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British Academy Television Award
British Academy Television Award
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First awarded	1954
Currently held by	Lockerbie (2024)
Website	www.bafta.org

The British Academy Television Award for Best Factual Series or Strand is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. The category is described on the official BAFTA website as "more than one factual programme linked through a unified approach, narrative or the thematic development of a subject matter."^[1]

Throughout the history of the awards there have been several categories with different names for factual television programming.

From 1958 to 1969 was presented as an individual award named Best Factual while also from 1964 to 1966 other category was presented as Best Factual Personality.
In 1971 and 1972 was awarded as Best Factual Production and then from 1973 to 1977 as Best Factual Programme.
Finally since 1973 it has been awarded under the name of Best Factual Series or Best Factual Series or Strand.

Winners and nominees

1950s

Best Factual'

Year	Recipient(s)	Title
1958	Donald Baverstock and the production team	Tonight
1958	Production team	Tonight

1960s

Best Factual

Year	Recipient(s)	Title
1960	Denis Mitchell
1961	Michael Redington
1962	Tim Hewat
1963	Richard Cawston
1964	Peter Morley, Cyril Bennett
1965	Production team	World in Action
1966	Jeremy Isaacs and the production team	This Week
	Cyril Bennett	Division This Week Three After Six Paradise Street
	Paul Fox	General Election Coverage
	Tim Slessor	So You Think You Can Drive Jungle Green Glorious Sail
	Sports Unit	Presentation of Olympic Material
1967	Production team	24 Hours
1968	Desmond Wilcox, Bill Morton
1969	Phillip Whitehead and the production team	This Week

Best Factual Personality

Year	Recipient(s)
1964	Bernard Braden
1965	Alan Whicker
1966	Malcolm Muggeridge

1970s

Best Factual Production

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1971	The Tribe That Hides from Man	Adrian Cowell
	Horizon	Peter Goodchild and the production team
	Man Alive	Desmond Wilcox, Bill Morton and the production team
	Man Alive: Gale is Dead	Jenny Barraclough
	Wildlife Safari in Ethiopia	Jeffery Boswall
	World in Action	Production team
1972	Man Alive: Women in Prison	Jenny Barraclough
	World in Action	Jeremy Wallington and the production team
	Born To Be Small	Tony Snowdon, Derek Hart
	Hollywood – Dowager in Hot Pants	Jack Gold
	Horizon	Peter Goodchild
	Man Alive	Desmond Wilcox, Bill Morton and the production team
	Surrender to Everest	Antony Thomas, Ned Kelly

Best Factual Programme

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1973	Horizon: "The Making of a Natural History Film"	Mick Rhodes
	The Block	Paul Watson
	The Commanders: Rommel	Harry Hastings
1974	Last Night, Another Soldier…	Eric Davidson
	Horizon: "What Time Is Your Body?"	Dominic Flessati
	Metroland	Edward Mirzoeff
	The Year of the Torturer	Stephen Clark, Leslie Woodhead
1975	Beauty, Bonny, Daisy, Violet, Grace and Geoffrey Morton	Frank Cvitanovich
	The Bomb Disposal Men	Jenny Barraclough
	The Opium Warlords	Adrian Cowell
	The World at War: "Genocide"	Michael Darlow
1976	Johnny Go Home	John Willis
	Auschwitz, The Final Solution	Michael Darlow
	Everest The Hard Way	Ned Kelly, Christopher Ralling
	This Week: "Dying for a Fag"	David Elstein
1977	Sailor: "The Rescue"	John Purdie
	The Battle of the Somme	Malcolm Brown
	Spirit Of The Place – Laurence Durrell's Greece	Peter Adam
	The World About Us: "Lions of the Serengeti"	Hugo van Lawick
	The World About Us: "Night of the Fox"	Peter Bale

