Best of BBC Three's Documentaries
It's BBC Three's birthday! Celebrate our debut year as an online-first channel by watching some of our most incisive documentaries on topics ranging from ISIS to the puppy trade, Tourettes, hate preachers, Mexican drug gangs, and much more.
Episode 1—Life and Death Row, Love Triangle
When Heather vanishes, detectives bring in her husband Josh for questioning.
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Anti-Abortion Camp—Stacey Dooley, Brainwashing Stacey
Stacey visits an anti-abortion camp for high school kids in America.
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In a Texan Jail—The Insider: Reggie Yates, Series 1
For one week, Reggie Yates eats, sleeps and works alongside the inmates of a Texan jail.
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Welcome to Holbeck—Sex, Drugs & Murder, Life in the Red Light Zone
An uncompromising look at the lives of sex workers in Leeds.
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The Quest to Be the Best—Segregated America: A School in the South
New principal Dr Peters arrives on a mission to improve grades and discipline.
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Tourettes: Teenage Tics
A touching documentary in which 12-year-old Rory explores his Tourette's.
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Gang Girls
Livvy Haydock examines sexual exploitation and violence against girls by gang members.
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Episode 1—The Refugee Diaries
Syrian refugee Thaer updates us on his new life in the UK and surviving on £35 per week.
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Obesity: The Post Mortem
A specialist pathology team conducts a post-mortem on the body of a 17-stone woman.
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The Man Who Squeezes Muscles: Searching for Purple Aki
Across Merseyside, a name has been whispered by kids for decades - "Purple Aki".
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Locked in My Body
Imagine the terror of being fully awake but unable to communicate with the outside world.
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The Cost of Cute: The Dark Side of the Puppy Trade
How sick puppies are smuggled into the UK and the health problems of ‘must have’ breeds.
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Finding Love Online—Hayley, Series 1
The serial swipers and the success and horror stories of their search for love online.
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Trip to the Mountains—Getting High for God?
Can taking Class A drug peyote bring you closer to God?
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Smack in Suburbia: America’s Heroin Crisis
India Rakusen travels to Ohio, where addiction has become part of everyday life.
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The Brit Who Tried to Kill Trump
Documentary looking at the case of Michael Sandford, who tried to shoot Donald Trump.
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America's Hate Preachers
Hannah Livingston spends six months tracking America's radical Christian hate groups.
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