Sociology

Episode 2 | Street Gangs

Graeme focuses on what happens when gang life begins to go wrong. Sharing deeply personal stories, Graeme engages with police and reformed gang memb...

Episode 1 | Street Gangs

Ex-gang member Graeme Armstrong tries to understand why young people are seduced by the perceived glamour and excitement of gang.

My Scientology Movie (2015)

Documentary investigating the Church of Scientology. To find out more about the mysterious organisation, Louis Theroux meets with former members ...

The Riots That Shocked the Country | Panorama

Darragh MacIntyre reports from some of the towns and cities most affected by the recent riots in the UK and asks what can be do...

The Consequences of Poor Socialisation | Kids Behind Bars

Children and young people living in a secure residential unit. Explores issues such as poor socialisation, formal a...

17/11/2005 | Race

Two programmes looking at racism and immigration. Changing Attitudes looks at the racisms that are at the forefront of race today, including Islamophobia, ...

Episode 3 | Street Gangs

Graeme explores the Wyndford Scheme in Maryhill and travels to Glencoe to meet a man who, like himself, managed to turn his life around and leave ga...

Education Reform Act 1944 | Middle Classes...Their Rise And Sprawl

1944 Education Act secondary education for all, selective tripartite system. Cultural capital. Cultural bi...

Inside The Secret World Of Incels

A never-before-seen look at the incel community, an online subculture to which multiple mass murders and hate crimes against women have bee...

What Makes a Human? | Horizon

Professor Alice Roberts investigates what exactly makes human beings different from the animal kingdom. What is it that truly makes us human?

Reggie Yates: Teen Gangs

TV presenter and Radio 1 DJ Reggie Yates explores the culture of fear, anger and violence which drives the dangerous world of teenage gangs.

Hair Power: Me and My Afro

A taboo-busting look at how Afro-textured hair shapes Black experience in modern Britain, as writer Emma Dabiri talks to men and women about their...

Baptism | Life and Death the Pentecostal Way

Hannah and Jordan are baptised in the Pentecostal Church.

Aylesbury Prison: Episode 2 | The Choir

With just three weeks to go, Gareth has only seven performers and a handful of half-baked songs. Gareth is still hoping to get a perf...

Gang Culture in Scotland - Part 2 | Street Gangs

An exploration of further reasons young people join gangs, attachment, sense of belonging, relative deprivation, social medi...

Untold: The Secret World of Incels

Filmmaker Ben Zand investigates the dark world of incels. He uncovers shockingly violent content being shared online and meets a British m...

The Story Of Skinheads With Don Letts

Don Letts explores how the skinhead subculture has become associated with street fighting and racism, but had its origins in a moment o...

Second Life | Wonderland

A short clip to show how people can now live in virtual worlds as well as the real world.

Aylesbury Prison: Episode 1 | The Choir

Gareth Malone faces a challenge which will test him like no other - to form a choir in one of the toughest prisons for young offender...

Feral Children | Mindshock

The film examines the phenomenon of feral children, brought up by animals, and isolated from all human contact. What are they like in adulthood an...

My Scientology Movie (2015)

Documentary investigating the Church of Scientology. To find out more about the mysterious organisation, Louis Theroux meets with former members ...

My Brother the Terrorist

Film-maker Robb Leech attempts to understand his stepbrother's journey from middle-class white boy to a Muslim man convicted of preparing terrorism ...

17/11/2005 | Race

Two programmes looking at racism and immigration. Changing Attitudes looks at the racisms that are at the forefront of race today, including Islamophobia, ...

The Secrets Of Scientology | Panorama

A Panorama special about the Church of Scientology. Reporter John Sweeney returns to his investigation, listening to the claims of a wh...

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle: 1 | Storyville

Why did Jim Jones, a charismatic American preacher and leader of the People's Temple, compel his members in 1978 to perform '...

Moonlight (2016)

A coming-of-age drama that presents the childhood, adolescence and early adult life of Chiron, born to a drug-addicted single mother in Miami and facing dif...

A Very British Cult

Catrin Nye investigates a life-coaching company that takes over your life. As the story hots up, the group fights back, and there’s a surreal final showd...

Baptism | Life and Death the Pentecostal Way

Hannah and Jordan are baptised in the Pentecostal Church.

The Cult Next Door

The extraordinary story of a strange cult, which came to light in 2013 when news broke about three women emerging from a small flat in south London after ...

Untold: The Secret World of Incels

Filmmaker Ben Zand investigates the dark world of incels. He uncovers shockingly violent content being shared online and meets a British m...

03: Russia | Bigfoot Files

The Almasty is Russia's own Bigfoot. Professor Bryan Sykes analyses the DNA of the descendants of Zana, a 19th-century woman who was thought to be...

02: Death by Driverless Car | AI Confidential with Hannah Fry

Examining two pivotal cases from the driverless car revolution, including the first death of a pedestrian. Who ...

Secrets Of An Isis Smartphone

With extraordinary access to a smartphone used by three British men who went to fight in Syria, Mobeen Azhar uncovers what made them join ISIS ...

Episode 1 | How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring

The story of how the Arab world erupted in revolution. Mishal Husain charts events in Tunisia and Egypt, meets le...

Christian Marriage And Christian Cohabitation | All Things Considered

Church marriages are in decline. So why does anybody still get married in church? Roy Jenkins looks at ...

01: Stupid but Saveable | Billy and Us

Billy Connolly opens up on his ideas about childhood and discusses some of his early, groundbreaking stand-up material.

01: The Boy Who Tried to Kill the Queen | AI Confidential with Hannah Fry

Revealing the story of the British teenager whose AI girlfriend encouraged him to try to kill Queen...

