Sky’s Factual Channels

Explore some of the great content currently available in Sky’s ever-growing factual portfolio, which includes Sky Originals and brand-new exclusives across our Documentaries, Nature and Crime strands. Also see some of the shows still to come in 2024.

Titanic: The Musical

A film of the stage musical Titanic, shot live on its 2023 UK tour. It won five Tony awards when it debuted in 1997 and recounts the aspirations of the real people on the RMS Titanic.

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Mission To Burnley S2

It’s the 2023-2024 season. After bursting back into the Premier League in emphatic style, Burnley FC battle to try to survive in the top division playing the biggest clubs in the world. Pressure mounts on manager Vincent Kompany and owner Alan Pace, with the boardroom expecting results. Growing criticism from fans and pundits intensifies as Burnley strive to dig deep to stave off the threat of relegation. From boardroom to dressing-room, the series offers an unprecedented view of the escalating behind-the-scenes tension as the team scramble to try to engineer a last-gasp great escape, whilst an unexpected opportunity emerges for Kompany that could have far-reaching consequences for all involved.

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Adam Hills: Foot Fault

Comedian and host of The Last Leg Adam Hills takes viewers behind the scenes of a global campaign around the growing form of the sport – Para-Standing Tennis – and its potential as a future Grand Slam and Paralympic event. Adam visits some of the most famous tennis locations in the world, meeting and playing with former Grand Slam winners, as well as uncovering the barriers faced by aspiring tennis players with disabilities who want to beincluded by their sport at the highest level.

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Orangutan Jungle School S3

Follow a gang of orphan orangutans from a unique rehab school in Borneo, as cute preschoolers, adventurous toddlers and naughty teens learn to navigate life in the wild. As the new term starts, newbie Bumi struggles to focus and star student Valentino experiences a bumpy start to college.

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Sky Arts Awards

Building on the fantastic legacy of the South Bank Sky Arts Awards, the inaugural Sky Arts Awards will be the ultimate celebration of the industry, taking place on 17th September 2024 at The Roundhouse. The ceremony will showcase the vibrant landscape of British and Irish arts and culture and reward excellence across all the arts.

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The Frost Tapes

The Frost Tapes (w/t) charts almost half a century of dizzying social, political, and cultural change through the eyes of the one man who had a front-row seat to it all: Sir David Frost. A Sky Studios production, co-produced with Paradine Productions and White Horse Pictures, the series is made in collaboration with Frost’s son, Wilfred, with each episode anchored around Frost’s interviews with one key personality, providing a springboard into deeply relevant subject matters.

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The Body Next Door

In November 2015, an astonishing and macabre discovery thrusts Beddau, a sleepy former mining village in the heart of the Welsh Valleys, into the spotlight. What begins as a seemingly harmless prank involving a medical skeleton found in the secure garden of a quiet residential block takes a horrifying turn when it is revealed that the ‘skeleton’ is, in fact, a dead body. What emerges is a gripping murder mystery intertwined with a dramatic family saga.

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Doom Scroll: Andrew Tate and the Dark Side of the Internet

Andrew Tate’s meteoric rise to infamy has provoked global uproar, but the controversial figure is also a terrifying symptom of the increasingly fractured world in which we live, propelled by the social media platforms beneath our fingertips. This two-hour film highlights the dark influence of social media platforms and how their carefully crafted algorithms are shaping our world today. With exclusive insight, the documentary lifts the lid on how some of the architects of the social media algorithms push extreme, hateful and misogynistic content in pursuit of profit.

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Gladiators

Unlock the killer secrets and ingenious tactics of nature’s toughest fighters inthis new four-part nature documentary series. Travel to four incredible ecosystems around the world – African watering holes, the weathered Australian coast, South American jungle rivers andNorth American tidelands – where wild gladiators, from the smallest ants to the biggest bears, do battle for the ultimate prize: survival. Narrated by Sean Bean.

