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- Set sail on the world's mightiest ships as they embark on some of the most challenging, dangerous jobs a working boat will ever face. These marvels of marine technology are built for anything the heavens and oceans can dole out, and the dedicated men and women who work aboard these ships are equally battle-tested. From a state-of-the-art fishing vessel to an extreme Arctic and Antarctic cruise liner to the largest floating hospital on the planet, we give you a first-class, firsthand look at life aboard these remarkable ships.
- British couples from all walks of life embark on a special mission to look for housing property in various places around the globe.
- This 8 part series tells us about indigenous peoples of the Americas before the Spanish explorer Columbus arrived. Each episode shows us via re-enactments about a particular subject. We learn about their art, architecture, archaeology, Science and Technology etc.
- This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh
- This 3 part series explains the various strategies and battles between the French and English in the Hundred Years' War that took place between the 14 th and 15 th centuries. The host has a Doctorate in Cultural History and she visits the various towns and country area that were sites for events. The host is very articulate and passionate and with a pleasing voice.
- Art writer Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists.
- Dan Cruickshank narrates a documentary showing 3 beautiful castles of gothic fantasy that were built during the reign of King Ludwig II. The walls of the castles were painted with scenes of romanticized chivalry and battles. This takes place in Germany.
- Through this 8 part series Phil chooses 100 homes that typically represent the period that they were built in. These homes vary in size, materials used, style and location across Britain. There is an 8 th part not listed in the episode list, which is the "Contemporary" edition, which takes us up to date from the 1970s.
- In 3 episodes it is explained how silver was at one times worth more than gold. China used silver as their currency and the west had to pay in silver for Chinese goods. This angered the British and sought a commodity that the Chinese would buy. China did not covet any goods that the west had, except one. This led to a calamity in China and led to wars.
- Dan Cruikshank tours Kinross House in Scotland built by Sir William Bruce. This house changed everything. In the late 17 th century a completely different type of grand house began to appear. This was the first fully classical house in Scotland.
- Fiona Bruce, a British Television journalist, uncovers the story of Leonardo da Vinci, who is considered to be one of the greatest artists that ever lived. She visits, Florence, New York, London, Milan, Paris and Tuscany in her journey. She also decloses a previously lost painting and speaks with the restorer and an art dealer in New York who have known about this painting for 2 years.
- Sarah Daniels and her brother Phil are both in the Real Estate business. Sarah prefers the suburbs and Phil the urban areas. They each show a couple of prospect buyers 3 properties. We see the properties and what the couple think of them, and they choose one from each pairing. Then at the end the couple pick one that they like the best.
- Holly Holden invites us to view with her some stately homes in the UK. One episode is about Blenheim Palace, the only privately owned palace in England, and is the birthplace of Winston Churchill and the home of the twelfth Duke of Marlborough.
- This 3 part series is presented by the British Art Critic, Andrew Graham-Dixon. He explores the Low Countries of the Netherlands and Belgium and how history has influenced the area's art, architecture and culture. Cloth was used in the area's first expression of art in the making of tapestries going back to the 14 th century. They were the No. 1 luxury item of the day. The Low Countries were well placed geographically for markets for their art.
- Also called "Mozart in London". Lucy Worsley travels to Salzburg and London tracing the life of Wolfgang A. Mozart and especially the year he and his family stayed in London. Wolfgang was born 8pm Jan 27th in 1756. The family were devout Catholics. His father was a music teacher and his mother Anna Maria gave birth to 7 children but 5 had died in infancy. Mozart's sister was an exceptional piano player also. It was on London soil that Wolfgang would compose his first symphony. His father had to learn marketing in London to advertise the concerts, and Wolfgang did play to King George. But things would take a strange turn before they headed home.
- Ray is a UK Naturalist and Bushcraft expert and he travels to various places in the UK to see the Flora and Fauna. He often speaks to other experts in the area about the local animals and plants. There are episodes about Barrowdale, Dartmoor, Thames Path and the Isle of Skye, which are all missing from this list.
- Pierre-Yves Cousteau, Jacques Yves Cousteau's youngest child, explore the Meditteranean and the 4 reserve areas that have banned fishing for 11 years and compares the conditions. The reserves are rich in all sea life compared to the overfishing in the rest of the sea, all except for red coral.
- We see 3 stories about the bond between horses and humans in Norway. A woman who competed in the world's longest horse race, a mountain horse family living off the land and a war veteran with post- traumatic stress disorder who engages in horse therapy.
- Blink is the story of Sally, a one time could-have-been champion in an illicit underground world where things can change in the blink of an eye.
- From the Vancouver Public Library Eric McCormack introduces the 5 finalists and their books. A front line medical worker reads a paragraph from each book, and the finalist is announced and awarded. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the event is not in the usual format of taking place in an hotel, but the finalists are in their homes, we see them on video.
