Video Documentaries

Part 4 : Life & Death In Space After visiting the Moon, humanity seeks to explore deep space and learn to live beyond the Earth. This requires extensive experimentation, and the building of NASA’s first space station – Skylab. Thus begins a new stage in space exploration, heralding the replacement of rivalry with partnership; The International Space Station unites over a dozen nations – with Japanese, Canadian and European astronauts aiming to complete it by 2010. Meanwhile NASA’s greatest asset – the Hubble Telescope – reveals what is waiting for us deep in space, having begun its life as NASA’s most famous mistake. This BBC series offers a fresh look at an amazing organization and mankind's quest to understand the universe. Blending stunningly restored footage with revealing, insightful and engaging interviews with the people who were there - the astronauts, family members and journalists - this is an epic story of the heroes, the triumphs and the tragedies of exploration. St

Yorkshireman Frank Wild was the unsung hero of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. He was Sir Ernest Shackleton's loyal companion - following him to the very ends of the earth.   The Polar adventurer immersed himself in the world of Antarctic exploration and was Shackleton's right hand man. Presenter Paul Rose talks to his biographer Angie Butler who describes the "little white voices" which drew him back time and time again to the world of polar exploration.   Frank W. from Skelton, North Yorkshire was the unsung hero of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Wild was Sir Ernest Shackleton's loyal companion and 'right-hand man', following him to the ends of the Earth. Presenter and polar explorer, Paul Rose, looks back at Frank Wild's Nimrod expedition to Antarctica with Shackleton. The trip ended when the team had to turn back after a super-human effort to reach the south pole. Early life Frank Wild was born in Skelton-in-Cleveland, North Ridi