S01E03: The Jews of Leeds | A Very British History

Film-maker Simon Glass explores his family history and tells the story of the Yorkshire Jews in the early 20th century.

Leaving The Cult | Storyville

The story of three teenage boys who manage to escape a polygamist Mormon cult in Utah. The boys talk about the extraordinary lives they used to...

S02E02: Hamar | Tribe

Documentary series with explorer Bruce Parry. He continues his three-month expedition through a remote African valley, staying with a tribe whose young...

Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis

Idris Elba confronts the reality of knife crime, speaking to those most affected - from the streets to the system - in a quest to uncover ...

How Scotland Cut Violent Crime | Panorama

Scotland has dramatically cut violent crime in the past 15 years, but how was it done? Kate Silverton films with Police Scotland's ...

S01E01: Execution | Life and Death Row

Series telling the story of capital punishment through the eyes of young people whose lives have been shaped by it. It looks at two of...

02: Edinburgh - Crime | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In Edinburgh, Darren examines the link between poverty and crime: how does it impact kids and their future? But soon Darre...

Prisons | Crime - Are We Tough Enough?

Chris Daw and Ayesha Nayyar look at what role our prisons should play in the fight against crime.

04: Glasgow - Dying Young | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In Scotland's largest city, one in four men die younger than anywhere else in the UK - it is called the Glasgow effect...

S02E01: Execution | Life and Death Row

The story of capital punishment through the eyes of young people whose lives have been shaped by it. Daniel Lopez is resisting all app...

01: Justice | Darren McGarvey: The State We're In

Darren McGarvey sets out to explore the UK's justice system through the eyes of the people who live and work in it.

01: The Loss of Joy | Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation

Documentary series examining the murder of Stephen Lawrence. The first episode focuses on the run-up to Steph...

Locked up with the Lifers | Stacey Dooley

Stacey Dooley investigates one of the most radical women's prisons in America. She follows eight murderers who are coming to terms ...

The Riots That Shocked the Country | Panorama

Darragh MacIntyre reports from some of the towns and cities most affected by the recent riots in the UK and asks what can be do...

The Riots 2011: One Week In August

This revelatory film hears from the people who experienced the riots up close and personal, reliving events ten years on.

The Consequences of Poor Socialisation | Kids Behind Bars

Children and young people living in a secure residential unit. Explores issues such as poor socialisation, formal a...

The Stephen Lawrence Story

The story of the Stephen Lawrence trial from the perspective of his family.

The Vanishing Woman: Part 2 | Murder Trial

Second part of the documentary about the trial that gripped a nation, As the trial continues, witnesses give dramatic testimony as...

The Secret Policeman

Following investigative reporter Mark Daly, who joined Greater Manchester Police as an undercover probationary and lived a double life for 7 months in o...

Inside The Secret World Of Incels

A never-before-seen look at the incel community, an online subculture to which multiple mass murders and hate crimes against women have bee...

01: Safe Place | Jailed: Women in Prison

Wintergreen Hall at HMP & YOI Stirling houses women with complex mental health problems. Linda and April are two prisoners strugglin...

Meet the Burglars | Panorama

Victims of burglary being offered opportunity to meet their burglars in a controversial scheme aimed at empowering victims and potentially cut l...

Eyes of the Detective: the Murder of James Bulger

A personal account of the murder, as seen through the eyes of the senior investigating officer Albert Kirby. The film follo...

02: Education | Darren McGarvey: The State We're In

Darren McGarvey sets out to understand why the privately educated dominate Britain's top jobs and uncovers the amazing st...

Super Rich: The Greed Game

As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest...

The Rise of the Super Rich | Super Rich: The Greed Game

The making of the super rich in the early 2000s through private equity firms and hedge funds.

The Global Financial Crisis | Super Rich: The Greed Game

The world's economy brought into crisis as a result of loans to 'sub-prime borrowers'.

05: I'm On The Pavement Thinking About The Government | Almost Grown

This episode looks at the teenager as a force for political change, including black consciousness, femin...

02: Education | Darren McGarvey: The State We're In

Darren McGarvey sets out to understand why the privately educated dominate Britain's top jobs and uncovers the amazing st...

Episode 1 | Back in Time for School

Fifteen pupils and three teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure to discover how much life at school has changed. The class start ...

Episode 5 | Back in Time for School

The class enters the experimental 1970s. They rewrite the rule book and learn weird and wonderful lessons as the free spirit of the era c...

Episode 2 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the interwar years. They learn bizarre new languages, test th...

Episode 1 | School

Documentary series following pupils, teachers, parents and school leaders across an academic year. Budget cuts and student anxiety are amongst the challen...

Episode 6 | Back in Time for School

The class embrace the new world of the 1980s. With robots, early computers and synths, the kids get to grips with Britain's new high-tech...

Education Reform Act 1944 | Middle Classes...Their Rise And Sprawl

1944 Education Act secondary education for all, selective tripartite system. Cultural capital. Cultural bi...

Episode 1 | Grammar Schools: Who Will Get In?

Documentary series examining how the 11-plus selection test impacts on education. The first episode follows children from Uplan...

01: The Choice | The Big School Lottery

A look at the often fraught process of selecting a child's secondary school. The series follows Birmingham Education Authority as it ...

Episode 4 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. In the swinging 60s, the class experience bricklaying, typing, cooking and eve...

Episode 3 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the 40s and 50s - deportment, debate and even dancing are on ...

Episode 2 | Tough Young Teachers

The honeymoon period is over and the teachers quickly have to work out a way to keep the kids engaged so their behaviour doesn't go downhill.

Episode 1 | No More Boys and Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free?

Dr Javid Abdelmoneim takes over a year 3 class to see if, after a term of gender-neutral treatment, he can e...

Episode 3 | Grammar Schools: Who Will Get In?

