Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure is a 1999 BBC television documentary presented by Michael Palin. It records Palin's travels as he visited many sites where Ernest Hemingway had been. The sites include Spain, Chicago, Paris, Italy, Africa, Key West, Cuba, and Idaho. After the trip was over Michael Palin wrote a book about the journey and his experiences. This book contains both Palin's text and many pictures by Basil Pao, the stills photographer who was on the team.

Inside Cinema

Short films taking you to the heart of the movies.

How Drugs Work

Using visual effects and CGI the effects of drugs on the human body are examine, and the myths and controversies that surround them confronted.

Easy Ways to Live Well

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Steph McGovern reveal the easy life fixes we can all use to dramatically improve our diet, fitness and mental well-being.

Motorway Cops

Cameras catch the intense action that follows the law enforcers of Britain's motorways as they pursue criminals of all types.

Gardeners' World

Gardeners' World is a long-running BBC Television programme about gardening, first broadcast in 1968 and still running as of 2013. Its first episode was presented by Ken Burras and came from Oxford Botanical Gardens. The magazine BBC Gardeners' World is a tie-in to the programme. Most of its episodes have been 30 minutes in length, although there are many specials that last longer. The 2008 and 2009 series used a 60-minute format.

The Twinstitute

Doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken put competing health theories to the test with the help of 30 other pairs of identical twins.

Taboo Latin America

Strange practices of various Latin American cultures.

Obsesión

The Ally

Extreme Delivery

Documentary series focusing on the challenge involving the most massive, curious and impressive air transportation.

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

This revealing series follows environmental activist Greta Thunberg as she seeks to raise awareness of the accelerating climate change and spread her message, that we must act to drastically reduce our carbon emissions.

WWII: Battle for Europe

After years of shifty threats and menacing troop movements, World War II hit Europe with all its devious force; bringing with it a level of depravity and destruction previously unseen to the men and women it touched. It didn't take long before it went down in history as the worst international conflict ever seen, and as in every war before it, it left nothing but questions in its wake.

The People v. The Klan

A four-part docuseries about the little-known true story of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Alabama, who took down the Ku Klux Klan after the brutal murder and lynching of her son, Michael. He was just nineteen years old and found dead, hanging from a tree in Mobile, on March 21, 1981. Black community leaders immediately suspected it was a Klan lynching, but local law enforcement was slow to acknowledge that the murder was racially motivated. When the investigation stalled, Beulah Mae and local Black leaders refused to back down until Michael’s killers and the hateful organization they belonged to received justice.

Le rêve olympique

Explorer Investigation

Sex Diaries

A frank, intimate and warm-hearted examination of modern love and relationships that lifts the lid on three hidden and unusual worlds.

Best Walk

Twenty fiercely unique dancers compete across NYC to see: who’s got the Best Walk?

Calm

Chef Pınar Taşdemir silently shares the experience of cooking in the comfort of nature, away from the intersection of the city, in a visual and auditory separation. Turn up the volume to calm down.

Steam Train Britain

The Age of Steam was born in Britain, it was one of the greatest technological breakthroughs the world had ever seen. It changed everything from the food we could eat to the jobs we could do and it powered Britain's rise to the summit of imperial power. It lasted 130 years and then was gone. Lines were axed and steam was replaced by diesel and electric trains. Yet out of the ashes the steam lines rose again as enthusiasts re-opened old lines and fired up long silent steam engines. Today the heritage lines are thriving bringing the age of steam back to life and with it bringing joy to 8 million passengers every year.