Prison

PRISON tells the human story on both sides of the cell door: staff and prisoners, and the real issues facing them all. The first season of this docu-series features exclusive access to the male English prison HMP Durham. The second instalment shifts its focus to female offenders with exclusive access to HMP Foston Hall, a women’s prison in the UK. Season 1: Winner of 2019: Best Documentary Series, Broadcast Award and Best Documentary Series, Royal Television Society Award. Nominated for 2019 BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series

Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop

INDEPENDENT AMERICA: THE TWO LANE SEARCH FOR MOM & POP follows former NBC foreign correspondents and married couple, Hanson Hosein and Heather Hughes, as they hit the road and travel 13,000 miles through 32 states, searching for an America unchained by corporate retail. Complete with interviews with economists, advocates, political leaders and even the VP of the world’s leading big box store, this compelling and controversial documentary encourages society to think more about where they spend their hard-earned dollars.

9/11 Kids

This award-winning documentary explores the lives of the students who were reading with George W. Bush when a plane hit the second tower of the World Trade Center. For these kids, this moment in American history is forever etched in their minds. Almost 20 years later, we reveal what has become of these gifted, predominantly African American children. 9/11 KIDS catches up with many of those present on that day and reflects on the theme of race in America and what the American Dream means today. *Winner of 2020 Ted Rogers Audience Award, Hot Docs *Winner of 2021 Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program, Canadian Screen Awards *Nominated, Best Direction, Documentary Program, Canadian Screen Awards *Nominated, Best Photography, Documentary or Factual, Canadian Screen Awards

Original Kin

Original Kin follows three very different yet equally compelling stories of adult adoptees and their search for their biological parents.

Cracked: The Perplexing World of Egg Donation

CRACKED reveals the world of egg donation at a time when fertility rates are collapsing. Infertile potential parents are desperate to find egg donors with the right traits, the right ethnicity. But donating an egg is not simple and invites multiple risks. Through intimate stories of couples searching for donors, a Hollywood actor who had her child through egg donation, and frank confessions from a donor who is helping scores of families welcome babies, the film explores the economics, emotional costs and ethics of egg donation. It illuminates how rapid advances in reproductive science have left countries, cultures and laws struggling to catch up and both egg donors and those yearning for babies walking on eggshells.

Why Are We Here?

Today, science says it has found the rules which explain everything, from particles to galaxies, from genes to our minds. But the explanation comes at a cost, for the rules, some scientists say, have no meaning. Could we really be creatures made to see and seek meaning in a universe where none exists? In this series, Oxford Physics Professor Ard Louis is joined by distinguished science documentary filmmaker and presenter David Malone. They travel to India, Senegal and the United States to meet some of the world’s best physicists, mathematicians, philosophers, neuroscientists and biologists to discuss and debate questions about meaning and the nature of the universe.

Journey In The Danger Zone: Iraq

Adnan Sarwar served as a British soldier in the Iraq war. 15 years later, he returns to explore the country that’s obsessed him ever since. In a revealing and uplifting journey, Adnan sees Iraq and meets its people in a way he never could as a soldier. Starting high in the snowy mountains, Adnan joins wildlife activists releasing bears into the wild; enters tunnels dug by ISIS in Mosul which house an incredible discovery; gains rare access to a booming oil-refinery; and meets Iraqi Kurdistan’s biggest pop star. He joins female soldiers who long for independence from Iraq, before travelling through majestic gorges to reach the contested oil fields of Kirkuk, where Kurdish and Iraqi forces recently clashed. 15 years on, the future of Iraq looks optimistic.

Riders On The Storm

RIDERS ON THE STORM captures a pivotal moment in Afghan history and offers a rare and visceral look at a ruthless sports culture where champions become marked men. Khaiber Akbarzada is on the verge of being hailed as Afghanistan’s best player of Buzkashi, the ancient sport where horsemen battle for control of a headless goat. Khaiber achieves his goal of winning the tournament and being named top rider in the land, but soon learns that fame is both a gift and a curse. The line between war and sport is starting to blur, and militants are targeting influential figures, forcing Khaiber to go into hiding to avoid the same fate as his uncle, a legendary buzkashi star who was assassinated during the civil war. Ultimately, Khaiber must make a choice that will alter the course of his life.

Inside China: Ice Vegas

Get an inside look as Harbin’s army of workers build a theme park bigger than Disneyland and follow some of the world’s best ice and snow carvers in their gruelling quest for gold.

A Grand Royal Design

A GRAND ROYAL DESIGN is an exclusive, inside look at a secret project that King Charles has been working on for over a decade—the purchase and ambitious restoration of Dumfries House, a rundown estate in one of the most deprived parts of the UK, with the goal of instilling hope and pride to a community. Filmed over ten years and featuring the last footage of the King with Queen Elizabeth in a casual setting, this blue-chip documentary follows the King's intrepid and painstaking journey during the restoration that, in turn, changed the fortunes of an entire community.