Four of Britain’s biggest stars Helena Bonham Carter, Mark Rylance, Kristin Scott Thomas and Carey Mulligan explore their grandparents’ extraordinary stories from World War Two in My Grandparents’ War for Channel 4.

As the world commemorates 80 years since the outbreak of World War Two, this new series sees leading Hollywood actors undertake fascinating journeys into their family’s past as they re-trace their grandparents’ footsteps.

All of the actors have unanswered questions about the scars war left on their grandparents. In each authored film, the actors travel the globe to meet the last survivors, speak to descendants with a shared history and talk to people from all sides of the conflict.  Confronting the terrors their families faced and the threats they encountered, they uncover the sacrifices all our grandparents made.

My Grandparents’ War delivers a compelling biographical insight into some of the Britain’s leading actors and is a moving reminder of how bravery, love and self-sacrifice prevailed in the face of tragedy.

Organised crime steals £2 million from our accounts every day. With exclusive access to a specialist police unit, Fraud: How They Steal Your Bank Account trails detectives on high stakes surveillance and arrest operations. In this dramatic film, they hunt down the gangs behind Britain’s fastest growing crime, fraud. Detectives uncover the corrupt bank insiders selling our account details, secretly track a gang stealing hundreds of credit cards and tackle an international crime syndicate who’ve stolen over £3 million from Britain’s cash machines.

The Birmingham Pub Bombings is one of the biggest unsolved terrorism cases in British history. The IRA murdered 21 people when two bombs exploded in 1974.

Now, John Ware uncovers fresh evidence about the prime suspects, culminating in a dramatic confrontation with a man who has never been linked to the plot before.

Ware starts his hunt by reviewing some of the groundbreaking work done by ex-MP-turned-author Chris Mullin and ITV’s World In Action to expose the flaws in the police’s case against the Birmingham 6.

They concluded that an IRA gang of some four men was responsible for the bombings. Some of them have since been named but mystery surrounds the identity of the two men who planted the bombs which killed 21 people.

Ware focuses his investigation on a key figure, known cryptically as the “The Young Planter.” After interviewing an old associate and a detective who once arrested him, the net appears to be closing.

Now the investigation takes off to Dublin and the home of an old IRA operator. He knows the “Young Planter” but does he know the secrets of the Birmingham plot?

In this brand new series one of the world’s largest luxury cruise ships, the Royal Princess, is in the Caribbean trying to give its 3500 passengers their own slice of paradise.
But with rapidly changeable weather, stuck mooring lines, a group of high rollers in the casino and the mother of all beach parties to organise – the crew have their work cut out. And Timothy’s having a hard time marrying up ‘Caribbean time’ with the ship’s strict schedule.

In this brand new series the crew of Star Princess voyage to one of the world’s last frontiers: Alaska, where staff have the tough job of trying to bring 5 star luxury to the remote Alaskan seas.

With Captain Tuvo and his crew battling fog and ice to try and deliver passengers the promise of a glacier filled wilderness like nowhere else on earth, Timothy trekking on a glacier and new hotel manager Pieter being put to the test – cameras capture all the challenges of life on board.

The Cruise returns with exclusive access to one of the world’s largest luxury cruise ships, with unique insight into life aboard for passengers and the 1400 staff who live and work on the Royal Princess. From serving up 20,000 meals a day in the galley to tense navigation challenges, with the ship missing port due to bad weather, breakdowns in the laundry, a health inspection in the galleys and two weddings on the same day bringing double trouble for the crew – Wild Pictures captures all the daily dramas as the ship cruises the Mediterranean.

Harold Shipman is Britain’s most prolific serial killer. A well-respected doctor, he abused his position of trust poisoning over 250 patients. With new witness testimony, this film tells the shocking inside story of how he got away with murder for over 25 years. For the first time, detectives at the heart of the case, explain the tactics they used to bring the man they called ‘Doctor Death’ to justice and the emotional toll it had on them.

A serial killer hiding in plain sight, Dr. Shipman groomed a community. 20 years after he was first arrested, this film uses police interview tapes, prison records and new eyewitnesses to expose the missed opportunities that could have stopped Shipman in his tracks. ‘Harold Shipman: Doctor Death‘ reveals the scale of Shipman’s drug addiction that nearly saw him struck off the medical register and a nurse, in her first interview, talks about how his killing spree began in the early 1970’s as a junior doctor on the hospital wards.

Every day in Britain, 100 people become a victim of fraud shopping online. With exclusive access to the London Regional Fraud Team, ‘The eBay Scammers‘ trails detectives as they investigate a new multi-million pound fraud targeting thousands of eBay customers.

Detectives place a Romanian gang under surveillance. The gang led by a man known as ‘The General’ is making millions of pounds. Detectives discover that ‘The General’ controls a sophisticated international money laundering operation. They watch as his gang lieutenants fly Romanian money mules into Britain every week to open up bank accounts using fake identities. ‘The eBay Scammers‘ follows 150 officers as they raid dozens of properties across London and discover the money from the fraud is funding a luxury lifestyle and fuelling other crimes including drugs and prostitution.