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- The timely story of a normal family disintegrating under financial pressure, eventually driven to the unimaginable. We witness the terrifying events unfold through daughter Judith's video camera, which subsequently becomes Exhibit A.
- Re-enactments of real-life tales of human survival against the savage elements, dangerous climates and physical hazards.
- A series of eight dramas to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Each drama focuses on a real event that happened exactly five years ago to the day.
- A docudrama about the efforts of the passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 to derail the 9/11 terrorists' plan for the hijacked airliner.
- American documentary television series. Produced in conjunction with the National Geographic Channel, the series examines various disasters or violent incidents. It replaced Seconds From Disaster, a similar program with a more forensic approach.
- On the night of 10 October 1957, Great Britain was on the brink of an unprecedented nuclear tragedy. A fire ripped through the radioactive materials in the core of Windscale, Britain's first nuclear reactor.
- James May explores and celebrates his favorite toys from his youth.
- Sir David Attenborough undertakes a personal journey to discover how global warming is changing the planet. The Truth About Climate Change is a two part documentary presented by him asking the question: What is the future for our world?
- The Mayor of San Francisco discovers he is to be charged with corruption just hours before the city is leveled by a massive earthquake. Over the next three days he battles to save the city and restore his reputation.
- The show presents potential solutions to global warming, followed by a panel discussion about the road ahead. Acknowledging the scientific consensus on the issue, the debate will steer clear of the pointless "skeptics vs. alarmist" angle and focus on what we can do as individuals, a nation and a species to avert the impacts of climate change. Attenborough's film lays out seven components of a sane response to global warming - strategies and targets from the household to big industries and government. But each one has implications, and many - like a growing reliance on nuclear power - are highly contentious. Our goal is to debate these strategies in a positive and constructive spirit: combating the paralysis of swirling fears with concrete ideas for informed action." But in retrospective, in 2006, Attenborough did not have enough scientific evidence to be more blunt. So, the author of this review simply summarizes the situation of year 2011 as following: Pollution, eating species into extinction and massacre of environment happens on global scale: sacred and very needed by life on Earth trees are being massacred by human predator. Gold mining, illegal tree cutting, illegal ranching in Amazon already destroyed a lot of sacred trees. Films: "AMAZON with Bruce Perry", "The End of the Line (2009)". Most vicious predator (human) must learn to stop destroying its own environment. Most vicious predator must stop unbounded (exponential) reproduction: it leaves no space for healthy environment for most vicious predator and leaves no space for animals. CONSUMPTION is not "cool" anymore. Hint: coexistence of human and environment (nature and animals).
- Drama documentary on the flooding of New Orleans.
- While climbing in the French Alps, two friends find themselves trapped on a tiny ledge in a viscous storm.
- In October 1982, 5 people got caught in a tropical storm. When their yacht sinks, they must survive in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on a raft with no survival equipment. To their absolute horror, they find the area of the ocean to be infested with sharks.
- When 2 best friends take a Kayaking trip, they are hoping for nothing less then a great adventure. They think they are invincible - they soon find out they are not. Powerful currents and bad weather quickly expose how one is inexperienced and both, in grave danger. Friendship is tested, loyalties questioned. In a bid to get help, they separate. And what was supposed to be fun, spirals out of control, into a fight for survival.
- An investigation inti the cause of the sinking of Titanic. The ultimate cause was the use of post-war rivets that showed flaws in the metal and were unable to withstand the massive strain of the collision with the iceberg.
- When a rockslide pins Warren and prevents him from moving, he must hold out in hopes that his friend Geert will climb down the mountain and return with help, though the rain and rising water level create many more challenges for Warren to overcome.
- Cousins Mark and Rob go on a fishing trip on the Sea of Cortez, when they find themselves shipwrecked on a small island with no food or water, they must do whatever they can to survive on the island. They share the island's limited resources, though with temperatures rising, the two start to experience delusions and delirium.
- Lost in the rain forest -- could you beat the elements and avoid death? Would you know what to do? Join jungle guide Myke Hawke in the Amazon as he wrestles anacondas, spots deadly poisons, and tries to survive -- and make it out alive.
- Two climbers and close friends are scaling an ice-wall near Alaska's Mount Johnson when Jim falls down and suffers some major injuries. Dave attempts a makeshift SOS signal, though when a passing light aircraft lands to rescue the injured man, the pilot and his pregnant wife become stranded in the icy wasteland as well.
- Potomac air disaster in which Florida Flight 90 left Washington and almost immediately crashed in to a bridge.
- When a Hollywood camera crew set out to film an active volcano they end up in a helicopter crash into the active volcano. All rescue attempts are delayed by lava, toxic gases and bad weather, and each man of the crew thinks the others are dead.
- Two sons with their dads decide a fishing trip to Mexico would be a great way to bond. But an unexpected storm forces them to ditch the plane in the sea. They survive the crash only to face peril in open water.
- A conservationist survives an airplane crash in Zimbabwe. Suffering severe injuries Greg must do everything he can to survive until help arrives.
- Dramadoc telling the true story of Chris Moon, who was kidnapped by the Khmer Rouge while clearing land mines in Cambodia and talked his way back to freedom.
