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29 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
Film-maker Paul Devlin's Storyville documentary about a revolutionary new telescope being launched under a Nasa high-altitude balloon in an effort to find out how all the galaxies were formed.
Episode 2
Documentary following Olly Williams and Suzi Winstanley, two unique wildlife artists who simultaneously work on the same painting of exotic and endangered animals while on location in the wildest corners of the world.
Episode 3
Documentary about punk band Heavy Load, subject to the combustible flux of ego, ambition, fantasy, expectation and desire that fuels any emerging band, but uniquely made up of musicians with and without learning disabilities
Episode 4
Powerful documentary from Emmy award-winning director Tom Roberts which explores the profound human consequences of America's frontier wars through the moving personal journey of retired US Major Robert 'Snuffy' Gray.
Episode 5
Documentary telling the genuine story of five young British freestyle footballers' journey across the Americas to Argentina in the hope of meeting their hero, Diego Maradona.
Episode 6
Documentary about self-confessed war profiteer Fidelis Cloer, who, in a career spanning two decades of global turmoil, has supplied kings, presidents and the occasional dictator with the finest luxury armoured vehicles money can buy
Episode 7
Profile of iconic war photographer Robert Capa, whose career spanned five epic conflicts across three continents before his untimely death at the age of 40.
Episode 8
Documentary about two children who have been directly affected by wars in their respective countries.
Episode 9
Documentary, made by her great niece, about the British Jewish baroness who fell in love with the jazz genius Thelonious Monk
Episode 10
Qatar is said to be the world's richest country, while competitive debating is said to be a training ground for future world leaders.
Episode 11
Nati Baratz's documentary chronicles a former disciple's search for his reincarnated Tibetan master
Episode 12
After 50 years, will the Jew accused of collaborating with the Nazis during the Holocaust be exonerated
Episode 13
D Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Prions - the particles that would emerge as the cause of Mad Cow disease - while working with a cannibal tribe on New Guinea.
Episode 14
Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, this documentary follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers on a climbing expedition up the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri, on the north side of Everest.
Episode 15
Detective Bechara Jahlk is the most famous private eye in Brazil, specialising in 'corporate crime' and employing a team of young female agents
Episode 16
J Robert Oppenheimer was one of the most celebrated scientists of his generation. Shy, arrogant and brilliant, he is best known as the man that led the Manhattan Project to spectacular success
Episode 17
Set in a north London residential home for the active elderly, this documentary paints a portrait of life at the Mary Feilding Guild and of three of its oldest residents.
Episode 18
The definitive film biography of a mythic American figure, a man that Tom Wolfe called 'our greatest comic writer'.
Episode 19
Documentary based on Philippe Petit's autobiographical book To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers
Episode 20
Documentary which tells the extraordinary unknown story of how the Beatles helped to destroy the USSR
Episode 21
When thinking of devastated cities in the Second World War, Naples is often forgotten, but when it was liberated by the Allies it was on its last legs, with 200,000 homeless and no power, transport, food or running water
Episode 22
People who work in the city either make money out of money, or from the proximity of money.
Episode 23
Documentary focusing on Section 60 of the historic Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia - the 'saddest acre in America' - where US service men and women from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts are buried
Episode 24
Nicky Haslam, renowned socialite, bon viveur, wit and best friend to all is also one of the world's most respected and highly paid interior designers, whose clients include royalty, rock stars and Russians
Episode 25
Filmmaker Michel Orion Scott captures a magical journey into a little-known world.
Episode 26
A failed coup attempt a British mercenary in a grim African prison a dictator accused by the West of torture and beneath it all, a spectacular underwater oil reserve that the world's major powers would love to get their hands on
Episode 27
Drama-documentary-animation hybrid starring Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008.
Episode 28
Documentary in which the survivors of a famous plane crash relive their experiences 30 years later.
Episode 29