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- At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
- After years of mother-daughter tension, Siddalee receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the "Ya-Yas", her mother's girlhood friends.
- A biographical film about the acclaimed American humourist and author.
- With its 29,029 feet (8,848 meters), the mountain Everest is the place where thousands of persons go every year to try climbing it. From what Edmund Hillary prevailed over the mountain and reached the top in May 29, 1953, much people has tried to repeat the miracle, and every day more of a hundred climbers have been there in some camps, waiting his glory moment. Some of them explain their histories with the Everest, in a pride, friendship and sacrifice tale to reach the top and win over the nature.
- Peter Graves examines a range of supernatural topics, including mysterious monsters Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and the Yeti, and also psychics and hypnotism.
- Documentary about a crew going from one orphanage to another in China to investigate these so called "dying rooms" where the orphanage workers leave baby girls to die.
- Legendary high-altitude climber Reinhold Messner pushes himself to the limit in achieving the first successful summit without the use of supplemental oxygen.
- This documentary outlines the ways in which British policies during the First World War have contributed to the instability of the Middle East region today. Through never/before/seen documents and photos, we look at the secret agenda of the British government in WWI and its unfortunate aftermath.
- Narrated by Donald Sutherland, this thrilling, feature-length documentary chronicles the brave group of scientists on board the Sedna IV as they explore the Earth's most fascinating and isolated continent.
- Joanna Lumley spends nine days on the island of Tsarabjina, off the coast of Madagascar, with just a basic survival kit and a film crew.
- A century ago, no-one had reached the summit of Mount Everest. Now, 100s of people stand on the top of the world every year. In this programme, summiteers reveal how the world's tallest mountain has been conquered, then and now.
- Over its more than 4-billion-year history, Earth has been home to repeated violent climactic changes, which have caused mass extinctions. And yet, life has survived.
- A documentary about the first flight over Mt Everest.
- A one-off special programme reuniting prominent television figures of the 1950s, together with clips from the decade.
- Journalist and China watcher Orville Schell explores the clash of values between American opinion of China's human rights record and the uncomprehending and intransigent Chinese leadership. Interviewees include actors, directors, musicians, and political figures who discuss the history of Tibet and its yearning for political independence. Richard Gere and Adam Yauch are converts to Buddhism.
- An expedition to Mount Vinson, in Antarctica, one of the highest peaks of the World, offers a real awareness of the increasing fragility of the best preserved places far from our daily life.
- Mount Everest made headlines around the world in Spring 2013 when Ueli Steck and Simone Moro, one of the strongest duos in alpinism, were attacked by a crowd of angry Sherpas at Camp 2 while attempting a cutting edge new route on the highest- and most crowded- mountain in the world. Fearing for their lives, the climbers fled the mountain.
- 2005–2008TV Episode
- 197856m7.1 (10)TV EpisodeAfter denying his father's wish to become a physician or theologian Darwin makes acquaintance with professor Henslow, who recognizes his talent for geology and biology, thereby supporting him to join the travel of captain FitzRoy for mapping the coasts of South America.
- Paxman tells the story of how a desire for conquest became a mission to improve the rest of mankind, especially in Africa, and in Central Africa he travels in the footsteps of David Livingstone who though a failure as a missionary became a legend. A flood of Christian missionaries followed and founded schools one of which today has 8000 pupils. In South Africa, Paxman tells the story of Cecil Rhodes, a maverick with a different sort of mission, who believed in the white man's right to rule the world and took vast swathes of land for Britain, laying down the foundations for apartheid, run by small numbers of colonial officials, The District Officer. In Kenya, where conflict in the form of the Mau Mau uprising between white settlers and the African population brought bloodshed, torture and eventual independence for Kenya and the break up of the empire.
