Back In October 2016, an elite team of Iraqi Special Forces were sent directly to the frontline against ISIS with only one objective, to reclaim Mosul and eradicate the remaining ISIS fighters. It marked the beginning of what would quickly become a brutal battle of attrition that would last nearly nine months.Filmed over the course of their deployment, this documentary follows the experiences of
Summer 1492, after three months at sea The Santa María, The Pinta and The Niña anchor off the Bahamas, and with this Europe has found the Americas, next comes conquest and colonisation by settlers who remake America in their image.They advance and they destroy, but there is another story about the animals and the plants they bring here and the natural treasures they find here and how the Am
Scientists are bitterly divided over new evidence for an event which occurred back in Roman times, in 312 A.D. something happened which potentially may have changed the history of the world. While the Roman emperor Constantine prepared for a battle he saw a light in the sky which he interpreted as a sign from god, may believed it persuaded him and in turn the whole Roman Empire to convert to chris
In society today there is a growing demand for organic food, but with this demand comes risk, do we as consumers always get what it says on the label? Of course anyone who opts for organic food clearly wants to lead a healthier life, but is organic food actually better for you when conventional farming is taking place all around it? How can this quality be verified?One analogy is put forward b
Back in 2014, Raqqa became the informal capital of the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Many hundreds of civilians died in the battle to liberate the city and it now lies in ruins.Upon entering the city, there is an eerie calm and breathtaking destruction as far as the eye can see. A-once thriving city of 260,000 people reduced to rubble by US led airstrikes, it's hard to imagine it co
In this Panorama special we see reporter Raphael Rowe look for answers with regards to the rising number stabbings which occur in the United Kingdom. Rowe speaks with five young men, all of whom are now located in young offender institutions serving sentences for having wounded and even killed using a knife.Before having been sent to prison they all seemed to have given little consideration to w
Currently the world is witnessing a global boom with regards to tea and its demand but it appears that the farmers who grow the crop itself are not the ones benefiting from this growth. Many of these tea workers still live in absolute poverty whilst others profit from their labor.In Germany it is clear that consumers are willing to pay a higher price for top-quality tea whilst many of those wh
Of all the founding fathers Thomas Jefferson is the most complex and enigmatic, he is a man with an ever changing portrait one which is full of contradictions, he's a champion if individual liberty who owned slaves all his life, a fiscal conservative who lives deeply in debt, an agrarian idealist who thrives in big cities, a master politician who dislikes confrontation and fears governme
On 22 May 2017, the deadliest terror attack in Britain since 7/7 took place. It was carried out by a man who himself was born and raised in very city he attacked. Salman Abedi detonated a homemade bomb at an Ariana Grande concert, targeting the innocents attending with complete disregard for the number of children present.This film is a powerful retelling of the everts as they unfolded, through