Top Rated Documentary TV Series - Page 194

Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container

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Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container

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7.3
Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container, alternately named "Wien-Aktion", "Please Love Austria—First European Coalition Week", or "Foreigners Out—Artists against Human Rights", is an art project and television show from 2000 that took place within the scope of the annual Wiener Festwochen. It was conceptually designed by Christoph Schlingensief and directed by Paul Poet, and was styled as a mockery of popular TV program format Big Brother. It was critically aimed both at certain forms of television entertainment and at a latent xenophobia still thriving in the whole world.
The Bear Family and Me

2011

The Bear Family and Me

2011
7.3
Join wildlife cameraman, Gordon Buchanan, as he tries to gain the trust of a wild bear family in a spectacular American wilderness.
Brew Masters

2010

Brew Masters

2010
4.3
Brew Masters is a television series that was run weekly on Discovery Channel starting on Sunday, November 21, 2010. The show focused on Sam Calagione, the founder and head of Dogfish Head Brewery, and his staff as they searched the world for new, ancient, and imaginative inspirations for beers.
Hollywood Treasure

2010

Hollywood Treasure

2010
6.3
Hollywood Treasure is a weekly, American, reality television series that began airing on SyFy, October 27, 2010, which follows a Hollywood, California-based appraiser named Joe Maddalena and his team as they track down, appraise and help auction off valuable film, television and pop culture memorabilia.
Digging for Britain

2010

Digging for Britain

2010
5
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.
Don't Tell My Mother

2007

Don't Tell My Mother

2007
8.7
Diego Buñuel visits countries often thought to be violent, war-ravaged and corrupt.
Worst-Case Scenario

2010

Worst-Case Scenario

2010
6.2
Survival expert Bear Grylls puts himself into potentially life-threatening situations to show the how-to, hands-on, step-by-step instructions on everything you may need to know when faced with a worst case scenario.
The Up Series

1964

The Up Series

1964
7.7
A series of documentaries that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old.
40 Minutes

1981

40 Minutes

1981
4.7
40 Minutes was a BBC TV documentary strand broadcast on BBC Two between 1981 and 1994. The documentaries could be on any possible subject, the only connection being that they last forty minutes. Some documentaries in the original series were revisited and updated in a 2006 version, Forty Minutes On.
Robinson Report

2007

Robinson Report

2007
6.7
Informe Robinson is a monthly Spanish sports magazine programme broadcast on Canal+. It is hosted by former Republic of Ireland international football player Michael Robinson.
Ancients Behaving Badly

2009

Ancients Behaving Badly

2009
8.7
Ancients Behaving Badly is a British and Canadian produced documentary series that aired from November to December 2009 on the Canadian The History Channel and the American counterpart. The show focuses on the misdeeds of famous historical figures using forensic investigation, animated sequences, and historian interviews. Although events are depicted in a serious manner, the series has an occasionally tongue-in-cheek narrative style.
A History of Scotland

2008

A History of Scotland

2008
9
Presented by Neil Oliver, A History of Scotland is a television series first broadcast in November 2008 on BBC One Scotland and later shown UK-wide on BBC Two during January 2009. The second series began on BBC One Scotland in early November 2009, with transmission at a later point on network BBC Two. Along with the series, BBC Scotland planned a range of radio programmes, a new website, an interactive game, and concerts. The Open University, in collaboration with the BBC, also created a series of audio walks around historic locations in Scotland, with narration from Oliver. In Australia, series one aired on SBS One Sundays at 7:30pm from 6 December 2009 to 3 January 2010. Series two commenced on 24 October 2010 running until 21 November in the same Sunday night Lost Worlds strand. It has since been repeated.
Bible's Buried Secrets

2011

Bible's Buried Secrets

2011
8.5
Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou examines how archaeological discoveries are changing the way people interpret stories from the Bible.
Worzel Gummidge Down Under

1987

Worzel Gummidge Down Under

1987
8
Worzel Gummidge Down Under, adapted from the books written by Barbara Euphan Todd and the children's television programme produced and broadcast in the United Kingdom named Worzel Gummidge, starring Jon Pertwee. The story continued in New Zealand when Aunt Sally was sold to a Museum owner.
Catastrophe

2008

Catastrophe

2008
7.3
This spectacular five-part series, presented by Tony Robinson, investigates the history of natural disasters, from the planet's beginnings to the present, putting a new perspective on our existence – that we are the product of catastrophe. Using the latest CGI effects and featuring scientific experts, the series reveals how the evolution of life on Earth has been shaped by lethal catastrophes that have caused mass extinctions, almost to the point of wiping out life altogether.
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness

2007

Cinemassacre's Monster Madness

2007
9.3
In the series James Rolfe, known for his role as Angry Video Game Nerd, reviews a horror movie in every single day of October.
Surviving Disaster

2006

Surviving Disaster

2006
6.7
Natural and man-made catastrophes retold by eyewitnesses and dramatic reconstructions.
History vs. Hollywood

2001

History vs. Hollywood

2001
7.7
History vs. Hollywood is a television show on the History Channel in the United States. On the show, experts are interviewed on the historical accuracy of a film that is based on a historical event. For example the movie The Last Samurai was featured in one episode in which military historian Geoffrey Wawro, professor of history at the University of North Texas, and director of the university's Barsanti center for military-history, compared the movie with the actual events. On the show the expert guests discuss the factual accuracy of the film as well as the everyday objects that a person of the particular time period would have seen. In some episodes an expert or the host will go on a journey to the actual historical sites depicted in the film, or interview someone who witnessed the event firsthand. In each of the more than dozen episodes both expert guests and filmmakers will discuss the historical accuracy of the film dramatized. The series was first released in 1999, and had been produced on a semi-regular bas
Paradise Islands

2017

Paradise Islands

2017
6.7
The tropical islands that lie between Asia and Australia are among the biologically richest on earth, and home to a vast number of plants and animals. From tree kangaroos to tarsiers, manta rays to mudskippers, the region abounds with life. But why? The answer lies deep in time, due to the many millions of years these islands have existed - and the power of the earth, the sun and the moon.
Big Chef Takes on Little Chef

2009

Big Chef Takes on Little Chef

2009
8.3