Category: Documentary

Documentary

  • Panorama Taken from a Tethered Balloon

    Street scene shot from a balloon.

  • The buildings have taken off, now what?

    Following on from the short film ‘The buildings will take off and leave us behind’ (2022), the director imagines what happened to the buildings after they took off from earth.

  • In Search of The Frog Boys

    This documentary looks into unanswered questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of five boys whose remains were found 11 years later.

  • Naval Frogmen Corps

    Over the course of an entire year, DR was granted access to follow the Danish Frogman Corps.

    We follow the recruits in their struggle to make it through the extremely demanding training that will turn them into some of Denmark’s most highly trained soldiers. And we follow the Frogmen as they are deployed on special operations around the globe.

  • Made From Scratch

    Fuse gives you a taste of what music’s hottest artists are like when they step outside of the studio and into the kitchen to prepare their favorite childhood meals.

  • The Man Who Makes Things From Scratch

    In this series, Tom is facing a new challenge, can he make 4 everyday items using only raw materials from the UK and his own handy work?

  • Journey to 10,000 BC

    10,000 B.C. was a time of cataclysmic change on Earth. Extreme climactic fluctuations hurled the planet into a minor ice age; megafauna like the saber-toothed tiger and woolly mammoth were suddenly becoming extinct; and early humans began to inhabit North America. Cold and hungry, their fragile communities undertook perilous hunting expeditions. The slaughter of a single mammoth, weighing nearly ten tons, could be the difference between survival and death. Journey to 10,000 BC. brings this unique and thrilling period to life, and investigates the geologic and climate changes that scientists are just beginning to understand. In a major forensic investigation, History visits early human archaeological sites to uncover fossilized bones, ancient dwellings, and stone weapons, and uses state-of-the-art CGI to recreate the treacherous mammoth hunts and the devastating impact of a comet colliding with Earth.

  • Armando’s Tale of Charles Dickens

    Armando Iannucci presents a personal argument in praise of the genius of Charles Dickens. Through the prism of the author’s most autobiographical novel, David Copperfield, Armando looks beyond Dickens – the national institution – and instead explores the qualities of Dickens’s work that still make him one of the best British writers. While Dickens is often celebrated for his powerful depictions of Victorian England and his role as a social reformer, this programme foregrounds the elements of his writing which make him worth reading, as much for what he tells us about ourselves in the twenty-first century as our ancestors in the nineteenth. Armando argues that Dickens’s remarkable use of language and his extraordinary gift for creating characters make him a startlingly experimental and psychologically penetrating writer who demands not just to be adapted for television but to be read and read again.