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Over 8 hours of content including the Apollo 11 moon walk, an interview with Neil Armstrong and the brand new documentary, 8 Days: To The Moon and Back This 50th anniversary collection contains the most important examples of the BBC's comprehensive coverage of the Apollo missions to the Moon. The cultural impact is featured in James Cameron's sobering film 'Nobody Ever Asks Why'. Live commentary is provided by James Burke and Patrick Moore for the first step on the Moon and James Burke's definitive series 'Project Apollo' explains how it all happened, using exclusive interviews with the men that walked on the Moon. '8 Days' marries the voices of the Apollo 11 astronauts with specially shot live action, bringing the drama of Apollo 11 to life. The result is a nail biting story of triumph over adversity.
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One Family, 40 Faces, Many Secrets. One group of animals fascinates and enthrals us more than any other, captivating and terrifying in equal measure – the cats. Big Cats is the ultimate celebration of the entire cat family. The planet’s top predators and everyone’s favourite animals, as you’ve never seen them before. Latest developments in filming technology, and a surge in cat research, bring these superstars into the spotlight. Combining fascinating behaviours with amazing stories, the series reflects the true nature of cats – and reveals how they still have the power to surprise. Earth’s ultimate predator is drawn out of the shadows.
Narrated by David Attenborough. Step into a magical hidden world full of remarkable new behaviour, emotional stories and surprising heroes. Plants live secret, unseen lives. Using specialist cameras, this spectacular series allows us to travel beyond the power of the human eye, to look closer at their interconnected world, showcasing over two decades of new discoveries. From deserts, tropical jungles and underwater worlds to seasonal lands and our own urban and agricultural landscapes, each episode introduces a set of plants, reveals the battles they face, and the ingenious ways they’ve found to survive. New stories and never-seen-before animal behaviours.
The multi-award winning drama returns to BBC One for a tenth season! It’s 1966, and it’s a testing time for the nuns and midwives. With Trixie’s help, Sister Julienne is determined to steer Nonnatus House out of its financial quandary. Dr Turner deals with an array of difficult cases, including a former soldier involved in nuclear test explosions. Meanwhile, Sister Monica Joan experiences a crisis of faith, and Sister Frances realises she needs to be a little less spiritual if she’s to really connect with the local women. There are some interesting challenges ahead, as well as great celebrations when England wins the football World Cup. Also includes the 2020 Christmas Special and Call The Midwife: Special Delivery 10th Anniversary Special.
The sun is hotter and the crimes more baffling than ever as the smash-hit whodunnit returns. From an apparent serial killer on the loose on New Year’s Eve to a man stabbed during a survival weekend on a deserted tropical island, Detective Inspector Jack Mooney and the team face some of the most confounding crimes they’ve ever seen. But when an unexpected romantic encounter turns Jack’s life upside down, the team face a fresh challenge in the shape of new arrival DI Neville Parker. He may be a brilliant detective but is he really suited to a life in the Caribbean?
Millions of years ago huge forces ripped apart the Earth’s crust creating seven spectacular continents. Over time, each continent developed its own remarkable wildlife. From the depths of the South American jungles to the frozen peaks of Asia, and from the cities of Europe to the vast plains of Africa - Seven Worlds, One Planet features extraordinary animal behaviour and untold wildlife stories from each continent. We discover how our seven worlds gave rise to the great diversity of life on Earth today, and reveal the challenges now faced by animals in a world shaped by us.
Based on Philip Pullman’s third book in the His Dark Materials trilogy, The Amber Spyglass, Season 3, sees Lyra, the prophesied child, and Will, the bearer of The Subtle Knife, journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned. As her father’s great war against the Authority edges closer, they will learn that saving the worlds comes at a terrible price.
Call The Midwife returns for more heat-warming tales of life in London's hard-up East End. The Midwives are back to welcome new lives in the changing times of the 1960s. It's 1968 and Enoch Powell's infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech creates serious tension in Poplar, especially when a group of dockers march in support of Powell. The midwives welcome a new nun, Sister Veronica, who's an instant hit with everyone - except Nurse Crane. Meanwhile, Trixie's relationship with Matthew goes from strength to strength, while Nurse Crane helps Nancy with her financial woes. Sister Julienne enjoys helping out on the district rounds, Shelagh and Dr Turner split their time between the busy maternity home and their lively young family, while Reggie continues to bring joy into Violet and Fred's lives.
