Explore with Simon Reeve & Brian Cox, and go inside Tulsa’s Race Massacre
DStv takes a deep dive into little-known history this week with documentaries Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre and John Rabe – The Schindler of Nanking.
Travel lovers, settle in for Treasures of Ancient Rome before adventurer Simon Reeves takes us around the world in Incredible Journeys With Simon Reeve. And for an out of this world destination,there’s also Life, The Universe & Everything With Brian Cox, the physicist who sets out to understand the world. We see inside small-town life in 4th And Forever: Alcoa which explores Alcoa High School and its influence and power thanks to American football. and there’s so much more to explore… including Murder Hornets.
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Explore History
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
100 years ago, white attackers burned 12 city blocks of a prosperous African-American neighbourhood to the ground during 2 days of violent, racially motivated attacks during in which even buildings were firebombed from the sky.
Watch on Saturday, 14 August on History (DStv channel 186) at 20:15
John Heinrich Rabe was a businessman and a committed Nazi Party leader, but during the Japanese siege of Nanking in 1937, his actions to protect around 200,000 Chinese people earned him the nickname the “Schindler of Nanking”.
Watch on Tuesday, 17 August on Curiosity Channel (DStv channel 185) at 21:00
Physicist Brian Cox looks back on a decade of discovery and towards the next space frontier, asking the biggest question of all: What’s next? In each episode, Brian focuses on a specific topic, from aliens and gravity, to space and time.
Watch on Thursday, 19 August on BBC Earth (DStv channel 184) at 19:00
During a career spanning 15 years, TV presenter Simon has visited over 100 countries on 6 different continents, and in this doccie, he catches up with friends he met along the way and shares their stories.
Watch from Friday, 13 August on BBC Earth (DStv channel 184) at 19:00
Alcoa High School is Southern Appalachia's American football powerhouse. The 2020 season is about to kick off with a quarterback controversy, and a global pandemic nearly halting their run at a 6th straight championship.
Watch on Saturday, 14 August on Curiosity Channel (DStv channel 185) at 23:00
Art critic and broadcaster Alastair Sooke sets out to show the art of the Romans for what it really is – both the best insight into the Roman world and an important grounding for western art.
Watch on Saturday, 14 August on BBC World News (DStv channel 400) at 10:30
In this true crime-style documentary, filmmaker Michael Paul Stephenson follows beekeepers and scientists who’re working together to protect a Pacific Northwest community from hive-killing Asian Giant Hornets.
Watch on Saturday, 14 August on Discovery Channel (DStv channel 121) at 20:00
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