In the third and final part of this series, students at Erith School and Townley Grammar face their GCSE mocks.

Episode 2 | Grammar Schools: Who Will Get In?

Following a student who finds it hard to focus and an extremely bright student who clashes with the school authorities.

Inside The School Cuts Crisis | Panorama

As schools reopen their doors this week, Panorama asks if we have reached a crisis point in education funding.

04: Children | The British Family

Kirsty Young looks at how children have come to dominate family life in the last decade and reveals just how far we have come from the 'see...

The Impact of Educational Policy | Grammar Schools: Who Will Get In?

Debate about whether to expand grammar schools.

Episode 7 | Back in Time for School

The pupils and teachers arrive in their final time-travelling decade, the 1990s, ready to embrace girl power, Brit pop, Oasis and Blur, M...

Unequal Opportunities With John Humphrys

John Humphrys examines the reasons behind the stark educational attainment gap between advantaged and disadvantaged pupils, which ha...

Episode 1 | Back in Time for School

Fifteen pupils and three teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure to discover how much life at school has changed. The class start ...

Poor Kids

Documentary telling the stories of some of the 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. They give their thoughts on their situation and their future prosp...

01: Marriage | The British Family

Kirsty Young begins a history of how British families have changed since the Second World War by looking at marriage, and how it has become...

S01E01: Identity Crisis | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines how social class shapes our identities and destinies, he meets people moving between the classes on...

Marcus Rashford: Feeding Britain's Children

How the England footballer won public and political support for a deeply personal cause. Inside Marcus Rashford's campaign for fr...

Episode 5 | Back in Time for School

The class enters the experimental 1970s. They rewrite the rule book and learn weird and wonderful lessons as the free spirit of the era c...

Episode 2 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the interwar years. They learn bizarre new languages, test th...

The Consequences of Poor Socialisation | Kids Behind Bars

Children and young people living in a secure residential unit. Explores issues such as poor socialisation, formal a...

Episode 6 | Back in Time for School

The class embrace the new world of the 1980s. With robots, early computers and synths, the kids get to grips with Britain's new high-tech...

Inside The Secret World Of Incels

A never-before-seen look at the incel community, an online subculture to which multiple mass murders and hate crimes against women have bee...

Episode 3 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the 40s and 50s - deportment, debate and even dancing are on ...

Episode 4 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. In the swinging 60s, the class experience bricklaying, typing, cooking and eve...

04: The 80s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. The family embrace the 80s, where TV and shopping dominate...

03: The 70s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. Rob and Steph share more time together, playing darts with...

01: The 50s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up their 21st-century technology and travels back in time. As they enter the 50s, it's goodbye to the flat-screen T...

04: Children | The British Family

Kirsty Young looks at how children have come to dominate family life in the last decade and reveals just how far we have come from the 'see...

The Family Without Rules | Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over

Stacey visits Brighton couple Matt and Adele, who believe their three children do not need rules, just the freedom to ch...

06: Aberdeen - Poverty at Home | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

Darren travels to oil-rich Aberdeen, where he discovers a city in flux. With the nation's highest number of food ...

03: Health | Darren McGarvey: The State We're In

Darren uncovers the heroic efforts of an NHS workforce battling rising patient numbers and an ageing population.

Episode 7 | Back in Time for School

The pupils and teachers arrive in their final time-travelling decade, the 1990s, ready to embrace girl power, Brit pop, Oasis and Blur, M...

Educating North Korea | Panorama

Reporter Chris Rogers travels to North Korea, where a university paid for by the west is attempting to open the minds of the secretive state...

Extinction Rebellion: Last Chance to Save the World?

A huge new global protest movement is changing public attitudes to climate change. Reporter Ben Zand gains access to the...

Communism | A-Z of Belief

Six young people in a warehouse in Belfast pose many questions about communism to Mary Browning. Simon Booth also shares his ideas on the subject.

S01E04: Head for the Hills | Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

In Idaho, Louis meets right-wing patriots and militia enthusiasts who are preparing for what they believe is inev...

Episode 2 | My Year with the Tribe

Will Millard returns to the treehouse-dwelling Korowai to spend time with two old men living in the forest, but is shocked by what he sees...

Episode 1 | My Year with the Tribe

Writer Will Millard visits the treehouse-dwelling Korowai tribe in Papua, Indonesia, to try and understand the pressures they face as they...

S01E04: Ugandan Asians | A Very British History

Food writer Meera Sodha tells the story of the 1972 refugee crisis when thousands of Asian people arrived in Britain after be...

South Africa: 1: The White Slums | Reggie Yates' Extreme

In 2013 Reggie Yates spent a week in South Africa's largest white squatter camp, Coronation Park. Are young white So...

Julian Assange: Risk

The story of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, as the legal jeopardy he faces threatens to undermine the organisation he leads and fracture the ...

Battle For Islam

Writer Ziauddin Sardar takes an epic journey to discover how Muslims in five different countries are trying to win back the soul of Islam from extremists.

Episode 3 | My Year with the Tribe

Will returns to Korowai to try and find August and his family, but relations break down and he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous ...

S01E01: Romany Gypsies | A Very British History

Writer Damian Le Bas explores how Gypsy people in the 1960s were forced to abandon their nomadic way of life for a more settl...

Poisoned City: Bhopal | Real Lives

A look at the aftermath of the gas leak at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal which resulted in the death of 2,500 people.

Community Networks: Connecting the unconnected | Digital Planet

The digital divide in tribal lands in north America, digital deras connecting farmers in rural Pakistan and o...

Moshin Hamid | HARDtalk

Globalisation is a trend based on movement - of money, goods, ideas and people - across continents and national borders. In a world of glaring inequa...

