BBC Video (Firm)
Language
English
Description
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, co-creators of The Office and Extras help their friend, Karl Pilkington complete tasks from his bucket list, except the experience is never as easy or as fun as it seems. Gervais and Merchant find ways to arrange a few surprises along the way to keep things interesting. In the end, Pilkington ends up visiting more places and suffering more detours than he did in the first season. Find out what happens when an idiot...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This top-rated BBC show features presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May as they present some serious car journalism along with ambitious challenges that only the brave or the very stupid would dare to undertake. Includes the Botswana special.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"'Auschwitz: inside the Nazi state' is the result of three years of research, drawing on the close involvement of world experts, recently discovered documents and nearly 100 interviews with camp survivors and perpetrators, many of whom are speaking on the record for the first time. Their stories are brought to life through the innovative use of archive footage, dramatic recreations of key ... moments, and their ... testimony"--Container label.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Dressing up is one of Lola's favorite things to do, and now she has this fabulous new alligator costume. She is never going to take it off, not ever! To Charlie's great embarrassment, Lola wears her costume everywhere: to the grocery store, to the park ... she even plans to wear it to school when she gives her presentation entitled "All about me." Charlie doesn't want her to embarrass herself.
9) Top gear: 20
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The world's most popular car show sees Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May in typically explosive form. In the course of six packed programs, they set out to race a car against an America's Cup yacht up the coast of New Zealand, launch a highly scientific process to find the world's fastest taxi, and do their bit for European economic turmoil by blasting across Spain in three 'affordable' supercars. Also in this series, Top Gear tackles...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Season Three examines the gunfight at the OK Corral and the St Valentine's Day Massacre, the fine line between fact and fiction that was blurred by the publication of The Hitler Diaries and Orson Welles' radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, and popular uprisings with the flight of the last Iranian Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, and the execution of former Romanian president Ceausescu.
Through dramatic reconstruction, eyewitness accounts, and archive...
11) Planet Earth
Series
Language
English
Description
This eleven part series presents a tour of the entire planet Earth, including the poles, mountains, waters, caves, deserts, plains and jungles. Using high-definition photography and revolutionary ultra-high speed cameras, this series captures rare action, impossible locations and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved and most elusive creatures
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Arctic and Antarctic remain the greatest wildernesses on Earth. The scale and beauty of the scenery and the sheer power of the elements, the weather, the rough ocean, and the ice is unmatched anywhere else on our planet. tells the compelling story of animals such as the wandering albatross, the adelie penguin, and the polar bear, and paints a portrait that will take your breath away, at a moment when, melting fast, the frozen regions of our planet...
13) Pole to pole
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Michael Palin takes viewers on a voyage from pole to pole, visiting seventeen countries, including Greenland, Kenya, South Africa, Sudan, Ukraine, Cyprus, and Chile.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Amphibians and reptiles ruled the world for nearly 200 million years, and today there are well over 14,000 species. Ranging from some of the largest, most deadly creatures on Earth to the smallest and strangest, these are some of the most fascinating and dramatic animals on the planet. Looks at parental and breeding behavior, as well as adaptability. A magnificent overview of life on the planet Earth.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Joseph Stalin - the supreme leader of the Soviet Union - was a tyrant responsible for the death of millions. He also had some unlikely relationships during the Second World War. This ambitious series uses exclusive evidence gained from the actual conversations and secret meetings Stalin conducted. Dramatic reconstructions carefully sourced from archive material, reveal how the great leaders decided the future shape of the post-war world. These decisions...