Best Factual Series

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1973	Horizon	Peter Goodchild and the production team
	America	Michael Gill
	Man Alive	Desmond Wilcox and the production team
1974	World in Action	Gus Macdonald
	America: "Episodes 8–13"	Michael Gill
	Horizon	Bruce Norman
	The World at War: "Episodes 1–8"	Jeremy Isaacs
1975	Horizon	Peter Goodchild, Bruce Norman
	Disappearing World	Brian Moser
	The World About Us	Anthony Isaacs, Christopher Parsons
	The World at War: "Episodes 9–26"	Jeremy Isaacs
1976	Disappearing World	Brian Moser
	Horizon	Peter Goodchild
	News at Ten	Nigel Ryan
	Survival	Colin Willock
	The World About Us	Anthony Isaacs, Christopher Parsons
1977	Sailor	John Purdie, Roger Mills
	Disappearing World	Brian Moser
	Horizon	Peter Goodchild
	The World About Us	Michael Andrews, Anthony Isaacs, Christopher Parsons
1978	The South African Experience	Antony Thomas
	Disappearing World	Brian Moser
	Horizon	Simon Campbell-Jones
	Royal Heritage	Michael Gill
	The World About Us	Michael Andrews, Anthony Isaacs
1979	The Voyage of Charles Darwin	Christopher Ralling
	The Body in Question: "Episodes 1–7"	Patrick Uden
	The Hong Kong Beat	John Purdie
	Horizon	Simon Campbell-Jones

1980s

Best Factual Series

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1980	Circuit 11 Miami	Mark Anderson
	Life on Earth	John Sparks, Richard Brock
	The Magic of Dance	Patricia Foy
	The World About Us	Anthony Isaacs, Michael Andrews
1981	Strangeways	Rex Bloomstein
	Great Railway Journeys of the World	Roger Laughton
	Hollywood	Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
	Ireland: A Television History: "Episodes 1–5"	Jeremy Isaacs
	Public School	Richard Denton
1982	Ireland: A Television History: "Episodes 5–13"	Jeremy Isaacs
	Fighter Pilot	Colin Strong
	Forty Minutes	Roger Mills
	Wildlife on One	Peter Bale
	The World About Us	Peter Jones, Anthony Isaacs
1983	Police	Roger Graef, Charles Stewart
	The Flight of the Condor	Michael Andrews
	Forty Minutes	Roger Mills
	Horizon	Graham Massey
1984	Forty Minutes	Roger Mills
	Unknown Chaplin	David Gill, Kevin Brownlow
	Wildlife on One	Peter Bale
	The World About Us	Anthony Isaacs, Peter Jones
1985	River Journeys	Roger Laughton, David Wallace
	Crime Inc	John Edwards, Martin Short
	Forty Minutes	Roger Mills
	The Heart of the Dragon	Peter Montagnon
1986	Forty Minutes	Edward Mirzoeff, Roger Mills
	Comrades	Richard Denton
	Kingdom of the Ice Bear	Hugh Miles, Mike Salisbury
	Whicker's World: Living with Uncle Sam	Jonathan Stedall
1987	World in Action	Ray Fitzwalter
	British Cinema: Personal View	David Gill, Kevin Brownlow
	Crimewatch	Sam Organ, Peter Chafer
	First Tuesday	John Willis
	Forty Minutes	Edward Mirzoeff
	Horizon	Robin Brightwell
	The South Bank Show	Melvyn Bragg
1988	The Duty Men	Paul Hamann
	Arena	Nigel Finch, Anthony Wall
	The RKO Story: Tales from Hollywood	Charles Chabot, Rosemary Wilton
	Forty Minutes	Edward Mirzoeff
1989	Arena	Anthony Wall, Nigel Finch
	Forty Minutes	Edward Mirzoeff
	The South Bank Show	Melvyn Bragg
	Supersense	John Downer

