Rush to Judgement

A compelling hybrid of drama and documentary, this feature film covers the events that led up to the infamous destruction of an extraordinary 300-year-old tree held sacred by the indigenous Haida nation of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Inspired by John Vaillant's award-winning book The Golden Spruce, the film introduces us to the complex character of Grant Hadwin, a logging engineer and survivalist who lived and worked happily for many years in BCʼs ancient forests.

Chan. Tucker. Their 3 smashin’, trash-talkin’ police-action comedy Rushes! One chops the chops. The other talks the talk. Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker bring fresh style and swagger to these smash-hit action-comedies. Rush Hour has the pair learning – someway, anyway – to work together while tackling a kidnapping case in L.A. Rush Hour 2 bullets the duo from Hong Kong to L.A. to Vegas on the trail of counterfeiters. And the fast, frenzied fun comes to Paris in Rush Hour 3 when the cops pursue a Chinese crime boss. Kicky chemistry, punchy verbal wit and awesome stunts – Hour after Hour after Hour!

With the pandemic leaving many Thais cash-strapped and jobless, huge numbers of farmers and traders alike have turned to crypto to boost their fortunes. Though cryptocurrency is volatile, prone to scammers and market manipulation, Thailand remains a crypto-friendly nation, keen to harness new blockchain innovations in a new technological era. Jonathan Miller travels to north-eastern Thailand to meet a rice farmer who's trading crypto using a smartphone, solar panel and online tutorials. However, in Bangkok, a man who made and lost nearly a million US dollars represents the downside to crypto.

The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century. This captivating, new documentary series explores the stories of struggle and triumph of the thousands who risked everything for the pursuit of wealth and the illusive American Dream.

Renowned as the richest gold strike in North American mining history, the Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1899) set off a stampede of over 100,000 people on a colossal journey from Alaska to the gold fields of Canada's Yukon Territory. Filled with the frontier spirit, prospectors came and gave rise to what was one of the largest cities in Canada at that time–Dawson City. The boomtown, which became known as "the Paris of the North", earned the reputation as a place where lives could be revolutionized.

In late spring, when the first rays of sunshine melt the ice on the rivers and lakes of north western Canada, wooden skeletons begin to emerge. Hidden by the fierce Canadian winters, these haunting wrecks of the once-proud paddle-steamers are the last remnants of a truly intoxicating era, when thousands of men and women plunged into the adventure of a lifetime in hot pursuit of gold. Now, a team of underwater archaeologists and historians explore this sunken fleet.

Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.

Tens of thousands of Madagascar's poor are flocking to the country's remote forests to illegally mine for sapphires. But the wealth they seek comes at a cost. Virgin rainforests are now scarred by mine shafts and makeshift villages that pollute the water. This is threatening the habitat of one of the world's rarest animals, the Indri Lemur. Our World's Angus Crawford trekked up to the mines that run through the territory of this critically endangered Lemur.

When her compulsive-gambler father dies, leaving her with an inheritance that amounts to zip, single gal Kim Halliday jumps at a caller's claim that she's part-owner of a Las Vegas "hotel." But hilarity ensues when she flies to Sin City …

Winners took all in the race to get rich in the California and Klondike gold rushes; unearthing the ships involved reveals the risks taken to go west.