BBC Documentaries Collection

BBC Murder on the Lake



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Murder on the Lake
Joan Root, with her husband Alan, produced beautiful and famous natural history films, born of her deep love of Africa and its flora and fauna. This delicate but determined member of Kenyas Happy Valley was gunned down in January 2006 by intruders bearing AK-47s. Four men were charged with her murder, including David Chege, the leader of a private vigilante group Root herself had financed to stop the illegal fishing that was killing Lake Naivasha, the beautiful lake beside which she lived. Chege was from Karagita, the largest of the slums that has sprung up beside the lake in the last twenty years. In that time, the population of Naivasha has rocketed from 30,000 to 350,000 as a desperate tide of impoverished migrant workers arrived in search of employment on Kenyas flourishing flower farms. This has created squalor, crime and, in the minds of Root and her fellow naturalists, ecological apocalypse. This film tells the story of the extraordinary life and brutal death of Joan Root, and of her campaign to save the lake she loved. Who killed Joan Root? Was it the fish poachers, whom Root stopped from plying their illegal trade in a bid to save her beloved Lake Naivasha? Was it her loyal lieutenant Chege, whom Root ultimately cut off from her payroll? Or was it one of her white neighbours, with whom Root had feuded?
Through the telling of Roots story, the film opens a window onto contemporary Africa and the developed worlds relationship to it. For it is the Kenyan rose, which is exported by the millions on a daily basis from Naivasha, that has brought not just jobs and foreign exchange earnings, but a population explosion that has caused the destruction of the environment Root worked so hard to stop. Her campaign may have ultimately cost her her life.


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BBC Michael Wood on Beowulf



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Historian Michael Wood returns to his first great love, the Anglo-Saxon world, to reveal
the origins of our literary heritage. Focusing on Beowulf and drawing on other
Anglo-Saxon classics, he traces the birth of English poetry back to the Dark Ages.

Travelling across the British Isles from East Anglia to Scotland and with the help of
Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, actor Julian Glover, local historians and
enthusiasts, he brings the story and language of this iconic poem to life.


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BBC Life On Air David Attenborough 50 Years In Television (2002)



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A RETROSPECTIVE OF DAVID ATTENBOROUGH’S FIFTY YEARS OF BROADCASTING FOR THE BBC.

There are few individuals who are as popular, charismatic and well loved as David Attenborough. Over the course of fifty years David Attenborough has traversed the globe capturing some of the most incredible moments in natural history film-making. Presented by Michael Palin, this film is a celebration of David’s career, spanning a period of incredible change, from the first colour television to today’s interactive multi-media broadcasts.

The list of programmes to his credit is almost endless. From his first appearance on television in the Zoo Quest series through to natural history classics such as Life on Earth, The Living Planet, and Trials of Life, David Attenborough is the unchallenged king of natural history film-making.

Through the use of archive material from some of his most unforgettable moments plus interviews with David himself and key figures in his career, LIFE ON AIR reveals an extraordinary half century.


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BBC How to Win an Election A Panorama Guide



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How to Win an Election: A Panorama Guide
BBC4 29 March 2010

In the 1950s, politicians cared little for what Churchill called the idiots lantern. Now television is central to a political leaders image and his chances of winning an election.

This is the story of how politicians abandoned the soapbox for the studio – from the early performances of the two Harolds, Macmillan and Wilson, through the TV campaigns of Margaret Thatcher to the spin-doctored presentation of Tony Blair. Has television finally reduced our politicians to actors spouting soundbites?

With six decades of fascinating archive from televisions longest running current affairs programme Panorama this is the story of how television has changed British politics.


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BBC How to Build a Dinosaur (2011)




How to Build a Dinosaur
Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago and we have hardly ever found a complete skeleton. So how do we turn a pile of broken bones into a dinosaur exhibit? Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put skeletons back together, with muscles, accurate postures, and even – in some cases – the correct skin colour.Here’s a conundrum. Most dinosaur skeletons are incomplete, so how do you create museum exhibits that are realistic? As Dr Alice Roberts discovers, it’s a practical question for those putting together an exhibition at LA County’s Natural History Museum, who have to design dynamic, punter-pleasing displays that also reflect the latest thinking in palaeontology circles.


