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TV Show: PBS Space Time ( 2015 )
PBS Space Time explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astrophysics, the possibilities of sci-fi, and anything else you can think of beyond Planet Earth. Host Matt O'Dowd breaks down the both the basic and incredibly complex sides of space and time.
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Movie: Into the Okavango ( 2020 )
A passionate conservation biologist brings together a river bushman fearful of losing his past and a young scientist uncertain of her future on an epic, four-month expedition across three countries, through unexplored and dangerous landscapes, in order to save the Okavango Delta, one of our planet's last pristine wildernesses.
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TV Show: Dogs ( 2018 )
Dogs tracks six incredible stories from across the globe including Syria, Japan, Costa Rica, Italy and the US—each proving that the unconditional love one feels for their dog is a beautiful universal truth.
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TV Show: Mysteries of Mental Illness ( 2021 )
Mysteries of Mental Illness explores the story of mental illness in science and society. The four-part series traces the evolution of this complex topic from its earliest days to present times. It explores dramatic attempts across generations to unravel the mysteries of mental illness and gives voice to contemporary Americans across a spectrum of experiences.
 
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TV Show: The Birth of Empire: The East India Company ( 2014 )
Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionised the British lifestyle and laid the foundations of today's global trading systems.
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TV Show: Points de Repères ( 2016 )
What would we currently be without Copernicus or Darwin? What would Europe be if Churchill had not gone to war with the Nazis, or if the Fall of the Berlin Wall had not happened? A grain of sand can change the course of history. Points de Repères tells us the great History through small events that changed the world.
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TV Show: Eden: Untamed Planet ( 2021 )
Travel to the far corners of the planet and discover the secrets of Earth's few remaining untouched lands, all brimming with life. Isolated from the rest of the world, these places have been protected from the most damaging effects of human interference. In these lands, life exists as nature intended. Delicately balanced, species-rich, unique ecosystems. This series embarks on a breath-taking journey to Earth's last Edens.
 
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Movie: The Dark Ages ( 2007 )
The History Channel examines the Dark Ages from the fall of the Roman Empire to the First Crusade.
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TV Show: The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family ( 2021 )
An epic three-part series that charts the rise and fall of the Boleyns. A story of love, sex and betrayal, told from the the family's unique perspective.
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TV Show: Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire ( 2006 )
This dramatised documentary series tells the story of the rise and fall of Ancient Rome through the six key turning points. Factually accurate and based on extensive historical research, it reveals how the greed, lust and ambition of men like Caesar, Nero and Constantine shaped the Roman Empire. It describes how Rome destroyed Carthage, was conquered by Caesar, how it suppressed the Jewish revolt, and converted to Christianity. CGI is mixed with compelling drama and spectacular live-action battles to tell the definitive television story of how the Empire was formed, how it achieved maximum power, and why it eventually failed.
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TV Show: The Chemical World ( 2021 )
For fifty thousand years, humans have grappled with the question - why are we here? Scientists have sought out the evidence. This is the story of how chemistry shaped our planet and gave rise to all life on earth.
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TV Show: Back to Nature ( 2021 )
In this 8-part, visually stunning ABC factual series, hosts Aaron Pedersen (Mystery Road) and bestselling author Holly Ringland (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart) will guide viewers through the wonder and awe of the Australian landscape, exploring stories that reconnect the audience with the natural world and with Country.
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TV Show: Under the Pole ( 2020 )
Join a team of adventurers and divers on polar expeditions to explore the hidden faces of the Arctic and the cold depths of Greenland's fjords.
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TV Show: Charles I: Downfall of a King ( 2019 )
Historian Lisa Hilton discovers how, in just fifty tempestuous days, Charles I's rule collapsed, laying the foundations for civil war, the loss of royal power and, ultimately, the king's head.
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TV Show: Armada: 12 Days to Save England ( 2015 )
Three-part documentary about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, featuring dramatic reconstructions and information gleaned from recently recovered documents. Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588. Anita Dobson stars as Elizabeth I.
