Monday's TV: Football Behind Bars, Sky1, 10pm

Ian Wright hosts this compelling new shock doc that hopes to deter young offenders from a life of crime by setting up a football academy

7 September 2009

DOCUMENTARY

9/11: 102 Minutes That Changed America

9pm, Channel 4

Eight years ago this month much of the world stared in disbelief as New York’s Twin Towers came under attack. This documentary gives a fresh insight into the atrocity.

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Dispatches: Battle Scarred

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8pm, Channel 4

More than 200 British soldiers have returned from Afghanistan in coffins. Here, acclaimed film-maker David Modell examines the shocking

trauma suffered by so many surviving soldiers that leaves no visible scars but great psychological injury. This film provides a moving portrait of the impact on the lives of individual soldiers and their families.

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America’s Toughest Prisons

10pm, Five

This new documentary series looks at life inside the maximum-security Statesville Prison in Illinois, which houses criminals deemed too dangerous to be sent elsewhere. Among the contributors is a 34-year-old double murderer. Grimly fascinating.

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Football Behind Bars

10pm, Sky1

This compelling new shock doc points the floodlights at youngsters at Portland Young Offenders Institution in Devon, hoping to deter them from a life of crime by setting up a football academy. Hosted by Ian Wright.

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