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The team must harvest their oat crop, but everything depends on the weather. Constant rain is making the job impossible. They investigate ways of forecasting the weather. When the rain finally clears, the team deploy the latest in Edwardian farming technology for the oat harvest, including a tractor that was then state-of-the art, the Moghul. And the event is captured by an Edwardian film crew, tapping into the very latest in Edwardian fads: the cinema.

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks rejected the bus driver's order to give up her seat in the coloured section to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. Parks' prominence in the community and her willingness to become a controversial figure inspired the black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year, the first major direct action campaign of the post-war civil rights movement.

In this episode, the team embarks on a trip by steam train, Ruth begins a tough task in the dairy, Alex tries his hand at beekeeping, the sheep are sheared using the latest time-saving technology, and the lengthening summer days allow Alex and Peter to try out the new Victorian sport of cricket. It is also time for the hay harvest, weather permitting.

It's time to bring in the cherry harvest with the help of their Dartmoor pony Laddy, and enjoy a cherry feast to celebrate. Historian Ruth Goodman tries her hand at salmon netting, while archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn take drastic measures to save their potato crop from being destroyed by blight. Alex goes to an Edwardian schoolroom - complete with Edwardian discipline - to recruit a traditional rural source of cheap labour: children.

The team follows a flock of sheep up on to Dartmoor, where it was traditional for many shepherds to take their flocks for summer grazing. Alex and Peter get to grips with shearing, while Ruth takes the fleeces off to a wool mill to find out how it was processed and manufactured.

The team go back to DIY basics, with the help of the woodsman, the blacksmith and the basket maker. Ruth has a go at some traditional potions and remedies. When the wheat crop comes under attack, its time for some pest control, Victorian style, as Alex and Peter join a pheasant hunt. Alex goes out catching rabbits with a team of Victorian poachers. And with spring around the corner the first baby animals are ready to be born.

Back in the Edwardian period, thousands of tourists began coming to the Tamar Valley by paddle steamer every summer. The combination of reduced working hours and greater mobility encouraged a new form of tourism - day-tripping. Workers from towns and cities like Plymouth flocked to rural spots like Morwhellham Quay for festivities.

Crocodiles are one of the oldest living creatures on our planet. Over millions of years they have evolved into the fierce reptilians we know today. But just what is it that makes these scaley hunters so apt to survival in the natural world? Content licensed by Canamedia to Little Dot Studios.

As autumn ends, winter-proofing begins in earnest - essential work if the livestock and crops are to make it through the cold and frost. The team stock up on animal feed using a host of Victorian machinery. Peter faces his biggest challenge so far - building pigsties. Ruth tackles the laundry, a gruelling four-day process that Victorians tackled weekly. The ram arrives on the farm - ensuring he gets the ewes pregnant is essential if they are to produce lambs in the spring. The team take delivery of a Shire horse and Alex learns to drive him. And there is a traditional Victorian Christmas to look forward to, including decorations, cookery and church carols. They celebrate Christmas Day with friends they have made over the past four months.

It is harvest time, and the days are getting shorter. This episode the team will be bringing in the barley and celebrating with a harvest feast, to give thanks for their bounteous crop. Peter learns how to carve stone and make floor tiles, and Ruth makes Tudor medicines.

How the COVID crisis has hit vulnerable immigrants and undocumented workers who have helped keep America fed during the pandemic. While millions of Americans have been sheltering in place, FRONTLINE has been investigating the hidden toll of the pandemic of those who cannot stay home: Agricultural workers, many of whom are undocumented immigrants, who have been deemed essential to the nation’s food supply. In "COVID’s Hidden Toll," numerous farmworkers speak out about their experiences of having to choose between their health and their jobs – and what they say is a lack of protection from their companies. With Latino people nationwide dying from the coronavirus at a disproportionate rate, the film examines outbreaks at several growers and meat packing plants over the past several months, and how new evidence indicates that agricultural workers have faced a heightened risk of contracting the coronavirus. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Additional

It is April and the fishing season has arrived - a time when Devon's 'fisherman-farmers' went to sea. Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn go to sea in an Edwardian trawler, hastily finishing repairs before setting sail. They master the singing of sea shanties as well as steering a wind-powered vessel and casting a net the old-fashioned way - but will they catch any fish? Women were considered bad luck at sea, so Ruth Goodman stays ashore. She forages on the se shore and prepares potted shrimp. She also builds a smokehouse and smokes some mackerel.

