Big, Bigger, Biggest (4x60) - five, NGC-US, NGCI A landmark engineering series exploring the inventions that enabled superstructures to evelove in size and scale.
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Monster Moves : Season 3 (6x50) - five, NGCI, Discovery Canada, Cineflix Monster Moves returns for a third series. This time, the structures are bigger and the routes a lot longer and riskier as we follow teams hauling supersize structures across Britain, Canada, South Africa, Egypt, Sweden and America.
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My Brilliant Brain (3x60) - five, NGCI
Aesthetically, the human brain – a three-pound football-sized
mass of grey tissue – appears unspectacular. But it can mean the
difference between a Sartre and a savant. So what makes a genius?
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Absolute Zero (2x60) - BBC4, Nova/WGBH, TPT
Absolute Zero is the ultimate limit of cold – a Holy Grail as
exciting for scientists as the North and South Poles were to the great
polar explorers. This is an epic journey in the quest of cold, from the
dark beginnings to an ultra-cool frontier.
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RI Christmas Lectures
2007 (5x45) - five In ‘Back from the brink — the science of survival’, High Montgomery looks at amazing stories of human survival against all the odds — extreme cold, extreme hunger, extreme trauma.
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Monster Moves : Season 2 (4x60) - five, NGC-US, NGCI Ever wondered what it would be like to move a whole
church? And no, we're not talking about the congregation…More
adventures following Huge Homes, Colossal Cathedrals and Massive
Machines on the move.
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Bioterror Alert (1x60) - NGCI A close-up look at the 6 most dangerous micro organisms on the planet. What could these deadly weapons do in the wrong hands?
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RI Christmas Lectures 2006 (5x45) - five Mathematics has successfully cracked some of the biggest
mysteries of all time. Marcus du Sautoy takes us on a journey through
some of maths’ greatest thrillers.
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Monster Moves: Season 1 (3x60) - five, TLC
Building movers relocate Mammoth Mansions, Tall Towers and Long Loads – wholesale!
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RI Christmas Lectures 2003 (5x60) - Channel 4 Meteorite-hunter Dr Monica Grady takes us on a 'Voyage in Space' from the Big Bang to the latest news from Mars.
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Mummy: The Inside Story (1x50) - five, The British Museum, History Channel US
Take a journey inside Neperennub, an Egyptian mummy whose inards have been investigated without removing a single bandage.
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Men of Iron (3x50) - Channel 4
In the 19th century, Britain was an industrial giant. Engineers were
superheroes. This is the story of the engineers who shaped the modern
world.
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RI Christmas Lectures 2002 (5x50) - Channel 4
Did you know the same glue that holds your trainers together also stops
a jumbo jet from falling apart at 40,000 feet? Discover the molecular
miracles behind the everyday objects that define the modern world.
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DNA (5x50) - Channel 4, WNET
An award-winning oral history of DNA to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the double helix with Dr Watson himself.
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Battle of the Sexes (2x50) - Channel 4, Discovery
Men v Women. The scientific perspective. Men and women are different,
but did you realise that the person sitting next to you on the sofa
might as well be a member of a different species?
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Horizon: Colonizing Cyberspace (1x50) - BBC Enter the "virtual" world created by the latest computer technology.
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The Anatomists (3x50) - Channel 4
The gruesome history of anatomy from today's 'event anatomist' Gunther
Von Hagans to the dissection of hanged murderers in the 18th century
and the gladiators in Rome.
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Equinox: The Elements (1x50) - Channel 4 The chemical elements personified by the poet Roger
McGough. Using specially composed poetry and state of the art editing
techniques, the poet changes his persona to reflect the unique
properties of each element.
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Pyromania, A History of Fireworks (1x50) - Channel 4, WGBH
A journey through the history and science of fireworks, from the
earliest experiments conducted by Chinese peasants and Italian
alchemists, right up to the enthusiasts and pyrotechnicians involved in
creating modern spectacles.
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Equinox: Meningitis, Search for a Cure. (1x50) - Channel 4 Every year in Britain over 2500 people are struck down
by a potentially lethal bacterial infection affecting predominantly
children under five years old and teenagers. Equinox: Meningitis looks
at how this deadly bacterium is defying attempts to develop a vaccine.
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Ultimate Guide: Human Body (1x50) - Discovery
How can a bone withstand 1,000 pounds of force without breaking? Why do
some people bleed more easily than others? And, how can sound be used
to make blind people see? These are just a few of the mysteries you'll
explore in this fascinating documentary.
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The Day The World Took Off (5x50) - Channel 4 This landmark series on the origins of the Industrial
Revolution challenges traditional views of one of the most dramatic
periods in human history.
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Red Star in Orbit / The Russian Right Stuff (3x50) - BBC, Nova/WGBH This is the story of the Russian Right Stuff. From the
first rocket-powered gliders to the epic journey to Mars, this trilogy
of films charts the triumphs and tragedies of the Soviet space
programme.
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Equinox: Near Miss (1x50) - Channel 4 Behind the scenes of air traffic control in New York, the world's busiest airspace.
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Equinox/ Science Frontiers: Dawn of the Death Ray (1x50) - Channel 4, TLC A film documenting the development of lasers.
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Horizon: Making An Honest Fiver (1x50) - BBC The inside story of the new five pound note.
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The Bionic Man (1x60) - Discovery The quest to build an artificial human being.
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Brainspotting (3x50) - Channel 4 Three part series featuring Ken Campbell's investigations into the nature of consciousness.
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Why Men Die Younger (1x30) - BBC In the UK a man is twice as likely as a woman to die before the age of 65 - this programme explores some explanations.
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Horizon: Nanotopia (3x50) - BBC A documentary on optical computing, nanotechnology and the post silicon revolution.
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Reality on the Rocks (3x50) - Channel 4 When Ken Campbell lies down on his couch with Stephen
Hawking’s best-seller, A Brief History of TIme, he gets stuck on
page 26 like most people. But Ken refuses to be defeated... and embarks
on a crusade on behalf of all those lost souls, who foundered in the
shallow of the early chapters.
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Metropolis (6x30) - BBC A series which lifts the pavement and peels back the
concrete to reveal how technology has shaped the modern city. How has
the most sophisticated machine on earth has been designed to counter
disease, stress, congestion and fear?
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Equinox: Kaboom! (1x50) - Channel 4 A history of man's fear and fascination of explosions.
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QED: Plastic Fantastic (1x30) - BBC A film about a man who invented an incredible material which he doesn't know how to exploit.
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Measure for Measure (4x30) - BBC Four part series on the history of man’s obsession with measuring the world.
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Equinox/Nova: The Real Jurassic Park (1x50) - Channel 4, Nova/WGBH A step by step guide to building a dinosaur park, with
exclusive filming from the movie set. (Nova/Equinox) Glaxo Award for
best science programme.
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Equinox: Born That Way? (1x50) - Channel 4 A 60 minute documentary investigating the biological basis of homosexuality.