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A team of canine experts reveal the secrets of man's best friend, investigating the differences between different breeds and exploring the genetic history of the dogs of a small English village.
The Wonder of Dogs (2013 )
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Historian and author Helen Castor, presenter of the popular series She-Wolves, explores how the people of the Middle Ages handled the most fundamental moments of transition in life: birth, marriage and death. In doing so she reveals how people in the medieval world thought and what they believed in. For the people of the Middle Ages the teachings of the Catholic Church shaped thoughts and beliefs across the whole of Western Europe. But by the end of the Middle Ages the Church would find itself in the grip of momentous change and the way of medieval birth, marriage and death would never be quite the same again.
Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death (2013 )
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Sobering look at how Hitler and the Nazi party manipulated laws to further their hate-filled agenda. People who were considered physically or racially inferior or disloyal to the state were deprived of their rights and often their lives under these Nazi laws. When Germany was ultimately defeated, Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg Trials, in an attempt by the world community to restore the rule of law.
Nazi Law: Legally Blind (2016 )
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Documentary about a 2007 dig in Ireland of ancient graves where two skulls found with stones in their jaws suggest fears that the dead were vampires.
Vampire Skeletons (2011 )
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Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
Genius of the Modern World (2016 )
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Sir Tony Robinson uses drones to reveal Britain's hidden places, from billionaires' private estates to forbidden military zones.
Hidden Britain by Drone (2016 )
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Mollusks deserve a second chance to better their first impression since the world is truly one of a kind. Enter the secret world of mollusks!
Secret World of Mollusks (2021 )
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Three couples go on a ski retreat together. However, what began as a fun trip ends in bloodshed when a blizzard strikes and leaves the six friends trapped in their cabin.
A Tangled Web (2015 )
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The last time Hannetjie Stadler heard her daughter's voice was a voicemail as she called for help during a brutal murderous attack. In 2005 the popular tourist town of Knysna was shattered when two young women were murdered in a nightclub over a period of two months.
Nightclub Killer (2015 )
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For 5000 years, man has sought to inhabit the more accessible areas of Europe, but at its very heart, in the high zones of the Alps, there exists a world parallel to ours. This is a world in which species have survived dramatic climatic upheavals, human exploitation of the land, and now the pressures of mass tourism. The Alps are home to plants and animals that owe their success to an amazing capacity to live in conditions that, for other species–humans included–would be barely tolerable. For them, however, this is everyday life.
Best of Worlds: Life at its Alpine Limits (2014 )
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In the little Filipino village of Oslob, people suffer from the scourge of typhoons and overfishing. Things seem bleak for fisherman Zosimo and his family until the world's biggest shark, the whale shark, comes along and changes everything. One day, a tourist asks to join Zosimo on the boat to take photos of the sharks. Once the pictures appear on the Internet, the lives of Zosimo, his children, and all of those living in the region get turned upside down.
Giants of Fortune: The Whale Sharks of Oslob (2014 )
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Witness the skill and cunning of the great feline predators. Lions, Tigers, Leopards, and Cheetahs all are the embodiment of feline grace and power. They are spectacular top predators that dominate their world and command our respect and our attention. This visually beautiful film brings together dramatic footage from around the world and shares intimate moments from the private lives of cats.
Top Cats (2014 )
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Witness the survival of the carnivores—closely linked to that of the herbivores—and the delicate balance that’s played out since the dawn of time.
The Predators of Africa (2014 )
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A documentary about the tragic life of Charmaine Mare, a young girl who had come to Cape Town in search of work to help provide financial support for her poverty stricken parents. Mare arrived in Cape Town in January 2013 and stayed with a friend Kristina White in Kraaifontein. But, for a few days she would be left alone with Johannes de Jager, the boyfriend of her friend's mother. In those few days, court records show that Mare frequently had to plead with him not to make sexual advances, and even recorded their conversations. Sadly, nobody listened to her pleas for help, with tragic consequences.
The Butcher of Kraaifontein (2014 )
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A sharp, witty, mind-expanding and exuberant foray into the world of logic with Computer Scientist Dave Cliff. Following in the footsteps of the award-winning The Joy of Stats and its sequel, Tails You Win - The Science of Chance, The Joy of Logic takes viewers on a new Wingspan roller-coaster ride through philosophy, maths, science and technology all of which, under the bonnet, run on logic. Wielding the same wit and wisdom, animation and gleeful nerdery as its predecessors, this film journeys from Aristotle to Alice in Wonderland, Sci-Fi to Supercomputers to tell the fascinating story of the quest for certainty and the fundamentals of sound reasoning itself.
The Joy of Logic (2013 )
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The Arctic is accessible to man only because of ice dogs. As hunters, haulers, and guardians, they have been our vital link to nature for thousands of years. Dogs led the Sarqaq people out of Siberia and, a millennium later, led explorers to the North Pole. As the light returns to Greenland, we arrive in Scoresbysund with a troop of the only companions worth having in this harsh environment.
