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BBC – Schoenbrunn Summer Night Concert from Vienna 2019 720p HDTV

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BBC – Schoenbrunn Summer Night Concert from Vienna 2019 720p HDTV
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Katie Derham presents the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual concert from the gardens of Schoenbrunn Palace, which this year is conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, and showcases music by North American composers, including a rendition of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, featuring solo pianist Yuja Wang. [Read more…]

Smithsonian Channel – Adolf Island (2019) 720p

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Smithsonian Channel – Adolf Island (2019) 720p
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Caroline Sturdy Colls, a world leader in the forensic investigation of Nazi crime scenes, is chasing clues to an unsolved case: a concentration camp that existed on the British island of Alderney. Witnesses and survivors claimed that thousands died there, but only 389 bodies have ever been found. Under heavy restrictions imposed by the local government, which may not want its buried secrets revealed, Colls must uncover the truth using revolutionary techniques and technologies. [Read more…]

BBC The Sky at Night 2019 Return to the Moon 720p HDTV

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BBC The Sky at Night 2019 Return to the Moon 720p HDTV
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In the first of two programmes to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landings, the Sky at Night team take a look at the latest plans to return to the Moon. Recently, China, Israel and India have all sent major missions to the Moon. The Europeans and Americans are planning to build a space station in permanent orbit around the Moon. And NASA has just announced that they plan to land astronauts on the Moon’s surface within five years. It all suggests that we are on the verge of a new golden age in lunar exploration. [Read more…]

Ch5 Opening Egypts Tombs 720p

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Ch5 Opening Egypts Tombs 720p
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Tony Robinson goes on a journey across Egypt, where a series of incredible new discoveries are being made. He travels the length of the Nile, from Cairo to Aswan, to investigate tombs of all shapes and sizes, and meets the archaeologists, including John Ward, who are unearthing extraordinary wonders. [Read more…]

BBC Our World 2019 The Best Pakistani Transgender Retirement Home 720p

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BBC Our World 2019 The Best Pakistani Transgender Retirement Home 720p
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In a country where it is expected that your extended family will look after you in your old age, what do you do if they long ago rejected you? That is a question for most of Pakistan’s transgender community. They have often spent their lives ostracised by their families, scraping a living together by dancing at weddings or as sex workers. Now, one member of the community, Guru Ashee, is setting up Pakistan’s first retirement home for transgender people. Mobeen Azhar has been to Lahore to meet her. [Read more…]

ITV On Assignment 2019 Germany Cuba and Italy 720p

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ITV On Assignment 2019 Germany Cuba and Italy 720p
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Penny Marshall meets climate activists clashing with miners facing unemployment and uncertainty, in the battle over a coal mine being extended across an ancient forest in Germany. Chris Ship visits the first Catholic church to be built in Cuba since the triumph of Castro’s communist revolution in 1959, where worshippers reminisce about life under the regime, which banned Christmas. Rageh Omaar visits the Italian prisons reforming female inmates through a variety of food-related schemes – including farming, brewing beer and selling cheese. [Read more…]

PBS – NOVA First Horse Warriors (2019) 720p

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PBS – NOVA: First Horse Warriors (2019) 720p
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NOVA: First Horse Warriors
In a spectacular adventure, NOVA unlocks the mystery on the vast, grassy plains of Kazakhstan, where horses still roam free, and nomadic herders follow their traditional way of life. Investigating clues from archaeology and genetics, researchers reveal vivid evidence of the very first horsemen. They also discover warriors who swept across Europe and turn out to be the ancestors of millions today. [Read more…]

Mysteries of the Abandoned Pompeiis Gate to Hell 720p HDTV x264 AAC

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Mysteries of the Abandoned Pompeiis Gate to Hell 720p HDTV x264 AAC
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Mysteries of the Abandoned: Pompeii’s Gate to Hell
Near the destroyed city of Pompeii, an eerie complex of underground tunnels snake beneath a volcano, and some believe these passages were intended as a gateway to hell. New discoveries reveal exactly why they were built and why they were abandoned.
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BBC Timewatch 2001 The Victorian Way of Death 720p HDTV x264 AAC

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BBC Timewatch 2001 The Victorian Way of Death 720p HDTV x264 AAC
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Dan Cruickshank investigates the circumstances and rituals surrounding death in Victorian Britain by piecing together the fate of five apparently unrelated corpses.

The story he uncovers is one of bizarre extremes – of bodysnatchers and the bodies they snatched; of inner-city graveyards so overflowing that the limbs of the dead could be seen protruding from the newly dug earth; of the great new cemeteries where a tomb cost as much as a terrace of houses in east London; of the suspicious resistance which greeted the ‘heathenish’ practice of cremation; and of the carnage of the Western Front where Victorian ideals about death – and the afterlife – were finally shattered by the violence of the Great War. [Read more…]