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  • 2011
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    Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

    Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

    7.94 2011 HD

    Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature's most mysterious force - electricity. Until fairly recently,...

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  • 2015
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    India's Frontier Railways

    India's Frontier Railways

    1 2015 HD

    Three-part series about trains crossing borders in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan, reconnecting families, cultures and history.

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  • 2013
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    Hidden Killers

    Hidden Killers

    1 2013 HD

    Suzannah Lipscomb reveals the killers that lurked in every room of the home.

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  • 2013
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    Secret Knowledge

    Secret Knowledge

    1 2013 HD

    In a series of authored films, some of our most engaging experts reveal their favourite hidden objects, forgotten places and artistic passions.

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  • 2005
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    Wild Europe

    Wild Europe

    1 2005 HD

    A stunning four-part series, charting the dramatic events which have shaped the ever-changing landscapes and wildlife of Europe.

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  • 2011
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    The Gene Code

    The Gene Code

    10.00 2011 HD

    Dr Adam Rutherford explores the consequences of one of the biggest scientific projects of all time - the decoding of the entire human genome.

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  • 2010
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    Britain by Bike

    Britain by Bike

    1 2010 HD

    Clare Balding embarks on a pedal-powered odyssey across Britain to rediscover the magical world of 1950s cycling

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  • 2011
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    Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

    Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

    7.50 2011 HD

    Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents a three-part series that illuminates the history of the sacred, and peerlessly beautiful city -...

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  • 2016
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    Genius of the Modern World

    Genius of the Modern World

    7.60 2016 HD

    Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund...

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  • 2009
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    An Islamic History of Europe

    An Islamic History of Europe

    1 2009 HD

    Rageh Omaar visits Spain, Sicily and France to discover the history of Islam in Europe

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  • 2017
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    The Art of Japanese Life

    The Art of Japanese Life

    8.70 2017 HD

    Dr James Fox looks at the art and culture of Japan.

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  • 2020
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    Museums in Quarantine

    Museums in Quarantine

    1 2020 HD

    Series that explores national museum collections at a time of enforced closure.

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  • 2016
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    Going Forward

    Going Forward

    1 2016 HD

    Three-part dark comedy series about three days in the life of a sandwich generation couple - a care worker and a limo driver - who have put their...

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  • 2014
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    The Wonder of Animals

    The Wonder of Animals

    8.00 2014 HD

    Chris Packham uses groundbreaking science and brand-new behaviour to delve deep beneath the skin and discover the unique features that have made...

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  • 2017
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    British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

    British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

    7.00 2017 HD

    Lucy Worsley explores how British history is a concoction of fibs and stories manipulated by whoever was in power at the time.

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  • 2009
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    Wainwright Walks: Coast To Coast

    Wainwright Walks: Coast To Coast

    1 2009 HD

    Julia Bradbury follows in the footsteps of guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright by walking across the whole of northern England from the west to the...

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  • 2008
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    Crooked House

    Crooked House

    6.78 2008 HD

    A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house - Geap Manor - weaves together three ghost stories set during Georgian times, the 1920s and the...

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  • 2010
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    Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea

    Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea

    1 2010 HD

    A mini-odyssey along the coast from Cornwall to Wales in the company of the actor Timothy Spall and his wife Shane on their Dutch barge.

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  • 2020
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    Einstein's Quantum Riddle

    Einstein's Quantum Riddle

    10.00 2020 HD

    The story of quantum entanglement, perhaps the strangest concept in science. Mind-bending concepts and brilliant experiments lead us to a profound...

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  • 2019
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    Lost Home Movies of Nazi Germany

    Lost Home Movies of Nazi Germany

    6.70 2019 HD

    A candid look at what life was really like for those living in, and under Hitler's Swastika - at home - and abroad, a record not only of what they...

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