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- MISSION X explores the lives of the great inventors and scientists who made groundbreaking contributions to humanity.
- Portrait of the polar Eskimo Minik, who was shipped to the American Museum of Natural History with his family in the late 19th century
- ...a never ending story from childhood ...and how I met the English Patient.
- Documentary about the employment of former Nazi judges in the federal German judiciary.
- Four episodes based on authentic family stories about Germans in America from their origins to WW2. Filmed at original locations, rare archive material was woven into interviews to create a lively documentary highlight.
- German engineer Rudolf Diesel, of modest birth, dreams of designing a new type of combustion motor, efficient enough to make machine power affordable for the masses. He neglected to play on safe concerning the patent, which would cost him dearly. Leading industrialist Krupp decided to work with him to contribute the Diesel engine to the imperial Kriegsmarine's rush to technologically and strategically challenge the British Royal Navy, not what naive idealistic pacifist Diesel intended. After naval applications, especially in submarines, others like for cars would follow much later. Rudolf himself disappeared mysteriously, wile feared he would sell his knowhow to England, aboard a cruisers in 1913.
- Young Italian Guglielmo Marconi emigrated from Bologna province to his mother's native England and dazzled the Admiralty with his invention, wireless communication. The German Kaiser wanted to get hold of it at all cost, realizing the military potential, especially at sea. An English consortium soon paid a fortune for his patent. After the US Navy dumps him, organizing all necessary tests proves an uphill battle.
- 1982–6.4 (9)TV EpisodeDuring the 1790s French revolution, the still royal academy of science sanctions a project to create the metric system of universal measures on natural foundations, to substitute the chaotic feudal tradition of local and regional arbitrary measures. A key measure, for length, is to be the meter, defined as 1/10.000 of the meridian from equator to Northpole. A scientific expedition is the determine the exact length of the part of the one that goes trough Barcelona, Rodez and Paris by old-fashioned triangulation. Despite new advanced measuring equipment, the landscape and especially political circumstances, both wars and French internal regime brutality, make it a 9 year nightmare for the two scientists which start from opposite sides.
- In the early 19th century, North English commoner engineer 'machines doctor' George Stephenson, son of a coal miner, invented a steam-engine driving alternative to transport by canal barge. As this early train would cost the aristocratic canal owners a monopolistic fortune, they ordered a certain Bradshaw to sabotage the inventor by any means, mainly propaganda and politics, even violence. Nevertheless, he produced successful tests and found investors, so he gets a first railway build trough bog land.