The Arctic is melting. Fast. There is a scramble by Russia, China, the US, Canada and the EU to secure the region’s natural resources and control the Arctic’s sea lanes. The sooner the Arctic melts, the more dangerous the fight for its control will be. Even Greenland is suddenly up for grabs, if the new US president gets his way. To find out how soon we will have an ice free Arctic, the American ice breaker USCGC Healy is on a scientific mission to the Extreme North. So who is leading the race for control of the Arctic? And what will the Healy discover in its historic mission to the Arctic Ocean?

Welcome to the wildest competition known to man -- the speed record on the Nose route of El Capitan. Yosemite legends Dean Potter and Hans Florine go head-to-head, racing up 3,000 feet of vertical rock in under three hours, risking life and limb.

The dramatic story of the British expedition that made the first ascent of Everest. Combining interviews with the surviving members of the 1953 British and 1952 Swiss attempt on Everest with rare archival material, this film tells the story of the race to climb Everest in the early 1950s and its climax in 1953.

Babe Ruth set a record in 1927 by hitting 60 home runs in one season. 34 years later, Roger Maris broke that record. Another 37 years passed before that record was broken by Mark McGwire. Five days after McGwire's feat, Sammy Sosa broke the brand new record. And the race was on! Fans watched breathlessly as the record passed between the two men and time left in the season dwindled. Relive it all, from Ruth, to Maris, to the final days of the 1998 Sosa/McGwire slug-fest.

The history of the beginning of man's reach for space travel. Some previously classified American and Russia footage is inter-spliced with Mike Wallace interviewing people about their first-hand experiences.

本片讲述了在 COVID - 19 刚开始流行的初期，一群全球顶尖科学家如何分头开展有效疫苗的开发、试验和制造工作。这是一场全世界共同付出巨大努力的竞赛，目标只有一个，即对抗病毒、挽救生命。 当新型冠状病毒大流行在全球肆虐时，来自世界各地的精英科学家们承担起了可能是现代医学史上最艰巨的挑战。这项任务涉及范围之广、时间之紧迫都是前所未有的。他们竭尽全力，运用各种尖端新技术，研发多种不同疫苗，希望能击败这个人类从未见过的致命病毒。本片制作团队在 2020 年间贴身采访了几个拥有领先技术的主要疫苗开发团队，包括辉瑞和 BNT 团队、美国国家卫生研究院和莫德纳团队，以及牛津和 AZ 团队，一同聆听这些科学家开发疫苗背后的秘密。

Antonia Quirke looks at the history of the colour film industry to find out who produced the first moving colour images.

Lost movie.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is both educational and entertaining for all ages. Throughout the show, questions about the White House and the featured Presidents are asked to engage the viewer and reinforce learning.

The mythical city of Atlantis has risen from the depths in The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, and champions are being called from around the empire to Race for Atlantis, the world's first giant-screen Imax 3-D ride. The effect created is an unbelievable chariot race through the streets of Atlantis, where the diabolical Ghastlius will stop at nothing to win.