Real Stories

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...

A powerful and emotional film following a young woman as she goes through a harrowing but ultimately life saving ordeal. Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: http://bit.ly/1GOzpIuFollow us on Twitter for more - https://twitter.com/realstoriesdocsFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/RealStoriesChannelInstagram - @realstoriesdocsContent licensed from ITV Global. Any queries, plea...

Semisweet: Life In Chocolate (Food Documentary) | Real StoriesChocolate is the most popular sweet on earth. We think of it as decadent, sensual, and romantic. But chocolate’s story isn’t all sunshine and sweetness. SEMISWEET: LIFE IN CHOCOLATE traces the stories of four very different groups of people on three continents whose lives are intrinsically wrapped up in the complex world of chocolate. A...

March 8, 2014: MH370 vanishes with 239 souls. This is the minute-by-minute timeline of the world's greatest aviation mystery. We trace the plane's final hours using military radar and chilling Inmarsat satellite data. Evidence points to a deliberate act: the pilot's final suspicious words, his wiped flight simulator data, and the crucial expired FDR battery. Witness the $200 million search that fa...

This video looks at a specialized unit inside Pendleton Juvenile Prison, which at the time was called the Future Soldiers Unit. The unit was designed like a military boot camp, where the teens confined there would be introduced to structure and discipline to help foster an environment that leads to more self confidence and ultimately, change and growth. Now called Pendleton Boot Camp, the self con...

Gentrification is not a new phenomenon. In fact, New Yorkers have been talking about gentrification ever since the term was first coined in the 1960s. But over the decades, as more and more wealthy real estate developers and giant corporations have sought to reconstruct urban landscapes for economic gain, what was once a process of gradual change has turned into a nightmare of radical transformati...

Chris Terril joins a crew of inmate firefighters tackling the brutal forest fires of southern California. Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: http://bit.ly/1GOzpIuFollow us on Twitter for more - https://twitter.com/realstoriesdocsFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/RealStoriesChannelInstagram - @realstoriesdocs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An intimate look at an infamous Venezuelan vigilante and "colectivo" leader who served as a public official under Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro but never laid down his gun. Instagram - @realstoriesdocsAny queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A series of coincidences lead to the unravelling of a string of deceptions by a conman and murderer. Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: http://bit.ly/1GOzpIuFollow us on Twitter for more - https://twitter.com/realstoriesdocsFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/RealStoriesChannelInstagram - @realstoriesdocsReal Stories Tapes: True Crime is a brand new podcast hosted by Emmy-no...

Iran is one of the earth’s final frontiers. It’s a country little visited by western travellers in recent years, yet it has been at the centre of world affairs for millennia. I wanted to take a peek “behind the veil” of modern-day Iran. What I discovered was a complex, incredibly hospitable people living in a much-misunderstood country at the heart of a troubled region. Instagram - @realstoriesdoc...

Sextuplets: The Little Lambs' tells the extraordinary story of the Lamb family. Vicky and Andy Lamb are the first parents of sextuplets born in Britain for 17 years. Vicky suffers from polycystic ovaries - a common fertility problem affecting ovulation and hormone production. To conceive the couple's first child Grace - who is now five years old - she took the fertility drug Clomid. Later, Andy an...

82 Nigerian schoolgirls were released after 3 years of imprisonment. In exchange, 5 terrorist leaders walked free...These leaders belong to Boko Haram, the most bloodthirsty terrorist group on the planet. The group gained global notoriety after their kidnapping of 276 students in 2014, over 100 of which have not yet been released. Their objective: to establish a Caliphate and impose sharia – Islam...

The incredible story of the Sabaoon School in Pakistan, which uses psychology, religious scholars and other techniques to reverse years of Taliban indoctrination of young boys. Filmed over 18 months, the film exposes the violence and hardship these boys experienced in the Taliban, including aborted suicide missions, abduction and brainwashing. But its mission of rehabilitation is not without its p...

Jose Guevara, Michael Chamberlin and Ariana Garcia are Mexican whistleblowers exposing corruption and drug trafficking. They aim to bring top officials to the International Criminal Court for justice. Instagram - @realstoriesdocsAny queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com

Though his time in Trump's shadow may have been short, his influence to stoke division worldwide didn't waver. In departing the White House, Bannon continued his crusade against globalisation. Instagram - @realstoriesdocsAny queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com

Listen to our podcast episode on the mysterious case behind our Real Stories Original: "Vanished: The Surrey Schoolgirl" with journalist Martin Bright here: http://bit.ly/VanishedE6 In the final episode, Joe gives us two big success stories of Australia’s most difficult repossessions. The result behind these stories show why Joe is one of the most unique Debt Collectors in Australia.‘Little Joe’ i...

The myth of the suit and sunglasses hides a much darker reality that has haunted witnesses for over seventy years. This documentary follows the trail of the genuine Men in Black, starting with the very first threats issued in the 1940s to modern-day accounts of psychological warfare. You will hear the recovered audio tapes of Woody Derenberger, a man whose life was upended by a telepathic entity k...

We dive deep into the high-pressure environment of Singapore’s women’s prison. From rumors that spread “faster than Wi-Fi” to the psychological toll of total confinement, see how these women navigate a world where your cellmates are your only family—and your greatest source of stress. Instagram - @realstoriesdocsAny queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com

He’s the world’s most enigmatic and dangerous dictator, cultivating an air of secrecy around himself and never giving interviews. Ruler of the hermit kingdom, he’s now closer than ever to developing nuclear weapons. But what do we really know about Supreme Leader and ’Rocket Man’, Kim Jung Un? Posing as tourists, we travelled to Pyongyang to experience life under his autocracy. We then spoke to pe...

Want to watch more History Documentaries? Go to our dedicated history documentary channel called Timeline - https://goo.gl/WHJFhhGriff Rhys Jones goes on a personal journey to explore his father's secretive military past bringing him from Wales to Ghana and Nigeria in West Africa and into the deep jungles of Burma. Here, he discovers incredible and previously unheard stories from the Second World...

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished with 239 people on board, triggering the most expensive and complex search operation in aviation history. From mysterious U-turns and "ghost flight" theories to the groundbreaking satellite data that tracked the plane seven hours after it went dark, this documentary investigates why the Boeing 777 remains missing 10 years later. Instagram - @...

It is thought that one in 100 school children are affected by Tourette’s Syndrome, a neurological condition affecting the brain and nervous system that is characterised by involuntary, random sounds and movements, known as tics - most are boys. There is no cure, but there is hope, thanks to a  pioneering treatment programme at the world renowned leading children’s hospital Great Ormond Street. Thi...

What is the true cost of the death penalty? This documentary explores the complex moral landscape of capital punishment through the eyes of those who have lived it. From Jerry Givens, a former chief executioner who put 62 people to death before questioning the system, to families of murder victims who find themselves at odds over the meaning of "closure." We follow the harrowing story of Earl Wash...

It appears peaceful, serenely floating through the cosmos—but a single lump of rock contains more explosive power than every nuclear bomb on Earth combined. Traveling at 50 times the speed of sound, a major impact would release 100 million megatons of TNT, triggering tsunamis, earthquakes, and a global "oven effect" that could end human civilization. From the mile-wide scar in Arizona to the hidde...

There is no doubt that Arthur Shawcross is a psychopath. Found guilty of killing 2 children and 11 prostitutes his tales of cannibalism and mutilation have made him one of America's most notorious serial killers. That he killed 13 people by asphyxiation is certain. Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: http://bit.ly/1GOzpIuTwitter: https://twitter.com/realstoriesdocsFacebook -...