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BBC Frozen Planet (2011) 720p



Frozen Planet is narrated by Sir David Attenborough, who himself travelled to both polar regions in the making of the series. Sir David first visited Antarctica 17 years ago, but this was his first time ever to visit the geographical North Pole. To get there, meant flying in to a Russian ice camp on the frozen Arctic ocean, where he could (after several days of bad weather) finally reach the pole itself by helicopter.

He also returned to Scott's hut, a place he first visited several years ago, but still touches him today. This is the place where Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his men began their fateful journey to reach the geographical South Pole. "I remember very vividly indeed the first time I entered this extraordinary building…it was not like any other place - because it isn't like any other place on earth. If ever there was a place that held the personality of the people that had lived in it, a century ago, this surely must be it".

Sir David authors On Thin Ice, the seventh film of the series, which explores the effects of climate change on the polar regions and the lengths that scientists are going to, to understand it. Some regions, like the Antarctic Peninsula, have warmed significantly in the years since Sir David first visited them. He explores what this means, not just for the animals and people of the polar regions, but for the whole planet.

BBC Forever Young How Rock n Roll Grew Up (2010)



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Who could have predicted it? The Who in their sixties, singing Hope I die before I get old to enthusiastic audiences spanning generations; Mick Jagger, with seven years already on his bus pass, snaking across the stage singing ?Les spend the night together or a topless, leathery Iggy Pop growling ?Last year I was 21 before climbing the speaker stacks for a bit of mock fornication. Scenes that is at once incredibly odd, but undeniably powerful and inspiring. Forever Young takes a closer look at how rock roll has had to deal with the unthinkable namely growing old. From its roots in the Fifties as a music made by young people for young people, to the 21st-century phenomena of the revival and the comeback’, the programme investigates what happens when the music refuses to die and its performers refuse to leave the stage. What happens when rocks youthful rebelliousness is delivered wrapped in wrinkles? Featuring contributions by Iggy Pop, Lemmy, Rick Wakeman, Suggs and Alison Moyet.


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BBC Inside Life Complete Set 2009



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Kids go behind the scenes of the BBC Natural History Unit s series, Life, to find out what it takes to get footage of the world? s most extraordinary wildlife.

Ten CBBC agents have been given exclusive access to David Attenborough s latest blockbuster wildlife series – Life. From polar bears in the freezing Arctic to tigers in the steaming jungles of India, each agent gets their own special mission to go behind the scenes to see just what it takes to film a stunning wildlife sequence. Working alongside the BBC s Natural History Unit, they get hands on to climb high into a Thailand rainforest to film gibbons, dive wrecks covered in corals in the Bahamas, and travel to the remote islands of Komodo to track down dragons.

Episode 1 of 10 – Polar Bears

Adventure-loving Louise Williams is set the challenge of learning how to survive in the freezing cold winds of an Alaskan winter by an arctic explorer. But the cold is the least of her worries as she comes face-to-face with hungry polar bears when on location with the Life team. Can she keep herself and Doug, the wildlife cameraman, safe when a polar bear gets too close for comfort?

First aired : 13 Oct 2009.

Episode 2 of 10 Komodo Dragons

On a remote Indonesian island and surrounded by three giant Komodo dragons, Inside Life’s agent Isobel Rose must remember all she learnt about these potential killers back at the London Zoo s Reptile House. It is just one of the numerous challenges faced by Izzie and the Life team as she discovers the difficulties involved in filming a stunning wildlife sequence.

