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10 Streets That Changed America

This episode begins and ends on Broadway in New York. We’ll trace the street’s 400-year evolution: from Native American trail, to Dutch trading route, to the home of America’s first public transit service, to an electrically-lighted theatre district known as the 'Great White Way'. At the end of the programme, we’ll see how Broadway has become the poster child for the 'complete streets' movement, in which automobiles take a back seat to more sustainable forms of transit. Elsewhere in this episode we’ll ride from Boston to New York on a dirt 'highway', which was created for the nation’s first mail carriers. In New Orleans we’ll take America’s oldest streetcar line out to some of the nation’s first suburbs, and in Detroit we’ll drive a Model T along America’s first mile of concrete-paved road. We’ll explore a car-friendly street created by a 1920’s entrepreneur who predicted that Los Angeles would be dominated by the automobile; and take a horse and carriage on a Brooklyn parkway that was built on the proposition that streets should be scenic. It’s an episode about how streets have connected the nation, divided communities and changed the way Americans live, work and shop.

Mysteries of Mental Illness: The Rise and Fall of the Asylum

Follow the origin and downfall of mental asylums in America. Glimpse inside Cook County prison, the nation’s largest unintended mental health facility, meet the detainees in their care, and see the challenges they face both inside and out. Part 3 of 4.

World War II: The Last Heroes: The Battle for Caen

Allied soldiers push on to take their first objective, the city of Caen. They’re met by formidable Panzer forces determined to push the Allies back into the sea. For the next two months, a bloody battle of attrition is waged in the fields and villages of Normandy. Part 2 of 6.

Children of the Sun: The Aztecs

Within a very short time, the Aztecs created a huge empire, whose metropolis was a perfectly organised floating garden city on the Mexican plateau. At its head were kings who even sacrificed humans to the gods. Learn the true story of the rapid rise and tragic end of a unique people. Part 1 of 3.

10 Streets That Changed America

This episode begins and ends on Broadway in New York. We’ll trace the street’s 400-year evolution: from Native American trail, to Dutch trading route, to the home of America’s first public transit service, to an electrically-lighted theatre district known as the 'Great White Way'. At the end of the programme, we’ll see how Broadway has become the poster child for the 'complete streets' movement, in which automobiles take a back seat to more sustainable forms of transit. Elsewhere in this episode we’ll ride from Boston to New York on a dirt 'highway', which was created for the nation’s first mail carriers. In New Orleans we’ll take America’s oldest streetcar line out to some of the nation’s first suburbs, and in Detroit we’ll drive a Model T along America’s first mile of concrete-paved road. We’ll explore a car-friendly street created by a 1920’s entrepreneur who predicted that Los Angeles would be dominated by the automobile; and take a horse and carriage on a Brooklyn parkway that was built on the proposition that streets should be scenic. It’s an episode about how streets have connected the nation, divided communities and changed the way Americans live, work and shop.

Mysteries of Mental Illness: The Rise and Fall of the Asylum

Follow the origin and downfall of mental asylums in America. Glimpse inside Cook County prison, the nation’s largest unintended mental health facility, meet the detainees in their care, and see the challenges they face both inside and out. Part 3 of 4.

World War II: The Last Heroes: The Battle for Caen

Allied soldiers push on to take their first objective, the city of Caen. They’re met by formidable Panzer forces determined to push the Allies back into the sea. For the next two months, a bloody battle of attrition is waged in the fields and villages of Normandy. Part 2 of 6.

Children of the Sun: The Aztecs

Within a very short time, the Aztecs created a huge empire, whose metropolis was a perfectly organised floating garden city on the Mexican plateau. At its head were kings who even sacrificed humans to the gods. Learn the true story of the rapid rise and tragic end of a unique people. Part 1 of 3.

Excalibur: Behind the Movie

This retrospective documentary looks back on the making of director John Boorman's 1981 movie, Excalibur. Self-described as the toughest film he ever made, Excalibur told the tale of King Arthur and the Sword in the Stone and helped start the careers of actors Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Helen Mirren and Patrick Stewart. In this one hour film, they join other cast and crew to share their memories from the filming of this Arthurian masterpiece.

Excalibur: Behind the Movie

This retrospective documentary looks back on the making of director John Boorman's 1981 movie, Excalibur. Self-described as the toughest film he ever made, Excalibur told the tale of King Arthur and the Sword in the Stone and helped start the careers of actors Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Helen Mirren and Patrick Stewart. In this one hour film, they join other cast and crew to share their memories from the filming of this Arthurian masterpiece.

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