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- Steven Callahan departs from El Hierro in the Canary Islands, in Napoleon Solo - a sloop he designed and built himself. He's bound for Antigua as part of the Mini Transat 6.50 single-handed sailing race from Penzance, England. One night a ferocious storm severely damages his boat. He escapes the sinking vessel in an inflatable life-raft, nicknamed Ducky, with a meagre supply of food and water. For 76 days he is adrift in the Atlantic Ocean at the mercy of the currents and winds. During his ordeal he is battered by the elements, attacked by sharks and plagued by constant punctures to his raft. It's an epic story where one man's will to survive is put to the ultimate test.
- Trapped in The Twin Towers on September 11th, thousands of ordinary people struggled to make contact with the outside world. Many knew that time was ticking away. These recorded messages and private calls are the most powerful legacy to the families left behind. Often full of love and dignity they depict humanity at its best and most resourceful in the face of evil.
- '9/11 Voices From The Air' tells the extraordinary story of the 9/11 terrorist attacks through the actual audio recordings made of the day's critical communications. This drama-documentary uses previously unreleased recordings made between Air Traffic Control, the Federal Aviation Authority, the Military and the Hijackers - combined with personal testimony from the actual people involved. Also featured are telephone messages left by passengers from the planes and intimate interviews with their families, as they recall their loved ones final moments. This powerful one hour film combines cutting edge computer animation, news archive and stylised dramatic reconstruction to tell the story as never before.
- Looks at the case of American artist Lois McMillen, who was found murdered in 2000 on the British Virgin Island of Tortola. Four young American men were arrested for the murder and Scotland Yard were brought in to find the forensic evidence to link the suspects to the killing in the face of mounting pressure from America to release them.
- Stranded and lost in the Outback, a father does all he can to avoid watching his daughter die a slow death in one of the world's most hostile environments.
- Just three months into a new relationship, Roger Sargeant, his new girlfriend Shelly and her two young daughters Tiffany (9) and Michaela (5) are on a day trip in the Arizona desert. Things go badly wrong when they get lost and are then forced to abandon their car. In a desperate bid to walk out they become separated. Over two hellish days and nights, Roger and Shelly's family, independently battle to escape soaring summer heat, dehydration, hostile terrain, rattlesnakes and prowling gangs of people smugglers.
- Examines how two British women became involved in the cult surrounding the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. They were key figures in the Bhagwan's inner circle in 1981 when the cult set up a new religious retreat in Oregon despite opposition from the local authorities. They now face extradition to America for their part in the conflict which arose.
- In 2003, David Hunt and his 11-year-old daughter Leia, set off on a snowmobiling adventure in the Quebec back country. Disaster strikes when David's snowmobile hits a snow drift and crash lands into a ravine. Stranded miles from safety with a badly broken leg in sub zero temperatures; David's only chance of survival rests with his daughter Leia. It's the greatest test of her young life and one she can't afford to fail.
- Modern life would be impossible without plentiful energy, but it's an addiction that could cost the Earth. We rely on fossil fuels - oil, coal, and gas - which all emit the carbon that contributes to global warming. The dilemma is how to keep the lights on without cooking the planet. Future Earth investigates in vivid photo-real CGI, the disastrous consequences of a world where energy is king and worth any price.
- Film on archaeologist Jean Yves Empereur, who, for over twelve years, has been investigating the ancient site of Alexandria, having revealed extensive underwater ruins and the lighthouse. His most recent discovery is a Roman palace that provides evidence of the opulence of the ancient city.
- 'Are We Alone?' Hawking considers one of the most important mysteries facing humankind - the possibility of alien, intelligent life. He leads us on a journey rendered in eye-popping detail, from the moons of Jupiter to a galaxy maybe not so far, far away. We will meet possible aliens and wonder at their form, we will delve into the very principles of what it is to call something alive, and we will calculate the likelihood of 'contact' being made.
- All Aboard the Yorkshire Express goes behind the scenes at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway; taking us back in time to the golden age of steam. This year they're celebrating their fiftieth anniversary and we join them as they welcome coach trips, wedding parties and train spotters alike in what they hope will be the railway's busiest year yet.
