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True Stories - Trouble the Water
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Kimberly Rivers Roberts
Kimberly Rivers Roberts' chilling, Oscar-nominated home video captures the ferocious force of Hurricane Katrina as it lays waste to the city of New Orleans.
- TV-Recordings
- History
- English subtitles
- 60
Kimberly Rivers Roberts' chilling, Oscar-nominated home video captures the ferocious force of Hurricane Katrina as it lays waste to the city of New Orleans.
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True Stories - Who Killed the Electric Car
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Channel Four
It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles into landfill sites in the obscurity of the Arizona desert?
- TV-Recordings
- History
- Politics & Public Policy
- TV-Recordings
- English subtitles
- 92
It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles into landfill sites in the obscurity of the Arizona desert?
The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Investigative journalist Thet Sambath records shocking testimonies, from the foot soldiers to Pol Pot's right-hand man.
- TV-Recordings
- History
- Politics & Public Policy
- TV-Recordings
- English subtitles
- 95
The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Investigative journalist Thet Sambath records shocking testimonies, from the foot soldiers to Pol Pot's right-hand man.
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Tsunami - Naming the Dead
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Barbara Flynn
How the biggest international forensic operation in history identified the victims of the most devastating natural disaster of recent times.
- TV-Recordings
- Geography
- History
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- 10
How the biggest international forensic operation in history identified the victims of the most devastating natural disaster of recent times.
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Turner's Thames
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BBC
In this documentary, the presenter and art critic Matthew Collings explores how Turner, the artist of light, makes light the vehicle of feeling in his work, and how he found inspiration for that feeling in the waters of the River Thames.
- TV-Recordings
- Art & Design
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- 60
In this documentary, the presenter and art critic Matthew Collings explores how Turner, the artist of light, makes light the vehicle of feeling in his work, and how he found inspiration for that feeling in the waters of the River Thames.
Documentary. What killed King Tutankhamun? An epic detective story that uncovers the extraordinary truth of the boy behind the golden mask.
- TV-Recordings
- Archaeology
- Classical Civilisation
- English subtitles
- 60
Documentary. What killed King Tutankhamun? An epic detective story that uncovers the extraordinary truth of the boy behind the golden mask.
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Unnatural Histories
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BBC 4
Series looking at three of the world's most iconic wild places and how they have been shaped over time by man.
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- No
Series looking at three of the world's most iconic wild places and how they have been shaped over time by man.
More than anywhere, the Serengeti is synonymous with wilderness and has even come to represent Africa. But the story of the Serengeti is just as much about humans as it is about wildlife.
- TV-Recordings
- Biology
- Environmental Studies
- TV-Recordings
- English subtitles
- 60
More than anywhere, the Serengeti is synonymous with wilderness and has even come to represent Africa. But the story of the Serengeti is just as much about humans as it is about wildlife.
As the world's first national park, Yellowstone has long served as a model for the protection of wilderness around the world. For Americans it has become a source of great national pride, not least because it encapsulates all our popular notions of what a wilderness should be - vast, uninhabited, with spectacular scenery and teeming with wildlife.
- TV-Recordings
- Biology
- Environmental Studies
- TV-Recordings
- English subtitles
- 60
As the world's first national park, Yellowstone has long served as a model for the protection of wilderness around the world. For Americans it has become a source of great national pride, not least because it encapsulates all our popular notions of what a wilderness should be - vast, uninhabited, with spectacular scenery and teeming with wildlife.
The Amazon rainforest is the epitome of a last great wilderness under threat from modern man. It has become an international cause celebre for environmentalists as powerful agricultural and industrial interests bent on felling trees encroach ever deeper into virgin forest. But the latest evidence suggests that the Amazon is not what it seems.
- TV-Recordings
- Biology
- Environmental Studies
- TV-Recordings
- English subtitles
- 60
The Amazon rainforest is the epitome of a last great wilderness under threat from modern man. It has become an international cause celebre for environmentalists as powerful agricultural and industrial interests bent on felling trees encroach ever deeper into virgin forest. But the latest evidence suggests that the Amazon is not what it seems.
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Unreported World 2009 - Liberia: Stolen Childhood
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Channel Four
Unreported World reveals how Liberia is facing a child rape crisis.Six years after the end of a brutal civil war in which rape was routinely used as a weapon, children still face the daily fear of being attacked, and the West African country's hospitals are overwhelmed with child victims, a quarter of them under four years old.
