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Ethical Issues

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01: Love Without Limits | Louis Theroux: Altered States

01: Love Without Limits | Louis Theroux: Altered States

BBC Two | 2018 | 59'30''

Louis Theroux travels to Portland, Oregon, to visit a movement seeking to rewrite the rulebook on how we conduct inti...

02: Choosing Death | Louis Theroux: Altered States

02: Choosing Death | Louis Theroux: Altered States

BBC Two | 2018 | 1'03'24''

Louis Theroux spends time with those preparing to take a lethal but legally prescribed overdose and meets a controversial ...

03: The Secret of Sex | How to Build a Human

03: The Secret of Sex | How to Build a Human

BBC Two | 2002 | 48'49''

The precise mechanics of human sexual reproduction are revealed,using new technology to produce previously unseen images.

04: Living Forever | How to Build a Human

04: Living Forever | How to Build a Human

BBC Two | 2002 | 48'44''

The solution to ageing may be in sight with the discovery that a vital gas is the chief culprit, while a drug claims to double life...

01: Creation | How to Build a Human

01: Creation | How to Build a Human

BBC Two | 2002 | 49'12''

Scientists are now at the pivotal moment of being able to unlock the instructions hidden in the cells of humans.

02: Predictor | How to Build a Human

02: Predictor | How to Build a Human

BBC Two | 2002 | 49'18''

A look at the veracity of scientists' claims that they are on the verge of being able to predict our futures by analysing our genes and ...

Moral minefield | KS4 Curriculum Bites

Moral minefield | KS4 Curriculum Bites

BBC Two | 2007 | 10'41''

Tony Morris hosts a talk show examining some ethical questions about sex, adultery and open relationships.

3: Crisis Stage | Life and Death Row

3: Crisis Stage | Life and Death Row

BBC Three | 2014 | 56'15''

Film following students from the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of Houston as they fight last-ditch appeals for two of the young...

1: Execution | Life and Death Row

1: Execution | Life and Death Row

BBC Three | 2014 | 58'23''

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 the ...

2: Judgement | Life and Death Row

2: Judgement | Life and Death Row

BBC Three | 2014 | 1'18'51''

Following the trial of Guy Heinze Jr, with access to jury members charged with reaching a verdict on allegations that he beat his father an...

Animal Rights | A-Z of Belief

Animal Rights | A-Z of Belief

BBC Two | 1990 | 28'50''

Chrissie Hynde, Kevin Godley, and Linda Davidson share why they have joined the campaign for animal rights. Jane Harris, a member of the Animal...

Episode 2 | Miriam's Dead Good Adventure

Episode 2 | Miriam's Dead Good Adventure

BBC Two | 2019 | 59'04''

In the concluding episode of this compelling documentary series, inimitable actress Miriam wants to know if we can ever be ready to ...

Episode 1 | Miriam's Dead Good Adventure

Episode 1 | Miriam's Dead Good Adventure

BBC Two | 2019 | 59'02''

Miriam Margolyes is on a mission to confront her fear of aging and death. Miriam checks into a dementia care home, to see what getti...

3: Unnatural Practices | The Baby Makers

3: Unnatural Practices | The Baby Makers

Channel 4 | 1999 | 51'18''

The technology, ethics and human stories of the assisted fertilization revolution.

The Baby Makers

The Baby Makers

Channel 4 | 1999 | 51'18''

The technology, ethics and human stories of the assisted fertilization revolution.

2: Fighting For Survival | The Baby Makers

2: Fighting For Survival | The Baby Makers

Channel 4 | 1999 | 51'19''

The technology, ethics and human stories of the assisted fertilization revolution.

3: Music | Do Black Lives Still Matter?

3: Music | Do Black Lives Still Matter?

BBC Three | 2021 | 25'25''

The music industry pledged millions in support of people of colour. But will the money help to fix its own problems with diversity? G...

1: Brands | Do Black Lives Still Matter?

1: Brands | Do Black Lives Still Matter?

BBC Three | 2021 | 26'18''

Following the death of George Floyd, major brands pledged to address racial inequalities across their businesses. Grime artist Saski...

2: Football | Do Black Lives Still Matter?

2: Football | Do Black Lives Still Matter?

BBC Three | 2021 | 28'02''

George Floyd's death drew attention to problems with diversity in football. Grime artist Saskilla meets people from across the gam...