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TV Show: Britain's Bloody Crown ( 2016 )
Historian Dan Jones tells the story of the War of the Roses. This series uses Dan's unique storytelling method with dramatic re-enactments.
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TV Show: Killers of the Cosmos ( 2021 )
Space inspires awe and wonder, but it also can be scary... and lethal. Supermassive black holes, deadly gamma-ray bursts, rogue asteroids, dark energy, supernovas... Our world is under attack from above. It's like a ticking time bomb. Killers of the Cosmos takes a film-noir approach to these threats, mixing scripted, animated drama with top experts in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, biology, cosmology, and planetary science.Aidan Gillen steps in as our gumshoe detective. In each episode, he's got a case to solve, with a different killer to identify and track down. But first, he needs evidence. Aided by a mysterious informant, he investigates each disaster-in-the-making via a wide range of experts who've studied some of science's most unbelievable wonders. 
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TV Show: The Cars That Built the World ( 2021 )
The Cars That Built The World tells the story of a group rival engineers who created a revolution in transportation and forever changed the world in the process. Driven by innovation and rivalry, their genius created the most transformative invention of the 20th century, spawning new industries and bringing about a freedom never imagined before the birth of the car. Exploring over a century of innovation and covering Honda, Toyota, Mercedes, Ford, Porsche, Rolls Royce and more, these are the dramatic stories behind the biggest names in the auto industry.
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TV Show: Future of Work ( 2021 )
Future of Work explores monumental changes in the workplace and the long-term impact on workers, employers, educators and communities. Employment is part of the American Dream. Will the future provide opportunities for jobs that sustain families and the nation?
 
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TV Show: Africa's Trees of Life ( 2016 )
Africa's Trees of Life tells three stories of the endurance and survival of Africa's most iconic natural history symbols – from predators to prey, extreme environments and legendary trees. A pride of lions, a territorial leopard and a cheetah mother play out their lives in the shadows of three impressive trees – the sausage tree in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia, the Acacia camel thorn in the Kalahari in South Africa, and the marula tree in the Manyeleti near the Kruger National Park. This is the incredible story of the hunters and the prey that depend on these remarkable trees – the trees of life.
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Movie: Einstein and Hawking: Unlocking the Universe ( 2019 )
Exploring two of the greatest thinkers of humanity, and their contributions to our understanding of the universe.
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TV Show: Fiasco ( 2021 )
In Fiasco, Leon Neyfakh will transport listeners into the day-to-day reality of our country's most pivotal historical events, bringing to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present.
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Movie: What Is Consciousness? What Is Its Purpose? ( 2017 )
A probe into what modern neuroscience can tell us about consciousness and analyzes the implications of the cultural lens through which we tend to perceive it, revealing logical answers to some of humanity's oldest existential questions.
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TV Show: Wonders of the Celtic Deep ( 2021 )
Documentary exploring the nature and wildlife of the Welsh coast. 
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Movie: Dark Star: HR Gigers Welt ( 2015 )
A look at the life the dark surrealist Swiss artist, H.R.Giger shot a year before his death.
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Movie: Hawking: Can You Hear Me? ( 2021 )
Sky Original documentary exploring the remarkable human story of Stephen Hawking, as family, friends and colleagues speak candidly for the first time about his life.
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TV Show: South Pacific ( 2009 )
One Ocean. 20,000 Islands. A Quarter of the World's Water.The extraordinary wildlife, culture and history of this immense, fascinating ocean and its myriad islands are revealed in stunning detail in this acclaimed BBC series.With its coral reefs, turquoise lagoons and dramatic oceanic atolls, the South Pacific is the archetypal paradise. But from the shores of Hawaii to Easter Island and a thousand tiny remote islands, this ocean holds some of the most bizarre and intriguing surprises on Earth...The incredible photography and discoveries of this series capture the amazing natural sights of the region: from erupting undersea volcanoes to jewelled tropical reefs and from tiger sharks catching albatross chicks to giant crabs opening coconuts. It reveals how the islands' isolation has helped evolve flesh-eating caterpillars, vampire bugs with antifreeze in their veins, a strange nocturnal parrot with a mating call like a bull frog and the fascinating monkey-tailed skink.South Pacific also tells of the people whose ancestors journeyed thousands of miles to the islands. Some acquired new survival techniques such as the palolo worm-harvesting Samoans or the Solomon islanders who fish with spider webs and kites, while others developed bizarre rituals such as the Pentecost land divers who leap from 25-metre wooden scaffolds.With incredible natural spectacles, dramatic footage and fascinating stories, South Pacific will change the way you view this ocean forever.