1990s

Best Factual Series

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1990	Forty Minutes	Edward Mirzoeff
	Arena	Nigel Finch, Anthony Wall
	Around the World in 80 Days	Clem Vallance, Roger Mills
	World in Action	Stuart Prebble
1991	The Trials of Life	Peter Jones
	Arena	Nigel Finch, Anthony Wall
	Disappearing World	David Wason
	First Tuesday	Grant McKee
	Forty Minutes	Caroline Pick
1992	Naked Hollywood	Nicolas Kent
	Arena	Nigel Finch, Anthony Wall
	Dispatches	David Lloyd
	First Tuesday	Grant McKee
	Forty Minutes	Caroline Pick
1993	Pandora's Box	Adam Curtis
	Doctors to Be	Edward Briffa
	Inside Story	Steve Hewlett, Paul Hamann
	Secret History	John Willis
1994	The Ark	Molly Dineen
	Cutting Edge	Peter Moore
	First Tuesday	Chris Bryer
	Life in the Freezer	Alastair Fothergill
1995	Beyond the Clouds	Phil Agland
	Cutting Edge	Peter Moore
	Equinox	Sara Ramsden
	Hollywood Kids	Jilly Hafenrichter
1996^[2]	The Death of Yugoslavia	Norma Percy
	Dispatches	David Lloyd
	Network First	Stuart Prebble, John Blake
	The Private Life of Plants	Mike Salisbury
1997	The House	Michael Waldman, Andrew Bethell
	Cutting Edge	Peter Moore
	People's Century	Peter Pagnamenta
	The System	Peter Dale
1998	The Nazis: A Warning from History	Laurence Rees
	Breaking Point	Peter Gordon, Amanda Richardson
	Hotel	Neil Grant, Belinda Cherrington
	Royals and Reptiles	Leonie Jameson, Denys Blakeway
1999	The Human Body	Richard Dale
	The Clintons: A Marriage of Power	Paul Mitchell
	Cold War	Martin Smith
	The Life of Birds	Mike Salisbury

2000s

Best Factual Series or Strand

Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Broadcaster
2000	The Mayfair Set	Adam Curtis	BBC Two
	Manhunt – The Search for the Yorkshire Ripper	Ray Fitzwalter, Michael Bilton, Gwyneth Hughes	ITV
	The Second World War in Colour	Martin Smith, Alastair Waddington, Stewart Binns	ITV
	Shanghai Vice	Phil Agland	Channel 4
2001	Britain at War in Colour	Lucy Carter, Stewart Binns, Adrian Wood	ITV
	Horizon	Bettina Lerner, John Lynch	BBC Two
	Castaway 2000	Jeremy Mills, Chris Kelly	BBC One
	Fifteen	Oliver Morse, Daisy Asquith, Nichola Koratjitis	Channel 4
2002	Horizon	Bettina Lerner, Matthew Barrett, John Lynch	BBC Two
	The Blue Planet		BBC One
	Welcome To Britain	Edwina Vardey, Rachel Coughlan	BBC One
	Langan Behind the Lines	Bob Long, Rachel Foster, Ben Summers	BBC Two
2003	Awarded in the Specialised Programme or Series category
2004	Awarded in the Specialised Programme or Series category
2005	The Power of Nightmares		BBC Two
	Brat Camp	Jamie Isaacs, Tamara Abood, Sam Whittaker	Channel 4
	Himalaya with Michael Palin		BBC One
	Who Do You Think You Are?		BBC Two
2006	Jamie's School Dinners	Andrew Conrad, Robert Thirkell, Dominique Walker	Channel 4
	Coast		BBC Two
	Cocaine	Guillermo Galdos, David Notman-Watt, Angus Macqueen	Channel 4
	49 Up	Bill Jones, Claire Lewis, Michael Apted	ITV
2007	Ross Kemp on Gangs	Clive Tulloh, Amelia Hann, Ross Kemp	Sky One
	Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive		BBC Two
	Tribe	James Smith, Steve Robinson, Bruce Parry, Sam Organ	BBC Two
	Who Do You Think You Are?	Alex Graham, Lucy Carter	BBC Two
2008	The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities	Simon Ford, Rachel Innes-Lumsden, Anthony Wonke, Ines Cavill	BBC One
	Meet the Natives	Gavin Searle, Will Anderson, Andrew Palmer, Chris King	Channel 4
	Tribe	Steve Robinson, Bruce Parry, Sam Organ	BBC Two
	Paul Merton in China	Paul Sommers, Mark Chapman, Barbie MacLaurin, Paul Merton	Five
2009	Amazon with Bruce Parry		BBC Two
	Blood, Sweat and T-shirts	Mark Rubens, Tim Quicke, Jo Bishop	BBC Three
	The Family		Channel 4
	Ross Kemp in Afghanistan	Clive Tulloh, John Conroy, Matt Bennett, Ross Kemp	Sky One

