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Two young prisoners, Ace and Paul, have been friends since childhood. Whilst serving time together, they embark on a course of rehabilitation through education. Just something to pass the time, they think. But when they both fall in love with their teacher, Emily, it begins to tear their friendship apart. When Ace is released from prison, both men become consumed by jealousy, each thinking that the other will be closer to Emily. Then Paul stages a...
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Deutsch Plus is a German language series for intermediate students. In part one, Romanian refugee Nicolai Antonescu starts his first day as a runner at Cologne television station Deutschland Plus. Nico meets his boss, Frau Meier, and coworkers Ulli, Anna, Frau Weiss, and Elke. He practices introductory sentences and shares news about his new job with a kiosk owner.
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Grace Kelly, Coco Chanel, Audrey Hepburn, Indira Gandhi, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek were worshipped, loved and sometimes even feared by millions the world over. These pioneers showed that a woman could be the equal of a man but behind the public success, there was often private heartache and personal tragedy. This series, featuring archive interviews and dramatic re-enactments, reveals the price these women paid for their achievements and adversities...
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In 2000 the world's leaders came together and established eight goals aimed at making the developing world a better place for future generations. These time-bound targets addressed extreme poverty, hunger and disease, and promoted gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability. In 2015, 15 years on the United Nations is reassessing the goals and laying out its future ambitions. This film travels across the world, from kids hustling to...
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As Europe witnesses the dramatic movement of people across its borders, BBC reporter John Sweeney joins thousands making the journey from the Greek island of Kos to the Austrian border with Hungary. He meets families fleeing conflict and terror in Syria, refugees separated from their loved ones, children, the old and sick being forced to march to safety. Among this tide of humanity, he also finds economic migrants seeking a better life in northern...
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For generations, the personal lives of women around the world have been defined by the expectation that they will be solely wives and mothers. These assumptions were overturned in the twentieth century, and now women are redefining the place of marriage, childbirth, and sex in their lives. In this episode we meet the women, from the deserts of West Africa to Beijing, challenging society's expectations of them, and putting women's domestic stories...
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In this third and final installment, Professor Richard Fortey travels to Madeira to examine what happens to a volcanic island as it nears the end of its life-cycle and starts sinking back into the sea. Here, in the island's laurisilva forest, he examines the remains of an ancient forest that once carpeted all of Europe; island lizards that live to be four times older than their mainland counterparts, and the largest wolf spider in Europe. With the...
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In Part 5 of the BBC series, "In Search of the Trojan War," Michael Woods searches for decisive documental evidence of the Trojan War in clay tablets from the Hittite Empire, housed in the State Museum in Berlin. Woods follows the journey of King Hattusili iii to the Greek kingdoms on the coast of Anatolia, as referenced in a letter from Hattusili to the Achaean King that may have been Agamemnon himself. Different levels at the Hisarlik Mound have...
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A remarkable program that reveals what it's like to suffer and then try to live with the most common hidden disability to affect young adults - traumatic brain injury. Exploring its devastating impact on lives, careers, and relationships, Charlie Elmore highlights how society treats young adults who are dealing with its wide-ranging and not always obvious symptoms. The winter sports instructor was injured in a snowboarding accident and, after being...
10) Hedy Lamarr
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Hedy Lamarr was a woman who seemed to have it all-glamour, power, wealth, intelligence, and adoration. But behind the public success, there was private heartache and personal tragedy. This episode of Extraordinary Women features archival video footage, interviews and dramatic re-enactment of the life of Hedy Lamarr, one of many pioneering women who paid a price for her achievements. Learn how Lamar remerged as a triumphant inspirational icon of science...
11) Audrey Hepburn
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Grace Kelly, Coco Chanel, Audrey Hepburn, Indira Gandhi, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek were worshipped, loved and sometimes even feared by millions the world over. These pioneers showed that a woman could be the equal of a man but behind the public success, there was often private heartache and personal tragedy. This series, featuring archive interviews and dramatic re-enactment, reveals the price these women paid for their achievements and adversities...
12) Napoleon: Part 1
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The year 2015 marks 200 years since the Battle of Waterloo. Using recently uncovered historical evidence and based upon almost a decade of research, this major, three-part series, sheds new light on Napoleon as an extraordinarily gifted military commander and a charismatic leader whose private life-contrary to popular belief 200 years later-was littered with disappointments and betrayals: not least in relation to Josephine. Part 1 examines his military...
13) Metropolis
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This series explores insect behavior and society. The fifth episode investigates the complex and ingenious structures devised, built and maintained by social insects.
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The nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima heralded the dawn of a new era. Its detonation not only killed over 100,000 people but also signified both the final chapter of World War Two and the beginning of the nuclear age. Armed conflict, international politics and the security of all mankind would never be the same again. Through a detailed retelling of the events before, during and after the dropping of the bomb, this film unravels the compelling story...
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As the shadow of the First World War stretched across the globe, millions of ordinary people were caught in its wake. Many of their stories have never been told. This film collects together just a few of these untold stories: the surprising revelation of the first civilian killed in the war; the extraordinary transformation of Britain into a military industrial complex and the devastating effect on the women enlisted to work in its factories; and...
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This episode spans the early years when Iberia was a minor province of Carthage, through to the glories of Spain's Moslem age and the Cordoba Caliphate. Simon Sebag Montefiore travels to Cadiz with Spain's first invaders and visits a sacred island where the Carthaginian warrior Hannibal received the blessing of the Gods. We learn how early Spain was a battleground for empires, and visit Italica - a perfectly preserved Roman city with one of the finest...
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This documentary highlights the life and career of politician and first lady Madame Chiang Kai-Shek who sought to unify China under her husband's Nationalist Movement. Her role as ambassador and interpreter was crucial in gaining American support during the Sino-Japanese War and World War II, and she continued fighting for democracy from exile in Taiwan.
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Little Dorrit is a miniseries produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston and based on Charles Dickens' serial novel. In Episode 5, the Dorrits make their triumphant departure from the Marshalsea. Arthur knows he may never see them again. Mr Dorrit wants to leave the past, and everyone in it, behind him. He employs Mrs. General to offer instruction in etiquette to his daughters and takes his family on a tour of Europe. Amy provides for Maggy and the Plornishes...
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Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone may be 2,500 years old, but can still grip and shock modern audiences. This translation by Don Taylor was filmed in 1986. Sophocles' Antigone is set in the aftermath of the death of Oedipus' sons Eteocles and Polyneices by each other's hands.
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Today more than a third of the population of Chicago is black. It's a direct result of the Great Migration between the 1930s and 1970s when more than five million black Americans left the Deep South for "the promised land." The black tenement blocks of the South and West sides of Chicago are now battle grounds for America's most powerful gangs. They are among the most dangerous places in America.