Explore the rich history of Warner Bros. through 17 short features with profiles on filmmakers, TV creators and fascinating stories about Warner Bros.' historic backlot and the studio's legacy of cinematic innovation.
Explores the transformative impact of Black migration on American culture and society. From the waves of Black Americans to the North—and back South—over the last century to the growing number of immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean today, movement is a defining feature of the Black experience.
A mysterious informant investigates each disaster-in-the-making via a wide range of experts who've studied some of science's most unbelievable wonders.
In this docuseries, a scrappy electronic cigarette startup becomes a multibillion-dollar company until an epidemic causes its success to go up in smoke.
A six-part documentary series offering viewers a raw and cinematic look at the former heavyweight champ. Not a look back, but instead, a look inward at one of the most iconic and divisive characters in recent history.
The documentary - featuring a combination of rarely seen archival footage, new segments filmed on location worldwide, and interviews with leading international experts - also uncovers the untold story of the central role Irish Americans played in the lead-up to the rebellion. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would wring a moral victory from the jaws of defeat and inspire countless freedom struggles throughout the world - from Ireland to India.
Learn how six dictators, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, shaped the 20th century. How did they seize and lose power? What forces were against them? Learn the answers in these six immersive hours, each a revealing portrait of brutality and power.
It s a small world after all. In this revolutionary new series, David Attenborough reveals the marvellous adaptability of the most successful group of animals on the planet. Using pioneering macroscopic filmmaking techniques, he explores in unparalleled detail the intricate, sophisticated behaviours of these fascinating creatures and the complexity of the environments they build and inhabit, in a world normally hidden from the human eye. From armies of killer ants to spiders weaving silken trap doors, ferocious scorpions with paralysing stings, beetles shooting boiling chemicals at their enemies, bees communicating with a waggle dance and assassin bugs that clothe themselves in their victims corpses; David Attenborough will as never before take viewers deep into the macroscopic world of bugs.
Martijn Blekendaal and Finbarr Wilbrink travel along the Underground Railroad, the underground network that helped thousands of enslaved people escape to freedom. They ask themselves: How does the past of slavery impact contemporary life in America?
Matthew Evans once trained as a chef before he crossed to the dark side of the industry and became a restaurant reviewer. After five years and 2,000 restaurant meals as the chief reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald, he came to the slow realisation that chefs don’t have the best produce in the land, normal people who live close to the land do. So he moved to Tasmania, to a small patch of earth, where he’s raising pigs and sheep, milking a cow and waiting for his chickens to start laying.
Hosted by Francisco the Flamingo, Bobby the Bushbaby, Sunny the Honey Possum, and Balzac de Chameleon, each GeoKids episode is filled with award-winning cinematography, irresistible songs, and fascinating animation. Created and directed by Emmy-winner Hank Saroyan of Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, GeoKids is certain to entertain and enrich the whole family.
In the North of Scotland, far from bustling cities and gentle hills of the South, lies Europe's greatest wilderness – the Highlands of Scotland. Scoured by ice and weathered by storms, it may look bleak and lifeless, but wildlife is thriving in this unforgiving place, if you know where to look! In this stunning four-part series, narrated by Ewan McGregor, we meet ospreys, red squirrels, otters, dolphin and golden eagles – all struggling to turn adversity to their advantage and make a success of living in Scotland's living Wild Heart.
Wales: Land of the Wild tells the story of the country's wildlife across twelve dramatic months.
The series follows some of Wales's most iconic and charismatic animals from ked kites to grey seals across the year, and in doing so we ll come to know and understand the dynamic forces that influence wildlife in this beautiful country.
Each episode captures the moments most associated with that time of year: birth and regeneration in the spring months, growing up and forging a new life across the summer, preparing for the change in autumn and then surviving the winter.
A unique intellectual entertainment program presenting numerous challenging problems that have even troubled genius mathematicians. The beautiful yet mysterious realm of knowledge, are thoroughly explored in 30-minute episodes, each focused on one topic, all without resorting to any gags, for utmost clarity and understanding.
It is customary to give every new government 100 days to draw an initial summary of its work, its successes, its failures, its prospects. A “grace period” that also applied to Chancellor Adolf Hitler. However, he uses them more radically for his goals than anyone before him. This is what this series tells about – as a canon of contemporary voices. Diary entries from all over Germany document different perspectives, perceptions and very private things. How can a civilized country, a democratic state, turn into a brutal dictatorship in just a few weeks?