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The story of the extraordinary final chapter of Freddie Mercury's life and how, after his death, Queen staged one of the biggest concerts in history, to celebrate his life and challenge the prejudices around HIV/AIDS.

Uprising tells the extraordinary story of three intertwined events from 1981: the New Cross Fire, which killed 13 young black people; the Black People's Day of Action; and the Brixton riots.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the iconic Swedish group winning the Eurovision Song Contest.

A dramatic England penalty defeat to Italy and chaos as thousands of un-ticketed fans attempted to storm Wembley Stadium.

A father fights for decades to bring his daughter's killer to justice in France and Germany before taking extreme measures

The events of Mark Zuckerberg's life and creation of Facebook/Meta.

Original Sin follows Thea Pretorius, the mother of Gerhard Jansen van Vuuren, who murdered his girlfriend in front of her neighbors, security guards, and CCTV cameras. After initially helping him, Thea slowly came to see he was a killer.

The story of how - from 1976 to 1981 - Britain's Asian community stood tall against far-right violence and a rising tide of racist murders.

How the movement came into being in the late 1960s, when it fought back against police brutality and racism.

Rose Ayling-Ellis fronts an exciting and groundbreaking film, challenging perceptions of the deaf community and putting audiences at the heart of the deaf experience.

The UK schools scandal through the eyes of Black parents, teachers, and activists who banded together to expose the injustice and force the education system to change.

Tells the extraordinary story of the child abuse scandal that erupted on the idyllic island of Jersey in 2007. For a long time, the victims' voices had remained unheard, but when widespread allegations of sexual abuse resurfaced in the late 2000s, Jersey's then health minister Stuart Syvret spoke out about the scale of this historic child abuse and the damage done to the victims.

In one of the most memorable moments in TV history, Princess Diana candidly opens up about her marriage to Prince Charles and her life as a member of the royal family.

Is Britain under-funded and falling apart? Leading economist Tim Harford examines what the numbers reveal about the state the country is in.

In 1963, Justo Gallego Martinez laid the foundation stone for a cathedral in a small town not far from Madrid. The former monk had no architectural training or construction experience. Nearly fifty years later he is still building.

Just 25 years after gaining independence from Russia, Lithuania is facing occupation again. The airspace above the Baltic States is now one of the most dangerous in the world. In the face of the biggest aggression in Europe since the Second World War, this documentary tells a story of people desperately trying to preserve peace against imaginable odds. But the film is not about the war, it is about peace and the people willing to fight to preserve it.

A man returns from Bagram in Afghanistan and Guantanamo to tell the story.

Documentary featuring 100 years of archival footage recounting the stories of people whose lives have been affected by the border between Ireland and the UK.

Through the eyes of a handful of Brits, this is the extraordinary story of how the country was forged from the fires of division and conflict only to reinvent itself and take the rest of the world with it.

The full, shocking story of how Britain secretly used torture in its war against the Kenyan anti-colonialist Mau Mau movement in the 1950s.

The documentary examines Amnesty International's successes and failures over the 50 years since it was founded.

Two Michelin-starred chefs, Michel Roux Jr, and the Balvenie, join forces to unearth the true meaning of craftsmanship.

They're some of Libya's best and brightest - we follow 23 graduates from Benghazi as they embark on a year long management science course at Cambridge University in the UK. The idea is to bring back skills to help build Libya's scientific research base, but as the country descends further into civil war, what sort of situation will they return to?