UK / BBC2 (Ancient Voices) 1 x 50 me 12 Jul Wed 9:30pm 2000

Executive Producer Richard Denton. Producer Liz Gray

The story behind the unearthing of a massive Aztec Style city buried under St Louis, Missouri.

Presnted by Dr Tony Sparforth.

UK / Animal Planet 1 x 60 me 24 Oct Sun 8:00pm 1999

3 Peruvians leave their village Infairns (spanish for hell) to travel to candomo, one of the most treacherous areas in the world.

UK / C4 / Fulcrum TV / 5 x 30 me 30 May Tues 8:30pm 2000

Executive Producer Cristopher Hird.

People agree to live without something that really matters to them. Subjects included Television, Your Wife, Make Up

UK / C4 (Cutting Edge) 1 x 60 me 23 Nov Tues 9:00pm 1999

Executive Producer Charles Thompson

A look at what the French call Black Weekend - the first weekend in August when millions of tourist embark on trips to France.

UK / BBC2 (Arena) 1 x 65 me 20 Dec Mon 11:20pm 1999

Editor Anthony Wall. Director Mary Dickenson.

An attempt by novelist Josephine Hart to debunk some of the myths surrounding legendary lover of the 18^th century Casanova, discovering in the process evidence to show that he belonged to the Freemasons was an astrologer and a writer. 

C4 / 6x60m / started 8 May 2003

Producer/Director: Michael Samuels

Historian Marc Morris tells the stories of Britain's most famous castles.

UK / BBC2 (The History Zone) 6 x 30 me 8 Jan - 12 Feb Sat 7:35pm 2000

Producer Michael Wakelin. Executive Producer Richard Denton.

Janet Street-Porter travels Britain touring various great cathedrals.

Gateway to Heaven

An over view of cathedral history.

Winchester

The largest medievil cathedral in the world

Wells

The 12 century cathedral with the14 century clockface

Orkney

Britains most northerly cathedral. St Magnus, Kirkwall & Orkney.

Lincoln

The ahead of its time cathedral at Lincoln.

Liverpool

The three cathedrals of Liverpool's history as well a the men resonsible for deigning them. 

BBC2 / 2x50m / 21,28 October 2005

Writer/Producer/Director: Paul Burgess

Drama documentary exploring The life, love and politics of the great 18th century Russian empress. With Emily Bruni as Catherine 

UK / Sky One / 1x60 minute episode / Broadcast 2000

Documentary. Light hearted documentary in which soon to be mum Julia Carling talks to other "celebrity" mothers and fathers about what its like being famous and a parent.  

UK / C4 2 x 60 me 19 Jul 26 Jul Wed 8:30pm 2000

Executive Producer Nick Shearman. Director Gabrielle Osrin.

Psychiatrist Beechy Colclogh talks to various celebrities about their battles against addiction ( those featured included Jim Davidson, Steve Claridge, Clarisse Dickson-Wright, John Reid and Marc Almond.

UK / Yorkshire 1 x 60 me 1975

A study of a disintegrating farming community in Yorkshire.

BBC2 x 50 me 1999

Executive Producer George Carey.

A look at the houses and occupants of roads built in the early 1900's

BBC2 1979 1994 1999

Producer / Director David Pearson

About transexual Julie Grant who was born George Roberts. The first program was in 1979 and since then there have been occasional updates.

UK / C5 1 x 60 me 29 Aug Tues 10:55pm 2000

Profile of one of Britain's most notorious prisoners Charles Bronson who since 1974 has spent most of his life (through having his sentence extended for misbehaving in jail) in prison. Two days after this documentary there was another one on Channel 4 called Bronson Britain's Most Dangerous Prisoner.

Central / Dimbleby / Marlin 1 x 50 me29 Jun 1994

David Dimbleby shadows the Prince of Wales all over the world in a very personal portrait. Two other Dimbleby , Prince Charles documentaries were.

HRH The Prince of Wales: The Earth in Balance. About he environment on BBC1 23 May 1990 and A Vision of Britain. Concerning British architecture BBC1 28 Oct 1988

27 May Tues 9:35pm 1975

Producer Hugh Burnett.

Inside the world of those chosen to be the wives of Christ.

