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The Secret

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

Awake The life of Yogananda

The Most Dangerous Band in the World. The Story of Guns N Roses

Life Animated

What Is a Woman
Beyond Clueless

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy 1

Curse of the Piltdown Man

The Roof of the World

Age of Extremes

The Viking Sagas
A Plastic Ocean

What Makes Me

We Will Dance Again

The Kennedys: A Fatal Ambition

The Great Survivors

Ronnie Coleman: The King

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

When East Meets West

2007 Art

Andrew Graham-Dixon examines early Christian art and the reasons for its evolution during the Renaissance. He also reveals just how far modern artists have been influenced by the pre-perspective view of the world.

Series: Art of Eternity