Documentaries : 2009

Katie was young and beautiful. A model and budding TV presenter, the 24-year-old had a glowing future ahead of her. But in 2008 a vicious acid attack destroyed her face, and with it her career and her life as she knew it. More than a year on, and having undergone countless operations and rounds...

All of the measures by the federal government to stem the tide in the financial meltdown that began with the subprime mortgage crisis have added hundreds of billions of dollars to our national debt. FRONTLINE reports on how this debt will constrain and challenge the new Obama administration, and o...

Every day on our streets brutal wars are fought between powerful crime dynasties. Murder, intimidation and extortion.... Just another day in the office for these gangs, fiercely protecting their multi-million dollar businesses. Gangs of Oz is a 5 part docu-drama series looking at different criminal ...

This exciting series takes a fresh approach to the great battles of World War Two. Each film tells the story of the head-to-head between two iconic generals. In a dramatic device, a war-time bunker becomes the setting for these epic conflicts. As the generals face off across a the battle map it come...

If you're reading this any time after lunch and you're not dead, well done. You have, in the words of Professor Russell Foster, a chronobiologist, "survived the most dangerous part of the day". Chronobiologists study the body's various internal clocks. In this documentary, specialists reveal, among ...

The world is affected by an obesity epidemic, but why is it that not everyone is succumbing? Medical science has been obsessed with this subject and is coming up with some unexpected answers. As it turns out, it is not all about exercise and diet. At the centre of this programme is a controversia...

Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyers Cut) is a 2009 documentary that covers the members of the Monty Python comedy troupe from their birth to the present day. It highlights their childhood, schooling and university life, pre-Python work and includes interviews from modern day comedians and pe...

National Geographic Explorer: Easter Island Underworld chronicles the efforts of a team of National Geographic explorers who undertake a groundbreaking expedition to map the system of caves where the of the people who carved the iconic statues are believed to have taken refuge. It is a new explorati...

What killed the mammoths? Near the end of the last ice age 13,000 years ago, these mighty beasts disappeared from North America together with some 35 other groups of mammals. For four decades, debate has raged over the cause of their abrupt demise. NOVA presents an in-depth investigation of a contro...

Nova Lizard Kings: NOVA Documentary about Lizards....