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  • 2016
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    The Big Thinkers

    The Big Thinkers

    1 2016 HD

    Series of investigative science documentaries.

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  • 2024
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    The Truth About AI

    The Truth About AI

    1 2024 HD

    Professor Mike Wooldridge explores the nature of artificial intelligence. By using experiments and demonstrations, he investigates how AI learns and...

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  • 2018
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    England's Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey

    England's Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey

    7.00 2018 HD

    The rise and fall of Lady Jane Grey. England's Queen for only 9 days

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  • 2018
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    What We Were Watching

    What We Were Watching

    7.50 2018 HD

    Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip back in time.

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  • 2004
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    The Atheism Tapes

    The Atheism Tapes

    8.00 2004 HD

    The Atheism Tapes is a 2004 BBC television documentary series presented by Jonathan Miller. The material that makes up the series was originally...

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  • 2007
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    Monsoon Railway

    Monsoon Railway

    1 2007 HD

    Director Gerry Troyna, painting an affectionate portrait of the Indian railway culture.

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  • 2012
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    Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

    Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

    4.00 2012 HD

    Historian Dr Lucy Worsley immerses herself in the world of Restoration England, exploring the captivating lives of the women of the period.

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  • 2010
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    Beautiful Minds

    Beautiful Minds

    1 2010 HD

    Beautiful Minds is a BBC documentary series shown on BBC Four, which features significant British scientists who describe their big moment or...

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  • 2008
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    My New Best Friend

    My New Best Friend

    1 2008 HD

    Three-part documentary series about the importance and nature of friendship among children, told from their point of view. Shot over eight months and...

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  • 1970
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    Heist

    Heist

    1 1970 HD

    Heist is a one-off 2008 television comedy-drama, written by Peter Harness and directed by Justin Hardy. It was completed at the end of 2006 and first...

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  • 2010
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    Art of the Sea

    Art of the Sea

    1 2010 HD

    Writer and poet Owen Sheers explores British art and literature inspired by the high seas.

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  • 2008
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    10 Things You Didn't Know About...

    10 Things You Didn't Know About...

    8.00 2008 HD

    Iain Stewart reveals some surprising facts about the world's most destructive and spectacular natural phenomena, from earthquakes and tsunamis to...

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  • 2013
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    King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons

    King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons

    7.00 2013 HD

    Michael Wood argues that the most important and influential British kings were a father, son and grandson who lived over a thousand years ago during...

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  • 2014
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    Dissected

    Dissected

    1 2014 HD

    This ground-breaking two-part series takes us inside two of the most amazing structures in the natural world: our hands and feet.

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  • 2020
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    Soul America

    Soul America

    1 2020 HD

    A three-part docuseries chronicling the journey of soul music, from its birth out of gospel and R&B in the 1960s, when it delivered an assertive,...

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  • 2017
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    The Summer of Love: How Hippies Changed the World

    The Summer of Love: How Hippies Changed the World

    1 2017 HD

    The untold story of how a German cult, pioneering psychologists and secret LSD experiments sparked a gathering of hippie tribes in 1967 San Francisco...

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  • 2019
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    Handmade in Bolton

    Handmade in Bolton

    1 2019 HD

    Shaun Greenhalgh and Dr Janina Ramirez research and remake a selection of precious objects from the past using traditional materials and methods.

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  • 2010
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    South Africa Walks

    South Africa Walks

    1 2010 HD

    Julia Bradbury sets out on four walks that explore South Africa's claim to be 'a world in one country', going far beyond the normal tourist...

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  • 2022
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    Simon Schama Meets

    Simon Schama Meets

    1 2022 HD

    While making Simon Schama’s History of Now, Simon met several of the most influential contemporary artists working in the world today. In this...

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  • 2014
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    Art of China

    Art of China

    8.30 2014 HD

    Andrew Graham-Dixon undertakes an epic journey to uncover the art of China.

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