UK / Granada 1 x 30 me 1973

Executive Producer Mike Scott. Director Jim Clark.

Profile of the city of Chester.

Presented by Ray Gosling.

UK / BBC2 / Scorer Ass 3 x 50 me 6 Oct - 20 Oct Wed 9:30pm 1999

Producer / Director Philippa Lowthorpe. Executive Producer Peter Symes. Music Peter Salem.

50 under privileged children from leicester spend a two week holiday (thanks to charity) in Mablethorpe on the Lincolshire Coast.

UK / BBC1 1 x 50 me 23 Feb Wed 9:30pm 2000

Producer Tessa Livingstone.

The starting program of a project to follow the lives of a group of babies from the womb to adulthood.

UK / BBC1 (Inside Story) 1 x 65 me 3 Nov Wed 9:30pm 1999

Editor Olivia Lichtenstein. Director Christopher Olgiati.

A profile of author Binjamin Wilkominski; whose book telling of his childhood spent in Nazi concentration camps was denounced as a fraud. 

UK / C4 / 4x30m / 1 August 2002

Series Producer: Niall Fraser

Series following the lives of families coping with children who have extreme behaviour.

BBC1 3 x 50 me 8 Mar Wed 9:30pm 2000

Producer Denys Blakeway.

The alarming rise of drug use amongst the young is examined in this seriies.

The Girl Next Door 8 Mar

The case of Ecstasy victim Leah Betts.

A Family Divided By Drugs

The story of three brothers and their drug experiences.

UK / Associated Rediffusion B & W 1965

Writer Robert Kee Executive Producer David Windlesham. Director Randal Beattie.

Profile of the young of Czechoslovakia born into revolution.

Narrated by Robert Kee

UK / C4 1 x 60 me 28 Sept Thurs 8:00pm 2000

Director Sue Read

Stories of some of the Jewish children from countries like Germany, Austria etc whose parents sent them to England before the outbreak of the 2^nd World War. Richard Attenborough was amongst the contributors - his parents having taken in some of the children.

UK / Thames 1 x 120 me 1981

An insight into the lives of Chinese women, from their work & their lifestyle to their aspirations and hopes for the future.

BBC2 (Omnibus) 1 x 55 me 17 May Mon 10:45pm 1999

Executive Producer Roger Thompson

Pianist Andras Schiff celebrates the world of Chopin.

BBC2 1 x 100 me 3 Jan Mon 3:50pm 2000

Producer / Director Seona Robertson & Les Wilson

In 1947 a photographic record of 12 farming families from around the world was started, this film revisited the families fifty years on.

Narrator Julie Christie

UK / Granada 13 x 50 me 1977

Writer Bamber Gascoigne. Producer Norman Swallow & Mike Murphy.

A series presented by Bamber Gascoigne that attempts to tell the story of Christianity.

UK / ITV 1 x 60 me 1998

Producer / Director Christopher Salt.

A look at some of the calamities that have befallen people at christmas.

UK / C5 / Sunset & Vine 1 x 30 me 21 Dec Tues 8:30pm 1999

Producer / Director Sophie Paul. Music David McEwan. Titles Department 6. Executive Producer John Leach.

The story of the stocking - from lingerie wear to the hanging on the wall types.

BBC2 x 50 me 1966-

Long running series (shown monthly) looking at the latest discoveries in archaeology and histpry. Original hosts included Glynn Daniel and Magnus Magnusson. 

ITV1 / 3x60m / started 8 January 2004

Director: Lucy Carter / Executive Producers: Polly Bide, Alastair Waddington

A three-part profile of the Winston Churchill from his early life to his crucial role as a wartime leader and on to his later life as a retired politician.

UK / BBC / MCA 26 x 50 me 1975

A series about history based on Winston Churchill's history of the English - Speaking Peoples.

UK / C4 3 x 60 me 27 Jan Thurs 8:00pm 2000

Producer / Director Martin Smith.

Novelist Sebastian Faulkes examines the history of the SOE (Special Operations Executive) set up by Churchil for sabotage purposes during World War II.

1. The Mission - the setting up of the SOE.
2. Resistance - By 1943 The SOE had had numerous setbacks causing many to question its use.
3. Former operators look back at their time in the SOE.

