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- Hawking is the extraordinary story of the planet's most famous living scientist, told for the first time in his own words and by those closest to him. Made with unique access to Hawking's private life, this is an intimate and moving journey into Stephen's world, both past and present. An inspirational portrait of an iconic figure, Hawking relates his incredible personal journey from boyhood under-achiever, to PhD genius, to being diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease and given just two years to live. Despite the constant threat of death, Hawking manages to make many remarkable scientific discoveries and rises to fame and super-stardom. Hawking - a remarkable man, and a remarkable movie.
- In this special follow-up programme, the only television team with access to the dig and the scientific tests on the skeleton uses unseen footage and conducts two days of additional interviews to tell this extraordinary forensic detective story in even greater scientific and archaeological detail. Trawling through the footage in detail and in full, the programme explains how the discovery of Richard III was made, from the first cut in the ground to the final DNA analysis. It pieces together the critical steps in the archaeological excavation - explaining how the significance of the skeleton was first recognized. It then follows the painstaking exhumation of Richard's grave. In the labs of Leicester University, the programme then follows the scientists as they clean, CT scan and examine the skeleton, closing in on his identity and learning new details about the skeleton. Along the way we discover a series of astonishing twists and turns in the scientific enquiry. At one point researchers believed the skeleton could in fact be female. The film then reveals how the doubts were dispelled, how the living relatives were traced and how the DNA match with Richard III was made. Perhaps the most harrowing stage of the project was the minute forensic examination of the cause of death. Piecing together CT scans, the team identified the major injuries that Richard suffered in the last moments of his life and shortly afterwards. With his hands bound, his body was bundled into a hastily prepared grave. And there it lay, lost for over 500 years, until a team of archaeologists made the find of the century.
- On the 21st July 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot on another world. Learning to fly just as the super-sonic era dawned, and honing his piloting skills flying Navy combat missions over North Korea, Armstrong was a product of his time. With additional experience as an elite, rocket-powered, X-15 test pilot he had just the right skill set NASA was looking for in 1961, when they recruited their second group of astronauts to shoot for the Moon. Achieving the first Moon landing and taking that first step onto its surface just eight years later, not only transformed human history, but also it changed Armstrong's own life as well. Drawing on private family archives and told through a series of intimate interviews, this is the story of the real Neil Armstrong, by those who loved, lived and worked with 'the first man on the Moon'.
- Every year, for one month only, a bizarre community springs up in the planet's most hostile environment. Men and machinery, parachuted onto the barren polar wastes from Russian transport planes, sculpt an airport from scratch on the drifting ice of the Arctic Ocean. For the next four weeks, before the ice melts, Ice Station Barneo becomes a magnet for people passionate about living on the edge: not just scientists and explorers, but skydivers trying to land on the roof of the world, a couple looking for the ultimate wedding venue, extreme golfers who think nothing of teeing off in -35, and the hardy souls whose idea of fun is the notorious Arctic Marathon. North Pole Ice Airport takes us inside this world to tell stories of bravery, eccentricity and emotion. The pole changes the people who visit it, and our cameras are with them as they face up to themselves in this awe-inspiring, unforgiving landscape. Across three episodes it tells the story of Barneo's short season, following the visitors whose arrival there is the fulfilment of a lifetime's ambition, and the workers for whom freezing temperatures and cracking runways are everyday obstacles. And it shows how - 700 miles from civilisation, they have to be ready for anything.
- Frankenstein follows a young scientist's extraordinary quest to replicate himself using the world's most advanced prosthetics. Dr Bertolt Meyer, who uses a bionic arm, travels the globe in search of the best body-replacement technology. But what starts out as a celebration of life-enhancing technology takes a darker turn when Bertolt comes face to face with his creation, and realises the pitfalls of prosthetics. This groundbreaking 90-minute documentary reveals just how close we are to replicating ourselves, and uncovers revolutionary technology that could change the human body forever.