First aired : 20 Oct 2009

Episode 3 of 10 Gibbons

Scaling the dizzy heights of a 30-metre tree in the Thai rainforest, Bryony Maxwell helps set up a filming platform high above the ground for the Life team. From here she hopes to join camerawoman Justine Evans as she films gibbons swinging through the jungle canopy. But not all the gibbons Bryony sees are as lucky as the ones in the rainforest, as she finds out when she visits the gibbon sanctuary.

First aired : 27 Oct 2009

Episode 4 of 10 Garter Snakes

Every year thousands upon thousands of snakes come wriggling out from their dens deep in the heart of Canada. But before Matt Brough can join the Life team on location, and help film this wildlife spectacular, he must hitch a ride with an RAF Search and Rescue helicopter to find out how a thermal imaging camera could be used to help reveal some unusual cold-blooded garter snake behaviour.

First aired : 3 Nov 2009

Episode 5 of 10 Frigate Birds

In the blue skies of the sun-drenched Caribbean island of Tobago, Greg Thompson’s mission is hotting up. He has to film frigate birds from a helicopter using Hollywoods latest aerial filming equipment. Once airborne, he is given the controls of the camera. With just one chance to get it right, will he succeed?

First aired : 10 Nov 2009

Episode 6 of 10 Fish Frenzy

From spotting dolphins in Wales to spotting whales in Argentina, Sam Wigfield needs eagle eyes if he is to help the Life team achieve their mission and film a bait ball out at sea. This huge gathering of fish will hopefully be a feast for birds, dolphins and seals alike.

First aired : 17 Nov 2009

Episode 7 of 10 Tigers

Scarlett Flanagan visits India to help film a tiger sequence for the Life team. Her mission is to record wildlife sounds, including the alarm calls of the animals that share the forest with these top predators. Can Scarlett help make the film trip a roaring success?

First aired : 24 Nov 2009

Episode 8 of 10 Rock Climbing Fish

Expert climber Jacob Markham goes on an unusual mission to help the Life team film a Hawaiian waterfall where an extraordinary fish goes rock climbing. On the trail of this remarkable fish, known as a gobie, he encounters a giant of the ocean, the manta ray, a smiling spider and an overactive volcano.

First aired : 1 Dec 2009

Episode 9 of 10 Bahamas Reef

James Murrays mission is to help sink a boat in the Bahamas for the Life team, but his plans may themselves be sunk without trace with the arrival of a hurricane. As James runs out of time, will he ever see the boat he worked so hard on be transformed from a rusty wreck into a colourful coral reef? Only if he can learn to scuba dive in time will James mission finally be completed.

First aired : 8 Dec 2009

Episode 10 of 10 – Madagascar Lemurs

On the island of Madagascar a group of lemurs are behaving badly. It is Billy Bridge’s mission to discover just who and why. He soon finds out the culprits are adult ring-tailed lemurs fighting amongst themselves. Now he must help track them down so that the Life team can catch and film them red-handed.


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BBC John Sergeant on Tracks of Empire



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John Sergeant on Tracks of Empire
John Sergeant embarks on a unique 3,000 mile journey through the history of the greatest legacy the British left to India u2013 its rail network. The biggest in Asia, it runs on 40,000 miles of track and reaches every corner of the subcontinent. Proposed in 1853 by Governor General Lord Dalhousie, it would become the biggest engineering project of its time and instrumental in every chapter of Indiau2019s history.

1) Unite and Divide
Starting in Kolkata, Sergeant traverses India from east to west, travels through turbulent Bihar state, visits the Victorian railway town of Jamalpur, and discovers why the construction of the Dufferin Bridge at Varanasi resulted in Victorian technology and ingenuity clashing with ancient religion, before ending his journey at the border with Pakistan. Even though Mahatma Gandhi denounced the railways as evil, Sergeant reveals how it became a civil engineering triumph that united the country and played a crucial role when India became independent in 1947.

