Will we travel to Mars? Can we read minds? This knowledge series asks the big and small questions… and gets to the bottom of them.
Where and how will we be in 60 years? The next decades will undergo the biggest and fastest transformation ever. In technology, in science, in the environment, in interpersonal relationships. We live in a kind of great accelerator of science, in which the pace of discoveries does not cease to amaze. In the last decades more scientific knowledge accumulated than in all the history of the Humanity. In 2077 this scientific knowledge will have doubled several times.
Berlin 1945 time-travels in cinematic style into the city’s most fateful year through the eyes of those who experienced it
Tag med på en rundvisning i de mest fantastiske og luksuriøse hjem i historien.
A remote community in Africa, led by a woman chief, attempts to break the stranglehold of absolute poverty by waging a war on wildlife poaching. For decades illegal wildlife poaching by both subsistence and bush meat gangs has led to the government declaring this community’s homeland “depleted” of wildlife. The chief finds help in the form of a safari operator and they work together to bring stability to the community. But all was not well. Disease, food stability, and rampant alcoholism hamper basic needs like health care and education. Even young girls, just after reaching puberty, are sold by their parents as child brides in order to feed their family for one year. Dark forces including South African land speculators, criminal poaching gangs, and her own people conspire against the chief. Even elements from the modern world work against the chief’s wishes. Will the chief and her community see success?
En teknisk revolution er i gang. Dedikerede individer bygger ekstraordinære maskiner, som kommer til at ændre vores liv.
What makes a house a home? From cave dwellings to skyscrapers, explore how our dwellings have transformed through history—and transformed us in turn.
International trade has been ferried around the world via boat for centuries. If the business of shipping stopped tomorrow, half the world would starve, and the other half would freeze. A testament of humanity's will to tame the elements and expand our reach; shipping has pioneered new technologies, revolutionized the global economy and reshaped the world as we know it.
Vi undersøger menneskehedens umættelige trang til at bevæge sig hurtigere og længere væk; for fornøjelsens skyld, for at arbejde, for at udforske og for at overleve.
Druids, the mysterious wizards of the Celts, have always fascinated the world. They are an integral part of ancient literature, as heroes of Irish legends and stars of modern fantasy worlds. But who were they really?
I denne serie uden fortilfælde kaster de seneste videnskabelige opdagelser nyt lys over de store kattes usædvanlige historie.
Nye opdagelser af dinosaurfossiler giver os ny viden om de dyr, der levede på vores planet for millioner af år siden.
To High Schools i Florida kæmper om herredømmet på fodboldbanen i et samfund, der har produceret flere NFL-stjerner end noget andet sted i Amerika.
One man's battle to end wolf hunting in the States. Eco-activist Rod Coronado has made it his life’s mission to advocate for the planet and the rights of animals. In 2014, he formed Wolf Patrol, an activist group which fights to preserve the grey wolves which roam Wisconsin’s forests. After 30 years of radical environmental action that earned Coronado the label, "eco-terrorist", Operation Wolf Patrol follows Rod's journey to redefine his activism. As ‘hunter harassment’ laws strengthen the rights of hunters in the States, Coronado is forced to make a momentous choice: retain his own freedom, or risk prison to continue his quest to protect America’s wildlife.
They are the most common beings on earth. They have possibly been around as long as biological life has existed. They are considered dangerous and deadly – but they are much more than that. They are everywhere. Viruses.
Humans may one day need to leave planet Earth to survive. One possibility is Mars. Examine advances and developments that have brought us this far, and how much more needs to be done to make Mars a habitable reality.
Learn how New Zealand, which was isolated from the world for 10- million years, became the ultimate storehouse for discontinued zoological species.
Oplev den franske revolution som aldrig før. Verdens mest magtfulde monarkis fald og det oprør, der splittede den franske nation.
Naturen følger en række indviklede og subtile matematiske regler for at frembringe de mønstre, former og farver, som vi finder så fascinerende.
A worldwide scientific investigation on tsunamis. Thanks to exclusive access in Palu, Indonesia, follow the UN’s hand-picked scientific team of "tsunami hunters". Where do they strike? How do they submerge us? What can we do to survive them?
Discovered by an unlikely team of amateur historians 45 feet beneath a Kansas cornfield, the Steamboat Arabia is one of the best-preserved shipwrecks in American history. The treasures contained within painting a vivid picture of western expansion and the treacherous frontier.
The film tells the story of the Chernobyl accident through a mosaic of unique personal testimonies of its participants. The experiences of the difficult past and the sad results of the present recreate the full picture of the accident 30 years later.
Galápagos, an archipelago formed by the ungovernable power of the elements. A paradise, dependent completely on the mercy of the currents, undergoes constant transformations, which grant the survival of all animals on land and in the water. Take a closer look at the most famous islands in the world! Be prepared to see Galápagos like you have never seen it before and you’ll be up for a surprise!
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