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TV Show: Rome: The World's First Superpower ( 2014 )
Rome: The World's First Superpower follows award-winning actor Larry Lamb as he tells the story of Rome 3,000 years ago, an extraordinary people rose and conquered the known world. He looks at how the Romans then went onto creating the greatest empire mankind has ever seen, stretching from Britain to the middle east and how it lasted a thousand years.
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TV Show: The Great Human Race ( 2016 )
Six million years ago our ancestors began to walk upright then left the trees and ventured out into the wild African savanna. For millions of years we would adapt, strengthen, and spread across the planet's harshest terrains. We withstood droughts and ice ages to not only survive, but to become the dominant species on Earth. Could we do it again?
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Movie: Google and the World Brain ( 2013 )
The most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet: Google's master plan to scan every book in the world and the people trying to stop them. Google say they are building a library for mankind, but they also have other intentions.
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TV Show: The Mating Game ( 2021 )
Series exploring the lengths that animals go to in search of a mate, featuring footage of dancing, fighting and even deceiving potential partners.
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TV Show: Universe ( 2021 )
Professor Brian Cox journeys across the vastness of time and space revealing epic moments of sheer drama that changed the universe forever.
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TV Show: Wild Arctic ( 2018 )
From the Arctic Ocean and its isolated Islands to the bleak, barren tundra and frozen forests of the taiga, the Arctic region is locked in ice for more than half of the year; in summer, this land of contrast bursts into life.
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TV Show: Secrets in the Ice ( 2020 )
Visits to the most remote, cold and inhospitable places on the planet to reveal great mysteries that have been frozen in time.
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TV Show: Wonders of the Solar System ( 2010 )
Experience the extraordinary…in our planet's own backyard. Wonders explores some of the most amazing features of our very own solar system – how the forces of nature carved out beauty and order from the chaos of space; how our home planet doesn't sit in magnificent isolation but is intimately connected with the rest of the solar system; and how these connections have created the haven we call Earth. Using the latest scientific knowledge and breathtaking images beamed back from the fleet of probes, rovers and telescopes currently in space, this gorgeous imagery, paired with some of the most spectacular and extreme locations on Earth, help to reveal wonders never thought possible.
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TV Show: Inside the Medieval Mind ( 2008 )
In Inside the Medieval Mind, one of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrews University, investigates the intellectual landscape of the medieval world. In this series he opens up the often surprising discontinuities and similarities between the medieval age and our own as he remarks: "In many ways these were people very much like us, in terms of family, ambitions for children and the world of emotions. On the other hand, they inhabited a very different world, in which it was believed the dead visited the living, and where somewhere there lived a race of people with the heads of dogs." The series comprises four one hour programmes, each on a different aspect of medieval thinking: Belief; Sex; Power; Knowledge. During the series he visits numerous medieval locations, from Westminster Abbey to Pluscarden Abbey near Inverness, with wide use of readings from original medieval sources.
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TV Show: The Engineering That Built the World ( 2021 )
The Golden Gate Bridge. The Panama Canal. The Transcontinental Railroad.  Iconic structures that have shaped and defined our nation and our world. The Engineering That Built the World tells the stories of the brilliant visionaries behind the most epic builds of the past two centuries. Against insurmountable challenges, these are the unknown tales of rivalries, egos, backdoor politics and the brilliant innovations behind iconic feats of engineering that made the future possible.
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TV Show: Civilisations ( 2018 )
Civilisations explores the visual culture of societies from around the globe, revealing alongside the magnificent objects made in the West the wealth of treasures created by other cultures, from the landscape scrolls of classical China and the sculpture of the Olmecs to African bronzes, Japanese prints and Mughal miniatures.
