Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days - Season 1 Episode 3 Ancient Mariners

A community of amateur traders enacts a daring plan to get rich quick and wreak havoc on the stock market. But can they beat Wall Street at its own...

On November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking over 60 Americans hostage. What was planned as a 48-hour...

Award-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger sends documentary teams across the country to uncover the real reasons Americans can’t agree on...

To detail how drugs push people into risky — even deadly — behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit...

Men from all over the world have left their pasts to start a new life as elite soldiers in the French Foreign Legion.

Historian Dr Suzannah Lipscomb unfolds the extraordinary story of the tumultuous love affair between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and asks: was it...

A new breed of warrior has emerged to fight a global plague of coups, kidnappings and assassinations: the commando. Follow these international super...

The documentary series aims to reshape the way the public sees cancer and strip away some of the fear and misunderstanding that has long surrounded...

Simon Sebag Montefiore embarks on a fascinating journey to unlock 2,000 years of Spain's history.

Simon Schama explores the life and times of William Shakespeare to shed a new and fascinating light on some of the greatest plays ever written. He...

Michael Palin travels to 18 countries around the rim of the Pacific Ocean.

Godai is a ronin (someone who has failed university entrance exams) living in a run down apartment house called Maison Ikkoku. Among the other...

Michael Palin undertakes an epic journey of 23,000 miles, travelling from the North to the South Pole across 17 countries with a minimum of air...

During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British...

In a utopia whose perfection hinges upon control of monogamy and privacy, members of the collective begin to question the rules, putting their...

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the...

Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes...

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very...

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council...