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Civilisations
2001
Civilisations
2001
star 10Four part miniseries about ancient China, Egypt, The Indus, and Mesopotamia.Vie de chantier
2018
Vie de chantier
2018
An immersion into the daily lives of forest workers and rangers through an 8-month forestry season. The series follows a team of emergency mechanics struggling to repair broken equipment, cooks responsible for feeding 400 workers a week, and truck drivers hauling 100 tons of lumber across a 200-kilometer trek to the nearest sawmill.Profiling
2008
Profiling
2008
Six of the best British crime thriller writers are profiled during the running up to the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards. Each author will be given their own week, featuring some of their finest TV adaptations every night, plus an exclusive documentary examining their lives and work, talking to the stars who have brought their characters to life on screen, fellow writers, fans and the authors themselves.Sur nos traces
2013
Reggae: The Story of Jamaican Music
2002
Three part BBC series about the history of Jamaican music and it's influence on modern charts in the UK and America. Traces the story of how Caribbean island conquered the world through its music. With interviews and commentary from reggae legends as well as people on the ground, Lloyd Bradley takes up the story from the late 1950s and the development of ska, then follows the music’s journey overseas in the 1960s. But it was in the 1970s that reggae exploded into an international phenomenon with the super-stardom of Bob Marley and artists like Burning Spear, Jimmy Cliff, and Third World. Since then, reggae has continued to reinvent itself as a powerful musical and cultural force.Ice Brigade
2011
Ice Brigade
2011
Unscripted series following a Michigan-based team of ice sculptors as they build frozen works of art.Saving Planet Earth
2007
Saving Planet Earth
2007
Saving Planet Earth is a season of nature documentaries with a conservation theme, screened on BBC Television in 2007 to mark the 50th anniversary of its specialist factual department, the BBC Natural History Unit. The series featured films contributed by a number of celebrities on the plight of various endangered species, and coincided with the launch of the BBC Wildlife Fund, a charitable organisation which distributes money to conservation projects around the world. The television series culminated in a live fundraising telethon on BBC Two, hosted by Alan Titchmarsh, which raised over £1 million for the charity. The BBC broadcast a second live telethon in 2010. Wild Night In was presented by Kate Humble, Chris Packham and Martin Hughes-Games and featured conservation projects which had benefited from the support of the BBC Wildlife Fund. This helped to raise a further £1 million.Nybyggarna
2012
Nybyggarna
2012
To find participants for the program Anders Öfvergård lived as a homeless in ten days, around the Greater Stockholm. He spent nights in public toilets, an illegal campsite and in a cellar. The idea for the program came when it hit him and his two colleagues from the production company Skare.Britain From Above
2008
Britain From Above
2008
star 8.7An epic journey revealing the secrets, patterns and hidden rhythms of our lives from a striking new perspective. Join host Andrew Marr as he discovers how each and every one of us is interconnecting making Britain what it is today. Britain looks very different from the skies. From a bird's eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways. Cutting edge technology allows you to see through cloud cover, navigate the landscape and witness familiar sights as never seen before.Money Mafia
2021
Money Mafia
2021
star 7No one is safe from cyber crimes in India. From CAs, and advocates, to villagers, 1 out of every 2 Indians has been a victim of identity theft. But who are the people behind this fraud, and how did they convert a place into India's Cyber crime Capital? Find out the truth behind these criminals on 'Money Mafia'.自古英雄出少年
1995
Buried: Knights Templar and the Holy Grail
2018
star 4.5The Knights Templar build a 4,000-mile network from Paris to Jerusalem; Mikey Kay and Garth Baldwin investigate the knights’ underground movements to discover if they escaped being destroyed in 1307 and took the Holy Grail with them.Derren Brown: The Experiments
2011
star 7.8Derren Brown uses deception as a skill to overcome common misbeliefs and fears of individuals.Waouh !
2023
Waouh !
2023
GPs: Treating Rural Britain
2024
From a surgery nestled in bucolic hills to a practice on the edge of a loch, this intimate look at the UK's most rural GPs captures the challenges they face and the unique cases they treat.Johnny Vegas: Carry on Glamping
2021
star 6.3Documentary series following the comedian and his long-suffering assistant Bev as they embark upon an ambitious plan to convert a collection of old vehicles into Britain's coolest glamping siteWitches of Salem
2019
Witches of Salem
2019
star 9.3During the cold winter of 1692, a group of girls in Salem Village began exhibiting strange, disturbing behavior. Over the ensuing weeks, they accused three local women of witchcraft, setting in motion a massive witch hunt that still haunts Salem, Massachusetts, to this very day. Dark, atmospheric re-enactments and expert interviews explore the hysteria and panic that overtook the devout Puritan community and led to the imprisonment of over 200 innocent people and the execution of 20.Bear's Wild Weekend with...
2011
Bear Grylls takes celebrities on exhilarating adventures well outside their comfort zones.Breakout
2010
Breakout
2010
star 7The dramatic stories behind some of the most high-profile jailbreaks in recent history, and the ingenious detective work that led to the escapees' successful recapture. Each breakout is told by the dangerous and often highly intelligent criminals who escape, and the professional, determined law enforcement teams who hunt them down.The People v. The Klan
2021
A four-part docuseries about the little-known true story of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Alabama, who took down the Ku Klux Klan after the brutal murder and lynching of her son, Michael. He was just nineteen years old and found dead, hanging from a tree in Mobile, on March 21, 1981. Black community leaders immediately suspected it was a Klan lynching, but local law enforcement was slow to acknowledge that the murder was racially motivated. When the investigation stalled, Beulah Mae and local Black leaders refused to back down until Michael’s killers and the hateful organization they belonged to received justice.
