A follow-up series to the popular Dark Passages program - continuing the exploration of lesser-known supernatural events, unsolved mysteries, cults, and urban legends.
Active agents, informants, undercover operatives, and victims disclose the ingenious tactics and difficult judgment calls that make the FBI the world’s most elite crime-fighting agency.
In November 2010, British millionaire Shrien Dewani and his new Swedish wife Anni travelled to Cape Town for their honeymoon trip of a lifetime that soon turned into horror. The newly-wed couple were hijacked at gunpoint during a taxi journey back to their hotel from dinner and the next morning the 28-year-old bride was found dead, having been shot. The murder of Anni quickly became one of the world’s most talked-about headlines. For years, the truth about who was responsible for her death remained unclear, with the public constantly torn between the Dewani family, whose representatives maintained their son Shrien’s innocence, and Anni’s family, desperate to find out what happened that night and why Anni had to die.
Four Formula E drivers - António Félix da Costa, Mitch Evans, Jake Dennis and Dan Ticktum - face triumphs and challenges during Season 10 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.
India is home to over a billion people with 1/5 of the world's population on only 2% of the world's surface. Yet India still has a wild side, populated by giants, fierce predators, the rare and beautiful…all wrapped up in a land of extremes. 'Secrets of Wild India' celebrates the diversity and drama of India's extraordinary and varied landscapes. In this three-part series, each episode focus' on one iconic ecosystem, a snapshot of how life works in each unique environment.
Keith Floyd - the eccentric TV cook - travels to Africa, visiting a number of regions. The boisterous and bubbly Floyd cooks traditional dishes from each area using a variety of heat sources, sometimes in surprising surroundings. Places visited include South Africa, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and Zambia.
In this series forensic experts attempt to join the dots and identify some of the unidentified remains that lie in mortuaries, forensic labs and graveyards across Ireland.
The stories behind innovations such as TV, radio, phones, airplanes, motorcycles and power tools as well as the inventors including Nikola Tesla, William Harley, Alexander Graham Bell, Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker.
Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles traces the development of Western civilization, from the first cities in Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire. In this six-part series, Miles travels through the Middle East, Egypt, Pakistan and the Mediterranean to discover how the challenges of society -- religion and politics, art and culture, war and diplomacy, technology and trade -- were dealt with and fought over in order to maintain a functioning civilization. Stories are told of disappeared, ruined and modern cities, from ancient Iraq to modern Damascus, to reveal how successes and failures of the ancients shaped the world today.
The episodes will present different sections of the decade and tell about the rise of Russian cinema, which began with the release of Timur Bekmambetov's "Night Watch", the economic euphoria that covered Russia with the rapid growth of oil prices, Moscow nightlife, the appearance of the shows "The Last Hero", "Dom-2" and "Star Factory", as well as the development of A significant element of the mass culture of those years was Russian rap.