Are you prepared for the apocalypse? Scholars use the ancient words of Nostradamus and paintings from a mysterious book to decode the infamous seer's prophecies, revealing groundbreaking interpretations of the destruction soon-to-be inflicted upon us.
History of the narcotics trade in Burma and the War on Drugs. In 1964, director Adrian Cowell and cameraman Chris Menges went to mountainous eastern Burma to film the Shan revolutionary forces fighting a bloody civil war against the military dictatorship. The impoverished Shans had only one way to finance the war: opium. Cowell has returned several times over the last 30 years to record the ongoing civil war and the burgeoning opium trade. The first and last episodes are produced in association with WGBH/FRONTLINE.
Wander the vast, inhospitable lowlands of Africa’s Kalahari Basin, where an extraordinarily diverse array of animals, from massive elephants to tiny weaver birds, work together to find resources, protect their young, and survive the harsh conditions.
Investigates the mysteries behind declassified top secret government files with stunning details about the world's most credible UFO sightings and alien encounters. The series pieces together the data on these incidents, and tries to answer the question: what really happened?
A group of young people live and work on a replica of a prehistoric Iron Age settlement at a secret location in the West of England. Cut off from the modern world, the group try to re-create the way of life of Celtic tribesmen in the third century BC.
The Lords of the Animals, one of BOREALES’s leading productions is a 13x26’ series of documentary tales recounting the most extraordinary symbiotic relationships between man and animals.
This anthology co-produced by Boréales and Canal + continues to meet with tremendous international success and has been translated into thirty languages. Over a hundred awards including Pandas in Windscreen, a Green Oscar at the Wildlife Film Festival in Jackson Hole and an International Emmy Award.
Mykel Hawke is a former Special Forces survival expert. His wife Ruth is a television journalist. Together, they take on some of the most forbidding and remote locations around the world. Dropped into each spot, they must survive as a team for four days and nights, with only a knife and the clothes on their backs. As they test their will and their marriage, the two find common ground standing up to nature as husband and wife in the wildest places on Earth.
The six episodes of the series "I bambini e noi" by Luigi Comencini (1916-2007) are a great realistic and live fresco of Italian childhood between the 60s and 70s. Aired in 1970, Comencini's work unfolds in various locations in our country, from Milan to Naples, from Umbria to Puglia, from Rome to Turin.
Art and culture define us - but in an age of change, who are we now? In divided times, Simon Schama asks whether art, music and words can be the threads that bind us together.
A cultural documentary about street dance. Five cities, a hundred dancers, follow the camera into China's street dance jianghu to understand the hidden city's street dance culture!
An extraordinary look at what happens when people have the experience of fear removed through the use of a powerful new drug. Derren examines the psychology of religious belief, performs a satanic rite and attempts to give an atheist a religious conversion.
Go where no human cameraman can go and witness a new perspective of the animal kingdom in Animals with Cameras, A Nature Miniseries. The new three-part series journeys into animals’ worlds using custom, state-of-the-art cameras worn by the animals themselves. Capturing never-before-seen behavior, these animal cinematographers help expand human understanding of their habitats and solve mysteries that have eluded scientists until now.
Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan and a team of pioneering animal behaviorists join forces to explore stories of animal lives “told” by the animals themselves. The cameras are built custom by camera design expert Chris Watts to fit on the animals unobtrusively and to be easily removed at a later point. From this unique vantage point, experience the secret lives of nine different animal species. Sprint across the savanna with a cheetah, plunge into the ocean with a seal and swing through the trees with a chimpanzee.
The nation's girl group BINI truly lives up to its name, taking the country by storm. Follow their journey from humble beginnings to massive success in this three-part documentary series.