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The key to a city´s survival is its vital organs - power grids, transportation systems, water supplies, air traffic control and countless others. Through dramatic storytelling, unparalleled access and sophisticated computer graphics, go beyond the monuments and into the machinery- of each Mega City. Featured cities include: Mexico City, Hong Kong, Mumbai, London, Paris, NYC, Las Vegas and Sao Paulo.
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It is one of the most ambitious construction projects of modern times: building the world´s deepest submarine tunnel beneath one of the busiest shipping lanes on the planet, just 12 miles north of one of the most active fault lines today. The Marmaray Project will stretch the length of three football fields underneath the Bosporus - linking Istanbul´s Asian and European halves. To engineers, the greatest challenge was equipping the tunnel with anti-seismic technology to survive the major earthquake predicted for Istanbul...until they unearthed the greatest nautical archaeological find of the century. An ancient port of Constantinople.
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Look at engineering leaps that have helped different types of structures go from big to bigger to biggest.
The race is on to become the world’s biggest. Crowned the biggest in their fields, structures like the 600-metre Burj Dubai skyscraper and the 99,000-ton USS Nimitz represent the most cutting-edge advances in architecture and engineering today. But these mind-blowing 21st century constructions would not be possible without the historical breakthroughs that propelled these fields to new heights.
Big, Bigger, Biggest examines the various engineering leaps that helped these structures become historical giants. How did bridges evolve in size from simple bamboo walkways to modern marvel...
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Did you know that germs can make you fat? That sound can be used to power a refrigerator? Or that some fish communicate by farting? Amusing, irreverent and entertaining, new series, Mad Labs, explores everyday science through strange experiments. This series sets out to prove that science is part of our daily lives. It´s for anyone who wants to know how to light a fire with an old Coke can and a bar of chocolate!
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Animal Autopsy dissects the largest animals on the planet to uncover their evolutionary secrets.
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The story of how 150 years of machine gun evolution has placed the firepower of a 19th Century Army in the hands of a company of US Marines. Specially staged live-fire machine gun events explain the key moments in the weapon´s history: from the World War One machine gun that can chop down a tree, to the first gangster hit with a Tommy Gun, to the modern GAU-8 Avenger - one of the deadliest machine guns in the world.
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The key to a city´s survival is its vital organs - power grids, transportation systems, water supplies, air traffic control and countless others. Through dramatic storytelling, unparalleled access and sophisticated computer graphics, go beyond the monuments and into the machinery- of each Mega City. Featured cities include: Mexico City, Hong Kong, Mumbai, London, Paris, NYC, Las Vegas and Sao Paulo.
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Lake Griffin, Florida. A killer is on the loose, striking some of the states oldest inhabitants. American Alligators, up to fifteen feet long and 1,000 pounds, thrash sporadically at the surface of the lake. Dozens swim around and around in circles, disoriented, while others clamber out of the lake dragging their back legs behind them. Still more float belly up, unable to right themselves. The unmistakable stench of death fills the air. A crack team of leading experts and scientists is hastily assembled but none of them expect what lies ahead.
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Did you know that germs can make you fat? That sound can be used to power a refrigerator? Or that some fish communicate by farting? Amusing, irreverent and entertaining, new series, Mad Labs, explores everyday science through strange experiments. This series sets out to prove that science is part of our daily lives. It´s for anyone who wants to know how to light a fire with an old Coke can and a bar of chocolate!
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1943 - Germany and Russia clash near the Soviet city of Kursk, as each vies for control of the Eastern Front. The Germans are led by Field Marshal Von Manstein - an aristocratic master tactician. Facing him across the battlefield is the Red Army´s Marshal Zhukov - ruthless, opinionated and dangerous to know. Hitler is convinced new super-weapons like the Tiger tank will win the fight and insists Von Manstein holds off his attack until more arrive. Zhukov exploits the delay and orders his men to dig for victory. They create an elaborate network of defences to grind the enemy down - or blow them up... The two armies finally meet in a titanic clash of tanks - on a mind-blowing scale. It is the biggest tank battle of all time and the result changes the course of the war forever.
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1944, the Allies landed in Italy but are stopped in their progression by the Wehrmacht safely protected behind the Gustav line (Mount Cassin.) In Normandy and in Saipan, Pacific, the Allies organize simultaneously the biggest landings in history. In this harsh fight between the Allies and the Axe, civilians on both sides of the globe pay the strongest price. On July 20th, Hitler miraculously escapes an attempt on his life. The repression is ferocious and the SS take over complete power in Germany. In the Ardennes, the last counter-attack Hitler sets to push back the Allies fails partly due to the GI´s heroic behavior. In the East, the Red Army continues to make progress and arrives in Berlin. Nothing more can save Germany, not even its secret weapons, V1 and V2. Hitler commits suicide. In the Pacific, the kamikazes attack the American fleet and the Japanese Army, more fanatic than ever, fights to the last man, To definitively break the Empire of the Rising Sun and avoid a landing in Japan itself that would be incredibly bloody, the Americans launch the atomic weapon. The Apocalypse.
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The key to a city´s survival is its vital organs - power grids, transportation systems, water supplies, air traffic control and countless others. Through dramatic storytelling, unparalleled access and sophisticated computer graphics, go beyond the monuments and into the machinery- of each Mega City. Featured cities include: Mexico City, Hong Kong, Mumbai, London, Paris, NYC, Las Vegas and Sao Paulo.
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Animal Autopsy dissects the largest animals on the planet to uncover their evolutionary secrets.
