The Silicon Factor

Sander versus the socials

December 2025 •Dutch

Sander Schimmelpenninck investigates the far-reaching influence of social media on our society and politics. To this end, he talks to journalists, moderators, philosophers, lawyers and troll hunters. How does social media use undermine our democracy and why is no one doing anything?

The Dream Machine

December 2025 •English

A five-part series about the origins, history and impact of the computer, a machine that changed the world.

The Great Acceleration

December 2025 •English

This remarkable science-history series investigates the blistering pace of human endeavour in space exploration, computing, energy, resources, Earth science and our understanding of the evolution of life itself.

Silicon Fucking Valley

December 2025 •French

The Academy

December 2025 •English

A companion programme to TVOntario's Bits and Bytes, The Academy explores the principles and applications of computer technology in greater detail.

The Computer and the Mind of Man

December 2025 •English

In the 1940s a different kind of tool was invented a tool for extending certain powers of mans mind, the electronic computer. It is the fast, reliable, and tireless performance of a variety of arithmetic and logical operatic is which gives the computer its great utility and power. What this exciting invention means to mankind now and in the future is the subject of this provocative series.

Halt and Catch Fire

December 2025 •English

During the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, an unlikely trio - a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy - take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it.

Weird Science

December 2025 •English

Gary Wallace, a teenager who dreams of beautiful women and a cheerful life, and his only friend, the shy and geek Wyatt Donnelly, always serve as a target for ridicule and bullying of violent classmates. Once using a computer and mysterious electrical radiation, they manage to bring to life the "woman of their dreams." Her name is Lisa, and she is ready to fulfill the wishes of her creators ...

Paholaisen tytär

December 2025 •Finnish

GameTechChannel

December 2025 •English

GameTechChannel is a YouTube Channel for multiple games. They strive to make videos that everybody can enjoy. Every game they are interested in or play, gets uploaded.

Big Chef Takes on Little Chef

December 2025 •English

Jimmy Doherty in Darwin's Garden

December 2025 •English

Charles Darwin came up with some ingenious experiments to prove his theory of evolution. Jimmy Doherty attempts to recreate some of these investigations.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

December 2025 •English

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, formally known as the Great Spring Show, is a garden show held for five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London. Held at Chelsea since 1912, it is the most famous flower and landscape gardens show in the United Kingdom, and perhaps in the world. The show is attended by members of the British Royal Family and attracts visitors from all continents. Highlights to the Chelsea Flower Show include the avant-garde show gardens designed by leading names with Floral Marquee at the centrepiece. The Show also features smaller gardens such as the Artisan and Urban Gardens.

Darwin's Dangerous Idea

December 2025 •English

Andrew Marr explores how Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection has taken on a life of its own far beyond the world of science.

Sex: How To Do Everything

December 2025 •English

Sex: How To Do Everything is Channel 5's ten-part series featuring renowned sexperts Em & Lo. Each episode is full of information, interviews and how-to demonstrations from various models illustrating a variety of different techniques, from the ordinary to the super-scandalous. The series is designed to get you having better sex and more of it.

Who Was Jesus?

December 2025 •English

Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich

December 2025 •English

Meet the architects behind the Nazi war machine. The Führer's most prominent planners, designers, architects, and builders tried to downplay their role in the Holocaust, but the truth is now exposed.

The Past at Work

December 2025 •English

The birth and development of the Industrial Revolution is explored by visiting factories, mines, and other industrial relics where the modern world was made -- not by statesmen and philosophers, but by men, women and children with dirt on their hands.

Die Mauer ist weg

December 2025 •German

Taksim'den Tünel'e

December 2025 •Turkish