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How researchers discovered that a lethal gas, nitric oxide, was behind some of the most basic functions of the human body. It is manufactured in cells and involved in functions from blood pressure control to...
Follows the work of the London Fire Brigade’s investigators over a month as they work to identify the causes of fires, where they originated, when they started, and, often, exactly who started them.
Looks at attempts to create transgenic pigs for organ transplants to humans and the moral and ethical dilemmas involved. Includes reactions from animal rights activists who are violently opposed to such...
Judith Grabiner describes how the 19th century saw radical change, producing new ideas of space, destroying the unchallenging authority of mathematics, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and...
Cinema verité-style documentary taking a behind-the-scenes look at Bill Clinton’s 1992 US presidential campaign, from the early New Hmpshire primary to the victory party in Little Rock, Arkansas, almost...
Writer Alice Walker travels from California to England, Gambia and Senegal, meeting women who are fighting against the practice of female genital mutilation. The film examines some of the cultural and...
Tim Hunkin humorously explains the workings of some familiar machines. His technique is to present the scientific principles and show how the machines evolved by using demonstrations and animated cartoon...
Denigrated by the public, vilified by the critics, re-cut at the insistence of its producers, and finally banned by the French government as ‘demoralising’ and unpatriotic, La Règle du jeu (The Rules of...
3: As 1944 dawned on the Eastern Front, Allied victory looked inevitable, but the Red Army’s year-long thrust to Germany’s border would be bought at a frighteningly high price. Operation Bagration saw...
Interactions between parent and child in the child’s growing understanding of right and wrong. How does the child know what a lie is? How is he to begin to understand the framework of good and naughty...
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