Port Royal, the 'wickedest city on Earth', famous for its Caribbean pirates, liquor, is torn apart on June 7th 1692 by quake and tsunami. Two thirds of buildings are sucked into the ocean, the rest buried where they sink. 2,000 die. Marine archaeologist Jon Henderson goes in search of what happened. Scientific data combines with computer graphics to DRAIN the waters to investig...
To coincide with the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, Cambridge historian Helen Castor and a team of archaeologists embark on the first ever investigation of Shakespeare’s grave. They want to discover if there’s any truth to the rumors that his grave, which carries a curse against any man who ‘moves his bones’, has been tampered with.
The investigation also exp...
45亿年，是一个怎样漫长的光景。浩瀚的宇宙，又是怎样辽阔的疆域。在漫无边际的天际，有如微尘一般的地球，却孕育着数以万计且多姿多彩的生命。追溯过往，发现生命繁荣的起点竟如此苛刻，一切万年不遇，一切宛如神迹。
BBC走遍地球每一个角落，向我们揭示了生命之初的奥秘。他们告诉世人，那场为我们所恐惧的，以及常为我们所忽视的，竟然曾起着如此至关重要的作用。火山、大气层、冰川和海洋，它们是人类乃至一切有生的源头。《地球的力量》制作组将通过5集纪录片，为我们再现那颗蓝色的星球，从无到有、从简到繁最为壮丽的时刻……
The remarkable story of the Mount St. Helen's volcanic eruption of 1980 told by first hand witnesses who survived and using rare remastered archive material.
