The world held a collective breath
now streaming The Rescue
BBC iPlayer
Chronicling the story that transfixed the world in 2018 – the daring rescue of 12 boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand.
This film shines a light on the highrisk world of cave diving, the astounding courage and compassion of the rescuers and the shared humanity of an international community that united to save the boys.
Shogun
Disney
An original adaptation of James Clavell’s novel, FX’s Shogun is set in Japan in the year 1600 at the dawn of a centurydefining civil war. Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him. When a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village, its English pilot, John Blackthorne, comes bearing secrets that could help Toranaga tip the scales of power and devastate the formidable influence of Blackthorne’s own enemies – the Jesuit priests and Portuguese merchants. Toranaga’s and Blackthorne’s fates become inextricably tied to their translator, Toda Mariko, a mysterious Christian noblewoman and the last of a disgraced line. While serving her lord amidst this fraught political landscape, Mariko must reconcile her newfound companionship with Blackthorne, her faith that saved her and her duty.
Code 8: Part II
Amazon Prime
Follows a girl fighting to get justice for her slain brother by corrupt police officers. She enlists the help of an excon and his former partner, they face a highly regarded and well protected police sergeant who doesn't want to be.
Elsbeth
Amazon Prime
Astute but unconventional attorney Elsbeth Tascioni utilises her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.
Inside North Korea: The Kim Dynasty
Disney
The Kim family’s hold on power is
believed by the North Korean’s to be the only thing saving them from annihilation.
Kim Il Sung came to power during the turbulent years following World War II. He created one of the most autocratic, brutal regimes in world history – the most isolated nation in the world. For fifty years he ruled with an iron hand, passing power to his son Kim Jong Il in the first communist dynastic hand-over. Now Il’s son, Kim Jong Un, is leader.
The ruthless nature remains, and a nuclear weapon programme that threatens the U.S. and her allies.
The Way
BBC iPlayer
Strikes in Port Talbot spark a revolution – and a family of fugitives go on the run. Facing impossible choices, what would you do?
With the town under martial law, Dee and Geoff try to find Owen who, denied medication, is hallucinating in an isolation camp.
Thea discovers that a new security unit at the police station is trawling footage of the protest, and she notices that Owen is being singled out.
Bold drama from Michael Sheen and Adam Curtis.
Decline and Fall
Netflix UK
Expelled from Oxford University due to a prank, Paul Pennyfeather is an inoffensive divinity student (Jack Whitehall) who takes a teaching job that launches him into a series of eccentric misadventures. With a great cast including Eva Longoria, David Suchet, Douglas Hodge, Stephen Graham,
Oscar Kennedy, Matthew Beard, Vincent Franklin, Gemma Whelan, Katy Wix.
The Football Fraudster
ITVHub
The Football Fraudster - New true crime documentary. Footballer, rapper, con artist… Medi Abalimba’s sophisticated web of lies swindled multiple victims, breaking hearts and destroying lives.
Storyville: Navalny
BBC iPlayer
In August 2020, a plane travelling from Siberia to Moscow made an emergency landing. Alexei Navalny was deathly ill. He was taken to a local Siberian hospital and eventually evacuated to Berlin.