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Schedule

Morning

8:00AM

10 Modern Marvels That Changed America

It’s a show about arrogant builders who’ve scoffed at the laws of nature. They’ve defied the naysayers - and sometimes even gravity - by undertaking these amazing feats of engineering. Each story in this episode includes a fun physics lesson and a tale of human folly. We begin at the Erie Canal, a 363-mile long man-made waterway that was built in the 19th century by thousands of labourers using primitive hand tools. Then we’ll show how professional engineers connected a growing America by building magnificent bridges, intricate rail networks and a continent-wide system of freeways. And we’ll discover the extreme measures that engineers have taken to deliver water from distant rivers to kitchen sinks. It’s easy to take these modern marvels for granted. After all, we usually access roads, bridges and drinking water effortlessly. But behind many of our daily conveniences is a clever engineer, and a remarkable story.
9:15AM

Mysteries of Mental Illness: Evil or Illness?

Examine ancient conceptions of mental illness and the establishment of psychiatry. Hear contemporary stories of people living with mental illness, including an aspiring astrophysicist with schizophrenia and an Olympics-bound boxer with OCD. Part 1 of 4.
10:30AM

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

The extraordinary story of how Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin took control of Russia in just a few fateful months. This film reveals how this most unlikely of regime changes became a reality on 25 October 1917. It's a story of ambition and suspicion, rivalry and unified struggle, at a time when close friends could swiftly become deadly enemies.
11:55AM

China on Film:

The very first films of China present a surprising variety of daily life during the last decade of the Qing Dynasty in the 1900s. Post 1911, the films capture the great sweep of life in the Chinese Republic; foreign troops parading through Shanghai; the rise of Chiang Kai-shek; the birth of the Chinese Communist Party; the death of Dr Sun Yat-Sen. Often beautifully shot, all of life is here. Narrated by Christopher Doyle. Part 1 of 2.

Afternoon

1:00PM

Beautiful Serengeti: Protection

Learn how animals use all sorts of strategies to protect their families and food from marauders. Part 4 of 12.
1:30PM

10 Modern Marvels That Changed America

It’s a show about arrogant builders who’ve scoffed at the laws of nature. They’ve defied the naysayers - and sometimes even gravity - by undertaking these amazing feats of engineering. Each story in this episode includes a fun physics lesson and a tale of human folly. We begin at the Erie Canal, a 363-mile long man-made waterway that was built in the 19th century by thousands of labourers using primitive hand tools. Then we’ll show how professional engineers connected a growing America by building magnificent bridges, intricate rail networks and a continent-wide system of freeways. And we’ll discover the extreme measures that engineers have taken to deliver water from distant rivers to kitchen sinks. It’s easy to take these modern marvels for granted. After all, we usually access roads, bridges and drinking water effortlessly. But behind many of our daily conveniences is a clever engineer, and a remarkable story.
2:40PM

Mysteries of Mental Illness: Evil or Illness?

Examine ancient conceptions of mental illness and the establishment of psychiatry. Hear contemporary stories of people living with mental illness, including an aspiring astrophysicist with schizophrenia and an Olympics-bound boxer with OCD. Part 1 of 4.
3:55PM

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

The extraordinary story of how Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin took control of Russia in just a few fateful months. This film reveals how this most unlikely of regime changes became a reality on 25 October 1917. It's a story of ambition and suspicion, rivalry and unified struggle, at a time when close friends could swiftly become deadly enemies.
5:15PM

China on Film:

The very first films of China present a surprising variety of daily life during the last decade of the Qing Dynasty in the 1900s. Post 1911, the films capture the great sweep of life in the Chinese Republic; foreign troops parading through Shanghai; the rise of Chiang Kai-shek; the birth of the Chinese Communist Party; the death of Dr Sun Yat-Sen. Often beautifully shot, all of life is here. Narrated by Christopher Doyle. Part 1 of 2.

Evening

6:20PM

10 Modern Marvels That Changed America

It’s a show about arrogant builders who’ve scoffed at the laws of nature. They’ve defied the naysayers - and sometimes even gravity - by undertaking these amazing feats of engineering. Each story in this episode includes a fun physics lesson and a tale of human folly. We begin at the Erie Canal, a 363-mile long man-made waterway that was built in the 19th century by thousands of labourers using primitive hand tools. Then we’ll show how professional engineers connected a growing America by building magnificent bridges, intricate rail networks and a continent-wide system of freeways. And we’ll discover the extreme measures that engineers have taken to deliver water from distant rivers to kitchen sinks. It’s easy to take these modern marvels for granted. After all, we usually access roads, bridges and drinking water effortlessly. But behind many of our daily conveniences is a clever engineer, and a remarkable story.
7:35PM

Mysteries of Mental Illness: Evil or Illness?

Examine ancient conceptions of mental illness and the establishment of psychiatry. Hear contemporary stories of people living with mental illness, including an aspiring astrophysicist with schizophrenia and an Olympics-bound boxer with OCD. Part 1 of 4.
8:45PM

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

The extraordinary story of how Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin took control of Russia in just a few fateful months. This film reveals how this most unlikely of regime changes became a reality on 25 October 1917. It's a story of ambition and suspicion, rivalry and unified struggle, at a time when close friends could swiftly become deadly enemies.
9:55PM

China on Film:

The very first films of China present a surprising variety of daily life during the last decade of the Qing Dynasty in the 1900s. Post 1911, the films capture the great sweep of life in the Chinese Republic; foreign troops parading through Shanghai; the rise of Chiang Kai-shek; the birth of the Chinese Communist Party; the death of Dr Sun Yat-Sen. Often beautifully shot, all of life is here. Narrated by Christopher Doyle. Part 1 of 2.
11:00PM

10 Modern Marvels That Changed America

It’s a show about arrogant builders who’ve scoffed at the laws of nature. They’ve defied the naysayers - and sometimes even gravity - by undertaking these amazing feats of engineering. Each story in this episode includes a fun physics lesson and a tale of human folly. We begin at the Erie Canal, a 363-mile long man-made waterway that was built in the 19th century by thousands of labourers using primitive hand tools. Then we’ll show how professional engineers connected a growing America by building magnificent bridges, intricate rail networks and a continent-wide system of freeways. And we’ll discover the extreme measures that engineers have taken to deliver water from distant rivers to kitchen sinks. It’s easy to take these modern marvels for granted. After all, we usually access roads, bridges and drinking water effortlessly. But behind many of our daily conveniences is a clever engineer, and a remarkable story.
12:15AM

Mysteries of Mental Illness: Evil or Illness?

Examine ancient conceptions of mental illness and the establishment of psychiatry. Hear contemporary stories of people living with mental illness, including an aspiring astrophysicist with schizophrenia and an Olympics-bound boxer with OCD. Part 1 of 4.
1:30AM

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

The extraordinary story of how Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin took control of Russia in just a few fateful months. This film reveals how this most unlikely of regime changes became a reality on 25 October 1917. It's a story of ambition and suspicion, rivalry and unified struggle, at a time when close friends could swiftly become deadly enemies.
2:40AM

China on Film:

The very first films of China present a surprising variety of daily life during the last decade of the Qing Dynasty in the 1900s. Post 1911, the films capture the great sweep of life in the Chinese Republic; foreign troops parading through Shanghai; the rise of Chiang Kai-shek; the birth of the Chinese Communist Party; the death of Dr Sun Yat-Sen. Often beautifully shot, all of life is here. Narrated by Christopher Doyle. Part 1 of 2.
3:35AM

Beautiful Serengeti: Protection

Learn how animals use all sorts of strategies to protect their families and food from marauders. Part 4 of 12.

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