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  Author: Minhchick   |   16 June 2020   |   : 0

Meet Lily, an eight-year-old wild black bear, described by some as the most popular bear in the world. Why? Thanks to bear biologist Dr Lynn Rogers, from day one her life has been documented online. Dr Rogers has a unique relationship with Lily and all of his study bears, feeding them by hand and walking with them in the Northwoods of Minnesota. But his methods have divided opinion, resulting in a bounty being put on Lily's head. With hunting season fast approaching, this is the latest and possibly most challenging chapter in her remarkable life.

  Author: Minhchick   |   15 June 2020   |   : 0

Henri Matisse is one of the most beloved painters of the 20th century. Best known for his cut-outs - childlike images that he cut directly from sheets of blazing colour - Matisse wanted his art to transcend the darkness and violence of the modern age. This alone has often seen him written off as a populist crowd-pleaser, not really a serious artist. Yet what we now tend to forget is that at the beginning of his career, Matisse was a rebel and a revolutionary - one of the first artists to tear up the rules of western art to bring it into the modern world. Turning his back on 500 years of academic tradition, Matisse became the first avant-garde artist of the 20th century and was considered so shocking that he was ridiculed by everyone - by the critics and the public, even by many of his fellow artists.

  Author: Minhchick   |   15 June 2020   |   : 0

Riding along the Isle of Man may not be a taxing adventure but the island is home to perhaps the most famous road race in the world - The Isle of Man TT.

  Author: Minhchick   |   15 June 2020   |   : 0

Few events of the twentieth century have so dramatically engulfed such a large proportion of humanity as China's "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution". Millions suffered and untold others died, yet the Cultural Revolution remains only barely understood. There is little agreement on when it began (1964 or mid-1966), how long it lasted (three years, 1966-69, or a decade, 1966-76), what it was about (culture, revolution, power struggles, or Mao Zedong's monomania), or what it achieved ; a true Marxist-Leninist revolution, the prelude to the reform era, or was it just a meaningless period of political zealotry and chaos?

  Author: Minhchick   |   15 June 2020   |   : 0

Few figures in U.S. military history are as divisive as General Robert E. Lee (1807-70). Adored by some for his heroic leadership of the Confederacy during the Civil War - to such a degree that countless statues still commemorate him in the American South - and resented or loathed by others for the southern cause that he promulgated, Lee continues to court endless fascination. This episode of PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE documentary series explores Lee's life, accomplishments and reputation, with a particularly strong emphasis on his string of military victories and the idolization surrounding Lee in the 140 years that followed his death.

  Author: Minhchick   |   15 June 2020   |   : 0

Just a week after his 100th birthday celebrations, NHS fundraiser extraordinaire and national treasure Captain Tom Moore marks another upcoming milestone in this documentary - 75 years since VJ Day and the end of the Second World War later this summer. He looks back on his time in the brutal Burma campaign and honours the soldiers who fought in what has since become known - with so much focus on the European battlefront and on today's VE Day commemoration - as the 'forgotten war'.

  Author: Minhchick   |   13 June 2020   |   : 0

Jane McDonald travels along the Danube on one of the most luxurious ships of its type, as she makes a foray into the realms of the river cruise Beginning in Budapest, Jane heads to the Szechenyi Baths, where she indulges in a game of chess. Afterwards, a visit to the Second World War memorial Shoes on the Danube Bank, leaves her in tears. Heading onwards to Vienna, the presenter is all set to meet a real-life princess. Then, after a waltz and a wurst, Jane makes her way to her final stop of Passau, southern Bavaria, to view its charming architecture.

  Author: Minhchick   |   13 June 2020   |   : 0

The fascinating story of how film director Virginia Heath and composer and musician King Creosote (Kenny Anderson) collaborated to create the much-loved and critically acclaimed archive and music film From Scotland with Love.

  Author: Minhchick   |   13 June 2020   |   : 0

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One in 20 UK children have been sexually abused, and 90% of this abuse occurs by someone the victim knows-yet a third of the abused don't tell anyone. Natasha, Emily and Maya give poignant first-hand accounts of their childhoods and how they have created new lives for themselves following years of being abused by their dads.

  Author: Minhchick   |   13 June 2020   |   : 0

A bird as big as a fighter plane. A snake the size of a school bus. A shark 100 times heavier than an average great white. Before the time of humans, our planet was ruled by a land of giants, with fish that could swallow you whole and land predators tall enough to peek into the top floor of the White House. But which of these mega-monsters was the largest of them all? Join us as we reveal the Top 10 biggest beasts to walk the Earth, swim the seas, and soar the skies.