UK / C4 1 x 90 me 8 May Mon 9:00pm 2000

Producer / Director Simon Berthon

The inside story of the tense deadlock between Hitler and Churchill between the months of May and Aug 1940.

UK / Granada 3 x 60 me 1968

Writers Bruce Norman & Anne Marie Weber. Producer Mike Wooler. Director Michael Darlow.

How three key cities coped with the second world war, Leningrad, Berlin and London.

BBC 5 x 30 me 28 Aug - 25 Sept 1963

Producer John Boorman.

The every day lives of five desperate people, including a police inspector, a scientist and a schoolgirl.

UK / ATV 17 Jul Wed 9:45pm 1963

Producer James Bredin. Writer Paul Ferris.

Profile of the City of London

Narrated by Paul Ferris.

• CIVILISATION (KENNETH CLARKE) 

C4 1 x 90 me 18 Apr Sun 7:00pm 1999

Producers John & Susan Gay. Director Paul Sen

Recounting the time in the 17^th century when Parliament tried & executed Charles 1^st , abolished the house of lords and for the only time in British history established a republic. Narrated by Jeremy Hardy with some dramatic reconstruction featuring Chris Kirk as Charles.

BBC x 30 me & 40 me 1998-99 

Executive Producer Tony Moss.

Series looking at sporting clashes throughout the 20^th century. Topuics included  Benn Vs Eubank. Celtic Vs Rangers. US Vs Europe - Ryder Cup Golf. Fischer Vs The Soviets - Chess. England Vs Scotland - Football. Army Vs Navy

C4 6 x 30 me Tues 8:30pm 1999

Executive Producer Michael Proudfoot. Director Russell Barnes.

A look at some of the aircraft that have taken flight over the years.

CLASSMATES

C4 / 3x60m / started 14 August 2002

Producer/Director: Harry Lansdown

A series following former pupils as they go back to school for a reunion

UK / BBC1 3 x30 me 15 May - 5 Jun Mon 9:00pm 2000

Producer Janice Finch. Editor Peter Horrocks.

A look at various aspects of the education system focusing on the problems.

C4 6 x 30 me Sun 8:00pm 1998

Editor Stephen Phelps.

Overview of criminal cases inviting the viewers to come up with new evidence that could prove a convicted man innocent.

Presented by David Jessel and Anik mcNaught from inside Oxford Prison.

UK / BBC2 (Midland Report) 1 x 30 me 13 Jan Thurs 7:30pm 2000

Producer Tony Poe.

A profile of former football manager Brian Clough in the year he became a pensioner.

UK / C4 2 x 60 me & 1 x 30 me 5 & 6 Jan 2000

A short season of three films looking at the perils of drug use especially cocaine. "I don't like cocaine I just like the way it smells" a quote attributed to Jerry Springer.

Cocaine On The Brain - 10:00pm 1 x 30 me Wed. Executive Producer Duncan Dallas. Director Amanda Murphy. The medical damage that cocaine can do to the body.

Secret And Lies - 9:00pm 1 x 60 me Thurs. Producer Edmund Coulthard. Director Paul Wilmhurst.

BBC2 (Correspondent) 1 x 45 me 18 Mar Sat 6:50pm 2000

Producer Ewa Ewart. Editor Fiona Murch.

A look at the efforts of the US to clamp down on the cocaine barons of Columbia

Presented by Phil Rees.

BBC2 26 x 50 me final episode 9 May 1998 - 99

Producer Martin Smith. Executive Producers Jeremy Isaacs & Pat Mitchell.

Immense undertaking chronicling the story of the Cold War in much thw same way as Isaac's 70's World at War series.

Narrated by Kenneth Branagh

UK / BBC 2 x 50 me 1978

Producer Tony Salmon

How a ship with a valuable cargo of Greek Cabo was shipwrecked in 1978

Narrated by Dr Anne Burchall. 

BBC1 / 14x30m / 2003-2004 (started 9 June 2003)

Producer: Toby Stevens

Each edition focussed on a classic British sitcom and traced it’s origins and the roots of the key performers, writers, etc - with interviews and clips. Sitcoms featured in series 1 were:- Porridge, The Good Life, Are You Being Served, Men Behaving Badly, Butterflies and Only Fools and Horses. The second series featured The Goodies, Birds of a Feather, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Red Dwarf, Father Ted, Hi-De-Hi, The Young Ones and Keeping Up Appearances. 