Episode 2 | Three Families

Episode 2 | Three Families

BBC One | 2021 | 58'46''

Determined to change the law, Hannah throws herself into campaigning. Theresa challenges her prosecution, and a third family faces a terrible choice.
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Morality and Decision Making

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A short history of evil | KS4 Curriculum Bites

A short history of evil | KS4 Curriculum Bites

BBC Two | 2007 | 3'17''

What is evil? Where does it come from? How can it be reduced? How do some religions personify evil? What connection is there b...

Victim of bullying fights back | KS4 Curriculum Bites

Victim of bullying fights back | KS4 Curriculum Bites

BBC Two | 2007 | 4'24''

A bully who enjoys fighting targets a boy that does not. What will cause the victim to finally take a stand against his...

Should prejudice be forgiven? | KS4 Curriculum Bites

Should prejudice be forgiven? | KS4 Curriculum Bites

BBC Two | 2007 | 5'21''

In this drama Emma, Jo and Lucy meet at the gym. Lucy's just joining and she fancies the instructor, Dan. The other two ...

Laura on the murder of her sister and faith | KS4 Curriculum Bites

Laura on the murder of her sister and faith | KS4 Curriculum Bites

BBC Two | 2007 | 4'56''

Laura Storrs was only 14 when her older sister was murdered. She found her whole life turned upside-down b...

8: The Good Life | Justice

8: The Good Life | Justice

BBC Four | 2011 | 28'53''

Michael Sandel lecture using controversies over same-sex marriage and abortion to examine whether it is necessary to reason about the good life in...

3: How to Measure Pleasure | Justice

3: How to Measure Pleasure | Justice

BBC Four | 2011 | 28'11''

Michael Sandel's lecture uses Hamlet and The Simpsons to explore John Stuart Mill's theory that utilitarianism can make room for a disti...

2: The Case for Cannibalism | Justice

2: The Case for Cannibalism | Justice

BBC Four | 2011 | 28'40''

Michael Sandel presents a lecture from his Harvard course on justice, exploring Jeremy Bentham's utilitarian philosophy with reference ...

1: The Moral Side to Murder | Justice

1: The Moral Side to Murder | Justice

BBC Four | 2011 | 25'18''

Professor Michael Sandel presents the first in a series of lectures from his Harvard undergraduate course in Political Philosophy. He e...

Test of Time: Commitment | Belief File

Test of Time: Commitment | Belief File

BBC Two | 2002 | 29'47''

Debbie Santiago talks about how she became an alcoholic and homeless. And James Mawdsley is released from a 17 year jail sentence in B...

Test of Time: Peace | Belief File

Test of Time: Peace | Belief File

BBC Two | 2002 | 29'06''

Pam White, a PC on duty when a bomb went off outside Harrods in 1983, talks about how she found peace after becoming a Christian. Plus ''Go...

Test of Time: Forgiveness | Belief File

Test of Time: Forgiveness | Belief File

BBC Two | 2002 | 29'04''

Joe Seremane, a black South African MP imprisoned on Robben Island, talks about apartheid and the need for forgiveness.

Unit 731 | Correspondent

Unit 731 | Correspondent

BBC Two | 2002 | 44'20''

Japanese army built Unit 731 in China in WW2 to research, develop and use biological weapons. Chinese POW and civilians were used as guinea pigs and...

What's the Point of Forgiveness?

What's the Point of Forgiveness?

BBC One | 2011 | 59'04''

Inspired by Jesus's words on the cross, Bettany Hughes traces the history of this challenging virtue. What does it really ask of us? And how...

South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission | What's the Point of Forgiveness?

South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission | What's the Point of Forgiveness?

BBC One | 2011 | 3'50''

How forgiveness was used in the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

The Holocaust | What's the Point of Forgiveness?

The Holocaust | What's the Point of Forgiveness?

BBC One | 2011 | 3'60''

Discussing the possibility of forgiveness after the atrocities of the Holocaust.

Uncle Tom's Cabin | What's the Point of Forgiveness?

Uncle Tom's Cabin | What's the Point of Forgiveness?

BBC One | 2011 | 3'50''

Bettany Hughes discusses the impact that Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' had on slavery in America.

Forgiveness during the Reformation | What's the Point of Forgiveness?

