He was adored around the world yet he died alone, but who was the real George Michael? Was he a superstar simply tormented by the attention that fame brought him or a celebrity obsessed with fighting a war with the tabloid press?This film sets out to explore Michaels previous battles with drink, drugs and brushes with death and as his family prepare to bury him, they search for the truth behin
Unearthed from the single largest burial site on Earth comes a whole new tale which has the potential with rewrite history as we know it, revealing for the very first time the true origins of one of the most powerful nations: China.In this special we see historian Dan Snow, physical anthropologist Dr Alice Roberts and scientist and explorer Dr Albert Lin set their sights on a series of grou
This is the most dangerous migrant journey in the world and this year it's here in Libya that has become the main departure point for migrants who are attempting to get to Europe. It is estimated that around 3,000 of these make it across the Mediterranean into Italy every week and around 12 die trying every day.However, before these migrants reach the coast they first must cross 1,000 miles of d
This film explores what it is that makes children develop into adult psychopaths. We often picture psychopaths as criminals and murderers but this is not always the case, a psychopath is essentially an individual who lacks empathy or the ability to feel remorse. They can however perfectly mimic the visual aspects of such emotions but rarely feel them internally.We consider psychopaths to be so
On the 28th July 1996, at 5am near Brixham harbour in Devon, two fishermen were getting ready to start work. After a weak first haul, they decided to sail another 6 miles out to an area known as the roughs which is rarely fished. After about an hour with the nets down they begin to haul the catch in only to discover a mans body.The discovery of this body was to be the start of an extraordinary
The war on ISIS has reached a turning point, it's drawn in armies and countries from all over the world including Britain but on the ground one force is having the greatest affect. In this special from Ross Kemp we see him travel across Iraq and Syria in order to meet up with the Kurdish forces who are confronting and beating ISIS on the battlefield.On Ross' journey to one of the most dangerous
In the spring of 1945, Adolf Hitler retreated to the Fuhrerbunker located 16 meters below the streets of Berlin, the Russian army was closing in on the German capital and World War II was all but over but even in his last days Hitler refused to accept defeat, he continued to draw inspiration from the deeds of his hero, a legendary German leader who's portrait was the only image to hang on the
Charles Albright is a convicted American serial killer, he is a diagnosed psychopath who was found guilty of killing a woman in 1991 by means of shooting her in the head and removing her eyeballs. There was only enough evidence to convict Albright of this one particular crime but it is suspected that he is responsible for having killed a total of three women in the 1990's due to his signature
Even after the climate summit in Paris, there will be long and difficult negotiations about how to deal with the ever more pressing problems of climate change. A growing group of people has lost confidence in the political system coming up with sufficient measures in time.They target the financial sector and organise campaigns to urge pension funds, churches, universities and governments to wi