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Description: Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world. Genre: TV program Cast: Bettany Hughes
Plot: This nine-part series is the work that made documentarian Ken Burns a household name. Burns uses contemporary cinematography in addition to thousands of archival photographs, paintings and newspaper images set to music to teach people about the Civil War. A number of well-known actors and actresses...
Plot: This six-part nature documentary series reveals one of the world's most enigmatic countries -- one filled with natural complexity, picturesque landscapes and colorful people -- all spectacularly captured, from the Himalayas to the tropical islands, using high-definition cameras. The series was filmed...
Plot: "Frontline" offers an unflinching and compelling look at complex, vital and often-controversial subjects. Each broadcast consists of a long-form news documentary. Topics run the gamut -- from Bernie Madoff's intricate fraud and prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, to AIDs, racial issues and Wal-Mart's effect...
Plot: AMC has proven its considerable skill in producing historical Western content (`Broken Trail', `Hell on Wheels'). The network dips into the same well again with the limited event series `Robert Redford's The West', a docudrama that shows how, in the aftermath of the Civil War, the United States tran...
Plot: A visually stunning and fact filled count down list of the cutest animals in the world. Each creature is assessed on its cuteness and ranked on a sliding scale to eventually uncover the cutest one in the world.
Plot: Michelle Dockery narrates a miniseries that captures Japan's ecologically rich landscapes, from the snow-topped mountains to the subtropical coral reefs. The natural activity of the country's wildlife, animals and people are filmed over various seasons through extreme climates and powerful forces. The...
Plot: Actor Ross Kemp is back with another documentary series, this time focusing on people around the world involved in illicit trading and other heinous crimes. In each episode, the former `EastEnders' actor confronts criminals responsible for drug dealing, human trafficking, murder and rape, and he also...
Plot: `Taking Fire' provides an in-depth look at a group of American soldiers deployed to defend the gateway to one of the planet's deadliest places, the Taliban-held Korengal Valley in Afghanistan. Actual combat footage shot on helmet-mounted and handheld cameras supplements stories told by the men who...
Plot: Medieval England historian, writer and presenter Helen Castor takes her 2010 book `She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled Engand Before Elizabeth' to another level with this three-part documentary. Beginning with the Empress Matilda and her daughter-in-law, Eleanor of Aquitaine, the programme explores the...
Plot: Historian Dominic Sandbrooke hypothesises that the decade of the 1970s shaped the Britain of modern times. In this programme, he takes a radical look at the decade, the first during which Britons felt the thrill of freedom and money. From the aspiration and ambition of the early part of the decade...
Plot: Are eight episodes enough? Andrew Marr sifts through 70,000 years of human history to reveal explosive events, changes, conflicts and triumphs during that time. Episode titles include `Age of Empire, Age of Plunder, and Age of Extremes', and detail such things as global colonization and battles with...
Plot: This documentary series, narrated by actor Josh Duhamel, follows an eight-man unit from the U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal, otherwise known as EOD, during the unit's five-month campaign in Afghanistan. The EOD is the world's premier combat force for countering improvised explosive devices, weapons...
Plot: Michael Wood argues that the most important and influential British kings were a father, son and grandson who lived over a thousand years ago during the age of the Vikings.
Plot: Actor and investigative journalist Ross Kemp gets a first-hand account of what life is like for the British Army in Afghanistan, enduring exactly what the soldiers experience on the front lines, including overwhelming heat and the constant threat of snipers, land mines and rocket-propelled grenades...
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: British journalist Rageh Omaar travels to the birthplace of Muhammad, documenting the prophet's life from his beginnings in Mecca to his death in 632. Over the course of three one-hour episodes, Omaar explores the prophet's personal life as well as key events like the Night Journey to Jerusalem and...
Plot: Historian Michael Wood takes a look at the last 1600 years of British history through the eyes of ordinary people. The programme looks at the story of Britain from the ground up telling the story of people's lives in the context of major events, including the Viking invasions, the Industrial Revolution...
Plot: Historian Michael Wood tells the 2,000-year-old story of the settlement of Kibworth, Leicestershire, a community that survived the Black Death, the English Civil War, the Industrial Revolution and World War II. Episodes cover Kibworth's first 1,000 years, the worst famine in European history, the dramatic...