2) Power and Privilege
John Sergeant continues his 3,000 mile journey along Indiau2019s rail tracks, travelling north to south to discover how the railways not only shaped its history but also its future.
Starting in New Delhi, John reveals how the railwaysu2019 extraordinary construction story began with locomotives and track being shipped from British shipyards. He visits Gwalior to discover the extent of collusion between the privileged maharajahs and the British Empire, and at Victoria Terminus he reveals the politics and the power behind its grand design. But it is at Bhore Ghat u2013 just outside Mumbai u2013 where John discovers the 19th century British engineersu2019 crowning construction achievement and the extraordinary human cost that made it all possible. He concludes that today it is Indiau2019s railways that continue to change the lives of its one billion people in ways that would have delighted its colonial architects.


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BBC Generation Jihad



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Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet.

Following the attempt to bomb an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day, this landmark series looks at the angry young men of Generation Jihad who have turned their backs on the country where they were born.

In the first episode, Peter hears from those convicted under Britains newest anti-terror laws and investigates how some of the most notorious terrorists came to be radicalised. He finds a generation that has shed the moderate Islam their parents brought to this country, and instead have adopted a faith that they believe compels them to stand apart from Britain and its values.

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In the second part of this series, Peter Taylor investigates how young Muslims radicalised over the internet formed themselves into a terror network that spread across three continents. Aided and abetted by two young fanatics in Britain, these cells plotted major attacks in Europe and America culminating in a plan to explode three enormous truck bombs which, it was claimed, would dwarf the London bombings of 7/7.

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Peter Taylor investigates what Britain is doing to counter the threat of violent extremism. In 2010, 140 million pounds will be spent to win the battle for the hearts and minds of young Muslims, but the policy risks alienating many in Britain’s Muslim communities. With unique access to a man who came face to face with Al-Q idah and the inside story of how police managed to thwart would-be suicide bombers, the programme examines the biggest single threat to national security.

BBC Filthy Cities (2011)



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Dan Snow gets down and dirty in the murky histories of London, Paris and New York, exploring their filthy histories from the bottom up.

Part 1: Medieval London
Historian Dan Snow gets down and dirty in Medieval grime to discover the hard way how the London we know was forged in the filth of the 14th century. State of the art CGI reveals London?s streets as they were 700 years ago and Dan steps into the shoes of a medieval Londoner ? wooden platforms designed to help him rise above the disgusting mess underfoot. He spends the night as a medieval muck-raker shifting a staggering six tonnes of excrement, and has a go at medieval butchery to find out what the authorities were up against. Plus, he examines the remains of a plague victim to discover how a catastrophic epidemic would help a new and cleaner London emerge from the muck of the past.

Part 2: Revolutionary Paris
Just 200 years ago, Paris was famously one of the foulest and smelliest cities in Europe. In this programme historian Dan Snow sniffs out the rotten story of the French revolution. Stunning CGI reveals the stinking streets where ordinary people slaved in toxic industries and suffered grotesque poverty and disease. Dan immerses himself in their world, visiting a perfumer to recreate the stench of the 18th century city ? Pong de Paris. He has a go at one of the worst jobs in history ? tanning leather by 18th century methods using dog excrement and urine ? to make exquisite luxury goods that only the filthy rich could afford. He gets a rare glimpse of the private rooms of infamous Queen Marie Antoinette at the glittering palace of Versailles and reveals some surprising facts about the royal court. Plus he comes face to face with the ultimate killing machine ? the gruesome guillotine. Dan finds out what happened to the thousands of bodies that overflowed in the cemeteries of Paris during The Terror. Dan discovers how monumental filth and injustice drove Parisians to a bloody revolution which would transform their city and give birth to a new republic.