Forgiveness during the Reformation | What's the Point of Forgiveness?

BBC One | 2011 | 3'32''

Bettany Hughes and Diarmaid MacCulloch discuss the impact that the Reformation had on Christian forgive...

Christian forgiveness and the Crusades | What's the Point of Forgiveness?

Christian forgiveness and the Crusades | What's the Point of Forgiveness?

BBC One | 2011 | 6'10''

Bettany Hughes explains how forgiveness was understood during the Crusades.

Background to Christian forgiveness | What's the Point of Forgiveness?

Background to Christian forgiveness | What's the Point of Forgiveness?

BBC One | 2011 | 3'60''

An introduction to the ancient context in which Jesus first preached about forgiveness.

Inside the Convent | Stacey Dooley

Inside the Convent | Stacey Dooley

BBC One | 2022 | 58'20''

Stacey Dooley moves into a convent to explore the lives of nuns. Will she cope with the sisters' strict lifestyle, and what can she learn ...
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2: Nietzsche | Genius of the Modern World

2: Nietzsche | Genius of the Modern World

BBC Four | 2016 | 59'29''

Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of great modern thinkers. Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and a...

1: Marx | Genius of the Modern World

1: Marx | Genius of the Modern World

BBC Four | 2016 | 58'55''

Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world. Drawing on expert opinion and new evidence, she looks...

2: Socrates | Genius of the Ancient World

2: Socrates | Genius of the Ancient World

BBC Four | 2015 | 59'14''

Historian Bettany Hughes is in Greece, on the trail of the hugely influential maverick thinker Socrates, who was executed for his b...

3: Confucius | Genius of the Ancient World

3: Confucius | Genius of the Ancient World

BBC Four | 2015 | 59'07''

In the final episode, Bettany travels to China on the trail of Confucius, a great sage of Chinese history whose ideas have fundame...

7: Freedom vs Fit | Justice

7: Freedom vs Fit | Justice

BBC Four | 2011 | 27'51''

Michael Sandel's lecture looks at the issue of individual rights and the freedom to choose, and he addresses one of the most glaring objections t...

5: What's a Fair Start? | Justice

5: What's a Fair Start? | Justice

BBC Four | 2011 | 25'39''

Michael Sandel's lecture looks at John Rawls, who argued that for a fair social system one must start from an imaginary position where ever...

6: The Good Citizen | Justice

6: The Good Citizen | Justice

BBC Four | 2011 | 28'13''

Michael Sandel's lecture on the philosophy of justice links Aristotle's belief that the purpose of politics is to promote the virtue of a count...

4: A Lesson in Lying | Justice

4: A Lesson in Lying | Justice

BBC Four | 2011 | 23'50''

Harvard professor Michael Sandel examines Immanuel Kant's stringent theory of morality, which says that telling any type of lie is a violation...

1: Buddha | Genius of the Ancient World

1: Buddha | Genius of the Ancient World

BBC Four | 2015 | 59'09''

Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy. To begin, she investi...
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Ultimate Questions

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What meanings to life can be found? | KS4 Curriculum Bites

What meanings to life can be found? | KS4 Curriculum Bites

BBC Two | 2007 | 5'32''

This clip provides 12 perspectives from Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, atheism and agnosticism, on the...

A brave new world | KS4 Curriculum Bites

A brave new world | KS4 Curriculum Bites

BBC Two | 2007 | 18'18''

What if the world as we know it ended? Would the younger generation be able to construct a new world better than the one we have? Th...

Is there a God? | KS4 Curriculum Bites

Is there a God? | KS4 Curriculum Bites

BBC Two | 2007 | 6'05''

This film presents 12 perspectives from Christianity, Hinduism and Islam, as well as atheism and agnosticism, on the question of belie...

What Makes a Human? | Horizon

What Makes a Human? | Horizon

BBC Two | 2013 | 59'02''

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

Christianity: Creation | Pathways of Belief

Christianity: Creation | Pathways of Belief

BBC Two | 1997 | 14'07''

Programme looks at the Creation and the concept of God as Earth's creator.

Many Happy Returns | Forty Minutes

Many Happy Returns | Forty Minutes

BBC Two | 1990 | 38'47''

This is the extraordinary story of two normal children who think they vividly remember aspects of their 'previous' lives as other people. ...

