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- Reveals the voices of the impacted parties of books banned from school districts, inspiring hope for the future through the profound insights of inquisitive youthful minds.
- A drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.
- In 2012, Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin and photographer, Paul Conroy arrived in Syria to tell the story of civilians trapped in Homs, a city under siege and relentless military attack from the Syrian army.
- They call each other Emmanuel and Vladimir - but despite the informal tone, a fateful negotiation is taking place. During France's presidency of the EU, President Macron takes on the task of negotiating with President Putin in an attempt to prevent an invasion of Ukraine. For the first time, we get to follow the diplomatic game behind the scenes and hear parts of their phone conversations.
- Engineers, architects and historians are assembled to examine why the Titanic sank, using new technology that has come to light since James Cameron's film Titanic (1997).
- A version of the story made for British television without any censorship or dramatic reconstructions.
- Academics, public relations experts, and satirists of various kinds describe the history and nature of propaganda.
- Since the most recent and historic flooding tragedies in Southeast Asia (in 2004 and 2011), researchers around the world are mobilized to study the complex mechanics of tsunamis.
- A TV documentary that recounts the many "battles" (guerres) Coco Chanel overcame to become the great businesswoman and legend she is considered today.
- Designer, architect and town planner, Charlotte Perriand marked the 20th century. A pioneer of social and committed architecture, this collaborator at Le Corbusier has created furniture with sober elegance that has become icons.
- Ordinary Gods is a feature-length documentary exploring the lives and sacrifices of the world's most promising professional soccer players.
- Jackie Chan is a true icon of Asian and Chinese culture. Over a 45-year-long career, he has carved a niche for himself as an actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter, but also singer and formidable businessman. After starring in almost 200 films, Chan has reconciled fans of genre film and Hollywood blockbusters, whilst bridging the gap between Asian and Western cinema. Through film excerpts, archive footage and images, and an offbeat approach inspired by the visual codes of the golden age of kung fu films, this documentary will take a look back at the creation of a popular hero who has come to be an icon for China, and the entire Asian continent.
- A colorful portrait of Jane Fonda, actress and activist, resonating with recent American history, its dreams and its disillusions.
- Documentary about the long, tragic history of Lebanon, once called the "Switzerland of the Middle East", and for decades the main stage of conflicts that began with the downfall of the Osman Empire.
- On the 20th anniversary of September 11th, this documentary takes a look at the event and its consequences from a German perspective.
- 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).
- Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire share their personal accounts of the disaster, revealing the decisions that saved their lives and remembering the friends, neighbours and loved ones who didn't make it out alive.
- A documentary about art, its function, its meaning and its development during the Russian-Ukrainian war. About artists in real and creative trenches. Art has proven to be a strong tool for survival and transformation, served as an anthem to continue fighting, as a recovery from trauma and crowdfunding for the army. This project aims at looking at this phenomenon, trying to understand what the art during war is.
- Their names were Herta, Liesel, Liselotte and Hildegard: Hundreds of thousands of women, including secretaries, nurses, housewives and concentration camp guards, put themselves in the service of Nazi ideology in the German-occupied areas from 1939 onwards. The women were not passive witnesses to a genocide committed by men, but active accomplices and murderers. In the history of the Second World War, the role of women was often only marginally recognized. Around 500,000 of them were active in the areas occupied by the Wehrmacht from 1939 - where the Holocaust was actually implemented.
- A compilation of illusions that went disastrously wrong, including a number of near fatal cases. Also featuring a discussion of some of magic's most dangerous acts and mishaps featuring world famous magicians.
- Typography expert Mark Ovenden looks at the two main typefaces, Johnson and Gill Sans, that are used on many signs, maps and shop-fronts.