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TV Show: Our Universe ( 2022 )
Witness the remarkable story of our universe over billions of years and its inextricable link to life on Earth in this sweeping documentary series. Narrated by Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman, comes an epic tale 13.8 billion years in the making. Blending stunning wildlife footage with eye-popping cosmic special effects, this six-part series takes viewers on a fascinating adventure to explore the connections that drive our natural world. From the birth of the Sun to the birth of a sea turtle, Our Universe uses groundbreaking animation to dramatize the spectacular celestial forces that generated our solar system, while modern camera and CGI technology bring the audience up close and personal with some of the most iconic, charismatic animals on Earth.
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Movie: Dancing with the Birds ( 2019 )
From ruffling their majestic feathers to nailing im-peck-able courtship routines, birds in paradise flaunt their best moves in hopes of landing a mate.
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TV Show: Ice Age: A Frozen World
Ice Age: A Frozen World, fronted by naturalist and explorer Steve Backshall, wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan and geologist Chris Jackson will tell this epic story using state of the art technology to bring this frozen world to life. The factual thriller will take viewers on a gripping journey through time, with a mixture of on location pieces, breathtaking Virtual Studio production and expert interviews. The series will unravel the hidden secrets of the Ice Age and how it created the world we now live in. 
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TV Show: Secrets of Our Universe with Tim Peake ( 2023 )
Secrets of Our Universe with Tim Peake is an unmissable, premium landmark series that delivers a fun, action-packed and family-friendly exploration of our universe. Across three mesmerising episodes, Tim will investigate three iconic subjects: The Planets, Stars & Black Holes, and Space Missions.Each episode will share the most incredible stories and exciting revelations on each theme and provides an epic investigation into the Big Questions: What are stars made from? What is a black hole? How far have humans gone in space? Tim will also pause to answer all those niggling queries… Why do some planets have rings? Why does Venus glow?Each episode sees Tim visit astonishing locations, including the extraordinary laboratory where stars are made and the slopes of a volcano that offers the best stargazing on earth. He uses an arsenal of techniques to immerse us in his world – from high-end graphics and stunning archive, to going behind-the scenes with the world's top scientists and the latest discoveries.
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TV Show: The Art of Architecture ( 2019 )
The Art of Architecture explores some of the world's most famous structures and the inspirations of the architects behind them.
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TV Show: Design Defined ( 2023 )
Designers and historians share the origins and hallmarks of some of the most beloved design styles, including midcentury modern, farmhouse, art deco and more. You'll learn the secrets behind each unique approach to design.
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TV Show: Evolution Earth ( 2023 )
Discover how new animal behaviors are revealing insights into the story of our changing planet. Traveling to extreme locations, distant wild lands and modern urban environments, this five-part series meets both animals and people on the front lines of climate change and offers a look at how Earth is evolving at superspeed.
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TV Show: The American Buffalo ( 2023 )
The American Buffalo takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent's most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal's evolution, its significance to the Indigenous people and the landscape of the Great Plains, its near extinction, and the efforts to bring the magnificent mammals back from the brink.For thousands of generations, buffalo (species bison bison) have evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter and, in exchange for killing them, revered the animal. The stories of Native people anchor the series, including the Kiowa, Comanche, and Cheyenne of the Southern Plains; the Lakota, Salish, Kootenai, Mandan-Hidatsa, and Blackfeet from the Northern Plains; and others.Ken Burns recounts the tragic collision of two opposing views of the natural world—and the unforgettable characters who pointed the nation in a different direction.  
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TV Show: Vikings: American Quest ( 2023 )
A crew of experts and volunteers work on constructing the largest recreation of a Viking ship ever in order to sail it across the Atlantic Ocean.
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TV Show: Life on Our Planet ( 2023 )
Life's extraordinary journey to conquer, adapt and survive on Earth across billions of years comes alive in this groundbreaking nature docuseries.
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TV Show: Planet Earth III ( 2023 )
Combining the awe and wonder of the original Planet Earth, the new science and discoveries of Blue Planet II and Planet Earth II, and the immersive character-led storytelling of Dynasties, Planet Earth III will take the experience to new heights.
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TV Show: Black Life: Untold Stories ( 2023 )
Chronicles Canada's long history of anti-Black racism through current interviews and archive material, with episodes focusing on police violence and the emergence of hip-hop music.
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TV Show: Genghis Khan's Mongolia ( 2023 )
Historians look at the reign of Genghis Khan, the khagan who united Mongolian tribes and exerted military force to build one of the largest empires in human history.