BBC1 3 x 50 me 21 Feb Sun 8:00pm 1999

Producer Julia Simmons. Director Clem Vallance

11 Celebrities travel to Africa to bring back videotaped messages from the people of Africa, with Lenny Henry, Ewan mcGregor, Ruby Wax, Geri Halliwell.

BBC2 10 x 10 me Tues 10:15pm 1999

Executive Producer Bob Long.

A branch of the video nation series in which members of the public make films on their attitudes to household cleaning.

UK / C4 / 4x60m / started 15 January 2002

Producer: Henry Chancellor / Executive Producers: Ian Duncan, Oliver Morse

Documentary series revealing the origins and operations of the secretive "army" that was the forerunner of Britain’s Special Forces.

UK / C4 1 x 45 me 9 Sept Sat 7:00pm 2000

Producer Patricia Uden. Dirctor Magnus Temple.

An investigation of the facts surrounding the July 2000 crash of concorde when 113 people were killed, apparently due to an exploding tyre.

UK / BBC2 (Correspondent) 1 x 45 me 11 Sept Sat 6 :45pm 1999

Producer Giselle Portenier. Editor Fiona Murch.

Reporter Isabel Hilton looks at the plight of babies born to Tutsi women who were raped during the Rwandan Civil War of 1994.

UK / C4 1 x 60 me 25 Sept Sat 7:00pm 1999

Producer / Director Ross Wilson.

Profile of Charlie Whelan, former press secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown.

UK / BBC2 (Horizon) 1 x 50 me 19 Oct Thurs 9:00pm 2000

Producer Robert Eagle. Editor Bettina Lerner.

A look at the ethics of separating conjoined twins and visiting a hospital in Cape Town where a pair of twins are to be separated.

The 1996 'documentary' about the Columbian drugs trade which its makers Carlton were fined 2 million pounds because of its faked scenes and numerous set ups.

UK / BBC 1 x 50 me 1997

Comedian Billy Connolly spends a cold and lonely time in the frozen Arctic Ocean, equipped only with a flimsy tent and a video camera.

UK / Sky One 4 x 60 me 12 Jul Wed 10:00pm 2000

A look at the lives of a group of prisoners serving sentences in the USA, the UK and Denmark.

BBC1 (Everyman) 1 x 50 me 31 May Sun 10:00pm 1998

Producer Nikki Shockley

A look at the growing number of claims of alien abduction with people from both sides (sceptics & believers) offering their point of view.

UK / BBC2 (Correspondent) 1 x 45 me 8 Apr Sat 7:15pm 2000

Producers Julie Jakobek & Farah Durrani.

A look at the problems faced by a Northern Irish charity in trying to get the £10 million they raised to the Romanian orphan girls who need it.

UK / ITV / 125 x 30 me / 1986 to 1999

Investigative journalism in which burly Roger Cook tackles various crooks, bullies, gangsters, drug barons and the like, using a foot in the door and a camera in the face style of filming. Cook often came under attack from those he was investigating.

A BBC2 umbrella title for hard hitting single documentaries looking at world affairs.

UK / ATV 1 x 30 me 20 Aug Mon 8:30pm 1973

Producer Charles Charles Stewart.

A look into the wholesale demolition of streets that took place in the early 1970's.

UK / ITV 31 Dec - 1 Jan 1999 - 2000

Editor Simon Bucks. Director Munro Forbes.

ITV's Millennium Program, interspersed throughout the day.

1. 9:55am - 10:10am Midnight on Millennium Island in the South Pacific.
2. 10:58am - New Zealand celebrates
3. 11:59am - Big Ben strikes noon
4. 12:30 am - Australia
5. 10:55pm - Into the next millennium in Bikini until 1:05am

Presenters involved were Trevor MxDonald, John Suchet, Kate Derham. Dermot Murnahan.

Umbrella title for a series of late nineties individual BBC2 documentaries.

C4 1 x 30 me 22 Jul Thurs 9:00pm1999

Executive Producer Justyn Jones. Producer / Director Andrew Guy.

