This film follows a group of people who, despite holding down normal jobs, invest every free hour into running a race team. They choose to enter into the Privilege GT Championship - a high profile, televised series that supports the British Grand Prix. It is a David and Goliath story about undaunted determination pitted against money, innovation against effortlessness, inexperience against professionalism.
This film will show how Eden has achieved its iconic and inspirational status, and will reveal the dilemmas and challenges it faces for the future. It will explore how Eden strives to remain both on the cutting edge of building and design, on the forefront of provocative and constructive thought and action, both domestically and internationally and how it maintains its position as a leader in stimulating environmental art and education.
From the perilous origins of Himalayan mountaineering, and the first expeditions to utilise the unique strengths of the Sherpa tribe, this fascinating film takes the viewer through the arduous training programme of the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute and the extraordinary young women who strive to become a part of the backbone of modern -day high-altitude expeditions. Featuring Mount Everest legend Nawang Gombu, this revealing documentary examines the prestigious Himalayan Mountaineering Institute and its accomplished, although unknown, climbing instructors. The film features exclusive access to the Instituteâs training grounds of the Rathong Valley in Sikkim, India.
The process of genetic engineering is becoming more sophisticated. Inventors of new plants, drugs and life-forms are now attempting to patent their creations. If successful the patent could lead to large multinational corporations owning the worldâÂÂs crops.
A ten-year investigation into the mysterious but similar crashes of two 737 airliners and the near-crash of a third reveals the hidden danger responsible for all of the incidents --a fault in the design of a rudder control that, under certain situations, render the aircraft nearly impossible to control.
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[Part 1] Focusing on an area in the North East of India - Assam and Bengal - Monsoon Railway captures a rare snapshot of the lives of those who work on the network, and follows three workers from July to September 2004 during the unforgiving rains of the summer monsoon.
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One Man And His Canoe: The John Darwin Story [Part 1]
[Part 1] The exclusive story of how John Darwin - who faked his own death in a canoeing accident - was brought to justice. Darwin was drowning in debt when he paddled out into the North Sea in 2002. Six years later he walked into a police station claiming to have lost his memory - but detectives soon began unravelling his story, and found a trail that stretched around the world. In a series of remarkable interviews, he admitted the whole thing had been a scam dreamt up by him and his wife. With unique access, this film shows how the fraud that they hoped would make them rich ended with them behind bars.
Wandering along a misty creek bed in northwestern British Columbia, appears a pure white bear the Tsimshian First Nation calls, the 'Ghost Of The Rain Forest'. But this ghost is real; one of the rarest animals on earth, and one of the rarest experiences in nature.
[Part 1] On September 1, 2004, a group of heavily armed rebel extremists stormed into School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia. For three days, more than a thousand children and adults were held hostage in a sweltering gymnasium, denied food and water, and forced to keep their hands over their heads. The harrowing siege ended on September 3 with a series of explosions and a hail of gunfire that killed some 350 people - half of them children. In this film, the youngest survivors of Beslan tell their story.
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