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  • 2017
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    Britain in Focus: A Photographic History

    Britain in Focus: A Photographic History

    1 2017 HD

    Eamonn McCabe celebrates Britain's greatest photographers, sees how science allowed their art to develop, and explores how they have captured the...

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  • 2014
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    The Wonder of Bees with Martha Kearney

    The Wonder of Bees with Martha Kearney

    1 2014 HD

    Series which follows Martha Kearney's bee-keeping year and explores the science, art and culture of the honeybee, the most ingenious insect known to...

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  • 2006
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    Autopsy: Life and Death

    Autopsy: Life and Death

    1 2006 HD

    In this new four-part series, anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens and pathologist Professor John Lee get right under the skin to reveal the processes in...

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  • 2013
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    Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War

    Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War

    7.00 2013 HD

    The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and made the reputations of Edward III and...

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  • 1970
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    How to Be a Composer

    How to Be a Composer

    1 1970 HD

    Journalist and critic Paul Morley spends a year learning the art of musical composition

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  • 2013
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    Dreaming The Impossible: Unbuilt Britain

    Dreaming The Impossible: Unbuilt Britain

    1 2013 HD

    The fascinating and dramatic stories behind some of the grandest designs never built.

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  • 2012
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    Order & Disorder

    Order & Disorder

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2018
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    Handmade in the Pacific

    Handmade in the Pacific

    1 2018 HD

    A series which shows the manufacture of some traditional artefacts in Australia, Rurutu, New Zealand and Hawaii.

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  • 2020
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    Age of the Image

    Age of the Image

    8.00 2020 HD

    Documentary series in which art historian James Fox explores how the power of images has transformed the modern world.

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  • 1970
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    Nightmare in the City That Never Sleeps

    Nightmare in the City That Never Sleeps

    1 1970 HD

    Today New York is America's greatest city. But 30 years ago this summer, they couldn't even keep the lights on. A blackout plunged seven million...

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  • 2015
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    Children Talking

    Children Talking

    1 2015 HD

    A captivating insight into British life straight from the mouths of school children from the 1960s and '70s.

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  • 2012
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    Treasures of Ancient Rome

    Treasures of Ancient Rome

    7.00 2012 HD

    Treasures of Ancient Rome is a 2012 three-part documentary written and presented by Alastair Sooke. The series was produced by the BBC, and...

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  • 2020
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    Mindful Escapes: Breathe, Release, Restore

    Mindful Escapes: Breathe, Release, Restore

    1 2020 HD

    A bold new genre of programming for our times where guided mindfulness and stunning natural history footage go hand in hand to produce a series of...

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  • 1970
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    The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow Part 1

    The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow Part 1

    5.00 1970 HD

    Documentary on the life of Brian Epstein, the man who brought The Beatles to fame. First in a two-part documentary examining the turbulent life and...

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  • 2011
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    The Secret World of Whitehall

    The Secret World of Whitehall

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2012
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    Bullets, Boots and Bandages: How to Really Win at War

    Bullets, Boots and Bandages: How to Really Win at War

    7.00 2012 HD

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  • 2010
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    The Beauty of Diagrams

    The Beauty of Diagrams

    1 2010 HD

    Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores the stories behind some of the most familiar scientific diagrams.

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  • 1970
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    Wide Sargasso Sea

    Wide Sargasso Sea

    1 1970 HD

    Wide Sargasso Sea is a British television adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name. Produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC Wales,...

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  • 2018
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    Can You Feel It - How Dance Music Conquered the World

    Can You Feel It - How Dance Music Conquered the World

    1 2018 HD

    The story of the dance revolution - the beat, the clubs and the DJs that changed music culture forever.

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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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