Episode 2 | Derren Brown: Fear and Faith

Episode 2 | Derren Brown: Fear and Faith

Channel 4 | 2012 | 47'31''

Stunts and psychological tricks from illusionist Derren Brown.

Life after Death | Worlds of Belief

Life after Death | Worlds of Belief

BBC Two | 1997 | 19'01''

Schools religious education program for 14-18 year olds. A young mother, an atheist, develops complications whilst giving birth and has a...

Does God Exist? | Worlds of Belief

Does God Exist? | Worlds of Belief

BBC Two | 1997 | 19'04''

Schools religious education program for 14-18 year olds. Billy, a Belfast boy, who regains his faith in Maze prison.

Are You Good or Evil? | Horizon

Are You Good or Evil? | Horizon

BBC Two | 2011 | 58'46''

Horizon meets researchers studying psychopathic killers to try to determine what makes people good or evil. One such scientist believes he ha...

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

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

BBC Four | 2010 | 58'47''

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

The Day I Died

The Day I Died

BBC Two | 2003 | 59'10''

Tonight's documentary explores the theory that near-death experiences actually come from beyond the brain. New clinical research is daring to suggest the impo...

The Case for God?

The Case for God?

BBC One | 2010 | 28'55''

With religion coming under increasing attack from atheists and sceptics, The Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, goes into the lion's den, putting his faith ...

Reconciling Darwinism and Christianity | Did Darwin Kill God?

Reconciling Darwinism and Christianity | Did Darwin Kill God?

BBC Two | 2009 | 3'49''

Francis Collins, a leading geneticist, explains how he reconciles his understanding of Darwinism with his Chris...

Ultra-Darwinism | Did Darwin Kill God?

Ultra-Darwinism | Did Darwin Kill God?

BBC Two | 2009 | 3'19''

For a group of scientists and philosophers, Darwin's theories are evidence for atheism.

The creationist view | Did Darwin Kill God?

The creationist view | Did Darwin Kill God?

BBC Two | 2009 | 4'28''

From the 1960s, a new view of creation emerged in America, contradicting the theory of evolution… and previous Christian teaching...

Intelligent design | Did Darwin Kill God?

Intelligent design | Did Darwin Kill God?

BBC Two | 2009 | 2'27''

An explanation of the theory of Intelligent Design and some of the scientific and theological criticisms it has provoked.

The Scopes Trial | Did Darwin Kill God?

The Scopes Trial | Did Darwin Kill God?

BBC Two | 2009 | 5'49''

The conflict between Darwinism and Christianity first came to a head in 1925 in rural Tennessee when a school teacher was put on tria...

How old is the Earth? | Did Darwin Kill God?

How old is the Earth? | Did Darwin Kill God?

BBC Two | 2009 | 4'38''

The Reformation and the discovery of fossils influenced Christian ideas of how old the Earth was.

Darwinism and Victorian Christianity | Did Darwin Kill God?

Darwinism and Victorian Christianity | Did Darwin Kill God?

BBC Two | 2009 | 2'28''

Darwin's theories were largely accepted by Victorian Christians but clashed with the ideas of William Paley.
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Identity

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3: Music | Do Black Lives Still Matter?

3: Music | Do Black Lives Still Matter?

BBC Three | 2021 | 25'25''

The music industry pledged millions in support of people of colour. But will the money help to fix its own problems with diversity? G...

1: Brands | Do Black Lives Still Matter?

1: Brands | Do Black Lives Still Matter?

BBC Three | 2021 | 26'18''

Following the death of George Floyd, major brands pledged to address racial inequalities across their businesses. Grime artist Saski...

2: Football | Do Black Lives Still Matter?

2: Football | Do Black Lives Still Matter?

BBC Three | 2021 | 28'02''

George Floyd's death drew attention to problems with diversity in football. Grime artist Saskilla meets people from across the gam...

Identity and Belonging | Belief File

Identity and Belonging | Belief File

BBC Two | 1997 | 13'43''

Schools religious education program for 14-18 year olds. This program looks at identity and belonging.

Stormzy and Church | Louis Theroux Interviews...

Stormzy and Church | Louis Theroux Interviews...

BBC Two | 2022 | 5'15''

Stormzy takes Louis to church to speak about its inspiration and the effect it had on him growing up.