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TV Show: The American Presidency with Bill Clinton ( 2022 )
The HISTORY Channel's new series The American Presidency with Bill Clinton, is hosted and executive produced by President Bill Clinton and explores the history of the American presidency and the struggle for a more perfect union across six themed episodes: race, extremism, the struggle for rights, presidential vision, global power. This premium series features expert commentary from renowned authors, historians and witnesses to history including Pulitzer Prize-winners Jon Meacham and Annette Gordon Reed, as well as Dr. Douglas Brinkley, Dr. Edna Medford Green, Dr. H.W. Brands and George Takei. Across each one-hour episode, it takes a comprehensive look at a wide variety of presidential action that moved our country forward, like President Eisenhower ordering the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock, AR to ensure the safety of the "Little Rock Nine," President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Emancipation Proclamation, and Lyndon B. Johnson signing into law what has been called the most important piece of Civil Rights legislation to date: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. "The American Presidency" also tackles presidential decisions that further divided our country, like Herbert Hoover's "repatriation drives" that led to the mass expulsions of Mexican-American citizens during the Great Depression and FDR's Executive Order 9066 leading to nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans being systematically rounded up and forced into prison camps.
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TV Show: Our Brain ( 2022 )
Breakthroughs in brain imaging and genetics has made it possible to understand how the interplay of genes and environment affect the mind, and ultimately, tell us how to live better.
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TV Show: Ancient Civilizations ( 2017 )
What hidden knowledge lies in our ancient past? A team of renowned scholars has come together to decipher the riddle of our origins and piece together our forgotten history found in monuments and texts across the world.
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TV Show: Secrets of Big Data ( 2022 )
Technology is the great paradox of the twenty first century. While it's inarguable that it has enhanced certain aspects of our lives, it's hard to ignore the detrimental effects it can inflict on society at large. These are the stories of the future that big data is bringing to our doorsteps. The real-world impact of predictions and surveillance. The power of artificial intelligence and autonomous machines. For better or worse, these are the Secrets of Big Data.
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TV Show: Picasso: The Beauty and the Beast ( 2023 )
When Pablo Picasso died in 1973, the world mourned a superstar - a revolutionary creative powerhouse who repeatedly turned 20th century art on its head. But since then, the stories of his cruelty, womanising, coercive behaviour, and cultural appropriation have made us call into question our reverence of the great master. Now, fifty years since his death, a new three-part series lays bare the life and work of a man who was as much monster as genius and looks at his legacy; the suicides and betrayals alongside the stunning artworks that he left behind.Picasso lived through two world wars and documented a century of war, despair, peace and hope - shapeshifting through periods of Blue to Rose, Cubism, neo-Classicism and into the avant-garde. He created many of the greatest artworks of the 20th century: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Weeping Woman and Guernica. In a career that spanned eight decades he created some 150,000 pieces - enough to fill an aircraft hangar. His art could be brutal, depicting violence and lust, but he also captured beauty and innocence like no-one else. And his personal life was equally full of contradictions.
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TV Show: Vaietut arktiset sodat ( 2022 )
The Silent Arctic Wars is a new generation historical documentary series that opens up the Arctic war events of World War II in a never-before-seen way. The six episodes of the series reveal a little-noticed overall picture and countless unknown details about the events of World War II in the North. The focus is on the struggle of the great powers over who gets control of the region and its natural resources. New information and perspectives on the events are offered by numerous international experts, ongoing field research, as well as newly opened archives and some never-before-seen footage.
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Movie: Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis ( 2022 )
The story of the album art design studio, Hipgnosis, who created some of the most iconic album covers of all time.
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TV Show: JFK: One Day in America ( 2023 )
President Kennedy is shot in broad daylight while visiting Dallas.
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TV Show: Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius ( 2023 )
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius with an A-list cast of actors, including Dame Judi Dench, Dame Helen Mirren, Brian Cox, Adrian Lester, Lolita Chakrabarti, Martin Freeman and Jessie Buckley, alongside academics and writers including James Shapiro and Jeanette Winterson, bringing fresh insights into the story of our greatest writer.  The series is narrated by Juliet Stevenson.
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TV Show: Wonderland: Gothic ( 2023 )
Wonderland: Gothic combines biography, literary extracts, and interviews with leading academics and film director Tim Burton, together with excerpts from the many books and films made of Gothic work to explore what was behind these well-known Gothic stories.
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TV Show: Kennedy ( 2023 )
Marking 60 years since JFK's assassination, Kennedy is the new eight-part docuseries from director and composer Ashton Gleckman, Gleckman's production company Blackbird Pictures and Academy Award-winning production company RadicalMedia. Narrated by Emmy Award-winner Peter Coyote, the 3-night event chronicles the remarkable life, enduring legacy, and ambitious leadership of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. The story unfolds through a cinematic library of archival materials and over 70 new interviews from those well-versed in JFK's history including comedian Conan O'Brian, JFK's niece Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, actor Bruce Greenwood and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eileen McNamara.
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TV Show: Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator ( 2023 )
He came. He saw. He conquered. The tale of an ambitious power-grab that turned to tyranny. How Julius Caesar dismantled five centuries of ancient Roman democracy in just 16 years.
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TV Show: Whale with Steve Backshall ( 2023 )
Whale with Steve Backshall follows Steve as he embarks on a voyage of discovery into the most iconic, yet threatened, whales and dolphins across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Together with world-leading scientists and conservationists, Steve will reveal what can be done to ensure their survival. 