- Private plane crashes in the Kalahari Desert. Two of the surviving passengers decide to leave their injured party behind without food or water in order to find help.
- Three British climbers become trapped on America's highest mountain when the weather turns against them. One has to make the difficult decision - stay with his friends and freeze to death or go down the mountain alone risking his own life to try to save them all.
- In June 1996, a group of 5 teenage scouts and 3 adult guides hiked into the Grand Canyon during a heat wave; the route was an off-trail route in the vicinity of the Nankoweap Trail. As their water runs out and the older members collapse in exhaustion, 3 of the teenagers set out on their own to reach the Colorado River.
- On May 25, 1979, an American Airlines DC-10 loses an engine at take-off and crashes into a trailer park killing all 271 on board. The investigation shows that short-cuts at maintenance resulted in damaged attachments of the engine pylon.
- Simon argues The Slave ship, one of 7 of his works causing a scandal at the 1840 Royal Academy exhibition, is typical of Turner's feeling from experience, as low-born Covent garden boy affected by family tragedy, for the common man, even prominent in his epic works, deliberately unpolished for grim effect. Despite his membership of the Royal Academy his appearance remained deliberately rough, his later life darkened by disease, loss of close one and a pain-killer which enhanced his morbid imagination. The sea, with uncut fluent lines typical for him, hence his glorious Venice period, is a common element of drama and emotions. His rendering of the Temeraire reflects the mixed public mood as industrialization takes the lead. He sided with the anti-slavery movement gaining momentum to fight slave-trade by others after the British Empire abandoned it, referring to the case of the Sun sixty years earlier, when the captain of the Sun, off Jamaica, decided to swindle the ship's insurance -for losses at sea, nor death at arrival- by dumping 132 live cargo hand-picked. Turner dramatized maximally, even replaced the Caribean sharks by piranhas he knew from Jeroen Bosch's hell scenes and setting a red-gold stormy sky above water cut by a huge dark spot for the scene, supposedly a rising typhoon. The critics were merciless for his denial of artistic conventions, Simon considers it a triumph of expression, plastic expression and even matching a social rebellion in the name of liberty with his artistic one. His more idyllic works seem serial, almost soulless by comparison.
- Simon sketches how Vincent Van Gogh was foremost a world-improver, who cared for the common man, working as a 'lay priest' among but got fired by the Dutch Protestant establishment at age 30, and only then turned to painting as a means of continuing his social strife for the poor, while depending on his brother, who became an art gallery-keeper in Paris, for his meager livelihood, as his works' dark themes and colors didn't sell in the colorful, light-focused age of impressionism, yet made his mark on it after a visit to Paris, without becoming fashionable till long after his death in a mental asylum.
- A young couple and their 5-month-old baby get lost and trapped in a severe blizzard while traveling from Northern California to Idaho.
- In 1974, 148 tornadoes hit 13 states causing millions of Dollars of damage injuring 5500 people and killing 330. At the time the weather service couldn't give precise warnings where the tornadoes would strike.
- In November 2003, brothers Justin and Jeremy Harris go canyoneering in Utah's Canyons. They expect the trip will take no more than eight hours, but when freezing temperatures come by, Justin breaks his leg and can't continue, and Jeremy has to hike out of the canyon alone to find help.
- US Air Force pilot Mike Couillard takes his ten-year-old son Matthew skiing in Turkey. Losing the trail in a freak snowstorm they wander blindly into the wilderness. Tired, cold and hungry, they find a cave to shelter for the night. Days pass with no sign of rescue, despite a massive search operation. Back home Mike's wife and other children wait, praying. Mike makes an agonizing decision to leave his son and seek help. Reaching some abandoned huts, he collapses. Two days later, he's discovered by passing woodcutters who he directs to the cave. They find Matthew, frostbitten but alive after his ten-day ordeal in the wilderness
- In August 2002, a young man and woman, once dating, headed for the Amazon rain forest but got lost in the jungle. Crystal Ramsey, a sufferer of depression, tries to convince Dave Boyer, a 7th grade science teacher, that they have to slit their wrists so they won't die from the elements. They have to survive the dangers of the jungle and hold on to their sanity as they find their way home.
- A man and his father are enjoying a two week camping trip in deep Alaska when their raft flips over and traps them under the ice. Finding a pocket of air under the ice covering the raging river, the father and son must fight to stay alive.
- The story of an African family's fight for survival when they are thrown into one of the most crocodile infested rivers in the world...after their fishing boat is attacked by a hippo.
- In December 2004, the subduction fault between the Indian and Burma tectonic plates ruptured along 1600 km, causing a 9.1- to 9.3-magnitude earthquake and a giant tsunami that killed around 230,000 people.
- In 1997, the Soufrière Volcano on Montserrat erupted killing 17 people and destroying the capital Plymouth.
- An examination of the deadly terrorist hostage taking and subsequent massacre of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympics.
- On November 12, 2001 an American Airlines Airbus crashed in Queens. The investigation showed that the tailfin was sheared off following fierce rudder corrections by the co-pilot.
- On January 28, 1986, Challenger exploded 73 seconds after lift-off. The official report named failing O-rings in the booster rockets as the cause of the disaster, but bad communication and decision procedures also played a role.