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	Title	Author	Subcategory	Subtitles	Length	Rating
The Money Programme team presents an inside account of the BP oil spill. Features a host of interviews with key industry insiders, including world exclusives with Bob Dudley, the new Head of BP and Tony Hayward, his predecessor. 1	BP: $30 Billion Blowout	BBC	Economics & Finance	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
t's more than two years since the giant banks were bailed out with billions of pounds of tax-payers' money, yet little has been done to reform or regulate these vast institutions. 2	Britain's Banks: Too Big to Save?	BBC	Economics & Finance	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Attenborough asks three key questions: how and why did Darwin come up with his theory of evolution? Why do we think he was right? And why is it more important now than ever before? (Shown as part of Sign Zone) 3	Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life (Sign Zone)	David Attenborough	Biology	BSL	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
Spring arrives in the polar regions, and the sun appears after an absence of five months; warmth and life return to these magical ice worlds - the greatest seasonal transformation on our planet is underway. 4	Frozen Planet - Spring (signed)	BBC	Natural World		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Polar animals race to rear their young during times of plenty under the midnight sun. 5	Frozen Planet - Summer	BBC	Natural World		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In this programme, Stephen Fry explores 'the written word'. Writing is a great invention - making it possible to communicate across space and time. 6	Fry's Planet Word - Spreading the Word	BBC	Language		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In this programme, Stephen Fry celebrates storytelling. It has been with us as long as language itself and as a species, we love to tell our stories. 7	Fry's Planet Word - The Power and the Glory	BBC	Language		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Series which looks at important thinkers through the TV and radio broadcasts they made for the BBC. Includes rare and never-seen archive of Freud, Jung and Bertrand Russell. 8	Great Thinkers In Their Own Words - 1- Human All Too Human (Signed)	BBC	General Science	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The question of how to run a good society has puzzled intellectuals for centuries. Should we allow governments to secure a better country, or place our trust in the individual? 9	Great Thinkers In Their Own Words - 2- The Grand Experiment (Signed)	BBC	General Science	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Eminent classical historian Robin Lane Fox embarks on a journey in search of the origins of the Greek myths. He firmly believes that these fantastical stories lie at the root of western culture, and yet little is known about where the myths of the Greek gods came from, and how they grew. 10	Greek Myths: Tales of Travelling Heroes (Signed)	BBC 4	Classical World	BSL	90 mins	Like (0 likes)
Horizon meets the scientists working to make fatal car crashes a thing of the past. 11	Horizion - Surviving a Car Crash (Signed)	BBC	Engineering	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Horizon reveals the latest research into one of the most mysterious and common human experiences - pain. 12	Horizion - The Secret world of Pain (Signed)	BBC 1	General Science	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
A decade ago, scientists announced that they had produced the first draft of the human genome, the 3.6 billion letters of our genetic code.It was seen as one of the greatest scientific achievements of our age, a breakthrough that would usher in a new age of medicine. A decade later, Horizon finds out how close we are to developing the life-changing treatments that were hoped for. 13	Horizon - Miracle Cure? A Decade of the Human Genome (signed)	BBC 2	Genetics	BSL	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Engineer Jem Stansfield looks back through the Horizon archives to find out how scientists have come to understand and manipulate the materials that built the modern world. 14	Horizon - Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials (Signed)	BBC	British-Sign-Language		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Danny Wallace really wants a robot. He wants it to walk like him and talk like him. It's what scientists have been promising us for generations but it's a promise so far unfulfilled. Danny circumnavigates the globe searching for robot nirvana and trying to uncover how far away his dream is. 15	Horizon - Where's My Robot? (Signed)	BBC	Engineering	BSL	48 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Baddiel, father of two, sets out to answer one of the greatest questions a parent can ask: how best to educate your child. Taking in the latest scientific research, David uncovers some unconventional approaches: from the parent hot-hosing his child to record-breaking feats of maths, to a school that pays hard cash for good grades. 16	Horizon - Who Do You Want Your Child to Be? (signed)	BBC	Humanities	BSL	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
Famed for their ability to inflict Armageddon from outer space, asteroids are now revealing the secrets of how they are responsible for both life and death on our planet. 17	Horizon- Asteroids - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Signed)	BBC	General Science	BSL	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Arctic is the harshest environment on Earth: little food grows, it's dark for months on end, and temperatures stay well below freezing for much of the year. Yet four million people manage to survive here. 18	Human Planet - Arctic - Life in the Deep Freeze	BBC	Natural World	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
A look at the one environment that's been made by us for us - the city. Over half of the world's population now lives in the urban jungle. The city is built to keep untamed nature out - but nature can't be pushed away. From bed bugs sucking our blood at night to rats in our restaurants, many animals have adapted to a life with us. 19	Human Planet - Cities - Surviving the Urban Jungle	BBC	Natural World	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the second episode of Human Planet, we discover how the eternal quest for water brings huge challenges - and ingenious solutions - in the driest places on Earth. 20	Human Planet - Deserts - Life in the Furnace	BBC	Natural World	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Grasslands feed the world. Over thousands of years, we humans have learned to grow grains on the grasslands and domesticate the creatures that live there. Our success has propelled our population to almost seven billion people. 21	Human Planet - Grasslands - Roots of Power	BBC	Natural World	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The rainforest is home to more species of plants and animals than any other habitat on the planet. But for humans, life there is not as easy as it looks. Life in the trees requires great skill, ingenuity and sheer bravery. 22	Human Planet - Jungles - People of the Trees	BBC	Natural World	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
