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No runway? No problem! We challenge the limits faced in the world of bush flying in the amazing utilitarian aircraft, the Zenith 801. Then we pay tribute to our flying heroes past and present, and do some extreme flying in a CRJ-200 to test the Instrument Landing System (ILS), a precise system used to help planes land almost blind.
The series' fifth hour examines the tremendous changes wrought in Africa by the trans-Atlantic slave trade, flowing out of the new era of European exploration in the New World that had begun in 1492 and reached a crucial point in the 16th century. Part 5 of 6.
Jesse James, so the legend goes, was a Western outlaw. In fact however, he never went west. America's own Robin Hood, robbed from the poor as well as the rich and was a gunfighter whose victims, in reality, were almost always unarmed. Less heroic than brutal, James was a product of the American Civil War - a Confederate partisan of expansive ambition, unbending politics and surprising cunning, who gladly helped invent his own valiant legend.
Enormously influential photographer Annie Leibovitz has produced some of the most iconic images of the last 30 years. She has shot the rich and famous, the profound and the powerful, the exceptional and the notorious. Her camera has documented the horrors of war – most recently in Sarajevo and Rwanda. Masterful at exposing her subjects, Annie's own life has been private and protected. In this film, she lays bare her artistic process, her personal journey and her delicate balancing of fame and family to the camera – a camera vigilantly pointed by a filmmaker who is her younger sister. From her hectic studio to her idyllic farm, experience Annie's current work and the creation of her latest retrospective book - while facing her losses as well as her grand successes.
Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star begins in the present and unfolds as a journey that takes us back to a glorious time in Hollywood - a story seen through the prism of a living legend, who tells tales of a life lived large and with passion. It offers a rare and privileged glimpse into the world of the beloved icons of film, dance and theatre of the 20th century.
The reality of bipolar disorder is hard to fathom: five-and-a-half-million Americans have been diagnosed with the disorder and yet so little is known about how the illness manifests itself in our brains. 'Ride the Tiger' tells the story of highly accomplished individuals - congressmen, lawyers, pastors, authors and stay-at-home mothers - who have been diagnosed as bipolar.
Neil Oliver travels back to ice age Britain as he begins the epic story of how our land and its people came to be over thousands of years of ancient history. The ice age saw a struggle for survival in a brutal world of climate change and environmental catastrophe. Part 1 of 4.
Professor Sue Black OBE and her team use forensic science to shed light on the past. An apparently African skeleton is unearthed near a medieval monastery. Part 1 of 4.