- Fresh-faced twenty two year old Brit Benedict Allen embarks on an epic six-month expedition which will take him from the mouth of the Orinoco River to the Mouth of the Amazon River through six hundred miles of uncharted jungle. On the final leg of his journey Benedict meets two gold miners who steal his guides then threaten to kill him. Fearing for his life Benedict is forced to tackle the wilds of the Amazon with only his faithful dog, Cashoe, for company. His inexperience nearly costs him dear when he capsizes his canoe, losing virtually all his provisions. Embarking on the 100 miles journey through dense rainforest to safety Benedict is struck down by Malaria and a severe case of 'jungle madness'. On the verge of starvation he makes the drastic decision to eat the one living thing he can catch - his beloved dog. But will he ever find civilization?
- Atlas 4D Programme Summary: Atlas 4D explores the most dramatic regions on earth. The first three episodes feature Africa's Great Rift Valley, the Mediterranean Sea and the Hawaiian Islands. Using state of the art computer graphics, Atlas 4D will travel through the fourth dimension, rewinding and fast-forwarding through millions of years. Whole landscapes will evolve and disappear as the films uncover the hidden connections between landscape, natural history and people: Why was an ice age crucial to the success of Polynesian settlers in Hawaii? What was it about volcanoes that was crucial to the Roman Empire? How did the formation of the Rift Valley lead to the birth of humankind? All this and much, much more will be revealed in Atlas 4D.
- Five young guys from Bozeman, Montana have got together for a back-country ski trip to celebrate New Year 2005. Sam Kavanagh, Blake Morstad, Jason Thompson, Chris Maki and Matt Schuyler have grown up together. They're close friends and expert skiers. On the final day of their trip they accidentally trigger a huge avalanche. One of the gang is killed and another is left critically injured. Miles from safety, a dream adventure turns into a living hell.
- Historical examples of grand military plans failing either because they were unrealistic, not followed properly or were created with too much influence of political considerations and interservice-rivalries.
- With new research showing that each year in Britain there are an estimated 320,00 medical mistakes, the film looks at how medical errors can be minimised and even avoided, offering practical methods of detecting potential mistakes before they occur and looking at the benefits of sharing information not only with other medics but also with patients.
- On December 2, 1984 in Bhopal, India, a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide chemical plant results in the deaths of 3,000 people.
- How do people behave when they're caught in a potentially deadly fire? We look at the human element of fire investigation. It will tell the story of a dedicated band of researchers and former fire fighters on both sides of the Atlantic who turned their attention to the last unknown quantity in fires - what do the victims do?
- A father and son on a hunting expedition in Kyrgyzstan are caught in a blizzard, and the rescue helicopter sent to retrieve them crashes.
- British hiker Matt Briggs spends ten days stranded in the mountains of New Zealand's South Island following a crippling fall on a solo trek. With no sign of rescue and his supplies running low, Matt and his canine companion 'Little Dog' must fight horrendous injuries and brutal terrain to save their own lives.
- 2012: the year Britain's weather turned deadly and the real stories of the victims caught up in its fury.
- The programme charts the challenge of erecting five breakthrough monuments from the birth of Christianity to the present day. We reveal the secrets of their epic construction using cutting edge CGI. Each building combines major technical innovation with breathtaking human endeavour, strokes of genius, ambition and intrigue.
- The Cavalese cable car disaster occurred on 3 February 1998 near the Italian town of Cavalese, when a U.S. military plane cut a cable supporting a gondola of an aerial tramway which led to the death of 20 people.
- The first programme of the three-part series on car development looks at the severely chequered history of car safety. How in 1956 a seat belt campaign in the US was scrapped because the hugely influential General Motors feared damage to car sales, how the revolutionary British Mini was, in its original design, accused of being a death trap and why the airbag, the great safety device of the 90s, is now being switched off by US motorists.