The team move into a Victorian smallholding on the Acton Scott estate that has not been used in nearly half a century. Their first task is the restoration of the cottage. As incoming tenants, they help thresh the previous summer's wheat crop, their first experience of steam-powered machinery. Alex attempts to sow a wheat crop using horse-power. Ruth and Peter install a range in the cottage and take a trip to the canals to load up on coal. It's time for the apple harvest, so Alex and Peter turn their hand to making cider. Ruth explores the challenges of Victorian cooking by making preserves ready for winter and cooks her first meal on the range. And the team must learn shepherding skills the hard way as the first livestock arrive on the farm - a flock of Shropshire ewes.

The monastery enlists the help of the team to restore a corrody room which would have been granted to an elderly worker as a form of pension. The room needs a new floor so the boys gather and roast limestone in order to make lime putty. Ruth is in charge of the home comforts and harvests rushes from the river to make a mattress. The Abbot is planning a big feast to entertain a patron - a good way to encourage the wealthier members of society to make large donations. In preparation, Ruth sets about tackling the monastery's laundry, before taking on the cooking preparations.

Ruth's daughter, Eve, arrives on the train to spend Mothering Sunday - an important occasion in the Edwardian calendar - on the farm. For the many daughters who worked away in service, it was the only time in the year when they could get time off to return home. Alex and Peter fertilise the potato crop - which requires ten tonnes of well-rotted horse dung. They also go up to Dartmoor for the annual pony trek - a time when wild ponies on the moor were rounded up. They select a new pony for the farm.

The team mine, smelt and cast ingots of lead; plait eel baskets and harvest eels; shape stained glass; patronize a pub; pasture their piglets in the forest; paint cloth and manage their garden. Tom sits for a camera obscura portrait.

Six months into their year, Ruth, Alex and Peter explore the daily lives of Edwardian farmers. This episode has a slightly different format to the rest of the series; instead of covering a whole month's changes it uses a framing device of Ruth writing a letter describing the events of a single day on the farm.

Four years after the sensational discovery of the ‘Higgs boson’, the CERN research centre is about to undertake a remarkable new experiment. Ten thousand scientists from around the world will work together, using the largest machine ever built by human beings. The experiment is a journey through the remotest time and on the smallest scale that we can imagine: an exploration of matter about one millionth of a second following the Big Bang that generated our universe. Thus the infinitely small and the vast immensity of the universe together open the doors of an invisible domain, where scientists are guided by something they have in common with artists. Among scientists who can no longer picture Nature and artists who have lost the traditional idea of Beauty, through machines that look like works of art and art installations that look like laboratory experiments, there emerges a portrait of both scientific and artistic practice as investigation and imagination, as the genuine exercise of freedom. At a time when we are torn apart by doubt and disorientation, The Sense of Beauty is a

The team wean piglets, cultivate wild yeast, malt barley, make ale and bread, harvest honey and beeswax, dip candles, shave their sheep's hooves, demonstrate period hair care methods, roast lamb, and celebrate both a mass and the midsummer festival. They take custody of a boar to service their sows. They observe the shaping, moulding, and pouring of a bell, learn about period clock mechanisms and observe a wind-powered grain mill.

The continuing winter forces Alex and Peter down a copper mine, while Ruth makes lace. The copper mine is located at the King Edward Mine in Cornwall, and the lace-making takes place at Honiton.

In today's episode of Pet Heroes, a quick-thinking labrador saves a young family from a burning house fire. Content licensed by Blue Ant International to Little Dot Studios.

Best friends, Ed Cohen and Ken Henderson, set out for two days of Texas gulf fishing. Tragedy strikes and the two men are stranded adrift in hostile waters. Fight to Survive tells the inspiring true stories of outdoorsmen who have faced down death in the wilderness and lived to tell their story. WONDER is packed with binge worthy reality documentaries for hours of entertainment. Check out our hub of diverse and empowering stories which explore the extreme side of life! Content licensed from Big Media to Little Dot Studios.

