Documentary TV Series - Page 489
Disasters Engineered
2020
Disasters Engineered
2020
star 7.7Through extensive archive and expert interviews this series explores the stories behind mankind's greatest engineering disasters.Bílá hora 1620-2020
2020
Bílá hora 1620-2020
2020
Byzantium: The Lost Empire
1997
star 6.8John Romer recreates the glory and history of Byzantium. From the Hagia Sophia in present-day Istanbul to the looted treasures of the empire now located in St. Marks in Venice.The 12,000 Bottle boat
2011
Follow the extraordinary journey of the Plastiki, a boat built from over 12,000 recycled plastic drinking bottles, as Adventurer David De Rothschild attempts to sail the boat across the Pacific from San Francisco to Sydney.Everest Air
2016
Everest Air
2016
star 8The real-life adventures of a high-altitude helicopter rescue team patrolling Mount Everest are followed in this series, which begins with life and limb being risked to extract two separate injured climbers, both from 21,000 feet. Also: The ARS team provide emergency medical relief to a local boy suffering from a potentially fatal condition.Shackleton: Death or Glory
2013
This series follows a modern expedition that re-creates Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition, which launched in 1914. The series joins a crew of five intrepid explorers, led by renowned adventurer, scientist, and author Tim Jarvis, as they duplicate Shackleton's epic sea-and-land voyage in a replica of the original explorer's lifeboat.Serbian Princess Ana Jakšić
2022
Ana Glinskaya Jakšić, grandmother of the great emperor Ivan the Terrible, took care of the upbringing of the minor emperor after his parents passed away. As a shadow co-ruler, she retained power at the Moscow court for the rest of her life.Flying Heavy Metal
2005
Flying Heavy Metal
2005
star 9Flying Heavy Metal was a 5-part British television series produced by Ricochet and broadcast in the UK and Europe on the Discovery Channel and subsequently repeated on Discovery Wings in the UK. It was presented by commercial Boeing 757 pilot and Iron Maiden frontman, Bruce Dickinson. In the series, Bruce looked at, and often flew, a number of aircraft from across the history of commercial aviation. There were some quite surprising aerobatics done in rather large aircraft. Flying Heavy Metal is now repeated on the new channel from Discovery Networks UK called Discovery Turbo.Manchán's Europe By Train
2024
Manchán Magan embraces the ethos of slow travel, taking the time to get to know people and places, and experiencing local customs and traditions.Diabolical Women
2015
Diabolical Women
2015
Planning a crime often takes a lot of work and some deviously clever thinking. This series profiles women who use twisted ingenuity to come up with elaborate schemes that result in what they think are perfect crimes. No matter the motive -- whether it's power, control or money -- the women stop at nothing to get what they want.The Great Canadian Wilderness
2006
Explore the raw beauty and awesome natural power of the Great Canadian Wilderness - the largest untouched wilderness in the world.Passage à l'acte
2019
Human Body: Pushing the Limits
2008
star 5.5This show covers topics on how the body reacts to moments of extreme stress like being stuck in a cave or running away from forest fires. It is made up of four episodes that all concentrate on a certain aspect of our body when we are "pushed to the limit".TAXI KILLER
2025
Mission: Investigate – Once Brothers
2025
For five years, journalist Diamant Salihu has followed the criminal network Foxtrot and its frontmen Rawa Majid and Ismail Abdo. Now he has access to hundreds of files, secrets, from Foxtrot's inner world. This is the story of how two friends became mortal enemies - and made an entire country their battlefield. But Sweden was just the beginning.Battle Factory
2015
Battle Factory
2015
star 2Battle Factory takes us into the hidden world of military and frontline gear factories all over the world, where raw materials become finished products
