In the second series of Greatest Cities of the World Griff Rhys Jones explores three more of the most magnificent metropolises on the planet: Rome, Sydney and Hong Kong. Griff is granted 24 hours to sample the rich history, beautiful scenery and cultural contradictions of these three incredible to discover what makes every day so unique and remarkable for the millions who call them home.
DVD 1 - Planet Mars. This DVD will show you the surface of Mars like you've never seen it before, and you'll learn even more about how Mars has evolved which is valuable in measuring Earth's evolution. Watch this exciting DVD and get closer to a neighbour - closer to planet Mars. DVD 2 - The Universe. William Shatner delivers the facts, not the fiction in this DVD, and in this case the facts are every bit as enthralling as any fiction can be. Watch this award winning production and explore your own ideas of religion, philosophy and alien life as you explore The Universe. DVD 3 - The Time Of Apollo. This DVD is the chronicle of the Apollo era; the program would become an icon of American spirit, paving the way for the space shuttle adventures. You'll see the moon and the earth in exciting photographs from some of the 30, 000 taken. It was a very important time in America's history. One you don't want to miss.
No myth is safe.Watch as pop cultures most baffling urban myths and legends are debunked, decoded and demystified by myth busters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage.Using a signature style of explosive experimentation, no myth is safe in the first sixteen episodes of the phenomenally successful series as hosts Adam and Jamie blow the lid off the stuff youve always wondered about.From finding out whether a mobile phone can cause a petrol station to explode, testing if it is possible to make a cannon out of a tree, seeing if they can escape from Alcatraz using a raft made from raincoats and discovering if a penny dropped from a skyscraper will embed in concrete, the Mythbusters team put their bodies (or that of resident crash test dummy Buster!) on the line to find the truth.Along the way theres danger, fun, some incredible science and the most unexpected surprises in store. Plus, they may even discover the biggest revelation of all perhaps some of the stories arent as far-fetched as they imagined.
Britains First Photo Album traces the extraordinary achievement of the pioneering Victorian photographer Francis Frith and his team. Frith embarked upon a colossal project to photograph as much of Great Britain as possible during the second half of the 19th century. In this series John Sergeant sets out to follow in Francis Frith s footsteps to find out more about Britain s First Photo Album and celebrate our shared past. Follow John Sergeant as he drops in on the new owners of Charles Dickenss favourite holiday home and descends under Tower Bridge to witness Victorian engineering at its best. In a journey that takes John from the Isle of Wight to London, from Wales to Scotland and Liverpool to Gravesend, watch as Sergeant retraces Frith s epic journey and finds the history behind Britain s First Album
Follow Hannah Scott-Joynt, daughter of the Bishop of Winchester, as she explores some of the great cathedral cities of southern England. She explores Guidford, Chichester, Rochester, Salisbury, Portsmouth and her home town of Winchester in this fantastic 3 DVD collection.
In this brand new four-part series, James Cracknell push himself to the very limits of physical endurance and sometimes beyond as he investigates the journeys of some of history s most celebrated explorers. Cracknell has been inspired throughout his life by explorers and heroes who have achieved greatness in the face of overwhelming odds. From negotiating the largest waterfall on the planet in a tiny dugout canoe, to swimming the flood-swollen Xingu River, home to electric eel, anaconda, and piranha, the modern day adventurer will stop at nothing in his quest to fulfil a lifelong dream, and follow in the footsteps of the pioneers and heroes who have inspired him.James uses diaries, maps, images and detailed research, to help recreate the turning points of their great journeys, including the moment Dr Livingstone confronted the most terrifying rapids on the Zambezi, the fearsome Amazon jungle crossing just before Colonel Percy Fawcett disappeared, the moment at which the Wild West Gold prospectors were lost on the most exacting stage of their pioneering drive across America and James investigates the accidental explorers, Daniel McLauchlin and Charles Eyre, left stranded in the middle of the Ocean.