Stormzy | Louis Theroux Interviews...

Stormzy | Louis Theroux Interviews...

BBC Two | 2022 | 44'20''

Louis Theroux meets platinum-selling rapper Stormzy for a frank and revealing conversation about his life and career.

John Barrowman | The Making of Me

John Barrowman | The Making of Me

BBC One | 2008 | 58'53''

The series of science documentaries in which three famous people question why they are the way they are sees John Barrowman challenging sci...

S1E2 | Family Secrets and Lies

S1E2 | Family Secrets and Lies

Channel 5 | 2015 | 44'13''

This programme features Melissa, born Les, who has been cut off from her family since she announced that she wanted to become a woman.

Can good come out of suffering? Part 1 | A Question of Faith

Can good come out of suffering? Part 1 | A Question of Faith

BBC Two | 2014 | 4'49''

The students visit children with extreme disabilities. They discuss their enjoyment of life and the children's a...

Slavery on the High Street

Slavery on the High Street

Business and Management | BBC One | 2024 | 28'52''

For seven years, vulnerable victims of trafficking were forced to make food for major high street chains. How did their exploitation go undetected...

02: Ice Babies | A Child Against All Odds

02: Ice Babies | A Child Against All Odds

Education and Childcare | BBC One | 2006 | 58'40''

Freezing embryos offers hope to people faced with being unable to have children of their own.

Shot for Going to School

Shot for Going to School

Ethical Issues | BBC Three | 2013 | 56'58''

Schoolgirl Malala Yousafi was just 14 when she was shot for campaigning for girls' education in Pakistan. Nel Hedayat travels to the areas where the...

Malala: Shot for Going to School | Panorama

Malala: Shot for Going to School | Panorama

Ethical Issues | BBC One | 2013 | 29'20''

One year ago, Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban on her school bus. In this Panorama special, she talks exclusively to Mish...

What happens when we die? | KS4 Curriculum Bites

What happens when we die? | KS4 Curriculum Bites

Philosophy and Ethics | BBC Two | 2007 | 8'36''

This clip provides 12 perspectives from Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, atheism and agnosticism, on the question of what happ...

Why do we suffer? | KS4 Curriculum Bites

Why do we suffer? | KS4 Curriculum Bites

Philosophy and Ethics | BBC Two | 2007 | 2'56''

This clip provides 12 perspectives from Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, atheism and agnosticism, on the question of what happens to u...

Dom a Lloyd: Cymru Heddiw | Hansh

Dom a Lloyd: Cymru Heddiw | Hansh

Ethical Issues | S4C | 2023 | 11'55''

Musicians Dom and Lloyd explore the reality of being a black Welshman in 2023.

6: Should We Close Our Zoos? | Horizon

6: Should We Close Our Zoos? | Horizon

Animal rights | BBC Two | 2016 | 59'22''

Liz Bonnin investigates how and why zoos keep animals and looks at whether they need to change to keep up with modern science.

Stop Cutting Our Girls: A Comic Relief Special

Stop Cutting Our Girls: A Comic Relief Special

Ethical Issues | BBC Three | 2015 | 57'17''

Zawe Ashton leads a hard-hitting investigation to uncover the truth about FGM in the UK and abroad, meeting courageous women f...

The Debt Saviours

The Debt Saviours

Christian beliefs and values | BBC Two | 2018 | 59'33''

Access-all-areas documentary following Christians Against Poverty, asking whether the charity's motivation is debt relief or bringing people to Jesus.

The Fight For Women’s Bodies

The Fight For Women’s Bodies

Abortion | BBC Three | 2018 | 33'32''

Investigative journalist Ellie Flynn follows the story of Ireland's landmark vote to legalise abortion.

Moral dilemma | Vigil

Moral dilemma | Vigil

Morality and Decision Making | BBC One | 2021 | 5'44''

Expressing the moral dilemma in the studies of ethics in regards to the sub revealing its location by saving the trawlermen.

Ride or Die

Ride or Die

Philosophy and Ethics | BBC One | 2025 | 58'52''

Three motorcycle road racers prepare for the North West 200, the fastest and most dangerous of races. They ask whether they are risking death, testing faith or t...

Assisted Dying: The Final Choice

Assisted Dying: The Final Choice

Ethical Issues | BBC Two | 2025 | 36'26''

A look at the patients in Canada and California legally choosing assisted dying, including both those undergoing the procedure and those who...

Euro 2012: Stadiums of Hate | Panorama

Euro 2012: Stadiums of Hate | Panorama

Ethical Issues | BBC One | 2012 | 29'28''

With days to go before the kick-off of the Euro 2012 championships, Panorama reveals evidence of racist violence and anti-semitism at ...

Is it right to go to war? | VE Day 80

Is it right to go to war? | VE Day 80

Ethical Issues | BBC One | 2025 | 6'06''

Ruth Klauber, a mechanic fro aeroplanes during the war, discusses; is it right to go to war? Part of the curriculum on War and Conflict...

Surviving America’s Most Hated Family | Louis Theroux

Surviving America’s Most Hated Family | Louis Theroux

Ethical Issues | BBC Two | 2019 | 59'20''

Louis Theroux returns to visit the controversial Westboro Baptist Church, investigating what effect the death of ...

America’s Most Hated Family in Crisis | Louis Theroux

America’s Most Hated Family in Crisis | Louis Theroux

Ethical Issues | BBC Two | 2011 | 59'09''

Following up on his 2007 documentary, The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux returns to Topeka, Kansas, ...

The Most Hated Family in America | Louis Theroux

The Most Hated Family in America | Louis Theroux

Ethical Issues | BBC One | 2007 | 58'42''

Louis Theroux struggles to come to terms with the infamous Phelps family from Topeka, Kansas, who picket countrywide as a pr...

My Right to Die

My Right to Die

Ethical Issues | BBC News | 2024 | 26'12''

As Canada debates whether it's ready to allow the mentally ill to apply for assisted dying, the BBC follows one man fighting for his right to die.

Germany’s New Nazis | Panorama

Germany’s New Nazis | Panorama

Acquiring Culture | BBC One | 2017 | 45'30''

Panorama has spent six months in Freital, a small town in Germany, to explore increased levels of far-right extremism in the country.

Face to Face with Isis | Stacey Dooley

Face to Face with Isis | Stacey Dooley

Ethical Issues | BBC One | 2018 | 33'30''

One year on from her first visit, Stacey Dooley returns to Iraq to seek justice for the young women whose lives have been changed fore...

Stacey on the Frontline: Girls, Guns and Isis | Stacey Dooley

Stacey on the Frontline: Girls, Guns and Isis | Stacey Dooley

Ethical Issues | BBC One | 2017 | 44'29''

Stacey Dooley embeds herself on the frontline with the extraordinary all-female Yazidi battalion, who are fuell...

Anthony

Anthony

Criminology | BBC One | 2020 | 1'26'12''

From writer Jimmy McGovern, the story of Anthony Walker, a black teenager murdered in a racist attack in Merseyside in 2005, and how his life could have been.

Rural urban migration in China | Today

Rural urban migration in China | Today

Ethical Issues | BBC Radio 4 | 2025 | 5'10''

Workers for the Chinese fast-fashion brand Shein are labouring for more than 75-hours a week; the BBC talk to the workers about their ...

The Edelin Affair | Horizon

The Edelin Affair | Horizon

Abortion | BBC Two | 1976 | 59'26''

A dramatized reconstruction of the trial of Dr. Kenneth Edelin, who was arrested in 1973 after performing an abortion and charged with manslaught...

Women, Weddings, War and Me

Women, Weddings, War and Me

Ethical Issues | BBC Three | 2010 | 57'19''

Documentary about a woman's return to Afghanistan, where she discovers a world of violence against women and gains a new understanding of why her...

Targeted: The Truth about Disability Hate Crime

Targeted: The Truth about Disability Hate Crime

Disability rights | BBC Two | 2021 | 58'09''

A film about the routine aggression and abuse faced by disabled people in today's Britain, from verbal name-calling to violen...

Humza: Forgiving the Unforgivable

Humza: Forgiving the Unforgivable

Justice | BBC One | 2023 | 58'06''

What happens when your instincts tell you to seek revenge, but your faith demands that you forgive? YouTuber and comedian Humza Arshad expl...

Young, British and Anti-Abortion

Young, British and Anti-Abortion

Abortion | BBC One | 2024 | 58'58''

Film-maker Poppy Jay meets the Gen Zers leading anti-abortion campaigns. Online, on campuses and on the streets, she finds a movement growin...

