Documentaries : Biography

She was tragedy personified. There is something about her that affects people. I've never been a big fan, but as I get older, I learn to appreciate her talent... her wit.. she was a very funny lady. She was also very sad. A set of tapes were released a couple of years ago, called Judy Speaks. ...

nterview with the original members of KISS....

Everyone has heard of Nelson Mandela and every celebrity in the world queues up to be photographed with him, but what exactly did he do to become such an incredible icon? In the build up to the World Cup in South Africa, actress Lenora Crichlow sets off to discover the amazing story of how Mandel...

Who Really Killed Jesus? (2008) - The story of Jesus death has typically been presented from one point of view. The traditional version, as recorded in the Bible, holds that the Jewish High Priests demanded his execution and that the Jewish crowd bayed for his blood. The Roman governor, Pontius Pila...

Interesting personal story & look at the "Art" world...

This episode looks at the lands north of China, 's Great Wall. Here,nomadic tribes from a variety of ethnic groups still roam,but their traditional ways of life are changing as people move to modern cities.In ancient Manchuria,the last Hezhe fisherman still cast their nets beneath the thick ice of t...

Episde profiles the rich biodiversity of south-western Yunnan province.Forming the eastern boundary of the Himalaya,the Hengduan Mt.’s have buckled into a series of parallel ridges running north-south.The Nujiang River is one of a succession of deep gorges that carve their way through the mt.&...

The Tibetan Plateau is the subject of the third episode.It covers 1-4 of China, 's land area,but just 2.5 million people live there,the majority Tibetan Buddhists.Their religion mixes traditional Buddhism with older shamanic beliefs,& its teachings have instilled a respectful attitude to wildlife.Ra...

Features China, 's 14,500km coastline,home to 700 Million people.Despite decades of rapid urban dev’t.,it is still an important migration route for birds.Endangered red-crowned cranes depart their northern breeding grounds to overwinter at Yancheng saltmarsh,the largest coastal wetland in Chin...

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell This is director Matt Wolf's portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned both pop ...