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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.
Some 70,000 servicemen are missing from the Second World War alone, but unlike some other countries, the United States has never stopped looking for their war dead. Any find of a potential American ‘Missing in Action’ body brings the unique JPAC (Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command) team into action. Private Francis Lupo was killed during the infamous Battle of the Marne in 1918. His story provides a unique insight into American involvement in the First World War in France. In a uniquely difficult case, the team piece together clues, and for the first time in decades an Unknown Warrior is named and returned to his home and family for burial.
Two thousand years ago, Teotihuacán was one of the largest cities in the world, not far from what is today Mexico City. But just a few hundred years later, it was completely abandoned, its former citizens leaving little trace of their culture. Despite many decades of research, little is known about the long-lost Teotihuacán society. Who built this city with its giant pyramids? Why did its people vanish without a trace? This documentary follows a team of scientists who believe they have found the answers to these questions.
Darth Vader is perhaps the best-known villain in film history. His figure, his breathing, his movements - everything about the iconic character is recognised worldwide. But what about the man behind the mask? David Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader in the first Star Wars trilogy never revealed his face during the films. He could have in Return of the Jedi, but something happened. Another actor filmed that sequence, and that marked David's life forever. It’s time to find out the truth - and can the filmmakers convince the actor to play, one last time, what may be the most well-known villain of all time?
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.
'A grotesque head, attached to a body grossly elongated and as thin as a stick, carved in wood.’ When David Attenborough saw this remarkable carving at an auction, he knew it was more important than the auctioneers believed. He bought it, and tried to find out more about it. The search takes him all over the globe, from Russia to Australia, England to Easter Island, where the truth lies. In a very different role from that of explorer and observer of wildlife, David changes his spots to become a historical detective on the trail of a small wooden figurine with a unique history.
At a time when we are bombarded with COVID-19 information comes a moment of clarity – and a warning we cannot afford to ignore. We ask – what is really behind this pandemic? Find out in revealing dialogues with scientists, experts and activists like conservation icon Jane Goodall and environmental hero Captain Paul Watson from Sea Shepherd. Their stories combine with raw, up to date images and inspiring footage, in a film to make you pause, feel and act. Contains upsetting scenes.
How do you stop a contagious killer microbe? Scientists around the globe are racing to uncover the secrets of the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic - and using revolutionary techniques to develop life-saving treatments and vaccines.
Join historian Michael Scott as he unfolds the history of northern Greece from ancient times to the present, through the monuments, streets, coffee shops and people of Thessaloniki: from the archaeological museum which shows us how the town got its name (there was a Macedonian princess called Thessaloniki); to the sturdy structures built by the Roman emperors; and to the place where the gates of the city look on to the ancient commercial super-highway heading east to Istanbul, the Via Egnatia. Part 1 of 5.
