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Hawke: The Larrikin and The Leader

2018

Hawke: The Larrikin and The Leader

2018
The story of how Australia ended up with a larrikin in the Lodge, and what he brought to the top job.
How'd You Get So Rich?

2017

How'd You Get So Rich?

2017
Based on the US series hosted by the late Joan Rivers, comedian Katherine Ryan meets with the wealthy, the wealthier and the wealthiest to ask them the burning question, "How'd you get so rich?" This series delves into the lives of the rich as they tell their own stories of determination and success and open up their homes and lifestyles to the rest of the World. From founders of million-dollar chain organisations to wealthy surgeons and everything in between, Katherine finds out how each of them have made their millions.
Great Crimes and Trials

1993

Great Crimes and Trials

1993
10
Great Crimes and Trials is an early 1990s BBC documentary television series. The program consists of archival material combined with never before seen interviews to reconstruct a renowned crime, examining the felon's motives, details of the crime, the investigations and the trial. Each episode is narrated by actor Robert Powell. In the United Kingdom the program is shown on weekdays on the Crime & Investigation Network. The first series was released on DVD by Columbia Tristar in 2005, and the third series was released on DVD by Network DVD in 2011. The first and second series were released on video by Columbia Tristar in 1997.
Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler

2023

Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler

2023
1
A true-crime series examining the most shocking murder investigations and toughest trials in Texas history - all told with Kelly's unique insight and unparalleled access. As Chief of Special Crimes in the busiest courthouse in the Lone Star state, Kelly Siegler battled to get killers into courtrooms to face their formidable defense attorneys. With her own firsthand accounts, alongside investigators and victims' families, Kelly reveals what really happened beyond the newspaper headlines to bring Texas-style justice.
Driven

1998

Driven

1998
10
Driven was a motoring television programme launched by Channel 4 in 1998 as a rival to the successful and long-running BBC series Top Gear. The style was similar to its rival, but with additional features such as the "Driven 100", a road test of three cars in the same class, where each car would be given marks for qualities such as practicality, desirability and cost of ownership. The car with the highest total score would be the winner. The programme launched with the concept that the presenters should interact with each other rather than present items on their own, as was then the case on Top Gear. The first series also featured a "headquarters", a racing team truck, set on a former air force base at which cars were put through their paces. These concepts resurfaced in the reborn Top Gear soon after.
The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch: Behind The Gate

0000

The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch: Behind The Gate

0000
8.7
The HISTORY Channel’s popular series The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch tracks the boldest efforts yet of ranch owner Brandon Fugal and his team to reveal the ultimate truth behind the anomalous property.
Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets

2020

Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets

2020
9
In this 3-part documentary series, Lucy Worsley travels across Britain and Europe visiting the locations where royal history was made. In palaces and castles and on battlefields she investigates how royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology.
Expedition Africa

2009

Expedition Africa

2009
The program follows four modern day explorers—a navigator, a wildlife expert, a survivalist, and a journalist—as they substantially retrace H.M. Stanley's famed expedition to find Dr. David Livingstone. Their route deviates somewhat from Stanley's in that it includes a treacherous crossing of the Uluguru Mountains, which Stanley circumvented.
Dear Mama

2023

Dear Mama

2023
8.5
Explore the history of activist Afeni Shakur and hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, two voices that could not be silenced. Told through the eyes of the people who knew them best, this series is an intimate wide-angle portrait of the most inspiring and dangerous mother-son duo in American history, whose unified message of freedom, equality, persecution and justice are more relevant today than ever.
Revizorro

2014

Revizorro

2014
2
Non me l'aspettavo - Il basket di Matilde Villa

2025

Non me l'aspettavo - Il basket di Matilde Villa

2025
At just nineteen years old, Matilde Villa is already a phenomenon in Italian and international basketball: the youngest Italian ever to be drafted by a WNBA team directly from the Italian league, without going through college. Her passion and dedication light up every game, making the power of this sport truly tangible.
Van de Schoonheid en de Troost

2000

Van de Schoonheid en de Troost

2000
To his guests – artists, scientists, writers, philosophers and musicians – Wim Kayzer in Of Beauty and Consolation asks the philosophical question: What makes this life worth living?
Human

2025

Human

2025
5.8
Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals humanity's incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution – and how the story is stranger and more surprising than ever imagined.
Cold Case Files: Dead West

2025

Cold Case Files: Dead West

2025
8
In the ruggedness of the American West, death is always a shadow over the shoulder: a grizzly bear encounter, an avalanche, or a bite from a rattlesnake can change everything in an instant; and those are just the natural threats. If one wants to get away with murder, the mountain ranges of the West may be the perfect place to do it. Peering into the dusty files found in the back country sheriff's offices and highlighting the cases that were deemed unsolvable because the crime scene was too rugged, too remote, or the victim assumed too hard to find; despite the odds in this landscape, justice prevails.
Slugfest

2021

Slugfest

2021
6.4
A chronicle of the growth of comic books as a new American art form exploring the decades-long relationship and rivalry between Marvel and DC Comics.
Inside D-Day: Filmmakers on the Frontline

2025

Inside D-Day: Filmmakers on the Frontline

2025
The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944 brought together unprecedented land, air, and sea forces: 3 million soldiers and hundreds of thousands of ships, planes and armored vehicles, a military operation of unprecedented logistic complexity. Thousands of men lost their lives during the Normandy landings. Countless photos and hundreds of hours of film recorded for posterity the fierce fighting and the soldiers’ remarkable bravery, on that fateful day and in the weeks that followed.
Universo Valdano

2016

Universo Valdano

2016
2
Jorge Valdano interviews characters that are already history in the world of soccer. A return to the past with authentic football legends.
Operation Undercover: Guns & Drugs in Carolina

2023

Operation Undercover: Guns & Drugs in Carolina

2023
Faced with a lethal gun and drug problem, the town of Pickens, S.C., executes clever undercover operations and action-packed busts. Legendary former federal agent Lou Valoze plunges viewers into the invisible stings run by heroic cops who keep us safe.
Wild West: America's Great Frontier

2016

Wild West: America's Great Frontier

2016
8
Discover the amazing ways nature has found to survive in the extremely testing land of America's wild west.
House Hunters

1999

House Hunters

1999
5.5
Hosted by Suzanne Whang, the show takes viewers behind the scenes as individuals, couples and families learn what to look for and decide whether or not a home is meant for them. Focusing on the emotional experience of finding and purchasing a new home, each episode follows a prospective buyer and real estate agent through the home-buying process, from start to finish.