- TV-Recordings
- History
- TV-Recordings
- English subtitles
- 24
Unreported World reveals how Liberia is facing a child rape crisis.Six years after the end of a brutal civil war in which rape was routinely used as a weapon, children still face the daily fear of being attacked, and the West African country's hospitals are overwhelmed with child victims, a quarter of them under four years old.
This Unreported World comes from Sierra Leone where, ten years after one of the most brutal conflicts in recent history, thousands have been left severely traumatised. Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director George Waldrum find that the population, which has witnessed rape, torture and public executions, is served by just one psychiatrist.
- TV-Recordings
- Politics & Public Policy
- TV-Recordings
- English subtitles
- 25
This Unreported World comes from Sierra Leone where, ten years after one of the most brutal conflicts in recent history, thousands have been left severely traumatised. Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director George Waldrum find that the population, which has witnessed rape, torture and public executions, is served by just one psychiatrist.
This is the definitive and fully-authorised documentary of the highs and lows of the UK's most inspired and dissolute independent record label - Creation Records.
- TV-Recordings
- Music
- Other
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- 90
This is the definitive and fully-authorised documentary of the highs and lows of the UK's most inspired and dissolute independent record label - Creation Records.
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Usain Bolt: The Fastest Man Who Has Ever Lived
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Stephen Lyle
Usain Bolt is the fastest man on the planet and a sportsman like no other. But what makes him so much faster than any other man in the history of the human race?
- TV-Recordings
- Biology
- Sport
- TV-Recordings
- English subtitles
- 60
Usain Bolt is the fastest man on the planet and a sportsman like no other. But what makes him so much faster than any other man in the history of the human race?
Documentary series charting the evolution of pop from Tin Pan Alley to today's billion-dollar industry.It begins by tracing the roots of pop in the meeting of two cultures: Jewish and African-American.
- TV-Recordings
- Music
- Other
- TV-Recordings
- English subtitles
- 60
Documentary series charting the evolution of pop from Tin Pan Alley to today's billion-dollar industry.It begins by tracing the roots of pop in the meeting of two cultures: Jewish and African-American.
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Walking with Dinosaurs - Episode 01: New Blood
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Tim Haines, Jasper James
About 20 million years before the appearance of the first dinosaurs, the biggest extinction the world had ever known had occurred. Towards the end of the Triassic, 220 million years ago, there was another extinction, which wiped out many of the non-dinosaurs including the dicynodonts such as Placerias and primitive archosaurs such as Postosuchus. It was after this that dinosaurs really started to radiate and diversify.
- TV-Recordings
- Biology
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- 27
About 20 million years before the appearance of the first dinosaurs, the biggest extinction the world had ever known had occurred. Towards the end of the Triassic, 220 million years ago, there was another extinction, which wiped out many of the non-dinosaurs including the dicynodonts such as Placerias and primitive archosaurs such as Postosuchus. It was after this that dinosaurs really started to radiate and diversify.
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Walking with Dinosaurs - Episode 02: Time of the Titans
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Tim Haines, Jasper James
The earliest dinosaurs were pretty small. Eoraptor was only about 1 m long. However the plant-eating prosauropod, Plateosaurus, that appeared at the end of the Triassic period, was a harbinger of things to come.
- TV-Recordings
- Biology
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- 27
The earliest dinosaurs were pretty small. Eoraptor was only about 1 m long. However the plant-eating prosauropod, Plateosaurus, that appeared at the end of the Triassic period, was a harbinger of things to come.
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Walking with Dinosaurs - Episode 03: Cruel Sea
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Tim Haines, Jasper James
While dinosaurs were ruling on land, the sea was the dominion of an entirely different group of animals: the marine reptiles. The programme concentrates on these amazing creatures that were every bit as awesome as their counterparts on land.
- TV-Recordings
- Biology
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- 27
While dinosaurs were ruling on land, the sea was the dominion of an entirely different group of animals: the marine reptiles. The programme concentrates on these amazing creatures that were every bit as awesome as their counterparts on land.
