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- A series of colorized archive footage of important events during World War II.
- This documentation outlines the unique properties and latest studies of "Physarum Polycephalum", also known as Blob.
- A colorful portrait of Jane Fonda, actress and activist, resonating with recent American history, its dreams and its disillusions.
- In summer 2003, when the heatwave hit in Europe, in Switzerland, the glacier below the Schnidejoch pass, released a mysterious object: a piece of a Neolithic quiver.
- Documents the lineage of Adolf Hitlers descendants, focusing on William Patrick Hitler, the nephew of Adolf Hitler. Cataloguing his attempts to use Hitlers celebrity in the early years, his involvement during WWII and subsequent disappearance from public life.
- Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorably weaken until it disappeared? Archaeologists, specialists in ancient pathologies and climate historians are now accumulating clues converging on the same factors: a powerful cooling and pandemics. A disease, whose symptoms described by the Greek physician Galen are reminiscent of those of smallpox, struck Rome in 167, soon devastating its army. At the same time, a sudden climatic disorder that was underway as far as Eurasia caused agricultural yields to plummet and led to the westward migration of the Huns. Plagued by economic and military difficulties, attacked from all sides by barbarian tribes, the Roman edifice gradually cracked.
- China's controversial one child policy may have been abandoned but the forced abortions and sterilizations and harsh punishments for unauthorized pregnancies continue. It remains illegal to have a child outside wedlock, become pregnant under the age of 20 or have more than two children. China holds the world record in abortions with more than 30,000 carried out every day. This unique investigation, filmed over two years, reveals the human cost of China's strict family planning policies. We follow three women who try and resist and witness on camera the brutality of the system. Meili decides to go into hiding, leaving her village and family, to carry her 'illegal' pregnancy to term. Xia, abducted from her home at 6 am and forcibly sterilized, is bringing a historic legal case to hold the state accountable while lawyer Master Lu is prepared to risk prison to defend the victims of birth control.
- It chronicles the real story of Jean-Louis Raphel's attempted escape from Les Baumettes prison in Marseille, France in June 1999.
- The archaeological discovery of the twentieth Century. The most ancient Biblical texts in the world. Seventy years after their recovery, the Dead Sea Scrolls are still a thought-provoking matter of debate. Who wrote those scrolls? Where have they been realized? And how? From the stratigraphic excavations to the chemical analysis of the inks, up to the studies performed with the use of particle accelerators: a journey into science, to the discovery of the most interesting investigations carried out on this intriguing archaeological puzzle. A fascinating path that will finally unveil all the mysteries of the "Qumran Keepers".
- 1997– 52mNot Rated7.1 (40)TV EpisodeUnique scanning technologies and new excavations will offer fresh insight into the world's most visited palace and the life of the Sun King.
- A visit to Florence, Italy to explore how Leonardo da Vinci used science, from human dissections to innovative painting techniques, to create his artwork.
- 476 - 1375: Beyond the desert: 476 AD. Rome falls under the pressure of the barbarian invasions. On its ruins the Arabs founds an empire stretching from the banks of the Indus to south of the Sahara, developing a long-term slave trade network between Africa and the Middle-East, centred on the cities of Cairo and Timbuktu.
- Imagine if behind the latest technological innovations in terms of robotic prostheses, the specter of a physiology with two or even three speeds depending on his bank account?