The International Foundation for Art Research tracks and recovers pilfered works of priceless art.

Daring Capers: Art Attack

Drawing on a rich seam of human interest stories, covering everything from true crime and incredible humans through to hard-hitting current affairs. 

Real Stories

Collection

Covering true crime and incredible humans to hard-hitting current affairs. 

Legendary cat burglar Blane David Nordahl is a man of discriminating taste - he only steals from celebrities.

Daring Capers: Silver Touch

A security guard at an armoured car company makes off with $18.8 million - the largest heist in U.S. history.

Daring Capers: Armoured Robbery

Seven men rob an Air Cargo terminal in an intricately planned heist stealing 8 million in cash, gems and gold.

Daring Capers: Caper at Kennedy Airport

A group of accomplished international thieves steal $10 million in cash and jewels in Nice, France.

Daring Capers: Plunder Under Nice

The escape of charismatic German Franz von Werra from British and Canadian POW camps during World War II.

Daring Capers: A Great Escape

Five men in tuxedos enter the lobby of Manhattan's Pierre Hotel and make off with 10 million in gems and cash.

Daring Capers: The Pierre Hotel Heist

A gang of England's greatest thieves stops the Royal mail train and stealing millions of untraceable bills.

Daring Capers: Great Train Robbery

A surfing champion steals the famous "Star of India" sapphire from the American Museum of Natural History.

Daring Capers: Reach for the Stars

The story of the notorious 'Spiderman' burglar who scales buildings without ropes or hooks to steal money.

Daring Capers: Miami Heights

This episode depicts the robbery of the Brink's armored car service in 1950 which saw $1.5 million stolen.

Daring Capers: Brink's Job

A look at a bank robbery in Germany where thieves escaped with $3.5 million by tunneling out of the building.

Daring Capers: 90 Second Bandits

A look at what happens when the line between police officers and criminals is blurred.

Daring Capers: Cops and Robbers

An Italian playboy commits the world's largest armed robbery, triggering a world-class game of cat-and-mouse.

Daring Capers: The Knightsbridge Heist

An elaborate bank robbery ends in a standoff with police. The lives of 15 hostages hanging in the balance. 

Daring Capers: Berlin Tunnel Gangsters

A gruesome tale set during the First World War, 'The Bluebeard Case' tells of a seemingly respectable man who targets single women and sets about seducing them, with the sole aim of murdering them. 

The Bluebeard Case

Vloggers now sell out stadiums and have fanbases boy bands would kill for. Jim Chapman, himself a superstar vlogger takes us behind the scenes of the biggest vloggers on the planet.

Rise of the Superstar Vloggers

In rural India, where the poor have little access to medical facilities there is a unique way of providing treatment to the sick and hope to the disabled.

Indian Hospital Train

The relationship between mothers and daughters across the globe is often the most important in their lives. But it is also often troubled…

Unique Mother and Daughters Discuss Their Relationship

Deep in the heart of Central Asia lies one of the world's most secretive countries - Turkmenistan. Run until recently by a crazy dictator whose megalomania spawned a cult to rival that of Chairman Mao

One Man Enters One of the World's Most Secretive States - The Happy Dictator

British Colombia, Canada. Life here is all about the forest. At the heart of the economy is the wood that teams of lumberjacks cut from the immense forest. 

Lumberjack Lives

This is the story of an eccentric British couple who give up the comforts of retired life in England and travel to India on a mission. They want to save the working donkey.

Saving the Slumdog Donkeys

A powerful film showing the true plight of victims forced into marriage.

Forced Marriage Cops

In 2008, China's monster quake claimed 80,000 lives and destroyed five million buildings. A year later a team began searching for vital clues as to how the earthquake caused so much damage.

China Quake

Enter the bizarre world of Animal Imitators and learn what drives seemingly normal humans to undergo extensive body modifications to transform themselves into their favourite animals. 

Animal Imitators

The official undercover programme is launched in the 1970s, as agents begin the war against drugs.

Crime Down Under: Undercover Episode 1

Undercover agents take on gangs in the 1980s and the programme hits the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Crime Down Under: Undercover Episode 2

The undercover programme is under attack in the 1990s by drug-addicted former agents.

Crime Down Under: Undercover Episode 3

Alison's team investigates a rare case of suspected poisoning and a possible overdose.

Death Unexplained Episode 1

The team is called to investigate the case of a man who died at the scene of a fire.

Death Unexplained Episode 2

A man hit by an underground train, and a plasterer who had contact with asbestos.

