Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

A current affairs television programme produced by the Japanese public broadcaster NHK provides cutting-edge information and critical analysis on important issues confronting Japanese lives.

Up Close & Personal with PZ was an Indian celebrity-based chat show hosted by Preity Zinta.

Bertie Gregory travels the world to show animals' lives like never before.

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

Using re-enactments, archival footage and photos, and interviews with family, friends, neighbors, crime experts and law enforcement, EVIL UP CLOSE examines the lives of Britain's most notorious modern-day criminals, including: Levi Bellfield, a part-time pimp and a nightclub bouncer, who murdered British schoolgirl Milly Dowler -- but she wasn't his last victim; Derrick 'Birdy' Bird, a self-employed taxi driver in the North of England, who shot his twin brother David and his family's solicitor, before continuing a shooting spree that hit 24 people, and killed 12, and many more.

37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.

A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works both inside and outside his homeland.

In remote eastern Zambia, Joel Lambert goes in search of Africa's largest predators: lions. He's brought with him a unique, mobile laboratory - the pod - which he must get close enough to a pride to investigate lion's key predator attributes, including night sight. The world's best thermal camera allows him to see predators at night in spectacular detail, and he uses his military skills to stalk them in daylight too. During a thrilling night in the pod, lionesses shred the robust bite-force meter, and a big male tries many ways to get in. When a herd of buffalo appears, Joel witnesses the pride's hunting prowess.

Sheriff Jim Wilson was a Texas peace officer from the time of Joaquin Jackson, Bill Jordan, and Skeeter Skelton. He’s contributed to every major firearms magazine, is a country western performer, and a legend of the great American southwest.

Up Close & Personal with PZ was an Indian celebrity-based chat show hosted by Preity Zinta and produced by Red Chillies Idiot Box and broadcast on UTV Stars, a newly launched channel by UTV. The show, featured 10 of Zinta's favourite male colleagues. The first season wrapped up after completing 11 episodes in a span of three months. The first episode of the show aired on 3 September 2011 with Salman Khan as guest. It ended with Anil Kapoor as guest. The show was renewed for a second season. Zinta is said to have planned female guests for the second season.

Four years after a Navy SEAL team killed Osama Bin Laden in a raid on his compound, his correspondence sheds new light on his mindset and final years.

The Groundbreaking sports documentary - Life with the Lions down under. This programme provides the most intimate, blow by blow account of life on Tour ever seen with over three incredible hours of footage.

Elvis Presley's longtime personal bodyguard Sonny West takes the stage before a live audience to share some of his favorite stories about the King, from funny anecdotes to candid, intimate observations of the man who captured America's heart. West also fields questions from the audience and shares personal photographs of Elvis never before seen in public, giving fans of the King an unprecedented look at the man behind the myth.

Melanie drives a taxi in Amsterdam. She likes the work for the independence and freedom it offers her and interacting with her passengers. But on this night, she picks up someone she knows. Dennis, with whom she was once intimate with but who went way too far and abused her trust and her body. Melanie seizes the opportunity to have a conversation she would otherwise never have dared to initiate in the safety of her own cab—a conversation about boundaries, consent, and differing interpretations of the same evening.

During four years of shooting in the icy waters that surround the volcanic archipelago of the Crozet Islands, we have followed the trial and tribulations of Delphine, a young female adolescent killer whale. Living and growing within her family group she gradually learns how to find her bearings, how to hunt king penguins or Minke rorquals and how to get stranded in order to catch sea elephants. Directed by Bertrand Loyer.

At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Meanwhile Disney's The Lion King is taking Italy by storm.

A close look at our world during the pandemic.

Fidel Up Close delves into the lesser-known facets of Fidel Castro’s personal and intimate life from the perspective of those closest to him, including his children, close family members, delegates, and employees. The documentary spans Fidel’s early years, when he started a movement that led to the popular insurgency which defeated Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and features rare, never before publicly released footage, such as that of the yacht ‘Granma’ in 1956, which Fidel used to sail from Mexico to Cuba alongside Che Guevara, his brother Raul and 82 dreamers, marking the start of the Cuban Revolution.