- Explores the real man behind the myth, painting a vivid portrait of the 18th century Venetian's extraordinary life. Casanova lived in the fast lane and devoted himself to pleasures of every conceivable kind. It was a life full of drama, adventure and, of course, romance and sex. Casanova emerges as a complex figure and one that, far from being a heartless cheat, was something of a 'new man', who treated women with honesty and respect - and knew exactly what they wanted in bed
- School teachers and old friends, Ben Gowans, Jason Cox and Clay Craig embark on a 'guy's trip' to the remote wilderness of Utah. Ben has talked his friends into canyoneering through some of the states most beautiful slot canyons. But after taking a wrong turn the friends quickly find that they are in way over their heads. With no way out, Ben decides to climb 60ft up and out of the canyon. As he's nearing the top disaster strikes - the rock he's holding onto snaps and he freefalls back down the canyon. Severely injured and unable to move Ben's life rests in the hands of his friends.
- Ten years on, Children of 9/11 gives a voice, for the first time, to the young people directly affected by 9/11: more than 3,000 children lost a parent on that fateful day and some were not yet born - they were still in the womb when the towers collapsed. Their lives are linked by a terrible accident of fate that has made their childhoods part of the most significant and terrifying event of modern times. Over the course of a year, Children of 9/11 has followed eleven children from six families across America. We'll hear from some who are only just beginning to comprehend what they lost on that day, whilst others, remarkably, are now able to find a way to positively transform their lives. Their honest recollections of this confusing and catastrophic day, as well as their difficult and inspiring journeys in the years since, offer incredible new insight into the far reaching consequences of September 11th.
- Students Sonja Rendell and Marni Sheppeard are on a 3-day hike in Arthur's Pass National Park, staying in picturesque huts and planning to visit thermal mud pools, before returning home for a family Christmas. But when their path is blocked by ice, the girls take a detour. What started as a steep slope quickly becomes a sheer cliff - with Sonja clinging to the rock with just her finger tips. Returning to the trail is no longer an option as the girls fight to survive on a tiny rock ledge in torrential rain and wind. Will Sonja and Marni be able to climb their way to safety?
- In 1860 one of the world's most astonishing and enduring architectural wonders was discovered deep in the Cambodian jungle - the 900-year-old remains of Angkor Wat, one of the greatest religious sites ever found. In this new series, Lost Worlds travels to the remote site to investigate and, using the latest computer technology, recreates the staggering City of the God Kings as archaeologists unravel the mysteries and discover the sheer scale of this 12th century capital.
- Amateur photographer Jordan Nicurity is exploring a beautiful cove on Hornby Island in British Columbia when he falls 20ft from a cliff, shattering his pelvis and rupturing internal organs. Crippled by injury Jordan faces a life and death struggle only miles from where he lives. For 4 days his will to survive is put to the ultimate test.
- The last place you might expect to find a chaplain is on the frontline with the Royal Marines, dodging bullets in Afghanistan. But chaplains have served in the British Armed forces since the Middle Ages. And today their role is more important, and controversial, then ever before. As religion is dragged into the conflict, by the rhetoric of jihad and crusade, the military chaplain is increasingly coming under the spot-light. But behind the scenes their job is a vital one: administering to the wounded, listening to the fearful, and offering spiritual guidance in the heart of war. This programme follows two Royal Marine chaplains as they travel around 'their parish' in Afghanistan, bringing faith to the frontline. Unlike the other armed services, they go where ever their parishioners need them and that often means putting themselves in the line of fire with nothing but their faith to protect them. It is a story not just of belief, but of heroism, human grit and the role of religion on the modern battlefield.
- This is a film about the rise and fall of the world's first supersonic passenger jet - Concorde. From the moment that it hit the skies in 1969, Concorde was instantly iconic. Considered the thoroughbred of aircraft, it flew the rich and famous across the Atlantic in just 3 hours and forty-five minutes - with an impeccable safety record. Until, on July 25th 2000, a freak chain of events just outside Paris caused a catastrophic accident: Concorde's first fatality in 27 years of service killed 115 people and those devastating 120 seconds of flight marked the end of the supersonic era.