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TV Show: Nature and Us: A History through Art ( 2021 )
Art historian James Fox tells the story of our ever-changing relationship with nature through the lens of some of the world's most extraordinary artwork.
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Movie: Fantastic Fungi ( 2019 )
June 12, 2019 From the Maui Film Festival's Celestial Cinema. Imagine an organism that feeds you, heals you, reveals secrets of the universe and could help save the planet. Fantastic Fungi is a revelatory time-lapse journey, from 2019 Maui Film Festival Visionary Award honoree and director Louie Schwartzberg, about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.
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TV Show: The Normans ( 2010 )
In this major series, Professor Robert Bartlett examines the extraordinary expansion and unchecked ambition of the Normans, and shows how they transformed the history of Europe.
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TV Show: She-Wolves: England's Early Queens ( 2012 )
In the medieval and Tudor world there was no question in people's minds about the order of God's creation - men ruled and women didn't. A king was a warrior who literally fought to win power then battled to keep it. Yet despite everything that stood in their way, a handful of extraordinary women did attempt to rule medieval and Tudor England. In this series, historian Dr Helen Castor explores seven queens who challenged male power, the fierce reactions they provoked and whether the term 'she wolves' was deserved.
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TV Show: Monarchy ( 2004 )
Monarchy is a series by British academic David Starkey, charting the political and ideological history of the English monarchy (later British), from the Saxon period to modern times.
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TV Show: The Churchills ( 2012 )
Dr. David Starkey tells the story of the two greatest war leaders in British history, both of whom were called Churchill.Everyone knows Winston Churchill led Britain and her Allies in their struggle against Hitler; less well-known is John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, who led Britain and her Allies against an earlier would-be dictator of Europe, the Sun King, Louis XIV of France.John Churchill was Winston's ancestor, but he was more than that: he was his inspiration and he was his subject. Winston was a writer and historian before he was Prime Minister, and perhaps his greatest work is his massive, million-word biography of John Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, published in four volumes between 1933 and 1938.
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TV Show: The Nile with Sir Ranulph Fiennes ( 2021 )
The explorer is joined by his actor cousin Joseph Fiennes to embark on a journey following the course of the river in a re-creation of his 1969 expedition.
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TV Show: Modern Masters ( 2010 )
A series charting the life and explaining the work of modern artists Picasso, Matisse, Dali and Warhol, and looking at their influence on contemporary art, design and architecture.
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TV Show: Walking the Nile ( 2015 )
It's known as a holy grail in exploration because its sheer length alone contributes to its timeless mystery. The Nile, the planet's longest river, is a life source to six African countries (Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Republic of Sudan and Egypt) - some of whose names currently are synonymous with danger and conflict. The Nile also is known as the cradle of civilization; the first cities known to man were developed on its storied shores. It snakes its way through a region that's full of duality: it's both peaceful and dangerous; it is both a source of life and cause of death; it's remote and urban; and it's the epicenter for a diverse mix of religions and cultures, both modern and primitive. Now, dauntless explorer and former British Army paratrooper Levison Wood is Walking the Nile - from source to sea - to uncover its many perplexities and to be the first person ever to endure something of extraordinary magnitude.
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TV Show: La Guerre des Trônes: la Véritable Histoire de l'Europe ( 2017 )
La Guerre des Trônes: la Véritable Histoire de l'Europe recounts the epic story of the rival dynasties that forged the history of medieval and early modern Europe. Shot on location across Europe, the series documents the turbulent conflicts between the French Royal Houses of Valois and Burgundy, and their Plantagenet rivals in England, which erupted with such ferocity in the titanic struggle of The Hundred Years War. Each episode focuses on a moment in European history and a clash between European houses.
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TV Show: Great Barrier Reef ( 2012 )
Stretching a full 2000 kilometres in length and made up of 3000 individual reef systems and hundreds of islands, Australia's Great Barrier Reef is breathtakingly beautiful. Selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981, it is one of the wonders of the natural world. These programmes offer a definitive guide to the secrets of the reef - how it was created, how it works, the intricate relationships between its inhabitants and how climate change and other factors might shape its future. Using the latest specialist filming and visual techniques, the series captures the magic of the reef as it has never been seen before.
