The Eunuch Maker

In 2022, headlines broke that a group of men were performing castrations and livestreaming them to paying customers online. Journalist Marcel Theroux explores the dark world of THE EUNUCH MAKER. The terrifyingly-named Eunuch Maker was accused of being the cult-like leader of a group that severed genitals, sold body parts, and earned hundreds of thousands of pounds. With unprecedented access to those who underwent castration, and those at the heart of the inner circle, this is a story about sex, gender identity, manipulation, personal freedom and the limits of consent. Who is the Eunuch Maker? Why did he mutilate others? And why does the globe-spanning voluntary eunuch community seek castration?

Back To Everest

Dave Rodney realizes his dream by enduring significant hardship to summit Mount Everest. But victory twists suddenly into horror when a teammate and close friend goes missing, never to be seen again. This memory haunts him until Rodney leaves the comfort of family and new-found love, daring to climb the highest mountain once more.

Finding Satoshi

In 2005, a U.K based company developed an alternate reality game called Perplex City, which was played in the real world. The goal was to discover the location of an artifact called the “receda cube” buried with 100,000 GBP somewhere in the world. Players had to solve 256 puzzles to get clues to its location and it was found in 2007, thus officially putting an end to the game. However, out of the 256 cards, only one remains unsolved: A picture, a name and “Find me!” written in Japanese. Narrated by award-winning actor Willem Dafoe, FINDING SATOSHI is the wild story of a 14-year search for answers to a hide-and-seek puzzle game, and the fascinating path to the answer!

Cocaine: Living With The Cartels

Cocaine consumption is at its highest level in 30 years, with middleclass millennials spending more money than ever on the drug. In this series, four recreational cocaine users are about to discover the true cost of their party lifestyles. We go behind the false glamour of cocaine as the ‘jet-set drug’ to reveal the heart-breaking reality of how lives across the globe are being destroyed by the white powder as we take four consumers to the terror filled jungles, favelas and drug cartels of Colombia and then back to the grim reality of the cocaine trade back in their own neighbourhoods.

Original Kin

Original Kin follows three very different yet equally compelling stories of adult adoptees and their search for their biological parents.

Shadow of Dumont

Since the loss of his mother, Trevor Cameron has never felt so detached from his Métis roots. As he examines his childhood hero, Gabriel Dumont, Trevor realizes that he knows very little about the buffalo hunter turned freedom fighter outside of the textbook history of the 1885 Métis uprising in Canada. Backed with decades of research and kin folklore, Trevor follows the nomadic path of his great-great-great-uncle across North America in his dusty 80s camper van to visit the things, places and times that defined Canada’s last rebel.

The Real Mo Farah

THE REAL MO FARAH tells a human and timeless story of strength over adversity. As one of the world’s most successful track athletes, Sir Mo seeks to discover the facts behind the secret he has kept hidden for 30 years. Born with a different name, he was brought into the UK as a nine-year-old under a fake passport and spent years in forced domestic servitude. He now returns to the streets of West London and the school where he was first spotted as a phenomenal young athlete. Sir Mo meets key people from his past, who have protected his true story for many years. He visits his family village in Somaliland to ask his mother and twin brother what they know of the traumatic childhood event that changed his life forever. Finally, he turns to the Somali community in London, hoping they can explain the mystery at the heart of his life.

Barristers

Every year in the UK, 2 million criminal cases are brought before the courts – and for those in the dock, only one thing stands between freedom and a prison cell: Barristers. From murder to international drugs smuggling to violent assault, this ground-breaking series follows some of the country’s leading defence barristers as they fight for clients charged with serious crimes, and reveals just what it takes to keep the scales of justice balanced and defend individuals whose liberty is on the line.

Why Are We Here?

Today, science says it has found the rules which explain everything, from particles to galaxies, from genes to our minds. But the explanation comes at a cost, for the rules, some scientists say, have no meaning. Could we really be creatures made to see and seek meaning in a universe where none exists? In this series, Oxford Physics Professor Ard Louis is joined by distinguished science documentary filmmaker and presenter David Malone. They travel to India, Senegal and the United States to meet some of the world’s best physicists, mathematicians, philosophers, neuroscientists and biologists to discuss and debate questions about meaning and the nature of the universe.

China Revealed

CHINA REVEALED is a 3D expedition into a still undiscovered land. Lost in the vastness of China are sublime landscapes and cultural sites that the Western world has never seen.