How did Marilyn Monroe become one of the greatest sex symbols of all time? What drove a prudish little Californian girl, who was not especially pretty nor exceptionally talented, to become this incredibly striking platinum blonde superstar? How did she become the icon capable of balancing innocence with raw sensuality, whilst continuing to captivate the masses to this day? How did she achieve this? And what price did she pay?
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The story of Buffalo Bill, born William Frederick Cody (1846-1917), a self-made man who went from wo...
Programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz achieved groundbreaking work in social jus...
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (194...
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Twenty years ago, seven superstar artists left Marvel Comics to create their own company, Image Comi...
Adam Bartlett started Gilead Media record label in 2005. His first releases were small runs of LPs a...
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of F...
Lil' Kim... a pint-sized rapper, with a not-so-pint size amount of money. In this episode, you'll ex...
Co-founder of Greenpeace and founder of Sea Shepherd, Captain Watson is part pirate, part philosophe...
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...
As Hong Kong's foremost filmmaker, Johnnie To himself becomes the protagonist of this painstaking do...
Computer-generated imagery and other visualization techniques reveal how it would look if all the wa...
David Attenborough brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the last days of the dinosaurs. Palaeon...
A Tear in the Sky takes you on an unprecedented journey into the UAP/UFO phenomenon as we follow a t...
How did the USSR - a country considered a second-rate industrial power, economically inferior to Ger...
Crash and Burn chronicles the thrilling and turbulent career of Irish racing driver Tommy Byrne, who...
"Search For The Mothman" is a documentary that explores the unusual disturbances, odd sightings, biz...
After an absence of five years, six times Mr Olympia winner Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a comeback a...