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TV Show: Lost Treasure Tombs of the Ancient Maya ( 2021 )
Archaeologists search for clues about how the Maya lived and what happened to them
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TV Show: The King and the Playwright: A Jacobean History ( 2012 )
Professor James Shapiro re-examines the work of Shakespeare during King James I's reign.
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TV Show: Welcome to Earth ( 2021 )
Welcome to Earth is an epic, stunning series from Darren Aronofsky in which Will Smith embarks on an awe-inspiring journey to unlock the secrets of this planet's most extraordinary, unexplained phenomena.
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Movie: Lost Tombs of the Pyramids (TV Special 2020) ( 2020 )
For centuries Egyptologists have believed that the Great Pyramids of Giza were designed as tombs. But why have no bodies or treasure ever been discovered inside the pyramids? Now, the history of the pyramids could be on the verge of being re-written. With exclusive access we follow the team as they unearth and examine the lost tombs, making the most important find in Egypt since the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb.
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Movie: Perpetual Planet: Heroes of the Oceans ( 2021 )
Legendary oceanographer Sylvia Earle and a cast of pioneering marine scientists tell the story of the incredible work being undertaken across the planet to protect the fragile ecosystem of our oceans. Perpetual Planet: Heroes of the Oceans is a showcase of the wonder of the sea, of the living laboratory we all live in and of the vital science being carried out beneath the waves every single day. Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Antarctica, and the world's other unique ecosystems are highlighted in the gripping and visually stunning documentary.
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TV Show: The Green Planet ( 2022 )
The Green Planet is the first immersive portrayal of an unseen, inter-connected world, full of remarkable new behaviour, emotional stories and surprising heroes in the plant world. Using brand new technological advances and over two decades of new discoveries, this is Planet Earth from the perspective of plants.
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TV Show: Dunkirk: Mission Impossible ( 2022 )
Former Royal Marine JJ Chalmers uses his own devastating experiences of war to give his perspective on the evacuation of Allied soldiers in May and June 1940.
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TV Show: Lincoln's Dilemma ( 2022 )
Discover a side of Abraham Lincoln you've never seen before. In this four-part docuseries, a diverse panel of historians and rare archival materials offer a more nuanced look into the man dubbed the Great Emancipator.
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TV Show: Maya: Ancient Metropolis
Using detailed and explanatory 3D recreations, re-enactments and interviews with leading international experts, this series brings the Maya civilisation back to life and reveals the mysteries of their greatest achievements: the first urban metropolises in the world.
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TV Show: Blood Money: Inside the Nazi Economy ( 2018 )
June 1940: Hitler launches tanks and troops across France, Belgium and Holland. Yet Germany is impoverished, has few raw materials, and no oil or currency. How did the Nazis manage to set off the cataclysm of WWII with little money and a weak economy? Based on the work of a new generation of French, British and German historians, our film takes an economic, industrial and financial approach to the Third Reich, exploring the inner workings of the Nazi system through key characters who have been overshadowed by history (Hjalmar Schacht, Dr. Georg Von Schnitzler, Fritz Sauckel, Erich Müller...). Thanks to 3D animation and rare archive footage, this film will reveal how the Nazis were able to weave their violent, racist views into every thread of the German economy, from large-scale industry to small businesses to agriculture, research and nance, creating a model whose main management tools were theft and mass murder, and whose ultimate goal was war and the destruction of Europe.
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TV Show: Mankind Decoded ( 2013 )
Mankind Decoded reveals the gripping story of how 12 surprising forces shaped human civilization and helped make us who we are today. Lust for Luxury depicts the hunger of ordinary people for the luxuries of the rich, and how this has impacted history, from the obsession with silk to the fall of Constantinople and the industrial revolution.
