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Planet Earth
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The team behind the multi-award-winning natural history series The
Blue Planet is back with the ultimate portrait of our planet.
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Four
years in the making, this is Earth celebrated as never before.
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Over the years, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ ONE has shown viewers the most incredible
sights on the planet, but there's an even more amazing world out
there that's never been seen, and it's captured for the first time in
Planet Earth.
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From the world's greatest rivers and impressive
gorges to the mightiest mountains, the hidden underground world
of caves and caverns, to vast deserts, so much has yet to be
explored.
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Planet Earth gives a unique view of awe-inspiring
landscapes from across the globe and reveals the captivating
behaviour of the rarely spotted, almost mythical creatures that live
in these habitats.
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The world's premier wildlife cameramen have travelled all over the
planet, even to the most far-flung reaches, to create the biggest
series the Natural History Unit has ever done.
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It's the definitive
look at the diversity of our planet, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
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Prepare to be overwhelmed by the beauty of Planet Earth.
The Blue Planet blew audiences away with its alien footage from
the depths of the ocean. Four years on, and cameras can now track
great migrations, capture split-second actions, and get amazing
footage of land-based animals in their natural habitats, no matter
whether this is a mountain top, the most remote parts of the
desert, or the dark depths of the forest floor.
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It would not have been possible to film many of the breathtaking
sequences in Planet Earth without high-definition cameras.
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High-definition
cameras are the best in the world for capturing behaviour.
They can slow down action by over 40 times, enabling viewers to
see crocodiles dive out of the water to snap their jaws around
wildebeest.
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The cameras shed light on the floor of the deepest
darkest jungle to reveal the courtship dance of a bird of paradise,
and enable viewers to follow animals hunting and roaming for
miles, where cameras could never hope to follow them before.
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High
definition is the future for television production and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's
Natural History Unit has chosen to lead the way, once again, by
shooting the entire documentary series in this format.
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The Impressionists
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Richard Armitage, Julian
Glover, Charlie Condou, Will
Keen, James Lance and
Amanda Root star in this
landmark factual drama series
which unravels the intimate
history of the brotherhood of
Monet, Cézanne, Degas,
Renoir and Manet.
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Filmed on location in France
and based on an extensive
archive of letters and
documentary evidence, this
series explores how paintings
so familiar to contemporary
eyes, such as Manet's
Olympia, caused riots when
they first appeared in Paris in
the late 19th century.
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Viciously
attacked by critics and rejected
by the public, the Impressionist
painters were outcasts in the
art world.
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Breaking Point: Your House
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Have you ever wondered what
happens when a bathroom tap
is left running for hours? When
an overloaded plug begins to
spark or when the pilot light in
a boiler ignites in a house
where the gas has been
left on?
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In a series of dramatic
demonstrations, Breaking
Point illustrates the threat of
water, fire, wind and gas on
real houses, each showing
what happens at the precise
moment disaster strikes, all
beautifully filmed by
ingeniously positioned and
durable cameras, in superslow-motion.
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Accompanying the experiments
is expert analysis and the
compelling stories of those
who have been caught up in
real-life domestic disasters.
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Surviving Disasters
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The survival of ordinary people in the face of extraordinary
adversity is the focus of Surviving Disasters.
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Featuring seven
natural and man-made disasters all retold from the perspective of
eyewitness accounts, including the Munich air crash in 1958; the
Mount St Helen's volcanic eruption in 1980; the Chernobyl nuclear
disaster in 1986; the Iranian hostage rescue in 1979; the Fastnet
yacht race in 1979; the San Francisco earthquake in 1989 and the
Estonia ferry disaster in 1994.
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Fusing true stories with dramatic reconstructions, the programmes
recount the individual tales of heroism and endurance, both of
survivors and rescuers, battling against forces beyond their control.
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Each programme is followed by a short documentary, featuring
interviews with the real-life survivors, who share their recollections.
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Krakatoa
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Krakatoa is an explosive drama-documentary
bringing to life the
infamous catastrophic eruption
in 1883 of the volcano, the fallout
from which was literally felt
around the world.
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Using a unique set of first-hand
accounts, the film allows
viewers to witness the greatest
natural disaster of the 19th
century, as it follows the true
stories of the Dutch Controller
of that part of Indonesia,
Willem Beijerinck, and his wife
Johanna, as they survive
tsunamis, eruptions and
superheated ash clouds.
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Willem Beijerinck is played by
Rupert Penry-Jones (Spooks,
Casanova, North And South)
and his wife by Olivia Williams (Sixth Sense, X-Men 3,
Rushmore).
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The Science of Krakatoa
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Accompanying the drama-documentary
Krakatoa, this
programme presents the
astonishing facts behind the
Earth-shattering eruption of
Krakatoa back in 1883.
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The force of the eruption
created the loudest noise ever
recorded in history: it was
heard 2,000 miles away in the
Indian Ocean and 3,000 miles
away in Alice Springs; the
shock waves from the eruption
travelled around the world
seven times; and 36,000
people were killed, mostly from
the resulting tsunami.
