Sultan of Ottoman Empire Selim I son of Bayezid II nicknamed Yavuz was born on 10th of October 1470 in Amasya. His father was Beyazid II and mother was Gulbahar Hatun. He was ascended to throne in 1512 and ruled the Ottoman Empire for 8 years until 1520.
Yavuz Sultan Selim was one of the Empire's most successful and respected sultans. He was tall, strong, brave, fierce, but very modest despite his powers and was writing poems. He never rested during his rule, he worked hard and organized campaigns, filled the treasury with lots of gold. He was an expert on using the sword, archery, and wrestling. He had long mustache but he cut his beard, unlike other sultans.
Police officers, paramedics and other first responders reveal their true encounters with the paranormal while on duty. Not only do these cases defy explanation, they terrify even the most seasoned of men and women who have devoted their lives to serve and protect the living.
Bizarre Murders reveals a true and surprisingly strange crime story. These are not serial murderers evading the FBI, but Fargo-like capers with shocking twists and unusual characters.
Journey back in time to uncover buried tales in cities across the globe, following local guides and historians on a journey that is both travel exposé and urban mystery.
Julia Hardy, a gaming expert, interacts with professional gamers to explore the dynamics of different kinds of video games and analyses their impact on players.
In this new one-hour Halloween PBS special, Dr. Emily Zarka will deconstruct some of the most significant moments in zombie popular culture over the last two centuries to reveal what these creatures say about us.
Ralph McDaniels goes way back to bring you classic videos from hip hop’s golden era. Each episode showcases rare videos tracing hip hop’s evolution in New York City.
A sun-soaked true crime series that sees Captain Lee search for answers to some of the most remarkable, unsolved crimes ever to have taken place on the high seas. The captain sets sail for some of the world's most exotic locations, but he's not investigating small-scale vacation-gone-wrong crimes, he's looking into the craziest, most remarkable and downright bizarre crimes that have happened just off the coast of paradise. With on-location shooting, eyewitness testimony, shocking revelations and new evidence, this is one voyage no one will forget.
Twenty years after being wrongly convicted for murder, Dolores Vázquez shares her candid account of the infamous Rocío Wanninkhof case – one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in Spain’s recent history.
Richard Hammond embarks on a global adventure to explore the world’s biggest structures and machines and discover how engineers build, maintain and use them.
Weaponology is a documentary television series that premiered on November 6, 2007 on the Discovery Channel. The program also airs on the Military Channel.
This series reveals recent natural disasters as they happened in real-time through footage captured by eyewitnesses who found themselves in the wrong place at the right time and boldly held up their camera phones to capture the eye of the storm.
The fiercest battles of WWII come to life as never seen before in this stunning collection of one of the most powerful epics of history. Actual footage from all sides of the war in color. This documentary series takes you behind enemy lines and to the front lines of the tumultuous campaigns of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific theatres where the soldiers, sailors and airmen fought in the most defining time in the history of the modern world.
The groundbreaking and prolific music documentary series returns with several new episodes and the best of the vault remastered and updated for today’s audiences featuring artist interviews, a creative refresh and reimagined visual style.
Are we finally a step closer to understanding the great unknown and what it may – or may not – hold? Man has always been curious about what is really out there in the vastness of space, and UFO sightings have been reported for years. Now, with video footage of sightings, radar evidence and eyewitness accounts from around the world, UFOs: The Untold Stories (Tuesdays at 8pm from 13th November) provides an in-depth look at the fascinating and disturbing aspects of encounters with the unexplained.