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TV Show: Titanic: Stories from the Deep ( 2019 )
A ground-breaking documentary series uncovering new history from 12,000 feet deep below the Atlantic Ocean. With the use of cutting-edge technology, the unique collection of artifacts salvaged from the underwater resting site of the wreck tells us brand new stories of love, deception, fate and heroics. Each episode follows the individual journeys of these artifacts from their recovery, to their connection to specific passengers on the ship and their connection to someone living today.
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TV Show: Abraham Lincoln ( 2022 )
The HISTORY Channel's three-night documentary event Abraham Lincoln will be a definitive biography of the 16th president, the man who led the country during its bloodiest war and greatest crisis.
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Movie: The Divided Brain ( 2019 )
A film which explores a radical new idea - is there an imbalance between our brain hemispheres that is affecting how we live in our modern society?
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TV Show: Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies ( 2022 )
In this mind-bending series, Jim Al-Khalili explores the vast range of size in the universe, from tiny atoms to gigantic, interconnected galaxies.
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TV Show: Voices of Liberation ( 2022 )
The writings and eyewitness accounts of wartime participants help trace the story of Europe's liberation during WWII in this historical docuseries.
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TV Show: Ancient Earth: Dinosaurs of the Frozen Continent ( 2022 )
Antarctica went through greenhouse epochs before it eventually succumbed to ice again. The great mystery is how the animals and plant life evolved and survived in a strange polar seasonal world of months of darkness.
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TV Show: Benjamin Franklin ( 2022 )
Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th Century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States. Franklin's 84 years (1706-1790) spanned an epoch of momentous change in science, technology, literature, politics, and government — fields he himself advanced through a lifelong commitment to societal and self-improvement.
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TV Show: Alien Abyss ( 2022 )
Explore the bizarre mating rituals of the ocean's most peculiar creatures, from bloody battles to super-size litters.
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TV Show: Prehistoric Planet ( 2022 )
Experience the wonders of our world like never before in this epic docuseries from Jon Favreau and the producers of Planet Earth. Travel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas, and skies.
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TV Show: A Year on Planet Earth ( 2022 )
A Year on Planet Earth is a new narrative approach, showcasing the many wonders of the world, revealing the incredible ways in which all life is connected and how massive natural events affect the lives of individual animals. Combining extreme weather, breathtaking landscapes, epic wildlife spectacles and lovable animal characters, this series reveals our planet in a completely new light, uncovering how animals react and adapt to shifting habitats and unexpected events.
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TV Show: Flukten med Norges gull ( 2022 )
The documentary series about how the Norwegian government, through a secret operation carried out by a group of unlikely people, managed to smuggle 49 tonnes of gold out of the country during the Nazi invasion in April 1940.
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TV Show: Predators ( 2022 )
We follow the stories of six apex predators at a critical moment in their lives as they attempt to secure the future for the next generation.  Grappling with multiple responsibilities these are deadly hunters, caring parents, and cunning survivors who hold secrets and thrilling stories in their quest to survive. For Polar Bears in Canada, Wild Dogs in Zimbabwe, Pumas in Chile, Lions in Botswana, Brown Bears in Russia, and Cheetahs in Tanzania, this is the ultimate power struggle. The stakes have never been higher - who will win and who will lose?  
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TV Show: Celts: The Untold Story ( 2022 )
This 3-part documentary series will delve into the mysteries, myths, and arcane history of the CELTS, and reveal brand new information about the ancient civilization.
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TV Show: Shadowland ( 2022 )
Inspired by reporting in The Atlantic magazine, award-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger sends documentary teams across America to embed with subjects who have rejected mainstream narratives, including the shocking real-time stories of a beloved rural Pennsylvania pizza shop owner facing twenty years in prison for her role in the January 6th riots, an anti-vaccine activist pushing a dangerous fake cure for Covid-19, and a mother divorcing her husband because she fears his beliefs put their children's lives in danger. From this intimate viewpoint, Shadowland, a deeply immersive six-part docu-series, reveals how conspiracy theories have moved from the margins to the mainstream, exploring how people come to their beliefs, and what makes these theories so alluring. The series is a shocking wakeup call about the dangerous influence of conspiracy thinking on the functioning of our democracy, as families, friends, and the nation are increasingly being torn apart.
