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Some 150,000 years ago Europe and Western Asia were dominated by an extraordinary race of human beings who were tall, around 6 feet or so, with an immensely strong physical build, and clearly intelligent, their brain was in fact slightly larger than that of modern man. They were called the Neandertals. They had the strength and the courage and the social organisation to survive and thrive even through the terrible ordeal of the successive ice ages, which carpeted Northern Europe in perpetual...

The Spitfire was the plane that nobody wanted. It was turned down by the British Government, by industry and even by the Royal Air Force, when the design was first presented to them. It survived only because of the conviction of its great designer, R.J. Mitchell, to become by far the most famous, the most inspirational, the most successful warplane of its generation; the very symbol and image of British pride and power, as the killer fighter of the decisive air battle of World War 2, the...

HIV, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus was first discovered 30 years ago, so it rarely grabs space on the front pages these days. But it remains very much a deadly killer. About 34 million people around the World suffer from it HIV. The virus attacks the body's immune defences, and when they have been destroyed, any number of bacteria, viruses and parasites and fungi can invade the body and play havoc with its systems. That's the condition known as AIDS. Around 2.5 million people have died from...

This is the program that no one else has dared to make. What is the real connection it asks, between baldness and testosterone... and male sexual potency? No man wants to be bald. But what if baldness really is an outward and visible sign of enhanced sexuality? Is that just a myth put out by bald men to boost their egos? Or does it stand up, if you'll pardon the pun, to scientific inquiry? For the very first time we take the old wives tales into the laboratory and put them to the test. Never...

New York is the skyscraper capital of the World. For over a 100 years architects there have been reaching skywards with their buildings to create the towering skyline for which the city is so famous. Never in all that time has anyone actually charted the building of a skyscraper. The process that transforms a city block from a nondescript piece of wasteland into this great tower that soars above the city's streets. That is what this series of four programmes does for the very first time. It is...

The South China Sea is a fabulous hunting ground for treasure hunters. In the 18th and 19th centuries a stream of trading ships from Holland and England, and huge ocean going junks from China, criss crossed these seas, carrying countless treasures from the Orient. This unique programme tells the remarkable story of the search for the Tek Sing, a Chinese junk which sank in 1822 on the Belvidere Reef in the South China Sea with the loss of nearly 2000 lives and its valuable cargo.

The Fighting Lady is a must-see movie! Produced in 1944, this award winning film documents life aboard an anonymous aircraft carrier operating in the Pacific. Because of wartime security restrictions the name of the ship was only later revealed to be the USS Yorktown. You are given a personal insight into the lives of the pilots and crew of the aircraft carrier who carried out these dangerous missions in the Pacific during World War II. You get to know the airmen personally and experience what...

Pot O'Gold - Hysterical 1940's classic comedy starring Jimmy Stewart, Paulette Goddard and Horace Heidt. Based on the radio show of the period, 'Pot O' Gold' is an amusing look at a failed music store owner, Jimmy Stewart and his uncle Horace Heidt, owner of a food factory who wants Stewart to come to work for him. Before Stewart goes to work for his uncle, he befriends an Irish family who are his uncle's worst nightmare, as they are in-house musicians and always practicing. Stewart finds...

Between 1942 and 1945 the US built up from scratch the largest overseas air force in its history based on over 120 airfields in Britain. The 8th US Army Air Force, The 'Mighty 8th' as it became known. Its declared objective was to dismantle the German military and industrial machine and to do so by daylight bombing. Over 55,000 young Americans lost their lives in the process. This is their story. William Wyler's classic colour film Memphis Belle remains the most memorable true story of WWII....

Archive biographies of the four greatest American generals of World War II. Patton - Known by his troops as "Old Blood and Guts". He could march his men over 100 miles in a day to recapture a town from the Germans. "Attack, attack and attack again" was his motto. He predicted a spectacular death for himself, but sadly, he died from injuries suffered from an auto accident. MacArthur - He had a spirit of intense determination. When he left the Philippines he promised he would return, rescuing...

Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American independent horror film shot in Lawrence, Kansas and Salt Lake City, and is occasionally screened at Halloween festivals and has a huge cult following. In Kansas,Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) is riding in a car with two other young women when some men challenge them to a drag race. As they speed along a bridge, their car plunges into the river. The police search for bodies, but only Mary surfaces, but cannot remember how she survived. Mary then moves to...

The Deadly Companions is a classic 1961 American Western starring Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran and Chill Wills. The movie is based on a novel of the same name and is the directorial debut of Sam Peckinpah. When her young son is killed in a bank robbery, a widowed dance hall hostess, Kit Tilden (Maureen O'Hara) is determined to bury her son by his father in Siringo which is now deserted and located in Apache territory. The ex-army sergeant who accidentally killed her son,...