Transplant

Transplant

Ethical Issues | BBC One | 2011 | 59'08''

Documentary which reveals the extraordinary reality of organ donation, from the very beginning of the transplant surgeries through to the recovery of the recipien...

Justice: A Citizen’s Guide to the 21st Century

Justice: A Citizen’s Guide to the 21st Century

Justice | BBC Four | 2011 | 58'56''

Harvard professor Michael Sandel looks at the philosophy of justice, testing the theories of Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Ka...

America’s Hate Preachers

America’s Hate Preachers

Ethical Issues | BBC Three | 2016 | 42'39''

Hannah Livingston spends six months tracking two of America's most radical Christian hate groups - a pastor from Arizona and a network of prea...

A Woman’s Fight To Choose

A Woman’s Fight To Choose

Abortion | Channel 4 | 1997 | 50'50''

The story of thirty years of abortion (1967-97), through the experiences of three generations of one family.

Episode 1 | Derren Brown: Fear and Faith

Episode 1 | Derren Brown: Fear and Faith

Philosophy and Ethics | Channel 4 | 2012 | 47'08''

The first part of a two-part event, Fear and Faith is an extraordinary film looking at what happens when people have the experience ...

Part 1: Sin | Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life

Part 1: Sin | Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life

Atheism and Agnosticism | Channel 4 | 2012 | 46'50''

In this thought-provoking series, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins asks what happens if we leave religion behind.

Will Britain Ever Have a Black Prime Minister?

Will Britain Ever Have a Black Prime Minister?

Ethical Issues | BBC Two | 2016 | 58'57''

British TV and movie star David Harewood investigates the obstacles facing black Britons in rising to positions of power and i...

Child Labour: Kids for Sale | Stacey Dooley

Child Labour: Kids for Sale | Stacey Dooley

Child labour | BBC Three | 2009 | 57'30''

Stacey Dooley explores the issue of child labour in Nepal, after being exposed to it when working in the Indian fashion industry ...

Episode 1 | Three Families

Episode 1 | Three Families

Abortion | BBC One | 2021 | 58'58''

Under the strict abortion law in force in Northern Ireland in 2013, a mother faces prison for helping her teenage daughter.

Hair Power: Me and My Afro

Hair Power: Me and My Afro

Acquiring Culture | Channel 4 | 2020 | 46'55''

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...

Rosie Jones: Am I a R*tard?

Rosie Jones: Am I a R*tard?

Disability rights | Channel 4 | 2023 | 47'56''

In this unflinching and highly personal documentary, comedian Rosie Jones explores how prevalent disability trolling is in the UK, and why it's o...

Let Our Dad Die | Dispatches

Let Our Dad Die | Dispatches

Ethical Issues | Channel 4 | 2012 | 27'55''

Seven years ago Tony Nicklinson had a catastrophic stroke, which left him utterly paralysed. He can only communicate via a computer controlled b...

Back to Jail: Crime and Punishment

Back to Jail: Crime and Punishment

Justice | Channel 4 | 2021 | 46'35''

Following three ex-prisoners as they struggle to adjust to life after being released.

Chimps Are People Too | Horizon

Chimps Are People Too | Horizon

Animal rights | BBC Two | 2006 | 49'30''

Danny Wallace presents a documentary which makes the case that chimpanzees, who share 99 per cent of our DNA, should be given the same rights...

My New Heart | My Life

My New Heart | My Life

Ethical Issues | CBBC | 2020 | 27'47''

The story of a 12-year-old boy waiting for a heart donor.

How to Kill a Human Being | Horizon

How to Kill a Human Being | Horizon

Capital punishment and the death pentalty | BBC Two | 2008 | 49'13''

Michael Portillo pushes his body to the brink of death in an investigation into the science of execution.

S1E5 | Parole

S1E5 | Parole

Justice | BBC Two | 2023 | 59'01''

Can bank robber Ben and drug dealer Jai convince the Parole Board their criminal pasts are behind them, or will they be kept in prison for the protection of th...

S1E4 | Parole

S1E4 | Parole

Justice | BBC Two | 2023 | 59'08''

The board looks at the cases of Tom, a cocaine addict and dealer, Ruben, who bit another man's ear off, and Mark, who disagrees with his sentence for threateni...