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Maiya May learns about the severe impacts of droughts and floods on agriculture and the alarming depletion of groundwater reserves. Despite these challenges, Maiya finds hope in innovative agricultural practices. Part 4 of 6.
Since Howard Carter's discovery in 1922, archaeologists have been trying to unlock the secrets of Tutankhamen's tomb, including why it was hastily built, the black mould on the walls, and whether it also houses the tomb of Nefertiti. Part 4 of 6.
Rare film footage, restored and colourised for the first time, provides an intimate window into how everyday Edwardians lived, worked, and socialised. We see hundreds of workers taking to the streets to fight for better pay and conditions, footage of a football match in Burnley, and the shocking footage of Emily Wilding Davison colliding with the King's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby. Part 2 of 2.
The hydrogen bomb age from Bikini to Kazakhstan, the closure of the Soviet Polygon and the broken promises of the Budapest Memorandum. Today, Russia uses nuclear threats to redraw borders and China builds its arsenal unchecked. Part 2 of 2.
Autumn 1944. In September of 1944, with their troops in Europe stalled on the German border having outrun their supply lines, Allied commanders gamble on a risky plan to drop thousands of airborne troops behind enemy lines in Holland. When the mission ends in disaster, it becomes painfully clear that the war in Europe will not end before winter. In the Pacific, on the island of Peleliu, the marines fight one of the most brutal campaigns of the war. A series by Ken Burns. Part 9 of 14.
