21 Days

Before The French revolution came along and spoiled their fun, the rich aristocrats spent most of their time indulging in the pleasures of the flesh on a grand scale. Huge Banquets would be laid out out for the so-called "ladies and gentlemen" of the court with the main course being an orgy of unbridled debauchery.

Presenter Bettany Hughes explores the day in 49BC when, defying the Senate, Julius Caesar and his army crossed the river Rubicon, plunging the Republic into civil war. With the aid of the most recent archaeological finds and theories, she examines Caesar's character, his dealings with Crassus, Pompey the Great and Cicero, and how his quest for absolute power effectively sounded the death knell for the Roman Republic and paved the way for dictatorial rule.

Everything in high school is like the world ending and Sadie Mitchell's crippling fear of the coming apocalypse is the heightened version of that. Undeterred by the naysayers, Sadie has two weeks to ready herself before doomsday. She needs to master survivalist cuisine, learn to sew, but there are other things…personal things: go to a high school party, kiss a boy, and most importantly, get her best friend back.

Here is the ultimate synchronisation of details and events which signalled the last six months of the greatest conflict the world has ever known. It involved over 100 countries, it killed 50 million people and absorbed six years of struggle and bloodshed for the peoples of half the globe.

Nell'aprile 1980, un gruppo armato di uomini assalta l'ambasciata iraniana a Londra, prendendo in ostaggio tutti coloro che erano al suo interno. Nel corso dei successivi sei giorni, mentre la situazione diventa sempre più tesa, una squadra di soldati della SAS altamente addestrati si prepara a un raid: un evento che il mondo fino a quel momento non aveva mai visto.

In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane with 248 passengers on board and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.

Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the most daring rescue mission ever attempted.

The last thing Eddie Mills (Larry Clarke) wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad (Brian Dennehy). But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy family, an overbearing step-mother (Leslie Ann Warren) , and his bear of a father. Once there, Eddie is confronted with a revelation that forces him to deal with the past he has always avoided.

In April 1980, armed gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in Princes Gate, London and took all inside hostage. Over the next six days a tense standoff took place, all the while a group of highly trained soldiers from the SAS prepared for a raid the world had never seen the likes of.

An adopted Irish American artist confronts her past when both sets of parents come together over a weekend for her to paint a family portrait.