01: Dundee - Drug Death Capital | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In 2018 Dundee was the drug death capital of Europe - Darren McGarvey goes behind the headlines to find out why....

Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer

Film following the life of an extraordinary woman, a trailblazer who revolutionised modern nursing and reformed healthcare at home and ...

06: Aberdeen - Poverty at Home | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

Darren travels to oil-rich Aberdeen, where he discovers a city in flux. With the nation's highest number of food ...

03: Health | Darren McGarvey: The State We're In

Darren uncovers the heroic efforts of an NHS workforce battling rising patient numbers and an ageing population.

Gay to Straight | Stacey Dooley

19-year-old TJ's aim is to marry the girl of his dreams - the only snag is that he's gay. So TJ has turned to 'gay conversion therapy' to try...

03: Psychosis | Bedlam

The third programme, Psychosis, films a community mental health team. South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provides support for more than 35...

S01E05: The Morning After | 24 Hours in Police Custody

A private carer is arrested for assaulting the elderly man he is paid a carer's allowance to look after, in his house,...

2019: Episode 29 | Gardeners' World

This special programme takes a close look at the role that plants and gardening play in mental and physical wellbeing, exploring the idea...

Tax the Fat | Panorama

With Britain now the fattest nation in Europe, reporter Shelley Jofre investigates the idea of a tax on junk food, travelling to Denmark where it has ...

Are You Having A Laugh? TV And Disability

A humorous and irreverent look at the way disability has been portrayed on TV over the last 50 years, narrated by David Walliams an...

Alesha: Look But Don't Touch

Documentary in which Alesha Dixon, concerned about the increasing pressure on women to conform to an ideal body type, investigates airbrushing a...

05: Borders - Rural Poverty and Mental Health | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

Darren discovers that levels of ill mental health in the Scottish Borders are above the national a...

UK: 3: Dying for a Six Pack | Reggie Yates' Extreme

Reggie investigates the extreme ways in which male body culture is impacting on young British guys - from extreme exercis...

Racial bias of diagnosing schizophrenia | Black Britain

Explanation of potential factors that lead to the racial differences seen in the diagnosis of schizophrenia

Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick? | Horizon

A former commando spends ten days locked in a nuclear bunker, with no way of telling the time, to find out how best to manage our b...

01: Green Space | Operation People Power with Dave Myers

Dave tasks his team with turning a run-down space in Bristol into a magnificent community garden. Using an army of l...

Living without a Memory

Debbie, Sally and George are three people who didn't lose their memories gradually, theirs were stolen by illness, almost overnight. This one-off doc...

David Harewood: Psychosis and Me

David Harewood had a psychotic breakdown and was sectioned in his 20s. David traces his steps, meeting young people living with psychosis an...

Conspiracy Files: Vaccine Wars

As vaccine-sceptics are blamed by many for surging measles, what do they really believe? Is their fight even about science? And who is spreadi...

Charlotte Church: Inside My Brain

Charlotte Church embarks on a journey to explore the cutting edge of mental health research and learn more about the relationship between o...

The Riots That Shocked the Country | Panorama

Darragh MacIntyre reports from some of the towns and cities most affected by the recent riots in the UK and asks what can be do...

Hair Power: Me and My Afro

A taboo-busting look at how Afro-textured hair shapes Black experience in modern Britain, as writer Emma Dabiri talks to men and women about their...

Beyond Human: Artificial Intelligence and Us | Panorama

Reporter Lara Lewington speaks to some of the so-called 'godfathers' of AI about their hopes and fears, and she meets...

Episode 2 | Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story

During the 1970s and 1980s, Mary's campaigns against pornography and 'video nasties' raise her profile still further. But new m...

Beauty Myths and Airbrushing | Alesha: Look But Don't Touch

Why magazines airbrush women in their magazines to remove so-called flaws.

Does class still exist, and is social mobility possible? | Prescott: The Class System And Me

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott explores whether class still exists a...

Mods And Rockers | Witness History

How clashes between youth gangs at the English resort of Brighton sparked moral panic in 1964.

Episode 1 | Prejudice And Pride: The People's History Of LGBTQ Britain

Ordinary people share the objects that have helped define their lives since homosexuality was decrimin...

Moral Panic | Behind The Buzzwords

David Cannadine tells the story behind the buzzword Moral Panic. Where does it come from and where is it going?

04: Doowutchyalike | Almost Grown

With Bowie Freaks, Punks and New Romantic's, styles became more weird and changed frequently. This program looks at how cults form styles a...

I Am Andrew Tate

The explosive story of one of the world's most infamous and controversial internet stars' rise, arrest and fall.

Episode 1, 19/02/1985 | Eastenders

In the first visit to Albert Square, the fate of missing resident Reg Cox is revealed to Den, Arthur and Ali when they break into his flat...

The TikTok Effect

What connects amateur sleuths turning up at crime scenes, antisocial behaviour in UK schools and French riots? This film finds evidence they are all exampl...

Alesha: Look But Don't Touch

Documentary in which Alesha Dixon, concerned about the increasing pressure on women to conform to an ideal body type, investigates airbrushing a...

Hacking: Power, Corruption and Lies | Panorama

Panorama Special in which Robert Peston investigates the questions behind the phone hacking trial which saw David Cameron's fo...

07: New Age | Soul of Britain

This episode examines whether the rise of New Age thinking has led to increased superstition and gullibility.

03: Morality | Soul of Britain

Michael Buerk examines where we look for our moral standards and the consequences of an "anything goes" society.

The Erosion of Diversity in the Fashion Industry | Your Body: Your Image

Explores whether the fashion and beauty industry is actually eroding cultural diversity as it is foc...

