Waldemar Januszczak ventures outdoors to the Impressionists’ most famous locations.

Source: BBC Two – The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution, The Great Outdoors

Directed by Anthony Powell. With Anthony Powell, Genevieve Bachman, William Brotman, Michael Christiansen. A visually stunning chronicle of what it is like to live in Antarctica for a full year, including winters isolated from the rest of the world, and enduring months of darkness in the coldest place on Earth.

Source: Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013) – IMDb

David Attenbourough narrates on the greatest of all adventures – the journey through life.Stars: David Attenborough, Dwen Gyimah

Source: Life Story (TV Series 2014– ) – IMDb

With Jonathan Lewis, Voja Tankosic, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Andrée Bernard. A comprehensive survey of the history of World War I.

Source: The First World War (TV Mini-Series 2003– ) – IMDb

This major landmark series looks in detail at the fascinating relationship between predators and their prey. Rather than concentrating on ‘the blood and guts’ of predation, the series looks… See full summary »Stars: David Attenborough, Damien Boisseau

Source: The Hunt (TV Mini-Series 2015– ) – IMDb

With Brian Cox. Brian travels the globe to discuss these topics with examples from our planet and others in the universe.

Source: Human Universe (TV Mini-Series 2014– ) – IMDb

Directed by Mark Levinson. With Martin Aleksa, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Monica Dunford. As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time — or perhaps their greatest failure.

Source: Particle Fever (2013) – IMDb

Directed by Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. With Conrad Anker, Grace Chin, Jimmy Chin, Amee Hinkley. Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing.

Source: Meru (2015) – IMDb

With Carl Sagan, Jaromír Hanzlík, Jonathan Fahn, Alan Belod. Astronomer Carl Sagan leads us on an engaging guided tour of the various elements and cosmological theories of the universe.

Source: Cosmos (TV Mini-Series 1980– ) – IMDb

With Simon Schama. The Story of the Jews is a television series, in five parts, presented by British historian Simon Schama. It was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in September 2013 and in the United States on PBS in March and April 2014. It is based on Schama’s book of the same title, which is in two volumes. The first volume was published in September 2013.

Source: The Story of the Jews (TV Series 2013– ) – IMDb

Directed by Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov. With Werner Herzog, Nikolay Nikiforovitch Siniaev, Gennady Soloviev, Anatoly Tarkovsky. A documentary depicting the life and work of the trappers of Bakhtia, a village in the heart of the Siberian Taiga, where daily life has changed little in over a century.

Source: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) – IMDb