Changing youth cultures

How to Break into the Elite

BBC Two | 2019 | 59'07''

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

The TikTok Effect

BBC Three | 2023 | 52'54''

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...

Episode 2 | How to Crack the Class Ceiling

BBC Two | 2022 | 59'42''

Amol Rajan looks at solutions to Britain's class inequality problem. How can employers and policy makers ensure a level playing fi...

Episode 1 | How to Crack the Class Ceiling

BBC Two | 2022 | 58'37''

How can working class students break through the barriers to landing Britain's elite jobs? Amol Rajan investigates the tips and tr...

The Rise of the Hoodies | History Of Now: The Story Of The Noughties

BBC Two | 2010 | 4'47''

During the 2000s anti-social behaviour rose, hoodies became popular amongst young people and were banned...

The Baby Gap | History Of Now: The Story Of The Noughties

BBC Two | 2010 | 2'11''

A brief summary of the trend of women having children later but then experiencing challenges of not being able to h...

Growing Young | History Of Now: The Story Of The Noughties

BBC Two | 2010 | 59'06''

A look back over the last decade. During the Noughties, an ageing Britain became obsessed with recapturing its you...

Views on LGBTQ in Black and Asian Communities | Reggie Yates' Extreme

BBC One | 2015 | 26'12''

Exploration of views about homosexuality in black and Asian communities, the role of religion in determ...

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Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis

BBC One | 2025 | 58'51''

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

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

BBC One | 2018 | 58'27''

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

Reggie Yates: Teen Gangs

BBC Three | 2012 | 56'59''

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

Episode 1 | Street Gangs

BBC Scotland | 2023 | 28'04''

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

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

BBC Four | 2017 | 59'31''

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

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

BBC One | 2018 | 59'01''

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

Episode 1 | Don't Exclude Me

BBC Two | 2021 | 59'25''

With school exclusions at their highest in a decade, behavioural expert Marie Gentles visits Milton Hall Primary School in Southend to help the ...

Sexuality And Stereotypes | Mobeen Azhar

BBC Asian Network | 2019 | 2'09'59''

How true is my sexuality to the stereotype?

03: Corruption and Conviction | Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation

BBC One | 2018 | 58'59''

Documentary series examining the murder of Stephen Lawrence. The public inquiry leads to a change i...

Stabbed: Britain's Knife Crime Crisis

BBC One | 2019 | 57'33''

Twenty-five years after the murder of his friend Stephen Lawrence, Duwayne Brooks explores the current wave of knife crime and the impa...

Episode 2 | Street Gangs

BBC Scotland | 2023 | 28'02''

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

BBC Four | 2017 | 59'13''

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

I Am Andrew Tate

Channel 4 | 2024 | 1'08'15''

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

Inside The Secret World Of Incels

BBC Three | 2019 | 49'31''

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

Britain's Teenage Drug Runners

BBC Three | 2017 | 46'37''

With astonishing access, BBC Three explores how gang members are using teenage drug runners to sell large amounts of crack and heroin miles aw...

Gang Culture in Scotland - Part 2 | Street Gangs

BBC Scotland | 2023 | 26'16''

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

Episode 3 | Street Gangs

BBC Scotland | 2023 | 27'59''

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...

Episode 2 | Don't Exclude Me

BBC Two | 2021 | 59'08''

Marie Gentles continues her work at Hilton Hall Primary School, helping six-year-old Oscar and nine-year-old Olivia deal with behavioural issues...

Drill On Trial

BBC Three | 2023 | 57'14''

Radio 1Xtra DJ Tiffany Calver explores the response to UK drill - a popular but controversial genre of rap - by the authorities, who blame it for a rise in vi...

The City Addicted to Crystal Meth | Louis Theroux

BBC Two | 2009 | 56'47''

Documentary in which Louis Theroux visits Fresno in California's Central Valley to see how crystal meth addiction affects t...

The formation of youth cultures

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Episode 1 | Back in Time for School

BBC Two | 2019 | 58'42''

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

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

BBC Two | 2016 | 58'59''

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...

Aylesbury Prison: Episode 1 | The Choir

BBC Two | 2020 | 58'51''

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...

Episode 2 | Back in Time for School

BBC Two | 2019 | 58'40''

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

BBC Two | 2019 | 59'01''

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 | Back in Time for School

BBC Two | 2019 | 58'36''

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

BBC Two | 2019 | 58'58''

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

02: The 60s | Back in Time for the Weekend

BBC Two | 2016 | 58'44''

A family gives up their 21st-century technology and travels back in time. As they enter the 60s, there's more fun to be had - a tr...

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

BBC Two | 2016 | 58'58''

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

05: The 90s | Back in Time for the Weekend

BBC Two | 2016 | 58'58''

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. The family enter the 90s, where new technology arrives at ...

Episode 5 | Back in Time for School

BBC Two | 2019 | 58'44''

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 7 | Back in Time for School

BBC Two | 2019 | 59'04''

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

Leah Betts: The Girl Next Door | Children Of Drugs

BBC One | 2000 | 48'35''

First of a three part series offering an insight into the world of drug use among young people. This prog examines the cas...

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

BBC Two | 2016 | 58'54''

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

06: The Future | Back in Time for the Weekend

BBC Two | 2016 | 58'46''

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. In the final episode, they discover what the future mig...

Sticks and Stones

BBC Two | 1986 | 23'19''

A play for children about a boy who moves from Glasgow with his mother to London and the problems he has in settling down to a new life and his difficultie...