Britain is connected by miles of roads, canals, and railway. This series explores the history of how we get around this ancient island.
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Penguins on a Plane: Great Animal Moves follows the expert handlers entrusted with transporting some of the world's most precious and challenging cargo safely to their destinations.
Intercity 125 – Britain's own original high-speed train – rules the rails today, but this national icon is set to give way to hi-tech imports. It's time to celebrate the heroic story of a design classic that saved Britain's railways from terminal decline.
Liz McIvor looks at who built the nation's canal network, who funded it, those who worked on it and how they were regenerated following WWII.
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniseries that originally aired from 4 September 2003 to 16 October 2003 on BBC. The programme examines seven engineering feats that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.
In just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world. Captains of industry built empires through innovation, ingenuity, determination, and sheer ruthlessness, while the labor of millions of working men and women -- most of them immigrants from Ireland and Northern Europe -- helped reinvent the way America did business.
Half-hour program on the "real-life adventure" of big business. Newsman Eric Sevareid, who served as host, described the series as neither "chamber of commerce boosterism" nor anti-establishment; rather, "an effort to report how various industrial sectors actually work."
Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey get exclusive access to some of the largest factories in Britain to reveal the secrets behind production on an epic scale.
The Channel Tunnel stands as an engineering triumph and a testament to what can be achieved when two nations, Britain and France put aside their historic differences and work together. On the 25th anniversary of its opening, we reflect on what it took to build the longest undersea tunnel ever constructed.
The Transamazon highway was a gigantic saga, the greatest example of the pharaonic works of the Brazilian military government. But the road that would promote national integration was best known for linking the famine of the Northeast with the misery of the Amazon. This haunting docuseries follows the story of the construction of this highway and its morbid consequences.
Carrying nearly five million passengers per day, the London Tube is one of the world's oldest and busiest metro systems in the world. Today the Tube is undergoing a complete overhaul that is long overdue. Take a behind the scenes look into the daily lives of drivers, emergency personnel, operations managers, and many others among the near twenty thousand employees of this massive rail system, as they navigate the evolution of the London Tube.
Industry on Parade is a decade-long syndicated industrial television series produced by the National Association of Manufacturers, originally in collaboration with NBC and later by Arthur Lodge Productions. From 1950 to 1960, weekly episodes presented engaging short documentaries that highlighted U.S. industrial innovation, manufacturing processes, and business developments. Widely distributed to stations and educational outlets, the series promoted technological progress and American enterprise during the early Cold War era.
Tony Robinson goes for a walk through some of Britain's beautiful and historic landscapes.
Investigating mankind's insatiable necessity to move faster and further; for pleasure, for work, to explore, to survive.
The stories behind innovations such as TV, radio, phones, airplanes, motorcycles and power tools as well as the inventors including Nikola Tesla, William Harley, Alexander Graham Bell, Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker.
The birth and development of the Industrial Revolution is explored by visiting factories, mines, and other industrial relics where the modern world was made -- not by statesmen and philosophers, but by men, women and children with dirt on their hands.
Explore the last 100 years of aviation history in unprecedented detail. From the Wright brothers first flight to the Apollo moon landings and beyond, the series highlights milestones in an industry defined by innovation.
Guy Martin's love of industry and endeavour leads him to China, where he reveals the unseen side of its innovation, technological development and gigantic manufacturing.
The story of an empire: From its founding in 1922 to its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was shaped by revolutionary idealism, but also by oppression and decay. The USSR evolved from Stalinist terror through the Thaw under Khrushchev to political processes such as glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev. Finally, in 1991, it collapsed.
Kevin Hill is an American legal drama that aired on UPN during the 2004-2005 TV season. It was filmed and produced in Toronto, Canada.
When two brothers fall for two sisters, they quickly realize the age differences between them are too big to ignore.
Tim Mälzer and Steffen Henssler are getting their first joint primetime show – Es(s)calations are bound to happen! The two compete in a direct duel in their joint pop-up delivery service.
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
Noblewoman Wen Wan once idolized Su Xuanjing, the most revered lord in the imperial city, but her wedding night turned into betrayal, leading to her family’s tragic massacre. Reborn with a thirst for revenge, Wen Wan is determined to change her fate, only to uncover a deeper conspiracy behind the tragedy. As the massacre’s shadows rise again and secrets unfold, Wen Wan must navigate this treacherous path—will her second chance be enough to alter her destiny?
In 1945, as the War of Resistance Against Japan comes to an end, the Japanese army secretly transports a large quantity of poison gas bombs to China. Ou Xiao’an, the ace special agent of the military, is injured while escaping from the "810" poison gas research institute. He is inadvertently rescued by Tan Moqing, another agent. When he wakes up, he discovers that he has lost nearly four years of memory. As they work together to expose the Japanese conspiracy, Ou Xiao’an and Tan Moqing frequently join forces, ultimately unveiling the identities of the Japanese spies while also revealing their own roles as underground party members. However, a greater crisis looms ahead; they remain unaware of the whereabouts of the "810" research data and the hidden gas bombs. Faced with numerous dangers and obstacles, how should this group of lonely yet brave individuals advance and fight courageously?
Married couple Jaime (Wendell Ramos), the sole inheritor to the affluent Claveria Group of Companies, and Maita (Glaiza de Castro), having trouble starting their family, hire Lilian (Katrina Halili), daughter of their most trusted house helper, to be their surrogate. Lilian accepts, and later she gives birth to three beautiful girls.
Two ordinary panda cubs find themselves on countless adventures thanks to their new friend, Tommy, a little dragon. With the help of his magic soap bubbles, Tommy makes the impossible, possible!
Recently divorced Emma enjoys a whirlwind holiday romance with charming hotel proprietor Niko on the paradise island of Cyprus. When she realizes that Niko and his partner-in-crime George have scammed her out of her life savings, she embarks on a dangerous mission to get her money back, aided by her ex-husband Pete.
Directed and written by Yuliana Zakrevskaya, the show follows a zoopsychologist who becomes a murder suspect and must form a connection with a mysterious girl to prove his innocence.