Death Unexplained Episode 3

For most mothers, organising any wedding is stressful enough. But what if you are also an Australian born Royal Princess and expected to supervise complex Hindu traditions stretching back centuries?

Royal Wedding Bali Style

We follow the plight of Duma Kumalo as he is wrongly convicted of murder.

Facing Life After Facing Death

Thousands of family were affected in the '60s and the '70s during the thalidomide epidemic.

No Limits

An unusual portrait of living with Alzheimer's.

Mum and Me

Rose Anne Kenny takes us through the science and the consequences of living longer lives.

The End of Ageing

If you're young, single and Muslim, finding love is getting increasingly difficult.

Muslim and Looking For Love

Follow Henrietta Spink as she seeks therapy for her two disabled sons Freddie and Henry.

Diary of a Mother on the Edge

Follow the Los Angeles Fire Department Station 65, located in South L.A.

Firestorm

This hard-hitting documentary follows Hamas and their fight for an Islamic Palestine. Narrated by Peter Capaldi.

Inside Hamas

Following the scientists who are working to develop a way to combat this disease.

Meningitis: The Search For A Cure

What would happen if ten girls were left to live alone together?

Girls Alone

To what extent do face and neck tattoos shape your opinion of someone?

In Your Face

23 years ago, a schoolgirl vanished. This film brings new facts and new witnesses to light.

Vanished

Documentary about the mini world of children who desperately want to be celebrities.

Mini Me Me Me

The story of Craig and Vicky's relationship that is rocked when Craig loses both legs and an arm at war.

My Boyfriend The War Hero

When a rare form of cancer ravages her face, young model Tambu Makinzi undergoes groundbreaking surgery to have the giant tumor removed.

The Woman With No Face

When a Southampton couple loses their daughter to a vicious killer, they embark on a grueling five-year search to find him.

Hannah's Killer

A historical look at Britain's most notorious gangs; this time in Glasgow, with the infamous Billy Boys.

Gangs of Britain: Glasgow

An insight into the world of forced and arranged marriages of underaged girls in the UK.

Forced to Marry

A morally complex post-colonial tragedy, the story of a murder and of Fiji, a small country divided along ethnic and class lines, told through the eyes of two very different families.

Murder In Paradise

Award-winning filmmaker Dodge Billingsley tells the story of India Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment - crack US frontline troops.

Virgin Soldiers

Exposing the truth behind the private investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

The McCanns and the Conman

In contrast to socially acceptable moaning about minor stresses and strains, The Day I Snapped investigates what happens when the stress of working life causes a major meltdown.

The Day I Snapped

A part of Dispatches collection, Breadline Kids asks daring questions about food poverty in the UK, asking children what it's like to live when the cupboards are bare, and what desperate measures parents go to feed their kids.

Breadline Kids

The unsung, unseen heroes of society, young carers provide emotional and physical care for disabled and sick parents in a complete reversal of the child/parent role.

Looking After Mum

With unprecedented and unique access to juvenile prisons around the world, this film looks at the experience of incarceration for juvenile offenders in countries as diverse as the USA and India, the UK and Brazil.

Kids Behind Bars

This film follows life inside 5 UK primary schools to uncover the enormous challenges faced by teachers dealing with violent and disruptive behaviour. 97 percent of teachers say they have to deal with disruptive pupils in their classroom.

Britain's Challenging Children

Bust is an intimate portrait of families struggling to cope with personal debts as the credit crunch unfolds.

Bust

A powerful international investigation of the global pharmaceutical industry.

Dying For Drugs

This film takes the audience onto the streets of London, Manchester and Bradford to find out what the young men who actually carry guns and knives really think.

Kids, Knives & Broken Lives

Dispatches: Mum Loves Drugs, Not Me, reveals the destruction and despair drugs wreak upon families and how it is the children and the grandparents who suffer the consequences.

Mum Loves Drugs Not Me

This documentary meets three children whose families are struggling to get by, and asks them to tell us what life in modern America really looks like through their eyes.

Poor Kids USA

Screws follows a group of newly recruited prison officers through training at the country's most controversial jail - HMP Belmarsh in south-east London, also known as "Britain's Guantanamo Bay" or "Hellmarsh".

Screws: Inside Belmarsh

Looking For Mike follows filmmaker Dylan Reibling as he investigates the mysterious death of his friend, computer salesman Michael De Bourcier. 