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Walking with Dinosaurs - Episode 04: Giant of the Skies
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Tim Haines, Jasper James
This episode is set in the early Cretaceous, a time when the world’s continents were breaking apart. It follows an enormous journey made by a giant pterosaur and many different geographical regions are covered in the programme.
- TV-Recordings
- Biology
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- 27
This episode is set in the early Cretaceous, a time when the world’s continents were breaking apart. It follows an enormous journey made by a giant pterosaur and many different geographical regions are covered in the programme.
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War Horse: The Real Story
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Channel 4
The extraordinary and deeply moving story of the million British horses that served in World War I
- TV-Recordings
- History
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- 47
The extraordinary and deeply moving story of the million British horses that served in World War I
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What Darwin Didn't Know
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Armand Leroi
Documentary which tells the story of evolution theory since Darwin postulated it in 1859 in 'On the Origin of Species'.
- TV-Recordings
- Biology
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- 88
Documentary which tells the story of evolution theory since Darwin postulated it in 1859 in 'On the Origin of Species'.
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What's Going On: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye
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Jeremy Marre
Marvin Gaye is one of the great and enduring figures of soul music, but his life was one of sexual confusion, bittersweet success and ultimately death by the hand of his own father.
- TV-Recordings
- Music
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- 60
Marvin Gaye is one of the great and enduring figures of soul music, but his life was one of sexual confusion, bittersweet success and ultimately death by the hand of his own father.
Between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s, the long-playing record and the albums that graced its grooves changed popular music for ever. For the first time, musicians could escape the confines of the three-minute pop single and express themselves as never before across the expanded artistic canvas of the album.
- TV-Recordings
- Music
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- 90
Between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s, the long-playing record and the albums that graced its grooves changed popular music for ever. For the first time, musicians could escape the confines of the three-minute pop single and express themselves as never before across the expanded artistic canvas of the album.
Documentary telling the unexpected story of how arguably the greatest work of English prose ever written, the King James Bible, came into being.
- TV-Recordings
- Literature Books
- TV-Recordings
- English subtitles
- 60
Documentary telling the unexpected story of how arguably the greatest work of English prose ever written, the King James Bible, came into being.
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Which Side Are You On?
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Ken Loach
Ken Loach presents his moving film which looks at the songs and poems inspired by the strike produced by the likes of striking miners, their friends, family and supporters
- TV-Recordings
- Literature Books
- Politics & Public Policy
- TV-Recordings
- English subtitles
- 55
Ken Loach presents his moving film which looks at the songs and poems inspired by the strike produced by the likes of striking miners, their friends, family and supporters
Classicist Dr Michael Scott uncovers the strange, alien world of the ancient Greeks, exploring the lives of the people who gave us democracy, architecture, philosophy, language, literature and sport.
- TV-Recordings
- Classical Civilisation
- English subtitles
- 60
Classicist Dr Michael Scott uncovers the strange, alien world of the ancient Greeks, exploring the lives of the people who gave us democracy, architecture, philosophy, language, literature and sport.
Classicist Dr Michael Scott, explores the legacies of the Ancient Greeks, what they have given us today, and asks why these legacies have lasted through time.
- TV-Recordings
- Classical Civilisation
- English subtitles
- 60
Classicist Dr Michael Scott, explores the legacies of the Ancient Greeks, what they have given us today, and asks why these legacies have lasted through time.
Documentary taking an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
- TV-Recordings
- Politics & Public Policy
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- 60
Documentary taking an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
Do we know what poverty is? Throughout human existence, the poor have always been with us. Beginning with the Neolithic age, Ben Lewis's funny and sinister animated odyssey takes us through the changing image of poverty - helping us define what poverty looks like today and question whether it is inevitable.
- TV-Recordings
- Politics & Public Policy
- TV-Recordings
- No subtitles
- 60
Do we know what poverty is? Throughout human existence, the poor have always been with us. Beginning with the Neolithic age, Ben Lewis's funny and sinister animated odyssey takes us through the changing image of poverty - helping us define what poverty looks like today and question whether it is inevitable.
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Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here
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Michael Tuft
Professor Jeremy Black explains the unique economic, social and political factors that helped Britain transform itself almost entirely by the 19th century.
- TV-Recordings
- English subtitles
- 58
Professor Jeremy Black explains the unique economic, social and political factors that helped Britain transform itself almost entirely by the 19th century.