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Events at the Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) have often captured world headlines. Ever since the end of the Korean war in 1953, this 4km wide strip of no man’s land splitting the peninsula in two has been one of the world’s most hostile borders. At the border on the southern side, we see busloads of tourists eager to catch a glimpse of the secretive North, a country that has been cut off from the rest of the world for nearly 70 years. We hear emotional stories of families separated in the melee of war and daring accounts of people who risked everything to flee the repressive regime in North Korea, many speaking openly for the first time. As well as war veterans, defectors and separated families, we meet world famous artist Sun Mu, his identity a closely guarded secret, who escaped the North. He now uses art to cast a critical eye over the leaders of both North and South Korea. Part 6 of 6.
Twenty million years ago the sea bed erupted to create the great limestone cliffs of Ningaloo. In the rocks, Ray encounters the fossils of giant prehistoric sharks, before swimming with their modern descendants, the whale sharks, out on Ningaloo reef. Part 1 of 7.
The great herds take centre stage, running the gamut of predators and pressures unique to this nomadic way of life. Part 9 of 12.
The 93rd Bomb Group was arguably the most decorated, most travelled and most effective bomb group of WWII. Helping to cripple Nazi-occupied Europe from the air, they executed some of the most daring bombing raids of the war. Along with the group’s rich history, sons, daughters and grandchildren travel to England and explore the 93rd’s long-forgotten air base – Hardwick Aerodrome 104.
Kansas in the spring of 1918: Private Albert Gitchell, a cook, reported to the Army hospital before breakfast. He had a fever, sore throat, headache, just the 'flu, nothing to worry about. One minute later, another soldier showed up, then another. By noon of that first day, the baffled hospital staff had 107 cases on their hands; in the next month, well over a thousand. Before it was over, some 25,000,000 Americans had caught the flu and 675,000 would be dead. Soldiers and sailors got it first. The crowded army camps, with traffic back and forth to flu-ridden Europe, became home base for the influenza. From the northeastern seaboard it followed the railroads and slowly seeped into towns and hamlets all across the country. In St. Louis, U.S. Congressman Jacob Meeker, 40, married his secretary. The bride and groom, judge and witnesses, all wore masks; Meeker died seven hours later. It struck the ordinary citizen and the famous alike. This sobering documentary tells the story of America’s first encounter with a deadly pandemic that knew no borders.
Focusing on Africa’s predators and how they hunt, from cheetahs running down gazelles to lions taking on the mighty buffalo. Even the best hunters can be outrun and outwitted. Part 1 of 12.
Modern Australia is born on 1 January 1901, when six British colonies unite. Agriculture and mining transform the country despite a preference for white people limiting the availability of labour. Explorer Douglas Mawson, swimmer Annette Kellerman and the men fighting under Britain in World War I are the new nation’s first heroes. 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.
Starting in the lagoon city of Venice, the journey follows Italy’s longest river, the Po. From its delta, we travel by way of Cremona, Vercelli and Turin up to its source in the Cottian Alps. Part 1 of 5.
