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Exploring the river environment, where the enormous Nile crocodiles and hippopotamus are found. Part 12 of 12.
NOVA: For over a millennium, Petra was lost to the Western world and less than one per cent of the city has been explored in the 200 years since its rediscovery. An archaeologist and a team of sculptors carve a temple-tomb to find out how the people of Petra built their city of stone. Also, scientists in modern-day Jordan use remote sensors and hydraulic flumes to discover a city of the living, complete with a water system that supplied 30,000 people with drinking water, fountains and bathhouses.
A perfect storm of political intrigue, power struggles and clashing religious passions combined, within a single week, to cause a world-changing event: the killing of Jesus. Renowned actor and Cambridge theology graduate Hugh Bonneville sets out to discover why that one execution, in a century when as many as 500 people a day were crucified by the Romans, had such seismic, lasting and global impact - for better and for worse. Using all the investigative and storytelling tools at his disposal, Hugh reveals the context, characters and chain of events behind a week that changed the world. In the process, he finds that this is no dusty religious story, but a political thriller – a whodunnit, even – shot through with intrigue, spin, conspiracy, power battles, betrayal and terror.
Narrated by Liam Neeson, this landmark documentary examines the Easter Rising and the subsequent events that led to the creation of an independent Irish state - and, indirectly, to the start of the breakup of the British Empire. Looking at the Rising from an international perspective, 1916 offers insights that broaden public understanding of the historical interconnections between Britain, Ireland and the United States - connections whose significance extends right up to the the recent Irish peace process. The film combines rarely seen archive material with contemporary filming all over the world, plus revealing interviews with leading experts and historians.
In the land of tigers and elephants, deep in the jungles of India, award-winning photographer and film maker Vijay Bedi follows a handful of scientists as they try to save a species smaller than a thumbnail.
South Vietnamese forces fighting on their own in Laos suffer a terrible defeat. Massive U.S. airpower makes the difference in halting an unprecedented North Vietnamese offensive. After being re-elected by a landslide, Nixon announces Hanoi has agreed to a peace deal. American prisoners of war will finally come home - to a bitterly divided country. A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Part 9 of 10.
While the Watergate scandal rivets Americans’ attention and forces President Nixon to resign, the Vietnamese continue to savage one another in a brutal civil war. When hundreds of thousands of North Vietnamese troops pour into the South, Saigon descends rapidly into chaos and collapses. For the next forty years, Americans and Vietnamese from all sides search for healing and reconciliation. A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Part 10 of 10.
NOVA: The Colosseum is a monument to Roman imperial power and cruelty. Records of the games staged there describe seemingly impossible acts, such as beasts appearing on stage and water flooding the arena to recreate major sea battles. Experts have been sceptical that the Romans could achieve these feats, so a team of modern builders and engineers test their theories by building a trap-door-and-pulley system in an effort to replicate the potential innovation and ingenuity of the Romans.
