The WORST episodes of Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries

#1 - Klopp vs Poch: Battle of the Supermanagers

Season 2019 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/30/2019

As Liverpool and Tottenham prepare for the Champions League final, this insightful documentary examines their managers' methods and outstanding man management.

#2 - Moon Launch Live

Season 2019 - Episode 32 - Aired 7/13/2019

A chance to relive the drama of the launch day of Apollo 11, combining NASA archive with global television footage from the day to take viewers back in time. Moon Launch Live relives the drama of the launch of Apollo 11 and uses contemporary references, flashes of the Vietnam War, adverts from the era and interviews from around the world to fully immerse viewers in the world of the summer of 1969.

#3 - Meghan & Harry: The Baby Years

Season 2019 - Episode 31 - Aired 7/10/2019

Roya Nikkhah presents this intimate look at what the future holds for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their baby, exploring how the family could walk the line between royal and American lifestyles.

#4 - When Cruises Go Wrong

Season 2019 - Episode 30 - Aired 7/10/2019

This year, around two million British people will take to the seas for the holiday of a lifetime promising class, elegance and refinement. However, as this documentary reveals, it's not always plain sailing. Featuring terrifying weather, emergency evacuations, collisions, sickness and crime, all caught on camera.

#5 - Warriors of Rome: Race to the Death

Season 2019 - Episode 29 - Aired 7/6/2019

Documentary exploring new discoveries about chariot racing in ancient Rome, exploring how influential the sport was in Roman culture. While charioteers are still among some of the best-paid sports stars in history, the stakes were particularly high, with riots provoked by the results of races and curses employed to influence the outcome. The documentary follows a team attempting to reconstruct a racing chariot and take it round a test track, and uncovers the story of the slave who became Rome's most successful driver.

#6 - Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship

Season 2019 - Episode 28 - Aired 6/4/2019

Secret History has exclusive access behind the scenes of the momentous expedition that found HMS Erebus: the Royal Navy ship that disappeared in 1845 while searching for the Northwest Passage.

#7 - Battle of the Super Eaters: 3,000 Calories a Minute

Season 2019 - Episode 27 - Aired 6/13/2019

#8 - My Gay Dog and Other Animals

Season 2019 - Episode 26 - Aired 6/6/2019

Documentary setting out to explore same-sex behaviour in animals, which has been reported in more than 1,500 species and was even observed by the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. Traditional evolutionary theory cannot explain the purpose of being gay. So how are we to explain such behaviour? Scientists give their thoughts, including the difficulty of separating so-called `dominance' behaviour from pure sexual interactions, while a commercial sheep breeder reveals how some rams are exclusively homosexual, and no good to his business.

#9 - Guy Martin's D-Day Landing

Season 2019 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/2/2019

To mark D-Day's 75th anniversary, Guy Martin restores a Dakota plane, undergoes brutal training with the Red Devils parachute display team, and parachutes into the Normandy countryside.

#10 - The Final Mission: Foxy's War

Season 2019 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/30/2019

Former elite Special Forces soldier Jason Fox embarks on a highly personal journey back to Afghanistan, nearly a decade after he last set foot in the country where he endured harrowing combat experiences during multiple tours of duty. Afghanistan both defined Jason as a soldier and made him the man he is today. He spent more than three years fighting in a war that saw some of the fiercest battles in modern British military history. He saw friends killed and seriously injured in combat, and narrowly escaped death multiple times. This left him with a punishing personal legacy: PTSD. Because of this, Jason was discharged from the Special Forces and made to leave behind the life and job he loved. Now he's attempting to understand this complex country and the people he was sent to help. He meets old friends and former enemies, and asks whether the sacrifices were worth the traumatic legacy that he, the Afghan people and many of his fellow soldiers have been left to endure.

#11 - A Very British Sex Shop

Season 2019 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/27/2019

This eye-opening documentary follows the extraordinary Richardson family, who run a chain of sex shops in Brighton.

#12 - Carry-Ons at the Castle

Season 2019 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/19/2019

This film documents life at Bickleigh, England's oldest inhabited castle - witness to a thousand years of bloody wars, revolting peasants and blue-blooded aristocrats. Today, owners Sarah and Robbie Hay run the Devonshire castle as a top wedding and events venue. But in an age where the customer is always right and the staff working downstairs are no longer willing to be lorded over by those upstairs, can they hold it together for the all-important summer season? Key members of their team include Sarah's cousin John, who runs the B&B and is Bickleigh's unofficial online reviews handler, and groundskeeper, barman and all-round handyman Richard, who lives on site. With so much at stake for Sarah and Robbie, and endless jobs to do, things don't always run smoothly between the owners and Richard, who freely admits he is not a 'yes man'.

