A Thousand and One Nights: The well-known folk tales from the Orient are passed on from generation to generation. Adventurers fire our imaginations. Expeditions give us a glimpse. There is no other landscape that is so barren and at the same time so filled with mysteries. Our films will unveil some of these secrets and tell stories about landscape and people in the desert today.
Explorer Ed Stafford spends two months with Gypsy and Traveller communities across the country, as he delves beneath the stereotypes and reveals the challenges of living in modern-day Britain.
This is Asia as you have never seen before. Take a trip across Taiwan, through the hot steam of the sulphuric Hell Valley, travel over the forests of Muzha on a Maokong gondola, and even try a glass of venom at the Hua Xi market, famous for its snake delicacies. Locals always know best, and this is the authentic journey across Taipei.
Exposing the truths behind the mystery of the Ghost Train Fire at Sydney's iconic Luna Park, Caro Meldrum-Hanna returns for a ground-breaking three-part investigation.
This riveting, behind-the-scenes look reveals the massive project to create the opening spectacle for Beijing's 2022 Winter Olympics. Set in the iconic 'Bird's Nest,' the story is told in the words of key figures involved, including director Zhang Yimou.
Explaining and investigating the world's most infamous plane crashes by putting skilled pilots into state of the art simulators, and replicating the scenario.
A documentary miniseries about the affair that marks even today the biggest and most significant trauma in US-Israel relations, that since the 60s were warm and close.
Art that challenges, questions and appals. Professor Mary Beard confronts controversial works tackling such unsettling subjects that they’ve been fought over, removed or 'forbidden'.
Archaeologists and historians use cutting-edge technology to investigate and explore some of the biggest mysteries surrounding the Underground Railroad, a secret network that helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom.
A series of documentaries on the modern history of the Greek way of life from the 1950s until today. A special production with the participation of several well-known protagonists of the formation of these trends.
How did the Greeks eat and cook for the last 70 years? How did they dress and what were their fashions and influences? What is the relationship of Greeks with music and entertainment in each decade? How did the role of the Car evolve in everyday life and what importance did Music acquire in our lives?
The presentation of the dominant trends that have played a role in every field, but also interviews of renowned people from every field who analyze and interpret phenomena and behaviors of every era. Each documentary delves into a field and illuminates historically every decade as a synthesis of events and trends that influenced the way of life of the Greeks.