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- A rivalry develops between a showbiz veteran and an upstart newcomer.
- Three part documentary series that tells the story of the birth of the personal computer, with the candid recollections of PC pioneers, like Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
- A conversation with Steve Jobs as he was running NeXT, the company he had founded after leaving Apple.
- The Power and the Glory was a 13-part television documentary series shown between 4 October and 27 December 1991 on BBC2. The series covers 100 years of motor racing history.
- This is a suspenseful part re-enactment, part original footage of the sea rescue of the late Tony Bullimore from his upturned sailing yacht (The Exide Challenger) during the Vendee-Globe solo round the world yacht race. Bullimore had been trapped for four days in the upturned hull of his 18 m yacht when the Royal Australian Navy located the yacht, not knowing if Bullimore had survived or not. As a footnote to this, sadly Tony Bullimore passed away on the 31 July, 2018 from stomach cancer, he was aged 79.
- A 3 film series following Bob Cringely's nerve-wracking attempt to build an airplane in 4 weeks.
- Drama documentary about the events leading up to and surrounding the English Civil War.
- A documentary about the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980, told from the points of view of the rebels, the soldiers fighting them, and civilians who just want all the fighting and killing to end.
- The Humber lifeboat is the only permanently manned, full-time lifeboat in the country. Its coxswain, BRIAN BEVAN is one of the most decorated men in the RNLI's service. He, his six crew and their families live at the end of Spurn Point, a strip of land curving into the Humber. This series of six programmes looks at the life of the men who man Britain's busiest lifeboat. On average it is called out once a week. It will launch in any wind, at night, whatever the sea. But the weather the crew dread most is fog.
- The story of Monica Kristensen, who followed in the footsteps of Roald Amundsen, the first man to reach the South Pole (1911). Her voyage was a dangerous one, involving mid-ocean refueling of the expeditions aircraft on an iceberg. Packed ice closed around the group's ship and caused delays. On reaching their set off point, they traveled 1800 miles by sledge, over the Ross Ice Shelf, before facing the Heiberg glacier - Antartica itself. However, although the route to the South Pole lay beyond, the wild winter weather was approaching. Monica and her team had to decide to risk going forward, or turn back, wasting years of planning.
- This was a series of 15 Adventure documentaries covering exploits and expeditions from around the world, commissioned or produced by John Gau Productions for Channel 4
- From the production team that made the televised history of motor racing, The Power and The Glory, comes a new seven-part series on a year in the life of the McLaren Formula 1 racing team. Cameras followed McLaren, and team boss Ron Dennis , through the highs and lows of the 1993 Grand Prix season, a season in which number one driver Ayrton Senna began by complaining that his car was not competitive and ended with him signing to drive for arch-rivals Williams next year. It was a year, too, in which McLaren signed Michael Andretti , the American IndyCar champion, to drive as their number two - a gamble that didn't come off.
- A celebration of 100 years of cinema.
- Whenever the Russians sent a satellite - a sputnik - into space during the early days of the space race a certain grammar school in the middle of England - Kettering Grammar School - picked up the signal. The teacher taking the science class in 1960 was Geoffrey E Perry later on to be awarded the MBE. This is the story of how that teacher at that particular school picked up the 'bleeps' from Sputnik 4 in May 1960.
- A series of three films about one of the UK's most controversial political policies of the last 20 years - privatisation.
- Ever since the wreck of Titanic was discovered in 1985 a fierce battle has raged over what should be done with it. This film tells the story of the obsession, greed, ambition and rivalry of the people trying to save or exploit the wreck.
- The early history of aviation, covering the Wright Brothers, Santos Dumont, Louie Bierot, the Avro, commercial airlines, WWI and WWII military jet development, breaking the sound barrier, NASA plane landers, and Burt Rutan's Voyager.