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- A brother and sister are split up after their mother dies, their father remarries, and their new stepmother rejects them.
- The Hoop (Pota) tells the story of Ahmet, who took action to find a solution when there was no place to play basketball in his neighborhood. Ahmet decides to work after his father, who went to Russia, has not sent money for a while. Living in a poor neighborhood, Ahmet starts to work at the market in a luxury and secure complex during his time left from school. Starting to like a girl named Kezban, Ahmet decides to play basketball when he sees her interest in Erhan, who comes to school with basketball equipment. However, there is no place where Ahmet can play basketball. Ahmet takes action to remove this obstacle...
- Sema and her husband Osman who live in the Babadag district of Denizli, Türkiye, have to leave their home because of a landslide, like many Babadag residents. While Sema has difficulty leaving this place due to the emotional bond; memories and ties with her mother, her husband Osman wants to live in an area where new houses are distributed that will improve their social situation. Sema struggles between the pressure caused by climate change and her connection with her mother.
- In the 1877-1878 Ottoman-Russian War, four veterans who fought together on the Pleven front gave their commander a martyr during a raid in Pleven. Years later, in the 1915 Dardanelles War, they heard that Lieutenant Yusuf, the nephew of their commander with the same name, was captured. Four old men and a handicapped young man undertake a prisoner rescue operation.
- A dramatic story of a 10 year old child, Fuat, who lost his parents during a fire in Istanbul of 1945. Fuat's father Ali had apperantly left his home in Üsküp, today's Skopje in North Macedonia years ago following major disagreements with his brother Macit. Young Fuat learns the presence of his uncle Macit and aunts Aliye and Nur in Üsküp from an old letter from his grandfather to his father, found in a wooden box left from the fire. Neighbour Ali who looks after orphan Fuat after the tragic incident and young friend Mehmet joins Fuat on his difficult journey from Istanbul to Skopje during wartime difficulties in the region to find his uncle and aunts.
- After briefly looking at the pseudoscience of astrology, Carl Sagan examines the history of astronomy from ancient times through Ptolemy to Johannes Kepler.
- Carl Sagan examines the nature of comets before turning to a close look at the planet Venus.
- Carl Sagan examines the origin, development, and complexity of life on Earth and speculates on the possibility of life developing elsewhere in the universe.
- Carl Sagan examines our planet's place in the universe by leading us on a journey from Earth to Deep Space.
- Richard Rudgley goes in search of evidence of the barbarians of the dark ages, people whose names have for 1500 years been bywords for mindless brutality. The real truth about the barbarians who marched across Europe during the Dark Ages is more shocking than what you may know. Where did they come from? Who are their descendants? Are any of their techniques and inventions still used? Richard discovers the secrets of forgotten empires, and of mighty clashes throughout Europe. The art, society and cultural legacy of the barbarians are shown to have shaped and moulded the destiny of Europe even more than the Roman Empire. In the first part of the journey through the Dark Ages we will be tracing the legacies of the Huns, Vandals and Goths, to ask whether the 'dark ages' represent a resurfacing of much older tribal lines. Sites in Austria show how sophisticated pre-Roman communities had become with evidence of stunning craftsmanship and sophisticated farming techniques which defy the image of a mindless rabble we have come to accept without challenge.
- On the second part of his journey through the dark ages Richard Rudgley continues into the age of the wandering peoples, the Volkerwanderung. These Northern people enjoyed a golden age unaffected by Rome and just 30 years after the Romans relinquished Britain, the 'Anglo-Saxons' made their move. The bedraggled legions are in retreat. Walls are pulled down. Mosaics shattered. And yet there never was a people called Anglo-Saxon. We look at the lasting influence of Saxon leaders like Alfred the Great, and his blue print for social justice.
- The third assault on the tattered remains of Roman civilization came from even further North, where the melting glacial ice had created immense sheltered fjords, leaving its inhabitants little choice but the sea. These fearless navigators understood that dominion over the oceans was the key to their ambitions. Where the Romans expanded incrementally, the Vikings adopted a bolder, more aggressive approach. So was it the Dark Age which failed Europe, or the stifling uniformity of the great Roman experiment? Were the lost tribes more victim than failure? Richard Rudgley will hope to shed new light on the real secrets of the so-called Dark Age.