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TV Show: Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World ( 2022 )
Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World explores the wonders of one of the wildest places on Earth through the lives of extraordinary animals and people that inhabit it. Filmed over one dramatic year, we reveal what it takes to survive and thrive at the edge of the world. This is Patagonia like you've never seen it before.
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TV Show: Rise of Empires: Ottoman ( 2020 )
Using a blend of scripted and documentary elements, Ottoman tells the story of Mehmed II, aka Mehmed the Conqueror, 15th century reign of Ottoman ruler.
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Movie: King of Clones ( 2023 )
From human cloning research to a scandalous downfall, follow the life and work of Korea's most notorious scientist, Hwang Woo-suk.
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Movie: The Space Race ( 2024 )
Explores the experiences of the first Black astronauts through decades of archive film and interviews in a reflective illumination on the burden of breaking barriers.
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Movie: Low-Tech ( 2023 )
Low-tech is a practical ecological approach that involves designing or disseminating simple, durable, and accessible techniques and know-how for all. Low-tech takes us into a group of citizens who are fighting to democratize this approach.
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TV Show: Legends of Venom ( 2023 )
Each hour tells the stories of various snakes: how they live, why we can't see them, what they do to feed and breed, and how they deal with living near humans. Glossy natural history footage showcases the beautiful snakes and their behaviour. To tell the human side, we feature snake catchers entering houses and properties before rescuing the snakes and releasing them to live out their days in the wild. Snakes featured: Mamba, Cobra and Viper.
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TV Show: Earthstorm ( 2022 )
Storm chasers, survivors and first responders recount their harrowing experiences with volcanoes, tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes.
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TV Show: Great Lakes Untamed ( 2022 )
The Great Lakes, home to a fifth of the world's fresh water and the backbone of a vast ecosystem, are explored from every angle on this documentary series.
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TV Show: Home: The Story of Earth ( 2022 )
In 1969, the first humans to travel to the moon looked back at the whole of the Earth. Since then our understanding of our planetary home and our impact upon it has grown exponentially.
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TV Show: Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland ( 2023 )
Twenty-five years after a peace agreement was reached, Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland shares intimate, unheard testimonies from all sides of the conflict. It weaves together the personal stories of ordinary men, women, and children who were drawn willingly and unwillingly into a conflict spanning over thirty years. The series mixes extraordinary archive footage and emotionally compelling first-person testimonies to create an intimate, multi-generational portrait of Northern Ireland's past, present, and future, emphasizing understanding and empathy for all points of view.
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TV Show: Ningaloo Nyinggulu ( 2023 )
Tim Winton takes us on a journey to one of the last intact wild places left on Earth. Its First Peoples call this global treasure Nyinggulu. The rest of us know it as Ningaloo.
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TV Show: Hitler: The Lost Tapes ( 2022 )
Exploring the public and private life of the infamous dictator, featuring the photos and videos of two photographers who dedicated their lives to documenting Hitler - Heinrich Hoffmann, his official photographer, and Hoffmann's photographic assistant Eva Braun, who went on to become Hitler's wife.
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TV Show: The Great Stink of 1858 ( 2023 )
Dr Xand van Tulleken tells how an extraordinary heatwave struck London in the summer in 1858 and a terrible stench began to rise from the River Thames. 
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TV Show: Earth ( 2023 )
The epic, four-billion-year story of the place humanity calls home.
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TV Show: Nature's Strangest Mysteries: Solved ( 2019 )
Nature is awe inspiring, but sometimes it's downright weird--strange animal behavior, unexpected events, stuff that just doesn't make sense. A team of experts are on hand to work on solving nature's strangest mysteries.
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TV Show: The Titans That Built America ( 2021 )
The Titans That Built America chronicles the incredible rise and fierce rivalries of industrial heavy hitters William Boeing, Walter Chrysler, JP Morgan Jr, and Pierre Du Pont. The ruthless, innovative and cunning titans battled each other—and FDR—to create entirely new industries at a time when the country was in absolute peril.  The Great Depression ravaged not only the economy, but also the American way of life.  Out of that rubble, this new age of robber barons emerges to once again help lift America to new heights.  From revolutionizing the automobile and erecting monuments and skyscrapers, to conquering human flight and fueling the American victory in World War II, they show that fortune favors the bold and together they not only resurrect the nation in a time of need, but ultimately band together to help defeat our country's greatest enemy.
