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On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 had just taken off from New York City’s LaGuardia Airport when it collided with a flock of birds, destroying both engines. With all engine power lost, Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger and co-pilot Jeffrey Skyles were forced to glide the plane and perform an emergency ditching in the Hudson River. All 155 people on board survived the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ thanks to the quick thinking by the crew. This episode features the accounts of three passengers who survived what could have been a fatal crash. Part 2 of 10. Ⓢ
A definitive documentary series that presents the history of America's greatest original art form. The story of jazz becomes a tale of two great cities: Chicago and New York, and of two extraordinary artists whose lives and music will span almost three-quarters of a century: Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. As the Roaring Twenties accelerate, Fletcher Henderson, a black bandleader, brings Louis Armstrong to New York to add his improvisational brilliance to the band's new sound. Ⓢ
The great herds take centre stage, running the gamut of predators and pressures unique to this nomadic way of life. Part 9 of 12.
Neil Oliver continues the story of how today's Britain and its people were forged over thousands of years of ancient history. It's 4,000 BC and the first farmers arrive from Europe, with seismic consequences for the local hunter-gatherers. Part 2 of 4.
The Lovers Locks. The gate 'Arbeit Mach Frei'. The Autopsy Table. Lili Jacob's Album. The Ramp. The Wedding Photography. The Boxing Gloves. Part 2 of 5.
By August 1949, at least five years earlier than expected, the USSR became the world’s second superpower, thanks to its spies who had stolen America’s atomic secrets. But by March 1953, Stalin is dead and the KGB chief, Beria, is executed later the same year. Nikita Kruschev tries to reduce the power of the security service, splitting it into several sections... but it doesn’t last, and soon the KGB is back. Abroad, it has pulled off its greatest-ever recruitment coup – a mole at the very top of the CIA. Part 2 of 3.
The revival of NYC is one of the most remarkable stories in urban history. Once a failing city that by 1990 had over 2,200 murders and 93,000 violent robberies annually, it went on to be the revitalised world capital. The change was not the result of broader social or economic forces. Instead, it was an intellectual paradigm shift and revolution that only came about because of political leadership, a new set of ideas about governing and established tradition being questioned and changed at the grassroot level. As the 400th anniversary of New York approaches in 2024, we find out what was behind the Fall and Rise of New York.
