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It is 1934 and about 44,000 school-aged Jewish children live in Germany. After two years of daily harassment and constant discrimination, they are virtually barred from the school system and public life. A young and courageous woman decides to resist the Nazi administration, her goal being the creation of a place for those persecuted children to provide protection, vitally important education and self-confidence. Against all the odds she and her husband, a respected notary, find a loophole in German law and open up a Jewish school against the backdrop of Nazi Berlin – a soul-saving project. It is an institution which should not have existed. By using original and unseen footage of the school and the protagonists, this documentary offers a rare inside glimpse into the world of Jewish schoolchildren in Nazi Berlin. At the same time it tells a dramatic and moving story of courage and determination on the eve of the Holocaust.
Neil Oliver reaches the end of his epic tour of our most distant past with the arrival of metals and the social revolution that ushered in a new age of social mobility, international trade, and village life. Part 4 of 4.
On 2nd October 1263, King Hakon Hakonson stepped ashore at Largs to command his 900 Norwegian warriors against a force of 500 mounted Scottish knights. The calamitous events that followed at the Battle of Largs changed the future course and identity of a fledgling Scottish nation forever. But this film reveals that although Viking power retreated from Scotland’s shores, they never truly left. Evidence of their assimilation into the villages they first terrorised and then colonised is now coming to light. Marine archaeologist Professor Jon Henderson rediscovers the incredible story of the last days of the Vikings, painting a vivid picture of Scotland and the brutal men who came over the North Sea in longships.
Fall chronicles a remarkable season of change. Young northern gannets leap off perilous cliffs as chipmunks race to gather winter supplies, and prairie rattlesnakes give birth. Part 3 of 4.
Lynx hunt snowshoe hares in the boreal forest and the ancient dance between wolves and caribou on Canada’s vast tundra reveals the harshest time of year, as landscapes are transformed by the cruel and dramatic beauty of snow and ice. Part 4 of 4.
It was the U-boat submarine that spearheaded the German attempt to destroy the allied war effort, and they very nearly succeeded - over 3,500 allied ships bringing vital supplies from the United States and Canada to Europe were lost to their fire power. The programme follows a team of divers and historians as they explore the U-boat wrecks which have remained untouched for nearly 70 years, telling the stories of the U-boat war - the key events, the heroes and villains, and the changing tide of technological advances. Motion graphics, moving first-hand testimony and detailed expert analysis brings the most important battle of World War Two back to life.
