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Fire up the twin-jet engines for the most adrenaline-packed medical rescues you’ve ever seen. Experience life or death drama and high-speed action.

Helicopter ER

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From car crashes to extreme stunts, we chronicle spectacular and life-threatening close calls and seek to explain how the lucky survivors walked away.

I Got Lucky

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What's it like to respond to emergency calls? Paramedics take us right to the heart of the action, revealing everything that goes on.

Inside the Ambulance

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Follow some of Britain's best air ambulance teams as they carry out lifesaving services and hospital-level treatment wherever and wherever required. 

Emergency Helicopter Medics

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Across the UK, from Highland mountains to Lakeland fells and the Cornish coast, search and rescue heroes put their lives on the line to keep us safe.

Emergency Rescue: Air, Land & Sea

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Two therapists have made it their mission to leave the consulting room and confront some of the most extreme behavior they have ever seen.

Violent Child, Desperate Parents

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This series explores survivors’ stories of a day at work that turned into a living hell, revealing how these catastrophes changed their lives forever.

The Day my Job Tried to Kill Me

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Follow Nigel Latta on a journey to explore the miracles of the human mind. Discover the astounding things neuroscientists now know about our brain.

The Curious Mind

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Stories of life and death unfold as teams of emergency doctors diagnose and treat patients. These specialists make critical, split-second decisions.

Trauma Investigators

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Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine through self-experimentation, revelation, genius, and luck.

From Pain to Poison

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We are not who we think we are. We imagine our conscious minds make most decisions, but in reality we go through much of our lives on “autopilot.”

Hacking Your Mind

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Evidence from a study of over 1,000 individuals conducted over a period of 40 years reveals new predictions for the future of our collective health.

Predict My Future: The Science of Us

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This series examines what it's like to live with diabetes and what steps we can take to better protect and prevent the next generation from suffering.

Diabetes: The Disease That's Killing My Family

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Hardworking scientists are racing to identify emerging pathogens, battle existing viruses, and cooperate to find urgently needed treatments and cures.

Disease Hunters

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Cancer surgeon Dr. Richard Babor embarks on a journey to discover how to prevent cancer. We have more power in our own hands than we realize.

How to Not Get Cancer

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Headlines about the Zika virus destroying babies’ brains shocked the world. This film reveals the origins of this seemingly harmless disease.

World War Zika

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We’re using stone-aged brains to try and make complex, abstract decisions about money. We’re really just cavemen with credit cards.

Mind Over Money

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Are racists born or made? Pioneering scientists can detect if a person is subconsciously racist through a series of simple tests.

Are You Racist?

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The charity "Facing Africa" sent a team of medics to Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries in the world, to help people with extreme deformities.

Extraordinary People

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A group of ten runners living with or affected by mental health issues train for the ultimate test of mind over matter: The London Marathon.

Overcoming Depression: Mind Over Marathon

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This documentary tells the story of Jesus Emanoel, a two-headed baby born healthy in Brazil, with a single heart but two functioning brains.

The Boy with Two Heads

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A heartbreaking public health crisis is raging in North America. A synthetic drug is killing more than gun crime, homicide and car accidents combined.

Ten Dollar Death Trip: Inside the Fentanyl Crisis

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This insightful series goes behind the doors at London's Tavistock Trust to find out what's going on with kids and mental disorders.

Kids on the Edge

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A crash diet has left Lisa with a new lease of life, but also with more than 10kg of excess skin that’s threatening to keep her from enjoying it. 

My Excess Skin Nightmare

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Obesity is spreading throughout the world, in both rich and poor countries. We used to think fat was to blame. This film argues that it's sugar.

Is Sugar the New Fat?

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Five patients embark on an emotional journey as they receive a cochlear implant. It may give them their hearing back, or take away what’s left.

Suddenly I Hear You

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Meet Super Sizers who have big bodies and bigger attitudes. They are happy in their own skin but some are putting their appetite ahead of health.

Supersized

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At almost 70 stone (980 lbs.), Paul Mason is the world’s fattest man. A lifetime food addiction has left him trapped in his own extremely obese body.

World's Fattest Man

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Malaria kills twice as many people as AIDS yearly. Despite this death count, progress in the fight is marked with relative indifference.

Malaria: The Serial Killer

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The average person is capable of remembering four things at a time. Some people can remember 400! Explore the incredible world of competitive memory.

Total Recall: How to Remember Everything

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Obesity is a medical and economic time bomb. This international investigation will quash many prejudices around the issue and sort fact from fiction.

Globesity

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Investigate the link between cholesterol and heart disease, and hear from leading scientists who reveal the latest insights and dispel age-old myths.

The Cholesterol Question

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Experience first-hand the work of West Midlands Fire Service as they attend emergencies from life-threatening house fires to road traffic collisions.

Facing the Fire

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Hormones are a crucial part of what makes us human, but what do we really know about these strange chemical compounds?

The Fantastical World of Hormones

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Toss your preconceived ideas about teenagers. Research suggests without our turbulent teen years the human race would be “short lived and stupid.”

Surviving the Teenage Brain

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Stephen Fry first spoke about living with manic depression 10 years ago. In this new documentary, he examines how things have changed over time.

Not so Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On

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This re-examination of the culture of work looks at the history of work, how it became the center of our lives, and if it's worth the price we pay.

Burnout: The Truth About Work

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In Undercover Doctor, Dr Christian Jessen, explores the weird new world of gay cures and a group of people who describe themselves as ‘ex-gay’. .

Undercover Doctor

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Wheat, a historic staple, faces scrutiny as unsafe farming, cost-cutting, oligopolies, and corrupt regulations fuel tainted products and mistrust.

Gluten: Public Enemy?

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Many scientists believe that the brain can change its own structure and function through thought and activity.

The Brain that Changes Itself

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English comedian and actor Russell Brand looks back at the time when he was addicted to heroin and his career was on the brink of collapse.

Russell Brand Addiction to Recovery

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This documentary focuses on bariatric ambulance services in North America, telling the stories of three morbidly obese people struggling to survive.

Too Fat to Live

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This incisive documentary examines the varying COVID-19 pandemic responses in four different Asian countries: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China.

Covid-19: The Asian Way

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Scientists now realize the power of our sense of smell. What messages do odors contain? How does our sense of smell influence our brain and behavior?

Follow Your Nose: The Amazing Sense of Smell

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How do you decide to discharge someone who’s committed terrible acts of violence? These patients prepare for discharge after years under lock and key.

Life on the Psych Ward

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Explore Scotland’s rugged wilderness, uncovering nature’s secrets about our connection to the universe, revealing how wild places shape our awareness.

The Subtle Art of Losing Yourself

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Following risky back surgery, Stéphane ends up paralyzed. After years of suffering, he finds a potential path to healing through the practice of yoga.

Breathe: Yoga Saved my Life

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Get exclusive access behind the scenes of one of the largest hospitals in the U.K. Learn about the unsung heroes running the real internal operations.

Secret Life of the Hospital

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Dr. Jill Carnahan shares her journey of illness and recovery, exploring healing, resilience, and the mind-body connection in the pursuit of wellness.

Doctor/Patient

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Every year thousands are hurt in accidents. For some, it’s heartbreaking. For others, it’s as close to winning the lottery as they will ever get.

Where There's Blame, There's a Claim

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Veganism is the new lifestyle of the young, healthy generation. Is this way of life actually better for us, and how will the food industry adapt?