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- Stephen Hawking gets unprecedented success in the field of physics despite being diagnosed with motor neuron disease at the age of 21. He defeats awful odds as his first wife Jane aids him loyally.
- Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.
- The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.
- Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
- Johnny works for MI5. His neighbor Nancy approaches him. When his best friend and boss suddenly dies, Johnny's left to sort out things about the PM, MI5 and US.
- The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
- A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.
- A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-heartedly grasping uncle.
- Drama about the development of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to experimentally prove his ideas.
- An archeologist discovers his daughter is possessed by the spirit of an Egyptian queen. To save mankind he must destroy her.
- An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.
- Story of the relationship between poets Edward James "Ted" Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
- A suburban couple decide to shake up their marriage by "swinging" with another couple.
- The story revolves around the planet Shada, on which the Time Lords have constructed a high security prison for some of the Universe's most dangerous criminals. Skagra, a flawed genius from the planet Dronoid, wishes to create a "Universal Mind" in which all the pooled knowledge of the universe's greatest criminals would be placed at his disposal and with which he intends to take control of the Universe. Skagra wants to go to Shada to extract the knowledge of the criminals who have been imprisoned there. Unfortunately for Skagra, knowledge of the location of Shada has been deliberately hidden by the Time Lords, but Skagra discovers that there is a Time Lord living on Earth in the twentieth century who may hold the key to its location. This Time Lord is masquerading as a professor at St. Cedd's College, Cambridge and calling himself Professor Chronotis. Sensing danger, Chronotis calls for the assistance of his old friend and protégé, the Doctor. The story climaxes in a battle for control of the Universal Mind.
- The Hamburg police arrest an international businessman, charging him with smuggling heroin from Pakistan. While he's on trial, his trophy wife, a former Olympic swimmer, discovers steely ruthlessness within herself.
- A disgraced professor recounts his career and involvement with gambling.
- A trilogy of fantastic stories involving murder and the supernatural.
- A comprehensive historical survey of the British Isles.
- Cambridge, England, 1921 - or so it seems. A brilliant young scientist becomes obsessed with finding a way back to his past - no matter what the cost.
- Social satire on life on Cambridge College - from the headmaster to the students and even one memorable bedder...
- Set a few years after The Worst Witch, Mildred Hubble now attends the prestigious Weirdsister College in London.
- An account of man's development through his scientific and technological achievements.
- The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.
- David Attenborough explores Charles Darwin's controversial theory of evolution by natural selection.
- For anyone who has not fully understood the controversial Bitcoin yet, this is a concise and informative crash course about Money and Crypto Currencies.
- David Walliams reprises his iconic character Lou for the exclusive return of Little Britain with a very special guest - Professor Stephen Hawking. Also starring Catherine Tate.
- The life and work of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky is shown through his relationship with aristocratic art connoisseur Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck.
- A joyride that delves deep into the mind of rock and roll's greatest living photographer: Mick Rock.
- Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.
- Magician David Blaine ventures across America from New York to Los Angeles, performing to various celebrities and the general public.
- In the Beginning there was Light tells about the phenomenon "light nourishment", the incredible claim that there are individuals who neither eat nor drink.
- Over six hour-long programs, Michael Wood marshals the disparate strands of evidence to present as fully rounded a portrait as possible of both the historical and the legendary city of Troy, its central place in Western culture, and the Mycenaean Age itself. From Schliemann's initial cavalier bulldozing of the mound at Hisarlik, to Homer's epics, the Hittite Empire, and the role of slave women, Wood journeys back and forth across the Aegean and elsewhere, from a pre-unification Berlin to Liverpool, to illuminate the dawn of Western literature, myth, and history. Did the Trojan war ever happen, or was the city destroyed by natural causes? Wood doesn't claim to find a definitive answer, of course, but for the viewer it's rewarding enough simply to accompany him on this fascinating journey.
- The mother of an autistic child is determined not to accept the pessimistic prognosis for her son.
- Olivia is a twenty-something reporter assigned to the religion beat for the London Times. She is on deadline to write a feature story about cosmology and the meaning of existence on the 100th anniversary of Einstein's proposing the special theory of relativity. Olivia is scheduled to interview the "rock star" of cosmologists, Stephen Hawking. A skeptic when it comes to scientific facts, she firmly believes science holds no meaning for the Big Questions of life. The interview with Stephen Hawking leads to more than Olivia bargained for-a whirlwind journey through time and space, where deep space images explode onto the big screen and where the "Big Questions" are answered for Olivia and the audience with ease and whimsy.
- A BBC documentary series on geology presented by Aubrey Manning.
- N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos is a 1993 biographical documentary about the life of mathematician Paul Erdos, directed by George Paul Csicsery.
- An intellectual young former thief is recruited to safeguard the treasures of Britain in wartime, earning his place in the legal profession to fight for his best friend's freedom.
- Two villains team up to steal some jewelry. The robbery goes wrong and an innocent man is shot.
- Margaret Drabble's paean to city life in general and London in particular. The density, mixed use neighbourhoods, cultural vibrancy and the walkability is recognisably the stuff of good urban design as we know it today.
- Damon Miller is a filmmaker grappling with the pressures of an impoverished profession and a dissolving relationship. One routine assignment will change his life as he is involved in the disturbing research into Near-Earth Objects.
- Simulation on the game of tic-tac-toe. The player and the CPU are able to choose either an X or an O as their symbol and then place it on any of the nine spaces of the grid. The one who gets a three in a row is the winner.
- Brendan Bracken was Winston Churchill's closest advisor for over 30 years. Was Brendan Bracken Churchill's illegitimate son? In the 1920's even Winston's wife had to ask. This documentary tells the truth about this remarkable man.
- Take part in this beloved British celebration of Christmas, filmed amidst the beauty of historic King's College Chapel. Words fail to describe the brilliance of this choral performance. Luckily the music speaks for itself.
- Gareth Malone, a choir master, believes in the therapeutic benefits of singing. He takes on a nine month challenge of creating a choir at Lancaster School, an English boys school comprised of students in their early teens. The school is known primarily for its sports program, with no recent history of organized singing at the school. As such, Gareth has to start from the very beginning. There is much initial resistance from the student body. There are some boys who do sing in organized choirs, but have previously hidden that fact from their fellow students. There are some boys who need this opportunity to become more socialized regardless of their musical ability or lack thereof. And there are some boys who are vocally gifted but do not see the choir as something they want to do. Gareth needs to overcome all of these obstacles, and some external chorus adjudicators, to achieve his end goal of having a 100 strong boys choir perform at a prestigious by invitation only youth musical event at Royal Albert Hall.
- An ordinary film crew follows three typical students for an everyday day in a normal university library.
- This Traveltalks entry visits British institutions of higher learning at Cambridge, Oxford, and Eton.
- She receives a phone call from her parents one morning, informing her that her beloved pet tortoise, Mother, has died. The funeral is being held this afternoon in their back garden (dress code: black). Two small problems face her: she is away at university and she has not left her room in three weeks.
- The Cold War's wildest dreams of climate control have made a spectacular comeback: from the USA to China, 'geo-engineers' promise to make climate change the way we want. And they have found powerful supporters among lobbyists and entrepreneurs. This film is an investigation into the world-wide boom in geo-engineering. How did a pseudo-science with a controversial past become a planet-wide research subject? How did crack-pot academics turn into respected and even courted figures? How can we keep "rogue states" from staking their all in dangerous experiments? And will we really have any choice?
- The world's greatest scientific minds discuss distant future technologies that will affect human anatomy and evolution.