1789

Summer 1789: Louis XVI knows that civil war is close and assembles a force of 25,000 soldiers to establish his authority. One of France's most famous battles is about to begin. Paris, July 14, 1789. The kingdom has been in crisis for months, and the city is seething with unrest. The citizens are angry and have had enough of inequality, unemployment and hunger. At 9am, the French people establish their plan of attack and head for the Bastille, a symbol of royal absolutism. Armed with axes, pitchforks, knives and rifles, they storm the fortress. At 5pm, the Bastille falls to the people, and with it, brings down the foundations of the French monarchy.

Versailles, luglio 1789. Nella corte di re Luigi XVI cresce la tensione: il Paese è sull’orlo di una rivoluzione. Il film racconta la storia di Sidonie Laborde (Léa Seyedoux), una semplice serva "lettrice” di Maria Antonietta (Diane Kruger) che, per qualche strana ragione, passa dall’essere nessuno all’avere un ruolo importante a fianco della regina negli ultimi giorni a corte prima che Maria Antonietta, il re e tutti i più stretti collaboratori siano decapitati. La storia è tutta presentata dal punto di vista ingenuo della Laborde che fino all’ultimo momento crede che il re riuscirà, con il suo discorso, a convincere la popolazione.

In a unique experiment we will challenge 21st century men to re-live one of the greatest feats of maritime adventure and endurance in naval history. In 1789, Captain Bligh and a handful of loyal men were forced into a tiny open boat and left to die in the middle of the South Pacific after the infamous Mutiny on the Bounty.

Summer 1789: Louis XVI knows that civil war is close and assembles a force of 25,000 soldiers to establish his authority. One of France's most famous battles is about to begin. Paris, July 14, 1789. The kingdom has been in crisis for months, and the city is seething with unrest. The citizens are angry and have had enough of inequality, unemployment and hunger. At 9am, the French people establish their plan of attack and head for the Bastille, a symbol of royal absolutism. Armed with axes, pitchforks, knives and rifles, they storm the fortress. At 5pm, the Bastille falls to the people, and with it, brings down the foundations of the French monarchy.

Documentary series in which Lucy Worsley dispels the myths behind some of the key moments in royal history.

Documentary from 1967 on how robotics could shape human society. Your future is being created now - for better or for worse? How close are we to constructing the robot of the future? Will there be one in every house? How human will It look? These are some of the questions this programme tries to answer. Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer and prophet of the robot age, introduces the programme and predicts a future in which man and robots form a combined culture. A culture in which, to use his own words, 'mankind may want robots not only as helpers and servants but also as friends, as something with which they can identify'.

Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.

Dopo aver vinto cento milioni di euro, l'ex squattrinata famiglia Tucci trasloca da una provincia del Lazio a Milano per sottrarsi all'attenzione di sedicenti amici e conoscenti e per godersi la nuova vita da milionari. I tempi però sono cambiati, ostentare non va più di moda e i Tucci devono allinearsi alle nuove tendenze.

The behind the scenes story of the life of A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin.

Es ist aus mit Ruhm und Ehre, denn Schrottland ist pleite und auf einmal sitzen Ritter Rost (Stimme: Christoph Maria Herbst) und seine Freunde auf der Straße. Während seine Kumpanen wie das Burgfräulein Bö (Jella Haase) und der Drache Koks (Dustin Semmelrogge) versuchen, das Beste aus der Situation zu machen, verkriecht sich Ritter Rost in seiner Burg.