Best new documentaries on BBC iPlayer
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Secrets of the Bayeux Tapestry: Inside the Museum
2026
Documentary
History
Across 70 metres of exquisitely embroidered scenes, the Bayeux Tapestry tells the story of one of the most seismic events in British history - the Norman Invasion of 1066. For the last 950 years, this crucial part of Britain's national story has remained on the other side of the Channel in Bayeux, Normandy, but now it's coming back to the UK. Michael Palin narrates as historians and experts unravel its secrets, following the painstaking efforts to bring this priceless work of art back to the UK, where experts believe it was made, for a once-in-a-millennium exhibition at the British Museum
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2026
Documentary
Crime/detective
Young girls across Britain are being groomed, trafficked and sexually exploited by organised drug gangs. The authorities have been warned repeatedly, yet the same failures continue. Through the testimony of survivors, whistleblowers and those who raised the alarm, this programme investigates why this exploitation has been allowed to continue for over two decades
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2026
Documentary
Music
In 1985, Wham! were the first Western pop group to perform in communist China, with George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley's two concerts in Beijing and Guangzhou introducing the genre to Chinese audiences and marked a turning point for the band. Drawing on meticulously restored, newly digitised and never-before-seen archive footage, alongside interviews with those who experienced the tour first-hand, this documentary revisits this historic moment through the eyes of the band, their team and Chinese audiences encountering Western pop culture for the first time
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Nature
Documentary
Wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin goes in search of his favourite birds of prey.
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2026
Documentary
Lifestyle
Documentary following staff and patients in the A&E department of Southmead Hospital in Bristol
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2018
Documentary
History
Four-part documentary. David Olusoga charts 180 years of British history as lived through by successive inhabitants of a terraced house in Liverpool, from the 1840s to the present day.
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2020
Documentary
Crime/detective
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Documentary following the investigation of a murder
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Nature
Chris Packham tells the story of how life on Earth has developed over more than four billion years, charting the changed that gave rise to five modern animals
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2026
Science and technology
Documentary
A new generation of tech billionaires believes its technologies can replace democracy and upend the global financial system. Matt Shea gets inside access to this new super-elite, visiting the new sovereign nations they are building and tracing their growing political connections to the Trump administration, aslking whether these men are trying to take over the world
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2014
Arts and culture
Documentary
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Documentary portrait of celebrated British artist David Hockney. The man himself talks about his life and work, and the film draws upon home-video footage to re-create the moments that inspired his greatest works of art.
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