The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors - Episode 1
The roots of the Ottoman Empire go back to 13th-century Turkic nomads who staked claim to a portion of Anatolia and then, strengthened by mercenaries fleeing the Mongol invasion, began hammering at the walls of Byzantium. In this program Rageh Omaar...
Multi-drug Resistant TB: Kill or Cure, Series 2
New and lethal strains of TB are emerging worldwide which cannot be treated by conventional drugs. One estimate puts the number of new MDR TB cases per year as high as 400,000. After 40 years without any research into new drugs, the race is on to fi...
The Hunt for AI
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy is on a journey of discovery to find out just how close we are to creating machines that can think like human beings—and what it would mean if true artificial intelligence became a reality. In this program, the Oxfor...
Fire: How Earth Made Us—The Untold Story of History
Beginning with a mind-boggling stunt that only science or spirituality can justify—a veritable walk through fire—this program examines humankind’s long, complicated relationship with the ravenous power of combustion. Fire was, for millennia, h...
Is there a crisis?: biodiversity in decline
The most striking feature of life on Earth is its richness and variety. But research shows that the planet's biodiversity is seriously threatened with destruction by human activities. From the depths of the oceans to the tops of rainforest canopies,...
Baka: Cry from the Rainforest
Award-winning filmmaker Phil Agland returns to the African rainforest to find the pygmy family who captivated viewers around the world as the stars of his acclaimed documentary Baka: People of the Rainforest. Twenty-five years on, Agland is back in ...
Why is there a crisis?: environmental exploitation
Extinction is a natural process, and five times in the dim reaches of Earth's long history it has happened on a huge scale. Now, due to human activities, another mass extinction has been set in motion - and it is unfolding at an unprecedented speed....
Wind: How Earth Made Us—The Untold Story of History
Often thought of as nature at its most elusive and chaotic, the wind is actually a function of highly regimented patterns—forces within the Earth’s atmosphere that have shaped the destiny of continents and lie at the heart of some of the greates...
Water: How Earth Made Us—The Untold Story of History
Filmed in magnificent locations in Iceland, India, and the Middle East, this program looks at how control over water has been a central factor in human existence. Viewers take a precarious flight in a motorized paraglider to experience the water cyc...
eBay: managing success
This program presents the history of Internet phenom eBay; discusses the Web site's feedback system, the key to its unprecedented success; and examines the devastating impact eBay has had on antique and collectible shops. The program also exposes tw...