- The New Silk Road is the name for China's trillion-dollar plan to create new trading routes and expand its ambitions of global leadership. In this four-episode series, Anthony Morse journeys to Pakistan, Egypt and Iran as it tracks the huge infrastructure projects and soft-power cultural moves that are spearheading China's bold new economic diplomacy in the region.
- Prisoner 10874 is cast deep into the cold dark chambers of solitary confinement. On the brink of insanity, a voice reaches out to him and helps him regain control and through time, teaches him that escape can only become a reality if he learns to tap into the hidden psychic talents of the human mind. From solitude, the wise man preaches, comes evolution.
- The De Young exhibit has 11 galleries of new and achieved works of glass artistic team of Dale Chihuly. The workshop is in Ballard, Seattle, Washington state. Chihuly has his work displayed all around the world. We see here the process of making many large pieces.
- Since 1913 Verona has hosted a summer Opera Festival. The Arena di Verona's General Manager and Artistic Director invites Zeinab Badawi to see for herself how Cecilia Gasdia and her team are pulling together to make this year's festival work during a pandemic.
- A reporter from the UK visits Mongolia, to a family living on the Steppes as herders and how climate change is ruining their business by killing off their animals, to the capital and we see how the pollution caused by people burning raw coal is 10-40 times the safe limit. Many thousands of people there are not on the electricity grid and so cannot heat their homes any other way. Mongolia is rich in coal deposits. We see how the hospitals have the same children coming in time after time with breathing difficulties. The reporter talks to the mayor of the city, but they do not seem to be doing anything about it. Mongolia has huge extremes in temperatures -54C to +44C and so is more affected by climate change than most places.
- After a prior argument with her boyfriend, Blue ponders about a letter from an admirer she happens to find in her purse. Understanding the letter could literally open a new set of complications, she ignores her curiosity and continues through her day. Will she fall victim to her impulses or simply pretend she never saw this declaration of love? Let's find out..
- Nina, the Danish woman, uncovers a credit card scam at a strip club that she visits with Terry the journalist, while they were looking for her sister. Nina takes her info to the police, but they don' t have much to go on. Nina decides to investigate herself. Terry gathers information on an accountant.
- Some Dublin racists throw a firebomb in to a fast food place run by a refugee family. Maureen who is also a reporter finds the dirt on the Chemacran merger. Terry and Cora, who is the dead scientist's wife, discover a dead body.
- The host travels by train across Bolivia and he interviews workers in the industry about the state of the train network which has seen many closures since privatization in the 1990s. Where there are lines, people walk for 2-3 days to get access to the train.
- The police and Harry find that a group of doctors are in a syndicate that owns race horses. One is a kidney Specialist and another is a Plastic Surgeon with a gambling problem. A young woman is going to pay for a kidney transplant privately as the National Health Service wait list is long. She and her husband wish to have a baby after that. There is a helicopter accident and it all becomes a complicated story to figure out for the team of Pathologists who have a temporary visitor called Nicki who is borrowing the lab to obtain a narrative about an Iron Age family whose bones she has to examine.
- 1999– 49mTV-G7.5 (18)TV EpisodeKevin McCloud visits and revisits 4 years later to see how a senior couple orders from Germany a specially designed house to be delivered in sections to their site in England. The site originally had their other home on for 40 years. The new home will be built in the factory in Germany and erected on site in 6 days. After erection the interior be be finished within a few months. The couple will live on site in a caravan during the build.
- After her boat is found floating on the lake, an extensive search gets underway for Maud van Keulen. Is there a connection between her disappearance and the possible return of Olaf Witte? The Criminal Investigation Department is called in to help. Then something is found on the water.
- Various residents of Schouwendam recall what they remember from the time when Olaf and Alice disappeared. But it soon turns out that some of these stories contradict each other considerably. Karlijn van Andel tries to distinguish the lies from the truth and to discover what really occurred in 1995.
- David takes a helicopter tour over Washington state and Mount St. Helens volcano which had a huge eruption in 1980. It killed over 50 people and David is shown the route of the lava from the air. He continues south to Portland and takes part in some Drag racing, which is a totally new experience for him. Then while in Portland he visits a factory that makes tractor trailers. He takes a trip in one on part of the Oregon Trail which brought almost half a million immigrants into this area in the 1800s. There is a lovely view of Mr. Hood.
- Sarah looks and finds a Victorian house in Creemore Ontario to renovate and then rent out. The contractors start work on the house and we see progress in 2 bedrooms and a bathroom. Every room needs total renovation. There is also an old addition to the house, but Sarah decides, along with Tommy's help, to demolish that and build a new 2 storey addition.
- As Fall begins, young northern gannets leap off cliffs, chipmunks gather supplies, prairie rattlesnakes give birth, the moose start the rutting season and the Sand Pipers arrive in the thousands from up north to feed in Fundy Bay and fatten up before flying on their way to South America.
