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This disturbing and controversial documentary presents a raw glimpse into the world of female heroin addicts. Filmed in Vancouver and told through the images of renowned photographer Lincoln Clarkes, the poetry of award-winning writer Susan Musgrave, and the experiences of six "heroines," the program creates a harsh collage of personal stories that share common themes of abuse, rape, and addiction. Like all of Clarkes' powerful photos, Heroines humanizes...
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The flight crew of the Challenger space craft consisted of Francis R. Scobee, Michael John Smith, Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith Arlene Resnik, Ronald Erwin McNair, S. Christa McAuliffe, and Gregory Bruce Jarvis. Their death in the tragic accident shortly following the shuttle's launch led President Ronald Regan to appoint a committee to investigate shuttle safety, and he postponed future space flight.
6) Funny Walk
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Security cameras don't always get the clearest image, so some scientists are analyzing the way people walk in the hopes of using that as a means of identification.
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In this final episode we go back 30,000 years to the middle of an ice age. The landscape is dominated by the mighty mammoths, living side by side with woolly rhinos, giant deer and two separate species of human. This program follows the fate of a herd of mammoths in their annual struggle against the harsh ice age conditions. They spend summer on grassy plains in the north, but every winter they are forced to head for the less exposed valleys to the...
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One million years ago, South America was a continent of exotic oversized creatures found nowhere else on earth; nine foot terror birds, giant ground sloths and spiky-tailed relatives of the armadillo as big as cars. But the deadliest animal of them all was Smilodon, the largest of all the sabre tooth cats, with canines like carving knives. This program follows the fortunes of an individual male - Half Tooth. Ousted from his clan by a pair of rival...
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It is 36 million years ago, and mammals have taken over the world. They are no longer small furry animals, they have grown enormous and dominate the planet. This is an era of animals like Andrewsarchus, the biggest mammal carnivore ever to walk on land, and the Brontotheres, small brained bulldozing herbivores. It is in the sea, however, that the most monstrous mammals of all can be found. This program follows the fate of a female Basilosaurus, a...
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The dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, but what on earth happened next? This first episode of the sequel to Walking with Dinosaurs, drops in on our planet 49 million years ago to find it has fully recovered from the extinction and is covered in a mysterious forest. This is a time that the world has almost forgotten: Germany was a hot, sweaty jungle, birds ruled the Earth and preyed on miniature horses, and the ancestors of the whales walked...
11) Trees that Walk
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The campfires of our ancestors, the ships with which we first explored the globe, instruments, artwork, buildings, furniture, these are only some of our innumerable uses for wood. From cradle to coffin, we owe much to the second life of trees. But are we doing enough to protect them? Trees That Walk is a meditative, intricate exploration of the deep and enduring bonds between trees and people, thought-provoking, haunting, and wise
12) The Long Walk
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During the spring of 1864, more than 6,000 Navajos were marched in the snow to Fort Sumner in New Mexico. They had been starved into submission by volunteer armies of the same settlers led by the famous Indian fighter Kit Carson. Carson's troops, earlier that year, made the first military passage through Canyon De Chelly because the Navajos had been raiding whites who had settled Indian lands in the recently acquired New Mexico territory. The journey...
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As the number of immigrants from southeast Asia increases, more and more Americans will come into contact with believers in Theravada Buddhism. This program, filmed in Thailand, looks at the life of the Buddha and traces the development of Buddhism in various countries. The program also describes the day-to-day lives of Buddhist priests as they counsel, teach, beg for alms, and meditate. The Buddhist emphasis upon compassion based on meditation offers...
14) Walking The West
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A New Zealander and an Irishman quit their jobs, cash in their savings and walk 2,626 miles from Mexico to Canada along one of the longest and most challenging foot trails in the world, the Pacific Crest Trail. Their route takes them through some of the most spectacular scenery in North America, including California's deserts, alpine lakes and granite peaks of the Sierra Nevadas, and massive volcanoes and temperate rainforests of the Cascade Mountains....
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Meet husband and wife team Phil and Lynne Richardson, who live at a water hole amongst lions, elephants, and baboons in the African bush of northern Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley. Video technologies like miniature infrared cameras and lenses for nighttime vision help them capture natural behavior without interfering with the wildlife. Join us for the story of an African spring in a remote corner of the Zambezi Valley, a riverine oasis, which is the only...
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This third instalment of Walking with Beasts goes back 25 million years ago to meet the biggest land mammals of all time - the Indricotheres. Up to 7 metres tall and weighing 15 tonnes, adults were too big to be eaten by any predator of the time. In fact it is only in the first few years of life that Indricotheres are vulnerable. This program follows the fate of a calf from his traumatic birth to see whether he can survive droughts, six foot tall...
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This episode travels back in time to Ethiopia 3.2 million years ago to witness the beginnings of mankind. It follows a group of Australopithecus, a type of ape which, just like us, walks upright on two legs. But unlike us, these early members of the human family were not predators, they were prey. Things get worse and worse for the group as they are hunted by a sabre tooth cat called Dinofelis and fall victim to other dangers such as malaria, rival...