A three part documentary series which see's Professor Jim Al-Khalili tell the story of our quest to master the power of electricity.The three episodes are condensed into one video here, see the timestamps below to know were each episode begins.Episode 1 - Spark (0:00):In the first episode we see professor Jim Al-Khalili tell the tale of how the first 'natural philosophers' managed to
Tony Martin is a farmer from Norfolk, England who became infamous when he fatally gunned down a 16 year old burglar and wounded his accomplice in his home in August 1999. He was originally convicted of murder but this was later reduced to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and served just three years in prison.Martin went on to become somewhat of a tabloid hero, and this fi
Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda is many things besides just being an actor, some of which being an activist and fitness tycoon but she has lived a life shrouded in controversy, tragedy and transformation whilst all of this occurring in the public eye.Jane Fonda in Five Acts reveals how Fonda has been hated as Hanoi Jane, lusted after as Barbarella and heralded as a beacon of the women’s mo
A ESPN 30 for 30 short documentary film which examines the bizarre tale of Greg Marino, a man who has been classed as the worlds greatest counterfeiter by no only those in the industry but also those who came casing him, the FBI.Marino himself believed he could forge any signature and never once turned down a signature when asked, however that being said he has encountered some difficult signa
Abused By My Girlfriend is a BBC film that details the remarkable story of Alex Skeel, a 23 year old man from Bedford in the United Kingdom who found himself caught in an abusive relationship with his girlfriend Jordan Worth.Through a combination of interviews with family members, police offices and police interrogation footage we start to realise to what extent this young love descended in
It's an alien landscape where magnetic tornados twist upward tens of thousands of miles, home to mysterious dark spots each large enough to engulf the Earth ebb and flow. It is a place of violent eruptions that shoot tones of charged particles into space at speeds of over two million mile per hour.This is not some strange world on the other side of the galaxy, this is our Sun a yellow dwarf st
It wasn't until 1996 that the last residential school in Canada was shut down, resulting in some truly horrifying tales being shared publicly with regards to the various methods which were being used in order to sever indigenous children from the influence of their families and to assimilate them into the dominant "Canadian" culture.This dark side to Canada history dates back well over a centu
April 1945, the Second World War in Europe was drawing to an end in Berlin, Germany's defeat was inevitable and the fighting was exceptionally fierce. The world was beginning to grasp the unprecedented scale of the conflict, more than 50 million people lost their lives and no war had every claimed so many casualties, military and civilian.When soldiers of the victorious Allied forces discovered
For 2,000 years Europe has been divided by war, each passing century marked with the blood of endless conflict, sometimes religious, always political and never resolved, finally this never ending conflict exploded engulfing the world. It seems absurd that nearly all this bloodshed can be traced back to a single battle, but it can. A battle that few Europeans remember but no Roman was allowed to fo