Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2022
Windfall Films
Professor Dame Sue Black reveals the secrets of forensic science.
Science
Science Shows
Train Truckers
Windfall Films
Train Truckers follows an elite crew of heavy-haulage specialists as they race to haul the heaviest, longest and most precious locomotives a...
Super Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe
Windfall Films
This film tells the extraordinary engineering story of the most powerful observatory ever built, revealing how it will explore some of the g...
Crossrail: The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway
Windfall Films
Following a team of more than ten thousand engineers and construction workers as they race to build a brand new subterranean railway under L...
Smoke & Steel
Like A Shot
Smoke & Steel: Secrets of the Modern World revisits magnificent bridges, tunnels, mines, and more to link past, present, and future.
Neutrino: Hunting the Ghost Particle
Windfall Films
Inside the world-renowned physics laboratory Fermilab, a team of scientists are constructing an audacious experiment to hunt for a mysteriou...
Abandoned Engineering
Like A Shot
These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were...
My Floating Home
Windfall Films
Traditional waterfront properties are hard to come by and expensive. So families who have dreamed for decades of waking up to an un-spoilt r...
Building Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Power Station
Windfall Films
With unique access, this brand new series follows the construction workers at Hinkley Point C, Britain’s biggest and newest nuclear power st...
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
Windfall Films
Scafell Pike is England’s tallest mountain and home to a flock of native Herdwick sheep. Every summer, their shepherd must gather these noto...
NASA Mars Landing: Inside the Mission
Windfall Films
A landmark one-hour documentary exploring the secrets of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover and its mission to answer the question: was there ev...
Einstein’s Quantum Riddle
Windfall Films
The remarkable story of perhaps the strangest phenomenon in science – Quantum Entanglement. It’s a story of mind-bending concepts and brill...
Unearthed
Windfall Films
UNEARTHED investigates new evidence that reveals the myths and mysteries behind ancient civilizations and the iconic megastructures they bui...
Mutiny
Windfall Films
In a unique experiment 21st century men are challenged to re-live one of the greatest feats of maritime adventure and endurance in naval his...
Building The Ultimate
Windfall Films
Building the Ultimate reveals the engineering secrets built into six modern wonders – from Europe’s fastest passenger train and largest luxu...
Polar Extremes
Windfall Films
Stark, cold, and seemingly frozen in time, our Earth’s poles feel other-worldly, unchanging, and completely removed from our everyday existe...
Building Giants
Windfall Films
BUILDING GIANTS follows the race to build the world’s next generation of engineering wonders – structures and machines that are more ambitio...
Rise of the Machines
Windfall Films
20 x 60' (2 Seasons) Rise of the Machines uses mind-blowing CGI animations to ‘explode apart’ some of the world’s most extreme machines to r...
Strip the Cosmos
Windfall Films
3 Seasons (22 episodes) The science behind our universe. Strip the Cosmos explores the deepest mysteries of the universe and reveals worlds...
Impossible Builds
Windfall Films
Extraordinary homes in extreme locations. Impossible Builds explores how a new wave of ingeniously engineered ‘kit’ homes are helping ambiti...
Wonder of Dogs
Windfall Films
3 x 60' No other land mammal displays such dazzling diversity as man’s best friend. It’s hard to believe that a Great Dane and a Chihuahua b...
Spider House
Windfall Films
1 x 89' Ever wondered what spiders really get up to in your home? In this documentary special Alice Roberts overcomes her arachnophobia to e...
The Secret Life of Baby Owls
Windfall Films
2 x 60' Owls - with their huge eyes, flat faces and distinctive hoot – they are truly iconic! creatures. But how much do we really know abou...
British Garden: Life And Death On Your Lawn
Windfall Films
1 x 89' The British back garden is a familiar setting, but underneath the peonies and petunias is a much wilder hidden world, a miniature Se...
Mythical Beasts
Windfall Films
Series 1: 10x60 | HD | 2018 For thousands of years, civilizations have believed in mythical beasts – Dragons, Cyclops, Giants, Vampires and...
