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- A weekly documentary in which two Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk urban legends by directly testing them.
- Car enthusiast Mike Brewer teams up with mechanics to repair and restore classic cars in order to resell them.
- Television series that documents how various everyday products are made.
- The world is littered with the decaying uni-body's of former muscle cars, but at Graveyard Carz, no classic Mopar is too rusted for it to not get restored. These blue-collar technicians live by the motto: it's Mopar or it's No Car.
- Genghis Khan, ruthless leader of the Mongols and sovereign over the vastest empire ever ruled by a single man, was both god and devil - not just in the Middle Ages, but for centuries to come.
- David Attenborough's comprehensive study of how a remarkable group of animals evolved - a group that includes ourselves.
- A dramatization of the notorious World War I torpedoing of the ocean liner, RMS Lusitania.
- Ice Pilots NWT is a reality television documentary series that portrays Buffalo Airways, an airline based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Buffalo flies WWII-era propeller planes year-round in the Canadian North.
- The series follows Sean James yet again, around the Colorful world off a repossession agent. Each episode retells the story of actual events that have happened to this mean, lean, repoing machine, veteran of debt collecting for nearly 2 decades. Each episode is different, each episode is unique. If you ever wanted to know what it would be like to be a debt collector then look no further. As you experience it through the eyes of Sean as he takes you on an exciting journey. You get to experience the highs and lows of the job, sometimes sad, sometimes funny, ruff, and even unbelievable at times.
- As the human world gathers to stage the Olympic Games, this programme looks at what would happen if animals were to do the same. Competitors from the mammal, bird, insect, herptile and fish nations are scaled to human size as they compete in Olympic events. On screen BBC sport graphics impart facts and figures, with commentary from John Motson and Jonathan Pearce.
- PaleoWorld tracks the work of leading scientists as they solve baffling mysteries about the prehistoric era and bring our distant past vividly back to life.
- The film narrates how Ying Zheng became the king of Qin state in 221 B.C. at 13 and finally the first Chinese Emperor. The excavated Terracotta Army finds, his wars, paranoia's, court intrigues and quest for immortality are also discussed.
- Professor Alice Roberts journeys 40,000 years back in time on the trail of the great beasts of the ice age. This was the last time that giants like mammoths, woolly rhinos and sabre-toothed cats ruled our planet. Drawing on the latest scientific detective work and a dash of graphic wizardry, Alice brings the ice age giants back to life.
- The story of Ed Stafford's 2 1/2 year journey to become the first man to walk the length of the Amazon River.
- A murder has been committed... But as the evidence piles up, so does the confusion. Cold Blood returns you to the crime scene so you can examine all the clues for yourself. Can you piece together the facts and eventually crack the case? Combining the thrill of a mystery with the visceral experience of true crime drama, Cold Blood navigates the confounding twists and turns on the journey to solving a homicide, tracking the emergence of new evidence, new revelations, and new suspects... As competing theories come to light, Cold Blood explores how the crime could have occurred from each perspective. Experience real investigations as they unfold. Follow the forensics as it reveals the truth.
- A 64-part historical series exploring the spine-tingling mysteries and greatest wonders of the Ancient World, from the puzzling pyramids of Mexico to China's First Emperor and his terracotta army.
- Six-part series 'Kitchen Chemistry' fronted by acclaimed chef Heston Blumenthal. Each episode deals with the chemical processes that determine methods of cooking, as well as delving into the notion of "molecular gastronomy".
- Fresh, innovative, entertaining and revelatory, Bloody Britain combines strong historical research and storytelling with hands-on historical experiments (such as building and firing a trebuchet), an entertaining but extremely passionate presenter and atmospheric and innovative animation. Action and information-packed, each show is a fascinating and at times squeamish journey through some of Britain s most gruesome and awful, but momentous, historical events.
- A documentary series about the landscape, animals and people of Africa
- Russell Harris travels around Britain using dice to decide which path to take. Will he go sea fishing or windboarding? The dice will decide.
- From kings to commoners, people believed that gods, witches, demons, and evil spirits were all indisputably real. In this series, Tony Robinson delves back through 2,000 years of history, exploring everything from the brutal human sacrifices of Iron Age Britain to the horrifying witch-hunts and exorcisms of the 16th, 17th centuries and beyond. See what dark corners of our history Tony unveils!
