Of the 125 prisoners at Badam Bagh Women’s Prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, approximately half are there for crimes like drug smuggling, murder and attempted suicide bombing.The others are imprisoned for “moral crimes” that include running away from home, adultery and premarital sex.
Eight Green Berets from US Army Special Forces go deep inside Iraq to gather info on a key Iraqi location when they are suddenly attacked. It’s a harrowing encounter with sleek coordination between air and ground support.
2 DVDs on Landscape Photography – Join landscape and wildlife photographer Moose Peterson as he gets his first chance to shoot the beauty of scenic landmarks. Moose talks about his preferences for camera gear and how he composes landscape shots. He shares some tips for predicting what the weather is going to do, and goes through the entire workflow for creating a time lapse video to share the experience of a changing landscape. Follow Moose as he photographs one of the most impressive landscapes in America. Complete details and list of tutorials on next page.
It is a doomsday that is foretold in the Mayan calendar, the Chinese oracle of the I Ching…even in an Internet-based prophetic software program: December 21st, 2012. Is there any truth to the prophecy that the world will end on that specific date? And why do so many oracles throughout history seem to point to that same dreaded doomsday? This fascinating special cuts through the myths and offers a fact-based examination of the Doomsday prophecy.
The center of the world famous Rio Carnaval is the Samba Parade – a fierce competition of vast scale among 13 neighborhood samba schools. Watching them are a panel of expert judges, more than 60,000 spectators and a TV audience of nearly half a billion. The unexpected is always expected during one of the largest parties on earth, and INSIDE is right there to find out how Rio survives and Carnaval continues to thrive.
This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment.
This documentary tells the story of the world’s most incredible city, capturing the rich mosaic of the city’s Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities. Covering a history of over 4,000 years, the film explores the founding of the city; the birth and convergence of the world’s three major monotheistic religions; and the key events in Jerusalem’s history as described in the varied religious sacred books.
In the final months of World War II, American troops discovered a top-secret facility in Germany with an advanced batwing-shaped jet fighter. If Nazi engineers had had more time, would this jet have ultimately changed the outcome of the war?
With one of the earth’s fault lines seemingly readying for a violent explosion, experts assess the possibility of a devastating mega tsunami.
Catastrophe is sadly never far from the news headlines, with this year’s tsunami in Japan and the Chilean earthquake of 2010 continuing to loom large in the memories of millions. In the UK premiere of Doomsday Earth join experts who examine the likelihood of the planet being struck by both a mega-tsunami and a mega-quake. Their findings are not good news. It seems a giant fault line beneath the sea is readying itself for a violent explosion of activity, and the race is on to calculate when rather than if, this ‘megathrust’ will do its worst. They’re focus is also on the terrifying trend that has seen the Earth struck by a series of devastating natural disasters. And they predict that the worst could still be yet to come…where do you think Mother Nature will strike next?
From the Emmy-winning team behind Planet Earth and The Blue Planet comes Frozen Planet, the epic tale of two disappearing wildernesses. The Arctic and Antarctic remain the greatest wildernesses on Earth. The scale and beauty of the scenery and the sheer power of the elements are unmatched anywhere else on our planet. And against all odds, these vast, frigid environments are teeming with life. Using the latest camera technology, Frozen Planet captures unimaginable imagery above and below the ice, and follows the extraordinary fluctuations that accompany the changes of seasons in this most extreme of environments, often for the first time.
Documentary exploring the real-life events behind Ridley Scott’s film Gladiator. The programme reveals the outlandish behaviour of Commodus, the Roman emperor portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, who competed in public hand-to-hand combat for entertainment and killed several high-ranking senators to maintain control of the empire. The life, culture and intensive training of the gladiators is also examined, and two archaeologists get surprising results when they conduct an experiment to discover the possible attacks and defences used during battle.
From the director of Into the Deep, comes a magnificent expedition that takes you 300 miles off the west coast of Costa Rica to the remote animal sanctuary of Cocos Island. This amazing underwater world shelters some of the ocean’s most feared and misunderstood predators. Island of the Sharks allows you to dive with manta rays, barracudas, giant sea turtles, porpoises and witness hundreds of sharks as they swim past you on the giant IMAX® screen. Produced by NOVA/WGBH Boston and Howard Hall Productions in association with The New England Aquarium.
