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The Viking Sagas

Bernini

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle 1of2

The Great Hack

The Plot Against the President

The Challenger
Black Holes: Heart of Darkness

North London Forever

The Connected Universe

The Clash of Titans

B-Movie: Lust and Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

Rat in a Maze
The Chemistry of Life

U2 Rattle and Hum

Do You See What I See

The Chrysalis

Mesopotamia: The Future of Our Origins

Parallel Universes

Parenthood

2014 Nature

In the final challenge of the game of life, raising offspring is the ultimate prize. Continuing the line through the next generation, is the next best thing to immortality. But it’s far from easy... Some parents must risk their own lives for their offspring.

Series: Life Story

Expanding Universe

2013 Science

Brian travels across the US and encounters some astonishing creatures that reveal how the senses evolved. It is a story that takes him through life's journey, from single-celled organisms to sentient beings.

Series: Wonders of Life

March to June

2014 Nature

In this final episode we complete our journey, travelling back from the March equinox to the end of June. Kate Humble is in the Arctic at a place where spring arrives with a bang, whilst Helen Czerski chases a tornado to show how the earth's angle of tilt creates the most extreme weather on earth.

Series: Orbit: Earth Extraordinary Journey

The Cold War: 1945-1950

2012 History

Directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone. In this episode we will see how the equation changes: specific month-by-month causes of the Cold War emerge and it is not entirely clear who started it. Highlights include Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, the civil war in Greece and the Red Scare that prompts the rise of Joseph McCarthy, the House Un-American Activities Committee and the FBI.

Series: The Untold History of the United States

Bush and Obama: Age of Terror

2012 History

The meaning of events up to today. Obama and the destiny of the American Empire.

Series: The Untold History of the United States

The Glory of Byzantium

2007 Art

Andrew Graham-Dixon travels to Istanbul to immerse himself in the tumultuous world of the Byzantine Empire. He decodes the iconography of the art of the period and explains its continuing relevance.

Series: Art of Eternity