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Comet of the Century
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Comet of the Century

Nov 27, 2013
Comets have fascinated, even terrified us for thousands of years. This year, a particularly massive chunk of ice and rock is hurtling our way, an object that will fascinate billions and should create the space show of the century.
Documentary
Route Irish
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Route Irish

Mar 16, 2011
En septembre 2004, Fergus (ancien des SAS) persuade son ami d’enfance Frankie (ancien para) d'intégrer son équipe d'agents de sécurité, à Bagdad, pour un salaire mensuel de 12 000 livres, non imposable. C'est leur dernière chance de « se faire du blé » dans cette guerre dont la privatisation va croissant. Ensemble, ils vont risquer leur vie dans une ville où règnent la violence, la terreur, l'impunité et l'avidité. Une ville par ailleurs inondée de milliards de dollars américains. En septembre 2007, Frankie meurt sur la « Route Irish », la route la plus dangereuse de Bagdad. Fergus rejette l'explication officielle et, brisé par le chagrin, retourne à Liverpool où il entame sa propre enquête sur la mort de son alter ego.
Drama
Chechnya: The Dirty War
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Reporters Mariusz Pilis and Marcin Mamon travel to neighboring Chechnya, one of the most dangerous places on earth, to report on what life is like after more than a decade of Chechen terrorism and Russian repression. Filmed over the course of nine months, the film reveals that what started as a separatist movement in 1994 has now become synonymous with terrorism.
Documentary
The Comet's Tale
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The Comet's Tale

Nov 25, 2007
Documentary about comets. Many ancient civilisations believed comets were gods. Now, space missions can show what comets are really made of and where they come from.
Documentary
The Love Child
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The Love Child

Sep 22, 1988
When he was a little boy, Dillon's rock musician father and hippie mother died in a traffic accident. Now in his twenties, Dillon wants nothing more than a normal, responsible life, working in an office and taking care of the grandmother who raised him. But his grandmother has other ideas, and Dillon finds himself lured into an alternate lifestyle of art, pleasure and rebellion.
Drama
Le léopard de mer, seigneur des glaces
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Voici l'histoire de Göran Ehlmé, un homme hanté par le souvenir d'une terrible rencontre avec un prédateur encore méconnu, un phoque aux allures d'ogre : le léopard de mer. Un phoque géant qui vit aux confins de la planète dans l'endroit le plus inhospitalier qui soit : l'Antarctique, un monde de glace et de roche.
Documentary
Hostage in the Jungle
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Hostage in the Jungle

Oct 20, 2010
Ingrid Betancourt was the world’s most famous hostage. On February 23rd 2002, Ingrid, a presidential candidate in Columbia’s elections, was kidnapped by the left-wing FARC rebel group along with her assistant and friend Clara Rojas. She was held for over six years in the jungle. This is the first documentary account of what happened in the jungle in her words and those of fellow hostages. In a truly remarkable interview Ingrid relives stories of escape and betrayal, love and hate, terror and extraodinary courage.
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Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings
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British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 10,000 German prisoners of war without their ever knowing they were being overheard. The prisoners' unguarded reminiscences and unintentional confessions have only just come to light, and prove how closely the German army were involved in the atrocities of the Holocaust. British intelligence requisitioned three stately homes for this epic task, and converted each into an elaborate trap. The 100,000 hours of conversation they captured provided crucial intelligence that changed the course of the war, and revealed some of its worst horrors, from rape to mass executions to one of the earliest bulletins from the concentration camps. But when the fighting ended, the recordings were destroyed and the transcripts locked away for half a century. Only now have they been declassified, researched and cross-referenced.
Drama
Your Cheatin' Heart
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Your Cheatin' Heart

Oct 11, 1990
In this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country music scene in an unsentimental portrait of Glaswegian life and culture. Local food and wine correspondent Frank McClusky falls in love with waitress Cissie Crouch. Unfortunately for him, she’s the wife of a convict, who is serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. As Frank’s life becomes more embroiled with Cissie’s he goes on a mission to track down the guilty men.
Music
The True Story of the Mary Celeste
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On December 4, 1872, the unmanned Mary Celeste was found adrift in the Atlantic with its cargo fully intact. The mystery of this "ghost ship" remained unanswered for over 135 years. What happened to the Mary Celeste is widely regarded as the most famous mystery of the sea. Watch it unfold to its stunning conclusion, at last.
Documentary
Tumbledown
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Tumbledown

May 29, 1988
The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper and left paralyzed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.
TV Movie
Au temps des Mammouths
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Cette série documentaire nous entraîne en Amérique du Nord, au cours de la préhistoire où, il y a environ 14 000 ans, les premiers hommes faisaient leur apparition. Un fabuleux voyage à la découverte des paysages et de la faune de ce vaste continent après la dernière glaciation. Grâce aux images de synthèse, la série met en scène d’étonnantes animations d’animaux dont le tigre à dents de sabre et le mammouth laineux. Ce regard sur le passé offre aussi une perspective unique sur la faune nord-américaine d’aujourd’hui…
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Under Siege
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Under Siege

Feb 05, 2004
Few topics in the history of human conflict capture the popular imagination more than the drama of siege warfare. Whether it is a city, a town, a battalion or a regiment, the blood is stirred by stories of those that have stood behind walls and barricades in a last stand against their attackers. This docuseries explores siege warfare and explains how those that are vastly outnumbered have stood behind walls and barricades in a last stand against their attackers.
Documentary
Insoupçonnable
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Insoupçonnable

Jan 23, 2012
La série suit les enquêtes du lieutenant Anna Travis au sein de la brigade criminelle de New Scotland Yard à Londres.
Drama
To Play the King
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To Play the King

Dec 12, 1993
Un nouveau Roi est intronisé. Il aimerait influer sur la politique du gouvernement, et cela ne plait pas du tout à Francis Urquhart, désormais Premier Ministre. Suite de «House of Cards» (1990) et 2e partie de cette trilogie.
Drama
Cardiac Arrest
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Cardiac Arrest

Jun 25, 1996
This series shows the workings of an English hospital through the eyes of its junior doctors. Naive and idealistic Dr Andrew Collins (Andrew Lancel), soon realises he still has much to learn. His boss, Dr Claire Maitland (Helen Baxendale) on the other hand, has seen it all. She is a competent doctor, with a cynical view, and is ready to work the system when needed, but she and Collins work well together as she guides him through the many minefields of working in the NHS.
Drama
This World
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This World

Dec 06, 2018
The series is mainly focused on social issues and current affairs stories around the world. International current affairs documentaries, replacing "Correspondent".
Documentary
Horizon
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Horizon

Jul 22, 2024
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
Documentary
Horizon
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Horizon

Jul 22, 2024
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
Documentary