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Birds Britannia
Birds Britannia
Birds Britannia is a four-part BBC Four television series about the birds of the United Kingdom, first shown in 2010. It was produced by Stephen Moss. Each of the four, sixty-minute episodes concentrates on one kind of bird: garden birds, waterbirds, seabirds and birds of the countryside. The series has no presenter, and is narrated by the Scottish actor Bill Paterson, with filmed interviews with a wide range of experts and bird enthusiasts, including David Attenborough, Mark Cocker, Jeremy Mynott, Tim Birkhead, Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall, Christopher Frayling, Kate Humble, Rob Lambert, Desmond Morris, David Lindo, Helen Macdonald, Andrew Motion, Tony Soper, and Bill Oddie. It has been announced that a book of the same title, by Stephen Moss, will be published by Collins in April 2011.
Birds Britannia 2010
Dante: Inferno to Paradise
Dante: Inferno to Paradise
The riveting life and times of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) and his soaring masterpiece "The Divine Comedy" – one of the greatest achievements in the history of Western literature.
Dante: Inferno to Paradise 2024
Tecendo o Saber
Tecendo o Saber
Tecendo o Saber 2005
Canada: A People's History
Canada: A People's History
The complete landmark documentary series follows events from pre-history to 1990. Charting the country's past, this series chronicles the rise and fall of empires, the clash of great armies and epoch-making rebellions. The vibrant story is one of courage, daring and folly, told through the personal testimonies of the everyday men and women who lived it — trappers and traders, pirates and prospectors, soldiers and settlers, saints and shopkeepers.
Canada: A People's History 2000
Al Murray: Why Does Everyone Hate the English?
Al Murray: Why Does Everyone Hate the English?
Comedian Al Murray travels to some of England's nearest neighbours to explore some of their gripes with the English, with the help of a comedian from each nation he visits.
Al Murray: Why Does Everyone Hate the English? 2018
Fauci Unmasked
Fauci Unmasked
Anthony Fauci is one of the most successful failures in government history - but the media doesn't want you to know that. Join Michael Knowles in this three-part series as he peels back the mask on Fauci's past, and exposes the world's leading "scientist" for what he really is: a fraud.
Fauci Unmasked 2022
Chasing Waves
Disney+
Chasing Waves
An docu-series exploring the unique and wonderful surf culture in Japan, highlighting the dramatic push and pull between convention and innovation. By chronicling the lives of both the trendsetters and the traditionalists, the series paints a captivating holistic picture of the global surf industry – from Australian-Japanese surfer, Connor O’Leary to freestyle surfers, Olympic hopefuls and businesspeople trying to make their mark.
Chasing Waves 2023
Des années et des tubes
Des années et des tubes
Des années et des tubes 2022
Our Guy in Colombia
Our Guy in Colombia
Guy Martin explores Colombia at street level to find out what makes the country tick. Can one of the most beautiful countries in the world escape its long history of drugs and violence.
Our Guy in Colombia 2023
Ready for Takeoff: The Road to Safe Skies, Archer
Ready for Takeoff: The Road to Safe Skies, Archer
With the success of The Rain in España, the second book from the University Series is about to fly. But before that, let’s have an exclusive sneak peek of the preparations for this exciting series starring the Univerkada led by Krissha Viaje and Jerome Ponce.
Ready for Takeoff: The Road to Safe Skies, Archer 2023
Harald Baldr
Harald Baldr
Northman with a penchant for history, politics and travel. I seek to spread individual freedom worldwide.
Harald Baldr 2016
Along the Banks of the Yangtze
Along the Banks of the Yangtze
A six-part series in which photographer Ruben Terlou travels from Shanghai, the most westernized part of China, to the much more traditional Tibetan city of Shangri-La. Through the stories of people he meets along the 6,300-kilometre river, Ruben discovers the real China, forty years after Mao’s death.
Along the Banks of the Yangtze 2016
Mother Teresa: For the Love of God?
Mother Teresa: For the Love of God?
The extraordinary truth about one of the most revered, yet enigmatic, controversial, and complex figures in contemporary history. Told through the multiple viewpoints from those who knew her best and drawing on archive and personal letters where we hear from Mother Teresa in her own words, this series tells the astonishing story of a latter-day Saint.
Mother Teresa: For the Love of God? 2022
Larry Charles' Dangerous World of Comedy
Larry Charles' Dangerous World of Comedy
Legendary comedy writer and director Larry Charles travels the world in search of humor in the most unusual, unexpected and dangerous places.
