Supersapiens, the Rise of the Mind

Gold Fever

A hard-hitting look at the destructive and exploitative impacts of transnational mining. Canada’s mining companies are meeting increasing resistance from communities in Guatemala and other countries i...

How to Build

Britain's iconic and 'secretive' engineering companies reveal how they build the world's most amazing machines. The first part of the series "How to build a nuclear submarine" a documentary following...

Life Below Zero: First Alaskans

Follows Alaskan Natives who are focusing on their right to preserve their threatened ways of life, to ensure its survival for the next thousand years.

Dream the Impossible

Talan Skeels-Piggins was paralysed in 2003 when a car side-swiped him and he ploughed his motorbike head-on into oncoming traffic. He was told he had just a 30 percent chance of survival and would nev...

The Planets

Documentary series tracing mankind's exploration of our solar system.

How to Build a Planet

The series uses stunning interactive CGI to reveal step-by-step how a world is put together. With a little help from the world's top scientists and engineers, Hammond will build the Earth and Solar Sy...

How Cities Work

We turn on the shower and there’s clean water. We buy food grown on the other side of the world from the shop next door. We get the train, tube or light railway into the office. We boot up the compute...

The Science of Doctor Who

Britain's popular TV physicist, Professor Brian Cox explores the universe of the world's favorite Time Lord, revealing the science behind the spectacle and explaining the physics that allows Doctor Wh...

We Need to Talk About A.I.

Conflict between man and machine has been a science fiction staple for over a century. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Terminator the perceived threat posed by super-intelligent robots has been expl...