What secrets lie hidden in the ice? Find out in this exciting 3 DVD box set. Episodes include: Clash of the Cavemen, Journey to 10, 000 BC and Ice Age Monsters. Travel back through history, over 27, 000 years into the past, when Arctic glaciers reached as far south as London and people faced a daily struggle not just to survive as individuals, families or groups, but to avoid the ultimate extinction of the species. A key moment in the course of our history saw the two branches of humankind, the Neanderthals and the Cro-Magnons, face-off against the backdrop of perilous cold, harsh conditions and massive predators. But how did our branch of humans survive when so many powerful species did not? Meanwhile in North America, when the remains of two of the largest predatory mammals of the region are discovered in a cave in Wyoming, experts endeavour to uncover how an ecosystem could support two predators of such size and raw power. The first was a 750lb Mega-lion and the second an eleven foot-tall bear equipped with huge claws and muscles. By using evidence collected at the site and studying the skeletal design of each combatant, experts are able to recreate a blow-by-blow account of how these two Ice Age monsters fought to the death.
Delve into the lives of three of the most important figures of the 20th century: men whose policies, philosophies and motivations had a dramatic - some may say catastrophic - bearing on their homeland Russia. Join Discovery and go in search of The Russian Revolutionaries: Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky. From Stalin, one of the most controversial characters in Russian history, whose leadership splits opinion even today - his critics call him a tyrant while his supporters regard him as a capable leader - to the Fathers of the Communist Revolution Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, rarely seen footage is used alongside unique documentary materials, restored photographs, expert analysis and archive documents to provide an in-depth look at their stories. Hear from his granddaughter what Stalin was like away from the public eye, learn the truth behind the myths and legends that surround Lenin and discover the story behind Leon Trotsky, one of the most ominous figures in 20th century Russian history.
Discover the terrifying truth behind one of the most sinister yet effective organisations of the past century, as we take an in-depth look inside the Nazi War Machine.Examine the technology that enabled Hitlers Nazi regime to spread death and destruction across Europe and far beyond, from the airborne Luftwaffe, agressors in the infamous Blitz bombing campaign, to the Panzer tanks that dominated Europes battlefields and the Wolf Packs of U-Boats that terrorised international waters.Explore the rigorous training, tactics and equipment available to Hitlers elite fighting forces through unique footage of these highly accomplished units in action. Learn how the Nazi plan to develop an atomic bomb could have drastically altered the course of the war, and all human history, before witnessing perhaps the most chilling artefact of all: the blueprints and diagrams for the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.Recently discovered by a German family whilst cleaning out their attic, these documents reveal that the final solution, one of the most shameful and inhumane chapters in the history of mankind, was as elaborate a machine as any other of mans inventions.
A stone's throw away from London, the Cat Survival Trust has the largest collection of snow leopards (12) outside of Asia and with numbers seriously threatened in the wild something is being done to safeguard their future. Something remarkable, unconventional and very surreal! Snow leopards of Leafy London is an observational documentary series that captures intimate never-seen-before footage of snow leopards. Presented from behind the camera by wildlife film-maker Adrian Cale, the series takes us to the very heart of snow leopard conservation via the evolving lives of two newborn snow leopard cubs and their extraordinary relationship with Dr Terry Moore as he shares parenting duties with their mother. Adrian will find out just what goes into rearing newborn snow leopards, the day to day work of the Trust, its other cat residents and ground-breaking conservation plans for the future.
The Great Wall of China There are few objects as compelling or iconic as the Great Wall of China and this feature length drama doc takes on this monumental subject with typical style and scale of ambition. This film traces the story of the building of the wall in its latest, greatest guise the colossal brick structure that everyone recognises as the Wall, from the terror of apocalyptic Mongol attacks in 1550 - through the founding of the nation's first professional army, to the building of the wall itself and its testing in battle. Secrets of the Forbidden City Using the latest archaelogical and historical discoveries, combined with state of the art CGI and thrilling dramatic reconstructions, Secrets of the Forbidden City tells the incredible story of the creation of the Ming Emperor's Yongle's palace, and how the despotic emperor clawed his way to power: betraying his own family and killing anyone who dared to stand in his path.
Combining the artistic and story-telling talents of the world's most renowned dinosaur illustrators and the most up-to-date discoveries about dinosaurs cultures and behaviours comes Dinosaur Revolution which drops viewers directly into the prehistoric era to showcase dinosaurs in all their living, breathing glory. This special 3 DVD collection from the famed Discovery Channel includes Evolution's Winners, The Watering Hole, Survival Tactics, End Game and Last Day of the Dinosaurs.
