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Inspired by Norman Ohler's revelatory book, "Blitzed: Drugs In The Third Reich", the film reveals how both Hitler and Nazi Germany were heavily addicted to drugs. As Ohler reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, and crucial to troops' resilience - even partly explaining German victory in 1940. The recently unearthed journals of Hitler's personal doctor, Theodore Morell, suggest that the Fuhrer was a full-fledged addict, taking an assortment of drugs including cocaine, opiates, steroids. Meanwhile, the entire nation of Germany was binging on speed. This was most prevalent on the battlefield, where the drug was systematically distributed to soldiers in order to transform the military ranks into seemingly unstoppable fighting machines.

COVID-19 is far from the first pandemic to wreak havoc in the world. A long line of infectious diseases have devastated and in some cases destroyed entire societies. Almost all of them started in animals and made the jump to humans.

We are terrified of pandemics. And with good reason. Infectious diseases have cost the lives of countless people over the centuries, devastating families, towns, and even societies. The Black Death spread across Europe and Asia in the 14th century leaving millions dead in its wake. Between the 15th and 18th centuries, European colonists brought smallpox to the Americas, the Pacific region and to Australia. In Europe, the 17th century saw a series of major epidemics. And at the end of the First World War, more people died of the Spanish flu than on the battlefield. This documentary examines the causes of these epidemics - whether it be lack of hygiene, interaction with animals, overcrowding, or the growth of cities - and how people travelling helped to spread disease and promote pandemics. It also sheds a light on the impact these infectious diseases have had on politics and societal change. Today, the world is facing COVID-19.

Medical docuseries focusing on patients with unique illnesses and their journeys to find a diagnosis and cure.

Brings vividly to life the story of today's revolution in medical science through present-day tales of patients and doctors at the forefront of the search for genetic treatments, interwoven with a compelling history of the discoveries that made this possible and the ethical challenges raised by the ability to edit DNA with precision.

One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, but those affected rarely talk about it, even to their partners and closest friends. In this poignant documentary broadcast on International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, nine women and men, including broadcaster Natasha Kaplinsky, actresses Lacey Turner and Jane Danson, violinist Izzy Judd, and journalists Anna Whitehouse and Matt Farquharson, recall their personal stories of the day they lost their babies.

Dame Kelly Holmes explores the rise of parkrun and the mental health benefits of running, in the build-up to the launch of a new run in Northern Ireland.

Over the last 14 years, the parkrun phenomenon has transformed Saturday mornings around the world. What started out in London as a simple idea to get mates together for a time trial and a coffee has turned into something much, much bigger. Today, parkrun is one of the largest running events on the planet, pulling in more than 235,000 participants around the globe every weekend. Although it started out as a runners’ event, these days it is about improving health and well-being, inspiring people to take exercise, meet neighbours and volunteer. The organisation is now actively targeting areas of social deprivation in the UK, with its focus shifting toward how running can help transform our mental well-being.

In 1999, Gail Porter was one of the UK's most sought-after female TV presenters. Most famously, she helped sell over a million copies of FHM magazine after her naked image was projected onto the Houses of Parliament. Then over the next 20 years, things took a turn for the worse: she suffered post-natal depression, alopecia and was sectioned under the mental health act. In 2014 she even ended up sleeping rough on a park bench. How did this happen?

Gail takes a tell-all journey into her past. Travelling to her hometown of Edinburgh, she meets friends, relatives and medical professionals and asks why she has such extremes of emotion? And how can that explain her story? The result is an honest and deeply personal exploration of mental health, self-harm, anorexia and depression, as well as a stark reminder of how the world has changed since her 1990s heyday.

In the 1970s, a new treatment for haemophilia known as Factor VIII was prescribed on the NHS. It infected more than 1,300 people with HIV and more than 4,000 people with Hepatitis C. As a public inquiry into the scandal reopens, this investigative feature-length documentary for ITV's Bafta-winning Exposure strand offers a window into a tragedy whose scale and impact has been relatively understated in Britain.

