Prospecting for Prosperity

The French researcher Bertrand Monnet visits pirates in Nigeria and Somalia to learn how they make money from oil theft and kidnapping.

What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?

A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.

On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in Indigenous enterprise. Once rulers of the western...

The invention and use of a jeep are described, from the viewpoint of one of the vehicles.

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still...

Examines the mesmerising construction of clear crystal glass pieces created by the craftsmen of Waterford. The process from the intense heat of the...

This French-Canadian co-production goes behind the scenes of the huge tobacco industry, whose economic power has been expanding for five decades at...

A documentary about the psychological costs of working in Alberta's oil sands and the mental health crisis that's been ignored for a decade.

Promotes television sets and the broadcast of New York's first regularly scheduled programs by providing a clinical look at the inner workings of...

Documentary telling the story of the shale oil industry and its lasting impact on the community of West Lothian. Presented by geologist Professor...