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Maiya May explores heat in Portland, Oregon, and Medellín, Colombia, a city that is leading the revolution against sweltering city temperatures. Then she visits the hottest city in the US, Phoenix, Arizona. Part 3 of 6.
An early 21st-century world where once again innovation, disruption, and displacement are forces across the planet. America's Great Lakes, with an abundance of coal, iron ore, and lots of water, fuelled an unparalleled industrial revolution. Part 1 of 2.
An early 21st-century world where once again innovation, disruption, and displacement are forces across the planet. The Mid West lost jobs, work, orders and factories. Populations and cities shrunk and it became known as the Rust Belt. Part 2 of 2.
The American Declaration of Independence promised freedom for all — but who was to benefit from that freedom? Remembering the forgotten patriots who gave everything for an ideal from which they were often excluded.
How did a ragtag army defeat the most powerful army in the world to win American independence? Discover the key military technologies that helped propel the colonies to victory, from the musket to the first military submarine. From NOVA.
Charts the city's growth from ancient times until the end of the Ancient Regime, where Kings Louis the 9th and Louis the 14th embraced and encouraged a high culture still associated with Paris today. Part 1 of 3.
Despite ongoing violence, protests, invasion and a civil war, Napoleon and his nephew were great builders who set about re-inventing the city in the 19th century, creating a model city copied, throughout Europe and the world. Part 2 of 3.
After the overthrow of Emperor Napoleon the 3rd, Paris re-invented itself again. The revolt against religion found its voice in heroes such as Victor Hugo who were celebrated in great secular monuments such as The Pantheon. Part 3 of 3.
Hurtling around Earth at 17,000mph, the ISS shields astronauts from the most hostile environment humans have ever endured. Building such a structure in space is as dangerous as it is ambitious. A single mistake could prove fatal. Part 1 of 2.
Astronauts on the ISS have had to contend with ever-present danger, from meteor strikes and docking disasters to the entire ISS backflipping out of control. Life and death in low Earth orbit and the brilliance that saved the day. Part 2 of 2.
