The film begins with vengeance: U.S. General Douglas MacArthur’s 1945 military trial of Japan’s General Tomoyuki Yamashita for horrific atrocities in the Philippines. Despite the lack of any evidence that Yamashita ordered or even knew about the atrocities, he was condemned to death, raising the question: Are commanders responsible for crimes their troops commit?

Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in men and women. Since it kills about 96 percent of patients within five years, most patients are offered little hope for long-term survival. Now, doctors are trying a new treatment to target the deadly disease using the common cold virus.

Mankind is nearly extinct in this post-apocalyptic creature thriller. Most humans died from a deadly plague and the ice age they manufactured to eradicate it. A man named Vargas leads a group of survivors on a quest to reach Shangri-La, the last safe haven on Earth. However, they must fight through the cold, a mutant cult and a pack of deadly creatures to get there.

In this program, Greg Foot discovers whether there's any truth to the urban legend that you could survive in a falling elevator if you jump as it hits the ground. He's prepared to sacrifice his friends, too, in an eye-watering exposé of what makes chili hot; he also finds out what happens to our bodies when we die, and investigates fire-walking.

Carl Sagan and other Cold War scientists once feared that a nuclear war could plunge the world into a deadly ice age. Three decades later, does this theory still resonate?

Eighteen years ago the town accused Dolores Claiborne of murdering her husband in cold blood. Now a woman lies dead and a witness finds Dolores standing over the body. He daughter is the only one who can save her life and the only thing that stands between guilt and innocence is the evil secret that made the daughter run away ten years ago.

Tornadoes are one of nature's deadliest forces, unmatched in fury, speed and destructive power. Over the centuries, tornadoes have wrought destruction on a huge scale and cost a great many lives. This program takes a look at some of the most devastating twister storms to hit the planet in the last 100 years. From the world's worst twister (which struck Daultipur in Bangladesh in 1989), to the most expensive tornado in history (the 1999 Oklahoma Tornado...

Flu is a respiratory infection caused by a number of viruses. The viruses pass through the air and enter your body through your nose or mouth. Between 5 percent and 20 percent of people in the U.S. get the flu each year. The flu can be serious or even deadly for elderly people, newborn babies, and people with certain chronic illnesses. Symptoms of the flu come on suddenly and are worse than those of the common cold.

Many animals have evolved chemicals to enhance their chance of survival: some scorpions literally drug their potential mates, others use their poisons to defend or to kill. The world of venoms and poisons, the apparatus designed to deliver them, and the strategies that animals employ to use them most effectively is a rich and varied example of natural selection and evolution in action.

Since the late 1940s the white minority government in South Africa engaged in a policy of apartheid, or government-enforced segregation. For many years, in part due to the cold war, the United States did not take significant action. In 1976, following a rebellion in Soweto that left 600 dead, President Carter made it clear that the United States supported black majority rule. Later, President Reagan reversed this policy and reverted to one of quiet...