Documentaries

Documentaries is a documentary on BBC1. World War II drama relating the Battle of Britain through the eyes of the operations room of a Kent fighter station during the summer of 1940. The most recent episode is from 13 November 2026.
Last broadcast:13/11/2026 at 22:00Genres: Documentaries
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October 2026
40:00In the final part of Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music, as fiction and fact fight for the same space, the plots and narratives head to their conclusions.
39:51Marlow is getting better, and the different strands of his fiction and reality begin to occupy the same time and place.
40:00Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music. Marlow as a child visits London, but is not impressed. A film option on Marlow's novel thickens the plot.
1:00:00Dennis Potter's drama serial with music. Marlow thinks back to the war when he was a little boy and remembers seeing his mother having illicit sex in the Forest of Dean.
1:00:00Dennis Potter's drama about a patient struggling to keep his sanity, with the help of his alter ego, the singing private eye. Marlow faces a talking cure with a psychologist.
1:00:00Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music. Pulp thriller writer Philip Marlow is in hospital with psoriasis, tormented by his past and threatened by his future.

November 14, 2026
Expected on
Reworking of Shakespeare's King Lear set in 16th-century Japan. An ageing warlord announces his intention to retire and split his kingdom up among his three sons.
