Mad Max 2

Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Chris Lintott look back at some of the biggest stories featured on the programme in 2020, with the help of special guests who have chosen their favourite moments. From the launch of Solar Orbiter to the discovery of phosphine on Venus, the team relive the astronomy highlights of a highly unusual year.

Ten years before Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien.

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.

Achille Tarallo è un autista di autobus, marito e padre, ma sogna una vita diversa e di diventare famoso come Fred Bongusto. Insieme al suo amico Cafè canta, con scarso talento, ai matrimoni che gli procura il sedicente impresario Pennabic, proponendo un repertorio detto "Tamarro Italiano". Achille, Cafè e Pennabic sono tre disgraziati, tre poveri diavoli, che vivono in un quartiere popolare di Napoli dove colori e folklore diventano il fondale e i co-protagonisti della storia. Ma un giorno per Achille arriva l'imperdibile occasione per evadere e cambiare la sua vita…

Observational documentary about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker arrested at Tehran airport in 2016 and accused of spying. Her husband Richard juggled a media and political campaign to free his wife while raising their daughter Gabriella alone. He knew then that his wife's detention was deeply connected to the complicated and toxic diplomatic relationship between Britain and Iran and to an unpaid debt going back half a century. Five years in the making, this film includes never-before-seen material captured by Nazanin herself.

Henry Cole heads off yet again into the wilds of America. This time riding America's Wild West from San Francisco across California into Nevada, up through Idaho and Wyoming through Yellowstone national park to journey's end in Billings Montana. On this 1500 mile ride Henry delights in the vast array of cultures, landscapes and characters he meets along the way and that make up the true dichotomy of this incredible adventure.

Sara Pascoe is learning how to do the world's most endangered jobs, from ice-carving in Finland to climbing trees to making sweets in Cuba.

Tells the story of Uisge beatha – Gaelic for "water of life." Scotch is enjoyed in more than 200 countries, generating over $6 billion in exports each year. For more than a century, Scotch whisky has been the premier international spirit of choice. It is time to tell the story of "uisge" to the world. While capturing stunning Scottish landscapes, the real heart of our film is the characters - the fascinating people who make Scotch whisky.

For five months, young protesters in Thailand have been challenging a government backed by the formidable power of the armed forces and the monarchy. For the first time, a mass movement is openly calling for reform of the monarchy, shattering a taboo surrounding the royal institution's near-sacred status.

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, The Vietnam War, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film.