Whatever is happening in the outside world, life in Colchester zoo goes on. Curator Sarah Forsyth is heading into the busiest summer of her life keeping countless animals happy while four out of five of her keeping staff are furloughed. Sarah lives on site - the animals are her family - and they have never needed her more. This documentary follows Sarah for two animal-action-packed weeks, entirely inside the walls of one of Britain's largest zoos as she works tirelessly to deal with the summer baby boom, animal emergencies and unique situations created by the absence of paying public.

Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.

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In the 1970s, a new treatment for haemophilia known as Factor VIII was prescribed on the NHS. It infected more than 1,300 people with HIV and more than 4,000 people with Hepatitis C. As a public inquiry into the scandal reopens, this investigative feature-length documentary offers a window into a tragedy whose scale and impact has been relatively understated in Britain.

This program is part of the popular series from the History Channel that investigates some of civilization's unsolved mysteries and controversies.
Cover up or accident? Explore the evidence surrounding the death of 13,000 people at the close of World War II. This time History's Mysteries recounts the deadly patrol of a Soviet S-13 submarine through the Baltic Sea.

From popular revolt to the obsession with the self, even to modern nationalism, Simon Schama explores the enduring and powerful legacy the romantics have left on our modern world.

Even 2,000 years after his death, General Hannibal's battle strategies are still studied today. But of all his military feats, perhaps his greatest was leading his massive Carthaginian army of men and three-dozen elephants across the Alps and into the heartland of Rome in 218 B.C. Until now, the route they took has been a matter of dispute, but thanks to modern-day technology, geomorphologist Bill Mahaney and microbiologist Chris Allen believe they've accurately traced this ancient journey.

The harpy eagle is the most powerful bird of prey in the world, plucking monkeys from the branches of the jungle canopy. Rare and elusive, they are seldom seen, but with the discovery of a harpy nest in the remote Orinoco rainforest of Venezuela, wildlife film-maker Fergus Beeley has a unique opportunity to follow the life of a chick from birth to adulthood.

Iran has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, but its government has gone to great lengths to keep the true extent of the outbreak hidden from view.

The story of the Glenanne Gang details how members of the RUC and UDR, (a British Army regiment) were centrally involved in the murder of over 120 innocent civilians during the recent conflict in Ireland. It will detail how members worked hand in hand with known sectarian murderers in the targeted assassinations of farmers, shopkeepers, publicans and other civilians in a campaign aimed at terrorising the most vulnerable in society. Now known as the Glenanne Gang, the group of killers rampaged through Counties Tyrone and Armagh and across into the Irish Republic in a campaign that lasted from July 1972 to the end of 1978.