Films and programs like Tropic of Cancer

POV

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 8.1

POV is a Public Broadcasting Service public television series which features independent nonfiction films. POV is an initialism for point of view. POV is the longest-running showcase on television fo...

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The Mayfair Set

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 8.3

The Mayfair Set is a series of programmes produced by Adam Curtis for the BBC, first broadcast in the summer of 1999. The programme looked at how buccaneer capitalists of hot money were allowed to sh...

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The Life of Muhammad

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The Life of Muhammad is a 2011 British three-part documentary miniseries examining the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the origins of Islam. The documentary was directed by Faris Kermani, wri...

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Heston's Feasts

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 8.4

Heston's Feasts is a television cookery programme starring chef Heston Blumenthal and produced by Optomen for Channel 4. The programme follows Blumenthal as he conceptualizes and prepares unique feast...

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Friends Like These

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Friends Like These is a British game show that was broadcast on BBC One from 6 November 1999 until 1 March 2003. It was presented by Ant & Dec from 1999-2001 and later by Ian Wright until 2003.

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Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Documentary presented by Professor Simon Schaffer which charts the amazing and untold story of automata - extraordinary clockwork machines designed hundreds of years ago to mimic and recreate life. T...

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Paul Merton in China

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Paul Merton in China was a four-part television series broadcast on Five commencing from 21 May 2007. It follows the journey of Paul Merton, comedian and writer, and his interpreter Emma, as they voya...

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Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 8.4

The documentary series aims to reshape the way the public sees cancer and strip away some of the fear and misunderstanding that has long surrounded it. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuit...

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