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Dave Grohl discusses New Orleans' unique music history with Dr. John, Allen Toussaint and Cyril Neville. The band records in Preservation Hall and also performs with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The song 'In the Clear' is recorded during this episode.

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.