McLintock is a 1963 American western and comedy film starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Cattle, timber and mining baron George Washington 'G.W.' McLintock (John Wayne) is living on his ranch as a single man. His estranged wife Katherine (Maureen O'Hara) left him two years ago suspecting him of adultery while their daughter Rebecca (Stephanie Powers) is completing her college degree. McLintock hires an attractive woman Louise Warren (Yvonne De Carlo) and her two children to work on his...

Fifty million people died worldwide due to the 1918 influenza epidemic. This program examines how and why this epidemic killed so many. There were 675,000 deaths in America due to the 1918 flu, and the ancestors of people who died from the epidemic, as well as some of the oldest living survivors of the epidemic tell their heartfelt stories of how it was to live during this horrific time in American history. No one knew where the flu epidemic started or how to stop it. Funeral homes could not...

In the late 1940's two young, idealistic American scientists made the extraordinary decision to settle down and work in a remote district of China. They were drawn by the promise as they saw it, of profound social revolution. Joan Hinton was a physicist, one of the few women to have worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. Sid Engst was from Cornell University in up state New York, and a specialist in agriculture. They came to China to observe the unfolding revolution for...

A double bill of classic comedy from Abbott and Costello. In Jack And The Beanstalk (1952) Abbott and Costello add their own unique brand of comedy to this classic fairytale. Plus Africa Screams (1949) where they are working as booksellers in a department store. Mistakenly thought to be experts on Africa the pair are kidnapped and taken to darkest Africa to search for treasure. NTSC - 152 minutes - Color & Black & White

In The Big Trees (1952), Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) is an unscrupulous businessman hoping to make big profits by staking claims to California land rich in timber under a new law passed in 1900. It looks a though his plans may be thwarted by a resident Quaker colony and his own devious business partners. In My Dear Secretary (1949) successful novelist and playboy Owen Waterbury (Kirk Douglas) needs a new secretary; he frequently needs a new secretary. When giving a lecture at a writers class he...

The Affair is a 1973 American TV movie starring Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Bruce Davison and Jamie Smith-Jackson. This made-for-TV movie marked the return to television for Natalie Wood after an 18-year absence. The film starred Natalie Wood in her first appearance since Bob & Carol & Ted and Alice. Her co-star was Robert Wagner who was her first husband and whom she had recently remarried. Courtney Patterson (Natalie Wood) is a beautiful young songwriter who is physically disabled due to...

King Solomon's Treasure is a 1979 British-Canadian film based on the movie King Solomon's Mines and stars John Colicos, David McCallum, Britt Ekland and Patrick Macnee. The film was shot on location in Africa as well as in London and Canadian studios. An Englishman traces a priceless medallion to the lost treasure of King Solomon and organizes an expedition to go after it, unaware of the hideous creatures that are guarding the loot. Legendary adventurer Allan Quatermain (John Colicos) leads an...

Asylum, also known as House of Crazies, is a 1972 British anthology horror film. The film was shot in 1972 and was ready for release 15 weeks later. Introduction to the Anthology directed by Roy Ward Baker Dr. Martin (Robert Powell) is to be interviewed at an insane asylum for a job. Lionel Rutherford (Patrick Magee) plans to offer the post of chief doctor to Dr. Martin only if he can identify Dr. B. Starr, the former head of the asylum who had a complete mental breakdown. This is a bizarre...

Hollywood Icons - Archive Documentaries. The James Dean Story is a 1957 American documentary released two years after Dean's death. This documentary chronicles Dean's short life and career through still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him after his mother's death when Dean was 9 years old, his paternal grandparents, a New York cab driver friend, and the owner of his favorite Los Angeles restaurant and outtakes from East of Eden. There is also footage of the opening...

This beautifully made classic based on Jack London's story features Charlton Heston as John Thornton, a Klondike gold prospector in 1897 in the Yukon region of Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush. Thornton is trying to eke out a living in the harsh conditions of the Yukon along with his German Shephard companion, 'Buck'. Thornton and Buck endure many hazards and extreme conditions together, but Buck has his own story to tell. During the time when demand for good sled dogs was high, Buck was...

A Christmas Without Snow is a 1980 American made-for-television drama starring Michael Learned and John Houseman. Leaving her son behind at her parents' home in Omaha, Neb., recent divorcee Zoe (Michael Learned) attempts to start her life anew by moving to San Francisco. Seeking something to fill her lonely hours, she begins singing with a church choir. When new choirmaster Ephraim Adams (John Houseman) is hired, Zoe finds his attitudes and ideas difficult to tolerate. Faced with the...

Las Vegas Lady is a 1975 American crime film starring Stella Stevens, Stuart Whitman, George DiCenzo, and Lynne Moody. Lucky (Stella Stevens) is in Las Vegas with two of her girlfriends, Carol (Lynne Moody) and Lisa (Linda Scruggs), and they have a plan to steal half a million dollars from the sadistic manager of the Circus Circus Casino. A shadowy man is their contact and organizer. Each of the women would be a weak link in a scheme that has to be flawless. Lucky's boyfriend is a security...