Bbc Documentary 2024

What makes Kylian Mbappé so special?

Mother, fighter and visionary photographer - Tish Murtha emerged from the north east in Thatcher's Britain to expose the struggles and triumphs of her local community. Tish's daughter, Ella, uncovers her poignant story in this heartfelt documentary, piecing together a portrait of a woman who wielded her camera as a tool to celebrate overlooked working-class lives and to strive for social change.

Janey Godley is one of Britain's leading comedians. This film follows Janey on her 2023 Not Dead Yet tour, following her diagnosis of terminal cancer. Janey is touring with her best mate Shirley and her daughter, comedian Ashley Storrie, who are almost as funny and frank as she is. As Janey tours the country, we intercut her stand-up show with the story of her extraordinary life, told with her trademark take-no-prisoners honesty and dark humour.

Janey Godley on her 2023 Not Dead Yet tour following her ovarian cancer diagnosis. The story of her extraordinary life is told through her trademark take-no-prisoners honesty and humour.

Award-winning wildlife cameraman Vianet Djenguet has been invited by a team of conservationists from the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in Democratic Republic of the Congo to closely document their effort to protect the eastern lowland gorilla, a critically endangered great ape and the largest primate on earth.

By living amongst this group of our primate kin for three months, will the habituation of this gorilla family, coupled with Vianet's extraordinary journey, succeed in the effort to save the eastern lowland gorillas from extinction?

David Attenborough narrates a look into the lives of mammals, exploring how they have adapted to their changing surroundings and have found ways to create homes in the wild.

100m Olympic champion Linford Christie is one of Britain’s most successful athletes. Now, he’s confronting his complicated legacy, in a story about race, respect and reputation.

This is the story of 15 men and women and one life-changing year on the front line of the most divisive conflict of a generation: the 1984 miners' strike.

In a little under three months, residents of what was a thriving city witnessed the deaths of women and children in a maternity hospital and bodies left abandoned on the streets of Mariupol.

In April 2019, a seemingly tame beluga whale approaches a Norwegian fishing boat seeking help. It is wearing a harness fitted with a camera mount. When the words 'Equipment St Petersburg' are discovered printed on the buckle, speculation breaks out that he has been engaged in some kind of sinister undercover activity.