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Congo
Congo is a 2001 BBC nature documentary series for television on the natural history of the Congo River of Central Africa. In three episodes, the series explores the variety of animals and habitats that are to be found along the river’s 4,700 km reach.
Congo was produced for the BBC Natural History Unit and the Discovery Channel by Scorer Associates. The series writer/producer was Brian Leith and the executive producer was Neil Nightingale. Series consultants were Michael Fay, Kate Abernethy, Jonathan Kingdon and Lee White.
Little filming was possible in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which encompasses the vast majority of the river’s watershed. The reason for this is that the Second Congo War was underway during filming.
The series forms part of the Natural History Unit’s Continents strand and was preceded by Andes to Amazon in 2000 and Wild Africa later that year in 2001.
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Remember Me
Three-part contemporary ghost story set in Yorkshire. Tom Parfitt’s arrival at a local retirement home leads to an eerie unexpected death.
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The Passing Bells
At the outbreak of World War I, two teenage boys – one German and one British – defy their parents to sign up.
An epic historical drama spanning the five years of the First World War, as seen through the eyes of two ordinary young soldiers.
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Jungle Atlantis
Millions of tourists visit Angkor Wat in Cambodia every year to marvel at its remarkable architecture, yet most are probably unaware that when it was built nearly 1,000 years ago it was even more impressive. Using remote sensing technology, scientists now know what is hidden beneath the nearby paddy fields and jungle: a sophisticated metropolis with an elaborate network of houses, canals, boulevards and temples covering 30 square kilometres that housed three-quarters of a million people. To put that into perspective, London at that time was home to just 18,000. These previously hidden finds tell us a great deal about life during the golden age of the powerful Khmer dynasty.
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The Beauty of Anatomy
Dr Adam Rutherford investigates the close relationship between discoveries in anatomy and the works of art that illustrate them.
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Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood is a 1995 documentary produced by David Gill and silent film historian Kevin Brownlow.
The six-part mini-series focuses on the origin of European cinema, from its infancy as a novelty created by French inventors Auguste and Louis Lumière to its flourishing as the pinnacle of film-making in the silent era and as a serious commercial contender against America. The important series contains much rare footage and offers an even-handed analysis of the specific strengths and weaknesses of the various national film industries during this first flourishing of film as art.
The documentary is narrated by filmmaker and actor, Kenneth Branagh. Original music in the film was composed by Carl Davis, Philip Appleby & Nic Raine.
The series originally aired on the BBC in 1995, later airing on TCM in the US in 1996. In 2000, Image Entertainment released the whole series on a 2-disc DVD.
The documentary was shown from time to time on public television stations, usually at late night slots, due to its length and occasional sexual frankness.
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James May’s Things You Need To Know
James May’s Things You Need To Know is a British television series presented by Top Gear presenter James May. The first, three-part series was aired on BBC Two between 20 June and 4 July 2011. A second, six part series was aired on BBC Two starting 13 August 2012. The show answers key questions on aspects of everyday life, including what makes up the human body, what a cloud is and what makes the universe work so effectively. The first series has yet to be released on DVD.
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The Music of the Primes
For more than 2,000 years, a mathematical riddle has baffled the world’s greatest minds. It’s a problem of such difficulty that it has tormented those brave enough to tackle it. Some have given up in despair. Others have been driven mad. Primes are fundamental to mathematics yet they seem to surface entirely randomly along the number line. But are the primes truly random or is there some hidden pattern? It’s the greatest unsolved problem of mathematics. In The Music of the Primes, Marcus du Sautoy investigates the fascinating story of great mathematicians who have all grappled with the problem of the primes
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Toughest Place To Be A ….
Toughest Place To Be A… is a BBC Two television documentary which offered various working or retired professionals in the United Kingdom a different and more challenging working environment in the same profession they worked in. These individuals travel to a foreign country to learn and work under the new environment for ten days. First broadcast in February 2011, a total of fifteen episodes were produced since.
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The Spice Trail
Kate Humble goes on the trail of some of the world’s most valuable spices revealing their history, trade, mythology and usage.
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