An investigative report into free range eggs by farmer Daniel Butler.

UK / BBC2 5 x 10 me 21 Nov 1999

Producer Andy King-Dobbs. Executive Producer Peter Maniura.

A series about the new Royal Opera House.

1. The Architects Story - Sun 21 Nov 6:50pm
2. The Ballet Moves - Thurs 25 Nov 10:20pm
3. The Front Of House Team - sat 27 Nov 6:50pm
4. The Backstage Crew Thurs 2 Dec 10:20pm

UK / BBC1 3 x 40 me 26 Feb Sat 6:10pm 2000

Producer Sally Lindsay. Executive Producer Denys Blakeway.

A look into the tragedy of the Southall train crash in Sept 1997 when 7 people were killed.

Narrated by Tim Piggot-Smith.

UK / C5 3 x 30 me 3 - 5 Jan Mon - Wed 8:30pm 2000

Producer Michael Hobbs. Director Tom Adams.

A series looking at what causes air crashes, from human error to faulty equipment, and focussing on some particularly horrifying examples.

UK / C4 1 X 60 ME 31 Oct Tues 8:00pm 2000

Producer Christine Cooby. Director Josh Halil.

Fly on the wall following the often harrowing work of the police officers who have to deal with road traffic accidents focusing especially on the work of the Lancaster Police Accident Investigation Unit.

UK / C4 1 x 60 me 26 Jun  2000 Monday 9:00pm

Producer / Director Hamish Mynar.

Profile of Princess Elizabeth's personal nanny Marion Crawford who caused a scandal by writing a book about her time in the royal household.

Thames 7 x 60 me 1984

Writer / Producer Martin Short.

A look at various mafia crime families.

Narrated by Martin Short.

UK 21 May Tues 9:25pm 1974

Producer Karl Sabbagh.

Looking at how heart disease affects different categories of people.

UK / BBC2 (Timewatch) 1 x 50 me 24 Apr Sat 8:15pm 1999

Producer Nigel Bellin. Editor Lawrence Rees.

The story of the tragedy that occurred during World War II when allied prisoners, who had worked on the Thai - Burma 'death railway' wer being shipped to Japan on an aging cargo boat which was then attacked by three US submarines.

UK / BBC2 3 x 50 me May - 3 Jun Wed 9:30pm 1998

Executive Producer Amanda Thiesson. Producer Beth Holgate.

The history of the International Red Cross Committee with John Simpson.

UK / BBC2 / 4x50m-e / 1995 ( 10 - 31 January)

Executive Producer: Laurence Rees / Producers: Alan Ereira, David Wallace

Monty Python Alumni Terry Jones takes an in-depth and excellent look at the history of the Crusades, deflating the Richard the Lionheart story along the way. Although very much a history aficionado Jones still found time to incorporate a few humorous elements. 

UK / BBC1 (Inside Story) 1 x 50 me 12 Apr wed 10:25pm 2000

Producer Neil Grant. Editor Olivia Lichtenstien.

Profile of a murder that occurred in 1995 when Lee Carter killed his wife Loraine and then himself. Loraines relatives claim the police didn't act quick enough after receiving a frantic phone call from Loraine.

UK / BBC2 (Storyville)1 x 105 me 27 Nov Sat 10:25pm 1999

Executive Producer Krishan Arorz. Produce / Director Leslie Woodhead.

A look into the terrible massacre in 1995 (under the watching eyes of powerless UN troops in Srebrenica of the slaughter of 7,000 men by the Bosnian Serb Army.

UK / C4 (Witness) 1 x 60 me 11 Jun Sun 9:00pm 2000

Director Eamonn Mathews.

Inside the world of the Uganda Cult Movement For The Restoration Of The Ten Commandments who in early 2000 embarked on a mass suicide campaign.

UK / C4 (Equinox) 1 x 60 me 4 Oct Mon 9:00pm 1999

Producer David Paterson. Director David Malone.

A look at work being carried out by scientists to repair damage to the brain using genetically engineered cells. 

UK / C4 / 1x60m-e / 22 June 2002

Producer/Director: Paul Joyce

Documentary tracing the history and development of the accident prone French detective from the "Pink Panther" film series as portrayed by Peter Sellers and directed by Blake Edwards.