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August 15th, 2010
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Professor Iain Stewart continues his epic exploration of how the planet has shaped human history.
Iain explores man's relationship with fire. He begins by embarking on an extraordinary encounter with this terrifying force of nature - a walk right through the heart of a raging fire.
Fire has long been our main source of energy and Iain shows how this meant that the planet played ...
There are only thirteen known Leucistic alligators in the world.
Gatorland located in Orlando, Florida is home to four of the thirteen
Leucistic and is the biggest collection in the world. This short
Documentary is the amazing story of how the four 'white' gators came
from the swamps of New Orleans to Gatorland, Florida. Gatorland’s
rare leucistic alligators were discovered in Lou...
A look at man's relationship with Dirt. Dirt and humans couldn't be closer. We started our journey together as stardust, swirled by cosmic forces into our galaxy, solar system, and planet. We are made of the same stuff. Four billion years of evolution created dirt as the living source of all life on Earth including humans. Dirt has given us food, shelter, fuel, medicine, ceramics, f...
One of Europe's last great predators, the wolf is an animal that remains cloaked in myth and mystery. But a new vision is emerging thanks to an ambitious research project in Italy's Pollino National Park. Paolo Ciucci leads a team of biologists from the University of Rome on a quest to learn more about this elusive species.
Tracking two wolves, Rebecca and Francesco deep into the ...
THE FUTURE OF FOOD is a feature length documentary that offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled grocery store shelves for the past decade.
The Future of Food has also been a key tool in the American and international anti-GMO grassroots activist movements and played widely in the e...
Ross Kemp - Battle For The Amazon will look into the socio-economic and environmental pressures facing the Amazon regions of Brazil and Ecuador. The shows will explore the legacy of devastation created by a burgeoning global desire for energy, food and mineral resources.
ROSS KEMP comments: "While filming in Nigeria last year, I saw first-hand how much man's greed has cost the environ...
Ross Kemp - Battle For The Amazon will look into the socio-economic and environmental pressures facing the Amazon regions of Brazil and Ecuador. The shows will explore the legacy of devastation created by a burgeoning global desire for energy, food and mineral resources.
ROSS KEMP comments: "While filming in Nigeria last year, I saw first-hand how much man's greed has cost the environ...
Growing Up in the Universe was a series of lectures given by Richard Dawkins as part of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, in which he discussed the evolution of life in the universe. The lectures were first broadcast in 1991, in the form of five one-hour episodes.
To start off part one, Dawkins discusses the amazing capabilities of the human body and contrasts t...
Flock of Dodos examines the disagreements that proponents of intelligent design have with the scientific consensus position of evolution. The evolutionarily famous dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is a now-extinct bird that lived on the Island of Mauritius, which is approximately 500 miles east of Madagascar. When Portuguese sailors arrived on the island, the possible combination ...
"Water is the driving force of all nature." - Leonardo da Vinci
Water makes most of earths surface and most of our human bodies ... but do we really know the secrets of this amazing element.
From agriculture, to factories and hydropower, we put water to work in a million different ways every day. And yet water acts outside all known physical laws of nature.
At a time of global c...