2010s

Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Broadcaster
2010	One Born Every Minute		Channel 4
	Blood, Sweat and Takeaways	Mark Rubens, Tim Quicke, James Christie-Miller, Jo Bishop	BBC Three
	The Family	David Clews, Beejal-Maya Patel, Jonathan Smith, Sanjay Singhal	Channel 4
	Who Do You Think You Are?	Elizabeth Dobson, Colette Flight, Lucy Carter, Alex Graham	BBC Two
2011	Welcome to Lagos	Will Anderson, Gavin Searle, Chris King, Andrew Palmer	BBC Two
	Coppers	Simon Ford, Ben Rumney, Anthony Philipson, Tim Wardle	Channel 4
	One Born Every Minute	Sanjay Singhal, Peter Moore, Lorraine Charker-Phillips, Lucy Bowden	Channel 4
	The Young Ones	Leanne Klein, Tom McDonald, Michael Jochnowitz	BBC One
2012	Our War		BBC Three
	The Choir: Military Wives	Tim Carter, Stephen Finnigan, Lucy Hillman, Gareth Malone	BBC Two
	Protecting Our Children	Emma Burman, Petra Graf, Anna McGill, Sacha Mirzoeff	BBC Two
	Educating Essex	David Clews, Andrew Mackenzie-Betty, Beejal-Maya Patel, Grace Reynolds	Channel 4
2013	Our War		BBC Three
	24 Hours in A&E	Nick Curwin, Tom McDonald, Kirsty Cunningham, Rita Daniels	Channel 4
	Make Bradford British	Richard McKerrow, Heenan Bhatti, Martin Fuller, Simon Evans	Channel 4
	Great Ormond Street		BBC Two
2014	Bedlam		Channel 4
	The Route Masters: Running London's Roads	Edmund Coulthard, Alistair Pegg, Matt Pelly, Simon Gilchrist	BBC Two
	Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day		BBC Two
	Educating Yorkshire	David Brindley, Grace Reynolds, David Clews, Andrew Mackenzie-Betty	Channel 4
2015	Life and Death Row		BBC Three
	15,000 Kids and Counting	Chris Eley, Brian Woods, Gwyn Jones, Fiona Jones	Channel 4
	Educating the East End	Andrew Mackenzie-Betty, David Clews, Jo Hughes, Liz Hazell	Channel 4
	Protecting Our Parents	Julian Mercer, Rob Miller, Alice Perman, Jonathan Taylor	BBC Two
2016	The Murder Detectives	Ben Brown, Bart Corpe, Neil Grant, Dave Nath	Channel 4
	The Detectives	Colin Barr, Ruth Kelly, James Newton, Rupert Houseman	BBC Two
	Great Ormond Street	Dollan Cannell, Catey Sexton, Lucy Hillman	BBC Two
	The Tribe		Channel 4
2017	Exodus: Our Journey to Europe		BBC Two
	24 Hours in Police Custody		Channel 4
	Kids on the Edge		Channel 4
	The Prosecutors: Real Crime and Punishment	Blue Ryan, Sara Hardy, Sacha Baveystock, Gwyn Jones	BBC Four
2018	Ambulance	Jo Hughes, Bruce Fletcher, Kirsty Cunningham, Simon Ford	BBC One
	Catching a Killer		BBC Two
	Hospital		BBC Two
	Drugsland	Sacha Mirzoeff, Xavier Alford, Bart Corpe, Simon Ford	BBC Three\|
2019 ^[3]	Louis Theroux's Altered States		BBC Two
	24 Hours in A&E		Channel 4
	Prison	Richard Melman, Paddy Wivell, Kathy Myers, Jack Wood	Channel 4
	Life and Death Row: The Mass Execution	Miles Blayden-Ryall, Alistair Martin, Becky Casey, Aysha Rafaele	BBC Three

