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- Set sail on the world's mightiest ships as they embark on some of the most challenging, dangerous jobs a working boat will ever face. These marvels of marine technology are built for anything the heavens and oceans can dole out, and the dedicated men and women who work aboard these ships are equally battle-tested. From a state-of-the-art fishing vessel to an extreme Arctic and Antarctic cruise liner to the largest floating hospital on the planet, we give you a first-class, firsthand look at life aboard these remarkable ships.
- British couples from all walks of life embark on a special mission to look for housing property in various places around the globe.
- This 8 part series tells us about indigenous peoples of the Americas before the Spanish explorer Columbus arrived. Each episode shows us via re-enactments about a particular subject. We learn about their art, architecture, archaeology, Science and Technology etc.
- This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh
- Art writer Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists.
- In 3 episodes it is explained how silver was at one times worth more than gold. China used silver as their currency and the west had to pay in silver for Chinese goods. This angered the British and sought a commodity that the Chinese would buy. China did not covet any goods that the west had, except one. This led to a calamity in China and led to wars.
- This 3 part series explains the various strategies and battles between the French and English in the Hundred Years' War that took place between the 14 th and 15 th centuries. The host has a Doctorate in Cultural History and she visits the various towns and country area that were sites for events. The host is very articulate and passionate and with a pleasing voice.
- Fiona Bruce, a British Television journalist, uncovers the story of Leonardo da Vinci, who is considered to be one of the greatest artists that ever lived. She visits, Florence, New York, London, Milan, Paris and Tuscany in her journey. She also decloses a previously lost painting and speaks with the restorer and an art dealer in New York who have known about this painting for 2 years.
- Dan Cruickshank narrates a documentary showing 3 beautiful castles of gothic fantasy that were built during the reign of King Ludwig II. The walls of the castles were painted with scenes of romanticized chivalry and battles. This takes place in Germany.
- Through this 8 part series Phil chooses 100 homes that typically represent the period that they were built in. These homes vary in size, materials used, style and location across Britain. There is an 8 th part not listed in the episode list, which is the "Contemporary" edition, which takes us up to date from the 1970s.
- Dan Cruikshank tours Kinross House in Scotland built by Sir William Bruce. This house changed everything. In the late 17 th century a completely different type of grand house began to appear. This was the first fully classical house in Scotland.
- We see 3 stories about the bond between horses and humans in Norway. A woman who competed in the world's longest horse race, a mountain horse family living off the land and a war veteran with post- traumatic stress disorder who engages in horse therapy.
- Sarah Daniels and her brother Phil are both in the Real Estate business. Sarah prefers the suburbs and Phil the urban areas. They each show a couple of prospect buyers 3 properties. We see the properties and what the couple think of them, and they choose one from each pairing. Then at the end the couple pick one that they like the best.
- The New Silk Road is the name for China's trillion-dollar plan to create new trading routes and expand its ambitions of global leadership. In this four-episode series, Anthony Morse journeys to Pakistan, Egypt and Iran as it tracks the huge infrastructure projects and soft-power cultural moves that are spearheading China's bold new economic diplomacy in the region.
- This 3 part series is presented by the British Art Critic, Andrew Graham-Dixon. He explores the Low Countries of the Netherlands and Belgium and how history has influenced the area's art, architecture and culture. Cloth was used in the area's first expression of art in the making of tapestries going back to the 14 th century. They were the No. 1 luxury item of the day. The Low Countries were well placed geographically for markets for their art.
- Blink is the story of Sally, a one time could-have-been champion in an illicit underground world where things can change in the blink of an eye.
- Also called "Mozart in London". Lucy Worsley travels to Salzburg and London tracing the life of Wolfgang A. Mozart and especially the year he and his family stayed in London. Wolfgang was born 8pm Jan 27th in 1756. The family were devout Catholics. His father was a music teacher and his mother Anna Maria gave birth to 7 children but 5 had died in infancy. Mozart's sister was an exceptional piano player also. It was on London soil that Wolfgang would compose his first symphony. His father had to learn marketing in London to advertise the concerts, and Wolfgang did play to King George. But things would take a strange turn before they headed home.
- Holly Holden invites us to view with her some stately homes in the UK. One episode is about Blenheim Palace, the only privately owned palace in England, and is the birthplace of Winston Churchill and the home of the twelfth Duke of Marlborough.
- Ray is a UK Naturalist and Bushcraft expert and he travels to various places in the UK to see the Flora and Fauna. He often speaks to other experts in the area about the local animals and plants. There are episodes about Barrowdale, Dartmoor, Thames Path and the Isle of Skye, which are all missing from this list.
- Prisoner 10874 is cast deep into the cold dark chambers of solitary confinement. On the brink of insanity, a voice reaches out to him and helps him regain control and through time, teaches him that escape can only become a reality if he learns to tap into the hidden psychic talents of the human mind. From solitude, the wise man preaches, comes evolution.
- Pierre-Yves Cousteau, Jacques Yves Cousteau's youngest child, explore the Meditteranean and the 4 reserve areas that have banned fishing for 11 years and compares the conditions. The reserves are rich in all sea life compared to the overfishing in the rest of the sea, all except for red coral.
- A reporter from the UK visits Mongolia, to a family living on the Steppes as herders and how climate change is ruining their business by killing off their animals, to the capital and we see how the pollution caused by people burning raw coal is 10-40 times the safe limit. Many thousands of people there are not on the electricity grid and so cannot heat their homes any other way. Mongolia is rich in coal deposits. We see how the hospitals have the same children coming in time after time with breathing difficulties. The reporter talks to the mayor of the city, but they do not seem to be doing anything about it. Mongolia has huge extremes in temperatures -54C to +44C and so is more affected by climate change than most places.
- The De Young exhibit has 11 galleries of new and achieved works of glass artistic team of Dale Chihuly. The workshop is in Ballard, Seattle, Washington state. Chihuly has his work displayed all around the world. We see here the process of making many large pieces.
- Since 1913 Verona has hosted a summer Opera Festival. The Arena di Verona's General Manager and Artistic Director invites Zeinab Badawi to see for herself how Cecilia Gasdia and her team are pulling together to make this year's festival work during a pandemic.
- From the Vancouver Public Library Eric McCormack introduces the 5 finalists and their books. A front line medical worker reads a paragraph from each book, and the finalist is announced and awarded. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the event is not in the usual format of taking place in an hotel, but the finalists are in their homes, we see them on video.