History is a fascinating peek into how we ended up here, but much of it, frankly, isn’t very interesting. We take a fresh new look at history’s most intriguing facts - with the boring bits taken out.
Get ready for incredible experiments and mind-bending puzzles to impress your friends. Owain and Tilly are here to explore epic science tricks to try at home and showcase new technology innovations from around the world!
Hidden behind the laboratory doors of the forensic institutes, universities and research centres, scientists and experts uncover important information on how to convict the perpetrators.
Secret rituals. Blood oaths. Dark ceremonies. Fraternal orders. Around the world, and throughout history, secret societies have bubbled under the surface. In crypts and clubhouses, under lock and key, in the darkest corners of the internet, they assemble for mysterious purposes. Do they pull the levers of power or set out to destroy the ones in charge? What dark mysteries lurk behind closed doors; the sacred or the profane?
Get an intimate look inside the Orangutan Jungle School in the heart of Borneo. Survey this sanctuary, where orphaned orangutans learn survival skills, make friends, and navigate the journey to adulthood as they prepare to return to the wild.
Across the US, millions of project cars lay unfinished up on blocks or under tarps. Dan Brockett, Shea Seefeldt and Aaron Parker are on a mission to rescue those broken cars. And they won't just finish them, but they'll redeem them. These guys have about a week to get them across the finish line, whether it's on a track, down a dragstrip or up a mountain.
Explores the phenomenon of phrogging – people secretly living inside someone else’s home and features two first-hand accounts of survivors sharing the most skin-crawling, twisted and truly terrifying stories imaginable. Along with interviews and key archive materials, cinematic recreations bring the clues and confrontations to life.
Some areas seem to emanate strange phenomena, from Sasquatch to UFOs to poltergeist activity. One such area is the Chestnut Ridge in Pennsylvania. For decades dozens of researchers have looked into the strange activity occurring there and have only ended up with more questions than answers.
In the first episode focusing on the Ridge, you will discover some of the historical encounters with Sasquatch in this area of the world, and like many of the researchers in the film, you will leave with more questions than answers.
Marcia Lucas, Oscar-winning film editor and ex-wife of George Lucas, sits down for her first-ever on-camera interview and provides unique insight into the rise of LucasFilm — including her 14-year marriage to and eventual divorce from George Lucas — the editing of the original Star Wars trilogy, the origin of the idea that Darth Vader would be Luke’s father and if there were really originally plans for nine movies.
The two-part documentary event “Right to Offend: The Black Comedy Revolution” explores the progression of Black comedy and the comedians who have used pointed humor to expose, challenge and ridicule society’s injustices and to articulate the Black experience in America. The series examines Black comedy through a unique lens, tracing the evolution and social awakening of the courageous comedians who dared to push against the constraints of their time and spoke truth to power.
Agua Santa brings to light the melting pot of flavors, regional cultures and unmissable places that to the amazement of all we must know. Under the motto that you cannot love what you do not admire, we expose the precious, diverse and brilliant tradition.
Each individual episode follows a case of an innocent woman who's been harmed, killed, or abducted by someone on what should have been just another average day.