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A Day in the Life of Earth

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A Traveler's Guide to the Planets

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Jupiter (Episode 4) (1 × 50′)

Have you ever thought of blasting off to the King of the Planets? For a truly out of this world planetary experience, you should head beyond the Asteroid Belt to the largest planet in the solar...

Mars (Episode 1) (1 × 60′)

Mars is the ruby jewel in our night sky and arguably the hottest travel destination in the Solar System. Thanks to a robot invasion from Earth that began in the 1960’s, we probably know more about...

AI - The Last Invention

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Imagine a future in which we build artificial brains that expand our abilities and make us more powerful than ever before. A super-intelligence, smarter than us. Today, artificial intelligence is...

Episode 2 (1 × 50')

Imagine a future in which we build artificial brains that expand our abilities and make us more powerful than ever before. A super-intelligence, smarter than us. Today, artificial intelligence is...

Aircrash Confidential: Season 3

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Instrument Confusion (Episode 1) (1 × 50′)

A routine arrival at San Francisco International goes catastrophically wrong. The plane catches the sea wall, ripping the tail from the plane. Miraculously, most survive – though three school...

Disastrous Descents (Episode 2) (1 × 50′)

In the rare circumstances where a pilot loses control of their planes' descent, the results can be among the worst disasters in aviation history. This episode explores why and how descents can...

Incredible Causes (Episode 3) (1 × 50′)

12th December, 1985. Arrow Air Flight 1285 takes off from Gander airport in Canada for the US. Carrying US troops returning from a peacekeeping mission in Egypt, about a mile from the runway, the...

Emergency Landings (Episode 4) (1 × 50′)

When a freak accident or maintenance error damages an aircraft's engines and leaves a plane without power at thousands of feet in the air, the pilot has no choice but to make an emergency landing...

Nevada Triangle (Episode 5) (1 × 50′)

In 2007 Steve Fossett, world renowned pilot and multi-millionaire, takes off for a Sunday morning flight, but disappears without a trace. The largest ever search and rescue mission in peacetime...

Flying Blind (Episode 6) (1 × 50′)

In September 2006 two modern aircraft collide in Brazilian airspace. With 154 people dead investigator Colonel Rufino Ferreira is under pressure to find out what went wrong. But with the skies so...

Alien Fireballs

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Ancient Engineering

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How Roads Changed The World (Episode 1) (1 × 50′)

The wheel and the road when put together are perhaps the greatest engineering development of all time. In 2002, Archeologists excavated the ruins of old pile dwellings, houses built on stilts, in...

The Great Wall Of China (Episode 2) (1 × 50′)

We are surrounded by extraordinary feats of engineering, constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. From gigantic cities, amazing infrastructure, and ingenious inventions to reach these...

Secrets Of The Pyramids (Episode 3) (1 × 50′)

Over 4600 years old, The Great Pyramid of Giza, is the oldest and surviving original Seven Wonders of the World and is still largely intact. Built over a period of 20 years, and standing at a...

Rise Of The Super Castles (Episode 4) (1 × 50′)

After the Norman invasion of 1066 of Britain saw the constructions of fortresses never seen before. Massive basitions were built to ward off invaders, command absolute power, to intimidate and...

Secrets Of Notre Dame (Episode 5) (1 × 50′)

In the modern world structures dedicated to God still dominate city-skylines. But these modern architectural wonders rely upon earlier breakthroughs. Ancient engineers battled deadly collapses,...

Secrets Of Angkor Wat (Episode 6) (1 × 50′)

Great temples built to honour the gods, have led to groundbreaking construction techniques, and pushed the limits of engineering. No expense was spared in the ancient world, as temples were built...

The Power Of Water (Episode 7) (1 × 50′)

Water is a matter of life or death. It’s the one thing none of us can do without. We can’t survive more than three days without it. A modern city like New York consumes 1 billion gallons of water...

Ancient Sea Monsters

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Ancient Skies

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Gods and monsters (Episode 1) (1 × 50′)

The first episode explores the origins of our relationship with the skies. We discover how we used the skies to navigate and tell time, and how we gave religious significance to the things we saw...

Finding the Centre (Episode 2) (1 × 50′)

Episode two of the series delves further into ancient understanding of the skies. Featuring throughout the episode are incredible CG models, footage and fascinating insights from leading scientists...

Our Place in the Universe (Episode 3) (1 × 50′)

In Episode 3, we complete the puzzle of our ancient skies. We break through the spheres that defined our skies for millennia, abandon the long-held idea of circular orbits, discover new neighbours...

Anthropocene - The Rise of Humans

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Earth (Episode 1) (1 × 50′)

Since sedentism, we have altered the earth so much that more and more scientists say a new name is required for this geological era – the anthropocene, the human epoch....

Air (Episode 2) (1 × 50′)

Since sedentism, we have altered the earth so much that more and more scientists say a new name is required for this geological era – the anthropocene, the human epoch....

Water (Episode 3) (1 × 50′)

Water makes the earth unique. All life depends on it and humans utilise it in many ways. Yet they contaminate it too, transforming entire landscapes and thereby intervening in important cycles....

Apocalypse Neanderthal

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In part one of Neanderthal Apocalypse, we look at how the Neanderthal physique and hunting techniques could have contributed to its demise. Anthropologists from Princeton and the University of...

Episode 2 (1 × 50′)

In part two of Neanderthal Apocalypse, scientists take a look at what other factors might have affected the demise of the Neanderthals. Could it have been the eruption of a super volcano? And if so...

Avian Flu Pandemic

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Big Bang in Tunguska

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