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International International International International new titles HISTORY Empires of Silver economy, connecting China to European empires Format: 3 x 60 (HD, 4K) and the Americas. Silver toppled the Ming Dynasty, led to the Opium Wars, and grew the wealth of cities This is the extraordinary story of how silver shaped including Hong Kong, Manila and New York. Through the history of our world, from the 16th century to the global experts, archive footage and reconstructions, present day. The silver trade kick-started the global we reveal silver’s key role in the fate of empires. Gold: The Story of Man’s 6,000 Jesus’ Female Disciples: Year Obsession The New Evidence Format: 2 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 47 (HD) Broadcaster: Real Vision Broadcaster: Channel 4 With exclusive interviews from industry experts, Historians Helen Bond and Joan Taylor reveal new investment guru Grant Williams uncovers how gold evidence that Jesus had twelve female disciples became central to the global financial system. From without whom Christianity would not have taken off. an exclusive look inside a top-security Swiss bank- In a quest through ancient caves and catacombs vault, to how gold is mined and exploited, this is the they show how the preaching and financial support epic 6000-year story of our relationship with gold. of these women was crucial to Jesus’ mission. tvfinternational.com 1 A Century on Film Format: 6 x 52 (HD) they lived in through moving images. With access Broadcaster: NHK to never-before-seen archive, from World War One to Vietnam anti-war protests, Nazi propaganda to This landmark series looks back at the turbulent the rise of global terror organisations, witness a truly events of the 20th century and uncovers how, for the defining century in human history captured on film, first time in history, people shaped the times as it happened, by the people who lived through it. China on Film The Asian Century Format: 2 x 48 (HD) Format: 8 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Renowned filmmaker Christopher Doyle narrates this How did North Korea build its nuclear bomb? How uniquely vivid picture of Chinese history through film, did India’s Partition really come about? How did compiled with exclusive access to the British Film the death of Mao lead to a new age in China? This Institute’s China collection. These never-before-seen landmark series deconstructs the pivotal events and films provide new insights into China’s momentous personalities which have shaped the current Asian changes, from the first ever Chinese film in the Qing Century, challenging accepted views and revealing dynasty through to the Communist era. unique insights into the Asia we know today. ROYALS Balkan Royals Harry: Warrior Prince Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 60 (HD) Broadcaster: ZDF/ARTE Broadcaster: Forces TV This is an intimate portrait of the last surviving Balkan As Prince Harry settles down to married life, this film monarchs in their own words. With rare archive looks at the making of a Warrior Prince. With unique footage and first-hand accounts from Simeon II of interviews with Harry and those close to him and Bulgaria, Princess Margareta of Romania and Crown access to key moments in his military service, we Prince Nicholas of Montenegro, we see how they learn how overcoming his mental health struggles survived the most tumultuous times in world history inspired him to create the Invictus Games and go and adapted their monarchies for the modern era. from wayward prince to Britain’s most loved royal. tvfinternational.com 2 CURRENT AFFAIRS Vogue Williams Investigates Undercover Asia, Series 4 & 5 Format: 13 x 52 (HD) Format: 16 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: RTÉ Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Join host Vogue Williams as she reveals the lifestyles, This award-winning investigative series explores technologies and beliefs changing the world we live gripping stories of crime, violence and injustice from in today. Whether meeting polyamorous couples and across the world’s largest continent. From jailed “sugar daddies”, or young people affected by anxiety terrorists wielding power in Indonesia and Duterte’s and public shaming, Vogue’s investigative eye and Drug war in the Philippines, to Myanmar’s child warm style make her the perfect host to uncover the slaves and North Korean cyber crime, Undercover human stories behind the headlines. Asia leaves no stone unturned. Will a Robot Steal My Job? Prisons Uncovered Format: 1 x 53 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Broadcaster: RTÉ Broadcaster: ITV Artificial intelligence is developing at a rapid rate, but Using first hand, police-cam footage as well as what does this mean for the job market? Science footage shot by inmates, this shocking film exposes journalist Anne-Marie Tomchak investigates how from the inside how prisons across the UK are robots could be on course to render the skills of spiralling out of control. Discover how staff shortages, much of the world’s population