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Discovery Channel series looking at key dates in history and the days before and after them. 'Moments in Time' blends history, archaeology, and vivid re-enactments to recount decisive moments in world history. Hosted by James Woods, the series presents the political and social contexts of events ranging from the first permanent English settlement in America to the first slave revolt in Caribbean history to Napoleon's plan for conquering Russia. Each program highlights an archaeological dig of a site related to the event, connecting modern research with primary source material for a multifaceted view of history.

Welcome back to the strange and sinister town of Royston Vasey, where insularity rules and nosebleeds are infectious. Building on the phenomenal success of the first series, Series Two brings more bizarre, and already adored, new characters to town. See Papa Lazarou's Pandemonium Carnival rolling into town with his freak show. See Edward and Tubbs venture out of town on a mission to find a no-tail for their son David. Visit Lake Windemere B&B where proprietors Alvin and Sunny Steele offer special 'extras' to their 'swinging' guests. Meet Herr Lipp, the German exchange teacher with a penchant for boys. Plus, see the one and only Roy Chubby Brown in a cameo as the foul-mouthed Mayor Vaughn.

In Search of Myths and Heroes is an enjoyable series of programs: well researched, dynamic, visually sumptuous and informative. These programs are not out to give exhaustive explanations of historical events. Instead, they approach the heavy subject matter with a light touch, a sense of adventure and the feel of a quest – searching for factual evidence of fictional characters.

After the death of Lady Va Cha's husband and two sons, she returns to the northern lands of her husband's clan. Of her two daughters-in-law, one decides to follow her into a marginal village existence in a steeply patriarchal society. Nyab Siab Zoo (The Good-hearted Daughter) is a tale of two widows bounded by lost and love. Inspired by the biblical story of Ruth.

In The Big Country Gregory Peck plays a seafaring man who heads west to marry Carroll Baker, the daughter of rancher Charles Bickford. Bickford is currently embroiled in a water-rights feud with covetous Burl Ives, so both he and his daughter are hoping that Peck can take care of himself. But Peck, who doesn't belief in fisticuffs, appears to be a coward, especially when challenged by Bickford's cocksure foreman Charlton Heston. The far-from-cowardly Peck decides to distance himself from the machismo overload at the Bickford spread, settling for a romance with headstrong schoolmarm Jean Simmons, whose water-rich lands are being fought over by the two warring ranchers. When Jean is kidnapped by Ives' no-good son Chuck Connors, Peck decides to take action.

A compelling documentary film four years in the making, The Pipe tells the story of the small Rossport community which has taken on the might of Shell Oil and the Irish State. The discovery of gas off this remote coastal village has led to the most dramatic clash of cultures in modern Ireland. The rights of farmers over their fields, and of fishermen to their fishing grounds, has come in direct conflict with one of the world's most powerful oil companies. When the citizens look to their State to protect their rights, they find that the government has put Shell's right to lay a pipeline over their own…..

Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they have to get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have seriously underestimated the difficulties they will undergo. The large body of men who started the journey are gradually whittled down until only a hardy few, like Deakins, are left.

Reveal the Path is a genre-defying adventure film that contemplates what it means to live an inspired life using the bicycle as a mechanism to explore, dream and discover.