- Does alien life exist out there in the Universe Scientists are now getting closer than ever to answering that question thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope. This revolutionary spacecraft is on a mission to find habitable alien planets. Thanks to Kepler we now know of thousands of possible planets and we're getting closer than ever to finding the holy grail: a twin of our Earth. We use CGI to bring these alien worlds to life, and with the help of scientists, we speculate on what extra-terrestrial life might be like.
- The brand new series, Top Secrets reveals the surprising and shocking secrets about both Presidential Assassinations and Doomsday. This fast-paced, bite-sized whiz around the devastating catastrophes that could end life on Earth and the assassinations and attempts on America's Presidents, is a mind-blowing, fact-packed visual and graphic feast like nothing you've seen before. Doomsday from alien invasion, doomsday from the center of the Earth, doomsday with a bang, its all here with top secrets that could, quite literally, blow the world apart. And bet you didn't know that President Ronald Reagan was just seconds away from dying; that JFK survived an assassination attempt before he was even inaugurated or that Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest and decided to leave the bullet behind his right nipple for the rest of his life. It's all very frightening, very true, but ultimately, very fun in a scary kind of way.
- The use of the atomic bombs still excites controversy, and in particular the necessity for the second bomb on Nagasaki. The argument that it was the only way to bring a swift end to the war, and save thousands of American lives, wins the day - in public. But did President Truman have another secret agenda?
- The retelling of the shooting down of two American UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters in Somalia in 1993, and the crash of a British CH-47 Chinook helicopter in 1994.
- May 25 1982, The Falklands War. HMS Coventry is on operations with HMS Broadsword. They are tasked with shooting down Argentinian jets. They face a low level attack from 4 fighters which leads to the loss of Coventry. Her main weapon system, the Sea Dart missile can't engage the targets as they are flying too low, and Broadsword's Sea Wolf Close in weapon system powers down at a crucial moment. Both ships are bombed and Coventry sinks in 20 minutes. However most of the crew, although badly injured manage to escape.
- For 20 years, Lexus has been synonymous with quiet, efficient, luxury. Now they have launched their first petrol sucking supercar - the Lexus LFA. 325kph and 0-100kph in 3.8 seconds, it's anything but understated. This is the construction story behind the ultimate Japanese supercar. Hand built at the LFA Works in Toyota City, Japan, this car is 65% carbon fibre and powered by the highest revving production engine on the road. At $375,000 it's also the most expensive Japanese road car ever.
- On July 22, 2011, lone gunman Anders Behring Breivik emerges from a western Norwegian suburb to commit one of the worst terrorist atrocities in Europe since World War II. The massacre starts with an explosion in Oslo and finishes with the slaughter of dozens of teenagers at a youth camp on the isolated island of Utoya. But was Breivik a lone extremist or was this attack the first warning of a world terror?
- Top Secrets: Doomsday reveals the surprising and shocking secrets about how the world might end. This fast-paced, bite-sized whiz around the devastating catastrophes that could end life, as we know it, is a mind-blowing, fact-packed visual and graphic feast like nothing you've seen before. Doomsday from alien invasion, doomsday from the center of the Earth, doomsday with a bang, its all here with top secrets that could, quite literally, blow the world apart. From unseen asteroids that could hit at anytime, to how an obsession with shopping and buying a new house could see the extinction of our species. It's all very frightening, but very true.
- Using a wide variety of visual techniques with an informal, chatty style, Secrets: Killing the President reveals the surprising and outright shocking things you never knew about America's Presidential assassinations and assassination attempts. Bet you didn't know that President Ronald Reagan was just seconds away from dying; that JFK survived an assassination attempt before he was even inaugurated or that Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest and decided to leave the bullet behind his right nipple for the rest of his life. From deranged lone gunmen (and women) to grand conspiracies to take out the President and the entire cabinet, the business of assassinating the President is murky, shocking and endlessly fascinating.