The Gentle Indifference of The World

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta InternationalAirportis thebusiest airporton earth and the size of a city! Over a quarter of a million passengers pass through its terminals every day to catch almost 200 planes from it’s huge and complex network of terminals.

Each year over 100 million passengers pass through Hartfield Jackson Atlanta airport - making it the busiest in the world.

This is the tragic story of the U-boats at war. Brave men fighting a losing battle against odds they could never hope to overcome. Out-numbered, out-gunned and out-thought, the U-boats were justifiably known to their crews as 'iron coffins'. Somehow the U-boat fleet rose to the challenge and even managed a brief flicker of success before their inevitable fate enveloped them.

You might think the primary purpose of the World Cup is to determine which country has the best football team. You might think that, but you would be wrong. The purpose of the World Cup is to generate Great Moments that can stick in the mind longer than recollection of the winner of a particular match (or even tournament). On top of that they can, satisfyingly, be listed and ranked.

Aldo Kane is on a mission to expose the shocking secrets of the illegal tiger trade in south east Asia and those who profit. Working alongside fearless wildlife crime investigators and covertly filming tiger traffickers, Aldo embarks on a perilous journey along key trafficking routes connecting Malaysia, China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. He reveals how the breeding and farming of captive tigers drives consumer demand for tiger products and fuels the poaching of wild tigers.

What were you doing the day before 9/11? National Geographic takes a personal look at "the day that didn't matter… until the day that followed." Few images in history are as seared in America's consciousness as that of American Airlines Flight 11 crashing into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 2001. In the days, months and even years following the attack, the horrific events of that day and The Aftermath have been relived through the media - so much so that it's hard to remember a time before Sept. 11.

Richard Hammond explores the extraordinary wonders of the world of detail hidden in the blink of an eye. The human eye takes about fifty milliseconds to blink. But it takes our brain around a hundred and fifty milliseconds to process …

How did the Nazis manage to set off the cataclysm of WWII with little money and a weak economy?

A director (Charlize Theron) of an international aid agency in Africa meets a relief aid doctor (Javier Bardem) amidst a political/social revolution, and together face tough choices surrounding humanitarianism and life through civil unrest.

Our World tells the extraordinary story of the holidaymakers who found themselves trapped by an almighty wildfire at Mammoth Pools in California's Sierra National Forest.