The team work with sheep: driving, milking and shearing them; make cheese from the milk; sort, grade, card and spin wool. Additional they produce a period cold treatment from herbs, steam-bend wood, and celebrate Whitsun. They take custody of geese and drive them to market. They observe the smelting of iron as well as the weaving and fulling of cloth.

Pushing opioids. Bribing doctors. Making millions. FRONTLINE and the Financial Times investigate how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller up to 100 times stronger than morphine — and how some Wall Street investors looked the other way. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: “Opioids, Inc.” tells the inside story of how Insys profited from Subsys, a fast-acting fentanyl-based spray that's been linked to hundreds of deaths. Tactics included targeting high-prescribing doctors and nurse practitioners known as “whales,” misleading insurers, and holding contests for the sales team: the higher the prescription doses they got doctors to write, the larger the cash prize — despite the dangers to patients. But as the documentary traces in unprecedented detail, the scheme fell apart: With federal prosecutors using anti-racketeering laws designed to fight organized crime, Insys became the first pharmaceutical company to have its CEO sentenced to prison time in federal court in connection with the opioid crisis. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public

The first episode finds the farm team arriving at Weald and Downland in West Sussex. There are domestic tasks to tackle, from lighting fires with flint, making meals with depleted crops during the hunger gap and using a tread wheel to fetch water from the well. Peter and Tom's first job is to move the sheep to fresh grass. Wool at this time was known as 'the jewel in the realm', because it generated much of the nation's wealth.

“Truth, Power and the Importance of Press Freedom: An Exclusive Conversation with Maria Ressa” was a virtual discussion produced in partnership with FRONTLINE and the International Center for Journalists. Maria Ressa, chief executive of independent news site Rappler, has been convicted with Cyber Libel charges, and faces up to six years in prison. On the eve of the court's ruling, Maria led a vital conversation on reporting, truth and its impact on democracy. The conversation explores how journalism is essential to the function of democracy, informing and empowering citizens, yet journalists worldwide have become embattled for covering the news. In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte has cracked down on news outlets critical of his brutal war on drugs. A top target: Maria Ressa, the subject of an upcoming FRONTLINE documentary, “A Thousand Cuts.” The virtual discussion includes exclusive clips from “A Thousand Cuts.” Featured speakers: Maria Ressa, CEO & Executive Editor, Rappler Ramona Diaz, Film Director, “A Thousand Cuts” Raney Aronson-Rath, Executive Producer, FRONTLINE Moderated by Dr. Julie Posetti, Global Director of Research, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) And for

When an army squadron are injured and pinned down by enemy forces a live grenade lands at their feet. Just as disaster is about to strike the teams k9 companion springs into action. Content licensed by Blue Ant International to Little Dot Studios.

Snakes. The silent hunters with a venomous bite. They lurk in tall grass and strike when least expected. Join us as we learn about the world of snakes. Content licensed by Canamedia to Little Dot Studios.

Kate Humble uncovers the story of the world's most expensive spice - saffron, before travelling to Paplanta in Mexico, the birthplace of vanilla.

Kate Humble embarks on a journey around the fabled spice islands of eastern Indonesia in search of two spices that launched epic voyages of discovery, caused bloody wars and shaped empires - nutmeg and cloves.

After a great breeding season on Penguin Island, Chester Zoo prepare for the birth of even more pesky penguins. Content licensed by ITV Global to Little Dot Studios.

In today's episode of Pet Heroes, a police rescue dog saves the life of a young girl on the edge of disaster. Content licensed by Blue International to Little Dot Studios.

An honest and insightful look at the history of passing gas and the humour surrounding it, with appearances from big names such as Dr Methane. Documentary Central is the home for compelling documentaries tackling subjects like history, climate change, wildlife, conspiracy and more.

Fed up with his $7-an-hour job, a security guard at an armoured car company makes off with $18.8 million- the largest heist in U.S. history. Daring Capers tracks some of the world’s most fascinating criminals and their audacious crimes. Here’s a rogue’s gallery of bank robbers, art thieves, and debonair con artists who tried to steal their way to wealth through brilliant ploys and slick transactions. WONDER is packed with binge worthy reality documentaries for hours of entertainment. Check out our hub of diverse and empowering stories which explore the extreme side of life! Content licensed from New Dominion Capers to Little Dot Studios.

