The War of the World is a major new history of the 20th century by acclaimed and controversial historian Professor Niall Ferguson, described by The Times as the “most brilliant British historian of his generation”. We think we know the last century well, but our view of it was skewed by the fact that we were living through it.

The Kuwait Towers are three towers of reinforced concrete in Kuwait City. The main tower is 187 metres high and serves as a restaurant and water tower.

(Produced and directed by John Halas. Associate Producer, Jean-Marc Peyron. Editor, Sean Lenihan. Commentary, David Healy and Oswald Laurence. Original Music, Peter Shade, Richard Arnell and David Hewson. 1986)

A series of four programs produced and directed by John Halas. Over 10 years in the making, Masters of Animation represents the peak achievements of 7,000 artists from 13 countries. Produced and directed by John Halas, former president of the International Animated Film Association and award-winning animator, the series provides an opportunity to experience the exciting diversity of the world's leading animation artists. In addition, viewers are treated to examples of state of the art animation technology.

For Jeremy Clarkson’s new release, he has travelled the planet to find the ultimate Supercar. He compares the topless versions of the Ferrari 430 and Lamborghini Gallardo. The Gallardo’s big cousin, the Murcielago, weighs in too. The Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano struts its stuff and Audi’s R8 faces up to the Porsche GT3 as special guest, Sabine Schmitz, takes on The Stig. Clarkson also has go at being a Formula 1 hero thanks to a Radical SR3. And has a fantastic time in the Aston Martin Vantage V8 Roadster. Plus there’s a new kid on the block in the shape of the stunning Ascari A10. And the line-up would not be complete without the 1000 horsepower, 252 miles per hour Bugatti Veyron.

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How will the world look in 5 million, 100 million and 200 million years? How will the continents look? Will it be hot or cold? And what kinds of fantastic creatures will be walking the Earth?
These are the questions The Future Is Wild Set out to answer, by involving the world’s leading scientists in creating a fully animated vision of what we might find, if only we could travel in time.

Learn how to easily produce a video and have it look like it was cut by a professional with this comprehensive video training series for the latest version of Premiere® Pro. Filmmaker and noted author, Jacob Rosenberg, leads you through the extensive capabilities of the most scalable, efficient, and precise editing tool for HD, SD, DV, and Film. With nearly 17 hours of tutorials, you will see how easy it is to maximize your time using Adobe Bridge and many new features including eReview.
This series also contains 9 comprehensive lessons from the training disk, "What® New for Premiere Pro 2", that will get you up to speed quickly on the key new features of Adobe Premiere Pro 2.

Dan Cruickshank’s quest is to tell the story of civilisation through the greatest of man’s achievements. It will also be the story of his travels, and who and what he meets along the way. Whether standing before the solemn heads of Easter Island, investigating the mysterious Nazca lines in Peru or the magnificent temple of Borobodur in Java, Dan is never less than fascinating about the origins, construction, mysteries and vicissitudes of each of these monuments to the great civilisations of the world.

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FQM released the last episodes of National Geographic channel docu-series “Known Universe”, a series which examines the fabric of space and time.

NOVA presents "Behavioral Economics," an exploration of why mainstream economists failed to predict the crash of 2008 and why we so often make irrational financial decisions. The mysterious and surprising nature of the two most powerful forces on the planet: the human mind and money are exposed. Complelling experiments reveal controversial new arguments about the world of finance.

Kaboom!: Follow an explosive trail through the ages starting in ninth-century China where alchemists stirred up a concoction meant to provide eternal life. Instead the strange mix blew up in their faces–and the first pyrotechnics were born. Intrigued by the magical formula Roger Bacon made a bigger bang by confining the black powder inside a tube. “When the flame of the powder catcheth the soul of man” noted the medieval friar “it burneth exceeding deep.” The way now paved for high explosives nineteenth-century industrialist Alfred Nobel–known variously as the ‘merchant of death’ and the founder of the Nobel Peace Prize–in turn pushed nitroglycerin to its dynamite potential. Carrying on this legacy physicist Robert Oppenheimer unleashed the terrible beauty of the atomic bomb ironically hoping its awesome power might render war obsolete. What will be our next experiment in search of the ultimate explosion?Fireworks!: Everybody loves fireworks–but why? Behind the dazzling displays and fiery explosions is a colorful past as well as a complex and secretive science that goes back over 1000 years. Discover the chemical secrets that put the bang in the rocket and the fizz in the Roman candle.