Trading Germans (2014)

A selection of performances by Manchester-based acts culled from the BBC archives.

Rebekah Vardy goes on a personal journey through her difficult history with the Jehovah’s Witnesses, meeting former members and uncovering secret documents.

The most explosive barehanded combat sequences ever filmed. An electrifying video of martial arts mastery and mayhem. This program takes a behind-the-scenes look at the weapons, the mystical eastern philosophy,…

Told through the eyes of two friends Big Wave Pro-surfer Mark Mathews and MMA fighter Richie ‘Vas’ Vaculik.

In 2019, Hong Kong was swept by demonstrations against the controversial extradition bill. At the Polytechnic University, a group of students also takes a stand for freedom and democracy. Negotiations…

14 years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the occupied West Bank.

Kim Novak never dreamed on being a star, but she became one. Most famous for her enigmatic performance in Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), the Chicago-born actress never quite fitted into the…

This intimate documentary follows the story of one woman’s extraordinary struggle over five years to bring the man who raped her to justice – a man accused of scores of…

In many ways it was the perfect match: Ernest Hemingway whose heroes personified his definition of courage – “grace under pressure” – and Gary Cooper, the man who often portrayed…

Documentary about four friends on a 3,000 mile journey across the American West on horseback.

Beloved by children of all ages around the world, Elmo is an international icon. Few people know his creator, Kevin Clash, who dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer…

The last opus of a trilogy, the apogee of a time when friendship and sharing reach their paroxysm. Nuit de la Glisse propels us into a new era towards new…