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TV Show: Expedition Antarctica
Following extreme diver and biologists Laurent Ballesta and acclaimed photographer Vincent Munier, exploring for the first time sub-glacial lakes deep under the ice pack and decoding the secret weapons of wildlife and micro-organic life thriving under such extreme conditions.
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TV Show: The Sword
The sword has influenced the outcome of some of the greatest moments in history, inspired famous myths and legends, and served as a symbol of the fight against evil and oppression. It turned blacksmiths into artisans, soldiers into legends, and actors into swashbuckling heroes. Explore the history of this iconic weapon and its evolution from flint and bone tools of the Stone Age to light saber weapons in space.
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Movie: The Green Book: Guide to Freedom ( 2019 )
In the 1930s, a black postal carrier from Harlem named Victor Green published a book that was part travel guide and part survival guide. It was called The Negro Motorist Green Book, and it helped African-Americans navigate safe passage across America well into the 1960s. Explore some of the segregated nation's safe havens and notorious "sundown towns" and witness stories of struggle and indignity as well as opportunity and triumph.
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Movie: Jefferson's Secret Bible ( 2012 )
Relatively few people know that along with authoring the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson also compiled his own text, drawn carefully from passages extracted out of the New Testament, that he titled "The Life and Morals
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TV Show: Hostile Planet ( 2019 )
Hostile Planet is a ground-breaking wildlife series that explores Earth's most hostile environments. Over the course of six episodes, we explore the extremes of deep, high, cold, hot, wet and dry and reveal the truly extraordinary ways in which animals have adapted to survive in the face of great adversity. It's always been a hostile planet and yet, in the last 40 years, it's got a whole lot tougher for the wildlife. The world has changed more in the last 40 years than at any time in the last 65 million. So animals in the most hostile places on Earth must adapt in the blink of an evolutionary eye. Facing everything from intrinsically hostile habitats and brutally punishing weather to the unrelenting threat of predators and intense competition for resources, their challenge is simple: adapt or die.
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TV Show: Elizabeth II: Making of a Monarch ( 2023 )
Elizabeth II: Making of a Monarch offers a tantalizing look at our Queen's extremely eventful and character defining early life – shining a light on the events which shaped her Majesty into the amazing person and monarch she was.We follow a cast of royal experts, including personal friend, of the late Queen Gyles Brandreth and royal historians Dr Ed Owens & Professor Kate Williams, as they dive into the world-renowned Getty Images archive. Uncovering unseen and super-rare pictures of her majesty Queen Elizabeth II, from her eventful childhood and wartime service through to a fairytale romance with Prince Phillip and her difficulties juggling motherhood with duty. These images give us an intimate look into the Queen's life rarely seen by the public. This is the "Making of a Monarch".
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TV Show: Queens that Changed the World ( 2023 )
For so long believed to be bit-players in histories dominated by men, some queens wielded extraordinary power, and ruled in ways that far surpassed their male counterparts.
In this series we discover what drove these women, how they asserted their authority, and reveal the times when, sometimes, being a woman had its advantages.Combining archive, location shooting, talking heads and stylised recreations, we trace the rise to power of each queen and investigate their reign. With analysis from historians, academics and psychologists, we will pick apart the challenges they faced and discover each monarch's unique approach to power while understanding wider themes such as women's changing position in society and what it meant to be the ‘fairer sex'.
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TV Show: Ancient Empires ( 2023 )
This seven-hour miniseries explores the foundations of the greatest empires of all time and the incredible stories of the three iconic rulers who amassed unbelievable power and transformed the world. Night one kicks off with Alexander the Great, followed by Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
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TV Show: Ike ( 1979 )
Miniseries detailing the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who commanded American forces during World War II, romanced his driver Kay Summersby and later became President of the United States.