Alisdair Simpson

Бесстрашная Мэри Колвин — один из самых знаменитых военных корреспондентов современности. Она одинаково комфортно чувствует себя, потягивая Martini с элитой Лондона, и в противостоянии диктаторам в разгар боевого конфликта. Она бесконечно много курит, пристрастна к алкоголю и не всегда разборчива в связях. Но настойчивое желание засвидетельствовать правду заставляет ее снова и снова оказываться на передовых военных конфликтов по всему миру. Она не раз смотрела смерти прямо в глаза. Её жизнь — торнадо, её разум — минное поле, её прекрасное тело изранено. Вместе с таким же борцом за справедливость, военным фотографом Полом Конроем, в осажденном городе Сирии они приступают к самому опасному заданию в их карьере.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved the world from nuclear war and total destruction.

This is the real story of the legendary Raid on Entebbe. On 27th June 1976 terrorists hi-jacked Air France Flight 139 en route from Tel Aviv to Paris. On board are 246 passengers, most of them Jews. They are taken to Entebbe, Uganda and are held hostage in the airport terminal. Even though Uganda is thousands of miles away, across hostile territory, Israel's defence minister, Shimon Peres decides to launch a rescue mission. It is a job for Sayeret Matkal, the most elite unit in the Israeli Defence Force. Featuring interviews with surviving hostages, members of Sayeret Matkal and Peres himself this is the inside story of the most remarkable special forces mission of them all.

The ragged-tooth shark has a formidable reputation – but the truth about this animal is very different. We follow this incredible shark on its biannual migration along the South African coast and venture deep into underwater caves to study its dramatic mating behaviour.

Based on diaries, records and eyewitness accounts, this is the story of the two Battles of the Somme from the perspective of British and German soldiers. It shows how the major lessons learned by the British Army leadership after the disastrous first attacks of July 1916 were turned into victory at the second attempt in September 1916, arguably the turning point for the First World War.

Heroes appear in different guises but all possess the same qualities; bravery, courage, passion and pride. As the German armies swept all before them, Britain stood alone to face this seemingly unstoppable force and an entire nation put their best foot forward. Some individuals would be celebrated with medals but countless hundreds of thousands of others would pass unrecorded or even unknown. Outside of Britain the men and women of the French resistance, the people of Malta and countless soldiers, sailors and airmen fought bravely to rid the world of such a poisonous evil.

Directly following Supervolcano, a two-episode documentary reveals the cutting-edge research that informed the drama. Meet the experts who monitor the behaviour of the Yellowstone supervolcano, who face the awesome responsibility of predicting when the next super-eruption might next take place - and advising on what will happen when it does. The programme goes behind the scenes to reveal the work being done to try to understand the sequence of events that could one day culminate in this apocalypse, and to calculate the global fallout that would follow it. Written by BBC

24 августа 79 года нашей эры тридцать тысяч жителей Помпеи и тысячи жителей других соседних городов были застигнуты врасплох внезапным извержением Везувия. Тысячи людей погибли в первые часы извержения вулкана. Еще тысячи погибли в последующие несколько дней. Так цветущий город Помпеи превратился в город смерти.