Mesopotamia 3D
Sunday 19 June 8:30 PM
During the war, Jawad Bashara, Iraqi writer exiled in France under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, decides to return to his country to rescue the treasures of Mesopotamia targeted and destroyed by Isis. Along with a team of archaeologists from all over the world, he embarks on a hazardous quest for our origins. Sumer, Babylon, the epic of Gilgamesh and the legendary Tower of Babel. today, all these names still resonate. They embody Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers - Tigris and Euphrates.
It is in this land that our civilisation was born and where humanity organised itself into a society of tens of thousands of people, invented writing and developed agriculture and architecture. What does this history really tell us? Why has a terrorist group with worldwide influence decided, among other crimes, to erase its traces forever? This is what Mesopotamia 3D. The Future of our Origins reveals.
Nadia: A Stolen Life
Monday 20 June 9:35 PM
How can you rebuild yourself when you lose your father and your homeland forever at the age of eight? Nadia Nadim, whose dad was killed by the Taliban, has embarked on this quest.
Why Buildings Collapse
Wednesday 22 June 8:30 PM
In the aftermath of Miami’s Champlain Tower South apartment collapse, in which 98 people died, this film forensically examines what went wrong and asks - what happened? Could it have been prevented? And how many other buildings across the world are at risk of a similar catastrophic fate?
Death Of A Dynasty
Friday 24 June 8:40 PM
A gruesome new discovery reveals a little known period of Ancient Egypt’s history when the country was fighting for its very survival.
Investigators piece together the life and death of a mutilated mummy to solve the mystery of a whole royal dynasty wiped from the official records.