#13 - The Invention of Boris Johnson

Season 2019 - Episode 33 - Aired 7/17/2019

Millions of words have been used to describe Boris Johnson and his suitability to be the UK's next prime minister, but none are more illuminating than those spoken and written by the man himself. As he competes with Jeremy Hunt to become the leader of the Conservative Party, this documentary sifts through hours of archive interviews and newspaper columns to build a picture of the man and his track record, largely through his own words.

#14 - The Hunt for Jihadi John

Season 2019 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/20/2019

Documentary telling the inside story of Mohammed Emwazi's journey from an ordinary London boy to becoming terrorist 'Jihadi John', and the intelligence operatives' attempts to catch him.

#15 - Roads from Hell Caught on Camera

Season 2019 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/16/2019

Jaw-dropping real-life footage, from the funny to the dramatic, reveals exactly what can go wrong when we venture onto the roads.

#16 - The Great San Francisco Earthquake

Season 2006 - Episode 23 - Aired 1/28/2006

In April 1906, San Francisco was destroyed by earthquake and fire. Thousands were killed, and tens of thousands were left homeless. But three years later the city had been rebuilt. This film looks at the destruction and rebirth of San Francisco, and how this great natural disaster became a part of American folklore. Here is a spectacular and highly emotional account of this unforgettable event.

#17 - D-Day: The King Who Fooled Hitler

Season 2019 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/5/2019

In a tale of double agents and decoys, this documentary reveals, for the first time, the story of King George VI's elaborate ruse to divert German attention away from the Normandy landings in 1944

#18 - The Curry House Kid

Season 2019 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/29/2019

At their height there were 12,000 curry houses in Britain, the vast majority run by Bangladeshi immigrants. Akram Khan's father was one of them, and he expected his son to inherit the family business. But Akram had other ideas: he wanted to dance. Now he's one of the world's leading dancers and choreographers. This film sees Akram return to the curry houses of his childhood, meeting the chefs who created this culinary institution in the face of hostility and, often, violent racism. Exploring their stories of immigration, this effortlessly global artist comes face to face with his own past, his family history and the reasons why he became a dancer. All of this is woven into a poetic new piece of dance that tells a universal story - the immigrant experience in Britain.

#19 - Inside Jaguar: A Supercar is Reborn

Season 2019 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/27/2019

Car enthusiast Mark Evans is witness to the resurrection from scratch of the XKSS, a legendary lost supercar from the 1950s and one of the most sought after cars in the world.

#20 - Britain's Viking Graveyard

Season 2019 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/21/2019

A mass Viking grave has been found in a Derbyshire garden. It reveals the extraordinary stories of female Viking warriors and new evidence of a massive military encampment.

#21 - The Massacre That Shook the Empire

Season 2019 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/13/2019

Writer Sathnam Sanghera explores the events leading up to 1919's Jallianwala Bagh massacre, in which hundreds of peaceful protesters in Amritsar, India, were gunned down by British troops. Sathnam explores the profound implications of the massacre on modern attitudes to the British Empire, and travels to Punjab to meet descendants of the survivors.

#22 - The Escort Agency

Season 2006 - Episode 22 - Aired 8/9/2006

#23 - Torture: The Guantanamo Guidebook

Season 2005 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/28/2005

Guantanamo Guidebook films seven British volunteers - three Muslims and four white Britons - locked up in a makeshift detention center at a warehouse in east London as they are subjected for over a period of 48 hours to a range of torture techniques known to be used at the Guantanamo Bay by US interrogation experts, Reuters said. The show, produced by the Production company Twenty, is seeking answers on whether the torture methods applied by US investigators at the US navy base in Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan can be justified in efforts to combat terrorism. We want the viewers to watch techniques that we know are used at Guantanamo and really to raise questions about whether torture is justified and if it works and what does it say about our values as a western society, a spokesman for the British station told Agence France Presse (AFP) Tuesday, on condition of anonymity.

#24 - Jamie Oliver: The Naked Chef Bares All

Season 2019 - Episode 43 - Aired 8/21/2019

#25 - Thomas Cook: The Rise & Fall of Britain's Oldest Travel Agent

Season 2019 - Episode 51 - Aired 10/6/2019

Documentary exploring the reasons behind the collapse of one of the world's best-known holiday brands. The company was founded in 1841, but collapsed after running into severe financial difficulties in recent years, leaving thousands of staff out of work and 150,000 holidaymakers stranded. This programme explores where the current situation leaves customers and if a similar collapse could occur again.