UK: 3: Dying for a Six Pack | Reggie Yates' Extreme

Reggie investigates the extreme ways in which male body culture is impacting on young British guys - from extreme exercis...

Ending Violence | Analysis

Sonia Sodha traces the root causes of violence in society and asks if we can eradicate it.

S08E02: How to Be a Good President | Timeshift

Helped by contributors including Shirley Williams, Douglas Hurd and Simon Hoggart, journalist Jonathan Freedland attempts to d...

Private Vs Comprehensive | Posh And Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain

Since the decline of grammar schools a comparison is made of how comprehensive schools and pri...

Posh And Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain

In this provocative documentary, Andrew Neil seeks to find out why politicians from all parties appear to be drawn from a...

Are Grammar Schools the Right Approach? | Posh And Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain

This clip explores grammar schools and whether they help level the playing fiel...

Is Westminster dominated by a privileged elite? | Posh And Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain

Exploration of issues of social class and education. Whether a public s...

The Art of Habit | Archive On 4

Author and journalist Lynsey Hanley tells the story of the rise of sociology, which explored the hidden patterns of our everyday lives and of...

The End of God?: A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion

Thomas Dixon delves into the BBC's archive to explore the troubled relationship between religion and science, from t...

Antisemitism: Why British Jews Are Afraid | Panorama

Judith Moritz examines how abuse, intimidation and violence aimed at Jewish communities has become more widespread, leav...

Social Christianity | The Battle for Christianity

In Bolton, Christian organisations help their local community by running a food bank.

Hindus: Do We Have a Caste Problem?

Parle Patel, a young British Hindu and popular YouTuber, explores the influence of caste on Hindu communities in the UK.

The Caste System | Hindus: Do We Have a Caste Problem?

Parle Patel explores whether the caste system is still important to Hindus in Britain today.

Daltis | Hindus: Do We Have a Caste Problem?

Parle Patel meets a young British Hindu who faced discrimination as a result of his caste.

S01E03: The Jews of Leeds | A Very British History

Film-maker Simon Glass explores his family history and tells the story of the Yorkshire Jews in the early 20th century.

S02E03: Are We Getting More Racist? | Free Speech

Live from Sunderland, a panel of politicians and local activists discuss racism and Islamophobia in Britain in the light of...

Christianity and politics | The Battle for Christianity

Marksteen Adamson, a Christian photographer, uses his faith to inspire his political art, including a project on refu...

The Lord's Prayer advert ban | The Battle for Christianity

Professor Robert Beckford talks to the Archbishop of Canterbury about an ad showing the Lord's Prayer being banned...

Christianity in the courts | The Battle for Christianity

Different views on the Ashers cake row where a bakery was taken to court for refusing to make a cake supporting gay ...

The Shamima Begum Story

At 15, Shamima Begum left London to join the terror group Islamic State. For the first time, her account of what happened is investigated to find the...

S01E04: Ugandan Asians | A Very British History

Food writer Meera Sodha tells the story of the 1972 refugee crisis when thousands of Asian people arrived in Britain after be...

Part 2 - The Future of Christianity in Britain | The Battle for Christianity

How Christianity is responding to changing social attitudes in society, particularly in relation...

Part 1 - The Future of Christianity in Britain | The Battle for Christianity

Immigration and the impact on Christian churches.

Mega Churches | Reggie Yates' Extreme

The church of incredible happenings in Johannesburg in South Africa.

South Africa: 3: The Millionaire Preacher | Reggie Yates' Extreme

In 2013 Reggie Yates spent a week with Prophet Mboro, a controversial self-styled prophet, who is adored by...

Believing In Belief | A Point Of View

John Gray argues that the scientific and rationalist attack on religion is misguided and atheist critics do not realise that religion i...

Secrets of Britain's Sharia Councils | Panorama

Panorama reporter Jane Corbin goes undercover to investigate what is really happening in Britain's Sharia Councils - Islamic ...

Religion and LGBTQ education | The People's News

Different Scots consider the impasse of religion on education and the phenomenon of religious parents taking their children ...

Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis

Idris Elba confronts the reality of knife crime, speaking to those most affected - from the streets to the system - in a quest to uncover ...

02: Education | Darren McGarvey: The State We're In

Darren McGarvey sets out to understand why the privately educated dominate Britain's top jobs and uncovers the amazing st...

02: Edinburgh - Crime | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In Edinburgh, Darren examines the link between poverty and crime: how does it impact kids and their future? But soon Darre...

S01E01: Identity Crisis | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines how social class shapes our identities and destinies, he meets people moving between the classes on...

04: Glasgow - Dying Young | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In Scotland's largest city, one in four men die younger than anywhere else in the UK - it is called the Glasgow effect...

Marcus Rashford: Feeding Britain's Children

How the England footballer won public and political support for a deeply personal cause. Inside Marcus Rashford's campaign for fr...

17/11/2005 | Race

Two programmes looking at racism and immigration. Changing Attitudes looks at the racisms that are at the forefront of race today, including Islamophobia, ...

George Floyd: A Killing That Shook the World | Panorama

Thousands of people have joined marches against racism after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Clive Myrie ...

Trainspotting (1996)

Smart, funny, sickly, and sometimes just plain unconscious, Mark Renton is a hero of our times. Set in an underbelly of Edinburgh the city fathers never...

Moonlight (2016)

A coming-of-age drama that presents the childhood, adolescence and early adult life of Chiron, born to a drug-addicted single mother in Miami and facing dif...

Green Book (2018)

New York, 1962: Italian-American nightclub bouncer Tony Lip gets taken on as a driver for acclaimed African American pianist Donald Shirley on a tour of th...

How to Break into the Elite

Amol Rajan investigates how much class still matters in Britain's elite professions. What does it take for bright working-class youngsters to bre...

