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Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries Season 2009

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2009x01 Stanley Kubrick's Boxes aired Jan 06, 2009

Two years after Stanley Kubrick's death, Jon Ronson was invited to the director's estate to explore the hundreds of boxes the legendary film director had col... read more

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2009x02 Gok Wan: Too Fat Too Young aired Jan 27, 2009

Gok looks at the extent of Britain's teenage obesity crisis. He talks to the experts and teenagers who have been affected by food addiction and body image pr... read more

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2009x03 Jamie Saves Our Bacon aired Jan 29, 2009

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2009x04 Backstairs Billly - The Queen Mum's Butler aired Feb 02, 2009

William Tallon joined the royal household at 15 and, from lowly beginnings, rose quickly to become the top man: the Queen Mother's devoted servant, friend an... read more

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2009x05 Miracle on the Hudson Plane Crash aired Feb 19, 2009

Few people have faced death in a plane crash and lived to tell their tale. On Thursday 15 January 2009, 155 people on board US Airways flight 1549 met potent... read more

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2009x06 Slumdog Dreams: Danny Boyle and the Making of 'Slumdog Millionaire' aired Feb 21, 2009

Looking behind the scenes of Danny Boyle's multi-award winning movie, and revealing the real story behind this hugely successful new take on the 'rags to ric... read more

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2009x07 Japan in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn aired Mar 21, 2009

In 1908, the French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn launched one of the most ambitious projects in the history of photography. A pacifist, internationa... read more

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2009x08 The Great Sperm Race aired Mar 23, 2009

It's the most extreme race on earth - a contest with 250 million competitors, only one winner and relentless obstacles thrown in for good measure. Scaled u... read more

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2009x09 Geisha Girl aired Mar 28, 2009

Documentary following 15-year-old Yukina as she leaves home and moves to Kyoto to embark on the arduous training needed to become a geisha. The profession... read more

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2009x10 The Hitler Family aired May 30, 2009

Hitler was obsessively secretive about his family. This documentary has tracked down some of Hitler's relatives who speak for the first time about living in ... read more

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2009x11 Disinfo-Nation Apocalyptic Art aired Jul 31, 2009

We examine two apocalyptic religious artists. Norbert Cox & Frank Bruno. Their intense & provocative art while unquestionably shocking for some (including va... read more

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2009x12 9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers aired Sep 06, 2009

This was never going to be easy watching, or listening, as people who were pretty certain that the hour of their death had come in two of the world’s most ic... read more

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2009x13 The Living Body aired Sep 19, 2009

The team behind the acclaimed Animals in the Womb, The Living Body combine Emmy Award-winning CGI, special effects photography and cutting-edge medical image... read more

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2009x14 Race and Intelligence - Science's Last Taboo aired Oct 26, 2009

In 2007, Nobel Prize-winner James Watson caused controversy when he was quoted referring to research that suggests black people are less intelligent than oth... read more

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2009x15 Bleach, Nip, Tuck: The White Beauty Myth: The Body aired Oct 27, 2009

The Body follows the emotional journeys of ethnic minorities desperate to change their bodies, as well as showing incredible surgery including pioneering lim... read more

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2009x16 Is it Better to Be Mixed Race aired Nov 02, 2009

Before 1967, it was illegal in 16 American states for a black person and white person to marry. Right wing groups on both sides of the Atlantic continue to e... read more

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2009x17 The Great Escape: The Reckoning aired Nov 02, 2009

The Great Escape is one of the most celebrated stories of World War II, and the subject of an iconic film. Of the 76 Allied airmen who famously escaped in... read more

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2009x18 Bleach, Nip, Tuck: The White Beauty Myth: Face aired Nov 03, 2009

The Face follows three people who are desperate for 'whiter' facial features. We also find out how westernisation surgery is thriving across the globe - from... read more

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2009x19 Not Forgotten - Soldiers of Empire aired Nov 09, 2009

