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All ten episodes from the fifth season of the aviation documentary that examines real-life air disasters. Featuring interviews with aviation experts, crash witnesses and flight data, the programme uses dramatic reconstructions to accurately recreate a series of ill-fated flights. This series examines disasters including Delta Air Lines Flight 191, Air Canada Flight 143 and Turkish Airlines Flight 981. The episodes are: 'Invisible Killer', 'Gimli Glider', 'Behind Closed Doors', 'Fanning the Flames', 'Dead Weight', 'Southern Storm', 'Air India: Explosive Evidence', 'Mixed Signals', 'Fatal Distracton' and 'Phantom Strike'.
All six episodes of the documentary series that dramatises airborne combat missions and tells the stories of the expert fighter pilots involved. The programme features aircraft including Spitfires, Lancaster bombers and Phantom fighters as well as interviews with their surviving veteran pilots and insights from military historians. The episodes are: 'Douglas Bader', 'George Beurling', 'Wingwalker', 'The Tuskegee Airmen', 'Robin Olds' and 'Gabby Gabreski'.
All twelve episodes from the first two series of Yesterday's historical series in which presenter Jamie Theakston explores great myths, conspiracies and ancient sites. In this instalment, Jamie's investigations take him to exotic locations across the globe including Jerusalem, New York and the archaeological city of Petra. Series 1 episodes are: 'The Lost Treasure of the Templars', 'The Third Secret of Fatima', 'The Bloodline of Christ', 'The Mystery of the Giants', 'The Treasure of Solomon' and 'The Secrets of the Alchemists'. Series 2 episodes are: 'The Lost Treasures of Petra', 'The Holy Grail', 'The Illuminati', 'The Oracles', 'Nazi UFOs' and 'The Genius of Nikola Tesla'.
Documentary series which explores life in the Medieval period. The programme examines the skeletal remains of humans who lived during the Middle Ages and, using archaeological science, creates dramatic reconstructions of true stories from the era. The episodes are: 'Last Stand at Visby', 'The Mysterious Woman of Tadcaster', 'The Defenders of Masterby', 'Richard III's Lost Chapel', 'Disease and Pestilence' and 'Agincourt - The Hidden Dead'.
A tribute to the late king of soul, Ray Charles, featuring performances by contemporary artists including Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Al Green and Mary J. Blige.
David Hayman presents this documentary about Scottish poet Robert Burns. Hayman explores Burns' life from his childhood to his rise to fame throughout the nation while a team of experts use forensic technology to create a model of the writer's head to show, with as much accuracy as possible, what he would have really looked like.
In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa's biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Miners Shot Down shows the courageous fight waged by a group of low-paid workers against the combined forces of mining company Lonmin, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers. What emerges is collusion at the top, spiralling violence and the country's first post-apartheid massacre.
Lost in Everest's Death Zone (DVD) Also included is a 500 piece jigsaw, depicting Everest, suitable for all ages.
A profile of controversial footballing genius Diego Maradona. Charting his career from child prodigy to World Cup winning captain to shamed drugs cheat, this programme attempts to explain how the Argentinian midfielder inspires such heated passions in football fans across the world.
Lauded 1936 documentary, showing the various stages and procedures of the operation of the Royal Mail train delivery service, that remains one of the most instantly recognised films in British film history. It begins with a voiceover commentary describing how the mail is collected for transit. Then, as the train proceeds along the course of its journey, we are shown the various regional railway stations at which it collects and deposits its cargo. Inside the train the process of sorting takes place. As it nears its destination there is a sequence - the best known in the film - in which WH Auden's spoken verse and Benjamin Britten's music are combined over montage images of racing train wheels.
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