Ice Dogs: The Only Companions Worth Having (2016 )
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One Way Astronaut is about the people who are following this project closely: aspiring astronauts. Stephan, Sara, Henri and Beatriz are 4 people who, like tens of thousands of applicants from all over the world, say they are willing to spend the rest of their lives on Mars. It is the story of Mars One and its founder Bas Lansdorp in the early stages. Space experts answer questions about the likelihood of Mars One succeeding and discuss the kind of risks the astronauts will be taking. The degree of worldwide personal interest this mission has already attracted tells us something about our society today.
One Way Astronaut (2013 )
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They were a bodyguard, a photographer, a bystander, and the future widow of the President. They were all in Dallas, Texas: on 22 November 1963. From that day forward, the assassination of John F. Kennedy would forever be embedded in their memories. The film weaves their paths together on that fateful day, inviting viewers to relive the events through their converging but subjective experiences.
Inside JFK's Assassination (2013 )
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Mount Edziza, a vast complex of fifty volcanoes in northwestern British Columbia, has been erupting under glacial ice for over 8 million years.
Life from Ash and Ice (2013 )
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It was an address that would become infamous. 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester. Home to jobbing builder Fred West, his wife Rose and an assortment of mutilated corpses. During the sixteen gruesome years until 1987, the couple brutally, sadistically and cruelly murdered the victims, including their own children. Sex obsessed Rose sold her body and bedded her lodgers while Fred, a modern day Marquis de Sade, tortured and raped then dug and buried, dismembering bodies to try preventing identification should they be found. Together they trawled the streets looking for new fodder to satisfy their warped lusts. Finally, a chance remark led to the evil being uncovered. Fred delivered himself to the Devil but the law decreed Rose should wait for her reunion with her monster husband.
Fred and Rosemary West - The House Of Horrors (2013 )
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A group of unlikely allies modernized college sports and changed a small Midwestern town, serving as a parallel to the Civil Rights movement that would transform the entire American society.
Jayhawkers (2014 )
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At the height of Maoism, China was as closed off as present-day North Korea. But even at that time, some Western foreigners lived in the country and, in the summer of 1966, they witnessed firsthand the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. In this time, young leftist activists In Western Europe idolized Mao as a harbinger of a utopian society. As China eased out of its age of isolation in the early 1970s, many Westerners outside of China had to face a harsh reality.
Inside Mao's China (2016 )
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Jim Al-Khalili tackles the greatest question in science - how the universe began. By recreating key experiments Jim unravels the mystery of science's creation story.
The Beginning and End of the Universe (2016 )
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Program that, thanks to archive images and recreations, delves into the tactics and strategies used by animals to survive and prevail in the wild world.
Survive the Wild (2016 )
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Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back 500 years to the early Tudor period to become tenant farmers on monastery land.
Tudor Monastery Farm (2013 )
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Here is one of the great mysteries of English history. Elizabeth I is said to have carried on an affair with a leading nobleman, Robert Dudley. Rumors spread that the Queen wanted Dudley's wife, Amy Robsart, dead. Amy turned up savagely murdered. While an inquest cleared the Queen, new evidence today suggests that Amy was indeed assassinated so that her husband could be free to marry the Queen.
Elizabeth I: Killer Queen (2010 )
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Whale Adventure with Nigel Marven (2013 )
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Seen through the eyes of activist, farmers and journalists, Waking the Green Tiger follows an extraordinary campaign to stop a huge dam project on the Upper Yangtze river in southwestern China. Featuring astonishing archival footage never seen outside China, and interviews with a government insider and witnesses, the documentary also tell the history of Chairman Mao's campaigns to conquer nature in the name of progress. An environmental movement takes root when a new environmental law is passed, and for the first time in China's history, ordinary citizens have the democratic right to speak out and take part in government decisions. Activist test this new freedom and save a river. The movement they trigger has the potential to transform China.
Waking the Green Tiger (2011 )
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Acclaimed British art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, investigates the few known facts about William Dobson and seeks out personal stories he left behind as it follows him through his tragically short career. Among the Dobson fans interviewed in the wonderful film is Earl Spencer, brother of the late Princess Diana, who agrees wholeheartedly that William Dobson was the first great British painter.
William Dobson, the Lost Genius of Baroque (2011 )
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A feature-length documentary about two endangered animals, the takahe and the kakapo, this documentary explores the habitat and the community trying to save them. This film includes stunning New Zealand landscapes and enriching stories about these rare creatures.
Brave New Wilderness (2020 )
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These film reels had vanished for decades and no one knew about the secret passion of Hitler's second man Hermann Goering. This footage from his private collection shows for the first time how he preferred to see himself: at the height of his power, acclaimed by the masses - as in the annexation of Austria in 1938, as Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe.
Göring's Secret: The Story of Hitler's Marshall (2011 )
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Immerse yourself in the world of the rich and famous and follow the owner and workers who call this super tower home. With unprecedented access, get a glimpse of what it is like to live, work, and play in the World's Tallest Tower. Featured by XIVETV.
Burj Khalifa: Dubai's Vertical City (2011 )