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I, Caesar
1997
star 5Detailing the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, I, Caesar takes a fascinating look at the public and private lives of six key men who ruled ancient Rome: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero, Hadrian, Constantine and Justinian. Their careers were made up of bloody battles and tactical bribery, stunning innovation and profound corruption, dazzling rhetoric and vicious back-stabbing – and together they form a picture of the most sophisticated highs and most brutal lows of the Roman Empire’s inception, heyday and decline. Stretching at its peak, from the north of England to southern Egypt and from the west coast of Spain to Syria in the east, the Roman Empire included within its boundaries myriad people, cultures and climates.Building Cars: Secrets of the Assembly Line
2019
Broadcasting from one of Britain's biggest car factories, James May, Kate Humble and Ant Anstead reveal the science, engineering and people that keep us all on the road.They Who Dare
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They Who Dare
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They Who Dare was a BBC TV series that ran for two series from 1995 until 1996. It consisted of short documentaries profiling individuals or groups who take part in extreme sports or perform dangerous stunts. It was narrated by Terry Molloy. The programme was repeated but has not been rebroadcast since 1998 the theme was taken from The Mission soundtrack, composed by Ennio Morricone.Mastercrafts
2010
star 8.5Monty Don, a huge fan of traditional crafts, presents Mastercrafts, the programme which celebrates six of the traditional crafts that built our nation and its heritageChartJackers
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ChartJackers
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Chartjackers is a British documentary series, produced by Hat Trick Productions and commissioned by BBC Switch. It documents the lives of four teenage video bloggers over the course of ten weeks, as they attempt to write, record and release a pop song for charity, with the goal to "sell an estimated 25,000 singles to achieve their dream of a number one single". It premiered in the UK on 12 September 2009 on BBC Two, and ran for a single series of eleven weekly episodes. When first broadcast, the programme ran in real time: its first ten episodes documented the events of the previous seven days, while the final episode was an extended compilation that summarised all ten weeks. The Chartjackers single was written entirely through crowdsourcing, with the song's title, lyrics, melody, singers, band, production, cover art and music video all being solicited from the global online community. The crowdsourcing took the format of the four bloggers—Alex Day, Johnny Haggart, Jimmy Hill and Charlie McDonnell—postHyperland
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Hyperland
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Hyperland is a 50-minute long documentary film about hypertext and surrounding technologies. It was written by Douglas Adams and produced and directed by Max Whitby for BBC Two in 1990. It stars Douglas Adams as a computer user and Tom Baker, with whom Adams had already worked on Doctor Who, as a personification of a software agent. In hindsight, what Hyperland describes and predicts is an approximation of today's World Wide Web.Mary Queen of Charity Shops
2009
Mary Portas attempts to transform the humble charity shop from the poor relation on the high street into a real contender.Strike: Inside the Unions
2023
Pickets and people power. Unprecedented access to the people at the heart of the biggest wave of strikes in a generation - from the union leaders to the workers on the frontline.The Baby Has Landed
2019
The Baby Has Landed
2019
Six different families brace themselves for the first laughter, love and chaos-filled weeks of parenthood. First-timers Syler and Mo, family of six the Pierces, overdue mum Hermisha and same-sex couple Paul and Craig prepare for the arrival of their new babies. The Baby Has Landed will capture every moment in the weeks immediately following birth – amongst the most intense and extraordinary times of any family.Trouble at Topshop
2022
star 2The story of the rise and fall of an iconic fashion brand and of an entrepreneur with ambitions to be king of the high street.Cuba: Castro vs. the World
2020
The story of how Cuba struggled in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, their main economic and political supporter. The massive decline in living standards triggered refugee crises, which played havoc with Cuba's already difficult relations with the US and forced the two enemies to negotiate for the first time one-on-one and officially.The Best of British Takeaways
2017
Tom Kerridge and Cherry Healey celebrate our favourite takeaways.Yorkshire Firefighters
2021
Following West Yorkshire’s firefighters as they serve the county’s two million-strong community – from factory blazes to house fires, traffic accidents to helping ambulance crews.The Boats That Built Britain
2010
Sailor and writer Tom Cunliffe takes a voyage through the history of British seafaring and puts some of the vessels featured in the programme through their pacesBillion Dollar Deals and How They Changed Your World
2017
In his latest book and this three-part series, investigative journalist Jacques Peretti strays into Adam Curtis territory. What if the way we understand our world is wrong, he wonders, and it’s not so much politicians who govern our lives but business deals done in secret, in the boardroom and on the golf course?A Black And White Killing: The Case That Shook America
2019
Journalist Mobeen Azhar uncovers the truth behind the killing of a black man by a white supremacist gang member. Did Larnell Bruce die because he was black?Howard Goodall's Story of Music
2013
star 7Shown as six one-hour programmes on BBC2, "Story of Music" presents Howard’s personal view of the musical timeline from the stone age to the digital age, including the influence of classical music on the growth of popular music as well as the evolution of blues, jazz and world music.Comrades
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Comrades
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Comrades was a 1983-84 BBC television documentary series and the related book about life in the Soviet Union composed mainly of interviews and fly on the wall filming of 'normal' Soviet citizens. BBC producer Richard Denton was able achieve a largely unprecedented degree of freedom in selecting and interviewing people.
