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Britain’s Poorest Kids 3.5 million children are growing up in poverty in the UK. It’s one of the worst rates in the industrialised world and successive governments continue to struggle to bring it into line….

Brain Man: The Boy With The Incredible Brain An extraordinary documentary on the brainpower of Daniel T, the young Englishman who could be the world’s greatest mental athlete. Daniel is not just a calculating wizard,…

A remarkably intimate and moving film that offers an insight into the extreme Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Hugh is trapped in a world of endless order and repetition, where each day is spent with the same…

My Six Wives And 29 Children (Polygamy Documentary) | Real Stories | A 51-year-old Mormon with six wives and 29 children considers taking a seventh wife, a decision which is complicated by his son’s affection…

Transgender Pakistanis: The Open Secret | Real Stories Flamboyant, colourful and eccentric, many among Pakistan’s marginalised transgender community scrape a living through dancing, singing and begging on the streets of the country’s economic capital, Karachi….

An insight into the mind of Mitchell Quy, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in January 2001 for the murder of his wife, Lynsey, who had disappeared in December 1998. The prime suspect at the…

Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald | Real Stories This two-part series sees veteran presenter Sir Trevor McDonald come face to face with some of the world’s most dangerous criminals as he gets exclusive access…

For most mothers, organizing any wedding is stressful enough. But what if you are also an Australian-born Royal Princess and expected to supervise complex Hindu traditions stretching back centuries? As the first non-Balinese Royal bride,…

WINNER Best Documentary at The Lockdown Short Film Showcase In Your Face: Confronting Tattoo Prejudice (Social Experiment Documentary) | Real Stories Original To what extent do face and neck tattoos shape your opinion of someone?…

Winner of Best Short Form Programme at the BAFTA Television Awards 2019. How do you reconnect with a father who’s been gone for most of your life… what do you say, what do you write?…

Alex Lewis, father of one, came down with a common cold in late 2013, which quickly developed into septicaemia and toxic shock syndrome. With less than a 3% chance of survival, doctors fought to save…

Leo is an articulate, sassy, amazingly mature 11 year old boy who loves doing make-up, dressing up and playing with his identity. He doesn’t want to be a girl but he does want the liberty…

One man against big business… Since Monsanto began selling their patented ‘Roundup Ready’ genetically modified (GM) seeds they have sued hundreds of farmers for patent infringement. Their heavy-handed investigations and ruthless prosecutions have been nothing…

Brutally murdered by her family in 2006, ‘Banaz: An Honour Killings’ tells the story of her, Banaz’ sister Bekhal, and the story of the police team that didn’t give up on her case and brought…

In June 2016, 20-year-old British man Michael Sandford was arrested at a Donald Trump rally, after trying to take a police officer’s gun to shoot the then republican presidential nominee. Michael immediately found himself at…

Surf Girls Jamaica focuses on Imani Wilmot, an inspirational Jamaican surfer who uses the sport as a means of transforming the tough lives of the women around her, in Kingston and surrounding areas. Imani has…

WINNER of Best Short Documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards 2020 Featuring intimate, charming interviews with queer Canadians ranging in age 17 to 88, Take Me To Prom invites audiences to revisit this iconic adolescent…

Fight For Justice, David & Me (Crime & Punishment Documentary) | Real Stories When troubled teen Ray Klonsky began writing letters to prison inmate David McCallum, both of their lives changed forever. Hundreds of letters…

On the outskirts of Plattsburgh, New York, a taxi industry that transports asylum seekers escaping to Canada has been booming. Fares are scooped up at the local bus station and whisked to an infamous irregular…

Moms Behind Bars | Sir Trevor McDonald Documentary | Real Stories Documentary following pregnancy and birth in prison, including the ‘Wee Ones’ program at the women’s prison in Indiana, in which well-behaved prisoners are allowed…

Inside A Crack House: US Drug Gangs Exposed (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories In the summer of 2005, federal agents and police in Rockford, Illinois, captured over a thousand hours of surveillance footage inside…

Aileen Wuornos: Life And Death Of A Serial Killer | True Crime Story | Real Stories Nick Broomfield traces the tragic, life of Aileen Wuornos, America’s most renowned contemporary murderess, to its inevitable brutal conclusion….

FOUR chilling and thrilling true crime stories full of high-quality reconstructions for your viewing pleasure! Escape From Death Row – 00:00 Despite its electronic gates and high-tech security, Mecklenberg, Virginia’s “escape-proof” Death Row is a…

Nick Broomfield’s film chronicles the collapse of the far-right AWB party in apartheid-era South Africa through a portrait of its leader, Eugene Terre’Blanche, his driver JP and JP’s wife Anita From The Leader, His Driver…

Sir Trevor McDonald visits two maximum-security prisons in the state of Indiana, meeting both men on death row, and women who will spend the rest of their lives in prison. Twitter: https://twitter.com/realstoriesdocs Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/RealStoriesChannel…

An Inconvenient Tax explores the history of the income tax and brings to light the causes of its many complexities. The film follows the tax through wars, economic booms, and some of the most significant…

Content warning: The following video contains graphic imagery that may be disturbing /upsetting to some viewers. Producer Kristin Canty’s film, Farmageddon, documents her quest to find healthy food for her four children and turns into…