Journalist and broadcaster Ian Hislop uses archives, diaries and contemporary newspapers to explore the stories of soldiers from across the British Empire wh... read more

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2009x20 Waking the Baby Mammoth aired Dec 04, 2009

A team of scientists investigate the carcass of a one-month-old mammoth who was alive 40,000 years ago in the hope of finding out more about the creature's l... read more

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2009x21 Russel Brand: Skinned aired Dec 08, 2009

The cameras follow Russell back stage and on the road in early 2009 as he completes an international tour of New York, Australia and the UK, culminating in a... read more

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2009x22 The Royal Ballet in Cuba aired Dec 25, 2009

Award-winning filmmakers Michael Nunn and William Trevitt - aka The Ballet Boyz - join The Royal Ballet as they embark on a historic tour to Cuba. It's the f... read more

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2009x23 The Greatest TV Shows of the Noughties aired Dec 31, 2009

You may remember the numerous 50 and 100 Greatest shows that Channel 4 showed, well this is nearly same thing, seeing a milestone celebrated in a shorter cou... read more

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2009x24 The Mona Lisa Curse aired Dec 05, 2009

The Mona Lisa Curse is a Grierson award-winning polemic documentary by art critic Robert Hughes that examines how the world's most famous painting came to in... read more

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2009x25 Backstairs Billy: The Queen Mum's Butler aired Feb 02, 2009

Providing unique insight into the private world of Clarence House, this documentary follows the rise and fall of William Tallon - a devoted servant, friend a... read more

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2009x26 Could You Eat an Elephant? aired Jan 14, 2009

Two top chefs, Fergus Henderson and Jeremy Lee, embark on an epic culinary journey around the world to test their own limitations by eating taboo meats, from... read more

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2009x27 The World's Cleverest Child and Me aired Jan 29, 2009

Immersing himself in the lives of child geniuses, Mark meets children with mind-boggling mental capacities. But are these young masterminds a force of nature... read more

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2009x28 John Mortimer: A Life in Words aired Jan 18, 2009

During World War II, in the summer of 1940, Winston Churchill faced a terrible dilemma. France had just surrendered and only the English Channel stood betwee... read more

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2009x29 The Human Zoo - Science's Dirty Secret aired Nov 01, 2009

Corradino Durruti's film, is a chilling insight into the 'Ndrangheta, the 'Cosa Nostra' of the Calabria region of Italy, told through the cat-and-mouse game ... read more

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2009x30 The Greatest Songs of the Noughties aired Dec 28, 2009

Documentary examining the thoughts and observations of writer, raconteur and national treasure, Sir John Mortimer. He enjoyed a successful career as a QC ... read more

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2009x31 The Scandalous Adventures Of Lord Byron (Part 1) aired Jul 27, 2009

Julia Moon's First Cut documentary follows Jon, a 16-year-old boy who was born a girl, through three months of life-changing treatment as testosterone pushes... read more

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2009x32 When Boris Met Dave aired Oct 07, 2009

This documentary from the Race: Science's Last Taboo season explores the disturbing phenomena of early 20th century human zoos.

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2009x33 Fighting the Red Baron aired Dec 28, 2009

Countdown of the decade's best hits as voted for by viewers, critics and industry figures.

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2009x34 The Scandalous Adventures of Lord Byron (Part 2) aired Jul 27, 2009

Rupert Everett travels in the footsteps of Lord Byron - sex explorer, celebrity, and the original 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' hero of the Romantic movem... read more

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2009x35 The Scandalous Adventures Of Lord Byron (Part 2) airdate unknown

Rupert Everett concludes his tracing of Lord Byron and relates the final days of the controversial Romantic poet.

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2009x36 When Boris Met Dave aired Oct 07, 2009

When Boris Met Dave is a docudrama which investigates the shared past of David Cameron and Boris Johnson who, at the time of broadcast, were two of Britain's... read more

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