Mystery of the Northern Lights
Windfall Films
1 x 60', BBC (UK), CBC (Canada), Discovery Science (US), Planete+ Exploring the mysteries of the Aurora Borealis Exploring the greatest myst...
Saving Planet Earth: Fixing a Hole
Windfall Films
1 x 60', Channel 4(UK), PBS(USA) The story of how nations came together and saved the world. Ozone Hole: How We Saved the Planet tells the f...
Machines: How They Work
Windfall Films
Machines: How They Work answers all the questions we have ever had about the machines we use often in our daily lives. How does a hand-held...
Building Hitler’s Supergun
Windfall Films
1 x 60 min - Channel 4 The biggest gun the world had ever seen and the unbelievable efforts to take it down. Building Hitler’s Supergun: The...
Great British Ships
Windfall Films
Presenter Rob Bell reveals the secrets of the historic ships that shaped the world. Visiting the ships as they stand today, Rob reveals how...
Hidden Britain By Drone
Windfall Films
Britain may be small, but everywhere you turn there are places that are hidden from public view - their secrets locked away behind high wall...
The Incredible Hulk Woman
Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2013 Channel 5 Following Helen Stephens, a mum-of-three who is believed to suffer from one of the rarest neurological...
The Bubble Wrap Boy
Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2017 Channel 5 16-year-old Mithun Chauhan suffers from an extremely rare genetic condition. which has left him with la...
The Boy Who Wants His Leg Cut Off
Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2015 BBC Three Documentary about Dillon, an 11-year-old boy who suffers from an aggressive form of neurofibromatosis,...
The Baby With A New Face
Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2012 Channel 5 Viet was born with one of the world's rarest facial deformities: A cleft palate and bilateral facial cl...
Nelly The Snakeskin Woman
Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2017 Channel 5 At just 32 years old, Nusrit (Nelly) Shaheen has defied odds to become the world’s oldest known survivo...
Erick: The Boy With No Face
Series 1: 1x60 | HD | 2016 Series 2: 1x60 | HD | 2017 (A Year On) Channel 5 17-year-old Erick from Uganda has a rare tumour the size of his...
Contagion!
A ground-breaking experiment, where a country's citizens use app technology to track their movements over a 24 hour period to simulate the s...
The Channel Tunnel: 25 Years
Windfall Films
The Channel Tunnel is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but what did it take to build the longest undersea tunnel ever constructe...
Danger: Diggers At Work
In this series … we’ll be following these heavy metal machines and the men and women who drive them … Welcome to the world of big diggers.
Botched Up Bodies
Follows some of Britain's top plastic surgeons, who correct cosmetic surgery disasters.
Horizon: Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick?
Windfall Films
We all have a biological clock ticking away inside us that governs our daily rhythms. We ignore this clock at our peril. Studies on shift wo...
Horizon: The Placebo Experiment: Can My Brain Cure My Body?
Windfall Films
Could the power of fake pills be used to treat some of our most common medical complaints? To find out, Dr Michael Mosley is running Britain...
Eclipse: Secrets of the Sun
Windfall Films
On August 21, 2017 the United States experienced its first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in nearly 100 years. This film follows three t...
Inside Chernobyl’s Mega Tomb
Windfall Films
Building Chernobyl's Mega Tomb follows the construction of an extraordinary 36,000 tonne steel arch designed to entomb the ruins of the nucl...
Massive Engineering Mistakes
BriteSpark Films
Humans have been building for more than 10,000 years - we’re engineering experts and yet every year tales emerge of construction calamities...
Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots
Windfall Films
Evolutionary biologist Dr Ben Garrod and electronics engineer Professor Danielle George explore if machines built to enhance our lives could...
Operation Lighthouse Rescue
Windfall Films
1 x 60x (Nova/WGBH, France TV) A community coming together to save a piece of American history. Operation Lighthouse Rescue charts the epic...
Making North America
Windfall Films
Mighty, elemental forces molded North America—fiery eruptions, titanic floods, the grinding of great ice sheets, and massive impacts from sp...
Inside Einstein’s Mind
Windfall Films
Inside Einstein’s Mind is the story of the most elegant and powerful theory in science: Albert Einstein’s General Relativity. When Albert Ei...
