story of the young aviator Harry Ferguson, the first man in Ireland to fly a plane, at Hillsborough, County Down in 1909.
- William Crawley embarks on a compelling personal challenge as he looks at the nation's relationship with 'our drug of choice' - alcohol.
- An elderly woman awakes on a Sunday morning at 7:30, but stays in bed. While in bed she stares around her room and dozes, reminiscing about her past # the loss of her friends, her husband leaving her and the moving out of her children from Northern Ireland to start lives in Canada.
- Catching up with the lives some of the members of Religious cult, the Unification Church who participated in a mass wedding in which 4,000 people married total strangers.
- A young man's crisis of faith on the day he returns to South Africa, where the church remains highly homophobic.
- With David Beckham looking uncertain for the 2002 World Cup finals after his clash with Argentinean Aldo Duscher, this documentary charts the explosive 35 year feud between their two nations, when football became war by another means.
- For over fifty years, Richard Hayward was at the centre of cultural life in Northern Ireland. Yet after his death in a car crash in 1964, his name and achievements faded from view. Actor Dan Gordon sets out to rediscover Hayward's extraordinary life and career and find out why we know so little about him today.
- Richard Dormer narrates this nostalgic documentary series that delves into the BBC archives to reveal the changing face of life in Northern Ireland.
- The Siege of Derry was a pivotal moment in the history of Ireland and Britain and one that placed the city at the heart of a European-wide struggle. In this documentary writer Carlo Gébler explores the remarkable story of this dramatic and bloody event - one that has shaped the course of our history to the present day.
- An overview of the prehistory of Ulster from the Neolithic period to the Viking settlement in the 9th Century, examining important archaeological sites and museum artifacts.
- A documentary celebrating the golden age of air travel, when in the 1920s and 1930s Britain ruled the skies, and style and glamour were a passport to adventure.
- TV Movie
- A new four part Irish language series produced for RTÉ One by DoubleBand Films in which presenter Róisín Ní Thomáin explores the stories of four pioneering Irish women who helped shape the world of science.
- Documentary about Belfast man Teddy Dixon who, as a soldier in WWII, fought in France and Germany and was among the first to discover the horrors of Dachau concentration camp.
- A biography of one of the founders of the Gaelic League and a largely forgotten figure in the 1916 Easter Rising.
- Historian John Bew uncovers the remarkable story of the Irish-born British Foreign Secretary who was instrumental in the defeat of Napoleon yet became one of the country's most reviled politicians before ending his own life in 1822.
- In September 1912 half a million men and women signed the Ulster Covenant. Some, it was said, even signed in their own blood. To mark its centenary, William Crawley explores the story behind this extraordinary event.
- The story of caravanning in Britain, from the 1950s through to the present day, revealing how mobile homes became a firm favourite with almost a quarter of British holiday-makers.
- A poem of hope found in silence, told between a former selective mute struggling to keep her voice as she returns to her island home and a young Londoner still searching for her own.
- The untold story of the Sam McAughtry, one of Ireland's most popular writers and storytellers. Behind his success was the little known story of family tragedy and personal redemption.
- Unseen home movies, shot on super 8 film, by people from across Northern Ireland.
- Film maker Mark Cousins, who left Belfast at 18, returns to his home town to reflect on how the place and its history have been used, and occasionally abused, by cinema.
- Historian John Bew explores the remarkable story of William Tennent, whose private life was cloaked in scandal and who was almost hanged for his part in the 1798 Rising, yet he went on to become the richest man in Belfast.
- Documentary about the thousands of children evacuated from Belfast during the Second World War.
- Powerful documentary recounting the untold stories of men from Northern Ireland who fought in Normandy on 6th June 1944. Featuring rare archive footage and eye-witness interviews.
- Newton Emerson takes a celebratory yet irreverent look at Craigavon.
- Dan Gordon returns to his native east Belfast to explore the work of four writers with strong connections to this part of the city. In doing so he considers how these writers - St John Ervine, Thomas Carnduff, Sam Thompson and Stewart Parker - explored the experiences of Belfast's working class communities and brought their voices to a wider audience.
- Behind-the-scenes documentary following rookie actor Patrick Kielty in a new production of Marie Jones' controversial play, A Night in November.
- Presenter William Crawley explores the role and relevance of religion in modern day Northern Ireland.