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Spring 2004: A submarine hovers a few metres above the sea-bed off the south west coast of England. The halogen headlights illuminate an eerie scene: the sunken remains of American soldiers, dead for 60 years. Helmets, machine guns, tanks, jeeps, boots. And the torpedoed steel hull of two American landing ships sunk by German E-boats on the 28th of April 1944. Here, deep below the surface, the silent witnesses of "Exercise Tiger", the top-secret final rehearsal for D-Day landings, are discovered. | | | | | | | Grissoms Gold
In a region of the world long associated with the strange and the unusual, this new documentary follows the voyage of a team of scientists and adventurers in search of lost treasure in the deep waters of the Bermuda Triangle. Reputedly home to a lost cargo of Spanish silver and Portuguese gold, these waters are notoriously deep; at five kilometres below the surface, the treasure site lies at the outer limits of what today’s submersibles can reach. | | | | | | | Hitlers Sunken Treasures
One of the most daring clandestine operations of World War II was the 1944 sinking of the Norwegian ferry Hydro with its cargo of “heavy water” destined for the Nazi’s secret atomic bomb project. Although the mission was declared a success, no one has ever established if the special shipment was actually on board. Context TV and Nova plunges 430 meters beneath a remote Norwegian lake to find the answer. | | | | | | | Lost off Mozambique
Lost for nearly four hundred years, the legendary silver treasure of Philip III, King of Spain and Portugal, returned to day light in May of 2005. In 1622 the Sao Jose, a royal ship with the silver aboard, had encountered English and Dutch ships off the coast of Mozambique, and after hours of furious fighting, the ship was sunk, along with its crew and precious cargo. | | | | | | | The Seaturtles of Mazunte
Pacific Ocean, two miles off the shore of Mazunte, a small Mexican fishing village. With well-trained eyes Pepe spot a sea-turtle. Expertly, he jumps into the water and catches the turtle with his bare hands, a giant reptile weighing 60 kilos and belonging to the species Tortuna Golfina. Not long ago the animal brought him $2 per unit. In Mazunte up to 1.000 animals were killed and processed per day, constituting the country's biggest turtle industry. This unchecked hunting soon threatened the sea turtles with extinction. | | | | | | | Between Gandhi and Hitler
With all the twists and turns of a spy thriller, this new documentary charts the improbable but true story of the Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose. Once a powerful ally of Mahatma Gandhi, Bose split with the Indian National Congress (after serving two terms as president), extolling militancy, as opposed to non-violent resistance, as a means of forcing the British out of India. Seeking military allies against India’s imperial occupiers after serving twelve separate terms in British prisons, Bose chose to make a pact with the devil and abandoned Gandhi for Adolf Hitler. | | | | | | | S.O.S. Tierbabys
Am 17. September 2007 ist es soweit: Die neue Context TV Serie „S.O.S. Tierbabys“ geht auf Sendung! Täglich von montags bis freitags um 14:15 Uhr gibt es dann sechs Wochen lang im ZDF die süßesten und rührendsten Geschichten über Tierbabys und ihre menschlichen Zieheltern zu sehen, die wir in Deutschland, Europa, Australien und Afrika finden konnten. | | | | | | | 'Project' Alicia
Building a submarine without the resources of a big shipyard and using parts acquired off the shelf or scavenged is an unusual idea by any standard. But Peter Robbins had dreamt of submarines all his life. So he staked everything he owned to make his dream come true, to build the „Alicia“, his own submarine and take it to see its predecessors: sunken German U-boats in the English Channel. In 2001, work began in a small warehouse in Plymouth. 10.000 single parts have been gathered and the time had come to turn them into a submersible capable of taking 5 passengers and 1 pilot. The project was meant to take 2 years.
What followed was a 4 year long epic struggle of constructing and testing the submersible with the worlds largest acrylic dome. In those 4 years Peter had seen bancruptsy from close more than once – but his determination kept the project alive and in summer 2004 he went for his first dive.
This is the story of project Alicia... | | | | | | | Astrospies
Emerging out of the rubble of World War II as the sole two world superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union immediately entered into another conflict that would shape international politics for the rest of the century. In this Cold War, direct military conflict gave way to contests for international prestige, and no other contest meant more for the national confidence of both countries than the space race. Intent on becoming the first nation to reach space (and eventually control it), both the US and the USSR devoted enormous national resources to aeronautical research. Throughout the 1950’s and into the 1960’s, the Soviets convinced themselves and the world that they had taken an insurmountable lead in the race to space. However, events out of the public eye told a very different story. Recently released documents revealing secret military plans, cover-ups, and covert spy missions provide new insight into the internal developments that drove man to the final frontier. Join us as we explore the policies and personalities behind the Cold War’s secret space race. | | | | | | | Fat Machines
Have you ever wanted to get behind the wheel of a dump truck?
Maybe take a submarine for a spin?
How about piloting a helicopter?
In our new series FAT MACHINES, we follow host Jürgen Vogel as he goes for a test ride in the biggest, fastest, newest, and FATTEST machines in the world, and he brings us along for the ride. | | | | |
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