Documentary following the story of theatre performer Richard from London, whose entire penis was surgically removed due to an aggressive form of penile cancer. Richard is still coming to terms with the physical and emotional impact of this ordeal on his everyday life and relationships, but with a candid sense of humour, he is confronting his situation head-on - sharing his story as a warning to others about a disease on the increase.

Doctors Xand van Tulleken and Guddi Singh examine the possibility of a second wave of Covid-19 in the UK,in light of rising infection rates, local lockdowns and the return of children to schools. The programme examines what can be done to avoid a second wave, how best for people to prepare themselves, and if the NHS and the UK's test and trace system are equipped to deal with the possibility.

Reveals how Covid-19 spread unstoppably throughout the world, told through the eyes of key scientists on the pandemic frontline. Personal diaries recorded by scientists and intensive care doctors give an insight into the race to identify the virus and try to unlock the secrets of its virulence, revealing how scientists came to realise the seriousness of the disease. Racing to develop a vaccine, leading scientist Professor Sarah Gilbert discusses the pressures she faces and her hopes that a vaccine can be developed.

Bats are getting their share of the blame for the COVID-19 pandemic, but are they really at fault?

To detail how drugs push people into risky - even deadly - behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.

A report on how the coronavirus pandemic brought the £120 billion cruise industry to its knees and 100s of ships around the world to a standstill. The documentary looks at the role of cruise ships in spreading the virus and ask if passengers' well-being was put first, as it tells the story of the six extraordinary weeks when thousands of passengers ended up in quarantine.

Stretchers fill the corridors, oxygen tanks are in short supply and patients die alone without a last word from their loved ones - this is the scene inside a hard-hit hospital in Cremona, northern Italy, at the height of the coronavirus outbreak earlier this year.

This film gives an unprecedented and intimate insight into three months of life on the Covid frontline with A&E doctor Francesca Mangiatordi. In the early days of the outbreak, as the hospital is overflowing, Francesca works gruelling 12-hour shifts caring for the vulnerable who have been most affected by Covid-19. Due to a lack of life-saving equipment, she faces the traumatising task of prioritising which lives to try to save. There are not enough beds for everyone.

At home, Francesca is fearful of infecting her husband, who suffers from a respiratory condition. She hasn’t touched him or her children for more than a month. Her children struggle with life in lockdown - at the same time, they are proud of their mother for her work but fearful that she might bring the virus home.

Examines the way South Korea has dealt with the coronavirus outbreak, revealing a story of careful planning, mass testing and contact tracing on an astonishing scale which allowed South Korea to avoid a UK-style lockdown and economic devastation. With countries across the world failing to control the spread, the programme questions if South Korea will be able to hold off a second wave of infection, and what the UK can learn from the strategy South Korea adopted.

The outbreak of coronavirus in Australia has created a public health emergency like no other. It’s also unleashed a financial wrecking ball right through the Australian economy.
With access to the key players in this financial battle, Insiders host David Speer’s reports for Four Corners and captures history in the making.

Maitre d' and Extraordinary Places to Eat host Fred Sirieix and GP Zoe Williams open a restaurant with a difference, welcoming 20 unsuspecting diners for a slap-up meal. It all sounds normal enough, but this restaurant has something unexpected back of house - a functioning gym, where a group of fitness fanatics are poised on exercise bikes, treadmills and rowing machines, ready to burn off every single calorie ordered and consumed by the diners.

This groundbreaking stunt for science strand Horizon is based on the latest scientific research, which suggests that when we are shown the astonishing amount of exercise required to remove excess calories from our bodies, we choose to eat up to 20% less.

The 495-calorie calamari starter demands a punishing hour and 12 minutes on the rowing machine. The fish and chips takes two hours and four minutes on the exercise bike to burn off, and running for an hour and nine minutes is the exercise equivalent of the chocolate brownie.

Science journalist Angela Saini and disability rights activist Adam Pearson, reveal that eugenics - the controversial idea that was a driving force behind the Nazi death camps - originated in the upper echelons of the British scientific community.

With dramatic real-life footage captured by the rescuers themselves, Extreme Rescues puts viewers in the center of the action for every heart-stopping second.