Looking For Mike

Criminologist Professor David Wilson conducts a series of revealing interviews with convicted murderer Bert Spencer. Although never charged, Bert is widely suspected of killing newspaper delivery boy Carl Bridgewater in 1978.

Interview With A Murderer

A historical look at Britain's most notorious gangs; this time in Liverpool, with a focus on the infamous Cornerman.

Gangs of Britain: Liverpool

World-famous rapper Professor Green takes an intensely personal journey to uncover the truth behind the suicide of his father.

Suicide and Me

This explosive film reveals the hidden reality inside the west's close ally Saudi Arabia. With unprecedented access to an underground network of young activists and footage from previously unseen corners of life.

Saudi Arabia Uncovered

Dale Farm in England is the largest Travellers' site in Europe. For ten years, fifty families have illegally occupied green belt land they own, but are not supposed to live on. For ten years, the local council has been trying to evict them.

The Big Gypsy Eviction

A deadly airborne disease is making a dramatic comeback in Swaziland. Passed on by a simple cough or sneeze, TB is travelling fast and now new, multi-drug resistant variants are starting to appear all over the world.

TB: Return Of The Plague

Behind Closed Doors gives an extraordinary insight into the most common violent crime to take place in the home.

Behind Closed Doors

Calling for action where legislation has failed, this topical film explores alternative strategies for keeping kids safe from sexual predators.

Paedophile Next Door

Brutally murdered by her family in 2006, 'Banaz: An Honour Killings' tells the story of her, Banaz' sister Bekhal, and the story of the police team that didn't give up on her case and brought her killers to justice.

Banaz: Murdered By My Family

The inside story of Alexander Litvinenko's death in London and the subsequent international manhunt that led to the Kremlin, told in full for the first time, with exclusive access to key individuals.

Hunting The KGB Killers

Delving into the human stories behind the cases and exploring the debate about whether Sharia Law should receive state recognition in Britain.

Divorce Sharia Style

The exclusive story of what happened immediately after the car crashed.

Diana: Witness In The Tunnel

A documentary taking viewers behind the scenes of the invasion and advance on Baghdad.

Invading Iraq: How Britain And America Got It Wrong - Part 2

Invading Iraq: How Britain And America Got It Wrong - Part 1

Exploring the lives of women who spend hundreds of pounds on life-like baby dolls.

My Fake Baby

In this film, we investigate three cases of deaths of Scientology members.

Scientology: Mysterious Deaths

No one can imagine what it is like to be joined to another person, 24 hours a day.

Joined: The Secret Lives Of Twins - Part 1

Joined: The Secret Lives Of Twins - Part 2

Scientists are crossing into the shadowy hinterland between life and death.

Kill Me To Cure Me

Calum Best, confronts the harsh realities of growing up with an alcoholic parent.

Brought Up On Booze

Cat Ladies unravels the real story behind the oft-ridiculed 'cat lady' stereotype.

Cat Ladies

A civil war, an attempted coup, an unlikely friendship.

My Friend The Mercenary

A shocking and unsettling look at the people who eat people.

Cannibal - The Real Hannibal Lecters

Cannibal - Bones Of Contention

Cannibal - One Man's Meat

Perpetrators of violent crimes have always attracted pen pals, and romance often develops.

Four Weddings And An Execution

This BAFTA award winning film deals with a subject often whispered but rarely spoken about.

Chosen

Nobody would have guessed that Pierre- François Lacenaire would become a murderer.

Almost Perfect Crimes: The Murderous Poet

A deeply disturbing record of a life scarred by a childhood spent with a cult.

Cult Killer

The killing of a 41-year-old from London shook the foundations of China.

Chinese Murder Mystery

A film about how a civilised society treats those who are both bad and mad.

Inside Broadmoor

Manar Maged was born with two heads. The second head protruding from her own was that of her conjoined twin whose body developed no further than a compacted thorax. 

Born With Two Heads

Texas Teenage Virgins travels to Lubbock, Texas where teenagers are expected to take purity pledges, promising to remain virgins until they get married. But how hard is it for these teenagers to resist temptation?

Texas Teenage Virgins

Tia McCarthy is 7 years old and she has never eaten anything. This film follows Tia and her mother, Sue as they head to Austria to meet Dr Marguerite Dunitz-Scheer who aims to teach Tia to eat.

The Girl Who Never Ate

There is no doubt that Arthur Shawcross is a psychopath. Found guilty of killing 2 children and 11 prostitutes his tales of cannibalism have made him one of America's most notorious serial killers.

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