Strangest Things

STRANGEST THINGS takes viewers on a riveting journey to uncover the world’s most remarkable and mysterious objects, hidden away in museums, laboratories, and storage rooms across the globe. Using cutting-edge 3D graphics and the latest technology, the series delves deep into these artifacts, revealing their smallest details and secrets. From ancient relics to bizarre, lost items, STRANGEST THINGS brings forgotten histories back to life, even reconstructing damaged objects to unlock their hidden stories. This series is an extraordinary exploration of the unbelievable, the ancient, and the truly strange.

Lift The Ice

We have long suspected that our cryosphere is hiding world changing scientific discoveries, historical mysteries, precious resources, rare viruses and even the key to the search for life elsewhere in the universe. But we’ve never been able to see all this - until now. These secrets are melting and a new world is emerging that will change our lives forever. This six-part adventure series unpicks the greatest mystery on earth today – what will be revealed when we LIFT THE ICE? Across six very personal journeys of discovery, we will follow a team of leading cryosphere experts as they climb, dive, rappel, ice axe and tunnel their way to the heart of an emerging global warming story - solving scientific and historical puzzles while showing you the very real future of the human race along the way.

USS Indianapolis: The Last Chapter

This scientific detective story details the discovery of the USS Indianapolis wreck site three and a half miles below the Philippine Sea. The ship’s sinking in the final days of Second World War was the largest loss of life in US Naval history, and the harrowing survival story of 316 sailors drifting in failing life preservers is legendary. The programme combines never-before-seen archival footage and CGI with the moving accounts of the few remaining survivors, testimony of historians and spectacular footage of the well-preserved wreck.

Dances With Cranes

DANCES WITH CRANES follows the incredible journey of the whooping crane, one of the world’s rarest and most ancient birds, predating humans by tens of thousands of years. Once nearly extinct, with fewer than 20 remaining in the 1940s, these majestic creatures are still fighting for survival. This film explores the remarkable efforts of scientists who will go to any length to save them—whether performing mating dances or jumping from helicopters to study them in the wild. Over the course of a year in the life of three whooping crane chicks, we witness the challenges of bringing a species back from the brink of extinction, from the early conservation efforts to new threats posed by climate change. DANCES WITH CRANES tells a story of resilience, dedication, and the fight to protect an ancient species.

How The World Ends

Exploring some of the most widely-held doomsday forecasts and their impending timeline to destruction. From the natural, to the religious, to the astrophysical, this series brings viewers the science, history, and people behind each theory, while probing for evidence for and against each scenario.

Bangers And Cash: Restoring Classics

At the Mathewsons public auction, the team will eye up a few likely restoration projects and put their hands in the air and their own money on the line. They will source and pay professional restorers to breathe new life into their purchases. Real cars, real restorations and a really honest enthusiasm for classics - and when all the hard work is done, the team will put their cars back into the auction. Only when the auction hammer comes down do we find out who the real winners and losers are.

Mega Disaster

The Earth’s titanic forces can rip apart the land, homes and people’s lives. This series exposes their killer characteristics and why they can be so devastating.

Man Made Marvels: Ancient China

Giant Buddha Four times the size of Mount Rushmore and twice as high as Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Leshan’s Giant Buddha is one of the world’s ancient wonders. Crafted over a thousand years ago on an inaccessible site in a place where carving anything should be impossible, the mighty Buddha has survived war, fire, earthquakes and extreme weather. But can it survive the modern world? China's Forgotten City With a history defined by the rise and fall of powerful dynasties and immortalized by some of China’s greatest architectural and engineering innovations, predecessors of modern day Xian have provided a blueprint for many of the world’s great cities. Using the best technology and science available, today’s Xian’s residents are rediscovering and restoring a city laden with ancient man made marvels.

Cracking The Code

CRACKING THE CODE uncovers some of the world’s most famous – and infamous – encryptions. From bizarre ancient markings to random numbers and letters, codes and ciphers have been used for millennia to send secret messages, hide identities and operate outside the law. Unravelling these codes can unlock military secrets, unmask deadly enemies and even decode lost civilizations.

The Machine That Feels

Scientists see AI technology as an opportunity to address inequities and make a better, more connected world. But it also has the capacity to do the opposite: to stoke division and inequality and disconnect us from fellow humans. THE MACHINE THAT FEELS shows viewers what they need to know about a field that is advancing at a dizzying pace, often away from the public eye. What does it mean when AI makes art? How is it possible that AI creates sophisticated neural networks that mimic the human brain? Can AI interpret and understand human emotions and what does it mean to be human in a world filled with machines that feel? This special seeks to answer and investigate these questions, and more.