Space Documentaries

International Space Station

The International Space Station is a vast orbiting laboratory whose construction has been hailed as the most ambitious feat of engineering in human history.

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BP - In Deep Water

Two months after an explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 people, Panorama's Hilary Andersson tells the story of America's 'greatest environmental disaster.'

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The Big Bang Machine

A look around Cern's Large Hadron Collider before the simulation begins to try and create the conditions that existed just a billionth of a second after the Big Bang.

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Breaking the Mould

History books tell us that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, but that's not the whole story.

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The Alcan Highway

20 hours ago
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In the world of road making, the Alcan Highway is a feat worthy of comparison to the legendary byways of ancient Rome. Stretching 1,500 miles from British Columbia to Fairbanks, Alaska, the Alcan traverses incredibly difficult and hostile territory, crossing the Canadian Rockies, raging rivers and dense forest.

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Battle of the X-Planes

3 days ago
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NOVA goes behind the doors of Boeing’s Phantom Works and Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Works to record classified meetings, fly the most revolutionary planes, and examine the high-stakes battle to build the most capable and versatile fighter ever created – the Joint Strike Fighter.

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The Virtual Revolution – The Great Levelling?

5 days ago
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In the first in this four-part series, we chart the extraordinary rise of blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube, and trace an ongoing clash between the freedom the technology offers us, and our innate human desire to control and profit.

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The Virtual Revolution – Enemy of the State?

5 days ago
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Exploring how the web affects politics and the struggle for power in both democractic and authoritarian states, and also how the internet has inspired freedom of speech via social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

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The Virtual Revolution – The Cost of Free

5 days ago
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Telling the inside story of the gold rush years of the dotcom bubble, and revealing how retailers such as Amazon learned great lessons.

This episode also charts how, out of the ashes, Google forged the business model that has come to dominate today’s web, offering a plethora of highly attractive, overtly free web services – including search, maps and video – that are in fact funded through a sophisticated and highly lucrative advertising system which trades on what we users look for.

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The Virtual Revolution – Homo Interneticus?

5 days ago
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Are we empowered, connected and enlightened with the world’s knowledge at our fingertips? Or distracted and addicted with shorter attention spans? Are our skittering brains bombarded and stupified by the ‘yuck and wow’ of the web? Is the web really changing us – the way we think, the way we behave, the way relate to each other? And is it for better or for worse?

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When Will Time End?

1 week ago
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Time is flying by on this busy, crowded planet… as life changes and evolves from second to second. And yet the arc of human lifespan is getting longer: 65 years is the global average … way up from just 20 in the Stone Age. Modern science, however, provides a humbling perspective. Our lives… indeed the life span of the human species… is just a blip compared to the age of the universe, at 13.7 billion years and counting.

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Supermassive Blackhole in the Milky Way Galaxy

1 week ago
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From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some 100,000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxys center. Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of the galactic center. And yet, the clues have been piling up, that something important, something strange is going on in there. Astronomers tracking stars in the center of the galaxy have found the best proof to date that black holes exist. Now, they are shooting for the first direct image of a black hole.

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Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity

1 week ago
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A presentation of the facts and theory surrounding the astronomical phenomenon of black holes, using the latest in computer-generated imagery. Theories regarding their origin are presented, along with speculation about what lies with and beyond them.

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Extreme Universe: Time Bombs

1 week ago
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Planets, moons and stars can all face violent upheaval at any moment. Is it possible to predict when Mother Nature will strike?

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If We Had No Moon

2 weeks ago
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Without the moon, humans wouldn’t exist. Life, if it had started at all, would be in the earliest stages of evolution. Days would last four hours, winds would blow at hurricane force and there would be a dense and toxic atmosphere resembling that of Venus. Luckily, 50 million years after the formation of the solar system, our proto-planet was hit by a celestial body more than twice the size of Mars, which formed the moon.

In this one-hour special, we learn what Earth was like before the moon and what life would be like if the moon disappeared.

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Eurotunnel

2 weeks ago
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The Channel Tunnel, the world’s longest undersea tunnel is set 131 feet beneath the sea. It took six years to build and can transport up to 31 million passengers a year. A marvel of modern construction, the tunnel offered a great potential to link England with the rest of Europe.