Larry Charles' Dangerous World of Comedy 2019
Double Fine PsychOdyssey
Double Fine PsychOdyssey
2 Player Productions and Double Fine Productions present Double Fine PsychOdyssey, an unprecedented documentary experience seven years in the making. Ten years after the release of their flagship video game Psychonauts, Double Fine Productions returns to its most celebrated franchise with Psychonauts 2. Now facing the pressure to produce a worthy sequel, the studio must confront overly ambitious designs, poor morale, technical challenges and financial woes, all during a turbulent span of time for the world. Double Fine PsychOdyssey is the direct continuation of the acclaimed series Double Fine Adventure, and offers even deeper insight into the passion, humor, and heartbreak of video game development.
Double Fine PsychOdyssey 2023
Glimpses of a Future
Glimpses of a Future
Warm up to a different tomorrow with this short docuseries of personal reflections expressed through words, movement & dance. An experimental collaboration between writers and creative movers from around the world during the first covid-19 lockdown, in spring & summer 2020. From visualization to embodiment, from letters of love to sobering realizations, we're reminded in times of extreme uncertainty that a basic human need emerges... that of reimagining the future. Eight stand-alone episodes created together while being apart - in Lebanon, France, Iran, Jordan and the USA.
Glimpses of a Future 2021
Million Dollar Rooms
Million Dollar Rooms
The series gives viewers a look inside the most spectacular, one-of-a-kind, seven-figure spaces. It's the best in high-end design and lavish living around the globe, including a home with a full-size train and petting zoo in the backyard, one with a two-story custom closet worth $5 million, and an estate that features a nightclub inside.
Million Dollar Rooms 2010
The Incredible Human Journey
The Incredible Human Journey
There are seven billion humans on Earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70,000 years ago. In this five-part series, Dr Alice Roberts follows the archaeological and genetic footprints of our ancient ancestors to find out how their journeys transformed our species into the humans we are today, and how Homo Sapiens came to dominate the planet.
The Incredible Human Journey 2009
Invisible Killers
Invisible Killers
INVISIBLE KILLERS, a three-part documentary series, looks at how viruses have shaped our health and history, the biological and social impact they have on our global society, and the incredible science that has arisen to combat them. Each of the episodes will focus on an individual virus, reaching back to tell the history of that virus, and looking closely at the state of the research and technology surrounding the disease today. Influenza, smallpox, and ebola are among the three most lethal viruses ever to have plagued mankind. Each has taken a devastatingly large toll on the human population. Smallpox killed more people than all the wars in human history, and we are just one test tube away from biomedical warfare. The flu spreads like wildfire across the globe every year, killing the young and the old alike, and ebola shocks and terrifies the world each time it emerges.
Invisible Killers 2018
Nazi Hunters
Nazi Hunters
Shortly after the end of the Second World War: In 1945 and 1946, the men of the British "War Crimes Investigation Unit" drove through northern Germany on the hunt for Nazi criminals. One of them is Captain Anton Walter Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Anton Walter Freud fled to London with his family from the Nazis in 1938. Now an intelligence officer, he's back to track down killers on Allied wanted lists: hitmen in pinstripes, brutal SS henchmen, and ruthless doctors who conducted medical experiments even on children. The soldiers who witnessed the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp months earlier are not squeamish about it. 24-year-old Freud is a free spirit known for his unorthodox methods. He knows how to make war criminals talk. So he comes across a crime that has hardly been known before, the murder of 20 children in Hamburg in the last days of the war.
Nazi Hunters 2022
Curse of the Ancients
Curse of the Ancients
Professor Alice Roberts reveals how scientists are unearthing the evidence for cataclysmic events in the past and their disastrous consequences. From wars to earthquakes and floods to famines – these are the events that have helped shape our modern world.
Curse of the Ancients 2022
Hillary
HULU
Hillary
A portrait of a public woman, interweaving moments from never-before-seen 2016 campaign footage with biographical chapters of Hillary Rodham Clinton's life. Featuring exclusive interviews with Hillary herself, Bill Clinton, friends, and journalists, an examination of how she became simultaneously one of the most admired and vilified women in the world.
Hillary 2020
Space 22
Space 22
Space 22 follows seven strangers, each with their own lived experience of mental ill health, as they take part in an ambitious experiment to test if the simple act of participating in art can help heal invisible wounds.
Space 22 2022
Hellier
Prime Video
Hellier
Driven by a plea for help from a man in Appalachia under supernatural assault, a small crew of paranormal researchers find themselves in a dying coal town, where a series of strange coincidences leads them to a decades-old mystery with far-reaching implications.