Breadline Kids

Sobering documentary following families in Dumfries, Glenrothes, Glasgow and Aberdeen who are struggling to make ends meet.

The Black American Fight for Freedom

Fifty years on from the promise of equality and the Civil Rights Act, this documentary reveals the moments where America had the chance ...

The Cult Next Door

The extraordinary story of a strange cult, which came to light in 2013 when news broke about three women emerging from a small flat in south London after ...

03: Health | Darren McGarvey: The State We're In

Darren uncovers the heroic efforts of an NHS workforce battling rising patient numbers and an ageing population.

02: The Police | The Riots: In Their Own Words

The story of the riots of 2011, told through first-hand accounts from both the police on the frontline and in the control room...

S01E01 | Skint

Documentary series that shows how people survive without work. Dean used to work at Scunthorpe's steelworks, but now he, his wife and their seven children exi...

David Harewood on Blackface

David Harewood goes on a mission to understand the roots of the strange and intensely problematic cultural form of minstrelsy.

S01E03: Power to the People | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines the power imbalance which lies at the heart of social class, he begins to question whether the ...

How Scotland Cut Violent Crime | Panorama

Scotland has dramatically cut violent crime in the past 15 years, but how was it done? Kate Silverton films with Police Scotland's ...

Episode 1 | Back in Time for School

Fifteen pupils and three teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure to discover how much life at school has changed. The class start ...

Poor Kids

Documentary telling the stories of some of the 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. They give their thoughts on their situation and their future prosp...

S01E01: Identity Crisis | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines how social class shapes our identities and destinies, he meets people moving between the classes on...

04: Glasgow - Dying Young | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In Scotland's largest city, one in four men die younger than anywhere else in the UK - it is called the Glasgow effect...

01: Dundee - Drug Death Capital | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In 2018 Dundee was the drug death capital of Europe - Darren McGarvey goes behind the headlines to find out why....

Episode 5 | Back in Time for School

The class enters the experimental 1970s. They rewrite the rule book and learn weird and wonderful lessons as the free spirit of the era c...

Marcus Rashford: Feeding Britain's Children

How the England footballer won public and political support for a deeply personal cause. Inside Marcus Rashford's campaign for fr...

Episode 2 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the interwar years. They learn bizarre new languages, test th...

The Consequences of Poor Socialisation | Kids Behind Bars

Children and young people living in a secure residential unit. Explores issues such as poor socialisation, formal a...

17/11/2005 | Race

Two programmes looking at racism and immigration. Changing Attitudes looks at the racisms that are at the forefront of race today, including Islamophobia, ...

Episode 6 | Back in Time for School

The class embrace the new world of the 1980s. With robots, early computers and synths, the kids get to grips with Britain's new high-tech...

Education Reform Act 1944 | Middle Classes...Their Rise And Sprawl

1944 Education Act secondary education for all, selective tripartite system. Cultural capital. Cultural bi...

How to Break into the Elite

Amol Rajan investigates how much class still matters in Britain's elite professions. What does it take for bright working-class youngsters to bre...

Episode 3 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the 40s and 50s - deportment, debate and even dancing are on ...

Episode 4 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. In the swinging 60s, the class experience bricklaying, typing, cooking and eve...

Hair Power: Me and My Afro

A taboo-busting look at how Afro-textured hair shapes Black experience in modern Britain, as writer Emma Dabiri talks to men and women about their...

04: The 80s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. The family embrace the 80s, where TV and shopping dominate...

03: The 70s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. Rob and Steph share more time together, playing darts with...

01: The 50s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up their 21st-century technology and travels back in time. As they enter the 50s, it's goodbye to the flat-screen T...

Episode 1 | Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution

Two young MPs, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, are determined to modernise the Labour party against a backdrop of economic ...

Episode 3 | Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution

A rocky midterm period highlights ideological differences within the New Labour leadership. After a second election win,...

01: The Fight for a Question | Yes/No: Inside the Indyref

The inside story of the early days of the 2014 Scottish referendum campaign from the SNP's victory in 2007 to the f...

01: Lyndon Johnson's War | Wheeler on America

A look back at the classic series Wheeler on America from 1996. Charles Wheeler traces changes in US society since the liberal ...

Episode 5 | Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution

After New Labour’s third victory, tensions between No 10 and No 11 are at breaking point. Brown finally becomes Prime Mi...

Episode 4 | Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution

After the tragedy of 9/11, Tony Blair stands beside America in the war against terror. The fallout of his decisions mark...

Episode 2 | Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution

After New Labour’s landslide victory, Blair and Brown enjoy early successes at home and overseas - but cracks start to a...

S01E04: Head for the Hills | Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

In Idaho, Louis meets right-wing patriots and militia enthusiasts who are preparing for what they believe is inev...

02: From the Date to the Debates | Yes/No: Inside the Indyref

Exploring the Indyref campaign from the announcement of the date to the key battles over currency, NHS funding,...

03: Down to the Wire | Yes/No: Inside the Indyref

How two polls, one public and one secret, suggested Scotland would vote for independence and the panic that changed the fin...

04: Only Connect | The Other Side

When researching the UK labour movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Graham discovers the pioneering socialist and gay rights camp...

America: Faith on the Front Line

On the eve of the midterm elections, Barbara Plett Usher explores the impact of a new battle for the soul of America, driven by conservative...

02: A Great Society? | Wheeler on America

Charles Wheeler charts origins & decline of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programme, looking at how it changed the lives of poor p...

Russia: 1: Far Right & Proud | Reggie Yates' Extreme

In the first of three programmes revealing the extreme side of Russia, Reggie Yates visits Moscow to get up close and pe...

Freedom To Hate? | Heart of the Matter

Joan Bakewell reports on the power of the BNP in Britain and asks if the right to democracy also includes the right to be racist. Foll...

