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- StarsJason GatesJanelle HornickelCoby KempeExplorer examines the powerful and highly addictive drug methamphetamine also known as "meth". Correspondent Lisa Ling charts meth's impact in the United States and in the world.
- StarsJim Al-KhaliliThe story of the discovery that everything is made from atoms, one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs in history, and the brilliant minds behind it.
- DirectorCle SloanStarsDaryl GatesFred HamptonJoe HicksSurrounded by death and the brutal lifestyle that feeds it, a Los Angeles gangbanger explores the history of Southern California street gangs from the 1950s through the 1990s in an attempt to fully understand his existence. Bastards of the Party humanizes the staggering casualties of the LA gang wars.
- StarsBill BrysonStephen FryQueen Elizabeth IIFollowing his enormously successful book "Notes From a Small Island", American travel writer Bill Bryson sets off on a new tour of Britain. Starting at Dover, where he recalls his first disembarkation in 1973 to a land of rain, sweet tea and disagreeable land-ladies, his travels take him from Poole in the South to the Western Isles of Scotland. Along the way he encounters such colourful characters as the pipe smokers of Solihull, ballroom dancers in Blackpool and the caber tossers of Glenfinnan. Bryson brings all his perspective eye, dry wit and outbursts of comic exasperation to this affectionate survey of the British way of life.
- DirectorKevin ToolisStarsRobert BaerForget about nuclear missiles, the decisive weapon of the twentieth century is the car bomb. After Iraq we now know you can defeat a Superpower, start a civil war or just blow up your own Government with a trunk load of home-made explosives and a battered old car. From the Middle East, Oklahoma, Ireland and the streets of the City of London the car bomb has shaped human conflict. Even today the car bomb remains the number one terrorist threat across the world. In this film, ex-CIA agent Robert Baer uncovers the history of this extraordinary weapon. With footage of car bomb attacks and interviews with car bombers, Baer reveals how the century of the car turned into the century of the car bomb. And how a dream of freedom turned nightmare.
- StarsJim Al-KhaliliRichard DawkinsJames DysonCharismatic men of action and reclusive eccentrics. Eureka moments and serendipitous strokes of luck. Discoveries born of crisis and insatiable curiosity. The history of scientific progress in Britain offers an astonishing breadth of personalties and has had an awe-inspiring effect on world progress. Each episode in this five-part series brings an era of scientific thought to vivid life, with modern-day geniuses examining the legacies of their heroes. Stephen Hawking takes on Isaac Newton, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins discusses Alan Turing, acclaimed naturalist David Attenborough profiles Joseph Banks, and many more. Also in the mix: industrial designer James Dyson, Nobel-prize winning geneticist Paul Nurse, and others. Along the way, learn intriguing facts about famous scientists and discover unheralded people whose revelations have changed the way we live today, paving the path for everything from the steam engine to current thinking about the atom and evolution.
- StarsJim Al-KhaliliJim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.
- DirectorHelen SimpsonStarsNicky TaylorNicky Taylor reports on a Hampshire Women's Institute campaign calling for the legalization of brothels in Britain.
- DirectorPhilip SmithStarsAleks KrotoskiKudjo AgbeviJohn Perry BarlowIn the first in this four-part series, Aleks charts the extraordinary rise of blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube, and traces an ongoing clash between the freedom the technology offers us, and our innate human desire to control and profit. Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by some of the web's biggest names - including the founders of Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, and the web's inventor - she explores how far the web has lived up to its early promise.
- DirectorPhil GrabskyStarsFrank Adams-BrownDebbie ArnoldSean BarrettThe life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- DirectorJordan ClarkStarsJordan ClarkSirirat Rapsithorn"Bangkok Girl" is a 'remarkably accomplished, beautifully photographed and intimate debut documentary that puts a human face on the devastating social issue that, sadly, is the fate of too many impoverished girls.' The documentary provides a glimpse of Thailand's sex tourism told through the experiences of a 19-year-old bar girl named Pla.
- DirectorSteven OkazakiStarsTracey HeltonAlice McMunnJessica SnowThis documentary follows the lives of a number of heroin addicts in the U.S.A. It shows their heroin life stories.
- DirectorClaudine DabbsStarsJames MayRosa AitkinRichard AllanJames May looks at the toys he and his sisters played with as kids.
- DirectorBrian BurkhardtCurt La FurneyStarsCowboyVinnie FavoritoBuddy the GrinderA great summary of the poker world. Actual ex-winning players acknowledging the deliusion of being a winning poker player. Comedian, Vinny Favarito and the rest of the cast have some hilarious takes on what they have learned from their time playing poker.
- DirectorAlice PermanStarsJulian Rhind-TuttTariq AliKeith Allen
- StarsMichael StoneJohn CameronNeil DudgeonWhat lies at the intersection of evil and intelligence? Dr. Stone, armed with new scientific discoveries on early brain development, analyzes Kemper, Kaczynski, and Kraft to find out what made these killers' use their cunning for crime.
- DirectorJenny KuboStarsLance Lewman
- StarsJay RaynerHeston BlumenthalAfter looking at rising prices in The Truth About Food Prices, Rayner now looks at the other end of the scale - the new cheap food ranges and whether they have a true higher cost ... our health.
- DirectorChris GormlieThe Roman Empire gave history one of its most eventful and colorful periods: its legacy remains for all to see in the incredible civic buildings, temples and the ancient city. Places such as the Forum, the Coliseum and the Pantheon hang heavy with the atmosphere of distant glories, providing fascinating echoes of a truly remarkable people.
- DirectorDavid LeafJohn ScheinfeldStarsJohn LennonYoko OnoStew AlbertA documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist.