As of July 2026, 40 Minutes Season 6 aired in 1986 with 27 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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40 Minutes Season 6

1986 27 Episodes Documentary ⭐ 6/10

40 Minutes Season 6 is currently streaming on major platforms, and it treats its subject with more rigour than the format usually demands. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. A 6/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. The storytelling serves the subject rather than the other way around. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

There is a reason 40 Minutes Season 6 keeps coming up in conversation. The access 40 Minutes Season 6 gets is remarkable — and the storytelling does full justice to it. Season 6 of 40 Minutes includes 27 episodes. It aired from October 1986 to April 1987. Episodes include "Ten Days in Holloway", "Dancing in the Rain", "Rescue". It was aired in 1986. 40 Minutes Season 6 lets its subjects speak for themselves rather than shaping them into a predetermined narrative. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Documentary fans who value serious storytelling will find 40 Minutes Season 6 essential viewing. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Getting this level of access rarely happens twice. The kind of documentary that makes you feel informed rather than manipulated.

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🎬 40 Minutes Season 6 — Episode Guide

E1
Ten Days in Holloway
1986-10-09
An inside view of Holloway Prison, reflecting the immense problems and tensions of Britain's largest and toughest women's jail.
E2
Dancing in the Rain
1986-10-16
The glittery world of ballroom dancing - behind the scenes at the World Ballroom Dancing Championships, held this year in Blackpool.
E3
Rescue
1986-10-23
The lives of the men who make up the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team - a voluntary body of men who help those in difficulty on Ben Nevis and the surrounding mountains.
E4
Olga Goes to Hollywood
1986-10-30
In 1978 David Lomax secretly interviewed a Russian couple in Moscow after they had been refused exit visas. They were filmed a year later as they arrived in the West. Now they live in Los Angeles. What price have they paid for their freedom?
E5
The Englishwoman's Wardrobe
1986-11-20
Angela Huth asks why is it that as a nation, we have such a rotten reputation as dressers? What are we trying to say about ourselves through our appearance? 'Oh not black again, dear,' says Denis - but Margaret Thatcher knows a secret or two about old faithfuls and reliable standbys. Tonight the Pri...
E6
Special: The Dump
1986-11-25
Plans for dumping nuclear waste in rural Lincolnshire - and how traditionally conservative villagers were aroused to protest against them.
E7
Botham's Out
1986-11-27
England cricket hero Ian Botham at home and at work during his Test Match ban.
E8
The Chosen Few
1986-12-04
The Civil Service Selection Board has never been filmed before. The first of two programmes concentrates on two candidates, one an ex-employee of the Greater London Council, the other a "near miss" of last year.
E9
The Final Board
1986-12-11
The second film tells of two hopefuls at the last round, one hoping to enter the Foreign Office, the other aiming for the Home Office. Filmed from the points of view of both the candidates and the selectors. The final result is a shock.
E10
Dear Sister
1986-12-18
Eight sisters talk frankly and movingly about the complex relationship of sisterhood.
E11
Just for William
1987-01-08
Ten-year-old William, suffering from leukaemia, undergoes a successful bone marrow transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London
E12
Short Stories
1987-01-15
The small world of dwarves and midgets.
E13
Home from the Hill
1987-01-22
Documentary about Colonel Hilary Hook, formerly of the Indian cavalry and leader of extravagant safaris in Kenya. Hook returned home to England after being evicted from his home in the Kenya Hills, and is finding it hard to readjust to the English way of life.
E14
Struggle for Stonebridge
1987-01-29
Young blacks in deprived Brent struggle for a community centre in a bus garage.
E15
Stirring Stuff
1987-02-05
Tea, Britain's national beverage - and the ladies who stir it.
E16
Do You Still Love Me?
1987-02-12
Uneasy relationships between step-parents and step-children.
E17
A Cabinet of Curiosities
1987-02-19
Lucinda Lambton reveals strange and amusing tales from the dusty corners of museums.
E18
Bad Blood
1987-02-26
The annual re-union of thousands of bikers in South Dakota.
E19
Fire!
1987-03-05
Kingston-upon-Hull (Yorks.) fire station in action.
E20
The Quest for Sergeant Miller
1987-03-12
The son of a wartime aviator traces his father's remarkable survival and escape in France.

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