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- Following a tragic car accident in Greece, an American tourist finds himself at the center of a dangerous political conspiracy and on the run for his life.
- A woman who finds a treasure is torn between two men: one who wants to sell it, and one who wants to donate it to Greece.
- The Australian version of the reality/travel series where teams of people compete in a race around the world for the A$250,000 first prize.
- An in-depth voyage into the sci-fi film Alien (1979) with the visionary filmmakers who created it. See how one of the most terrifying movies of all time came to life 40 years ago, inspired by ancient mythology and our universal fears.
- This captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Come on a cinematic tour of their iconic buildings all over the world, from a library in Russia, a student dormitory at MIT, an art collector's private house near Paris, to a pavilion in Venice. Narrated by experts in the field and featuring never before seen archive footage, Aalto tells the love story of an extraordinary couple with a great passion for human scale architecture.
- The globe trotting trip that Henry Jones, Jr. sets out on in the early 1900s next takes him and his family to Russia. A few acts of clumsiness puts Indy at odds with his father who is greatly displeased with Indy. Indy runs away into the Russian countryside and wakes in the morning on a haystack. He encounters an odd, cantankerous old man named Leo Tolstoy, who is in full agreement that "hell" is other people. Both are running away to seek a simpler life. They cross the countryside, encountering colorful Gypsies and avoiding fierce Imperial Cossack troops. The hardships of the journey make Indy homesick, but he won't soon forget his journey with the stubborn old man. Indy's next destination is Greece, where his mother Anna realizes that father and son need to spend more time together. The two bristle at each other's company as they explore the sites of ancient Greece, but Henry finally reaches past Indy's impudence and stubbornness when the topic turns to philosophy and the teachings of Aristotle. A series of misadventures lead them to an isolated monastery perched high on the peak of a mountain. While studying in the library, Indy meets Nikos Kazantzakis, the writer who would some day write Zorba the Greek. Lessons on causality come in handy on the harrowing trip in a tiny cage reeled up a thousand-foot mountainside.
- Margot Santorini is an aristocratic woman in 1936 in Greece, who amuses herself pursuing a shallow loveless affair with a nobleman, but unexpectedly falls in love with a political activist.
- A tangled drama of cruelty and manipulation, attraction and love.
- Inspired by the story of the battle of Dovra monastery in 1822 in Veria, Greece, the love story of two young Greeks unfolds as they prepare to secretly get married in a church that is surrounded by Turkish troops.
- After a failed mission, a British ex-spy accepts one last assignment, against the backdrop of a rare meeting between an Israeli and an Arab diplomat. In this dirty ballet of spies, two alluring women pose as friends. Can they be trusted?
- A BBC documentary series on geology presented by Aubrey Manning.
- A DVD that gives the viewer a stunning visual presentation of a country that many consider the cradle of civilzation
- Unique footage shows one of the world's greatest athletes in action, as he wins Gold and breaks the World Record - making him the first athlete in history to hold European, Commonwealth and Olympic gold medals simultaneously.
- This is the first of a series of two documentaries concerning the way the cinema industry is not respecting the author works as they were conceived, in the many ways this can be done. This first documentary is dedicated to technical ways that industry implements thinking to be an improvement to make better public oriented movies, but what's really happening is that these works are being sadly manipulated.
- The Seven Wisest Men of Ancient Greece did not include Socrates, Plato or Aristotle. However, even the Seven Sages would choose only One as the Wisest of All.
- Following Beat Poet Gregory Corso - literary compatriot of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs -- throughout Europe, discovering his past, and facing his death.
- Prometheus, a Titan who defies the gods and gives fire to mankind, acts for which he is subjected to perpetual punishment.
- Nostradamus is taking about something very interesting.
- A short documentary about the theatrical performance of Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound", which was presented at the Delphic Festivals. The first record of Aggelos Sikelianos' efforts to present ancient Greek tragedy in an ancient theatre.
- Melina Mercouri takes viewers on a tour of Greece.
- A documentary which explores the naked truth behind the story of modern Olympics by following three hopeful athletes from Italy, Greece and Spain. In it they discover by competing in ancient Greek and English Olimpicks; why the famous torch race was never run at Olympia; how the ancients in fact actually competed; and the true story of the man who really started the modern Games.
- Coverage of the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens.