• 2015

Episode list

A Timewatch Guide
The Vikings: Foe Or Friend?
Mon, Jul 17, 2017
  • S4.E2
  • The Vikings: Foe Or Friend?
Alice Roberts explores BBC film archive to show how the views on Vikings and their culture have changed since the 1960s by shifting from their brutal side to their pioneering trading endeavors and integration into other cultures.
8.5 /10
Dictators and Despots
Mon, Jul 24, 2017
  • S4.E3
  • Dictators and Despots
David Olusoga examines fifty years of BBC documentary archives to try and discover why dictators can have such a powerful appeal and asks if our fascination has fed their power.
7 /10
Decoding Disaster
Wed, Jul 12, 2017
  • S4.E1
  • Decoding Disaster
Professor Danielle George uses five decades of BBC archive to find out how well disaster documentaries keep pace with scientific theories that advance every day.
0 /10
Decoding Disaster

S4.E1 ∙ Decoding Disaster

Wed, Jul 12, 2017
Professor Danielle George uses five decades of BBC archive to find out how well disaster documentaries keep pace with scientific theories that advance every day.
0 /10
The Vikings: Foe Or Friend?

S4.E2 ∙ The Vikings: Foe Or Friend?

Mon, Jul 17, 2017
Alice Roberts explores BBC film archive to show how the views on Vikings and their culture have changed since the 1960s by shifting from their brutal side to their pioneering trading endeavors and integration into other cultures.
8.5 /10
Dictators and Despots

S4.E3 ∙ Dictators and Despots

Mon, Jul 24, 2017
David Olusoga examines fifty years of BBC documentary archives to try and discover why dictators can have such a powerful appeal and asks if our fascination has fed their power.
7 /10
Explorers: Conquest and Calamity

S4.E4 ∙ Explorers: Conquest and Calamity

Mon, Jul 31, 2017
For centuries the story of exploration has been packed with incredible tales of adventure, but the last fifty years has seen a dramatic shift in our attitude towards explorers. To find out how television has reflected this, Prof Fara Dabhoiwala delves into the BBC television archives, revealing that the pace of this change was faster than you would imagine.
0 /10
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This week's popular movies

Die Ungewollten - Die Irrfahrt der St. Louis

6.9
Generally favorable

Thank You for Playing

7.1
Generally favorable

Distant

6.7
Generally favorable

The Immortalists

6.3
Generally favorable

Todesmarsch nach Chiasso

4.8
Mixed or average

Dong

6.4
Generally favorable

Google and the World Brain

6.7
Generally favorable

The Narnia Code

7
Generally favorable

Kodokushi

6.3
Generally favorable

Facing the Fat

5.1
Mixed or average

This week's popular TV shows

Secrets of the Dead

7.9
Generally favorable

The Celts

8
Generally favorable

Dunkirk

7.2
Generally favorable

Grænseland

8.2
Generally favorable

The Great War

7.1
Generally favorable

U kraya bezdny

9.4
Universal Acclaim

Air Warriors

7.5
Generally favorable

Stalingrad

8.2
Generally favorable

Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire

7.7
Generally favorable

Secret Vatican Files: The Pope and the Devil

6.1
Generally favorable

Edit Focus

Mimi and Dona

Mimi and Dona

What happens when love runs out of time? For a 92-year-old mother, Mimi, who has cared 64 years for her daughter, Dona, who has an intellectual disability, it means facing the inevitable -- she will not outlive her daughter -- and finding her daughter a home. This poignant, heartbreaking and, at times, humorous documentary traces this process through the story of a wonderfully quirky and deeply connected mother-daughter duo. The film spotlights the challenges of aging caregivers of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities -- some 4.6 million Americans, 75 percent of whom live at home with family -- and details the ripple effects of Dona's disability on three generations of a Texas family.

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Streetball

Streetball

Eight men from the streets of Cape Town band together to fight for their place in society through a fast-paced game of street soccer.

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Dusk Chorus

Dusk Chorus

Dusk Chorus - Based on the long-term project "Fragments of Extinction" by David Monacchi.

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Sex, svavel och fula fiskar

Sex, svavel och fula fiskar

"Sex, Sulphur and a Fishy Business" - An overall Scandinavian environmental movement wants to warn against acidification.

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Into the Night

Into the Night

'Into the Night' is the story of indie rock musician who is looking for vocal.

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Neighborhood

Neighborhood

This film tells a story of the House of One Heart, a nursing center for mentally challenged people. The director moves to the center's neighbourhood and records the life of the people living there. His camera becomes a mediator to help him enter this space and a friend to understand its residents. The film observes them as they deal with their symptoms with the help of medication, repress their anger for fear of being sent back to a hospital, bear with unfair payment for their work and an inability to to choose their own places to live. The director, as I, narrates in the film in the way that sounds more like a private confession rather than an explanation. This film is especially notable as it approaches the mentally challenged people not as an anonymous group but as independent individuals with their own names and pays attention to their lives and voices. It sees them not as a bunch of Alices in Wonderland but as neighbours living next door. It observes and records them closely with warm and intimate eyes.

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