Hellier 2019
Moment of Truth
Freevee
Moment of Truth
The never-before-seen story behind the murder of Michael Jordan's father, James Jordan.
Moment of Truth 2021
Abraham Lincoln
HISTORY Vault
Abraham Lincoln
The true story of America's iconic 16th president as told by weaving together both scripted dramatizations of important moments in his life and commentary by authoritative historians and public figures.
Abraham Lincoln 2022
Jimmy Doherty's New Zealand Escape
Jimmy Doherty's New Zealand Escape
Jimmy takes a foodie trip down under, exploring the land and meeting the makers of some of the best food on the planet.
Jimmy Doherty's New Zealand Escape 2023
L'effet papillon
L'effet papillon
The adventures of a trio of colorful protagonists looking for extreme experiences and challenges. Their mission: over the course of the season, to tick off all the activities on a list that they’ve compiled themselves. It features dreams they want to fulfill, crazy things they’ve fantasized about doing... or fears that they’re desperate to overcome.
L'effet papillon 2022
Das Reich: Hitler's Death Squads
Das Reich: Hitler's Death Squads
D-Day, June 6th, 1944. As the Allies storm the beaches of Normandy, Hitler orders the return of the Das Reich, the infamous Panzer elite division known for its mass murders in Ukraine and Belarus, based at that time in southwest of France. Its mission: to push the Allies back into the Atlantic and turn the tide of the conflict in favor of the Nazi Germany.
Das Reich: Hitler's Death Squads 2015
Saluting Dad's Army
Saluting Dad's Army
Presented by Alexander Armstrong, this four-part brand new and exclusive series celebrates the genius and impact of the enduring classic comedy, Dad's Army, and pays tribute to the people who created it. From the very first conversation and the true stories that inspired the series, through to its long-standing legacy, we march through the entire history of the seminal sitcom. Using archive footage and newly captured interviews, the series will offer a true insight into how Dad's Army became not just a hit, but an institution.
Saluting Dad's Army 2018
De kijk van Koolhoven
De kijk van Koolhoven
De kijk van Koolhoven is a six part series of movie lectures given by director and cinephile Martin Koolhoven. On the basis of scenes from his favorite movies, Koolhoven shares his passion for cinema with the viewers. From Basic Instinct to Jaws and from Dr. Strangelove to Drive, every movie enthousiast can get his fill.
De kijk van Koolhoven 2018
Quanta Magazine
Quanta Magazine
Explore mind-bending developments in basic science and math research. Quanta Magazine is an award-winning, editorially independent magazine published by the Simons Foundation.
Quanta Magazine 1
¿Te lo vas a comer?
¿Te lo vas a comer?
¿Te lo vas a comer? 2018
Streets of Gold: Mumbai
Streets of Gold: Mumbai
A look into the lives of the movers and shakers who have shaped the story of modern Mumbai, with privileged access to people who have been instrumental in turning the city into a global powerhouse. Through personal stories set against the unfolding story of the past 30 years, this episode looks at the challenges and triumphs of a city and a country in the midst of extraordinary transformation.
Streets of Gold: Mumbai 2024
Lecker aufs Land - eine kulinarische Reise
Lecker aufs Land - eine kulinarische Reise
Five to six self-confident countrywomen and proud farm owners travel in a delightfully old-fashioned bus, built in 1963. The journey passes pretty villages, imposing castles and lush landscapes.
Lecker aufs Land - eine kulinarische Reise 2011
Max’ Carshop – Schrauben frei Schnauze
Max’ Carshop – Schrauben frei Schnauze
Max’ Carshop – Schrauben frei Schnauze 2022
The American Revolution
The American Revolution
Everyone knows the story of Paul Revere and his famous midnight ride to warn colonial forces of the British approach. But history books don't tell of the man who sent Revere on his mission: Joseph Warren, America's least remembered founding father. Uncover the forgotten history of Warren and stories of other unsung heroes in our fight for independence.
The American Revolution 2014
Extreme Machines
Extreme Machines
This series features some of the world's biggest and meanest machines and examines their complex mechanics.
Extreme Machines 1997
The Century
The Century
Pivotal factors and people shape the 20th century.
The Century 1999
Andreas Kieling: Mitten im wilden Deutschland
Andreas Kieling: Mitten im wilden Deutschland
Andreas Kieling: Mitten im wilden Deutschland 2009