Marking a 1150 year anniversary in 2019, the Kyoto Gion Matsuri was subsequently suspended for two years due to outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Live coverage of the Yoiyama evening on July 16th and the next day's Yamaboko parade is accompanied by a set of special documentaries explaining the festival history and the activities during the pandemic.
Across five nights, Susan’s journey takes her to a different well-known resort every day as she enjoys all the fun of the seaside, with a few celebrity guests along to help her out.
F2 Finding Football is a one-of-a-kind football show exploring the wonder, breadth, and depth of the beautiful game. Led by The F2, Billy Wingrove & Jeremy Lynch, this series dives into the diverse stories, locations, communities, personalities, and cultures that intertwine with football across the globe.
Join Jason as he spends his mornings at wet markets across Malaysia. Discovering the origins, stories and processes of local foods, unearthing the markets’ histories and also the livelihood of the vendors.
UFC Hall of Famer and PRIDE FC legend, Minotauro Nogueira, travels the world to immerse himself in the traditional martial arts and the way of life of those who practice them.
Follow Marie-Lyne Joncas as she meets with car modification enthusiasts. Could their genius allow her to compete with Ferraris, Lamborghinis and all the other supercars of rich businessman Olivier Benloulou? In drag racing, anything can happen!
Yui Aragaki serves as the program navigator for this documentary box set that explores the evolutionary leaps that led to mankind becoming human. The evolution and the great strides that humans have made to attain our current form and civilization are told through cutting-edge DNA research and other results, as well as CG depicting the prehistoric world.
Idris will provide seven disadvantaged young people with lessons in discipline, focus and determination by putting them through an experimental boxing school.
The Ottoman Dynasty extended over three continents, surviving 600 years from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. 24 of its 36 Sultans ruled the Empire from Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, for a period of 400 years. The royal residence, which has witnessed moments of great joy and sorrow, became a museum after the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923 by Kemal Ataturk. Until it opened its doors to visitors from all over the world, the Topkapi Palace had always been a mysterious, shuttered world.
The "Topkapi Palace" series represents the widest-ranging project of its kind ever to be taken. It was in 1990 that all the doors of the Topkapi Palace were opened to a film crew for the first time. Their lights probed parts of the palace still closed to visitors and, indeed, into places that had never seen the daylight.
A land of myth and legend, ancient Iraq is the cradle of human civilization; and now, pioneering archaeologists gain rare access to investigate sacred sites and reveal the truth behind forgotten Biblical cities.
Narrated by actor Laura Carmichael, this six-part documentary series charts the planet’s most spectacular events of migration, rebirth and transformation. Over the course of a turbulent year, we witness how finely tuned creatures face the Earth’s seasonal patterns. However, in the 21st Century, these patterns are becoming more extreme, less predictable and dangerously unreliable. Across the globe, we witness the drama and the spectacle. No matter what time of year it is, somewhere on Earth something miraculous is happening.
An exploration of Asian cuisine's impact on food culture with Danielle Chang, Founder of the LUCKYRICE Festival, a nationwide showcase of Asian food culture in the United States, and innovative Asian chefs and personalities.
200 babies are brought together to take part in an ambitious scientific study exploring how the incredible changes that happen in the first two years of life make us who we are.