- Sarah searches for ways to add some curb appeal on a tight budget to her house renovation that she hopes to rent out for vacationers. She decides what to do with the hundred year old 2 storey barn on the property, and Tommy comes up with a great idea about diverting people from the old front door to the new side door.
- Neil Oliver learns why the Americans attacked the port of Whitehaven. He discovers the coast between Whitehaven and Southport in England. Including the Isle of Man, the meaning of their flag depicting a 3 legged man. The Isle of Man has the oldest Parliament in the world. Beautiful overhead photography, as in the whole series.
- This island lies to the south of the Great Barrier Reef. We see how birds, sea turtles and fish survive and breed in this tropical island with many very surprising behaviours of some species. This little island has a giant role to play in the lives of many.
- This island was cut off from south Australia 10,000 years ago. We see the Kelly Hall Caves that house many animal bones of trapped bodies. The island has remained virtually free of predators. The Kangaroo Island Kangaroos are a sub species of Western Grey Kangaroos that evolved in isolation after the island was separated. They are shorter, chubbier, furrier and slower than the mainland variety. The 30 cm size Fairy Penguins live here, but the numbers are declining. As dawn approaches they set out to sea to feed. The largest species of Cuttlefish live here and the beautiful Sea Dragons. A large colony of Sealions live in Seal Bay and there is a species of Monitor Lizard here that grow to 1.5 metres long.
- Christmas Island lies far off the shores of Australia in the NW, and is the tip of an extinct volcano. They have the largest number of land crabs in the world and the Red Crab has the largest number in a migration in the world. There are about ten million who live in the rain forest in the centre of the island and once a year make the perilous 5 km journey to the ocean where they mate, The females wait 3 days for incubation in the burrows that the males made in advance of the females arriving. They wait for the Neap tide, when the difference between high and low tide is the smallest, then females, with their sacs of eggs under their belly, make their way down the cliffs, and after a bit of a jig, they release the eggs in the ocean. The eggs hatch immediately into larvae in the sea, The female parents make the long journey home inland. After a month in the sea the larvae morph into baby crabs and make their way back to the beach. Then after 3-5 days at the beach, their lungs change into the air breathing crab stage. Now they are ready to make the journey inland. It will be 4-5 years before their first annual migration to the ocean to reproduce.
- Fraser Island lies to the south end of the Great Barrier Reef and is the largest sand island the world at 120 kms long. It is home to a variety of creatures, including the Fraser Island Dingo, which is regarded as the purest Dingo in Australia as it has not bred with other dogs like some have on the mainland.
- This episode illustrates that Napoleon was not the megalomaniac that he is often depicted due to the fact that he believed in justice for all and tolerance of all religions. We see here some of his accomplishments despite some violent opposition from much of Europe. He gave credit and promotions where it was due even to folk that were low-born.
- Sarah and Tommy are decorating the upstairs bedrooms and bathrooms, but Sarah has had a trip of a lifetime planned with the family for 2 years so they jet off to Kenya for their Safari. Meanwhile the builders make great strides with siding and ceilings. A mistake with a window awaits Sarah's return from vacation.
- Sarah totally re-designs the open kitchen and dining area. A wall is taken down and a beam erected. She and Tommy start with their choice of marble for backsplashes and trim. Then on to choosing the cabinets, which becomes. ore difficult than she expects. So back to the marble store to re-think their first choice. Next decision is to whether to use a bench seat on one side of the dining table. As the rooms come together at the end, a stumbling block occurs with the cabinet handles.
- 2017–202144mTV-PG7.6 (89)TV EpisodeOne of their close friends's mother invested in "Miami Springs" supposedly some prime real estate which Frankie discovers, does not exist. The team sets up a plan, with the help of an old friend of Frankie's to get her money back. The Pathologist wants to go back to school, can she change her work day shift to evening shift, so that she can go to school in the day?
- Waldemar Januszczak challenges the idea of the Renaissance having fixed origins in Italy and showcases the ingenuity in both technique and ideas behind great artists such as Van Eyck, Memling, Van dear Weyden, Cranach, Riemenschneider and Durer.
- We hear how the train tracks to Churchill were washed away, in parts, by the Spring flood. So with no road to Churchill, the only way to get there now is to fly. So they lost 80% of their tourist industry since this happened. After a year of no rail repair, it has finally started. We see a young woman who was attacked by a Polar Bear on Halloween, and how a brave man saved her, and then others joined in. Two were flown to Winnipeg to the hospital.
- Profiling Fortune, a small town in Newoundland that is looking to revive is tourist industry.
- Canadians might know Nipigon as the home of the $106 million bridge that closed shortly after it opened; Nipigon's plywood mill burned down 10 years ago; the former mill town is now touting it's world-dass hiking, climbing and fishing.