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Researchers collect ancient fables of Daasanach tribe in Turkana – the Cradle of Humankind – and they find out that the tribe is the greatest threat to local nature. Spanish enthobiologist Álvaro Fernandez-Llamazares looks into traditional fables of Turkana, seeing a vivd picture of nature...

Get exclusive insights from the trailblazer founders of The Lonely Planet, Airbnb, Netflix or Fitbit: they took fantasy ideas and turned them into reality. S01: Netflix & Vestron, Quorn & Impossible Foods, Horn and Hardart & Tiffin Labs, Polaroid & Tik Tok. S02: Airbnb & Lonely Planet,...

Hidden 16mm Film Footage Revealed for the First Time after 40 Years Reminiscent of what is happening in Hong Kong today, this is a story about underground film-making, radical art, and censorship. At Democracy Wall in Beijing 1978, the “Stars”, a group of self-taught artists (including...

This three-part series takes black-and-white films from the era and colourizes the footage, bringing the past vividly back to life. The films offer a remarkable window on one of the most turbulent decades in history and capture a world determined to remain stable in the...

By 2050, humanity will amount to 9,000 million people. More than 70 % of the world’s population will live in a big city. Cities must get prepared for the changes that have already begun. They will face the biggest challenge of the 21st century. The...

Victorian Britain on Film offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion picture  camera, first captures a nation on film. Most of these films have been transformed by colourising them for the first time. They offer a...

Edwardian Britain was the richest and most powerful country in the world. But what did this mean for the men, women and children hard at work in the mills and the mines? Rare film footage, restored and colourised for the first time, provides an intimate...

In the wake of WWII, thousands of children were born to German soldiers and mothers from occupied territories. Many of them were treated as fair game. 70 years later, the Norwegian war children break the silence and share their soul-stirring stories. They reflect upon the...

Action-packed tour through the history of one of the most controversial subjects of the 20th century - nuclear power - as told by those who experienced it first-hand. Focusing on events in the US, UK, France and Germany, it charts its social and political development from the...

Theo van Boven becomes Director of Human Rights for the UN in 1977, where it was impossible to even name a country for gross violations. No bureaucrat, he battles the most repressive regimes of the late 20th century, such as Chile and Argentina and opens...