Your Inner Fish
Windfall Films
Using fossil evidence and our DNA history Neil Shubin traces back different parts of our body’s anatomy to animals that lived millions of ye...
Incredible Engineering Blunders: Fixed
BriteSpark Films
This entertaining science series follows leading engineering journalist Justin Cunningham and his team of intrepid reporters as they uncover...
Raising the Costa Concordia
Windfall Films
This film charts the exclusive inside story of the race to raise and re-float the stricken Costa Concordia shipwreck. The colossal cruise sh...
Natural World: The Bat Man of Mexico
Windfall Films
Natural World. Rodrigo 'The Bat Man of Mexico', has been saving the amazing bats of his homeland since childhood, when he kept vampires in h...
Monster Moves
Windfall Films
6 x 50' Hauling the heaviest structures across land, sea and air - Monster Moves returns for a fourth series.
Easter Eggs Live
Windfall Films
A live interactive event for Channel 4. The wonderful world of eggs revealed.
Operation Maneater
Windfall Films
Veterinarian Mark Evans uses technology to tackle three deadly predators: the great white shark, Nile crocodile and polar bear. When these a...
World’s Biggest Ship
Windfall Films
Two teams of pioneering shipbuilders, from Denmark and Korea, are joining forces to build a record-breaking ship. When complete, the Triple-...
Strip the City
Windfall Films
14 x 60' (2 seasons) CGI reveals how the Earth's geology shapes our cities. Strip the City uses stunning CGI animation and expedition-driven...
Attack of the Zeppelins
Windfall Films
The Zeppelin, the most terrifying weapon in the Great War. Attack of the Zeppelins explores how the Germans unleashed a new terror campaign...
Animal Superpowers
Windfall Films
3 x 60' Patrick Stewart investigates the incredible superpowers of nature’s deadliest animals.
Big Bigger Biggest
Windfall Films
6x50' for Nat Geo Big, Bigger, Biggest is back - and it's bigger than ever. 6 episodes revealing the key inventions that allowed structures...
Inside Nature’s Giants
Windfall Films
Most wildlife documentaries show how animals behave, but by exploring their anatomy, veterinary scientist Mark Evans, comparative anatomist...
Dambusters: Building The Bouncing Bomb
Windfall Films
1 X 120' No CGI, no special effects; this is for real.
Race and Intelligence: Science’s Last Taboo
Windfall Films
Feature-length doc Rageh Omaar explodes the myths about race and IQ.
The Operation: Surgery Live
Windfall Films
4 x 60' Four patients go under the knife for pioneering life-changing operations. Broadcast live with interactive elements.
Absolute Zero
Windfall Films
2x60' An epic journey into the quest for cold, from the dark beginnings to an ultra-cool frontier.
My Brilliant Brain
Windfall Films
3 x 50' Three films exploring the very thing that makes us human - the brain.
The Hunt for Hitler’s Scientists
Windfall Films
1 x 60' The race to capture elite German scientists and their high- tech weapons.
DNA
Windfall Films
5 x 50' An EMMY award-winning history of DNA - to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the double helix discovery with Dr Watson himself.
D-Day: The Ultimate Conflict
Windfall Films
1 x 120' The definitive account of what really happened on D-Day.
Dambusters
Windfall Films
1 x 50' The amazing technical story behind the most audacious bombing raid of WWII.
The Day The World Took Off
Windfall Films
5 x 50' This landmark series on the origins of the Industrial Revolution challenges traditional views of this dramatic period in history.
The Curse of the Methuselah Tree
Windfall Films
1 x 50' The story of the oldest living thing on Earth.
The Ultimate Guide: Elephants
Windfall Films
1 x 60' As the name implies - this film leaves no questions unanswered.
Reality on the Rocks
Windfall Films
3 x 50' Ken Campbell's oddysey to the heart of ultimate meaning in the universe.
Equinox: The Elements
Windfall Films
1 x 50' The chemical elements personified by the poet Roger McGough.
Red Star in Orbit – The Russian Right Stuff
Windfall Films
3 x 50' The epic story of the Soviet Space Programme.