A look at the life of Giovanni Di Stefano, a fraudster who pretended to be a lawyer so that he could defend the likes of Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Manson and others.
Motorcycle racer and mechanic Guy Martin undertakes a series of speed-based challenges, exploring the boundaries of physics and learning about the science of speed.
We’re turning the phrase “Like A Girl” on its head. Host Beija Velez gets real with iconic athletes, exploring mental health, body image, gender and race inequality and more.
More than 50 million years ago, the ancestors of the Whales and other Cetaceans adapted to living in the ocean. This might seem like a backward step: how could a mammal breathe, give birth, suckle its young, sleep and feed underwater? Nonetheless, they succeeded in conquering the depths of the whole planet. To survive, they developed mysterious means of communication and new hunting techniques.
"Missir" won the Edda Award for Best Human Interest Program of the Year in 2021. A powerful and well-crafted Icelandic series. Grief is a response to loss, and if we intend to love, we must also grieve. In the series, we meet people who have experienced grief and loss, learned to live with their sorrow, worked through their trauma, and built a good and happy life.
This series explores the eerie, puzzling and unnerving historical elements, places, icons, or events that seem to be plagued by what can only be described as a ‘curse’.
In its video essays KinoPoisk tells and shows how outstanding films and soap operas are made: why do we love "Harry Potter" or why David Lynch soundtracks fascinate us so much?
An aerial journey from the deep south of the South Island to the northern tip of the North Island. We discover the landscapes and meet New Zealanders who talk about their work, interests and culture.
Paleoworld was a documentary television series that was produced for The Learning Channel, and has had a total of 50 episodes. Some consider it to be the largest and most comprehensive paleontology series ever made. The series began in late September 1994 and, after 4 seasons, ended in 1997. Each episode is approximately 24 minutes long.The series is now owned by the Discovery Channel, along with other documentaries such as Beyond T-rex, Valley Of The T-rex, Dinosaur Planet and When Dinosaurs Roamed America.Paleoworld currently airs on Science.
Inside the minds of the heartless, corrupt, and cruel individuals who've seized control of their country through the infliction of appalling pain on their fellow man. From Kim Jong-il, to Osama Bin Laden, to Hitler, uncover the madness behind the merciless dictators responsible for unimaginable human atrocities that still haunt the world.
Victorian Sensations transports us to the thrilling era of the 1890s. Dr Hannah Fry, Paul McGann, and Philippa Perry explore a decade of rapid change that still resonates today.