obsolete. From funding cuts, corruption, violence and an exploding driverless cars and robot surgeons, to journalists and drug epidemic have gone hand in hand to create a UK even artists, are any of our jobs safe? Prison system which is close to collapse. The New Silk Road, Series 4 Hacked: The Bangladesh Bank Heist Format: 4 x 48 (HD) Format: 1 x 48 (HD) Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia Broadcaster: BTVI This award-winning series investigating China’s This film investigates one of the world’s most US$200 billion ‘One Belt, One Road’ policy returns audacious cyberheists, where hackers managed to this time to Indochina. Anthony Morse examines compromise two of the most respected names in everything from Mekong dams in China’s Yunnan international banking, the SWIFT messaging system province and a new industrial zone and port in and the New York Federal Reserve, taking US$81 Myanmar, to China’s new rail masterplan and million in the process. But who were the hackers, influence across Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. and more importantly, how did they pull it off? tvfinternational.com 3 SCIENCE & INNOVATION Innovation Nation, Series 9 & 10 Did I Mention Invention? Format: S9 13 x 22 (HD) & S10 13 x 22 (HD) Format: 26 x 22 (HD) Broadcaster: CBS Broadcaster: The CW Television Network The Emmy Award-winning series is back for two This series brings together fascinating stories of brand new seasons meeting the scientists and invention while shining a light on everyday innovators designers behind some of the most ingenious and encouraging viewers to try their own hand inventions of our time. Discover jet hoverboards at coming up with the next big thing! Learn from that can fly at over 100mph, spinach leaves being innovators young and old, what it takes to bring their transformed into heart tissue and innovative security vision to life, and little-known facts about the history systems which use fog to deter burglers. and processes of invention. How China Works Smart China Format: 6 x 44 (HD) Format: 6 x 44 (HD) Broadcaster: Discovery Networks Broadcaster: Discovery Networks Architect Danny Forster uncovers China’s most Join hacker Josh Klein and inventor Jordan Nguyen ambitious projects and technological innovations. as they travel across China investigating the From the world’s fastest trains and the technology country’s ‘smart revolution’. From new driverless behind smartphone app WeChat, to building cars and robots, to ultra-fast data and solar megatall skyscrapers and the world’s biggest technologies, they meet the minds and start-ups machinery, Danny gains exclusive access behind the behind these innovations, and discover how they scenes to understand How China Works. can help us live cleaner, greener, and smarter. Smart China tvfinternational.com 4 Futuristic China Futureproof Format: 7 x 24 (HD) Format: 9 x 24 (HD) Broadcaster: Sky News Broadcaster: BTVI From high-speed rail to advanced AI, energy This brand new series investigates how advances tech, and innovative apps, Chinese technology is in science and technology are changing our lives progressing at break-neck speed. This series goes and the way we do business. From cryptocurrencies behind the scenes of these developments, with to automated delivery bots, artificial intelligence in unique access to key business leaders including the healthcare to gene editing technology, each episode heads of Baidu (China’s Google), ICONIQ driverless unveils the cutting edge inventions that are going to cars, and UBTECH robots. change our world forever. Building Ireland Mechanical Monsters Format: 12 x 25 (HD) Format: 1 x 60 (HD, 4K) Broadcaster: RTÉ Broadcaster: BBC From 12th century fortresses to the birth of world- Historian Simon Schaffer investigates the origins of famous train lines, this series uses a combination our love-hate relationship with technology through of engaging social history, recent archaeological some of the most extraordinary engineering wonders findings, and pop-science to uncover the secrets of the 19th century. These fantastical and formidable of the greatest construction achievements in Irish inventions posed questions at the time that still history. Discover the innovations behind the designs, resonate today - will the machines we build save us, and their impact on Ireland and beyond. replace us, or even destroy us? The World’s Most Powerful The Jupiter Enigma Telescopes Format: 1 x 52 (HD) Format: 1 x 52 (HD, 4K) What can the secrets of Jupiter reveal about the Discover the technology behind the world’s most state of the universe four billion years ago? Drawing powerful telescopes. Featuring interviews with on new findings from NASA’s Juno mission, leading scientists at the European Southern scientists are peering into Jupiter’s stormy heart to Observatory and 4K HDR space photography, reveal the very origins of our solar system: when the uncover how instruments four billion times more planets were first flung into space, the fate of the sensitive than the human eye are revolutionising Earth hung in the balance, and Jupiter obliterated our understanding of the cosmos.