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- A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's "A" School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.
- Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
- A daughter dials 999 when her father suffers a cardiac arrest while her sister battles to save him. Coastguard volunteers try to save a climber who has fallen off a cliff in Wales.
- A fisherman describes being washed overboard at night off the south coast, a history buff tells how he hauled a live grenade out of a canal, and a student relives the moment when a massive tree struck her car during a storm.
- A base jumper misjudges his launch and crash-lands on a rocky beach. A mother relives the moment her young daughter fell from her pony during a competition and was trampled underfoot.
- A 15-year-old girl plunges 200ft down a cliff face while taking selfies with her best pal. A Royal Navy winchman repeatedly risks his own life to rescue six fishermen in horrendous seas.
- London is one of the most iconic and powerful cities on Earth. But how did London, the center of a vast empire, once the undisputed capital of the English-speaking world, become so dominant? Through a series of astonishing maritime discoveries, Drain the Oceans reveals the secret story of the city's meteoric rise.
- A look back at the year's extraordinary weather. From record-breaking heat and rain to an avalanche in Wales and the Whaley Bridge dam disaster. Narrated by Grace Dent.
- Whilst other fishing communities are feeling the pinch, Mevagissey on Cornwall's south coast bucks the trend, with 74 working boats in the harbour. Can the next generation of young skippers make a go of it?
- It is summer, the sardine run is on and the ring-netters of Newlyn are on the hunt. Rebranded as Cornish Sardines, the pilchard has grown into a multi-million-pound industry for the Cornish fishermen.
- Jason is joined by his sister Nicky, but with two of them to support the income from oysters alone is not enough so they have bought a trawler. The Henry brothers fish for 20 different species.
- A reckless hoaxer is faking accidents for fun. A couple are claiming benefits and dodging hundreds of thousands in tax. A random roadside stop-and-search unearths the UK's biggest ever Blue Badge fraud.
- This edition looks at how the small fishing boats that make up 80% of the British fleet are coming under threat from industrialisation and a lack of new talent taking up the trade.
- As autumn arrives in Cornwall, the biggest boats in the fleet fish through turbulent times offshore. But with Brexit looming, what does the future hold for these boats and the men that crew them?
- In Dorset, a coastguard officer must rescue a paraglider who has crashed into a cliff. A rescue operation is launched when a beloved pet dog gets stuck in a water pipe.
- A hiker is in search of his dog when a cliff crumbles beneath his feet, a dramatic rescue by a coastguard rope team is captured on camera. Plus, passers-by save the life of a woman who has collapsed in the street.
- An angler fishing off rocks is swept out into a raging sea, and a mountain biker attempts a trick but doesn't make it.
- A woman gives birth beside the M5 motorway with the help of her husband and an emergency call handler. The coastguard rescue two fishermen whose boat has overturned. A huge oak tree hits a family car during a storm.
- From extreme heat and floods to wildfires, landslides and lightning strikes - a look back at some of the most extraordinary weather of 2020 and the reasons it happened.
- The documentary series returns. It's summer in Newquay, but Cornwall's most popular tourist resort has been in lockdown for months. With lost time to catch up on, and livelihoods on the line, the fleet steam into a summer like no other.
- The Toms family resurrect the last boat built in Looe but find themselves on the outside of the modern fishing business. Fish merchant Sam Chapman is cutting out the middleman, buying in everything the Toms land.
- Padstow is well known for its tourist industry, but there's another lucrative industry here. Padstow's fishermen land hundreds of tonnes of brown crab - most bound for the continent. But lockdowns bring everything to a standstill.
- The rich fishing grounds of St Ives Bay have supported the fleets of two ports, Hayle and St Ives, for generations, but the fishermen of Hayle face a new threat - the largest residential and leisure development in south-west England.
- Mountain rescue volunteers, paramedics and fellow hikers race to save the life of a walker who has plummeted 100 feet from a rock stack in the Peak District. A young moped rider is knocked off his bike and fellow drivers rush to his aid.
