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The mystery of a skull found in the Washington town of Kennewick is explored in this true crime doc. Uncovered in Kennewick's Columbia River, the skull was long assumed to belong to a native Indian who died hundreds of years ago. But as Dr. Jim Chatters comes to find out, there may be more secrets to this discovery than meet the eye.
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The mystery of a skull found in the Washington town of Kennewick is explored in this true crime doc. Uncovered in Kennewick's Columbia River, the skull was long assumed to belong to a native Indian who died hundreds of years ago. But as Dr. Jim Chatters comes to find out, there may be more secrets to this discovery than meet the eye.
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Looking at the marriage of Charles Dickens through the eyes of his wife Catherine, Sue Perkins exposes the lesser-known reality of the Dickens family Christmas.
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Abrigado con una simple gabardina y calzando botas con tachuelas, el inglés George Mallory arriesgó todo por conseguir su sueño. Fue visto por última vez con vida a 245 metros de la cumbre del Everest, minutos antes de que el cielo se ennegreciera y acabara convertido en leyenda. Su muerte asombró al mundo entero. En 1999, el montañero Conrad Anker descubrió el cuerpo congelado de Mallory. Sus pertenencias fueron encontradas intactas, a falta de un solo objeto, la foto de su mujer Ruth, que el escalador había prometido colocar en lo alto de la cima. Guiados por Anker, en este documental seguimos las huellas de Mallory por la cara noreste de la escalofriante montaña, con el fin de resolver el misterio que rodea su muerte, y descubrir si el valiente montañero consiguió cumplir su sueño de alcanzar la cima.
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The Scorpion King: The King before Pharaohs. Learn more about the king who likely united ancient Egypt, organized the world’s earliest phonetic writing system, and inspired the creation of the pyramids. Mace heads, a stone mounted on a wooden shaft, were an early weapon of war. They were used like a club to strike enemies on the head. The scorpion mace head was too large to have been used as a weapon, and was clearly reserved for ceremonial purposes. Archaeologists believe they have found the tomb of the Scorpion King at the ancient burial site of Abydos. He was buried with 700 wine jars, several of which had come from as far away as ancient Palestine. The Scorpion King may have presided over the birth of phonetic writing earlier than any other civilization in the world—200 years before the first pharaohs.
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March 27, 1977. At 2:00 in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners. An explosion at a nearby airport had redirected air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours 583 people would be dead. This film reconstructs the moments leading up to the tragedy.
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Sixty years ago, Norway’s Nazi invaders saw a perfect opportunity to further Himmler’s “Lebensborn” program, by encouraging their soldiers to have affairs with Norwegian women, often with Aryan features, and breed “racially superior children.” After the war the women children were sent to prisons and asylums.
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A real 'video nasty' in which England football manager Graham Taylor buckles under the pressure of securing the national team a place in the World Cup Finals. First shown on Channel 4, the camera crew were given unparallelled access to the England camp, climaxing with the emotionally exhausting spectacle of Taylor's touchline breakdown as England lose to Holland in a vital qualifying game. The video includes previously unseen footage.
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An account of Dr. Robert D. Ballard's exploration of the wreck of the Britannic in September 1995. Britannic, the sister-ship of the Titanic, was sunk after a mysterious explosion while serving as a hospital ship during World War One. Ballard sets out to relocate the wreck and attempts to prove once and for all whether it was a German mine or torpedo which inflicted the fatal damage. Documentary-