"Hunger Has No Limit"
Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.
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Adrian Dunbar
Philip Conolly
Ciarán McMenamin
Alexander Pearce
Dan Wyllie
Robert Greenhill
Don Hany
John Mather
Bob Franklin
Mathew Travers
Chris Haywood
Robert Knopwood
Tony Llewellyn-Jones
William Sorrell
Richard Green
Edward Brown
Tony Goodfellow
Alexander Dalton
Peter Dowling
Thomas Bodenham
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Unravel the case of Utah therapist Jodi Hildebrandt, whose child abuse arrest with parenting YouTuber Ruby Franke exposed a twisted tale of manipulation.
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Long-lost footage from Elvis Presley's legendary Las Vegas residency in the 1970s woven together with rare 16mm footage from Elvis on Tour, and 8mm from the Graceland archive, plus recordings of Elvis telling "his side of the story" rediscovered during Baz Luhrmann's research for his 2022 film, Elvis.
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