- Black Box focuses on the investigation teams at two crash sites; the TWA 800 which exploded in mid-flight this summer and the Valujet crash, where cameras follow the team into the alligator-infested swampland. There is also a look at the troubled history of Britain's Comet, the world's first jet passenger aircraft.
- Trainee pilot Justin Kirkbride takes two friends, Tommy and Larry, on a sightseeing tour of the Rocky Mountains, but crashes on a steep, snowy mountainside. Larry breaks his leg, while best friend Tommy is knocked unconscious. Only Justin escapes unscathed. He decides to hike 45 miles down the treacherous mountainside in search of help. As darkness falls he picks up a cell signal and manages to summon a rescue helicopter. He joins the rescue pilots in the search for his two missing friends, but their crash site is hidden by thick pine forest. The search is about to be called off when disaster strikes again - the rescue helicopter clips a tree and smashes into the mountainside. Can Kirkbride escape with his life for the second time in 24 hours? And will his passengers now succumb to their injuries during the freezing night?
- In Tennessee, a farmer fights for his life and is faced with losing the home that has been in his family for generations to an infestation of deadly spiders. In Georgia, a family gets creative after several attempts to rid their home of the bed bugs their son has brought back home from college fail. And in Pittsburgh, a couple join a community's battle against the cockroaches infesting their homes.
- Filmed in homage to his original TV series, this factual drama follows Dave Allen from childhood to becoming one of the Ireland's comedy greats, with just a whiskey, a cigarette and nine-and-a-half fingers. Dave Allen is played by Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones).
- Reports on how one company's (SeaEscape) ships caught fire one after another. The three liners were Scandinavian Sea, Scandinavian Sun and Scandinavian Star. Also reports on how yachtsman, Tony Bullimore, lost at sea during the 1977 Vendée single handed round-the-world race, was saved by the skills of an Intelligence Officer in Australia.
- On July 1, 2002 a cargo airliner and a passenger airliner collide while they are over Überlingen in Germany, killing all on board.
- 2005–201242mTV-PG7.1 (22)TV EpisodeLifelong friends Joseph Rangel and Lorenzo Madrid, both in their 50s, sign up for a five-day sport fishing trip in the Sea of Cortez. On their final day of fishing the two Americans and their Mexican guide Pepe are shipwrecked on a remote and hostile desert island. With no sign of a rescue mission and little in the way of food or water the three men are in dire straights. Their only hope of survival is to embark on an epic 12 day journey to the northern tip of the Island where they hope to attract the attention of passing fishermen. But the extreme heat and unforgiving landscape exacts the ultimate toll ... not all of them make it out alive.
- In Pennsylvania, three generations go to war against the tide of cockroaches spilling from a neighbor's home and into their own. In Kentucky, a young family move into a new home only to discover that it is overrun by a protected species of bat that cannot be disturbed. And in California, a single mother battles the growing number of filthy rodents running riot through her home.
- In 2006, ex-Navy diver Rob Hewitt embarks on a short recreational fishing dive off the Kapiti Coast near Wellington, New Zealand. A fun day turns into a living nightmare when he gets caught in a vicious rip current and gets dragged out to sea. Coming face to face with a huge shark and suffering dehydration and exposure Rob is driven to the limit of human endurance.
- A Missouri family is terrorized by fiendish noises coming from the attic of their new home. But when the source is discovered, the family finds themselves battling the law. In Tennessee, a father of two fights for his life after being bitten twice by the deadly brown recluse spiders infesting his home. And on a US military base in Japan, a family risks losing everything in their war against the ticks that have overtaken their home.
- Earth from Space takes you on an epic quest to discover the invisible forces and processes that sustain life on our planet and, for the first time, see them in action in their natural environment in vivid detail. These truly unique images will explore the deepest mysteries of its existence, raising profound questions and challenging the old assumptions of how Earth's system works.
