In 2001 scientists announced an amazing discovery: the oldest skull of a human ancestor ever found. The 3,5 million year old fossil was remarkably complete, and unlike any previous fossil find. Its discovery – by a team led by Meave Leakey of the famous Leakey fossil-hunting family – has revolutionised our understanding of how humans [...]
Leading statesmen, generals, terrorists and others who made the headlines in one of history’s most bitter and enduring struggles tell the story of the Arab-Israeli conflict in The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs. Opening with the U.N decision to partition Palestine in 1947, the program charts the ensuing half-century of enmity, warfare, mediation [...]
The Rothschild family, known as The House of Rothschild, or more simply as the Rothschilds, is a Jewish-German family that established European banking and finance houses starting in the late 18th century. Five lines of the Austrian branch of the family have been elevated to Austrian nobility being given hereditary baronies of the Habsburg Empire [...]
Uncover the story of the invention and history of photography. Uncover the story of the invention of photography and the way in which it became an integral part of the modern world, including the remarkable achievements of the pioneer photographers, the revolution that took place when George Eastman made photography available to the masses with [...]
A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. The film combines this new footage with Gagarin’s original mission audio and a new musical score by composer Philip Sheppard.
How Irish missionaries brought literacy and technology to Scotland and England. Provocative two-part documentary in which Dan Snow blows the lid on the traditional Anglo-centric view of history and reveals how the Irish saved Britain from cultural oblivion during the Dark Ages. He follows in the footsteps of Ireland’s earliest missionaries as they venture through [...]
Braving torrential rains in remote Papua, New Guinea, Jean-Pierre Dutilleux encounters the most isolated nomadic tribe in the world. Jean-Pierre’s remarkable encounter with the Toulambis continues for three days of unprecedented exchange. This is an unedited, yet incredible interesting, documentary portraying Papua New Guinean tribes members meeting a white man for the first time in [...]
An Islamic world tour is documented here by visits to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Chechnia, and Qatar, to highlight events post 9/11, including footage from a few years before. The film above all endeavors to shed light on the process leading young men to the choice of self-sacrifice, becoming human bombs. The directors of the film traveled [...]
He built a billion-dollar empire on America’s unquenchable hunger for cocaine. He flaunted his wealth with a lifestyle fit for a king and defied–and terrorized–the Columbian government for years, destroying anyone or anything in his way. But it all ended on a rooftop in Medellin, when Pablo Escobar, Columbia’s cocaine king, was shot on December [...]
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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (French: Bataille de Diên Biên Phu; Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Điện Biên Phủ) was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union’s French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French [...]
[YouTube English CC Available] This is a BBC documentary by Mr. Kaveh Basmenji of BBC Persian from Fall of 2009. Ms. Amanda Harper produced it. It was broadcast in Spring/Summer 2010. English subtitles have been added by Mahmoud Shahbodaghi
