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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

Heart of a Dog

The Secret

Yearning to Breathe

The Stanford Prison Experiment

To The Arctic
The Jinx

Woodland

M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity

The Green Prince

Kalahari

U2 Rattle and Hum
No Impact Man The Documentary

Last Stand Of The 300

Oceans

Life: Fish

Extinction: The Facts

Icarus

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Fear

2014 History

The French army stops the German advance at the battle of the Marne, while the Germans halt the Russians at Tannenberg on the eastern front. In France, the warring parties dig themselves in for 4 years in the trenches. Soldiers from the colonies come lend a hand to their colonizers and the war becomes global.

Series: Apocalypse: World War 1

Hell

2014 History

1916. The war is raging in Europe and stretches from the trenches in France to the Italian Alps and the Balkans, and beyond to the gates of the Eastern world. The conflict becomes industrial, and millions of shells rain down on the battlefields; Verdun and the Somme are the deadliest battles in this second year of the war. Who can stop this infernal machine?

Series: Apocalypse: World War 1

Rage

2014 History

1917. People have had enough of the war. Behind the scenes, uprisings are brewing, like the one that toppled the Tsar in Russia; on the front soldiers begin to mutiny as they did at Chemin des Dames in France. German submarine attacks in the Atlantic will finally pull the Americans into the war, but they arrive too late to help prevent the carnage of the Battle of Passchendaele.

Series: Apocalypse: World War 1

Deliverance

2014 History

All seems lost for the Allies. The Italians are defeated at Caporette, and a Bolshevik Russia pulls out of the war. But the American reinforcements are decisive, and the Allies emerge victorious. The Allies are unable to negotiate an honourable peace agreement, and the Treaty of Versailles, 20 years later, will have disastrous

Series: Apocalypse: World War 1

Why Islamic State expands so quickly

2015 Culture

The self-proclaimed 'Islamic State' is a jihadi militia active in the north and east of Syria, and in the west of Iraq, which has shocked the world with its cinematic staging of horrific acts of violence and its unexpected advances towards statehood. But why could IS expand so rapidly?

Roosevelt Truman and Wallace

2012 History

This episode examines the end of and the period immediately after World War II. It looks at Stalin's efforts to seize control of Poland and Eastern Europe, Democratic part bosses efforts to drop Henry Wallace from the 1944 presidential ticket, and British efforts to maintain their colonial holdings after the war.

Series: The Untold History of the United States