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  • Forensic Files

    1996

    Forensic Files

    1996

    star 7.8
    Real crimes, disease outbreaks and accidents around the world are solved by experts using scientific laboratory analysis which helps them find previously undetectable evidence. Brilliant scientific work helps convict the guilty and free the innocent.
  • Australian Story

    1996

    Australian Story

    1996

    star 4.8
    Putting the "real" back into reality television, Australian Story is an award-winning documentary series with no narrator and no agendas — just authentic stories told entirely in people's own words.
  • Shark Week

    1988

    Shark Week

    1988

    star 7.6
    The Discovery Channel's Shark Week, first broadcast on July 17, 1987, is a weeklong series of feature television programs dedicated to sharks. Held annually, normally in July or August, Shark Week was originally developed to raise awareness and respect for sharks. It is the longest-running cable television programming event in history. Now broadcast in over 72 countries, Shark Week is promoted heavily via social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
  • Behind the Music

    1997

    Behind the Music

    1997

    star 7.2
    An intimate look into the personal lives of pop music's greatest and most influential artists.
  • Austin City Limits

    1975

    Austin City Limits

    1975

    star 6.2
    Now the longest-running music series in American television history, ACL showcases popular music legends and innovators from every genre.
  • World War Two

    2018

    World War Two

    2018

    star 8
    Follow the deadliest conflict in human history in real time, week by week, blow by blow.
  • Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue

    2012

    Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue

    2012

    star 9.3
    Prominent Japanese wildlife photographer and filmmaker Mitsuaki Iwago loves cats of all shapes and sizes. So he's set out on a journey to film cats all over the world as they live their lives. Join him in a cat's-eye view of many diverse cities spanning the globe in a unique program that perhaps even your own cat will enjoy as well!
  • Arena

    1975

    Arena

    1975

    star 6.9
    Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.
  • Classic Albums

    1997

    Classic Albums

    1997

    star 7.7
    A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a stage in the history of music.
  • The Gadget Show

    2004

    The Gadget Show

    2004

    star 6.7
    The Gadget Show is a British television series which focuses on consumer technology. The show, which is broadcast on Channel 5 is currently presented by Jason Bradbury and Rachel Riley with Jon Bentley and Pollyanna Woodward. Originally a thirty-minute show, it was extended to forty-five minutes, then later to sixty minutes. Repeats have also aired on the digital channel 5*, syndicated broadcasts on Discovery Science and Dave, and Channel 5's Internet on-demand service Demand 5. In Australia, it is aired on The Lifestyle Channel.
  • The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros

    2022

    The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros

    2022

    star 5.4
    The remarkable rise of one of the world’s most controversial leaders, Jair Bolsonaro, from obscurity to the presidency of Brazil.
  • The South Bank Show

    1978

    The South Bank Show

    1978

    star 5.6
    The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.
  • Finding Your Roots

    2012

    Finding Your Roots

    2012

    star 6.2
    Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
  • Echappées Belles

    2006

    Echappées Belles

    2006

    star 7.8
    Échappées Belles is a French weekly discovery magazine, broadcast on Saturdays in the first part of the evening on France 5 since September 30, 2006. It is presented in turn by Sophie Jovillard, Jérôme Pitorin, Ismaël Khelifa, Tiga, Sabine Quindou, Théo Curin and Anto Cocagne.
  • The Curse of Oak Island

    2014

    The Curse of Oak Island

    2014

    star 7.3
    Follow brothers Marty and Rick Lagina through their effort to find the speculated - and as of yet undiscovered - buried treasure believed to have been concealed through extraordinary means on Oak Island.
  • imagine…

    2003

    imagine…

    2003

    star 5.8
    The biggest names from the world of art, film, music, literature and dance. Alan Yentob gets close up with those shaping today's cultural world.
  • To Remember

    1993

    To Remember

    1993

    star 7
  • Prehistoric Planet

    2022

    Prehistoric Planet

    2022

    star 8.3
    Experience the wonders of our world like never before in this epic series from Jon Favreau and the producers of Planet Earth. Travel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas, and skies.
  • Storyville

    1997

    Storyville

    1997

    star 7.6
    Showcasing the best in international documentaries, Storyville has developed an enviable reputation since its inception more than a decade ago. Screening over 340 films, from some 70 different countries, the strand has garnered a staggering array of awards: five Oscars, 15 Griersons, three Peabodys and two International Emmys. In true, unique, Storyville style, the new series promises to deliver the strand's usual eclectic mix of compelling stories from across the globe.
  • 30 for 30

    2009

    30 for 30

    2009

    star 7.4
    30 for 30 is the title for a series of documentary films airing on ESPN, its sister networks, and online highlighting interesting people and events in sports history. This currently includes four "volumes" of 30 episodes each, a 13-episode series under the ESPN Films Presents title in 2011–2012, and a series of 30 for 30 Shorts shown through the ESPN.com website. The series has also expanded to include Soccer Stories, which aired in advance of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and audio podcasts. This entry refers to the main Volumes of the series presented by ESPN
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