Evi and Vanessa, two 14-year-olds living in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, are best friends despite their opposing political beliefs. As nationwide disputes over public education explode into vitriol and division in their hometown, the girls and others in the community fight to discover the humanity in “the other side.”
Paddle around Singapore, where otter clans clash over surf, turf, and the right to rule their urban roosts. Meet the group’s feisty matriarchs, who ban outsiders from their close-knit communities but coexist with their human neighbours just fine.
An intimate instructional documentary series, that takes us onto the desks and into the lives of talented artists and animators. Each episode focuses on a single artist teaching us how to draw a single iconic character from a Walt Disney Animation Studios film.
Juicy four-part docuseries on the rise of tabloid media and the cut-throat players who blew up the news. Dig into the ascent of Rupert Murdoch and America’s insatiable appetite for dirt – featuring Cindy Adams and a who’s-who of insider interviews.
A team of archaeologists investigate one of the greatest hordes of treasure ever discovered. Their mission takes them to ancient temples deep in the jungles of southeast Asia, while aerial scanning targets new sites for excavation. Astonishing new discoveries are made as the team analyse the treasure and shed light on the origins of the civilisation that built the lost city of Angkor.
Professor Robert Winston presents a series investigating the natural instincts inherent in people, covering survival, procreation, the drive to succeed and the heroic impulse.
Pandora's Box is a six-part 1992 BBC documentary television series which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah's leadership in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s and the history of nuclear power.
Science, while inspiring dreams in humans, also sometimes confronts them with cruel results. Beneath the shining history of science, there have been numerous instances of cruel experiments, unethical research, and misconduct. This series aims to shine a light on events buried in such darkness, delving into 'science,' 'history,' and 'ethics'.
The Art of Spain is a BBC Four documentary series on Spanish art presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon. It consists of three one-hour episodes, and premiered on 31 January 2008.
Watch my first trip to India in this travel documentary, as I spent 6 weeks backpacking around the country.
I spent 3 weeks backpacking through the cities of the north and then another 3 weeks in the beaches and backwaters of the south.