Space Volcanoes | BBC Documentary

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Space Volcanoes
Horizon follows an international team of volcanologists in Iceland as they draw fascinating parallels between the volcanoes on Earth and those elsewhere in the solar system.
Volcanoes have long helped shape the Earth. But what is less well known is that there are volcanoes on other planets and moons that are even more extraordinary than those on our own home planet. Horizon follows an international team of volcanologists in Iceland as they draw fascinating parallels between the volcanoes on Earth and those elsewhere in the solar system. Through the team's research, we discover that the largest volcano in the solar system - Olympus Mons on Mars - has been formed in a similar way to those of Iceland, how a small moon of Jupiter - Io - has the most violent eruptions anywhere, and that a moon of Saturn called Enceladus erupts icy geysers from a hidden ocean. Computer graphics combined with original NASA material reveal the spectacular sights of these amazing volcanoes.
Along the way, we learn that volcanoes are not just a destructive force, but have been essential to the formation of atmospheres and even life. And through these volcanoes of the solar system, scientists have discovered far more about our own planet, Earth - what it was like when Earth first formed, and even what will happen to our planet in the future.




 Space Volcanoes
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:00 min  
 Language: English 

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Strange Signals from Outer Space | BBC Documentary

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Strange Signals from Outer Space 
Horizon investigates unusual space signals including the Lorimer Burst and has exclusive access to researchers at the Green Bank Telescope searching for signals from Tabby's Star.
For decades some have suspected that there might be others out there, intelligent beings capable of communicating with us, even visiting our world. It might sound like science fiction, but today scientists from across the globe are scouring the universe for signals from extraterrestrials. In 2006, husband and wife team Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin discovered an enigmatic signal from space, known as a fast radio burst. It was a pulse of radiation so bright, it didn't appear to be caused by any known object in the universe. Explanations ranged from colliding neutron stars to communication signals from an alien civilisation far more advanced from our own. Scientists have been searching the cosmos for strange signals like the Lorimer Burst for more than 50 years. The film ends with scientists' latest search for extraterrestial intelligence. Horizon obtained exclusive access to film researchers at the Green Bank Telescope searching for radio signals from Tabby's Star, a star so mysterious that some scientists believe it might be surrounded by a Dyson Sphere, a vast energy collector built by advanced aliens.



 Strange Signals from Outer Space
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:00 min
 Language: English

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Galapagos (2017) BBC Documentary Series

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Galapagos 
Liz Bonnin joins a scientific team on an expedition across the Galapagos Islands to carry out important research that will help protect the islands and their inhabitants.









 Galapagos 
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 40:00 min
 Language: English



Episode 1: Cauldron of Life


Episode 2: Secrets of the Deep


Episode 3: Future Frontiers

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Gravity and Me The Force that Shapes Our Lives | BBC Documentary

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Gravity and Me The Force that Shapes Our Lives
Professor Jim Al-Khalili investigates the amazing science of gravity. As well sculpting our universe, gravity also affects our weight, height and even the rate at which we age.








 Gravity and Me The Force that Shapes Our Lives
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 01:28:00 min
 Language: English

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1066: A Year to Conquer England | BBC Documentary Series

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1066: A Year to Conquer England
In this three-part drama documentary series, Dan Snow explores the political intrigues and family betrayals between Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans that led to war and the Battle of Hastings. When King Edward the Confessor dies without an heir, it triggers a bitter race to succeed him as King of England. Earl Harold is on the spot and takes the crown. But in Normandy, Duke William believes the throne has been promised to him and decides to invade. Meanwhile, in Norway, the Viking king Harald Hardrada also fancies himself as King of England, and he too puts together an invasion force. Very soon, England will be under attack.




 1066: A Year to Conquer England
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:00 min (each episode)
 Language: English



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SAS: Rogue Warriors | BBC Documentary Series

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SAS: Rogue Warriors
With unprecedented access to the SAS secret files, unseen footage and exclusive interviews with its founder members, this series tells the remarkable story behind an extraordinary fighting force.







 SAS: Rogue Warriors
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 40:00 min
 Language: English





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Britain's Ancient Capital Secrets of Orkney | BBC Documentary Series

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Britain's Ancient Capital Secrets of Orkney
Neil Oliver, Chris Packham, Andy Torbet and Dr Shini Somara join hundreds of archaeologists from around the world who have gathered in Orkney to investigate at one of Europe's biggest digs. Orkney - seven miles off the coast of Scotland, and cut off by the tumultuous Pentland Firth, the fastest-flowing tidal race in Europe is often viewed as being remote. However it is one of the treasure troves of archaeology in Britain, and recent discoveries there are turning the Stone Age map of Britain upside down. Rather than an outpost at the edge of the world, recent finds suggest an extraordinary theory - that Orkney was the cultural capital of our ancient world and the origin of the stone circle cult which culminated in Stonehenge.




