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The extraordinary and compelling story of how John Darwin faked his own death to claim life insurance and avoid bankruptcy.

Based on Gerry Dee's real-life experiences as a high school teacher before he switched to comedy full-time, MR. D is a story about a charming, under-qualified teacher trying to fake his way through a teaching job, just like he often fakes his way through life.

The remarkable true 18th-century story of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners, a community of weavers who made fake gold coins to supplement their incomes.

One early morning in March 2015, the Danish police received a call from a nurse at Nykøbing Falster Hospital. She suspects her close colleague of deliberately killing patients and fears that it has just happened again. Soon a murder case unfolds like never seen before in Danish legal history. Several co-workers are now telling the police that they also suspect the nurse has poisoned patients, and some even tell that they have been walking around with this suspicion for several years. But why hasn't anyone responded? And where is the evidence?

The show follows the true story of a inspirational group of Cheshire women who during the second world war, pull together all of their resources to help a cut off community.

The two-part drama, Dark Angel, from Line of Duty makers World Productions, is based on the extraordinary true story of the Victorian poisoner Mary Ann Cotton.Travelling around the North-east, she insinuates herself into unsuspecting families, marrying and creating new families of her own - before killing them, taking their money and moving on.

Coleraine, Northern Ireland, 1990. Colin Howell is a leading member of the Baptist community, and a loving husband and father. But when he meets fellow Baptist, Hazel Buchanan, they embark on an affair, which will have cataclysmic consequences for themselves, for Colin's wife Lesley and for Hazel's husband, Trevor, Wanting to remain in the Baptist church Colin refuses to consider divorce, but he and Hazel are desperate to find some way to be together. When Lesley's father dies, and she contemplates suicide, Colin believes that he has found a way...

Story of the birth of the iconic Harley-Davidson brand that launched in 1903 by two friends from Milwaukee: William Harley and Arthur Davidson.

This twelve part HBO mini-series tells the story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972. Tom Hanks served as Executive Producer and introduced each segment.

The plot revolves around Victor, a police officer who has dedicated his entire life to the fight against drugs, but Pedro, his son who is a drug addict, has become one of the biggest criminals in Rio de Janeiro, known as Pedro Dom.

Set in the 1920s and inspired by real events, the series follows the true story of railway workers from both Canada and the United States joining together in the fight to give birth to the world's first Black union. In the midst of the struggle there are loves lives and friendships that suffer and thrive. Set primarily in Montreal, Chicago and Detroit as the world rebuilds after the First World War, The Porter focuses on the Black community in St. Antoine, Montreal - known, at the time, as the "Harlem of the North." They're young, gifted, and Black, from Canada, the Caribbean and the U.S., and they find themselves thrown together in an era that boasts anything is possible. If change isn't coming for them, they will come for it.

Based on the true story of one of the most documented cases of poltergeist activity in the UK, The Enfield Haunting is a chilling TV series that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Follow the terrifying events that took place in a house in Enfield, London, in the late 1970s, as a family becomes the target of a malevolent spirit. Are you brave enough to watch it?

The tumultuous life of director Toru Muranishi is examined, as the director recounts how he revolutionized the porn industry during the economic boom of 1980s Japan.

The life-saving journey of a Korean drug king in Suriname in South America and a businessman who was engaged in a secret operation by the NIS.

In Plain Sight is a three-part mini-series based on the true story of Lanarkshire detective William Muncie's quest to bring to justice notorious Scottish killer Peter Manuel. Douglas Henshall (Collision, Shetland) takes the role of William Muncie whilst Peter Manuel is played by Martin Compston (Line of Duty). Muncie first arrested Manuel in 1946 for housebreaking, but also successfully convicted him for a string of sexual assaults. Manuel vowed revenge. Released from prison in 1955, Manuel embarked on a two-year killing spree, claiming eight lives in the close-knit communities of South Lanarkshire. Manuel evaded capture for so long because he was unlike anything the local police had ever encountered: A murderer without any discernible motive whose victims were chosen at random. Muncie was the one man who had Manuel's measure and doggedly refused to give up until Manuel was brought to justice.

The show focuses on the true stories of murderer John Christie, his wife Ethel, and their neighbour Timothy Evans, who all lived at the infamous address. Told from each of their viewpoints, this compelling drama explores the relationships and individual actions that led to this tragic miscarriage of justice, which contributed towards the abolition of capital punishment in Britain.

A drama about the inspirational woman who dedicated her life to campaigning for justice following her son's death at Hillsborough. The mini-series, Anne, which will depict how Anne Williams challenged medical evidence following her son's original inquest, and refused to accept its verdict of accidental death.

In 1993, the Polish ferry MS Jan Heweliusz capsizes off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea.

On the front lines of America's drug war, one family is living in the crossfire. The Corner tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore.

The reconversion of fishing has left a part of the Galician(Spain) fleet on land and hundreds of owners in debt. No work. In the many fishing villages that cross the Galician(Spain) coast, the lack of income and daily payments strangle family economies. It is the perfect breeding ground for the great transformation to take place: the former tobacco traffickers make the leap to something bigger, more lucrative, but much more dangerous: drugs. The smuggling of tobacco, which in some way had taken root in society for years, gives way to drug trafficking. Traffickers in the area contact the Colombian drug cartels and start trafficking in cocaine. The white powder drug trafficking - which is already moving huge amounts of money in the US - reaches Galicia (Spain) and, therefore, Spain and the rest of Europe.

They were the real-life outlaws who terrorized much of the central United States during the early- to mid-1930s.

Den osannolika mördaren is a fictional interpretation of how Stig Engström, the graphic designer who was named as the probable murderer of Sweden's prime minister Olof Palme, managed to elude justice right up to his death through a combination of audacity, luck and a perplexed police force. What do we know about Stig Engström? How could the police let him get away, despite being on his track? The murder was not planned well, Engström did everything wrong from the beginning and almost no one believed his lies about what he actually did during that fateful night 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden.

A dramatisation of the very first major UK criminal case that was solved using DNA profiling.

The series, loosely based on the true story of the assassination in Dubai of a senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh - the co-founder of military wing of the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas on 19 January 2010, revolves around five ordinary Israeli citizens who discover one morning via the media that they are the principal suspects of a high-profile kidnapping and are implicated as culprits in the kidnapping.

Three Girls tells the true story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale.Holly is new to Rochdale and keen to make friends and fit in. She finds herself drawn into a world she cannot escape, despite her pleas for help. It's a world that is all too familiar to sexual health worker Sara, who has been recording and reporting cases of child abuse for years.