Episode 2 The Race for Absolute Zero

Air-conditioningrefrigeration, and superconductivity are just some of the ways technology has put cold to use. But what is cold, how do you achieve it,...

Episode 1 Tower of London and Dover

Presented by Marc Morris an excitingeye opening tour around Britain exploring the age of the medieval castle. Covering a period of six hundred years...

1347 A.D. The Black Death

Each turning point in history has behind it a story and a set of principal characters whose dilemmas and conflicts form its dramatic coreand...

Episode 4 The Women of Troy

Homer wrote his epicThe Iliad, in 700 BC 500 years after the Trojan Wars were supposed to have taken place. Did the Trojan war...

Torture Devices

Modern Marvels celebrates the ingenuityinvention and imagination found in the world around us. This series tells fascinating stories of the doers, the dreamers and...

Mao’s Bloody Revolution

For 27 years Mao Tse Tung held absolute power. This is the first full account of his life ever shown on television. This documentary...

Episode 2 How the World Changed

The idea that an event of cataclysmic proportions shrouded the Earth's atmospheredarkening the sky and plunging its inhabitants into a massive crisis, is familiar...

Cromwell

It was a time of great bitterness and hatred in Britaina war that set father against son and brother against brother. The breakdown in...

Episode 7 The Search For Cosmic Clusters

We are in the midst of the greatest era of space discovery. Twenty first century spacecraft and sophisticated imaging technology are venturing into uncharted...

Episode 1 The Gathering Storm

World War II In HD Colour is a 13 episode television documentary series recounting the major events of World War II narrated by Robert...