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Since Trajan Vuia claimed to be the first person to build a ‘flying car’, inventors have tried to produce a commercially successful car plane. With a man in Florida who can fly his car for three hours and NASA developing a GPS flying programme to manage airborne traffic, the future is not as far off as it seems.
Pip Gilmour Productions/Smithsonian Networks
Shockingly tall, amazingly small, morbidly obese or conjoined. These are the people whose extraordinary bodies have taken them to the limits of the human condition. Inside Extraordinary Humans will examine the lives these people lead, the problems they face and we’ll come to understand the challenges of being ‘exceptional’ in a ‘normal’ world.
Authentic Entertainment
Over two billion years ago, a meteorite the size of Table Mountain slammed into Earth just outside Vredefort. It created a scar that is today recognised as the oldest and largest meteorite impact site in the world. In this film, Roger Gibson, one of South Africa’s most renowned geologists, explains how it took scientists over a century to recognise the clues of the area’s impact origin - clues which are still locked up in the rocks.
For almost a century, we’ve dreamt of strapping on a backpack with jet rockets. Could it now, finally, be a viable option for transportation? We get to know the inventors, explore the pros and cons of various technologies and power systems, see how science fiction popularised the concept, and analyse the engineering challenges that have held jet packs back from blasting off!
Pip Gilmour Productions/Smithsonian Networks
November, 2003 - A man in Leeper, Pennsylvania, receives a package that he suspects is a bomb. Enter America’s oldest law enforcement service, the Postal Inspectors. Using an array of cutting-edge forensic techniques, the inspectors responsible for tracking down the infamous murdering mathematician Ted Kaczynski, follow a trail of microscopic clues to bust the bomber.
Baney Media for Smithsonian Networks
How can one family be struck by tragedy seven times: the loss of seven little boys from severe deformities at birth. A New Zealand scientist is determined to find an answer to the family’s misery. A fascinating look at the importance of genetics in our lives and the choices and ethical dilemmas we all might have to face.
Factuals: Biography and History Unit
Watershed Films
Incredible
Flying Cars
2 x 60’, 2013, HD
Incredible Flying Jetpacks
1 x 60’, 2015, HD
Inside Extraordinary Humans
4 x 60’, 2007, HD
The Leeper Mail Bomb
1 x 15’, 2007, HD
Life In The World’s Largest Crater
1 x 60’, 2012, HD
Lifting Of The Makutu
1 x 60’, 2004, SD
Science