Host Jill Wagner travels the country to seek out talented artisans who continue to make products the traditional way...with their own two hands. In every half-hour episode, Jill meets three gifted craftsmen and gets a behind-the-scenes look at how their products are created. Along the way, viewers learn about the history and cultural heritage that inspire and influence the design of their handcrafted items.
Imaginative zebra Zigby has a knack for getting into trouble. Fortunately, with a little help from his two best friends - innocent meerkat McMeer and anxious guinea fowl Bertie, he always comes up with a solution and has tons of fun as they roam around their jungle island home.
Ever since her birth in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders has survived by her cunning wit, and considerable powers of seduction. She goes through five husbands and countless lovers to escape a life on the streets. In between using and deceiving her besotted paramours, she isn't above picking a pocket or two! All the while, though, her heart belongs to the charismatic Jemmy. Inevitably, even the most clever criminal's luck runs out and she is soon facing the noose. As her execution approaches, she devises on last desperate ploy to save not only her own neck, but also the life of her one true love.
Tony Pergatelli is a low-level bureaucrat in Purgatory - a claims adjustor for Death. Day in and day out, Tony reviews the files of the newly dead and decides singlehandedly whether they're approved or denied to get into Heaven. He's unqualified, unsure of himself and unbelievably burdened by the weight of his choices. It's just one thing after another!
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.
Fourteen year old Roni skipped two grades - straight in to her older sister Michal’s class. Now they are starting high-school together. It’s the worst thing that could ever happen to Michal and the coolest thing that can happen to Roni! Every big brother or big sister that has ever been tasked with looking after their younger relation will be able to identify with the situations depicted in "My Sister Skipped a Grade"; the need to forge your own identity and friends while having someone tagging along.
Featuring Derren Brown and Uri Geller, this series follows one believer and one non-believer as they explore the existence of the paranormal, specifically dark forces, through controlled experiments such as demon summoning, séances and talking board rituals. With the help of leading figures in the paranormal, sceptical and academic communities will they make contact with the other side?
Power, terror, performance. These notions define our perception of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party at the height of the Third Reich. But behind these impressions Hitler was a rather ordinary man. This compelling new series tells the story of one of the most comprehensive, wide-reaching, and successful marketing campaigns in modern history. It describes in a whole new way the rise of Adolf Hitler.
The individual stories of previously convicted child offenders sentenced to mandatory life terms, without parole, who are now seeking resentencing on the heels of a recent United States Supreme Court ruling. While some may be resentenced to life, others could be immediately released or given a new sentence that makes them eligible for parole.
Deep Undercover is a true crimes series from writer and producer Joe Pistone, the real "Donnie Brasco." Each episode tells the story of a different undercover operation from the POV of the undercover officers involved.
Viewers witness America’s last frontier, where chronically shorthanded police departments across the state fight a soaring crime rate with officers from the Lower 48.
Shout! Factory TV presents Cult-tastic: Tales From The Trenches with Roger and Julie Corman. Heralded as “the Pope of Pop Cinema,” Roger and Julie Corman pull back the curtain on the Cormans' lifetime of innovative genre filmmaking in this never-before-seen docu-series. The Cormans open up about their iconic pool of collaborators such as James Cameron, Joe Dante, Penelope Spheeris, Pam Grier and more, as well as their notoriously bare-bones production philosophy that created some of film’s most memorable special FX sequences in science-fiction, fantasy and other cult favorites.
In the Frank Church Wilderness, the only means of transport and accessing supplies are by way of the largest un-dammed river in North America, the Salmon River, commonly referred to as “The River of No Return.” Under these circumstances, the residents of “The Frank” tackle everyday life in one of America’s last frontiers – from twenty-somethings seeking to test their limits, to the living legends of the River who have chosen to spend their lives there.
Pre-school animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Because philosophy is too important to leave to grown-ups!