The award-winning BBC crime drama returns with five thrilling two-part stories, starring Emilia Fox in the lead role alongside David Caves, Richard Lintern and Liz Carr. This series also features a diverse supporting cast including Art Malik, Samantha Bond, Dervla Kirwan and Amanda Root. In Season 22, pathologist Dr Nikki Alexander and her dedicated team help the police solve a slew of mystifying murders. Storylines range from street drugs and knife crime to issues facing the LGBT community.
Golden Globe-winning actress Ruth Wilson stars in this powerful three-part drama inspired by the memoir of her own grandmother about her family's history. Set in London in the 1940s and 1960s, and in India in the 1930s, the series follows Alison Wilson, who thinks she is happily married until her husband, Alec, dies and a woman turns up on the doorstep claiming that she is the real Mrs Wilson. Alison is determined to prove the validity of her own marriage - and Alec's love for her - but is instead led into a world of disturbing secrets.
The ground-breaking new BBC adaptation of Victor Hugo’s epic novel. Against the epic backdrop of France at a time of civil unrest, Les Misérables is the story of Jean Valjean, a former convict unable to escape the shadow of his past life. His future is threatened by his nemesis, the chilling police officer and former prison guard Javert, who is determined to bring him to justice. Meanwhile Fantine, a working class woman abandoned by her rich lover, is driven to increasingly desperate measures to provide for her young daughter. Their stories collide and as a revolutionary violence ignites on the streets of Paris, Jean Valjean begins an epic journey towards self-acceptance, redemption and love.
Based on the novellas by Luke Jennings and written by the multi-award winning Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Killing Eve centres on two extraordinary women. Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose desk-bound job doesn’t fulfil her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Killing Eve topples the typical spy-action thriller as these two fiercely intelligent women, equally obsessed with each other, go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
Many tales have been told of Africa but this is the intimate story of the animal families who live there, told from inside their world. A drama where the characters’ lives are as entwined as their stories and it all plays out across the Serengeti’s magnificent Pride Lands. There’s passion and devotion, friendship and loss, jealousy and rivalry, tragedy and ultimately triumph. For the characters it is an emotional story of a year that would change all their lives forever.
Dynasties takes you deeper into the lives of five of the world’s most celebrated and endangered animals than ever before: Emperor Penguin, Chimpanzee, Lion, Painted Wolf and Tiger. Travel from the plains of Africa to the jungles of India, from the edge of the Sahara to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Watch leaders battling rivals for their crown, feuds tearing families apart and parents risking their lives to protect offspring from the coldest and cruelest winter on earth. Five extraordinary animals in heroic battles against the odds, Dynasties, the most intimate and intense stories of their kind ever told.
Forensic experts Dr Nikki Alexander, Jack Hodgson and Leo's replacement Dr Thomas Chamberlain investigate various cases including a triple murder after Nikki's friend, and fellow pathologist, Sally disappears. The episodes are: 'Moment of Surrender', 'Duty of Candour', 'A Special Relationship', 'One Day' and 'Family'.
When Tommy Shelby receives a mysterious letter on Christmas Eve, he realises that his entire family is in danger of annihilation. As the enemy closes in, Tommy flees his country house and heads to the only safe place he knows. Steven Knight’s beloved crime saga makes a triumphant return to the streets of Birmingham in its most sensational and action-packed season yet.
Jack Mooney is starting to settle in the sun-soaked island of Saint-Marie – but he has some impossible mysteries to solve. A champion poker player, apparently poisoned at the table in front of an astonished audience. A novelist, murdered in a plot more surprising than anything he’s ever written. And a spiritual leader, strangled at a time when all the suspects were each other’s alibis. Jack’s laconic style belies a sharp mind and relentless determination. He’s a brilliant detective and he’ll need all his instinctive genius to solve these perplexing murders.
