Real Stories

'Art & Design' offers an intimate and multifaceted look into the lives and minds of working artists. Explore the inspiration, techniques, and philosophies that drive creation, from portraiture and sculpture to digital and public art. Hear firsthand how artists navigate the complex relationship between personal expression and commercial viability, the challenges of critique, and the essential role...

'Paul O'Grady's Little Heroes', Season 2, Episodes 1 to 6: Witness the extraordinary courage of children and the groundbreaking medical work happening inside one of the world's leading pediatric hospitals. This powerful documentary follows young patients like Daniel, fighting aggressive juvenile arthritis, Rean, undergoing complex spinal fusion surgery for scoliosis, and Romeo, an infant defying t...

Every year, 25,000 inmates are released from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) in Huntsville, taking their first steps back into the free world. This film captures the raw emotions of release day, where excitement clashes with the overwhelming shock of freedom. Many men, institutionalized after decades inside, are left with only $50 and a choice to make at the bus station: start the...

Extreme athlete Richard Parks attempts a solo climb of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen—a feat reserved only for the world's elite climbers. But this is more than just a physical challenge. Parks is collaborating with scientists to conduct a groundbreaking, high-altitude experiment to find a link between the body's adaptation to extreme low-oxygen environments and the fight against dement...

'King Chess' looks inside the high-stakes world of elite competitive chess, chronicling the 2018 Candidates Tournament in Berlin and the subsequent World Chess Championship match in London. Witness the grueling 17-day Candidates tournament, where eight super-Grandmasters—including American prodigies Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So, and Russian legends Vladimir Kramnik and Sergey Karjakin—fought to e...

From 'Battlefield', Season 4, Episode 10: This episode chronicles the brutal and decisive "island-hopping" campaign waged by American forces across the Pacific in World War II, from the initial victory at Guadalcanal to the horrific final battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. It explores the relentless nature of Japanese resistance, the strategic genius of commanders like MacArthur and Nimitz, the deva...

The Red Lion (British Drinking Culture Documentary) | Real StoriesThe Red Lion is based on a very simple idea – take the most common name for a pub (The Red Lion) and then take the people who drink in the 600 pubs across the UK with that name to throw light on our drinking habits. What emerges is a unique portrait of Britain as a nation of drinkers – a documentary that, part hilariously, part dist...

'Remote Viewing': For over 20 years, the US military and intelligence agencies spent millions of dollars on a top-secret program that sounds like science fiction: training elite soldiers to be psychic spies. Known as Project Stargate, this initiative aimed to use "remote viewing" to locate hostages, uncover Soviet weapons, and spy on enemies without ever leaving a room. Featuring interviews with t...

Daniel Macnee can’t even remember what the weather was like yesterday. Since a devastating condition called hydrocephalus destroyed his memory function 22 years ago, he has created an extraordinary way of coping and navigating through life – piecing together his own history and fighting to hold onto his independence. Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: http://bit.ly/1GOzpIuFo...

'24 Hours Jerusalem' Season 1, Episode 1: Experience the stark contrasts of Jerusalem after midnight, a city uniquely defined by faith and geopolitical walls. This documentary follows the unseen lives of those working through the night, from the dedicated Ultra-Orthodox Jewish volunteers of the emergency medical services (Hatzalah) to the aspiring Palestinian rappers confined within the Shuafat re...

Sue Bourne had lived in her street for fifteen years yet she knew practically none of her neighbours. While she relished the anonymity this afforded her she was also nosy and wanted to find out what lay behind the other 115 doorways in her street. She began knocking on the doors and meeting her neighbours and this award-winning film is the story of what she found. Want to watch more full-length Do...

In 1961 when President John F Kennedy announced his ambition to put man on the moon, many thought this would never happen. At the time space exploration technology was far behind what was needed to successfully carry out this mission. Instagram - @realstoriesdocsAny queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chávez is a documentary based on the public and political life of the Venezuelan Ex-President from the day of the rebellion he commanded on February 4th, 1992 until his death on March 2013. In 1992, a paratrooper named Hugo Chávez failed to overthrow a government, only to emerge as a national figure with the defiant words, "Por Ahora" (For now). This feature-length documentary traces the extraordi...

