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Not long after the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles opened in 1924, a guest committed suicide in one of its rooms, beginning a decades-long string of murders, suicides or otherwise unexplained...
Horror at the Cecil Hotel (2017 )
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Morgan Freeman travels the globe in search of an answer to one fundamental question for humanity: what are the common forces that bind us together?
The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman (2017 )
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The very first submarine, which legend claims lurked beneath New York Harbor during the American Revolutionary War. The small ships that rescued thousands from Dunkirk. The destroyer that forced the easing of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Over the centuries, conflicts have prompted advances to ship designs, making vessels stronger, faster, smarter, and capable of changing the course of wars. Join us as we examine the world's greatest Combat Ships, and reveal how they shaped world history and inspired men and women to acts of incredible courage.
Combat Ships (2017 )
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Plants Behaving Badly (2017 )
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Penelope sets forth on a special journey exploring the UK's seaside villages
Penelope Keith's Coastal Villages (2017 )
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The story of a teenager wrongfully charged with theft and jailed at Riker's Island prison for over 1,000 days.
Time: The Kalief Browder Story (2017 )
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Dian Fossey's life story from childhood and her early days researching in Congo, through to her arrival in Rwanda, where she spent 18 years studying and protecting the mountain gorilla population. Through extensive and rarely seen archival footage, dozens of Fossey’s letters, interviews with friends and colleagues, and narration by Sigourney Weaver, the event series explores Fossey’s murder and the investigation and trial of her research student Wayne McGuire, who was found guilty in absentia of her murder by the Rwandan courts.
Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist (2017 )
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The incredible story of 1960's legendary astronaut Gordon Cooper and the secret treasure map he began from space.
Cooper's Treasure (2017 )
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To find out about the food she feeds her family, Nadiya meets fishermen, farmers, chefs and producers across the country and creates delicious new recipes inspired by their produce.
Nadiya's British Food Adventure (2017 )
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Modern Dinosaurs (2017 )
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Nick Knowles challenges ten people with different mental health issues to run the London Marathon. Will it change their lives?
Mind over Marathon (2017 )
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The Life-Sized City (2017 )
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Series that captures the lives and passions of the men, women and families who populate the extraordinary world of Irish road racing.
Road Riders (2017 )
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Bees and butterflies play an important role in the pollination of plants and the production of crops for human and animal consumption. The buzzing of the bees and the vibrant colours of butterflies are the staples of the tranquillity and raw beauty of the countryside – a place which beguiles the eyes and calms the soul. But with the hustle and bustle of modern day life, we tend to neglect the microscopic worlds embedded within our own; the symbiotic relationship between their worlds and ours.
Children of the Sun - Wild Bees & Butterflies (2017 )
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Explore the most startling disappearances of the modern era, looking at what we know happened that fateful day, what the theories behind their vanishing are – and what science can tell us about what really happened.
Mysteries of the Missing (2017 )
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Journey with Kirk Johnson to Yellowstone, where wolves, grizzlies, beavers and Great Gray owls survive one of the greatest seasonal changes on the planet. As the temperature swings 140 degrees, cameras capture how the animals cope.
Great Yellowstone Thaw (2017 )
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In a gripping six-part mini-series, police pursue baffling murder cases. To catch the killer, detectives must reconstruct the victim's life.
Grave Mysteries (2017 )
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Let’s stop doing things in the kitchen that made sense in the 19th century but not in the 21st. Milk Street travels the world to bring you the very best ideas and techniques with no lists of hard-to-find ingredients, strange cookware, or all-day methods to slow you down.
Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Television (2017 )
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Plunge into the Pacific with researchers and cinematographers and see the ocean’s rare and dazzling creatures in a way never before seen on television. The show examines an ocean that covers a third of the Earth’s surface.
Big Pacific (2017 )
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In a picturesque South African town, an eclectic group of endangered penguins flock together to find mates, raise families and mix with the locals.
Penguin Town (2021 )
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In 2001 intern Chandra Levy vanishes. Police search the city to find the 24-year-old woman, but a powerful man hampers the search - Chandra's alleged lover, Congressman Gary Condit. Chandra's parents tell the harrowing tale of the desperate pursuit for their missing daughter.
Chandra Levy: An American Murder Mystery (2017 )
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UFOs: The Lost Evidence examines UFOs that may be inhabiting our oceans, top-secret military base Area 52, pilot and astronaut UFO sighting accounts, and deathbed confessions.
UFOs: The Lost Evidence (2017 )
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Ex-CIA operatives Doug Laux and Ben Smith search for the rumored millions hidden by Pablo Escobar in Colombia and Central America.
Finding Escobar's Millions (2017 )
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Filmmaker Patrick O'Dell explores the careers and lives of some of the most influential people in skateboarding–and in the culture at large.
Epicly Later'd (2017 )
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The assassinations of Nazis, terrorists and Iranian nuclear scientists have given the Mossad a fearsome reputation that has come with a moral cost. For the first time, former spy chiefs and operatives discuss personal and operational challenges, ethical dilemmas, and the personal price they were forced to pay.
Inside the Mossad (2017 )
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Paul Murton sets out to explore the lochs of Scotland, travelling from the wilds of the west coast to the Grampian Mountains, discovering the secrets of these iconic features of the Scottish landscape.
Grand Tours of Scotland's Lochs (2017 )
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Documentary series investigating water wars from West Virginia and Michigan to Syria and India including the corporate, political and social interests that are responsible for our water-limited future.
Parched (2017 )
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Mexican superstar actress Kate del Castillo reveals the untold story of her encounter with El Chapo Guzmán, the world’s most-wanted drug lord.
The Day I Met El Chapo: The Kate del Castillo Story (2017 )
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With unprecedented access to the halls of Building 10, First In Human reveals for the first time how the medical breakthroughs of tomorrow make their way out of the hi-tech research laboratories and into the hands of our world’s medical professionals. The series explores the lives of the doctors, researchers, and patients who together make progress possible in this cutting-edge testing ground.
First in Human (2017 )
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We travel to Indigenous communities across the Americas to meet people protecting their homelands and rising up against colonization.
Rise (2017 )
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Powerful cats, indestructible arachnids and flesh-melting pit vipers are just the beginning in this series about Latin America's deadliest creatures.
72 Dangerous Animals: Latin America (2017 )
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Reality show following the auditioning process and making of the annual Dallas Cowboys Cheerleading Squad.
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team (2006 )