Dilly Barlow

Dans un Londres du futur où une épidémie touche les chiens, un malade mental récemment libéré craint que ce mal n'annonce quelque chose de pire.

Advanced technology, groundbreaking scientific discoveries about the beginnings of life, and computer animation all combine to detail how multiple siblings develop in the womb as the filmmakers at National Geographic explore the fetal growth of twins, triplets, and quadruplets. Detailed pictures of these different groupings in various stages of fetal development bring the earliest stages of life to the screen as never before.

The first major profile of the great British film director Nicolas Roeg, examining his very personal vision of cinema as in such films as Don't Look Now, Performance, Walkabout and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Roeg reflects on his career, which began as a leading cinematographer, and on the themes that have obsessed him, such as our perception of time and the difficulty of human relationships.

Profile video of former racer and Formula 1 team owner Ken Tyrrell

Details the German bombing of London the night of the 29th of December, in 1940.

Winston Churchill a compris le pouvoir des films, mais l’étendue réelle de son utilisation du cinéma comme outil de propagande est rarement explorée. En 1934, l'un des producteurs de films britanniques les plus célèbres, Alexander Korda, engagea Churchill comme scénariste et conseiller historique. C'était le début d'une collaboration unique. Churchill a fourni des notes de scénario pour les productions de Korda et a écrit un scénario épique. Lorsque la guerre éclate, leur collaboration prend une importance nationale. Korda a été envoyé en mission à Hollywood pour aider à amener l'Amérique dans la guerre, avec des résultats positifs. Avec l'accès à des documents inédits, ce film documentaire examine cette mission et une amitié qui sous-tend un partenariat unique et créatif.

New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old box of intricate gearwork provides a glimpse of the engineering prowess of the Hellenic world. The team discuss their results here.

This one-hour documentary tells the story of five people that were affected by the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004. They share their personal memories of what it was like for them on that fateful day when almost 230,000 people from more than a dozen countries died. It may be a distant memory for most of us but for thousands of others that date is etched in their minds forever.

Here is one of the great mysteries of English history. Elizabeth I is said to have carried on an affair with a leading nobleman, Robert Dudley. Rumors spread that the Queen wanted Dudley's wife, Amy Robsart, dead. Amy turned up savagely murdered. While an inquest cleared the Queen, new evidence today suggests that Amy was indeed assassinated so that her husband could be free to marry the Queen.

Conçue par Sir David Attenborough en 1967, Natural World est la plus ancienne série documentaire sur la nature diffusée à la télévision britannique. Les tâches de production sont partagées entre son unité d'histoire naturelle interne, les sociétés de production britanniques indépendantes et les principaux cinéastes animaliers du monde entier.

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.