The BEST episodes of Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries season 2015

#1 - The Queen’s Big Night Out

Season 2015 - Episode 34 - Aired 4/28/2015

The remarkable true story, from VE Day in 1945, of when the future Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret slipped out of Buckingham palace to celebrate in secret with the public on London’s streets.

#2 - Picasso: Love, Sex and Art

Season 2015 - Episode 43 - Aired 2/25/2015

At the time of his death in April 1973, aged 91, Pablo Picasso had become one of the 20th century’s most influential and prolific artists. Picasso has been painted as many men – genius, womaniser, egomaniac. His reputation is still fiercely debated. Brought up in the Spanish town of Malaga, he would represent himself as the mythological minotaur – half man, half bull. The bull craved the women who would feed his life and his art.

#3 - Being Bipolar

Season 2015 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/4/2015

Philippa Perry has witnessed the dramatic rise in people being diagnosed as bipolar, and examines various explanations for the disorder, from genetics to life experiences.

#4 - Angry, White and Proud

Season 2015 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/14/2015

This powerful documentary goes inside the far-right splinter groups emerging in the UK, providing a candid insight into their members' motivation and agendas

#5 - The Secret World of Lego

Season 2015 - Episode 41 - Aired 6/14/2015

This documentary goes behind the doors at Lego's headquarters, meeting some of the notoriously secretive superbrands's key people and revealing more about its company DNA than ever before.

#6 - The Mega Brothel

Season 2015 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/29/2015

A look behind the doors of the five-storey Paradise club in Stuttgart, exploring what life’s like for sex workers and their clients in a country with some of the world’s most liberal prostitution laws

#7 - Can Property Pay Your Wages?

Season 2015 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/17/2015

Businessman Dave Fishwick helps ordinary developers whose property projects have hit trouble. Dave meets Dee Lazzerini and Steve Woodford, who have put their life savings on a place in Poole, and Sam and Elise in Winchester, who are sitting on a potential goldmine.

#8 - My Big Fat Wedding

Season 2015 - Episode 68 - Aired 10/20/2015

Brides to be come in all shapes and sizes. Three women get help from a plus-size bridal boutique to have the best possible nuptials.

#9 - Hunting the Paedophiles: Inside the NCA

Season 2015 - Episode 78 - Aired 12/7/2015

With unprecedented access to the National Crime Agency, this gripping programme follows the hunt for an abuser who duped and blackmailed hundreds of teenage boys to share indecent images of themselves

#10 - My Transgender Kid

Season 2015 - Episode 69 - Aired 10/6/2015

My Transgender Kid followed two seven-year-olds George and Paddy, who don’t identify as the gender they were born with.

#11 - My Transgender Summer Camp

Season 2015 - Episode 70 - Aired 10/20/2015

Exclusive access to a controversial American camp for transgender adolescents

#12 - Million Pound Mega Yachts

Season 2015 - Episode 71 - Aired 11/15/2015

A look into the secret, super-luxury world of the mega yacht, as 120 of the floating palaces, and some of their multi-millionaire owners, get together for the annual Monaco Yacht Show.

#13 - Building Hitler's Supergun

Season 2015 - Episode 72 - Aired 11/22/2015

Engineer Hugh Hunt attempts to recreate the monstrous 25-barrelled cannon that Hitler created to flatten London, and tests out the plans the Allies dreamt up to destroy his supergun.

#14 - Isis: The British Women Supporters Unveiled

Season 2015 - Episode 73 - Aired 11/23/2015

This 12-month undercover investigation penetrates the secret world of the women in the UK who support Isis, glorify jihadis, and preach a message of hatred, segregation and extremism.

#15 - The House of Hypochondriacs

Season 2015 - Episode 74 - Aired 11/24/2015

Dr Christian Jessen puts three self-confessed hypochondriacs on the front line of the NHS, from ambulance to GP to sick patients. Will the exposure cure their health anxiety?

#16 - Guy Martin: Last Flight of the Vulcan Bomber

Season 2015 - Episode 75 - Aired 11/29/2015

Guy Martin and a team of engineers prepare the last airworthy Vulcan bomber for its farewell tour in a programme that also tells the definitive story of this iconic and vital plane,

#17 - The World's Most Famous Train

Season 2015 - Episode 76 - Aired 11/30/2015

All aboard! Behind the scenes of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express train service.

#18 - World's Weirdest Homes

Season 2015 - Episode 77 - Aired 12/6/2015

Charlie Luxton presents the world's 20 weirdest, most fascinating and jaw-dropping homes, from a house shaped like a beagle to a home in a New York dumpster and Pierre Cardin's space-age summer house

#19 - Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship

Season 2015 - Episode 56 - Aired 8/4/2015

In 1845, maverick sea captain Sir John Franklin set off with 128 men on Royal Navy ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to chart the elusive Northwest Passage. Venturing into uncharted Arctic waters, they were sailing off the map of the known world. Their state-of-the-art mission was equipped to survive for up to three years, but they were never heard from again. A century and a half of searching revealed only scant and tantalising clues, suggesting a descent into madness, starvation and even cannibalism. But no trace of the ships was found, until, 170 years later, a multi-million-dollar state-of-the-art expedition astonishingly found HMS Erebus, intact and upright on the Arctic sea floor. This Secret History documentary has exclusive access behind the scenes of that momentous expedition, revealing the dramatic chain of events that led to their historic discovery.

#20 - How to Be Queen: 63 Years and Counting

Season 2015 - Episode 67 - Aired 10/31/2015

#21 - My Mania And Me

Season 2015 - Episode 66 - Aired 10/25/2015

This film meets ordinary people seized with overwhelming, totally intoxicating manias such as sex, shopping, stealing & surgery. Through real life stories, it discovers the boundary between normal life & complete compulsion.

#22 - My Son the Jihadi

Season 2015 - Episode 65 - Aired 10/22/2015

This powerful programme documents the daily struggle Sally Evans and her youngest son Micheal have faced since Sally’s eldest son Thomas travelled to Somalia to join terrorist group al-Shabaab.

#23 - How the Rich Get Hitched

Season 2015 - Episode 64 - Aired 9/1/2015

A unique, privileged insight into the world of high-end weddings, going behind the scenes at elite couture bridal shop Caroline Castigliano, and meeting the brides who use the shop's bespoke services

#24 - Muslim Drag Queens

Season 2015 - Episode 63 - Aired 8/24/2015

An unprecedented insight into Britain's clandestine 'Gaysian' community. This documentary meets Muslim drag queens striving to gain acceptance and tolerance within their own wider community.

#25 - Frontline Fighting: The Brits Battling Isis

Season 2015 - Episode 62 - Aired 9/16/2015

Filmed by three former soldiers, this documentary follows British men who've volunteered to fight against Isis militants in Syria, and provides a unique insight into the dangers on the frontline.