We follow the plight of Duma Kumalo as he is wrongly convicted of murder, spends time on death row, and is finally granted a reprieve moments before he is to hang. A harrowing account of human suffering and as he says, 'facing death is hard, but facing life after facing death is harder'.Content Provided By TVF International. Any Queries Please Contact Us at hello@littledotstudios.comWant to watch...

Antek, 22, grows up in a deeply religious and radical right-wing family in contemporary Poland. Catholicism, nationalism and especially celibacy define his world. Over several years, filmmaker Hanka Nobis follows him, his friends and his family with her crew. She sees Antek enjoy his growing power in the Brotherhood, a small group of like-minded young men. But when he falls in love, doubts begin t...

If you thought you knew everything you needed to know about autism, think again. Prepare to have your preconceptions challenged by this intelligent, moving and gripping BBC exploration of the controversy surrounding Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), an intensive intervention used to treat autism. Parents who want ABA for their children passionately believe that it is the best way to teach a child...

For most mothers, organizing 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? As the first non-Balinese Royal bride, Princess Asri is also the buffer between her daughter-in-law to be and the rest of the Royal family, uncomfortable with the fact that the groom, Asri’s ‘Indo-Auss...

Radicalized farmers and ranchers form a heavily armed militia group and engage in the longest armed standoff in FBI history. Instagram - @realstoriesdocsAny queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com#Yellowstone #MontanaMilitia #Waco Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A moving, sometimes funny, and ultimately uplifting story about the love and commitment of two extraordinary people. Lin, 54, is blind and has cerebral palsy. Husband Ralph, 70, is her full time carer, and has Parkinson’s disease. They are living proof that two people who really care for each other can move mountains. Filmed over 17 years by close friend and award winning documentary maker Marilyn...

The worldwide mountain of debt is more than 300 % of the world’s annual economic output. Since the pandemic, debt expansion is out of control. Will the system collapse under its weight? The film explores the significance of our debt situation, looking at true stories behind the situation, from a debtors' prison in Mississippi to the world’s most notoriously indebted country. Instagram - @realstori...

Death Row: Indiana State Prison (Crime Documentary) | Real StoriesThis two-part series sees veteran presenter Sir Trevor McDonald come face to face with some of the world’s most dangerous criminals as he gets exclusive access to one of America’s oldest and most notorious prisons. Housing 1900 inmates, 12 of whom are on death row, Trevor spends two weeks in the dark and forbidding world of Indiana...

As the sun climbs high over the Holy City, the energy shifts from morning prayer to midday chaos. In this episode of 24 Hours Jerusalem, we dive into the 11:00 AM hour, where the sacred and the secular collide in the bustling streets. Thousands of pilgrims from around the globe flood the holy sites, seeking connection and miracles. Meanwhile, veteran political photographer Jim Hollander trades war...

Bible Storyland” is a documentary film about an LA-based art dealer named Harvey Jordan and his obsessive, decade-long search to uncover the fate of a Bible-themed amusement park designed to rival Disneyland and his desire to leave his mark in this worldInstagram - @realstoriesdocsAny queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...

Life On Lockdown is a prison documentary series chronicling real life stories of inmates often forgotten about behind bars. Featuring 5 different inmates, these stories will depict life in prison, from teens in detention centers to adults in maximum security prisons. Instagram - @realstoriesdocsAny queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com Learn more about your ad choices...

This powerful documentary, first broadcast in 2009, hit a chord with thousands of people – not just those who are dealing with a relative who has Alzheimer's. The film was an unusual departure from Sue Bourne’s normal approach because she turned the cameras on herself and her family to make the documentary. Sue’s mother Ethel has Alzheimer’s and lives in a nursing home in Scotland. For three years...