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Shopping with TJC
Focusing on Africa’s predators and how they hunt, from cheetahs running down gazelles to lions taking on the mighty buffalo. Even the best hunters can be outrun and outwitted. Part 1 of 12.
Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 was less than a mile from the runway at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport when it catastrophically crashed on 25 February 2009. The aircraft broke into three pieces on impact, killing nine passengers and crew and all three pilots. A faulty radio altimeter was the initial catalyst in a chain of errors that led to the horrific crash. In this episode, survivors tell their story of escaping from the wreckage of what should have been a normal commute home to Amsterdam. Part 8 of 10.
In March 1923 the Nazi Party looks finished. Hitler is in prison and his core followers scattered. But this will be the making of the party. While incarcerated, Hitler, aided by Rudolf Hess, has an epiphany – power through legitimate means. After his release he begins surrounding himself with new supporters to make this dream a reality. Josef Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler become rising stars. Part 2 of 10.
The concentration camp of Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army on January 27, 1945, and it is still considered synonymous with the Holocaust. Based on a unique document kept in the Israeli memorial site of Yad Vashem, this documentary tells the story of a typical day in 1944 from the viewpoints of victims and perpetrators. The Auschwitz Album is a collection of photographs intended to chronicle the 'work' of the SS. Nearly all the photos were taken in just a few days during the final week of May 1944. They capture the harrowing routine of mass murder in the so-called extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau - the arrival of the Jewish victims in overcrowded cattle cars, and their 'selection' - separating those considered fit to work from those destined for the gas chambers. They show how they were robbed of their possessions, and how those who were not killed right away were turned into shaven, uniformed slave labourers.
Formed after Churchill noted the impressive feats of Germany’s elite Fallschirmjager paratroopers, Britain’s Airborne were destined to be an elite fighting force - taking part in commando raids, large scale airborne landings - and when necessary holding a place in the line to fight as infantry. Their distinctive red berets caused the German forces they fought against to call them ‘The Red Devils’ - a nickname they gleefully adopted. Part 2 of 6.
Climate change means warmer ocean temperatures and higher sea levels. This, in turn, is intensifying and strengthening hurricanes and tropical cyclones. Some experts believe it’s time to add a category 6 to the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale. This episode follows the recent Mexico Beach, Florida and Houston, Texas hurricanes. Part 2 of 10.
