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Modern Marvels(1993-)

TV-PG
| 44min per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 12 votes)

HISTORY’s longest-running series moves to H2. Modern Marvels celebrates the ingenuity, invention and imagination found in the world around us. From commonplace items like ink and coffee to architectural masterpieces and engineering disasters, the hit series goes beyond the basics to provide insight and history into things we wonder about and that impact our lives. This series tells fascinating stories of the doers, the dreamers and sometime-schemers that create everyday items, technological breakthroughs and manmade wonders. The hit series goes deep to explore the leading edge of human inspiration and ambition.

Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum(1994-1997)

27min per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy, Kids & Family
4.1/5 (with 11 votes)

Nino is a 300-year-old boy who lives with his uncle, Dr. Victor, a sorcerer and scientist, and his great-aunt Morgana, a 6,000-year-old witch. The three of them live in a castle in the middle of the city of São Paulo. Apprentice sorcerer, Nino has never attended a school, because of the unusual age of 300 years. His parents left him living with Victor and Morgan, because they needed to travel on an expedition into outer space, taking their two younger brothers. In spite of having animal and supernatural friends in the Castle, Nino, feeling lack of friends like him, decides to do a spell he learned with his Uncle Victor, and ended up bringing to the Castle, three children who had just left school. Free of loneliness, Nino receives the visit of the three daily.

Directed by Anna Muylaert - With Sérgio Mamberti, Rosi Campos, Cássio Scapin, Luciano Amaral, Cinthya Rachel, Freddy Allan, ...

Shop Class(2020)

TV-G
| 45min per episode | Reality-TV
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Youthful ingenuity is on display in this new competition series that features teams of inventive students tasked with designing, building, and testing new contraptions to vie for the title of Shop Class Champs. In each episode, they’ll present their work to a panel of experts who will rate their projects based on engineering, design, and the final test of the build.

White Rabbit Project(2016)

TV-PG
| 48min per episode | Reality-TV
3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara rank history's greatest inventions, heists and more.

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The Secret Life of Machines(1988-1993)

30min per episode | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

The Secret Life of Machines is an educational television series presented by Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod, in which the two explain the inner workings and history of common household and office machinery. According to Hunkin, the show's creator, the programme was developed from his comic strip The Rudiments of Wisdom, which he researched and drew for the Observer newspaper over a period of 14 years. Three separate groupings of the broadcast were produced and originally shown between 1988 and 1993 on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, with the production subsequently airing on The Learning Channel and the Discovery Channel.

How Clumsy you are, Miss Ueno.(2019)

12min per episode | Animation, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 7 votes)

Ueno may be the president of the science club at her junior high and a genius inventor, but she still can’t figure out how to confess to her crush, Tanaka! Can she find a way to give her heart what it truly yearns for?

Ancient Inventions(1998)

2h 30min per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Ancient Inventions was a BBC historical documentary series released in 1998. It was presented by ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones and looked at great inventions of the ancient world. The series is split into 3 episodes, namely City Life, Sex and Love, and War and Conflicts, all around 50 min long.

Directed by Daniel Percival

Kardeş Payı(2014-2015)

1h per episode | Kids & Family, Drama, Comedy
4.1/5 (with 24 votes)

The show is about two brothers and a sister. The two brothers have a plumbing company and they are trying to invent something that would make the world a better place.

America's Greatest Makers(2016-)

42min per episode | Reality-TV

Teams of people invent new technology for a chance to win $1 million.

James May's 20th Century(2007)

30min per episode | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

James May takes a look at some of the greatest developments of the 20th century.

With James May

Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World(2019)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Take a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic objects that modern people take for granted, and see how science, invention and technology built on one another to change everything.

Originalos(2010-2015)

3min per episode | Comedy, Animation, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

A stone-age animated comedy focusing on the invention of a specific objects or ideas that we use in our everyday life.

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Britain's Next Big Thing(2011)

1h per episode | Reality-TV

A series in which the buying teams of three high street giants ask members of the public to supply them with the next bestselling product.

Dragons' Den Online(2009)

30min per episode | Documentary

Dom Byrne presents the underground version of the hit BBC Two show that has been operating exclusively online

The Big Life Fix(2016-)

59min per episode | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The UK's leading inventors create ingenious new solutions to every-day problems and build life-changing solutions for people in desperate need.

The Genius of Invention(2013)

1h per episode | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Every time we switch on a light or boil a kettle we rely on power - but most people don't stop to think about the inventions and discoveries that allow us to live the way we do. In an exciting new four-part series for BBC Two, The Genius of Invention reveals the fascinating chain of events behind inventions that make everyday life possible.

Brits Who Made The Modern World(2008)

22min per episode | Documentary

The three-part series tells the story of British architects Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, Michael Hopkins and Terry Farrell.

The Re-Inventors(2024-)

43min per episode | Documentary

Follow Matt Hunter and Jeremy MacPherson as they dig up original patent designs from history’s lost inventions and build them, test them, and try to make them work. From a snow annihilator from the 1930s to a Chinese dragon rocket over 600 years old to a solar powered crematorium, Matt and Jeremy take us through the strange and entertaining world of invention.