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Futbol Club Barcelona has enjoyed the best football of the world throughout its history. However, these past few years haven’t lived up to the club’s reputation. After having won every title as a captain, Xavi Hernández is chosen to manage the new project and recover the style and success of the old days.
FC Barcelona: A New Era (2022 )
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Explore the vitality, history and significance of the craft movement in the United States and its impact on our nation's rich cultural heritage. Capturing the beauty, creativity and originality of craftsmanship, the show highlights artists and explores the inter-relationship of what they do, how they do it and why they have chosen a life of creating art.
Craft in America (2007 )
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From illegal gambling to match-fixing, discover the seedy underworld behind the once-revered sport of Muay Thai in this drama inspired by real events.
Hurts Like Hell (2022 )
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A journey that follows the Ganges from its source deep within the Himalayas through to the fertile Bengal delta, exploring the natural and spiritual worlds of this sacred river.
Ganges (2007 )
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Beloved worldwide but also a lightning rod for criticism, Neymar shares the highs and lows of his personal life and brilliant football career.
Neymar: The Perfect Chaos (2022 )
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Taking a look at how challenges are being handled to prepare for a manned flight to Mars.
Mars Rising (2007 )
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Diego Pablo Simeone has created a unique way of understanding soccer. The cholismo is so much more than a game strategy. It is a range of values, tools, and hard work that our protagonist has picked up when facing difficulties during his career. We will spend a unique season by Cholo’s side, discovering the secret behind the success that is writing the story of his legacy.
Simeone. Living Match by Match (2022 )
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Investigating the most high profile art thefts of the 20th and 21st centuries, ‘Art of the Heist’ fits together the pieces of the crime jigsaw and studies the masterpieces coveted by the criminal world.
Art of the Heist (2006 )
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A weekly Canadian television newsmagazine series. The show is anchored by Alain Gravel, and includes contributions from journalists Hélène Courchesne, Josée Dupuis, Sylvie Fournier, Guy Gendron, Normand Grondin, Solveig Miller, Madeleine Roy, Françoise Stanton, Pascale Turbide and Julie Vaillancourt.
Enquête (2007 )
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Legendary manager Fatih Terim recounts his football journey, from his playing days to coaching and leading several teams to championship glory.
Terim (2022 )
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Orangutan Island is an American documentary television series, in the style of the successful series Meerkat Manor, that blends more traditional documentary filming with dramatic narration. The series was produced by NHNZ with creator Judith Curran also acting as the series producer. Animal Planet's Martha Ripp is the executive producer of the series, and Lone Drøscher Nielsen of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, the founder and manager of the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Reintroduction Project, regularly appears with the orangutans in the show. The series premiered on Animal Planet on November 2, 2007, with new episodes airing Friday nights. A second season began airing in November 2008. The show focuses on a group of orphaned orangutans at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue and Rehabilitation Center that are raised to go against their normally independent nature and instead cooperate and live together in a society so they can be left to live wild on their protected island.
Orangutan Island (2007 )
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Weaponology is a documentary television series that premiered on November 6, 2007 on the Discovery Channel. The program also airs on the Military Channel.
Weaponology (2007 )
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Mystery ER is a medical reality program, created by Mike Mathis for the Discovery Health Channel. The show features reenactments of real-life medical mysteries, told through narration and interviews.
Mystery ER (2007 )
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A sequel to the BBC's acclaimed Monsoon Railway. A two-part documentary looks at the incredible organisation that is the Bombay Railway, with stories of the people who keep the trains running 24 hours a day, those who survive because of it - and those who die on it.
Bombay Railway (2007 )
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The lives of Nascar's top drivers and teams on and off the track.
Race for the Championship (2022 )
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Stephen Fry investigates the world of HIV and AIDS today.
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me (2007 )
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This docuseries delves into the past, present and future of América, the most winning and controversial soccer club in Mexico, and its players' DNA.
Club América vs. Club América (2022 )
Bergie (2022 )
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Six captains from six different confederations attempt to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Captains (2022 )
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Real Madrid is the centenarian club that has produced a winning team in every era and generation. No other club has matched the success of the eternal champion. It is a role model for the sporting world. The club’s players and admirers take a look back at the milestones and historic adversity that have made Real Madrid the best team in the world.
Real Madrid: The White Legend (2022 )
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Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music, but its '99 revival delivered days of rage, riots and real harm. Why did it go so horribly wrong?
Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 (2022 )
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A brand new music series that looks back on the most celebrated moments of legendary artists -- from Diddy to *NSYNC -- through the eyes of their kids.
MTV's Family Legacy (2023 )
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Cars and motor sports from around the world are featured in this adaptation of the hit Web series.
/DRIVE (2014 )
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Johnny Hallyday in his own words. This intimate docuseries explores the life and career of France's rock icon through archival film and interviews.
Johnny Hallyday: Beyond Rock (2022 )
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The lives of an emerging superstar and a filmmaker intertwine in this intense, intimate docuseries charting Kanye West's career, filmed over two decades.
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (2022 )
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A four-part documentary series about enigmatic, legendary music producer Phil Spector and what happened on the fateful night of February 3, 2003 when actress Lana Clarkson was shot dead in his mansion.
Spector (2022 )
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In this new series, Foo Fighters commemorate their 20th anniversary by documenting the eight-city recording odyssey that produced their latest, and eighth, studio album.
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways (2014 )
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The documentary series tells of the journey made by Saïd M’Roumbaba (aka Soprano), son of Comorian immigrants born in Marseille’s Northern neighborhoods and now one of France’s most popular artists. It reveals a key element of this success: a friendship “for life” with the three other craftsmen of this saga: Mateo, Mej and Djamali.
Soprano: Sing or Die (2022 )
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Renowned musicians pull out all the stops to give a song of their choice the greatest live performance they can muster — and all in a single take.
Take 1 (2022 )
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Follows one of the most famous families in Brazilian music during the creation of an unprecedented concert, which will bring together all generations of the Gils on stage for the first time.
Gil Family (2022 )
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The rise and fall of Menudo, the most iconic Latin American boy band in history. But behind the glitz and glamour was a web of abuse and exploitation at the hands of the band’s manager, Edgardo Diaz. Through revealing interviews with former Menudo members, this docuseries examines how this extravagant facade was disguising serious wrongdoings by Diaz.
Menudo: Forever Young (2022 )
Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways (2014 )