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Ruth Jeffery and her boyfriend Shane Webber seemed a perfectly normal happy couple who talked about a future with marriage and children. They had known each other for ten years, but after they rekindled their relationship from school days in early adulthood, the man Ruth loved began to secretly rip her life apart.

Narrated by Barry Humphries, the dramatised documentary tells the true story of a brazen band of Aussie thieves who moved to London in the 60s and ran riot, pulling off the most daring heists that Scotland Yard had ever seen.

Based on the novel from one of Australia's finest crime writers, Peter Temple, The Broken Shore is an evocative crime thriller set against a background of police corruption, racism and family tragedy.

A family heads to an isolated hotel where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings.

This episode joins Tayside police's newest recruits as they hit the streets for the first time. Unlike most English forces, police in Scotland are still taking on new recruits.

This week's program captures shocking scenes as Nottingham's frontline coppers find themselves in the middle of some of the worst anti-police violence in a generation, with police cars and stations under attack from bricks and petrol bombs.

As police budgets come under threat, this hard-hitting series reveals what police officers really think about being on the frontline of 21st-century Britain.

As police budgets come under threat, this hard-hitting series reveals what police officers really think about being on the frontline of 21st-century Britain. With access to police forces across the country the series captures the reality of the job: from the riot police who face serious public disorder on the streets, to the seasoned custody sergeants who've seen it all, from the staff facing time-wasters calling 999 to emergency response teams racing to the scene only to find themselves acting as social workers or marriage counsellors.

Ever thought of taking your girlfriend away for the weekend? Maybe to some secluded spot in the country so you can spend some quality time together, but then ended up hacking her to pieces with a chainsaw after she's become possessed by a grotesque, flesh-eating demon resurrected by spells from The Book Of The Dead? Ash Williams has. Trapped in a dark world of flying eyeballs and deadly severed limbs, axe wielding Ash Williams will be pushed to the edge of his sanity as he fights to survive against the unspeakable, supernatural forces intent on having him dead by dawn.

This slasher horror film is directed by John Carpenter. On Halloween night 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers inexplicably slaughters his teenage sister. He escapes from a psychiatric institution 15 years later and begins stalking Laurie, a girl from his hometown.

Five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods. Bad things happen. If you think you know this story, think again. From fan favourites Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard comes The Cabin in the Woods, a mind blowing horror film that turns the genre inside out.

Breakthroughs in science mean we now know more about how our brains work than ever before. In this program, we explore the surprisingly dominant role played by our unconscious mind.

The Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands was one of the defining clashes of World War II. Sixty years on the explosives used in the epic battles are still killing people.

This documentary is based on the book of the same name and deals with the death of Duk Koo Kim who was killed in a fight against Ray Boom Boom Mancini in 1982 in Las Vegas.

This remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 version centres on a man on the run from Prussian assassins plotting World War I.

Come exclusively behind the scenes with access to the men and women of Australia's national and international policing agency, the Australian Federal Police. In this series you will see how they keep Australia safe from international drug syndicates to terrorism.

Come exclusively behind the scenes with access to the men and women of Australia's national and international policing agency, the Australian Federal Police. In this series you will see how they keep Australia safe from international drug syndicates to terrorism.

Come exclusively behind the scenes with access to the men and women of Australia's national and international policing agency, the Australian Federal Police. In this series you will see how they keep Australia safe from international drug syndicates to terrorism.