Plot: Historians reveal and discuss evidence of centuries-old theories and prototypes for many contemporary procedures and technologies, like brain surgery and computers.
Plot: Shaun Patrick Micallef is an Australian comedian, actor, writer and television presenter. He is currently the host of the satirical news comedy series Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell on the ABC and the game show Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation on Channel Nine. Wikipedia
Plot: Hosted by Wil Anderson with a panel of advertising industry experts including Russel Howcroft of George Patterson Y&R and Todd Sampson of Leo Burnett, this series debates all things advertising.
Plot: Spicks and Specks is an Australian music-themed comedic television quiz show. It aired on ABC1 at 8:30 on Wednesday nights, with the show repeated on Thursdays on ABC2 at 8pm. The previous year's season was repeated every Friday at 2:30 pm on ABC1. Wikipedia
Plot: The film covers the period from just before Curtin became Prime Minister until the return of the 6th and 7th Divisions to Australia at the start of the Pacific war.
Plot: Sir Henry Oakes' (Rod Steiger) murder in the World War II Bahamas points to mobsters and his daughter's (Catherine Mary Stewart) French-playboy husband (Armand Assante).
Plot: Captain James Cook began his epic exploration of the Pacific nearly 250 years ago. Sam Neill journeys in the wake left by the captain to uncover stories that resonate from those times. Sam visits the islands and lands where Cook went and meets the descendants of the people that Cook originally spoke...
Plot: Written and presented by British journalist David Dimbleby, `Seven Ages of Britain' traces 2,000 years of the country's history through the arts - both as objects that have often played a decisive part in events and as marvels of their age. Dimbleby visits countries including Italy, Germany, Turkey...
Plot: Americans who have an obsession for a certain item or entity are interviewed and discuss their obsessions on reality TV. The small german town of Winden is shook by the disappearance of a teenage boy. Some of the townsfolk look back to the events thirtythree years ago, when another teenage boy had disappeared...
Plot: Cleopatra bears Roman Emperor Julius Caesar an illegitimate son, but when Caesar claims him as his rightful heir, members of the Senate conspire to assassinate their Emperor.
Plot: Today's city dwellers may think of urban living as an improvement over the existence of our hunting and gathering ancestors. But Egyptologist Dr. Kara Cooney explains that our modern tendency to live in cities isn't the result of an inevitable march towards progress. Beginning roughly 12,000 years ago...
Plot: "America's Hidden Stories" delves into the secrets of America and the stories the viewers need to know. Discover if Revolutionary War hero Gen. Pulaski was actually a woman and was the heartland of the America's the birthplace of the Spanish flu? Modern historians use state-of-the-art equipment and...