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- Pirate Captain sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London.
- Author Dan Brown insists his novel "Lost Symbol" is historically accurate. Tony Robinson presents an investigation to determine how historically accurate it really is
- Famous naturalist David Attenborough explains the rise and fall of pterosaurs, mistakenly known as flying dinosaurs. He also flies a glider to show how big the Quetzalcoatlus, at the time the largest known pterosaur species, really was.
- This is the epic story of the stars, and how discovering their tale has transformed our own understanding of the universe.
- The mathematician Marcus du Sautoy discusses the recent discovery, the faster-than-light neutrino anomaly, that neutrinos may travel faster than light.
- Experimental x-ray film by Dr. John MacIntyre showing a frog joint, as well as human heart and digestive system.
- Professor Joanna Bourke charts how, over the past five centuries, dentistry has been transformed from a backstreet horror show into a gleaming modern science.
- 1994– Not Rated7.6 (5)TV Episode
- Dr Xand van Tulleken and Raksha Dave pick up the story eight hours after the destructive earthquake that caused the tsunami wave. Shockwaves were still spreading out across the world and the search for survivors begun.
- In this series, Jim al-Khalili takes the viewer on a journey through the history of modern chemistry, from the age of the alchemists, through to the present day. This 3-part series encompasses the early alchemical age of secrecy and discovery, the early advances toward a scientific understanding of the elements, and finally to the establishment of a standardized system of chemical notation and categorization, while also introducing the viewer to many historically significant contributors to the discipline of chemistry that we know today.
- Science series. How much is really known about the medicines we take, and can they be trusted to work. Horizon investigates the most popular pills people pop.
- Michael begins with the story of one of the great upheavals in human history - how we came to understand that our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos, but just one of billions of bodies in a vast and expanding universe. He reveals the critical role of medieval astrologers in changing our view of the heavens, and the surprising connections to the upheavals of the Renaissance, the growth of coffee shops and Californian oil and railway barons. Michael shows how important the practical skills of craftsmen have been to this story and finds out how Galileo made his telescope to peer at the heavens and by doing so helped change our view of the universe forever.
- The question of our human origins is one of the most controversial science has wrestled with. This is the story of how scientists came to explain the beauty and diversity of life on earth, and reveal how its evolution is connected to the long and violent history of our planet. Featuring ocean adventurers, eccentric French aristocrats, mountain climbers, a secret Victorian publisher with 12 fingers, a ridiculed German meteorologist, and only a brief hint of Charles Darwin.
- In this episode, Michael demonstrates how our society is built on our search to find the answer to what makes up everything in the material world. This is a story that moves from the secret labs of the alchemists and their search for gold to the creation of the world's first synthetic dye - mauve - and onto the invention of the transistor. This quest may seem abstract and highly theoretical. Yet it has delivered the greatest impact on humanity. By trying to answer this question, scientists have created theories from elements to atoms, and the strange concepts of quantum physics that underpin our modern, technological world.
- 2010–201745mTV-PG8.1 (203)TV EpisodeThis program delves deep into the atom to find the ultimate constituents of matter focusing finally on the theoretical Higgs Boson.
- 201048m9.2 (8)TV EpisodeA second generation of British scientists includes the son of a boat builder, a charismatic risk-taker, an unsung botanist pioneer, and the visionary who kick-started the Industrial Revolution by perfecting the steam engine.
- How pioneers unlocked electricity's mysteries and built strange instruments to create it.
- Michael visits a world famous tourist hotspot that's been captivating visitors since the Victorian era, takes to the air in Yeovil and tries his hand at cloth making, the 19th century way.
- 201444mTV-PG9.0 (2.5K)TV EpisodeNeil deGrasse Tyson sets off on the Ship of the Imagination to chase a single comet through its million-year plunge toward Sol. Later, Tyson visits the birth-place of Sir Isaac Newton and retraces the unlikely friendship between Newton and brilliant polymath Edmond Halley. It was Halley's patience and generosity which allowed Newton to conquer his fear of isolation and find the courage to publish his masterwork, "Principia Mathematica" which launched a scientific revolution.
- 2002–2017TV Episode
- Dan Jones explores the history of the Welsh capital's famous landmark, learning abut the many different incarnations of the castle over time and the many famous figures throughout history who've spent time within its walls.
- Alan visits an 18th-century cotton mill in Cheshire. Oz climbs the battlements of Dunster Castle in Somerset to examine the weaponry used to defend it. Clive visits Biddulph Grange in North Staffordshire.
- Alan tells the rags-to-riches story of Thomas Leigh, owner of Lyme in Cheshire. In Wiltshire, Oz learns the art of restoring painted glass. In Wales, Dan discovers the ingenious ways the Romans extracted gold.
- In the first of three programmes, he goes back to the 19th century to trace the astonishingly rapid rise of the photograph in British life. Eamonn explores the science behind early photography, and shows how innovative photographic techniques made possible the careers of pioneers like Roger Fenton and Julia Margaret Cameron.