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- Larry spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it's gone forever.
- A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Henry Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Edward Hyde.
- In the run up to the Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition, J.K. Rowling goes behind the scenes at the British Library to reveal some of the real-life counterparts to her characters.
- Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly dynamic art - ranging from the delicate woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige, to Pop Art posters, contemporary photography, Manga, film, and brand-new artworks that were created on the streets. The exhibition was a smash-hit five-star success and brought a younger and more diverse audience to the museum. The film uses the exhibition as a launchpad to travel to Tokyo itself, and explore the art and artists of the city more fully.
- This documentary is a salute to 35,000 years of the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. The film features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish and Jean Bolen, all of whom link the loss of goddess-centric societies with today's environmental crisis. This is the first part of a 3-part series that includes The Burning Times and Full Circle.
- The filmmakers attempt to uncover the history of Tahitian high priest and navigator Tupaia's journey on Cook's HMS Endeavour; colonial history from a Polynesian perspective.
- Egyptologist Anthony Browder rates eight ancient Egypt scenes from movies and television for realism. He analyzes the accuracy of the mummification process depicted in "The Mummy" (1999), with Brendan Fraser, and "Moon Knight" (2022), starring Oscar Isaac. He also comments on pyramids and ancient ruins in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), starring Harrison Ford; "Gods of Egypt" (2016), featuring Chadwick Boseman; and "The Ten Commandments" (1956). Browder discusses famous pharaohs, kings, and queens depicted in "Exodus: Gods and Kings" (2014), "Cleopatra" (1963), and "Tut" (2015).
- Shot in London, with emphasis on their historic collection of fine jewelry, this tour through the world famous museum captures the new modern wing of the complex.
- Visit the ancient city of Babylon, where scientists have unearthed secrets about the legendary Tower of Babel.
- See how a 3,500-year-old apocalyptic natural disaster may reclassify the Ten Plagues of Egypt from fable to fact.
- Egyptian historians and archaeologists attempt to solve the riddle of the Sphinx.
- Visit what is perhaps the world's largest gladiator cemetery, not in Rome, but 1,000 miles away in Northern England.
- The London Underground - first operating in 1863 - changed the way people get around cities forever, driving travelers deep underground to clear congested streets. Ingenious technology, from electrified tracks to tunnels under the River Thames, has gone on to influence railways worldwide. This edition reveals how the filthy and crowded streets of London were transformed by the rapid expansion of the Underground.
- Experts investigate if a deadly curse haunts the tomb of the boy-king Tutankhamun.
- Tony takes us back nearly 2,000 years to a time when Britain was under the rule of the Roman Empire - a time of Roman soldiers, gladiators and European slaves.
- This week, our contestants bake sweet dough.
- 2000– 56mNot Rated7.5 (82)TV EpisodeDoctor Stephanie Dalley who dedicated her career to deciphering the ancient cuneiform texts that may contain the actual location of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon travels to war-torn Iraq to find the place where they once stood.
- Dr. Kathleen Martinez-Berry searches for Cleopatra's lost tomb.
- The second episode of the series explores the dark ages that followed the Pyramid Age.
- An examination of ancient robotics includes a look at the automata of ancient China, the Hellenistic engineers Heron and Philon, the Kurdish engineer Al-Jazari, the Byzantine Empire, and Leonardo da Vinci.
- Four modern confectioners learn how commercially savvy sweet makers helped to shape the way in which we celebrate Christmas. They make tasty treats from the Georgian, Victorian and Interwar periods.
- Alice Roberts tells the story of Viking England by studying the history of York. She takes part in a Viking battle, meets the metal detectorists who made an amazing discovery and handles a 1,000-year-old poo.
- 1960– TV-G7.8 (32)TV EpisodeSeason 58 starts with a three-part miniseries, The history of the relationship between and humans.
- The first program tells how music began 35,000 years ago with hollowed-out animal bones. In India and China, music was a perfected art long before the birth of Christ. In the western world, music has only flowered in the past thousand years. Performing are Menuhin, Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer, jazz flautist Paul Horn, native singers and dancers from New Guinea, Senegal and Plains Cree, Ukone of the Gwi people, Martha Takata of Syria, Abed Azrie, Nellie Karras Dancers, Greek singer Arda Mondikan, Ponti and Demotic Dancers of Greece.
- With the growth of music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance came a blending of many voices. Palestrina and Gabrieli are but two of the early composers featured. Yehudi Menuhin traces the development of vocal music and forms of musical notation from the chants of Buddhist monks to the massed choirs of the Renaissance. Also: Ravi Shankar discusses Indian music, in which ornamentation and melodic purity evolved in place of harmony.