- WORLD'S STRANGEST examines bizarre explosions, peculiar jobs that require a unique skillset, unexpected places to get a good night's sleep, vehicles with unusual design features, secret bunkers and tunnels found underground, and much more.
- Jeff Goldblum, the star of Jurassic Park (1993), narrates this five-part documentary about the dinosaurs of North and South America, Europe, Africa and Australia and Antarctica.
- The adventures of a team of divers as they explore and film the depths of the Amazon river system.
- Features the most amazing machines on the planet taking on the most incredible engineering challenges.
- Aron Ralston is arguably the most famous survivor in the world. His ordeal in a Utah canyon, where he had to cut off his own arm after getting trapped, was made into the Oscar nominated film '127 Hours'. Now, he's spending another 127 hours as a castaway on a desert island. The story of his struggle to survive in the canyon merges with his desert island experience, as he starts to suffer debilitating dehydration, and tells how in the canyon he had to drink his own urine. In an emotional fireside climax on his fifth night, he remembers how the vision of his yet unborn son gave him the strength to amputate his arm, and how then, as now, thoughts of his family sustained him through bleak moments.
- The trials and horrific visions that made the most famous mystic of all time.
- Ronald Top travels Europe, investigating the history of home entertainment, money, personal transport, light, furniture, writing, time, security, communications and heating.
- Documentary series, following the work of the specialist emergency care personnel at the University Hospital in Walsgrave.
- Death or Canada is the tragic and true story of one family's epic journey to Canada fleeing the ravages of the Irish famine in 1847. Archaeologists and historians reconstruct this forgotten tragedy, a pivotal moment in North America's Irish history, when Toronto was brought to its knees by a refugee and public health crisis that threatened the city's very future.
- This graphics intensive mega-series takes you on a backwards timeline to see what stood, lived, fought and died in your backyard hundreds, thousands, even millions of years ago.
- Driven to Extremes is a three-part global challenge, pitting two specially-built vehicles - and more specifically the oil inside them - against three of the most difficult roads on Earth. However, inside our purpose-built Nissan Patrols will be an A-list Hollywood celebrity (Tom Hardy, Henrill Cavill and Adrien Brody) accompanied by a motorsport hero (Neil Hodgson and Mika Salo) as they take on the coldest, the hottest and the roughest roads on the planet. Watch as the stars and their driving partners tackle the chilly climes of eastern Siberia, the searing heat of the Taklamakan dessert in far western China and the uncompromising terrain of the Malaysian rainforest, with each destination providing an acid test for the vehicles, the drivers and the oil.
- Tells the story of the remarkable ladies who flew for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in World War Two.
- Episodial documentaries uncovering the stories of people with unique abilities, otherwise physical or medical conditions, benign or life threatening.
- David Attenborough investigates the latest scientific research to discover whether or not there is a global environmental crisis, and, if so, what solutions there are to it.
- Freddie Flintoff Goes Wild is a series of epic wildlife adventures and extreme experiences. In his own inimitable style Freddie takes us on a journey into the wild and show us some of the world's most exciting spectacles as we've never seen them before. In the midst of it, experiencing the fear, excitement, joy and wonder of being up close and personal with nature at its most spectacular. After some initial training Freddie sets out on his journey with his guide, armed with basic supplies and a wildlife mission. Walking with the Maasai on the hunt for the great wildebeest migration in Tanzania, collecting bushtucker with Aboriginals whilst keeping their eyes peeled for highly aggressive saltwater crocodiles in the Northern Territories of Australia, tracking Orangutans and pygmy elephants with the Dusun in Borneo and hunting with the First Nations trying to find some of the most elusive animals in the Discovery Islands Canada, wolves, cougars and orcas.
- Izzard sets out to discover just how English the English are. Even though the last successful military take-over was 1066 he looks at the waves of immigration and influences that have made England a melting pot. He reminds everyone that the Royal Family have only been "Windsor" since 1917 when they adopted the new name. Bad enough to be fighting your cousin the Kaiser, but to be fighting the place that gave you your name (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) was absolutely intolerable old chap!
- 1974-1975 - a year of terrorism across London. Adapted for the screen from the book 'Timebomb.'
- Tony Robinson accompanies James Cameron, the Oscar-winning writer, director and producer of the blockbuster film Titanic (1997), on a poignant farewell to the most spectacular shipwreck in history. Nearly 10 years after Cameron's first visit to the wreck, this is his last.
- Featuring the real life adventures of Trevor Smith, the world's most versatile animal trainer.