The Joy is a four-part documentary series that takes us inside Dublin's Mountjoy Prison, which is one of Ireland's largest prison facilities. Apart of the landscape for over 160 years, The Joy jas become synonymous with the capital city of Dublin, operating 24-hours a day 365 days a year. With over 750 inmates, over 700 staff, and eight prison governors it's a city within a city where drugs are c
The planet Earth is filled with a vast collection of species, with over 9,000 types of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles. It's Charles Darwin's brilliant theory of evolution that explains how the 1.4 million different species that have been discovered have adapted and changed over time. The theory has been called the best idea anyone ever had but there is one b
Brothers & Sisters In Love is a film about ordinary people who decided to trace siblings they had never met before but then found themselves confronted by the greatest moral dilemma of their lives. It's considered to be one of the ultimate taboos in society but when brothers and sisters grow up separately and then later meet for the first time as strangers and as adults, they can fall prey to
Live of a Universe is a two-part documentary series by physicist Brian Cox. Cox filmed this special whilst on tour in Australia speaking to audiences and scientists about two fundamental questions how did the universe begin and how will it end? In the last decade, we have been able to probe these ideas in unprecedented detail, this is the story of our scientific quest to understand the origin of
Dark Side of the Chew is a film that sees the director Andrew Nisker examine how the habit of chewing gum which has been around forever, impacts our culture, threatens our health, erodes our economic stability, and damages the environment.Chewing gum is something that seems to attract millions of people from all around the globe. Gum itself is one of the most consumed products in the world bu
There has never been a discovery quite like that of Tutankhamun, not before, nor since. On the 26th November 1922, after five long years of scouring Egypt's legendary Valley of the Kings, British Egyptologist Howard Carter and his aristocratic backer Lord Carnarvon, broke into the tomb of Tutankhamun. The wonders they discovered captivated the world, a coffin made of solid gold, and the famous go
In July 2003, twin sisters Ladan and Laleh Bijani underwent a dangerous and controversial 50-hour operation to separate their conjoined heads. Nearly 30 years of being joined together was long enough. They had now wished to look at each other face to face. Early in their lives, the twins realized that they were very different people. They had different ambitions, hobbies, and tastes, both wanted
Senna is a 2010 documentary film by director Asif Kapadia that examines the life and death of Brazilian Formula One racing legend Ayrton Senna. We start out in 1984 with his arrival to Formula One, where he spent a short period of time at Toleman and Lotus before joining the British McLaren team. It was with Mclaren that Senna rose to stardom and became a world champion. The drama which surrounds
Space Race is a four-part documentary drama series that was released by the BBC in 2005. It chronicles the major events and characters involved in the historic space race that occurred between the Soviets and Americans during the cold war. It was a race to see who could be the first to put a man on the Moon. Focusing on the Soviet chief rocket engineer Sergei Korolev, and his American counterpart