- In Swanage, the lifeboat crew work with the coastguard to help an injured climber. In Rhyl, a retired crew member comes to the aid of someone in the water when the lifeboat breaks down. A fishing boat catches fire off the Isle of Man.
- In Dungeness, the crew are called out to reports of a small boat in the middle of the shipping lanes, and they discover that the casualty is the subject of a major manhunt. The Walmer crew race to the rescue of two divers.
- The U-Boat menace in WW1 and Scotland's part in combating it.
- In Glasgow, breakdown patrolman Mark rushes to help 3 young lads who have come off a dangerous slip road. On the M6 traffic officer Jason arrives at the scene of a rush hour accident.
- Snow plough driver Chris has his work cut out keeping Applecross Pass open, patrolman Steve helps a driver stuck in the mud without getting trapped himself and the heavies are called in to deal with a serious accident involving a lorry.
- A father and daughter have been swept out to sea. The crew of an Irish trawler must be rescued after their boat smashed onto rocks and a Turkish tourist falls into the River Thames while trying to take a selfie.
- A kayaker has been missing off the coast of Bridlington for an hour and only the crews tidal knowledge can track him down. When a trawler sinks off the Shetland Islands the fishermen and RNLI crew must swim for their lives.
- The Castletownbere crew race to save a lone yachtsman who has lost his mast. In Minehead the search is on for a missing woman and the Porthcawl team are the only way of getting medical help to an injured horse rider.
- In Bangor, Northern Ireland the crew try to find two teenage paddle-boarders blown offshore into busy shipping lanes. The Tenby crew race to save a dog before members of the public put themselves at risk doing so.
- The Tenby crew race to reach a kayaker with suspected neck and back injuries after being hit by a freak wave. Cornish crews must join forces to stop a 3,600 tonne coaster from breaking up on the rocks.
- On one of the hottest days of the year the Dover crew race to a cross-Channel swimmer who has collapsed within sight of France. The Tenby crew are called out to a runaway yacht.
- A climber falls in a remote cave on the Gower Pennisula. A teenage surfer defies the red warning flags putting their life at risk. The Yarmouth crew must search for a man among hundreds of boats in a race.
- The Aberystwyth crew must improvise when a para-glider crashes at the bottom of steep cliffs. A new recruit is first on the scene to rescue a seal from a block of flats in Redcar.
- A dog-walker spots a flare off shore prompting the Rhyl crew to respond to a strange call-out. The Lowestoft crew try to rescue a sailor who doesn't want to be rescued.
- Police in Tenby call for assistance from the lifeboat crew to search for a boat thief. The Mumbles crew search for two kayakers. When two yachts capsize the Portsmouth crew must decide who to rescue first.
- Footage of some of Britain's unusual weather during 2017 including extreme flooding, spectacular lightning and record-breaking storms. Plus, a look at the scientific explanations behind these weather conditions.
- Freezing conditions and dense fog cause chaos for drivers across Britain. A tanker truck goes off the road in Northamptonshire. The Highways England team must rescue a family broken down on the hard shoulder in thick fog.
- Storms Eleanor and Doris stretch Britain's emergency services to the limit as lorries are blown off the road and a Scottish village is cut off. The Stornoway Coastguard helicopter rescues a climber who has fallen from 70ft cliffs.
- Traffic officers come to the aid of a driver who has crashed and is facing the wrong way on the M6. A specialist team try to free lorries that have got stuck in snow on the A1M.
- A team are called out in the middle of the night to overturned lorry carrying 25 tons of bricks. Vehicle engineers Andrew and Stevie work in sub-zero temperatures beside a live motorway lane helping stranded motorists.
- Explores Britain's most iconic mountain, created 350 million years ago by the collapse of a volcano. First climbed in 1771, it now receives over 100,000 visitors a year but poses deadly danger to climbers.