Kate Humble retraces the steps of 15th-century explorers, setting out on a trail that takes her to India and Sri Lanka, the birthplaces of pepper and cinnamon.

After weeks of worrying, doubts and stress, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel for a premature giraffe calf. Entertaining wildlife series following the engaging characters, both animal and human, at two of Britain's largest zoos. Content licensed by ITV Global to Little Dot Studios.

In today's episode of Pet Heroes, a heartbreaking moment changes the course of one man's life forever. Content licensed by Blue Ant International to Little Dot Studios.

Welcome to the Panda sanctuary, the home of one of the world's most endangered creatures. Content licensed by ITV Global to Little Dot Studios.

Anne has been celebrated and damned, seen as either schemer or a victim. Her sister Mary is less remembered and often dismissed as a fool. But what was the truth?

In the animal kingdom, being the alpha male is everything, even in the world of zebras. Content licensed by ITV Global to Little Dot Studios.

In the documentary, Comedy Warriors - Healing Through Humor, five severely wounded Iraq/Afghanistan veterans were given the opportunity to explore their experiences through the healing power of humor. This film follows their journey as they work with professional comedy writers, and A-List comedians: Zach Galifianakis, Lewis Black, Bob Saget, and B.J. Novak, who help them write and perform their own personal stand-up comedy routines. This exciting venture gives them new comedic perspectives from which to view their injuries and their lives, and culminates in one big night performing at LA's top comedy clubs. Documentary Central is the home for compelling documentaries tackling subjects like history, climate change, wildlife, conspiracy and more.

Mary was a short-lived, little-favoured Catholic and Elizabeth was a long-reigning, all-admired Protestant. However, Henry VIII's daughters have more in common than meets the eye.

It has been said that no two sisters were ever less alike. One reserved and proper. The other lively and controversial. One the anchor of a commonwealth of nations. The other searching for purpose in life. Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret are among the most photographed women in history. But what of the real women beyond the royal splendour, and cheering crowds - beyond the Crown itself?

A magazine journalist interviews real people living dynamic and harmonious lives in communities around the world. Documentary Central is the home for compelling documentaries tackling subjects like history, climate change, wildlife, conspiracy and more.

A horrific attack on a grade school and packed passenger train sends special forces operatives into action. To this day, the 1977 double siege is the most famous mission of the Royal Dutch Marines. It is still studied by counter-terrorism units worldwide as a textbook example of how to handle a hostage crisis. A new breed of warrior has emerged to fight a global plague of coups, kidnappings and assassinations: the commando. Follow these international super soldiers on actual covert missions as they take on the world’s worst villains. WONDER is packed with binge worthy reality documentaries for hours of entertainment. Check out our hub of diverse and empowering stories which explore the extreme side of life! Content licensed from New Dominion Pictures to Little Dot Studios.

Australia's Wild Horses And Their Remarkable Story Of Survival | Horse: In The Wild examines the specific people, events and evidence presented in this documentary. Take a canter into the world of wild horses and learn just what life is like for a horse in the open plains of Australia. Content licensed by DRG to Little Dot Studios.

Today on Zoo Days, a group of cheeky meerkats enjoy their new pen. Entertaining wildlife series following the engaging characters, both animal and human, at two of Britain's largest zoos. Content licensed by ITV Global to Little Dot Studios.

The 24 Green Berets stationed at Lang Vei act as “force multipliers”–their mission is to train allied indigenous troops and lead them on covert reconnaissance patrols. Operating deep within enemy territory, the risk of death or capture is extremely high. A new breed of warrior has emerged to fight a global plague of coups, kidnappings and assassinations: the commando. Follow these international super soldiers on actual covert missions as they take on the world’s worst villains. WONDER is packed with binge worthy reality documentaries for hours of entertainment. Check out our hub of diverse and empowering stories which explore the extreme side of life! Content licensed from New Dominion Pictures to Little Dot Studios.