Tony Blair is one of Britain's most successful and controversial leaders. With unprecedented access, including Blair and family, this series charts his meteoric rise to power. And what happened next.
Featuring an in-depth interview with Tony Blair himself, his story is also told through those who knew him best – friends, allies, and opponents. Peeling back the layers of political spin and tabloid sensationalism, the programme offers a fresh perspective on the man who transformed the Labour Party and reshaped Britain.
The series goes beyond the headlines to explore the key moments that shaped Blair’s leadership, providing a gripping insight into one of the most influential Prime Ministers of the modern era.
Covering the ancient world through the age of technology, this illustrated lecture by Eugen Weber presents a tapestry of political and social events woven with many strands — religion, industry, agriculture, demography, government, economics, and art. A visual feast of over 2,700 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art portrays key events that shaped the development of Western thought, culture, and tradition.
In this documentary series featuring Actor Yoo Ji Tae and Actress Ok Ja Yeon, they delve into the world of Korean shamanism. They follow the stories of people who suffer from seeing ghosts and unexplainable phenomena. Different kinds of evil curses are introduced, and what shamans do to lift them is explained in detail. The process of how one becomes a shaman is shared through a lady who has no choice but to channel a spirit in order to survive.
Follows Eric Goode’s first love, reptiles, into the dark underworld of exotic animal smuggling. He begins with the industry’s legendary founders, Hank Molt and Tommy Crutchfield, who sold some of the world’s rarest reptiles to America’s biggest zoos. After an epic smuggling trip goes wrong, Hank lands in prison, clearing the way for Tommy to monopolize the industry. But when Hank gets out, his bitterness over Tommy’s success prompts a gruesome revenge that will change the reptile world forever.
Having grown up together, Jean-Loup, François, Norman and Nicolas want to celebrate their 50th birthdays with something special. In 2016, they decide to cross the USA on Road 66. The epic motorcycle trip spans 3945 km from Chicago to Santa Monica in California.
Martin Luther’s attack on the all-powerful Catholic Church was a knife to the heart of an empire that had endured for over a thousand years. Nailing his treatise to the doors of the Wittenberg Cathedral, this previously obscure German monk changed the world forever, unleashing forces that plunged Europe into war and chaos. But Luther would do more than revolutionize the Church, he offered the Christian world a new vision of man’s relationship with God and, in turn, redefined man’s relationship with authority in general.
Bill Kurtis examines cold cases that are solved through advancements in DNA, along with help from victims’ families, law enforcement and the public. Each episode tells the story of how forensic evidence is used to solve murder cases that have remained unsolved for years.
Follow determined investigators working the most shocking murder cases as they reconstruct the tragic final hours in the victim's life, in order to find their killer and crack the case.
Documentary series investigating water wars from West Virginia and Michigan to Syria and India including the corporate, political and social interests that are responsible for our water-limited future.
Tells the fascinating history of an island people who have truly left their mark on the world. 6 million people live on the island of Ireland, but over 80 million people worldwide say they are Irish. What does that mean? How have we been shaped by our history? Our geography? Where did we come from? Where did we go? These questions are at the heart of this series.
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.