The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer who laid the foundations of modern oceanography.

The Living Sea celebrates the beauty and power of the ocean as it explores our relationship with thi...

In northern Finland in the fall of 1916, Saima Niva rescues a man drifting in the river, who turns o...

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestin...
This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare ...

The Gallipoli campaign of World War I was so controversial & devastating, it changed the face of bat...

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...

An underwater exploration beneath kelp forests in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern Califo...

Dark fears over the North Pole. Long sheltered from large-scale industrial exploitation, the Arctic ...

A scientific expedition travels to an alternative Earth in hope of finding a new home for humanity, ...
On December 21, Nicolas Vanier will set off with his pack on a new expedition called L’Odyssée sauva...

It was November 12, 2014, at 5:03pm. Humanity had just accomplished a feat that will forever mark it...

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

Following a national crisis, the citizens of Iceland rallied together to collectively write the firs...

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...

The climbing brothers Thomas and Alexander Huber (Germany) attempt to conquer free the infamous "Bav...