Details: Railway Diaries across England features Doncaster, Nuneaton and Birmingham. A brief commentary is also added to further enhance your enjoyment of the proceedings. Doncaster - In June 2000, the Railway Diary team visited Doncaster to record railway activity in and around the station complex. It was a memorable day of filming, starting at 06:59 as 47744 arrived to stable up for 'Thunderbird' duties. Nuneaton - In August 2002, the Railway Diary team visited Nuneaton. Action commenced at 06:59, as 90017 powered through with the Euston sleeper. Birmingham - The area around Birmingham sees a large variety of railway activity passing through a number of different lines and locations. The Railway Diary team visited in June 2001, starting at Tame Bridge as 60043 was noted. Action continued through to the evening as 67010 left New Street. Ideal for: A great DVD for rail and locomotive enthusiasts. Running time approximately: 3 hours.
This DVD collection includes three thrilling episodes: JFK: 3 Shots that changed America - Just hours before his death, John F. Kennedy appeared before a crowd in Fort Worth, Texas to honour the freedoms of America in what would be his final speech. Although the Zapruder film - a silent, 8mm home movie of the presidential motorcade driving through Dealey Plaza - is the most complete visual recording of JFK's assassination, it is just part of a vast record of sights and sounds captured on camera that day. This HISTORY special uses unique, rarely seen or heard footage to document the Kennedy assassination and the ensuing 50 years of speculation and controversy that changed America. The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After - The moments and hours after JFK's tragic assassination were some of the most formative and important for the US but the true story has rarely, and only partially, been told. This film pieces together the 24-hour period after the shots were fired. The timeline reveals startling new information about the death of the President and the traumatic transfer of power to his successor. The JFK Assassination - Fifty years later, controversy still swirls around the JFK assassination. This investigative programme explores a host of familiar theories surrounding the crime with the help of leading forensic scientists. Granted extraordinary access to formerly classified documents, photos and artefacts, they discover that some theories simply cannot be true, while others seem increasingly likely.
British crime writer, Martina Cole, examines the life and times of the most notorious female serial killers across history and asks: Why do women kill and why are we surprised when they do? Each programme tells the story of an individual killer with expert analysis and dramatic reconstruction.The first programme looks at Myra Hindley, who along with Ian Brady was responsible for a spate of child murders in the 1960s, and features interviews with Hindley s lawyer and prison chaplain. Crime writer Martina Cole examines the backgrounds, personalities and behaviour of the notorious female murderer, re-examining evidence and providing a portrait of the sociological backgrounds that may have moulded her.Profile of nurse Beverley Allitt, dubbed the Angel of Death, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1993 for the murders of four children in her care at a hospital in Lincolnshire. Although she had repeatedly failed her exams, she was granted a six-month nursing position, during which she attacked 13 young patients before being arrested and eventually charged.The case of Rose West, who is currently serving a life sentence without parole for 10 separate counts of murder, committed during the 1970s and 80s. Her husband and partner in the sexually motivated crimes committed suicide in prison in 1995. Herself a victim of abuse, Rose directed her appetites toward her own children as well as at least eight other girls, whose dismembered remains were found buried at their home in Cromwell Street, Gloucester.
Tony Robinson explores the weird and wonderful history of belief, superstition and religious experience in Britain. For 2000 years, Britain has been a Christian country. Or has it? In fact, our ancestors actually kept many other dark, fantastical beliefs alive which Tony explores in great depth from The Undead to Evil Spirits and Witches amongst many others. It was a world underpinned by outlandish, dangerous and plain weird beliefs. Ideas that today seem unbelievable, but were seen as uncontroversial and hugely influential, with some having shaped our history, as much as mainstream religion.
Travelling from wild coastlines to urban habitats, this fascinating natural history series from the BBC explores the behaviour of birds, revealing all aspects of their lives, from surviving harsh winters and avoiding predators to living alongside us in towns and cities. Host and wildlife expert Iolo Williams discovers how birds have adapted to changing landscapes, studying their ability to fly and how their unique design, colour and camouflage enables them to live in many habitats, as well as uncovering their courtship and nesting rituals and finding out how and why they communicate. Offering a visual treat of stunning landscapes and captivating wildlife behaviour, The Secret Life of Birds provides perfect family entertainment educating and enthralling in equal measure.