For over a century, locomotives played a vital role in wartime. We explore some of the trains and railways, from the American Civil War through World War II, that turned the tides of battles and changed history. Rarely seen archival footage and accounts from vets who were there highlight these thrilling stories of engineering genius and extraordinary bravery.
The series shows the use of investigation interview psychology, which observes non-verbal language of suspects during police interrogations to try to discover important clues. Through reconstitution, analysis and visual archives, it shows how experts of human behaviour could now decrypt micro-facial expressions or micro-movements from the suspects, as they looked for the truth.
Documentary featuring previously unheard testimony, exploring the manhunt following the London bombings of 2005, and the shooting of innocent electrician Jean Charles de Menezes by armed police.
The medieval period gave us some of the greatest, most enduring stories in history. Some are of them were real – some are altered into pure Legend. These legends usually had somebody doing villainous deeds. The even greater thing is that most of these were surrounded in mystery or conspiracy. Medieval Murder Mysteries uses modern thinking from historical police criminology combined with forensics and human osteologists blended with current historical ideas to try and solve what really happened all those years ago. Magnificent castles, chivalrous knights, powerful kings and queens? You’ll have them. Also require dark deeds, illicit lovers, greedy nobles, mad cardinals? Look no further. They’re all here.
Richard Hammond and Julia Bradbury are the hosts of this live global wildlife event. For three weeks they will follow the real life and death struggles of baby animals from around the world. It is a critical moment in these young animals' lives, as they try to survive the most challenging month of the year.
From Kenya, Richard reports on dramatic stories of lions and elephants. From North America, Julia reports on bears, whales and otters. There will also be reports from around the world, as they follow intimate, real-time stories of meerkats, monkeys and other animals.
Totally Gay! is a 2003 television special on VH1 that discusses gay pop culture in the United States. The content of the show includes the hottest sitcoms, newest gay icons, and the most popular dog breed.
The somewhat light-hearted tone of the show was balanced at the end by narrator Trev Broudy discussing the assault that he had suffered shortly before the program was recorded, which left him with permanent brain damage.
Totally Gay! was followed by a sequel in 2004 called Totally Gayer.
A look at the disappearance of Julie Reilly, a 47-year-old mother of one who was reported missing in March 2018. After an extensive four-week-long search fails to find her, the skilled investigators of Police Scotland's major investigations team take up the case.
A platform to dissidents and rebels, both within the United States and abroad, who offer critiques of power not heard within mainstream society or permitted by the corporate press. Host Chris Hedges and his guests lay bare the mechanisms that uphold systems of power, including the role of the military and the internal security apparatus, as well as the elaborate forms of propaganda and corporate-controlled media.
The story of a journey through the mountains of Africa, conceived and realised by Giorgio Moser, with mountaineer and writer Stefano Maestri. The journey of documentary filmmaker Moser and mountaineer Maestri, both born in Trento, goes up the continent's peaks following the trails of mythology and legends, without neglecting the ancient culture of the different populations they meet along the way
The Lords of the Animals, one of BOREALES’s leading productions is a 13x26’ series of documentary tales recounting the most extraordinary symbiotic relationships between man and animals.
This anthology co-produced by Boréales and Canal + continues to meet with tremendous international success and has been translated into thirty languages. Over a hundred awards including Pandas in Windscreen, a Green Oscar at the Wildlife Film Festival in Jackson Hole and an International Emmy Award.
An exciting look at some of the greatest battlefield conflicts in modern history. Using cutting-edge CGI animation and "on the ground" interviews to bring a new perspective to each battle, every episode profiles the decisive missions, heroes, and weapons, all of which played critical roles in turning the tide within historic battles.