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20/20 poster
TV Show

20/20 is an American television newsmagazine that has been broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. Created by ABC News executive Roone Arledge, the show was designed similarly to CBS's 60 Minutes but focuses more on human interest stories than international and political subjects. The program's name derives from the "20/20" measurement of visual acuity. The hour-long program has been a staple on Friday evenings for much of the time since it moved to that timeslot from Thursdays in September 1987, though special editions of the program occasionally air on other nights.

20/20

Jun 1978

Mayday poster
TV Show

Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.

Mayday

Sep 2003

Great Performances poster
TV Show

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

Great Performances

Jan 1971

NOVA poster
TV Show

PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.

NOVA

Mar 1974

The South Bank Show poster
TV Show

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

The South Bank Show

Jan 1978

Fuse poster
TV Show

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

Fuse

Jun 1962

Arena poster
TV Show

Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.

Arena

Oct 1975

American Experience poster
TV Show

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

American Experience

Oct 1988

Democracy Now! poster
TV Show

A United States daily progressive, nonprofit, independently syndicated program of news, analysis, and opinion.

Democracy Now!

Jan 2001

Bares für Rares poster
TV Show

In the show, selected applicants each present a curiosity, rarity or antique they have brought with them. Once they have received their expertise, they will have the opportunity on site to offer their exhibit to a changing five-person podium for sale and, ideally, to sell it to the highest bidder for „Bares“ ("cash").

Bares für Rares

Aug 2013

Vetenskapens värld poster
TV Show

Vetenskapens värld is a popular science TV documentary program broadcast on Swedish Television (SVT).

Vetenskapens värld

Sep 1971

A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex poster
TV Show

A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex

Oct 2006

Panorama poster
TV Show

Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.

Panorama

Nov 1953

A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex poster
TV Show

A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex is a documentary TV series about sex, which ran in eight episodes on Channel 5 and was presented by Dr Catherine Hood. The 45-minute long episodes were broadcast on Monday nights. The series started on 30 October 2006, with the final programme broadcast on 18 December 2006. Each episode explained a sex position and covered a sexually transmitted disease. Additionally, the following topics were discussed: sex among handicapped and overweight people, penis enlargement devices, penis enlargement surgery, sexual violence against men and penis removal, tantric sex, the g-spot, erectile dysfunction, sex reassignment surgery, cosmetic surgery of the vagina, swinging, lichen sclerosus, the use of recreational drugs during sex, male homosexual sex in public toilets, full body plastic wrap bondage, and sex dolls.

A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex

Oct 2006

Frontline poster
TV Show

Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.

Frontline

Jan 1983

Oddity Archive poster
TV Show

The Oddity Archive is a web series that revolves around the "cultural dustbin", especially as it pertains to media. The Archive also functions as an actual archive of sorts, with a modest collection of off-air Betamax and VHS recordings (about 400 total as of June, 2014). There's also a decent collection of ephemeral video, "ripoff" and "drugstore" LP's/cassettes/8-tracks, as well as (working) obsolete technology.

Oddity Archive

Jul 2012

Horizon poster
TV Show

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

Horizon

Feb 1964

凤凰大视野 poster
TV Show

凤凰大视野

Jan 2004

Die Ratgeber poster
TV Show

Die Ratgeber

Apr 2019

Lecture Room poster
TV Show

Lecture Room

Jul 2001

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