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A three-part documentary series bringing to life the mysterious period in Japanese history between the 16th and 19th centuries. With Ieyasu in control, peace descends on Japan, and a new society based on the samurai ethics of obedience and loyalty is established. In 1600, William Adams becomes the first Englishman to set foot in Japan. Impressed by European trading vessels, Ieyasu asks Adams to help him build his own fleet. Aware that the English have no interest in converting the Japanese to Christianity, Ieyasu decides to expel the Portuguese and Spanish, who too often combine missionary work with trade. When he dies at 72, Ieyasu’s vision of a strictly controlled class system based on the rule of the samurai is a reality. But his grandson, Iemitsu, will rule more harshly. With no wars to fight, Iemitsu tightens control over the power and movement of the daimyo and their restless samurai armies. Though foreign missionaries have been expelled, Iemitsu still fears the influence of Christianity. Part 2 of 3.
In the spring of 2011, the worst tornado outbreak in decades left a trail of destruction across the US, killing hundreds. Why has there been such an extreme outbreak? How do such weather patterns form? With modern warning systems, why did so many die? Could our weather be getting more extreme? If so, why? NOVA looks at the science behind these devastating outbreaks, meeting those affected and the scientists trying to predict tornadoes, and explores whether there could be any connection to global climate change.
With South Vietnam in chaos, hardliners in Hanoi seize the initiative and send combat troops to the South, accelerating the insurgency. Fearing Saigon’s collapse, President Johnson escalates America’s military commitment, authorising sustained bombing of the North and deploying ground troops in the South. Part 3 of 10.
Anthony learns about the one-of a-kind sound and look of radial engines. In-air refuelling brings new meaning to the term 'close flight' as we profile the KC-135 Stratotanker and its crew.
We take you aboard the Cobra, a two-bladed single engine attack helicopter formerly used by the United States Army. Then, no other air show act in the world puts as many aircraft in the air at one time as Team AeroDynamix. We take you flying with them. We profile the A-10 Thunderbolt, the tank-killer more commonly known as the Warthog.
We go flying in the blazingly fast low-wing, two-seat homebuilt aircraft, the GlasAir. Then we look at varied aviation training - short or long runways, controlled or uncontrolled airports, desert, mountain, or coastal - we look at the various ways and places you can learn to fly. A lot of people may recognise the helicopter Huey from the film 'Apocalypse Now', but this bird has a lot more history than just that.
Anthony tries to apply his helo-sim time in the luxurious twin-engine helicopter, the Bell 222. We look at the F-4U Corsair, a WWII fighter made famous by the legendary Greg 'Pappy' Boyington. Then, what happens when a private pilot violates protected air space? We put you right in the middle of a fighter intercept.
March 27, 1977 – At two o'clock in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully-loaded jumbo airliners, blanketed in fog. A bomb explosion at a nearby airport had redirected air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours 583 people would be dead. The planes involved, a KLM 747 and a Pam Am 747, never left the ground. It was the deadliest crash the world had ever witnessed. This documentary takes you into the cockpits and cabins of the two doomed planes and reconstructs the moments leading up to the tragedy.