Part 3: Industrial New York
Dan Snow travels back to a seething Manhattan in the throes of the industrial revolution. Millions fled persecution, poverty and famine in Europe in the 19th century in search of the Promised Land. When they arrived what they found was even worse than what they?d left behind. New York was a city consumed by filth and corruption, its massive immigrant population crammed together in the slums of Lower Manhattan. Dan succumbs to some of the deadly disease-carrying parasites that thrived in the filthy, overcrowded tenement buildings. He has a go at cooking with some cutting edge 19th century ingredients ? clothes dye and floor cleaner ? added to disguise reeking fetid meat. And he marvels at some of the incredible feats of engineering that transformed not just the city, but the world

BBC Diet A Horizon Guide (2010)



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Dr Susan Jebb takes a look through nearly fifty years of amazing BBC archive of mankinds relationship with what we eat, charting the shift from the malnutrition of the past to todays obesity epidemic.
This is the story of our attempt to control nature through the wholesale industrialisation of food production in our search for enough to eat, and the consequences of that massive shift in our diet on the shape of our bodies, and the diseases that kill us.
From the BBCs original eccentric scientist Magnus Pyke comparing the virtues of artificial additives to a Beethoven sonata, to the tragic side effects of diet pills, Horizon and the BBC have covered it all.
On her journey through the decades, Dr Jebb explores how scientists have played a crucial role both in transforming the way our food is produced, but also in attempting to understand the biological mechanisms that determine why it is that some of us have become so large.



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BBC Everything and Nothing (2011)



Everything and Nothing
Two-part documentary which deals with two of the deepest questions there are – what is everything, and what is nothing?
In two epic, surreal and mind-expanding films, Professor Jim Al-Khalili searches for an answer to these questions as he explores the true size and shape of the universe and delves into the amazing science behind apparent nothingness.

Part 1: Everything
The first part, Everything, sees Professor Al-Khalili set out to discover what the universe might actually look like. The journey takes him from the distant past to the boundaries of the known universe. Along the way he charts the remarkable stories of the men and women who discovered the truth about the cosmos and investigates how our understanding of space has been shaped by both mathematics and astronomy.

Part 2: Nothing
The second part, Nothing, explores science at the very limits of human perception, where we now understand the deepest mysteries of the universe lie. Jim sets out to answer one very simple question – what is nothing? His journey ends with perhaps the most profound insight about reality that humanity has ever made. Everything came from nothing. The quantum world of the super-small shaped the vast universe we inhabit today, and Jim can prove it.



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BBC Banking with Hitler



Swiss banks stand accused of collaborating with the Nazis during World War II. This was suspected at the time by by U.S. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who began investigating this collaboration. He found the Swiss were not alone. His archives reveal that both British and American bankers continued to do business with Hitler, even as Germany was invading Europe and bombing London.

This investigative film shows in detail the roles played by the Anglo-German banking clique. Key members of the Bank of England together with their German counterparts established the BIS, the Bank for International Settlement, which laundered the plundered gold of Europe. On its board were key Nazis such as Walther Funk and Hjalamar Schact The president of BIS was an American, Thomas McKittrick, who readily socialized with leading Nazis. Not only the BIS, but other allied banks worked hand in hand with the Nazis. One of the biggest American banks kept a branch open in Occupied Paris and, with full knowledge of the managers in the U.S., froze the accounts of French Jews.

Deprived of money to escape France, many ended up in death camps. When Pres. Roosevelt died in April 1945, Morganthau lost his protector and his crusade against the banks came to an end. He was further weakened when men in his department were accused of being Communists during the McCarthy era. This incredible story contains interviews with surviving members of banking families and Morganthaus investigative team as well as newly found archive material.


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BBC The Moscow Theatre Siege



The Russian authorities insisted their secret weapon was not lethal. The claim provoked contempt from the victims families, and incredulity among doctors and scientists around the world. But were the Russians actually right? The Russians offered just one clue. And in Germany there was a scientist who had the means to test it: a urine sample taken from one of the survivors shortly after he was freed. Horizon follows as extremely sensitive tests are performed to find out if the Russians were telling the truth, and uncovers a deeper secret. With the help of doctors and scientists in America, Germany and Britain, Horizon unpicks the mystery of the Moscow theatre siege."


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