From lush cloud forests to bare summits that take your breath away, the higher you climb the tougher life gets on a mountain. Human Planet explores the extraordinary ways in which people survive at extreme altitudes where nature becomes utterly unforgiving. 23	Human Planet - Mountains - Life in Thin Air	BBC	Natural World	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
As an air-breathing animal, the human is not built to survive in water. But people have found ways to live an almost aquatic life so they can exploit the sea's riches. From a 'shark-whisperer' in the Pacific to Brazilian fishermen collaborating with dolphins to catch mullet, this journey into the blue reveals astonishing tales of ingenuity and bravery. 24	Human Planet - Oceans - Into the Blue	BBC	Natural World	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Second episode in the documentary series marking the 30th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. Inside stories are told by two ex-presidents of Iran, Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami, by two founders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, and by leading westerners including Secretaries of State George Shultz, Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright. 25	Iran and the West. Episode 2. The Pariah State	Dai Richards	Politics & Public Policy	BSL	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
The seventh of Harvard professor Michael Sandel's famous lectures on the philosophy of justice looks at the issue of individual rights and the freedom to choose. If our place in society is determined by where we best fit, doesn't that eliminate personal choice? What if I am best suited to do one kind of work, but I want to do another? 26	Justice - Freedom Vs Fit (Signed)	BBC	Law	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Comparing the merits of Shakespeare and The Simpsons to explore John Stuart Mill's theory. 27	Justice - How to Measure Pleasure (Signed)	BBC	Law	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Ragnar Axelsson, known as Rax, is a photograher for Iceland's largest newspaper. This documentary follows him on his life's mission, to capture the human faces of climate change by photographing the vanishing lifestyles of the people of the north. 28	Last Days of the Artic	BBC	Natural World	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Gus Casely-Hayford visits Morocco, once the centre of a vast kingdom created by Berbers. 29	Lost Kingdoms of Africa - The Berber Kingdom of Morocco	BBC	Archaeology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Asante was a kingdom that was built on gold and slaves, which made it an important place. 30	Lost Kingdoms of Africa - The Kingdom of Asante	BBC	Archaeology		0 mins	Like (0 likes)
In Africa, a family of chimps trapped in a lost world face a daily ... In a twist of fate, the last babies born into the gorge family have all been males. … 31	Natural World - Last Gorrilas of the Gorge	BBC	Natural World	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Pure white lemurs called silky sifaka live in the remote rainforests of Madagascar. They are one of the rarest animals in the world. 32	Natural World: Madagascar, Lemurs and Spies	BBC	Natural World		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Every year grizzly bear families in North America depend for their survival on a spectacular natural event: the return of hundreds of millions of salmon from the Pacific Ocean to the mountain streams where they were born. The salmon travel thousands of miles to spawn and then die. 33	Nature's Great Events - The Great Salmon Run	BBC	Natural World		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
BBC correspondent Clive Myrie traces the life story of America's first black president.( Signed) 34	Obama: His Story ( Signed )	Samanatha Anstiss	History	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
For months, a popular uprising has been fighting an unseen and bloody battle against the Syrian regime. Panorama has been filming inside Syria, and can now tell the full story of those struggling against President Assad and the truth about his brutal crackdown against his own people. 35	Panorama - Syria: Inside the Secret Revolution (Signed)	BBC	Politics & Public Policy	BSL	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Stephen Fry loves Louisiana. Four months after the BP oil spill, dubbed the worst ecological disaster in the history of America, Fry returns to the Deep South together with zoologist Mark Carwardine, to see what the impact has been on the people, the vast wetlands and the species that live there. 36	Stephen Fry and the Great American Oil Spill	BBC	Natural World	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In this documentary, Rageh Omaar sets out to find out that if human depiction is the source of such controversy, how is it that the art displayed here shows a tradition of figurative art at the heart of Islam for century after century? He explores what forms of art are acceptable for a Muslim - and why this artistic tradition has thrived - in the hidden art of the muslim world. 37	The Hidden Art of Islam	BBC	British-Sign-Language		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The opening part takes us from the epic construction of the first grid in the 1920s and 30s to the challenge of making sure there is power at the flick of a switch today. Using rare archive and vivid personal accounts it reveals the heroic efforts, architectural masterpieces and engineering achievements behind the real power map of Britain. 38	The Secret History of the LifeGrid - Wiring the Nation (Signed)	BBC	Engineering	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Miners, nuclear scientists, politicians, environmentalists and even the City have all wrestled for control of the national electricity grid and the power that it has brought. 39	The Secret History of the National Grid - Pulling the Plug (Signed)	BBC	Engineering	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Miners, nuclear scientists, politicians, environmentalists and even the City have all wrestled for control of the national electricity grid and the power that it has brought. 40	The Secret Life of the National Grid - Pulling the Plug	BBC	Engineering		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
At the heart of Britain sits something so all pervasive we don't even notice it's there - the national electricity grid. This three-part series charts how our lives got wired and the impact electrification has had. 41	The Secret Life of the National Grid - Wiring the Nation (Signed)	BBC	Engineering		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In this documentary, the presenter and art critic Matthew Collings explores how Turner, the artist of light, makes light the vehicle of feeling in his work, and how he found inspiration for that feeling in the waters of the River Thames. 42	Turner's Thames (Signed)	BBC	Art & Design		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
How Yellowstone's Indian tribes were displaced to create this great American wilderness. 43	Unnatural Histories- 2- Yellowstone (Signed)	BBC	Natural World	BSL	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/ 44	Vertigo (Signed)	Alfred Hitchcock	British-Sign-Language		128 mins	Like (0 likes)

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