A unique, multi-award winning series of thirty-seven documentries on Irish crafts capturing the final years of traditional rural and urban life in Ireland during the seventies and eighties.
Fourteen banks are robbed in the US every day. These are the true stories of eight ordinary Americans who have committed some of these extraordinary crimes.
Through mechanization and industrialization, the methods used to settle conflicts have made the art of war more hi-tech, more expensive, and more devastating than ever before.
Hindu or Buddhist temples, synagogues, churches or mosques: religions have inspired architectural marvels. Four episodes to discover jewels of Muslim sacred art, masterpieces of Christian architecture, captivating Hindu and Buddhist buildings or even the most beautiful synagogues, witnesses of the history of the Jewish people.
What is happening today in European monasteries? Why do young people leave the “normal” world to devote their lives to spirituality? Let's embark on a journey to discover the sources of Europe and share the life of monastic communities from Ireland to Russia and from Greece to Germany.
All cities, even the great ones, harbor dark secrets. Homicide City: Charlotte uncovers the most dramatic murders that have taken place in this southern metropolis.
When most people hear NASA; they think of rockets and exploration of the universe. In fact entire facets of our daily lives are fueled by the results of the space race technology. From online dating to your smart watch heart monitor, GPS to groceries; explore the far ranging ways the space race completely changed YOUR life. In this two part series we’ll explore technologies we take for granted in our daily lives, tracing its roots back to the quest for the stars, and imagine our world had it never happened.
The nature of the Baltic Sea offers many surprises as demonstrated in the three-part series Wild Baltic Sea. From the Northern most tip of Denmark to the Curonian Spit, from the Estonian island world to the Bay of Bothnia. For the first time bottlenose dolphins and a Sowerby's beaked whale could be filmed in the Baltic Sea.
From the infinitely large to the infinitely small, this animated series observes humanity through a magnifying glass and places Man in a universe of which he has never been the center. From the universe to genes, from ecosystems to the human body, each episode allows us to apprehend magnitudes and concepts that are difficult to imagine by our brain. Take a few minutes to contemplate the universe from outside our navel!