Ben Gates procurou, toda a sua vida, um tesouro que foi muito bem guardado e que está associado aos Templários e aos Maçons. Nunca encontrou uma prova da sua existência... até que descobre que o mapa está codificado na Declaração da Independência dos Estados Unidos.
Quando uma página perdida do diário de John Wilkes Booth aparece, o bisavô de Ben Gates acaba sendo implicado como cúmplice da morte de Abraham Lincoln. Determinado a provar a sua inocência e limpar a honra da família, Ben segue uma série de pistas que o leva numa caça ao tesouro, de Paris a Londres e de volta aos EUA.
Uma verdadeira história de amizade que mudou a matemática para sempre. Em 1913, Srinivasa Ramanujan, um génio da matemática autodidata da Índia viaja para a o Colégio Trinity, na Universidade de Cambridge, onde ele se aproxima do seu mentor, o excêntrico professor G. H. Hardy e onde luta para mostrar ao mundo a genialidade da sua mente.
O bem-humorado caçador de tesouros Ben Finnegan vive obcecado por encontrar o tesouro do lendário Dote da Rainha, composto por 40 arcas do tesouro, perdidas no mar em 1715. A sua obsessão já o levou a perder tudo, incluindo o casamento com Tess e o seu velho barco. Entretanto, Tess está a refazer a sua vida e trabalha no iate do bilionário Nigel Honeycutt. Depois de descobrir uma pista vital para encontrar o tesouro, Ben vai ao iate onde trabalha a ex-mulher e consegue convencer o magnata e a sua filha a juntarem-se a ele na procura do tesouro.
O que aconteceu depois de Einstein fugir da Alemanha nazi? Este drama documental com imagens de arquivo e as palavras do mesmo mergulha na mente de um génio atormentado.
Depois de gastar 40 milhões de dólares, Larry Flynt, conhecido como o maior provocador da América, conseguiu manter a publicação da revista “Hustler” e ganhar as acusações em tribunal. Com o apoio da sua excêntrica mulher Althea e da corajem do seu advogado, Flynt desafiou os tabus do sistema americano e provou o seu direito à liberdade de expressão.
"STAN LEE" é um olhar sobre a ascensão de Stan Lee no mundo dos comics e da cultura pop.
Trinta anos após o lançamento do seu filme «JFK» (1991), o realizador Oliver Stone analisa provas recentemente desclassificadas relacionadas com o assassinato do Presidente John F. Kennedy, que teve lugar em Dallas a 22 de novembro de 1963.
The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius.
Explore the evolution of sci-fi from its origins as a small genre with a cult following to the blockbuster pop-cultural phenomenon we know today. In each episode, James Cameron introduces one of the “Big Questions” that humankind has contemplated throughout the ages and reaches back into sci-fi’s past to better understand how our favorite films, TV shows, books, and video games were born.
This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.
Journalist Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civilizations dating back to the last Ice Age.
Myths die hard, and the history of the 20th century is no exception to this rule. Even today, we hold popular beliefs that we take for Evangelical truths. Thus, we believe that Hiroshima caused Japan to surrender, that the Marshall Plan saved Europe, that Adolf Hitler was a military genius, or that Mao Zedong was a necessary evil for China’s modernization. Of course, these judgements contain some truth; but, too broad-stroked to be accurate, they contradict the historical reality by denying its complexity. What if the truth was slightly different? Through an exploration of great national or international myths, this full archive documentary collection revisits the key moments of the 20th century with a new perspective in order to provide a new, smarter and more subtle interpretation, bringing elements to light that have been forgotten or sometimes overshadowed.
For the first time, key figures from John Lennon's life and death—including friends, doctors, and investigators—share personal memories and reveal what happened on the night of his killing.
From the first men in their flying machines to World War One, from the first Atlantic crossing to the supersonic era, this is the story of the most daredevil challenges the world has ever known, braved by the men and women who wrote the history of human flight.
My Journey Through French Cinema (2017), Bertrand Tavernier’s César-nominated three-and-a-half-hour tour through French film history, was too short to introduce audiences to all that he wanted to share. In this new eight-part series (8x55min), the acclaimed director of such films as Coup de Torchon and ‘Round Midnight guides us through a roster of filmmakers both influential and forgotten, explores how his country’s cinema was shaped by the German occupation and changed again through the New Wave, spotlights little-known female filmmakers, and more. Subjects include: René Clément, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Julien Duvivier, Henri Decoin, Claude Autant-Lara, as well as composers who made movie music an art in and of itself, far from the Hollywood spotlight.
Summer 1943: Hitler engages in a decisive battle in Kursk to win the war in the East. This is without counting on the pugnacity of the Red Army and the Allied intervention in the West. Month after month, the noose tightens on the Nazi tyrant who refuses to admit defeat and precipitates his country in its fall.
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls back the curtain on the familiar narrative of the moonshot, revealing a fascinating stew of scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama.
With the 00s now firmly in our rear view mirror, the decade is ripe for re-evaluation. From 9/11 to the financial crisis, the decade shows not only a period of turmoil in the United States but its also a golden age when the Internet hadnt been colonized by corporations, when social media was still young and fresh and when it was easy to make money.
The sun revolves around the earth - for more than 1500 years, this world view of the Greek astronomer Ptolemy was seen as an incontrovertible truth. It fit perfectly into the Christian worldview, in which the earth and God's creation were the center of the world. But in the Ptolemaic calendar, the date and the seasons diverged. The pope demanded a calendar reform. The astronomer and scholar Nicolaus Copernicus was also commissioned to do so. But Copernicus had long ago discovered something groundbreaking and revolutionary. Although it would set the calendar right, it threw the pious Christianity into a serious conflict: The earth revolves around the sun! A dangerous thought. Should he publicize his scientific calculations, or should he continue to hold to the Christian worldview?
At the beginning of 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis, "Satoshi Nakamoto" put Bitcoin into circulation. He created the first decentralised and reliable cryptocurrency. In 2011 he disappeared. The Mystery of Satoshi tells the exciting history of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, from the perspective of its mysterious creator.
Dr Xand Van Tulleken and Raksha Dave investigate the Great Smog of 1952 - the deadliest environmental disaster ever recorded and one of the world's worst peacetime catastrophes. Lasting just over four days, the Great Smog plunged London into a terrifyingly murky gloom - the acrid pollution seeping into homes, leaving Londoners gasping for breath, shutting down transport and emergency services, and overwhelming hospitals and undertakers alike.
Food critic and food lover Grace Dent explores the phenomenon of Greggs.