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TV Show: Lost Cities with Albert Lin ( 2019 )
Lost Cities with Albert Lin combines hi-tech archaeology, breath-taking visuals and genuine exploration to make headline-grabbing discoveries. Lost Cities brings adventure, science and archaeology together through our host Albert Lin. Our ambitious approach applies 3D scanning to some of the most extraordinary sites of antiquity. This series will deliver powerful, emotional stories with hi-tech imagery to bring the mysteries of the past vividly to life.
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TV Show: Lost Cities Revealed with Albert Lin ( 2023 )
Albert Lin adventures to the ends of the earth, using advanced technology to strip back the layers of time, and reveal ancient Lost Cities.
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TV Show: Buried Secrets of the Bible with Albert Lin ( 2019 )
Albert Lin seeks out the truth behind two great stories of the Bible. Could real events lie behind the parting of the Red Sea and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? To solve these mysteries Albert will use satellites and space age technology to look beneath the earth's surface to reveal secrets that have been buried for thousands of years.
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TV Show: Ancient Worlds Revealed with Albert Lin ( 2021 )
National Geographic Explorer, Albert Lin uses high-tech digital equipment to map ancient civilizations revealing never before seen archeological and engineering marvels. His journeys take him throughout Asia, from the tombs of China's first emperor to Mongolia's Forbidden Zone in search of Genghis Khan's burial site. In Nan Madol, Micronesia he finds a quarry in the sky that likely sourced the Saudeleur Dynasty's basalt stone kingdom.
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TV Show: Britpop: The Music That Changed Britain ( 2023 )
The birth, boom and bust of the biggest moment in British pop in the last 30 years.
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TV Show: Earthsounds ( 2024 )
Earthsounds travels to spectacular habitats, including the Queensland rainforest, the Antarctic ice shelf, the Namibian dunes, tropical coral reefs and more. Discoveries and rarely heard recordings from the series include snow leopards singing love songs, the intimate chatter of ostrich chicks from inside their eggs, musical spiders, walrus's underwater courtship calls and more. But it's not just animals that make unusual noises. The series also captures the mesmerizing secret sounds of our planet, including the hum of deserts, drinking trees and the mysterious buzz of the northern lights. 
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Movie: The Gateway Bug ( 2018 )
Over 2 billion people on earth eat insects for protein. The Gateway Bug explores how changing daily eating habits can feed humanity in an uncertain age, one meal at a time.
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Movie: Tudor Fashion
Tudor fashion is one of extravagance, flamboyance, glamour and colour. The penchant for jewellery and clothing is unlike any other. It is an era of exquisite fashion, and one of extreme drama. The Tudor Monarchy reveals a whole new element of structure and dimension to the world of fashion. It was enhanced by each distinctive persona, and every monarch had brought som...Read all
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Movie: The Secret History of the Moon (Short 2020) ( 2020 )
The Moon has drawn out our sense of wonder since before we were fully human. Where did it come from? What secrets are written in its rocks? For most of our history, its story was cloaked in myth and mystery. Only now are the vivid details coming into focus.
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Movie: Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time (Short 2019) ( 2019 )
View what the modern science points to what the future looks like from the present year all the way to trillions upon trillions of years into the future.
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Movie: The Sounds of Space (Short 2021) ( 2021 )
This short film takes you on a journey back in time and to the edge of our solar system and beyond, to discover what other worlds of sound are lurking beyond Earth's atmosphere.
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TV Show: Earth at Night in Color ( 2020 )
Using cutting-edge cameras and a revolutionary editing process, Earth at Night in Color presents nature's previously unseen marvels with striking new clarity. Captured across six continents, from the Arctic Circle to the African grasslands, this pioneering work follows the moonlit lives of animals at night, revealing new insights and never-before-seen behaviors into some of our favorite species' nocturnal habits. The show will also introduce relatively unknown creatures who are sure to become new icons of the animal kingdom.
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TV Show: Mammals ( 2024 )
Full of new, never-before-seen behaviors, this series offers fascinating insights into the most successful animal group in the world. From the tiny Etruscan shrew to the giant blue whale, Mammals will reveal the secrets of their success, and how their winning design, incredible adaptability, unrivalled intelligence, and unique sociability have all contributed to their remarkable rise. 
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Movie: Hummingbirds: Jewelled Messengers ( 2012 )
David Attenborough takes us into the remarkable lives of hummingbirds via stunning slow motion photography. Everything about these tiny birds is superb and extreme. They have the highest metabolism, fastest heart beat and most rapid wing beat in the avian world. They evolved to feed on flowering plants but are now a crucial part of wider ecosystems. How do they mate, raise their young, and live?
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TV Show: Secrets of the Octopus ( 2024 )
Octopuses are like aliens on Earth: three hearts, blue blood and the ability to squeeze through a space the size of their eyeballs, but the secrets of the octopus are more extraordinary than we ever imagined.