Beyond Hollywood there lies “outsider cinema”, the backyard domain of some of the world’s most creative and truly cracked filmmakers ever to have cranked a camera.
Made-for-TV special focusing on landmark American engineering projects such as Mt. Rushmore; the Eads Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge; the Transcontinental Railway and the Panama Canal; Hoover Dam and more. Produced in 1970 featuring Lee Marvin as narrator and the 5th Dimension for musical backing.
Journey through the long-vanished corners of prehistoric North America, beginning when man first entered the vast, unspoiled continent some 14,000 years ago, in this appealing BBC documentary. Witness ancient beasts, mammoths, mastodons, giant bears, and sabre-toothed cats, and see the legacies each has passed to their modern successors.
Computer animation and digital effects bring to life mammoths, saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, short-faced bears, glyptodonts, and a plethora of smaller animals in a lush Ice Age mosaic. Discoveries from sites across America are the basis for the reconstructions.
The BBC team behind "Blue Planet" and "Walking with Dinosaurs" now takes you back to an 'early America' beyond imagination. Travel back 14,000 years as humans were first entering the continent, sharing it with ancient beasts.
What is happening today in European monasteries? Why do young people leave the “normal” world to devote their lives to spirituality? Let's embark on a journey to discover the sources of Europe and share the life of monastic communities from Ireland to Russia and from Greece to Germany.
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, CCTV's 10th Science and Education Channel will soon broadcast "Broken Knife - Great Reversal of the Korean Battlefield", sounding the "rallying call" that leads the audience's attention. On the basis of abundant military history declassified archives and rich information exchanged with foreign parties, this film, through unique creativity, showcases a stirring and ironclad history of war.
Dog behavior specialist Matt Beisner and his team help owners learn how to handle their aggressive and misunderstood animals, and rescue and rehabilitate dogs from local shelters that have been turned away by other facilities.
Historian Dan Snow relives the story of a crack team of 133 young airmen whose mission is to destroy the great dams of Germany in World War Two using a revolutionary new bouncing bomb.
Sean Lock and Jon Richardson head to Louisiana to live with Creole cowboys and Cajun swampmen, who wrestle 'gators and castrate bulls with their bare hands.