 Britain's Ancient Capital Secrets of Orkney
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:00 min (each episode)
 Language: English




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Six Wives with Lucy Worsley | BBC Documentary Series

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Six Wives with Lucy Worsley 
Documentary series featuring dramatic reconstruction in which Lucy Worsley revisits key events in the lives of Henry VIII's six wives.









 Six Wives with Lucy Worsley
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 60:00 min (each episode)
 Subtitles: English
 Language: English



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Planet Earth II | HD Documentary Series

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Planet Earth II 
David Attenborough presents a documentary series exploring how animals meet the challenges of surviving in the most iconic habitats on earth.
Planet Earth II comes a decade after the original Planet Earth. The new series began with Sir David, now 90, floating above the Alps in a hot air balloon.

 Planet Earth II
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 60:00 min (each episode)
 Language: English 

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Episode 1: Islands


Episode 2: Mountains


Episode 3: Jungles


Episode 4: Deserts


Episode 5: Grasslands


Episode 6: Cities

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The Lost Tribes Of Humanity | Horizon BBC Documentary

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The Lost Tribes Of Humanity
Alice Roberts explores the latest discoveries in the study of human origins, revealing the transformation that has been brought about in this field by genetics.Traditional paleo-anthropology, based on fossils, is being transformed by advanced genome sequencing techniques. We now know that there were at least four other distinct species of human on the planet at the same time as us - some of them identified from astonishingly well-preserved DNA extracted from 50,000-year-old bones, others hinted at by archaic sections of DNA hidden in our modern genome. What's more, we now know that our ancestors met and interacted with these other humans, in ways that still have ramifications today. Alice uses these revelations to update our picture of the human family tree.



 The Lost Tribes Of Humanity
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:00 min
 Language: English

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Hunting the Nazi Gold Train (2016) | BBC Documentary

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Hunting the Nazi Gold Train
Historian and broadcaster Dan Snow leads an investigation into one of the history stories of the decade, the hunt for a buried Nazi gold train.
In August 2015 two amateur researchers, turned treasure hunters, declared they’d found a lost Nazi train buried in an obscure railway cutting near Walbrzych in Silesia, Southern Poland. Better still, they believed the train might be loaded with gold, armaments or precious treasure, all left behind by the Nazis at the end of WWII. The claim sparked a global media frenzy.
Dan Snow follows the treasure hunters as they hunt for the gold train, while also carrying out his own investigation into this extraordinary story, one that leads all the way to Adolf Hitler himself and his secret plans for this remote corner of the Third Reich during the closing months of World War II.



 Hunting the Nazi Gold Train
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 56:59 min
 Language: English

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Joan of Arc God's Warrior (2015) | Documentary

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Joan of Arc God's Warrior
Writer and historian Dr Helen Castor explores the life - and death - of Joan of Arc. Joan was an extraordinary figure - a female warrior in an age that believed women couldn't fight, let alone lead an army. But Joan was driven by faith, and today more than ever we are acutely aware of the power of faith to drive actions for good or ill. Since her death, Joan has become an icon for almost everyone - the left and the right, Catholics and Protestants, traditionalists and feminists. But where in all of this is the real Joan - the experiences of a teenage peasant girl who achieved the seemingly impossible? Through an astonishing manuscript, we can hear Joan's own words at her trial, and as Helen unpicks Joan's story and places her back in the world that she inhabited, the real human Joan emerges.




 Joan of Arc God's Warrior
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 40:00 min
 Language: English

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E-Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace? (2016) | BBC Documentary

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E-Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace?
Michael Mosley investigates the dramatic rise in e-cigarettes. They're everywhere these days, but what does the latest scientific research on them reveal? Michael reveals what e-cigarettes are really doing to your health. Are they really better for you than cigarettes? What is actually in them? Is passive vapour harmful? And can they really stop you from smoking? Michael meets some of the scientists around the world studying them, asks a group of volunteers to try to give up smoking regular cigarettes using them, and even takes up 'vaping' himself, smoking an e-cigarette every day for a month to see the effects on his own health - no easy task for such a committed non-smoker.




 E-Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace?
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:00 min
 Language: English

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Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey | BBC Documentaries

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Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey
Right now you're hurtling around the sun at 64,000 miles an hour (100,000 kms an hour). In the next year you'll travel 584 million miles, to end up back where you started. Presenters Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth's voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, to witness the astonishing consequences this journey has for us all.




 Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 58:00 min (each episode)
 Subtitles: Greek
 Language: English 




Episode 1: July to December


Episode 2: January to March


Episode 3: March to June

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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox | Documentary Series

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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox
Professor Brian Cox combines some of the most spectacular sights on Earth with our deepest understanding of the universe to reveal how the planet's beauty is created by just a handful of forces.







