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The Accident

Score: A Film Music Documentary

How Big How Far How Fast

Daft Punk Unchained

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley Island of Dr Moreau

The 50s Eisenhower the Bomb and the Third World
What Is a Woman

Thank You Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story

Take Care of Maya

Sweden: A Gangster Paradise

U2 Rattle and Hum

Swamps
Sugar vs Fat

Stress-Proof

Cyber Warfare

Storm

Stock Maket

Stardust

The Chemistry of Life

Science

This episode explores how scientists delved ever deeper into the world of the cell, seeking to reveal the magic ingredient that can spark a bundle of chemicals into life. Their discoveries have brought us to the brink of being able to create life for ourselves.

Series: The Cell

Insect Apocalypse

2021 Nature

An alarming decline in insect populations could devastate all life on earth. What's causing it, and can anything be done to stop it?
Insects are disappearing across the world. If we lost our pollinators, we would lose 80 to 90% of the plants on the planet. That is not an option. It's the ecosystems on this planet that keep humans alive. Scientists warn us that the insect apocalypse is entirely possible.

The Jungles

2006 Nature

Jungles cover roughly three per cent of our planet yet contain 50 per cent of the world's species. High-definition cameras enable unprecedented views of animals living on the dark jungle floor. In the Ngogo forest the largest chimpanzee group in the world defends its territory from neighbouring groups. Other jungle specialists include parasitic fungi which infiltrate an insect host, feed on it, and then burst out of its body.

Series: Planet Earth

Alpha Egg

2003 Science

SETTING: 80 million years ago in the South American forests of Patagonia. The world is a very dangerous place for tiny hatchlings like Alpha, a female saltasaur. Follow Alpha along the road of her growth years, from before her birth through asolescence and on to adulthood, as she learns how to survive and beat the odds.

Series: Dinosaur Planet

Across the Hindu Kush

1997 History

Wood travels through war-torn Afghanistan, crossing the Oxus River into Central Asia and the Silk Road city of Samarkand where, in a drunken brawl, Alexander killed the friend who had previously saved his life.

Series: In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great

World Richest Terror Army

2015 Culture

The inside story of how a small band of fanatical jihadi fighters became the world's richest terror army ever. Featuring the first major TV interview with an imprisoned senior leader of the self-proclamed Islamic State, Peter Taylor looks behind its medieval savagery and investigates how it became so fabulously rich and resilient.