Documentary AreaSimply the best Documentaries

For the first time, cutting-edge digital technology brings the world's most famous shipwreck back to life in a way never seen before. Dive into an immersive journey that reconstructs the Titanic with stunning realism, revealing groundbreaking discoveries and untold human stories frozen in time. Guided by leading experts and powered by advanced scans of the wreck, this extraordinary documentary fuses history, science, and emotion to offer a profound look at a tragedy that continues to haunt and fascinate the world.

Jungles cover roughly three per cent of our planet yet contain 50 per cent of the world's species. High-definition cameras enable unprecedented views of animals living on the dark jungle floor. In the Ngogo forest the largest chimpanzee group in the world defends its territory from neighbouring groups. Other jungle specialists include parasitic fungi which infiltrate an insect host, feed on it, and then burst out of its body.

Filmmaker Daniel McNicoll explores the emerging movement to reclaim the ancient medieval and renaissance martial arts in this documentary narrated by Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies, and produced on corroboration with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson. The Medieval and Renaissance blade was a remarkable weapon crafted with the utmost attention to detail. Though the history of the sword remains largely shrouded in mystery for younger moviegoers, their presence on the big screen can still be felt in the Star Wars saga, as well as films like Chronicles of Narnia and The Pirates of the Caribbean. Join host Davies as he traces the history of this remarkable weapon throughout the ages, in the process giving us a better understanding of the sword's unique role in both history, and films.

The human brain is the most complex object we’ve discovered in the universe, and every day much of its neural circuitry is taken up with the tens of thousands of decisions we need to make. ‘How do I decide?’ is a journey through the unseen world of decisions, and how they get made. Decisión-making is what allows us to navigate a course through life. Discover how important emotions are in making decissions and, as we learn more about our own brains, we can break away from slavery to our impulses. Neuroscience shows that you're made up of multiple competing drives and by understanding how choices battle it out in the brain, we can learn how to make better decisions.

Travelling forward in time to 30,000 years ago, it's the middle of an ice age. The landscape is dominated by mighty mammoths, living side-by-side with woolly rhinos, giant deer and two separate species of human. The programme follows the fate of a herd of mammoths in their annual struggle against the harsh ice-age conditions. Every summer they spend on the grassy plains of what will one day become the bottom of the North Sea, but every winter they are forced to head for the less exposed valleys further south. It is a journey fraught with danger: mammoths can get trapped in frozen bogs, and the herd must run the gauntlet of hunters like cave lions and the deadly Neanderthals.

The future of transportation is no longer a distant dream — it's here, and it's electric. But beneath the sleek designs and zero-emission promises lies a more complex reality. From hidden environmental costs to the fierce battle for battery materials, and from government incentives to powerful oil lobbies, this gripping investigation peels back the glossy surface to reveal the full story behind the electric revolution. Experts, insiders, and whistleblowers offer unprecedented insights into the true cost — and potential — of going electric. Fast-paced, eye-opening, and often surprising, this journey challenges everything you thought you knew about the cars of tomorrow.