 Forces of Nature with Brian Cox
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 58:00 min (each episode)
 Language: English






Episode 1: The Universe in a Snowflake


Episode 2: Somewhere in Spacetime


Episode 3: The Moth and the Flame


Episode 4: The Pale Blue Dot

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Why Are We Getting So Fat? | Horizon BBC

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Why Are We Getting So Fat? 
Over 62 per cent of adults in the UK are currently overweight or obese and this figure is set to rise. A common attitude is that obese people should be ashamed - it is their fault, they have no will power and if they could just 'eat less and exercise more', the problem would soon be solved. Yet, despite millions of pounds being spent on this simple message, the UK is getting fatter every year.
Cambridge geneticist Dr Giles Yeo believes that for many obese people, simply eating less is a lot harder than you might think - and he is taking a road trip around the UK and America to uncover why. He meets the real people behind some of the more shocking newspaper headlines and, through their stories, reveals surprising truths which dispel commonly held myths about obesity. He gains access to scientists and doctors trialling cutting-edge techniques to tackle the crisis - from a 'miracle' hormone injection to a transfusion of faecal matter, and even learns a thing or two about his own size and relationship with food.



 Why Are We Getting So Fat?
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:00 min
 Language: English

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The Banker's Guide to Art (2016) | Documentary

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The Banker's Guide to Art
Documentary taking an inside look at the high-stakes and sometimes murky world of art collecting.
In recent years, the value of London's art market has soared to unprecedented heights, driven by the nouveau riche of the financial world, whose money has poured into the bank accounts of dealers, galleries and auction houses.





 The Banker's Guide to Art
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 01:25:00 min
 Language: English

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The Immortalist | BBC Documentary

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The Immortalist
The gripping story of how one Russian internet millionaire is turning to cutting-edge science to try to unlock the secret of living forever.
Dmitry Itskov recently brought together some of the world's leading neuroscientists, robot builders and consciousness researchers to try to devise a system that would allow him to escape his biological destiny. Entering Dmitry's seemingly sci-fi world, Horizon investigates the real science inspiring his bold plan to upload the human mind to a computer.
There are doubters - like the major neuroscientist who tells us 'it's too stupid, it simply cannot be done'. But as we also meet the Japanese maker of Erica, one of the world's most human-like robots, who tells us the destiny of humans is to become robots to overcome the constraints of time, see how a quadriplegic Californian man is already controlling a robot arm with his thoughts, and explore the groundbreaking work of the scientist behind the world's largest neuroscience project - the $6 billion US Brain Initiative - who tells us the effort to map all the activity of the brain could be a crucial step towards mind uploading, Horizon asks is it really so crazy to think Dmitry Itskov could succeed in his goal of bringing about immortality for all of us within 30 years?




 The Immortalist 
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:30 min
 Language: English

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Heroes of the Somme | BBC Documentary

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Heroes of the Somme 
The Documentary uses original archive from the Western Front to uncover the stories of seven of the men whose remarkable bravery won them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prized military medal. The WWI Somme offensive lasted 141 days and involved 13 Allied nations fighting 14 separate battles. Day One of the battle, 1 July 1916, was the worst in British military history with 60,000 casualties. By the end of the offensive the total for both sides was a million. This extraordinary sacrifice was made for just six miles of empty farmland. Of roughly a million British and Dominion troops who fought on the Somme, just 51 were awarded the Victoria Cross. In this programme, military historian Dr Gavin Hughes travels to France to piece together the stories of seven of them. Their experiences, covering four key days of the battle, tell the story of the entire offensive. Gavin uses a copy of a 100-year-old battle map to navigate the Somme landscape today, using the map to pinpoint the locations of individuals and the battalions they fought in. The VC winners featured came from England, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and New Zealand. These men came from every rank and social background. The programme features contributions from leading historians, who explain the broader context of the battle and describe how the offensive has come to be remembered, rightly or wrongly, as a exercise in futile military sacrifice.



 Heroes of the Somme
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:00 min
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In The Footsteps Of Judas (2016) | BBC Documentary

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In The Footsteps Of Judas 
Reverend Kate Bottley re-opens the case against the Bible's greatest villain, Judas Iscariot. In Jerusalem she visits the places associated with his betrayal and death and asks: can Judas be forgiven?
Kate’s journey takes her from her parish in Nottingham to Jerusalem, where she pieces together the events leading up to the Crucifixion. Why did Judas betray his Master at his most desperate hour? And on a day when we remember that Jesus died for all our sins, is Judas excluded from that forgiveness?
A number of leading theological experts contribute to Kate’s investigation, as she visits the Upper Room of the Last Supper; Gethsemane - the scene of Judas’ treacherous kiss; and the Field of Blood, where, according to Christian tradition, Judas hanged himself.
Ultimately, Kate demonstrates why Judas matters and why he is central to our understanding of the Christian message today.



 In The Footsteps Of Judas
 Production: BBC
 Duration: 59:00 min
 Language: English

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