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Striking with Pride: United at the Coalface

Between London Pride 1984 and 1985 an unlikely alliance was forged between the gay men and lesbians of London and the striking miners of South Wales. Everyone loves a good love story: and this is one of the most unexpected and uplifting love stories ever, not between two people, but between two communities who – seemingly worlds apart – found common cause and compassion for each other in the face of immense challenges, and changed the course of history for queer people in the UK.
This feature documentary explores this remarkable tale, made famous by the film Pride ten years ago. Everyone loved the film, but the real story behind the script is much richer and more powerful than you could ever imagine. And the legacy of these events are still felt to this day, forty years on since the 1984/1985 Miners’ Strike. But this won’t be like any other documentary about the Miners’ Strike you’ll watch this year…

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The UnXplained: Mysteries of the Universe

William Shatner explores the earth and beyond in search of the universe’s most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries. Learn the truth behind the most bizarre, strange, and mysterious events that have happened in history, with help from top scientists and experts, on-site research, and interviews with those who witnessed them.

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D-Day: 100 Days To Beat The Reich

For the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings, this documentary follows the 100 days it took for the Allies to liberate Normandy, to break through the German line and to pave the way towards victory. 100 critical days, both heroic and tragic, that made history. The series will retrace day by day, from D-Day up to the Liberation of Paris, through a series of moving testimonies and spectacular colourised archives. Part of D-DAY 80th anniversary.

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The Truth vs Alex Jones

For years, Alex Jones’ denial of the Sandy Hook shootings turbocharged traffic to his website, Infowars, generating millions of dollars in revenue. Filmed over four years, The Truth vs Alex Jones chronicles the riveting courtroom drama of two defamation lawsuits brought by the victims’ families and their historic outcomes.

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Ibiza Narcos

Ibiza Narcos, the third instalment of the Narcos strand, presents the story of how a tiny, sleepy Mediterranean Island was transformed into one the world’s most vibrant party capitals, fuelled by a dangerous and lucrative drugs trade.

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Black Widow

Black Widow follows the decade-long police investigation into one of Britain’s most dangerous female murderers – Dena Thompson. For over 20 years, Dena was known as ‘The Black Widow’ and carried out a sustained campaign of fraud, deception, bigamy, and murder. Using Lonely Hearts columns to lure a succession of husbands and dozens of lovers into her life, she was able to coerce them into giving up their life’s savings, their homes, their families, and their freedom based on her bizarre but convincing stories.

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Klitschko: More Than A Fight

Klitschko: The Fight of his Life offers viewers unprecedented access to former heavyweight boxing world champion Vitali Klitschko, along with his brother Wladimir, who together dominated boxing for more than a decade. Now the longest serving Mayor of Kyiv, this feature-length Sky Original documentary charts Vitali’s journey from the ring to political office, ultimately leading the defence of the capital when it was attacked by Russian forces in February 2022.

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World’s First Battlefields

In the Tollense Valley, Northern Germany, a chance find by an amateur archaeologist has led to one of the most astonishing discoveries of this century. Miraculously preserved beneath the surface, many thousands of bones, skulls, and weapons have been dated to the same historical period – 1,300 BC, during the Bronze Age. This remarkable UK documentary, exclusive to Sky HISTORY follows the latest investigation on land and underwater, revealing how experts have pieced together the story of this incredible conflict, which predates any battlefield discovery yet made.

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Battle of the Bagpipes

This three-part documentary series Battle of the Bagpipes will lift the lid on piping traditions, culture, and its star players as they all compete for the ultimate prize. Following military and civilian bands all striving to be the best of the best, this new series proves that piping is not for the faint-hearted.

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How I Caught The Killer

Returning for its fourth series of unbelievable murder cases, How I Caught the Killer explores the most incredible murder cases in criminal history. We start this series with the case of Howell Donaldson III – the American serial killer who terrified the Tampa,Florida neighbourhood of Seminole Heights in 2017 with the random shootings of four unsuspecting members of the public.

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The Isle of Wight Festival 2024

Sky Arts is taking the ferry once again to bring you all the biggest performances from this year’s Isle of Wight Festival. With headline sets from The Prodigy, Pet Shop Boys and Green Day, along with appearances from The Streets, Keane, Simple Minds, The Pretenders, Suede, Jessie J, S Club, The Dark and more…

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Kings From Queens: The Run DMC Story

The never-been-told story of the most influential rap group in the history of music, RUN DMC. Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, and Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell met on the streets of Hollis, Queens before these hip-hop legends would go onto legitimise a genre of music that critics labelled a fad.

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