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Animals with Cameras
2018
star 8.4Go where no human cameraman can go and witness a new perspective of the animal kingdom in Animals with Cameras, A Nature Miniseries. The new three-part series journeys into animals’ worlds using custom, state-of-the-art cameras worn by the animals themselves. Capturing never-before-seen behavior, these animal cinematographers help expand human understanding of their habitats and solve mysteries that have eluded scientists until now. Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan and a team of pioneering animal behaviorists join forces to explore stories of animal lives “told” by the animals themselves. The cameras are built custom by camera design expert Chris Watts to fit on the animals unobtrusively and to be easily removed at a later point. From this unique vantage point, experience the secret lives of nine different animal species. Sprint across the savanna with a cheetah, plunge into the ocean with a seal and swing through the trees with a chimpanzee.Paul Whitehouse: Our Troubled Rivers
2023
star 5Paul Whitehouse travels around England and Wales looking at the pressures affecting our rivers and waterways from water companies, intensive agriculture and growing population. Paul explores what is going on beneath the surface, why our rivers and waterways are in decline and what needs to be done to protect them.Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage
2018
star 6Grayson Perry explores the landmark events in all of our lives—Birth, Coming of Age, Marriage and Death. He works alongside people who are going through those universal experiences with the aim to try and reinvent these rites of passage so he can mark and celebrate them for modern secular Britain.Earth's Greatest Spectacles
2016
star 9.5Set in three of the most seasonally changeable landscapes on earth - Svalbard, Okavango and New England - this series showcases the stunning transformations that occur each year, revealing the unique processes behind them and showing how wildlife has adapted to cope with the changes.Animal Superpowers
2012
Animal Superpowers
2012
How can an octopus turn itself invisible in the blink of an eye? How can a sailfish outrun a speedboat? How can a snake strike prey with deadly accuracy in total darkness? Patrick Stewart introduces these elite creatures with extreme abilities to move, sense, hunt, heal and survive, while a team of scientists undertake risky missions to unlock the anatomy behind their secret superpowers.Sinking Cities
2018
star 7Weeks after Hurricane Florence ravaged the Carolinas, and on the sixth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy in New York, the four-part series examines how cities are preparing for the real-time effects of climate change.Testers
2022
star 2Why do mosquitoes prefer to bite some people over others? What happens to the body when it faces extreme cold? What is best to lower body temperature, cold or hot beverages? Why does it hurt so much to get pricked with a needle? Rafael Cortez will be our guide in this scientific quest to answer these questions, with five guinea pig testers who will participate in fun experiments.Ultimate Power Builders
2009
This series showcases France’s environmentally-friendly construction projects, proving to the world how building green is possible and necessary.Here Come the Irish
2024
star 1Documents life on and off the field of the legendary University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team through exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with those closest to the program.Rebuilding Notre-Dame
2020
Rising from the ashes. The race to restore the treasured icon of Gothic architecture after a devastating fire, by the experts fighting to bring it back to life.Immigrants de souche
2022
Immigrants de souche
2022
Raed Hammoud helms an all-new docuseries that follows immigrants who have chosen to move to Quebec’s regions and make a difference in their adopted communities. The host discovers their stories and how they help to enrich and unify these diverse societies.Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild
2012
star 7.4Sir David Attenborough looks back at the unparalleled changes in natural history that he has witnessed during his 60-year career.Last Days
2018
Last Days
2018
Photographer Lieve Blancquaert travels around the world to show how different cultures deal with aging and death.The Birth Of British Music
2009
Series in which conductor Charles Hazlewood explores the lives, times and music of great composers.The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution
2011
Art writer Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists.Genius by Stephen Hawking
2016
star 6.6Professor Stephen Hawking challenges a selection of volunteers to think like the greatest geniuses in history and solve some of humanity's most enduring questions.