Moshin Hamid | HARDtalk

Globalisation is a trend based on movement - of money, goods, ideas and people - across continents and national borders. In a world of glaring inequa...

Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer

Film following the life of an extraordinary woman, a trailblazer who revolutionised modern nursing and reformed healthcare at home and ...

03: Activists | Women

Vanessa Engle's film looks at a small group of passionate and committed young activists, who believe that the need for feminist politics is now more ur...

Trad Wife | Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over

Stacey investigates the growing community of 'tradwives' - women who have rejected career ambitions in favour of becoming the archetypa...

The Women's Liberation Movement - Part 1 | Women

How the rise of the women's liberation movement involved consciousness raising, where women came to share their experiences ...

British Family Life in the 1980s - Part 1 | The British Family

Describes the impact of money and wealth on women's place in the family. Working women and a rise in single pa...

02: Three Girls and Three Babies | The Trouble With Girls

Documentary following friends Becki, Stacey and Vanessa, three 16-year-old girls from Rochdale. Three pregnancies c...

01: Libbers | Women

A documentary series about feminism and its impact on women's lives. This first episode charts the rise of the women's liberation movement in the 1970s.

Communism | A-Z of Belief

Six young people in a warehouse in Belfast pose many questions about communism to Mary Browning. Simon Booth also shares his ideas on the subject.

Made in Dagenham (2010)

Comedy drama charting the fight of female factory workers at the Ford Dagenham plant for equal pay. In 1968, one determined factory worker leads her ...

The Women's Liberation Movement - Part 2 | Women

The organisation of society along sexist lines. Anne Oakley's research into socialisation and definitions of sex and gender.

S01E04: Head for the Hills | Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

In Idaho, Louis meets right-wing patriots and militia enthusiasts who are preparing for what they believe is inev...

Grenfell

Documentary filmed throughout the year following the Grenfell Tower fire, hearing from those directly affected by the most devastating tower block fire in British h...

Alesha: Look But Don't Touch

Documentary in which Alesha Dixon, concerned about the increasing pressure on women to conform to an ideal body type, investigates airbrushing a...

03: Power | The Ascent of Woman

Dr Amanda Foreman explores the role of women in early civilisations. Amanda looks at the stories of women behind some of the most powerful em...

03: West Dunbartonshire - Worst Place to Be a Woman | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

West Dunbartonshire is the worst place in Scotland to be a woman, yet the bordering council ...

British Family Life in the 1980s - Part 2 | The British Family

Describes the increase in single parent families.

UK: 2: Men at War | Reggie Yates' Extreme

Reggie meets the angry young British men who think feminism has gone too far - and some of the women who have felt their wrath on a...

Why Can't a Woman Succeed Like a Man? | The Trouble with Working Women

Sophie Raworth and Justin Rowlatt investigate what we think of women at work. Why do men still hold th...

Why Can't a Woman Earn As Much As a Man? | The Trouble with Working Women

Sophie Raworth and Justin Rowlatt ask why, several decades after the Equal Pay Act, there is still ...

03: The New Father | A Century Of Fatherhood

The modern father has a more intimate relationship with his children, but the sexual revolution, feminism and modern divorce law...

02: Edinburgh - Crime | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In Edinburgh, Darren examines the link between poverty and crime: how does it impact kids and their future? But soon Darre...

Poor Kids

Documentary telling the stories of some of the 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. They give their thoughts on their situation and their future prosp...

S01E01: Identity Crisis | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines how social class shapes our identities and destinies, he meets people moving between the classes on...

01: Dundee - Drug Death Capital | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In 2018 Dundee was the drug death capital of Europe - Darren McGarvey goes behind the headlines to find out why....

01: Justice | Darren McGarvey: The State We're In

Darren McGarvey sets out to explore the UK's justice system through the eyes of the people who live and work in it.

Marcus Rashford: Feeding Britain's Children

How the England footballer won public and political support for a deeply personal cause. Inside Marcus Rashford's campaign for fr...

How to Break into the Elite

Amol Rajan investigates how much class still matters in Britain's elite professions. What does it take for bright working-class youngsters to bre...

06: Aberdeen - Poverty at Home | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

Darren travels to oil-rich Aberdeen, where he discovers a city in flux. With the nation's highest number of food ...

British Family Life in the 1980s - Part 1 | The British Family

Describes the impact of money and wealth on women's place in the family. Working women and a rise in single pa...

01: Britain's Moral Makeover | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

Ian Hislop salutes the unsung heroes of Victorian Britain who improved cities, housing and working conditio...

Made in Dagenham (2010)

Comedy drama charting the fight of female factory workers at the Ford Dagenham plant for equal pay. In 1968, one determined factory worker leads her ...

Episode 1 | How the Other Half Live

The show features a wealthy family providing 'sponsorship' for a family living in poverty in the UK.

All Work and Low Pay | Panorama

Panorama goes undercover to reveal how some employers exploit loopholes or get round the rules so that their workers are paid below the Natio...

Growing Up Skint | Born Survivors

Documentary about child poverty. In Glasgow, Mansfield and London, children show the courage and determination to rise above their circumst...

02: Suffer the Little Children | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

Ian Hislop celebrates the dynamic and eccentric Victorian reformers who brought about the most remarkable...

On Call to a Nation

Casting real doctors instead of actors, this film uses scripted scenarios and interviews to see the National Health Service through their eyes. The docum...

No Place to Call Home | Newsround Specials

With record numbers of families living in temporary accommodation, Newsround reporter Shanequa Paris investigates how children are...

Episode 1 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers test their skills against some of the jobs in Britain's low-wage sector. In this episode, th...

