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Today the Kanda area in central Tokyo is a business district, but it has roots in the early days of the Edo period as a town of craftspeople and artisans. With a Kanda native as our guide, we explore its neighborhoods and search for traces of the past. Along the way we try traditional food and drink and meet locals who carry on the spirit of old Tokyo. We also pay our respects at Kanda Myojin Shrine and speak to a group that is busy preparing for the upcoming Kanda Festival.

Love Crimes of Kabul' is an intimate portrait of three young Afghani women accused of committing “moral crimes” such as premarital sex and running away from home. As we follow them from prison to trial, we discover the pressures and paradoxes that women in Afghanistan face today—and the dangerous consequences when they refuse to fit in.

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the span of a single generation. The nation became the world's leading producer of food, coal, oil, and steel, attracted vast amounts of foreign investment, and pushed into markets in Europe and the Far East.

A look back at the making of the beloved cult series, which first launched in 1983, featuring interviews with fans including Jack Whitehall, Ardal O'Hanlon and Nina Wadia.

Tony Robinson introduces the previously unseen pilot episode of the popular comedy.

Prince Albert of Monaco presents the history of one of the world's best-known race circuits, nestled in the narrow streets of a country half the size of New York's Central Park.

This heartfelt celebration pays tribute to one of the most distinctive and adored British comedians of all time. Equipped with his trademark set of buck teeth and tickling stick, Ken Dodd was a man who simply lived to make people laugh.

The shocking true story of a hoax caller who targeted restaurants across the US posing as a police officer and instructing managers to strip-search the young female employees. For many victims, what began as a humiliating strip search escalated into sexual abuse. When the hoax caller hit McDonald's in Mount Washington, Kentucky, a rookie detective made it his mission to catch him.

Archive footage and celebrity recollections reveal how 50 years ago during an energy crisis the government imposed a three-day working week for factories, shops and business, and UK-wide household blackouts. Contributors including Billy Brag, Michael Heseltine, Trevor McDonald, Pete Waterman, Diane Jordan and Fern Britton reflect on their own experiences of the blackouts back in 1974.

This rockumentary-style presidential portrait shows how Jimmy Carter reinvigorated a post-Watergate America-with the music of the counterculture, including the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Jimmy Buffett. Low on campaign funds and lacking in name recognition, Carter relied on support from these artists to give him a crucial boost in the Democratic primaries. Once Carter was elected, the musicians became frequent guests in the White House.

The year was 1999, and a couple of schools four hours apart were embarking on a season-long journey to become the best high school baseball team in Michigan. The Sturgis Trojans and the Pinconning Spartans were schools that were built from...

As a medical team tries to understand 10-year-old Maya Kowalski's rare illness, they begin to question her parents. Suddenly, Maya is in state custody - despite a family desperate to bring their daughter home.

Since 1978, Anvil has become one of heavy metal's most influential yet commercially unsuccessful acts. In 2006, after a fledging European tour Anvil sets out to record their thirteenth album and continue to follow their dreams.

From the time she was two years old and until she turned 18, they had a ritual: Dad asked.

This factory has worked 0 days without a murder. The story of the notorious 1992 Tom Monfils pulp vat murder investigation in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and how the victim's brother doubts the official story 30 years later.

American Pain traces the rise and fall of twin bodybuilders from Florida who become the kingpins of the largest oxycodone trafficking network in US history.

After a vicious attacks leaves him brain-damaged and broke, Mark Hogancamp seeks recovery in "Marwencol", a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he creates in his backyard.

As "Cracker" crimesolver Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald, Robbie Coltrane was no stranger to catching crooks of the fictional variety. But as the host of this acclaimed British true crime series, Coltrane focuses on real-life UK murder cases, guiding viewers through the grueling and meticulous processes of evidence collection and analysis that police had to endure as they conducted their investigations.

Often times the best fiction is based on fact. In The Real Story the startling facts behind the fiction in Hollywoods greatest hits are investigated.
Before Hollywood made them famous, history made them legends. Classic mystery and adventure tales of the 20th century comes alive in "The Real Story," a five-part series on Smithsonian Channel. The series examines the true stories behind famous historical real-life events and individuals that inspired some of Hollywood's most famous blockbusters.

Oozing hunger! Get ready to flee in the blizzard of food, food and food. To mouthful, the series invites you into the kitchens of streets, markets and alleyways. Get ready for globetrotting following Street Food Around The World with actor Ishai Golan, a world traveler and food lover who takes viewers on a culinary journey around the globe to discover authentic street food. Ishai explores the alleyways, boulevards and streets peeking into pots and pans of the most popular, extraordinary and tastiest dishes the local cuisines have to offer.