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Dave Grohl returns to his musical roots, while the Foo Fighters prepare to record at Seattle's Robert Lang Studio with Death Cab for Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard. Dave sets his focus on the Seattle music scene, mainly the grunge movement and its implications in American Rock Music. Interviews with Chris Cornell, Nancy Wilson, Bruce Pavitt.

The last episode of the series talks about the most important city in the States. Stories that go from the early 40s until today. Interviews with Rick Rubin, Emmylou, Chris Martin, LL Cool J and Barack Obama. And a real statement about what is happening with the studios business nowadays. The song 'I Am A River' is recorded during this episode.

The National Gallery in London is one of the great museums of the world with 2400 paintings from the 13th to the end of the 19th century. Almost every human experience is represented in one or the other of the paintings. The sequences of the film show the public in various galleries; the education programs, and the scholars, scientists and curators, studying, restoring and planning the exhibitions. The relation between painting and storytelling is explored.

Richard Stanley had a dream of making a screen adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic The Island of Dr. Moreau. In the mid nineties, he finally managed to get the project up and running, but its shooting turned into a battle between art and industry interests that ended with the director being fired from the film. This documentary examines the story of a movie that could have been a masterpiece of fantasy that ended in an epic failure.

In the first three episodes of Season 2, Ragnar Lothbrok is thrust into a brutal conflict that threatens both his family and his ambitions. Fighting alongside King Horik against Jarl Borg, he is forced to confront the ultimate betrayal when his own brother Rollo stands on the opposite side of the battlefield. But victory brings little peace. Princess Aslaug arrives in Kattegat carrying Ragnar’s child, shattering his marriage to Lagertha and dividing his family just as Ragnar’s dreams of returning west begin to grow.
Ragnar is Earl and prepares a new expedition to England. A violent storm scatters the Viking fleet and drives the survivors onto the shores of Wessex, where they encounter a formidable new ruler, King Ecbert. Raids, ambushes and bloody clashes mark the beginning of a dangerous struggle for power, while Athelstan’s knowledge of England becomes increasingly valuable. Yet the greatest threat may be waiting at home: as Ragnar pushes deeper into Wessex, the embittered Jarl Borg turns his attention towards Kattegat. These opening episodes launch the season with brother against brother, Viking against Saxon, and ambition, loyalty and revenge threatening to tear Ragnar’s world apart.

In the next three episodes of Season 2, Ragnar’s ambitions in England collide with a devastating crisis at home. His first face-to-face encounter with King Ecbert reveals two formidable leaders who recognize something of themselves in each other and begin to imagine possibilities beyond endless bloodshed. But while Ragnar negotiates in Wessex, Jarl Borg has seized Kattegat and driven his family into hiding. Ragnar abandons England and races home, where an unexpected reunion changes everything: Lagertha and Bjorn return with warriors of their own, joining Ragnar and Rollo in a desperate battle to reclaim Kattegat and settle an increasingly personal score.
Victory, however, only creates new dangers. Athelstan survives a terrifying ordeal in Wessex and finds himself drawn into the confidence of the intellectually curious King Ecbert, forcing him to confront once again the conflict between his Christian faith and the Viking world that has transformed him. Lagertha must return to a brutal marriage, Bjorn begins to choose his own path, and King Horik arrives with a proposal Ragnar can barely accept: Jarl Borg may be needed as an ally for another invasion of England. Ragnar appears willing to put vengeance aside—but beneath the feasts, negotiations and promises of reconciliation, a merciless trap is closing. Loyalty, faith and family are tested as Ragnar proves that forgiveness and revenge can sometimes wear exactly the same face.