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Hollywood's loss was Mexico's gain, as this glorious documentary will attest. Having failed to realize several projects in Hollywood, Russian film pioneer Sergei Eisenstein trekked to Mexico with producer Grigory Alexandrov and cameraman Eduard Tisse, and the famous writer Upton Sinclair as benefici...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: ; Hindi: , pronounced [mo nd a s k r mt nd a nd i] ( listen); 2 October 1869 -- 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He pioneered satyagraha. This is defined as resist...

BBC Horizon - Prof Regans Supermarket Secrets (2008) Friendly bacteria superfoods cholesterol busting spreads 99 germ free whiter than white...its almost impossible to find a product in the supermarket today that doesnt come with impressive claims...scientific claims...with an inflated price tag to ...

If you're reading this any time after lunch and you're not dead, well done. You have, in the words of Professor Russell Foster, a chronobiologist, "survived the most dangerous part of the day". Chronobiologists study the body's various internal clocks. In this documentary, specialists reveal, among ...

The world is affected by an obesity epidemic, but why is it that not everyone is succumbing? Medical science has been obsessed with this subject and is coming up with some unexpected answers. As it turns out, it is not all about exercise and diet. At the centre of this programme is a controversia...

National Geographic Explorer: Easter Island Underworld chronicles the efforts of a team of National Geographic explorers who undertake a groundbreaking expedition to map the system of caves where the of the people who carved the iconic statues are believed to have taken refuge. It is a new explorati...

This documentary takes a look at a young girl named Genie who was completely secluded from the outside world by her parents. The program focuses on her rehabilitation at the hands of expert doctors....

Two guys quit stodgy corporate jobs, scrounged up all the savings they could, collected credit cards, and stepped - or better yet - scooted forward to follow their biggest dream: to become filmmakers. Josh Caldwell rode a Segway from Seattle to Boston, while his buddy Hunter Weeks directed a film th...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its traditions in order to move into the future? These are some of the questions posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. ...

10 Things You Need to Know About Losing Weight Documentary Medical journalist Michael Mosley investigates the latest scientific breakthroughs in slimming, uncovering ten of the simplest ways you can shed those pounds....