10:00pm Tuesday, September 7 on M4
The True Stories strand, which showcases the best international feature documentaries, presents Julio Soto and Stefan Constantinescu's light-hearted portrayal of Romania's evolution from communism to capitalism, told through one of the state's most iconic emblems - the Dacia automobile.
10:00pm Saturday, September 4 on M4
This documentary goes inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen with this Oscar-nominated, Sundance-winning documentary. The film opens the day before the storm made landfall; 24-year-old aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts turned her new video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbours trapped in the city. With no means to leave the area, and equipped with just a few supplies and her camera, she and her husband Scott taped their harrowing experiences as the storm raged and floodwaters filled their home and their community.
10:00pm Tuesday, August 31 on M4
The True Stories strand, which showcases the best international feature documentaries, presents Billy Corben's astonishing story of the sudden rush of cocaine into the then sleepy Miami in the 1970/80s. Colombian drug lords and Cuban and American gangsters realised that America had developed a taste for the drug but the authorities were slow on reacting to the threat. There was profit for all with, initially, very little risk attached.
10:00pm Tuesday, June 8 on M4
The True Stories strand, which showcases the best international feature documentaries, presents the story of a unique football team. In recent years, albinos have been murdered in Tanzania while others have been attacked with machetes. Their body parts are used by witchdoctors in potions and remedies, and are sold for thousands of dollars. Albino United tells the story of a Tanzanian football team made up of albinos, a group of young men with the ambition to prove to the country that they are able to take part in everyday society.
10:00pm Tuesday, June 1 on M4
The True Stories strand, which showcases the best international feature documentaries, presents an alternative view of the 2006 World Cup. Michael Apted, director of the 7-Up TV series, Amazing Grace and Gorillas in the Mist , was the director of the official FIFA 2006 World Cup film, which follows, but also used his access to shoot this documentary. As well as following the qualification campaigns of South Africa, Iran and the USA, he looks at the difficulties Iranian women supporters face in watching matches live, how the legacy of apartheid still affects the sport in South Africa, this year's World Cup hosts, and how the Americans are trying to overcome apathy to soccer at home.
10:00pm Tuesday, May 11 on M4
The True Stories strand, which showcases the best international feature documentaries, tells the incredible story of Pablo Escobar, the infamous boss of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, told for the very first time by his son, Sebastian and his widow Maria Isabel Santos.
10:00pm Tuesday, May 4 on M4
The True Stories strand, which showcases the best international feature documentaries, presents David Bond's attempt to disappear off the face of the earth. But is it that easy when he lives in Britain, one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world, where the average UK adult is registered on over 700 databases and caught daily on one of the four million CCTV cameras on almost every street corner?
10:00pm Tuesday, April 13 on
The True Stories strand, which showcases the best international feature documentaries, presents Harris Fishman's fascinating documentary which features a mix of exotic animals and complex personal relationships. Before Siegfried and Roy found fame, Ron and Joy Holiday built up an act with exotic big cat cast, including leopards, tigers and jaguars. As they became successful, they brought a new member, Chuck Lizza, into the act and then into their lives; the three becoming involved in a love triangle. But as the trio's fame increased, tragedy would strike not once but twice as one of the big cats turned feral...
Tuesday, April 6 on M4
True Stories , More4's strand of acclaimed international documentaries, presents Chris Atkins' hilarious but shocking documentary about the celebrity obsessed media. It starts with a romp through the real reasons behind our addiction to fame, and goes on to pull the rug out from the media corporations and moguls that deal it out.
10:00pm Tuesday, January 5 on M4
Last month in Italy, American student Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty of the brutal murder of Knox's flatmate, British student Meredith Kercher. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison. This film, exclusive to the True Stories strand, gained intimate access to the Knox family and their friends for almost two years, beginning just after her arrest in November 2007.
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