Where to watch the nominations

October 14, 2025

Where to watch the nominations

After announcing the nominated films for the 53rd annual British Documentary Awards last month, we’ve rounded up where UK audiences can watch many of the titles. Feature films, series, shorts and more make up this diverse and compelling collection of documentaries.

Some titles were nominated across multiple categories, including:

No Other Land: Watch on Channel 4, Prime Video (nominated in Sky Documentaries Best Cinema Documentary and Broadcast International Best Single Documentary - International)
Small Town, Big Riot: Watch on BBC iPlayer (Televisual Best Current Affairs Documentary and Best Documentary Presenter)
Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park: Watch on Sky Documentaries (Netflix Best Documentary Series and Best Crime and Justice Documentary)
Rose Ayling Ellis: Old Hands, New Tricks: Watch on BBC iPlayer (Channel 4 Best Popular Culture Documentary and Best Documentary Presenter)

Other category nominations and where to watch them...

ENVY Best Single Documentary - Domestic

Undercover: Exposing the Far Right: Watch on Channel 4
Witches: Watch on Mubi
The Search for Nicola Bulley: Watch on BBC iPlayer
Groomed: A National Scandal: Watch on Channel 4

Broadcast International Best Single Documentary - International

Sugarcane: Watch on Disney+
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin: Watch on Netflix
Black Box Diaries: Watch on BBC iPlayer

Stills from No Other Land, Small Town, Big Riot, Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park and Rose Ayling Ellis: Old Hands, New Tricks.

Best Arts and Music Documentary

The Trouble with Mr Doodle: Watch on Channel 4, Apple TV
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other: Watch on Apple TV
Music by John Williams: Watch on Disney+
In My Own Words: Alison Lapper: Watch on BBC iPlayer

Sky Documentaries Best Cinema Documentary

Agent of Happiness: Watch on BBC iPlayer
Motherboard: film website
Mediha: film website

Best Crime and Justice Documentary

The Wrong Man: 17 Years Behind Bards: Watch on BBC iPlayer
Shoot to Kill: Terror On the Tube: Watch on Channel 4
Zurawski v Texas: film website

Televisual Best Current Affairs Documentary

Life and Death in Gaza: Watch on BBC iPlayer
Dead Calm: Killing in the Med?: Watch on YouTube (BBC)
Maternity: Broken Trust: Watch on ITV

Best Documentary Presenter

Blindboy Boatclub for Blindboy: The Land of Slaves & Scholars: Watch on RTE (Ireland, including Northern Ireland, only)
Poppy Begum for Young, British and Anti-Abortion: Watch on BBC iPlayer

Stills from selected nominated films, including: Tsunami: Race Against Time, Surgeons: At the Edge of Life, The Zelensky Story, and Grand Theft Hamlet.