Grenfell

Documentary filmed throughout the year following the Grenfell Tower fire, hearing from those directly affected by the most devastating tower block fire in British h...

Episode 1 | Universal Credit: Inside the Welfare State

At Peckham Jobcentre in London, Rachel has recently moved onto Universal Credit after leaving her 27-year NHS career t...

My Scientology Movie (2015)

Documentary investigating the Church of Scientology. To find out more about the mysterious organisation, Louis Theroux meets with former members ...

My Brother the Terrorist

Film-maker Robb Leech attempts to understand his stepbrother's journey from middle-class white boy to a Muslim man convicted of preparing terrorism ...

Baptism | Life and Death the Pentecostal Way

Hannah and Jordan are baptised in the Pentecostal Church.

Secrets Of An Isis Smartphone

With extraordinary access to a smartphone used by three British men who went to fight in Syria, Mobeen Azhar uncovers what made them join ISIS ...

Episode 1 | How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring

The story of how the Arab world erupted in revolution. Mishal Husain charts events in Tunisia and Egypt, meets le...

Christian Marriage And Christian Cohabitation | All Things Considered

Church marriages are in decline. So why does anybody still get married in church? Roy Jenkins looks at ...

S01E03: The Jews of Leeds | A Very British History

Film-maker Simon Glass explores his family history and tells the story of the Yorkshire Jews in the early 20th century.

Saving The Awa Tribe With Justin Rowlatt | Our World

The Awa are believed to be one of the most endangered tribes on the planet as their traditional lifestyle is under threa...

Global Village | Horizon

Prog narrated by Paul Vaughan looks at concept of global village. Examines the implications of the information revolution on third world countries.

S02E02: Hamar | Tribe

Documentary series with explorer Bruce Parry. He continues his three-month expedition through a remote African valley, staying with a tribe whose young...

Evangelism | Life and Death the Pentecostal Way

Members of the Evangelism team discuss their work.

S01E04: Ugandan Asians | A Very British History

Food writer Meera Sodha tells the story of the 1972 refugee crisis when thousands of Asian people arrived in Britain after be...

Mega Churches | Reggie Yates' Extreme

The church of incredible happenings in Johannesburg in South Africa.

South Africa: 3: The Millionaire Preacher | Reggie Yates' Extreme

In 2013 Reggie Yates spent a week with Prophet Mboro, a controversial self-styled prophet, who is adored by...

Can Ethics Survive The Death Of Religion? | Moral Maze

Combative, provocative and engaging live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.

The Morality Of Multiculturalism | Moral Maze

The morality of multiculturalism. Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk.

Think Of England | First Sight

Billy Bragg presents program which examines the multicultural evolution of London society since the end of the Second World War, and looks at ...

Benedict Allen's Tribal Diary: Friday | Explorer

In this program explorer Benedict Allen continues his personal guide to tribes. Using his previous series he looks back at h...

Divorce | All Things Considered

As divorce centres open across the UK designed to simplify the ending of marriages, Roy Jenkins looks at how divorce is understood by those f...

S01E02: The First Black Brummies | A Very British History

Poet Sue Brown looks at what life was like in the postwar years for Birmingham's Caribbean community as they asked ...

Episode 2 | Street Gangs

Graeme focuses on what happens when gang life begins to go wrong. Sharing deeply personal stories, Graeme engages with police and reformed gang memb...

Episode 1 | Street Gangs

Ex-gang member Graeme Armstrong tries to understand why young people are seduced by the perceived glamour and excitement of gang.

Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis

Idris Elba confronts the reality of knife crime, speaking to those most affected - from the streets to the system - in a quest to uncover ...

Episode 1 | Back in Time for School

Fifteen pupils and three teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure to discover how much life at school has changed. The class start ...

04: Glasgow - Dying Young | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In Scotland's largest city, one in four men die younger than anywhere else in the UK - it is called the Glasgow effect...

Episode 5 | Back in Time for School

The class enters the experimental 1970s. They rewrite the rule book and learn weird and wonderful lessons as the free spirit of the era c...

01: The Loss of Joy | Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation

Documentary series examining the murder of Stephen Lawrence. The first episode focuses on the run-up to Steph...

Episode 2 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the interwar years. They learn bizarre new languages, test th...

Episode 6 | Back in Time for School

The class embrace the new world of the 1980s. With robots, early computers and synths, the kids get to grips with Britain's new high-tech...

Episode 3 | Street Gangs

Graeme explores the Wyndford Scheme in Maryhill and travels to Glencoe to meet a man who, like himself, managed to turn his life around and leave ga...

Inside The Secret World Of Incels

A never-before-seen look at the incel community, an online subculture to which multiple mass murders and hate crimes against women have bee...

How to Break into the Elite

Amol Rajan investigates how much class still matters in Britain's elite professions. What does it take for bright working-class youngsters to bre...

Episode 3 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the 40s and 50s - deportment, debate and even dancing are on ...

Episode 4 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. In the swinging 60s, the class experience bricklaying, typing, cooking and eve...

Reggie Yates: Teen Gangs

TV presenter and Radio 1 DJ Reggie Yates explores the culture of fear, anger and violence which drives the dangerous world of teenage gangs.

04: The 80s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. The family embrace the 80s, where TV and shopping dominate...

03: The 70s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. Rob and Steph share more time together, playing darts with...

01: The 50s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up their 21st-century technology and travels back in time. As they enter the 50s, it's goodbye to the flat-screen T...

02: The System | Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation

Documentary series examining the murder of Stephen Lawrence. Doreen and Neville Lawrence launch a private murder p...

Aylesbury Prison: Episode 2 | The Choir

With just three weeks to go, Gareth has only seven performers and a handful of half-baked songs. Gareth is still hoping to get a perf...