Britain’s iconic crime drama Silent Witness returns for an explosive 25th Anniversary Series. Seventeen years after leaving the Lyell, Sam Ryan returns pleading for help. The shooting of the Health Secretary pulls the Lyell into a world of duplicity, intrigue, and betrayal. Soon Nikki starts to suspect that Sam knows more than she’s letting on. When the credibility of DNA - the bedrock of forensic science - is challenged, everything the Lyell holds dear comes under threat. Uncertain of who to trust, the team’s investigation draws them into perilous confrontations as they fight to uncover the truth and protect everything they love.
Sean Bean heads an impressive cast in this poignant and powerful series centred around Father Michael Kerrigan, a Catholic priest presiding over an urban parish in Northern England. Father Michael must be a confidant, counsellor and confessor to a congregation struggling to reconcile its beliefs with the challenges of daily life in contemporary Britain. With a chequered past and a complicated relationship with his own family, the priest is determined to help his parishioners through their troubles. But despite his best efforts, Father Michael can't always fix what's broken in their lives.
The midwives of Nonnatus House continue to face complex medical and personal dilemmas as the multi-award-winning drama returns for a thirteenth season. It’s 1969 and more babies than ever are being born in hospital. Pressure on maternity beds remains extremely high across the country. However, Poplar is coping better than most due to the popularity of home births under the auspices of the Sisters. And a new midwife-training scheme sees Nonnatus House welcome a host of new midwives. The recruits face social problems arising from the docks, concerns among the Nigerian and Sylheti communities and health challenges from Cerebral Palsy, Tetanus and TB.
It is now 1962, and the Nonnatus House team are as committed to caring for the people of Poplar as always. However, the social revolution in the outside world is mirrored by change and challenge much closer to home. As they strive to help mothers and families cope with the demands of childbearing, disability, disease and social prejudice, our beloved medics must make choices - and fight battles - of their own. Season 6 will see them laugh together, cry together, and pull together, supporting each other as never before. The Christmas Special will see the series transported to the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Nonnatus House receives an SOS from a tiny mission hospital. Understaffed, underfunded, and with a poor water supply, struggling Hope Clinic is faced with closure. Can our much-loved medics and midwives make a difference to the people whose lives depend upon its work? Far from home and everything familiar, the team are both shaken and exhilarated by the challenges they face - and by the time the mission trip is over, some lives are permanently changed.
Still reeling from the tragedy in season 4, John Luther has left the force and retired to a remote clifftop. When he discovers the one person he still loves might be dead, Luther has one aim – find whoever’s responsible and make them pay. Meanwhile, a savagely intelligent killer is leaving a trail of bodies but no trace of his identity. Luther realises he must return to the job – only he can immerse himself in the killer’s complex psychosis and anticipate his next move. But John’s personal problems are stacking up too, and he will need to compromise his moral code once more. This is his toughest test yet – one that will push him closer to the edge than he’s ever been before.
A fresh adaptation of English literature’s first great detective novel. When Franklin Blake returns to England, he is forced to face the ghosts he fled a year ago when the Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond, was stolen. Rachel Verinder, Franklin’s beautiful young cousin, inherited the stone from her uncle on her 18th birthday. It was always said that the stone carried a curse and the morning after her birthday party, it was missing. In the aftermath of the theft, Rachel cut off all ties with Franklin - the man she had loved. A year later and Franklin is determined to heal the rift between them. But Rachel has one condition - she won’t see him until he can tell her exactly what happened to the diamond that night. Only then can Franklin win back the love of his life.
All 16 episodes from the first two seasons of the BBC drama about two missing persons investigations. In season 1, Tony and Emily Hughes travel to France with their five-year-old son Oliver but their family holiday turns into a nightmare when Oliver disappears into the crowd of a busy French street. As the frantic father loses patience with the police and their lack of motivation to search for Oliver, Tony takes matters into his own hands and begins to form a private investigation. In the second season, Julien Baptiste is drawn into another missing persons investigation when a young girl who went missing for more than a decade returns home, having apparently been held captive with another young girl who went missing around the same time.
Highlights of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The collection includes every one of Team GB's 67 medal wins as well as highlights from the opening and closing ceremonies. |
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