- Paxman looks at how the empire began as a pirates' treasure hunt robbing Spanish ships and ports using privateers such as Henry Morgan and grew into an informal empire based on trade and developed into a global financial network. He travels to Jamaica where sugar made plantation owners rich on the mistreatment of African slaves, then to Calcutta where British traders became the new princes of India. Unfair trading helped start the independence movement led by Mahatma Gandhi who's visit to Britain and the mill town of Darwen in 1931 is remembered by two women, who were children at the time, from Lancashire. The First Opium War when British trade in opium with the Chinese in defiance of Chinese law led to war and Britain's subsequent take over of the island of Hong Kong.
- Paxman traces the growth of a peculiarly British type of hero - adventurer, gentleman, amateur, sportsman and decent chap and the British obsession with sport. He travels to East Africa in the following Victorian explorers searching for the source of the Nile; to Khartoum in Sudan to tell the story of General Gordon, and to Hong Kong where the British indulged their passion for horse racing by building a spectacular race course and to Jamaica where the greatest imperial game of all cricket became a battleground for racial equality when the West Indies formerly always had a white captain replaced by a black man.
- In this first programme, Neil travels down the Zambesi river to reveal how David Livingstone took the faith of his nation to the ends of the Earth and exploited his celebrity to end the slave trade. His was a moral mission: to reshape British values and bring commerce, Christianity and civilisation to the African continent.
- Paxman asks how a tiny island in the North Atlantic came to rule over a quarter of the world's population. He travels to India, where local soldiers and local maharajahs helped a handful of British traders to take over vast areas of land. Spectacular displays of imperial power dazzled the local peoples and developed a cult of Queen Victoria as Empress, mother and virtual God. In Egypt, Paxman explores Britain as a temporary peace-keeper whose visit turned into a seventy year occupation. He travels to the desert where Lawrence of Arabia is still remembered by elder tribesman that brought a touch of romance to the grim struggle of the First World War and the British triumph in Palestine that led Britain to believe it could solve the world's problems that haunts the Middle East to this day.
- Paxman continues his story of Britain's empire by looking at how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of life around the world by creating a very British home. Beginning in India where early traders wore Indian costume and took Indian wives and their descendants still look fondly on their mixed heritage which in Victorian Britain was frowned upon as inter racial mixing became taboo. In Singapore he visits a club, now open to all, where British colonials used to gather together, in Canada he finds a town of Scottish ancestry whose inhabitants proud of the traditions, have shops selling imported Scottish goods, in Kenya he meets the descendants of the first white settlers who were bitterly resented as pressure for African independence grew and he traces the story of an Indian family in Leicester whose migrations have been determined by the changing fortunes of the British empire.
- Legend tells that somewhere in South America there is a great city of gold, El Dorado, a fabulously rich and sophisticated kingdom that was once home to thousands of people living deep in the Amazon jungle. To most people it was just a legend. But for British explorer, Colonel Percy Fawcett, it was real. Convinced he knew the location of this lost world, he spent years searching for it.
- Weird barren rings in the Namib Desert, an island the size of Manhattan that vanishes without trace and a lost city in the heart of the Amazonian jungle. What on Earth? Investigates six more mysteries captured from space.
- First seen from space in 1965, the Eye of the Sahara is a beautiful 25 mile structure, but how it formed remains a mystery. And are extraordinary clouds emanating from an island in the Indian Ocean evidence of a terrifying new weather weapon?
- Before the coming of the railways Britain was made up of lots of separate, local time zones and local time was proudly treasured. The railways introduced a world of precise schedules and timetables that recognised Greenwich Mean Time.
- In October 1993 a party of climbers left for the Himalayas, including seven British mountaineers who had mental or physical disabilities. The film follows their attempts to climb the Pokalde peak in the Everest range.
- Citizen Khan star Adil Ray identifies as Brummie, British, Muslim, Pakistani and African - his mum came to England from newly independent Kenya with her family in 1967.
- In picturesque Snowdonia, Michael braves the fastest zip line in the world - stretching 1,500 feet across a vast slate quarry.
- Steph and Charlie head to the east Midlands visiting shops in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland and finally to the final auction in Market Harborough.