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A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the Potsdamer Platz to the Brandenburg Gate, the camera captures the historic events from all sides and different angles: on the one hand there are news reporters and tourists from all over the world taking pictures, children selling pieces of the wall to passers-by, and people celebrating New Year's Eve, on the other we see abandoned subway stations and officials with blank looks on their faces.

During the First World War, a few miles from the front, soldiers played football, ran races, or boxed. For most of them, this was their first encounter with organized sport. It helped them to forget the horrors and death, and gave them fresh hope.
Surprisingly, the Great War played a key role in the history of sport. Soldiers from rural populations all now practiced sport – an activity until then reserved for the elite.

Produced by the Emmy award-winning Banger Films, ZZ TOP: THAT LITTLE OL' BAND FROM TEXAS tells the story of how three oddball teenage bluesmen - Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard – became one of the biggest, most beloved bands on the planet, all while maintaining a surrealist mystique that continues to intrigue fans and entice onlookers 50 years after the band's inception.

Neil Oliver investigates the discovery of a 5,000-year-old temple in Orkney. Built 500 years before Stonehenge, the temple has triggered new thoughts about the beliefs of Neolithic people, turning the map of ancient Britain upside down.

Tells the definitive story of how Aberdeen FC defied expectations and ruled European football. Spanning an incredible five years in the club's history between 1978 and 1983, this special group of players, managed by Sir Alex Ferguson, went from the nearly men of Scottish football to winning both the European Cup Winners Cup and European Super Cup, making them the number one team in Europe for that year.

Highlights of the 2023 North West 200, featuring the Supertwin, Supersport and Superbike classes at the nine-mile triangle circuit on the Causeway Coast.

Lisa Selby turns the camera on herself as she tries to understand her relationships with her late mother and her partner, both heroin addicts.

The Sky at Night team explores the threat of an asteroid impact on earth. Around 2,300 asteroids have been identified as ‘potentially hazardous', and it's thought that a million ‘near-earth objects' are yet to be accounted for. Detecting these possible threats is now a priority for space scientists. And they're developing methods of planetary defence that sound like the stuff of science fiction.

When people speak of towering arrogance and catastrophic defeat, they speak of Waterloo. It was the 1815 battle in which the balance of world power changed, in one afternoon, for a hundred years to come.

Medea, a woman stricken with grief after learning that her ex-husband has decided to remarry is faced with impossible choices in this exhilarating and breathtaking adaptation of Medea.

Helen McCrory (Medea and The Last of the Haussmans at the National Theatre, Penny Dreadful, Peaky Blinders) returns to the National Theatre in Terence Rattigan’s devastating masterpiece, playing one of the greatest female roles in contemporary drama. Tom Burke (War and Peace, The Musketeers) also features in Carrie Cracknell’s critically acclaimed new production.

Military Masterminds analysis the life and feats of military leaders from the past century.

The Frontier: Ukraine is a documentary that follows two independent filmmakers, John Taylor and Elliott Crawford, as they explore the realities of the war in Ukraine. Film documents the human cost of the conflict in Ukraine investigating the subtleties of propaganda and manipulation by government powers to influence public opinion. Shot over several visits to the Ukraine in 2014 and 2015, the film covers an important ongoing story.

Voyage to the Edge of the World (Voyage au bout du monde) is a 1976 French nature documentary film directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, his son Philippe Cousteau and Marshall Flaum. The film follows a four months expedition through Antarctica undertaken between the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. It was Cousteau's third and last full-length film, following The Silent World (1956) and World Without Sun (1964). As a difference with those two earlier Cousteau films, both mainly narrated by Jacques-Yves Cousteau himself, on this film Jacques-Yves' voice-over alternates with co-director Philippe Cousteau's voice.

Going from 0 to 150 mph in three seconds, withstanding three Gs of force, and taking off from what's often called "the most dangerous place on the planet" are just parts of everyday life for an aircraft carrier pilot-and it's no different...

Hitler's Riches examines how Hitler during World War II use his position to power to personally enrich himself. It looks at Hitler's will dictated during his final hours in the Führerbunker before his suicide and talks to the British...

Is it possible that Ice Age people succeeded in crossing the frozen Atlantic Ocean to North America, thousands of years before the Vikings and Columbus? Two archaeologists believe so after discovering artifacts in Chesapeake Bay that bear...

In Rwanda, Africa, a new era is dawning after a brutal civil war ripped through the country, killing close to two million people and wiping out its most iconic wildlife: the regal lion. Now, 25 years later, the big cats are being...

From humble beginnings to an aspiring thespian to acting as some of the world's most iconic and notable characters. He has picked up a reputation as 'America's Nice Guy', 'The Everyman' and a nomad of the arts. But we all know him... as...

The October 14, 1943, mass escape from the Nazi death camp of Sobibor in Poland is recounted through the firsthand accounts of survivors Thomas Blatt, Philip Bialowitz, Selma Engel-Wijnberg and Semjon Rozenfeld.