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Gregg Wallace discovers how one of Britain's largest bakeries makes up to one and a half million loaves of bread each week. Following the production of one of the UK's favorite loaves, he learns how it is possible to bake 4,000 loaves at once and how a machine can bag a loaf of bread in midair. Cherry Healey takes us inside one of the largest flour mills in the UK to see how the perfect flour is made and reveals the science to storing bread at home....

Generated deep underground or beneath the seabed, earthquakes have the power to change the face of the landscape, sometimes forever. This program describes how earthquakes work, using expert testimony and compelling graphics to show how they go on to cause such widespread death and destruction. It shows where they are most likely to occur, as well as explaining why it is impossible to predict, or forecast, precisely when they will strike. Four particularly...

On the brink of a momentous life-altering decision, a young lady learns that the difference between good and bad people is not always as straightforward as she thinks. This comedy of manners is packed with the wit and wisdom of the incomparable Oscar Wilde.

In the final episode of his series tracing the story of the most famous trade route in history, Dr Sam Willis continues his journey west in Iran. The first BBC documentary team to be granted entry for nearly a decade, Sam begins in the legendary city of Persepolis - heart of the first Persian Empire. Following an ancient caravan route through Persia's deserts, he visits a Zoroastrian temple where a holy fire has burned for 1,500 years, and Esfahan,...

As the shadow of the First World War stretched across the globe, millions of ordinary people were caught in its wake. Many of their stories have never been told. This film collects together just a few of these untold stories: the surprising revelation of the first civilian killed in the war; the extraordinary transformation of Britain into a military industrial complex and the devastating effect on the women enlisted to work in its factories; and...

In the first of this film series, Dr. Michael Scott travels across Greece, exploring the lives of the people who gave us democracy, architecture, philosophy, language, literature, and sport. He visits ancient cities, battlefields, great ruins, and the wild countryside in his search to uncover how the ancient Greeks lived. Democracy, physical fitness, worship, citizenship, pederastic relationships, infanticide, and art create a paradoxical portrait...

The Trojan War has fascinated people for centuries. But did it really happen? Did the Trojan horse really bring about the fall of Troy? Join Michael Wood as he navigates through archaeological, historical and literary evidence- using Homer as his guide. In Turkey, Wood uses computer graphics to show how Hissarlik, a hill that is the likely setting of Troy, was destroyed more than once. In Germany, he examines Hittite clay tablets which were a contemporary...

A poignant and powerful film that tells the heartbreaking story of lost youth as it follows the lives of children trapped in a seemingly endless war. International headlines about tit-for-tat murders of Israeli and Palestinian youngsters have only served to highlight how the war in Gaza has become a war about children. They have become the main victims, dying in unprecedented numbers, and caught in the political crossfire in this long-running dispute....

This film explores the world's most destructive avalanches, from Hannibal's 218 BCE crossing of the Alps and thee use of avalanches as weapons in World War I to deadly avalanches of the late 20th Century. Viewers will learn what conditions create avalanches, how rescue efforts proceed after and avalanche, and finally, safety tips for avoiding and responding to avalanches.

The extraordinary story of six Auschwitz survivors - telling of their survival in the years after they left the camp, and travelling right up to the present day. Producer and director Laurence Rees has travelled extensively in order to film six survivors of Auschwitz, along with their friends and families. Together these sequences, filmed in Jerusalem and Chicago, London and Bavaria, Krakow and Tel Aviv, build into a compelling portrait of the problems,...