100 Greatest Discoveries – Physics
This episode recounts thirteen important discoveries in physics, including Galileo’s law of falling bodies, Isaac Newton’s laws of motion, and Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity.
Month: May 2014
The Hungerford Massacre
A shocking documentary recalling eyewitness accounts about one of the worst crimes ever commited in British history. The event that has come to be known as the “Hungerford Massacre” took place in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, on one August afternoon in 1987. The killer, 27-year-old Michael Robert Ryan, armed with two semi-automatic rifles and a handgun, shot and killed…
Crimes that shook the world: The Wests
Frederick Walter Stephen West, was an English serial killer. Between 1967 and 1987, he alone, and later, he and his wife Rosemary, tortured, raped and murdered at least 11 young women and girls, many at the couple’s homes 25 Midland Road and later 25 Cromwell Street respectively. Rosemary West also murdered Fred’s stepdaughter (his first wife’s biological daughter)…
Mad Dog: Inside the Secret World of Muammar Gaddafi
Told by those who directly served the late Libyan dictator, from nuclear smugglers to hit men on the run, to virgin bodyguards, Mad Dog: The Secret World of Gaddafi is a study in the exercise of absolute power, revealing how the “Mad Dog” of the Middle East used his oil billions to manipulate and terrorize the world. The…
Sphinx – Mystery in Stone
Despite its reputation as one of the most famous monuments of antiquity, there is still very little known about the Great Sphinx of Giza.
Iraq, the Cradle of Civilization
After thousands of years as a hunter/gatherer, man built the first cities 5,000 years ago on the banks of the Euphrates in Southern Iraq. Civilization began. City life transformed the human race with the glorious cultures of Mesopotamia such as Ur, and Babylon.