- Lost Worlds sheds fresh light on Western Europe's first great civilisation. The Etruscans are an enigma, lost in the mists of history. They were a sophisticated society that flourished centuries before the Romans: skilled workers in ceramics, craftsmen in bronze, artists in gold and experts in the production of wine. Yet despite this they were a race that vanished into obscurity. As salvage teams searched for a downed World War 2 plane, made an astonishing discovery, a 2,500-year-old Etruscan ship loaded to the brim with ancient artifacts. Finds that point to the Etruscans being a nation of traders, and having a society that was built on equality. Complete and untouched, the Etruscan ship, possibly the largest ancient ship ever discovered, will finally unlock some of the mysteries of this once great race.
- In the summer of 2010 Texan Gary Nall and his friend Dave Akers take a trip in Dave's Cessna to the Knick Glacier deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Out of the blue they hit a pocket of turbulence and crash land into the mountainside. Seriously injured and stuck in the middle of bear country the two friends face a fight to survive.
- This gripping film tells the humorous yet heroic story of how a crumbling, Cold-War era Vulcan flew the then longest range bombing mission in history and how a WW2 vintage bomb changed the outcome of the Falklands War. On 30th April 1982, the RAF launched a secret mission; to bomb Port Stanley's runway, putting it out of action for Argentine fighter jets. The safety of the British Task Force depended on its success. But the RAF could only get a single Vulcan 8,000 miles south to the Falklands as just one bomber needed an aerial fleet of thirteen Victor tanker planes to refuel it throughout the 16 hour round-trip. From start to finish, the seemingly impossible mission was a comedy of errors, held together by sheer British pluck and ingenuity. On the brink of being scrapped, only three of the ageing nuclear bombers could be fitted out for war, one to fly the mission and two in reserve. Crucial spare parts were scavenged from museums and scrap yards - one vital piece found as an ashtray in the Officer's Mess. In just three weeks, the Vulcan crews had to learn air-to-air refuelling, which they hadn't done for twenty years and conventional bombing, which they hadn't done for ten. The RAF scoured the country for old WW2 iron bombs and complex refuelling calculations were done the night before on a £5.00 pocket calculator. With a plan stretched to the limit and the RAF's hopes riding on just one Vulcan, the mission was flown on a knife-edge; fraught with mechanical failures, unreliable navigation, electrical storms and ultimately not enough fuel. Of the Vulcan's twenty-one bombs dropped, only one found its target. But that was enough to change the outcome of the war...
- The second of a three-part series looking at car safety. This programme looks at how, despite our perception of feeling safe inside our cars, death and injury are still ever-present possibilities. The chilling suggestion is that the safer the conditions, the more invulnerable we feel, so the faster we travel.
- Experienced climbers Rachel Kelsey and Jeremy Colenso are in the Swiss Alps descending the Piz Badille Mountain when they are caught up in a terrifying electrical storm. Anchored onto the mountain with their metal climbing equipment, Rachel and Jeremy have become human lightning conductors. They have a heart-stopping dilemma - risk it all climbing down through the storm or spend the night on the mountain, where temperatures dip to -20.
- Dan Cruickshank and Charlie Luxton uncover the incredible hidden stories behind historic buildings as they are dismantled brick by brick, and meticulously resurrected in new locations. Every year countless thousands of ordinary buildings are demolished, smashed down to make way for the new, but some are so special they're snatched from the bulldozers and carefully dismantled. When a new home can be found for them, they are lovingly and painstakingly rebuilt. These are not grand buildings, but everyday buildings that give an extraordinary insight into the lives of the people who lived and worked in them. Deep within their fabric are preserved astonishing stories about how we lived and worked. Architectural designer Charlie Luxton explores how these vast and hugely complex jigsaw puzzles are pieced back together, trying his hand at the array of ancient crafts required. Meanwhile, architectural historian Dan Cruickshank investigates the building's history, proving that even seemingly humble buildings have incredible stories to tell. This episode follows the construction of a fully working coal-fired Edwardian fish and chip shop at Beamish Museum. Charlie helps with the refurbishment of one of the world's oldest surviving frying ranges, and gets a horse-drawn fish and chip cart back on the road. Dan discovers the surprising origins of our national dish and explores its rise from squalid back-street outlets to grand fish and chip palaces.