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But
human tragedy aside, it
became a global media event,
producing a wealth of first-hand
survivor accounts and
generating the first
modern scientific study of a
volcanic eruption.
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The Lusitania
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"Remember The Lusitania!
Avenge The Lusitania!"
These are the words with which
American men were urged to
enlist for the First World War.
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The sinking of this great liner
was an event which provoked
outrage on an unprecedented
scale, marking a pivotal
moment in history.
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This dramatised documentary
retells the story of The
Lusitania's fateful voyage,
which ended on 7 May 1915,
when the liner, en route to
Liverpool, was torpedoed off
the south coast of Ireland by a
German U-Boat.
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Her demise
was rapid – sinking in just 18
minutes, with a catastrophic
loss of life.
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Bringing to life
events on board both vessels,
The Lusitania also reveals how
the political and intelligence
communities failed to stop
this tragedy.
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From Start to Finish
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Whichever way you look at it –
26.2 miles or 42.195
kilometres – running a
marathon is not easy. But this
is the gruelling challenge that
up to ten novice runners will
confront when they take their
places at the starting line of
the 2006 London Marathon.
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These would-be competitors
have never attempted a
marathon and the young, the
old, the overweight and
smokers number among them.
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However, they all have one
thing in common: they believe
that if they complete the race,
their lives will change for the
better.
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Lost confidence will
return, dating can recommence,
love lives will flourish and job
prospects will improve.
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Over a six-month training period
under the guidance of Olympic
athletes, a documentary crew
will follow every high and low,
every test and triumph, as
the runners prepare for this
great challenge.
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This is a human story of effort
and emotion, commitment and
sacrifice, with the spectacular
denouement on Sunday 23
April 2006, when the runners
line up with 46,000 other
contestants for the start of the
London Marathon.
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Hannibal
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It is 200 years before the birth
of Christ and Rome is the new
superpower of the ancient
world. She believes she is
invincible – but one man is
destined to change that.
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He is
a man bound by oath to
avenge the wrongs inflicted
on his home and, in pursuit
of revenge, he will stop
at nothing.
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Hannibal explores the man
behind the myth, revealing
what drove the 26-year-old to
mastermind one of the most
audacious military moves in
history.
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With 40,000 soldiers
and 37 elephants, he marched
1,500 miles to challenge his
enemies on their own soil. It
was an act so daring that few
people believed it possible.
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Hannibal combines drama, the
latest historical research and
state-of-the-art CGI to bring this
spectacular story to life.
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Super Vets
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Whether it's a cat with a
cataract or a cow in need
of a hip replacement,
veterinary medicine has
made huge advances.
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Super Vets joins the experts
at the Royal Veterinary
College who perform these
extraordinary operations on a
daily basis.
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From fitting dogs
with pacemakers, to
performing Caesareans on
tortoises, this series reveals
most procedures available to
humans are on offer to
their pets.
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Submarine Rescue
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One of the year's most
dramatic and exhilarating
stories – the British rescue of a
Russian sub trapped on the
seabed of the Pacific Ocean – is to feature in a special
documentary on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ ONE.
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Submarine Rescue brings
together the British rescue
team and the submariners they
saved in the heart-stopping
race against time.
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Almost five years to the day
since the crew of the Kursk
submarine had died, following
a delay in calling for
international help, the Priz
submarine became entangled in
a mesh of old fishing lines and
metal cables in the ocean
off the Kamchatcka Peninsula,
Siberia.
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After a failed Russian rescue
attempt, an international
emergency alert went out on
Friday 5 August 2005.
This drama documentary tells
the inside story of the dramatic
rescue when a top squad of
Royal Navy contractors and
their Scorpio sub were
mobilised from their base in
Renfrew, Scotland.
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The Queen at 80
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Her Majesty The Queen has been a presence in people's lives for
more than 53 years as Sovereign of the United Kingdom and as
Head of the Commonwealth.
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She is undoubtedly one of the most
famous women in the world, but what is The Queen's role in the
modern state and in this, her 80th year?
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The Queen At 80 follows The Queen's working life in a series of
engagements during her 80th year, including the Royal tour of
Canada and the End of the War celebrations for 2,000 veterans at
Buckingham Palace.
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It also features some exclusive and intimate
footage, including access to rarely-seen archive from Her Majesty's
private collection.
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The programme examines the historic events which have shaped
the Monarchy: the abdication, the various controversies affecting
her family in the Nineties, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales,
and the recent Royal wedding of the heir to the throne.
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Through
the eyes of Brian May, Sir Cliff Richard, Barbara Windsor and Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, it also revisits the celebration which
brought 2.5 million people into The Mall and became one of the
most-watched pop concerts in history with over 200 million
viewers: the Golden Jubilee.
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The Somme
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Marking the 90th anniversary of the first battle of the Somme, this
drama-documentary tells the story of the battle that was to change
warfare forever.
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With extensive research in British, French and German archives,
the programme uncovers a wealth of individual stories of men and
women who experienced the Somme first-hand: in the trenches,
hospitals and on the home front.
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Their horrific and moving experiences are told through rare
archive footage, with additional drama sequences starring an
international cast.
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