2020s

Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Broadcaster
2020 ^[4]	Leaving Neverland	Dan Reed	Channel 4
	Don't Fk with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer	Mark Lewis, Felicity Morris, Michael Harte, Dimitri Doganis	Netflix
	Crime and Punishment	Emily Lawson, Bruce Fletcher, Jemma Chisnall, Mark Raphael	Channel 4
	Our Dementia Choir with Vicky McClure		BBC One
2021 ^[5]	Once Upon a Time in Iraq	James Bluemel, Jo Abel, Miriam Walsh, Simon Sykes, Andrew Palmer, Will Anderson	BBC Two
	Crime and Punishment		Channel 4
	Losing it: Our Metal Health Emergency		Channel 4
	Hospital		BBC Two
2022 ^[6]	Uprising		BBC One
	9/11: One Day in America	Caroline Marsden, Daniel Bogado, TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay, David Glover	National Geographic
	Undercover Police: Hunting Paedophiles	Joe Mather, Simon Ford, Jamie Pickup, Mark Casebow, Charlie MacDonald, Juliet Piper	Channel 4
	The Detectives: Fighting Organised Crime		BBC Two
2023 ^[7]^[8]	Libby, Are You Home Yet?	Anna Hall, Josephine Besbrode, Luke Rothery, Danielle Jones, Celia Jennison	Sky Crime
	Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime	Kira Phillips, Barry Ronan, Rosina Andreou, Graeme McAulay, Abi Walker, Charlie MacDonald	Channel 4
	Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi	Mark Lewis, Dimitri Doganis, Tom Barry, Chiara Messineo, Simon Mills, Kaylin Simmons	Netflix
	Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing		ITV
2024 ^[9]	Lockerbie	Nancy Strang, John Dower, Claire McFall, Barnaby Fry, Dejan Cancar, Charlie Hawryliw	Sky Documentaries
	Dublin Narcos	Benedict Sanderson, Claire McFall, Sacha Baveystock, Edmund Coulthard, Megan Taylor, Laura Dunne	Sky Documentaries
	Evacuation		Channel 4
	Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland		BBC Two

Note: The series that don't have recipients on the tables had Production team credited as recipients for the award or nomination.

References

^ "Rules and Guidelines" (PDF). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-24. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
^ "BAFTA Awards 1996". Retrieved 30 July 2016.
^ "Nominations announced: Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2019". www.bafta.org. 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
^ Kanter, Jake (2020-07-31). "BAFTA TV Awards Winners: Night Of Surprises, As 'Chernobyl' & 'The End Of The F***ing World' Take Two Prizes Each". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
^ "BAFTA TV 2021: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards". www.bafta.org. 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
^ "Bafta TV awards 2022: full list of nominations". The Guardian. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
^ Ritman, Alex (22 March 2023). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'This is Going to Hurt,' 'The Responder' Lead Pack of Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
^ "Bafta TV awards 2023: the full list of winners". Guardian. 14 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
^ Szalai, Georg (March 20, 2024). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'The Crown,' 'Black Mirror' Lead Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 24, 2024.

[baftarules-1] "Rules and Guidelines" (PDF). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-24. Retrieved 2021-03-04.

[2] "BAFTA Awards 1996". Retrieved 30 July 2016.

[3] "Nominations announced: Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2019". www.bafta.org. 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2021-03-04.

[4] Kanter, Jake (2020-07-31). "BAFTA TV Awards Winners: Night Of Surprises, As 'Chernobyl' & 'The End Of The F***ing World' Take Two Prizes Each". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-03-04.

[5] "BAFTA TV 2021: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards". www.bafta.org. 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.

[6] "Bafta TV awards 2022: full list of nominations". The Guardian. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.

[7] Ritman, Alex (22 March 2023). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'This is Going to Hurt,' 'The Responder' Lead Pack of Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.

[8] "Bafta TV awards 2023: the full list of winners". Guardian. 14 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.

[9] Szalai, Georg (March 20, 2024). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'The Crown,' 'Black Mirror' Lead Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 24, 2024.

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