Catch the new series of Salvage Hunters: Georgian House Restoration featuring Welsh Slate roofing
The programme includes Drew Pritchard at Penrhyn Quarry to see the process of splitting and dressing slate as he buys Welsh Slate for the renovation of his Georgian House in Bath.
Moving giant brewing silos, circus big tops, ice sculptures and steam trains is never easy. However, the Ultimate Movers rise to the challenge, battling against the elements, guiding oversized transport through narrow and winding roads and overcoming problems to get their precious cargo there on time, and in one piece. Time is always money and there's no room for error.
Families everywhere are feeling weighed down by the chaos and clutter in their homes. What if you could make spaces… happier? Briana Bosh turned her life upside down in the pursuit of wellness. This ballet dancer turned farmer is on a mission to bring the outside in, applying the basics of nature to create major transformations that set the tone for happier, more holistic living.
We follow the Beat Enforcement team as they attempt to curb the rampant drug use & crime in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Along side these stories we get a glimpse into the personal lives of the Law Enforcement who are sworn to protect the city. These stories range from an Officer's attempt to have a child, to keeping control of an Anti-Police protest.
Nightmare stories are born from true stories of murder and mayhem. They haunt our childhoods and scare us throughout our lives. Todd Robbins brings to life the real stories that spawned these hair-raising tales.
Are ghosts and demons dwelling among us? The Fourman Brothers, a family of paranormal investigators, investigate four hauntings, including a demonic entity, a murderous specter, a dangerous force, and a dark presence in this documentary series.
Whether flying across the country to get a suspect to confess the whereabouts of a missing woman or interrogating a high school senior class president about his mother's murder, detectives can get killers to make shocking confessions. When a pastor's secret leads to an unsolved homicide and a low-budget filmmaker becomes the star in his own interrogation videos, anything can happen.
The decade of the 1980s in Mexico is recreated in lush detail in this documentary that explores the evolution of a society that witnesses destruction and death with the 1985 earthquake and then rises with hope towards the end of the decade.
Follow Bahrain's elite brokers selling some of the islands' hottest real estate. Catch a rare glimpse of the industry, while feasting your eyes on the glamour of living luxuriously in the Arabian Gulf. Image is everything to these brokers, and they must play their part to deal with a clientele that has more money to invest than some small countries.
Paul Lafrance, an accomplished and successful deck-builder, teams with a group of skilled carpenters to help homeowners rebuild their backyard disasters. Lafrance and his team set out to fix not only dilapidated decks but also the egos of those that own them. In each episode, a homeowner shares the story behind each disaster, learning from mistakes and being challenged by working with the team. In the end, the deck is saved and added to Lafrance's long list of backyard transformations.
For centuries, the 350 species of sharks have fascinated, horrified, and populated our nightmares. Now renowned filmmakers and scientists delve into the deepest mysteries of these magnificent creatures, separating truth from myth.
Do the warped and damaged relationships of murderers and their mothers lie at the root of many of the world's most notorious killers? In these ten episodes, journalist Donal MacIntyre examines ten cases of murder in which the culprits' childhoods and maternal influences set them on the path towards their unspeakable crimes.
Dive into the secret and surprising lives of some of Australia's signature wildlife. From mini marsupials to flying foxes, join these extraordinary creatures thriving in the otherworldly landscapes of this astonishing island-continent.
We meet 6 populations in transition via the microcosm of the local barber shop: in Rio de Janeiro, barber Pedro picks teenagers from the street to teach them a profession. The inhabitants of Clacton-on-Sea reflect on post-Brexit society. In South Africa, post Mandela era, the white middle class is degrading to poverty. Detroit's young and old inhabitants, each in their own way, have learned to overcome the city's bankruptcy. The Sahrawi refugees question the fight for their land. In India, hairdresser Soniya helps her clients to fight for women's rights. In every episode, a population finds itself on the verge of change and a barber plays his role. As opinion maker, as confessor, as story collector, as society barometer. Gradually, Barber Shop measures the state of our world, offering dialogue and human resilience as a hopeful perspective for the future.
The figures are stark and almost impossible to comprehend: military deaths estimated between 21-25 million, civilian deaths between 50-55 million. The greatest manmade event in history was also the most lethal, taking far more lives away from the battlefield than on it. “Hell on Earth” tells the story of The Second World War” from a perspective that recognises these overwhelming facts: war as a human experience.