Band of Brothers

Band of Brothers is a ten-part miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks for HBO. The miniseries follows Easy Company, an army unit during World War II, from their initial training at Camp Toccoa to the conclusion of the war.

Michael Palin travels on a long trek through the largest mountain range in the world: the Himalaya. In 125 days, our host visits countries in these mountains, such as Pakistan, China, India, Bhutan, and many more. But this is no easy journey. Michael travels 3,000 miles with the people of these exotic lands, learning their ways of life, cultures, and languages. He contracted several illnesses...

Perfect Disaster

When all the right conditions come together, they can result in the perfect disaster – a storm that is larger and more dangerous than normal. Perfect Disaster explores these “impossible” storms and the possible outcomes if one were to hit a major city.

The Sahara is the size of the United States with a population the size of Norfolk, a small UK county. The temperatures are extreme, the camels are poisoned ... this is another of Michael Palin's exciting globe-trotting adventures. During his travels across theSahara Desert, Michael meets interesting people, learns about their cultures, and goes through what they do in their everyday lives....

The BBC spent five years and $10 million to produce this landmark exploration of the ocean, a world we know less about than the moon. We go further out and deeper down to show you things that have never been seen before. The Blue Planet: Seas of Life reveals the sea and its communities at their most fearsome and alluring. Until now, we've only touched the surface...

Following the BBC's Private Life of Plants, Sir David Attenborough and the BBC bring us a 10 part look into the Life of Birds. Over the three years that it took for this series to be made, Attenborough travelled over a quarter million miles and the 48 cameramen and camerawomen involved worked in 42 countries on five continents. From fieldfairs in Sweden to bowerbirds in New Zealand we...

The Tudors

The Tudors focuses on the life and romances of the young King Henry VIII. The ten one-hour episodes take a look at the often overlooked early political relationships as well as Henry's trysts with such notable women as Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. The series is shot on location in Ireland. Michael Hirst ( Elizabeth ) is the series creator, writer, and executive producer.

This is the fourth of David Attenborough's nature series exploring the complexities of various mammal species in the animal kingdom. The series features 10 episodes exploring in depth the day to day habits of mammals in the wild.

The Lost Room

Peter Krause (Six Feet Under) heads up the stellar cast of this intriguing new mini-series from the SciFi Channel as Detective Joe Miller, a man desperate to find the one thing he holds most dear in his life: his daughter. Join Miller and other characters and learn about Room 10 at the Sunshine Motel on Route 66, its terrible history, and its supernatural contents that hold the key to his...

Only a mini series I think, that started on 13th Feb, but I am enjoying this very much and thought it would be of interest to others. You never know could turn out to be a full series soon.

Generation Kill

Not for the faint-hearted, this seven-hour scripted mini-series spotlights Marines fighting in the Iraq war during the early onset of the conflict. This is an adaptation of Rolling Stone's contributing editor Evan Wright's book of the same name.

Based on Raymond Khoury's best-selling novel, this NBC mini-series stars Oscar winner Mira Sorvino and Victor Garber. When she witness a mysterious object get stolen from the Metropolitan Museum by four horsemen dressed as Templar Knights, Manhattan archaeologist Tess Chaykin becomes involved in a fantastic adventure that takes her to far flung locales in Turkey and Greece and finally to the...

Samurai Girl

Nineteen-year-old girl named Heaven discovers that the well-to-do businessman who adopted her as an infant is actually the head of Yakuza, the Japanese mafia responsible for murdering her brother. Upon leaving her family Heaven decides to become a samurai with the help of her new American friends, and grows determined to take down her father's empire. This series is based on the popular novels...

Amanda Price is an ordinary, modern day woman living in Hammersmith. She has a job she hates, a boyfriend she doesn't really love and a mother pushing her to get married. To escape from reality she immerses herself in the Jane Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice and one day, while she's reading it, the main character, Elizabeth Bennet emerges in her bathroom!

The four-part series charts the rise and fall of the world's most significant political dictators in recent history, Saddam Hussein. The drama explores Saddam's sinister personality by delving into both his political, and personal life, from his rise to power in the early 70's to his fall and capture in 2003.

John Adams

U.S. history buffs won't want to miss this epic miniseries about one of America's greatest founding fathers John Adams. The mini-series is based on the 2002 book, John Adams, written by David McCullough, and stars two Academy Award nominated actors: Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney.

Epitafios

This is an original production from HBO Latin America. Five years after a hostage situation where four students were tragically burned alive, a man starts to kill people related to the case. Eugenio Benítez (the sheriff), Laura Santini (a psychologist) and Renzo Márquez (a retired policeman who now works as a taxi driver) become caught up in the maelstrom of the new crimes due to their...

An HBO miniseries, based on the Tony-award winning plays by Tony Kushner, about AIDS, religion, drugs, homosexuality, angels, and whether the redemption of man is possible. The story revolves around a group of people who, at first sight, have nothing to do with each other – but are all connected by their ideology, experiences, and feelings. Set during the Reagan AIDS years,...

Based on the nonfiction book "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood", by journalists David Simon and Edward Burns, The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The Corner tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives...

This twelve part HBO mini-series tells the story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972. Tom Hanks served as Executive Producer and introduced each segment.