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The psychological effects of war are no longer considered just a human condition. Africa is cultivating gangs of juvenile delinquents, wreaking havoc in the wild. African elephants are becoming edgy 30 years of poaching and conservation management is beginning to backfire, resulting in abnormal violent behavior. In Kenya, elephants are targeting and killing the Maasai tribes cattle. In South Africa, 36 rhinos are killed in a single park over a period of two years. And in Western Uganda a village is being subjected to indiscriminate and violent attacks by local elephants - where, previously they had roamed peacefully. What is provoking Africas gentle giant to these violent outbursts? A group of scientists help to solve this unusual psychological mystery. As they go over individual elephant case histories, a picture builds. Here is an animal with extraordinary parallels to us; similar lifespan, childhood development, and complex functions of thought and feeling. If we accept that elephants are emotional, could they also have emotional problems? Armed with an understanding of their natural family history, we look at the way some conservationists have managed elephants in the last 30 years - sometimes wiping out entire older age structures. Has our meddling caused this violent behavior? Some scientists have recently labeled elephants with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. We talk to neurologists and psychiatrists to explore the science of stress and ask can we really compare elephants with people? We visit an elephant orphanage and ask - how would you treat an elephant with psychological damage, and more importantly what if we cant?
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Mobile protected firepower. Thats what every General wants. What they are describing is the tank. And since it first appeared on the muddy fields of northern France in the First World War, designers and engineers have been trying to perfect and improve these steel leviathans. In this program, a U.S. tank crew-in-training will give us an exclusive look at the latest Abrams M1A2 main battle tank at the US Armys Fort Hood, while tank historians and war veterans will spotlight the major advances that make up the evolutionary timeline of the tanks development. What makes an Abrams one of the best tanks of today? In the near 100-year history of the tank, how did we end up here? A tank is defined by three factors: Mobility, Firepower and Protection. Out on the range at Fort Hood, the modern Abrams tank demonstrates extraordinary agility and speed for a machine that weighs almost 70 tons when battle ready. Straight away, it has one distinguishing feature that sets it apart - its track. A tank simply lays out its own road in front of the vehicle and then runs over it. The tracks spread lessens the burden of the Abramss awesome weight on the road surface. Using personal testimony and archive material, combined with our own specially shot footage from inside a tank during firing live ammunition, we move on to tell the story of firepower. The Abrams is packed with the latest technology to find and kill targets at up to 3 kilometres away. This technical superiority was demonstrated during the first Gulf War of 1991, when tanks under the command of Lt Gen Paul Funk were able to find and kill enemy tanks before the Iraqi commanders could even rotate their turrets. With live action and evocative computer graphics, we see the full extent of the modern tanks systems, including thermal imaging for accurate night vision, and pinpoint laser rangefinding technology. We contrast this with the limited equipment available to the gunners of the First World War they used a technique called straddling to find and range their targets. Quite simply, it was a case of trial and error, firing rounds in the hope that they were on target and adjusting the barrel accordingly. It was a technique they learned from gunners of the 17th century. A tank is also defined by the ammunition it fires and there has been considerable development over the years. We show how the latest armour piercing rounds have evolved from 17th century ideas . To get more power from their cannons, they used a block of wood, or sabot, behind each cannon ball. This made sure that all the explosive power from the charge was used to thrust the ball out of the barrel as quickly as possible. We explain how in the latter stages of the 2nd World War the British came up with a revised version of the sabot round that quite literally flies through the air like a large crossbow bolt and can penetrate even the thickest armor. The film concludes with a look at armor development and how the work of a German scientist in the late 1960s produced the innovative and effective Explosive Reactive Armor that is often used on tanks today. The tank has been a crucial part of warfare since the 1st World War. New technologies are being tried all the time, such as active armour and electric guns, but as recent conflicts show, so far, there is no substitute for the tank.
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1943 - Germany and Russia clash near the Soviet city of Kursk, as each vies for control of the Eastern Front. The Germans are led by Field Marshal Von Manstein - an aristocratic master tactician. Facing him across the battlefield is the Red Army´s Marshal Zhukov - ruthless, opinionated and dangerous to know. Hitler is convinced new super-weapons like the Tiger tank will win the fight and insists Von Manstein holds off his attack until more arrive. Zhukov exploits the delay and orders his men to dig for victory. They create an elaborate network of defences to grind the enemy down - or blow them up... The two armies finally meet in a titanic clash of tanks - on a mind-blowing scale. It is the biggest tank battle of all time and the result changes the course of the war forever.
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1944, the Allies landed in Italy but are stopped in their progression by the Wehrmacht safely protected behind the Gustav line (Mount Cassin.) In Normandy and in Saipan, Pacific, the Allies organize simultaneously the biggest landings in history. In this harsh fight between the Allies and the Axe, civilians on both sides of the globe pay the strongest price. On July 20th, Hitler miraculously escapes an attempt on his life. The repression is ferocious and the SS take over complete power in Germany. In the Ardennes, the last counter-attack Hitler sets to push back the Allies fails partly due to the GI´s heroic behavior. In the East, the Red Army continues to make progress and arrives in Berlin. Nothing more can save Germany, not even its secret weapons, V1 and V2. Hitler commits suicide. In the Pacific, the kamikazes attack the American fleet and the Japanese Army, more fanatic than ever, fights to the last man, To definitively break the Empire of the Rising Sun and avoid a landing in Japan itself that would be incredibly bloody, the Americans launch the atomic weapon. The Apocalypse.
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03:45
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The key to a city´s survival is its vital organs - power grids, transportation systems, water supplies, air traffic control and countless others. Through dramatic storytelling, unparalleled access and sophisticated computer graphics, go beyond the monuments and into the machinery- of each Mega City. Featured cities include: Mexico City, Hong Kong, Mumbai, London, Paris, NYC, Las Vegas and Sao Paulo.
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Animal Autopsy dissects the largest animals on the planet to uncover their evolutionary secrets.
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