This series unveils Ramesses II’s reign of over 66 years, exploring his military and architectural feats, personal ambitions, and legendary image through expert insights and modern visuals that blend myth, history, and popular culture.
You think you know air shows? Think again! Wayne Boggs is an ex-air traffic controller, a former Marine, the brother of a Red Sox legend, and an air boss with over 25 years experience.
Travel around the world looking for sharks with renowned expert Ian Gordon. In this exciting series, you'll get up close and personal with a wide variety of these magnificent creatures, learning their habits, feeding and breeding grounds, and what does and does not make them dangerous. For Ian "Shark" Gordon, life doesn't get much better than an encounter with a deadly shark.
A three part mini-series showing the development of German industrial might throughout the 20th century and how Germany became a central foe of Western powers in the world wars that dominated the first half of 20th century life. This episode starts with the destruction of Germany in the waning days of World War II. German leaders faced trials at Nuremberg, a number were judged guilty and executed, and some such as industrial chieftain Alfried Krupp were sentenced to lengthy prison terms. Germany's industrial might was no more, but Germany began the process of what became known as an "economic miracle," in which Germany would become once again Europe's leading industrial power.
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.
Angga, Gigi & Renee, 3 friends since high school intend to celebrate the new year by camping outdoors, but their busy schedule of having to work overtime on New Year's Eve coupled with heavy rains that flooded Jakarta's New Year's plan made them fail, while the news of infection in Wuhan was without them. realize it will have an impact on their socio-economic life in 2020.
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.
In the 5th century BC, during the Greco-Persian wars, the Persian Empire set out to subjugate the Greek city-states. On the Greek side, one man had to prove his worth and defend his ideals. Opposite him was a Persian king bent on authority and obsessed with extending the boundaries of his empire. The overwhelming scale of the Persian forces came up against the bravery of a modest city: Athens.
Viewers will be brought into Nabela’s world – from the farmer’s market, to the kitchen, to the dining room, garden, and everywhere in between – with the help of some friends along the way.
70 year after partition, journalists Adnan Sarwar and Babita Sharma travel the still volatile border of Pakistan and India, discovering the lives of those who live there.
Canada is the second largest country in the world and the first to recognize that the diversity of its landscapes must be protected in order to preserve them for future generations.
Paige Murtaugh is connecting the world, one dish at a time! Travelling from country-to-country, she learns a culturally important recipe from the locals of one country, then travels to her next destination and cooks it for locals there, before learning a new dish from them and continuing on her epic relay!
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Anita Rani explore the amount of plastic we produce, where this gigantic problem is coming from, and what we can all do to try and solve it.