They say people from the Ruhr area wear their 'heart on their sleeve'. The social documentary accompanies the sometimes oppressive everyday life of people from the Ruhr area for four months, but they always have their hearts in the right place.
Every night, the Mainz police teams go out into the unknown - to help, calm down, de-escalate, make arrests or take a close look at crimes and deaths. They often expect unusual missions. The SWR documentary series provides an exclusive and unadulterated insight into the demanding work of the Mainz police. It shows the police officers behind the uniform.
An eight-episode docuseries highlighting the contributions and personal sacrifices of some of today's most generous individuals who are going above and beyond to support their communities during the COVID-19 crisis.
The Mechanical Universe... And Beyond, is a 52-part telecourse filmed at the California Institute of Technology, and produced by Caltech and INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications. The series introduces university level physics, covering topics from Copernicus to quantum mechanics.
Produced starting in 1985, the videos make heavy use of historical dramatizations and visual aids to explain physics concepts. The latter were state of the art at the time, incorporating almost 8 hours of computer animation created by computer graphics pioneer Jim Blinn. Each episode opens and closes with a "phantom" lecture by Caltech professor David Goodstein. After more than a quarter century, the series is still often used as a supplemental teaching aid, for its clear explanation of fundamental concepts such as special relativity.
The Mechanical Universe lectures are actual freshman physics lectures from Physics 1a and 1b courses at the California Institute of Technology. The room seen in the videos is the Bridge lecture hall.
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Lee Marvin narrates this series which reenact various crimes that occurred around the United States. Although some were based on well-known events, others were more obscure.
Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin with the assistance of dietician Lucy Jones are on a mission to help different families around Britain to save money, sort food facts from food fiction and eat better for less.
Isabella Rossellini is convinced that, in the maternal animal world, anything goes. 'Mammas,' a series of short videos, has Rossellini playing the role of nine different animals to show the viewer that some mothers lie, are polygamous, and walk out on their animal children all the time.
Four-part docu-series following the search for one man, Richard Scott Smith, who over the past 20 years used the internet and his dubious charms to prey upon unsuspecting women in search of love — conning them out of their money and dignity.
Gérard Depardieu is one of France's greatest actors. His lifelong passions are cinema, cuisine and encounters. 'Bon Appetit' is a unique TV show where Depardieu plunges into a journey through different European regions (Tuscany, Campania, Bavaria, Brittany, Scotland, Spain...) looking for its famous local specialties, identity and history.
Based on the BBC factual series of the same name, Ambulance Australia follows NSW Ambulance service, from the NSW Ambulance Triple Zero Control Centre to paramedics on the road in series 1 and 2. Series 3 follows the Queensland Ambulance Service.
Travel with Ladin Langeman and Steve Ronholt as they fly fish fresh water locations around the western U.S. and Canada. Each episode of catch-and-release fishing is perfectly imperfect-casting a humorous light on the world of fly fishing everyone will enjoy!
Witness the epic nature of Wild Scandinavia: orca, puffins and eagles rule the fjords; wolves and lynx patrol magical forests; polar bears and musk ox survive arctic extremes. Basejumpers and reindeer herders also embrace the wilderness.
As a former test pilot, Dan Short hopes that Fantomworks will become a classic car restoration shop that runs with military precision. Instead, he is finding out that when making old cars 'better than new' - nothing goes according to plan.