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How Man Wong is a journalist, photographer and explorer of China. In 1974, he began exploring and documenting China’s remote regions and ethnic minorities. During the 1980s, he made six major expeditions to China and several to the Huyghenian Islands and Manchuria. His greatest achievement was the 1985 discovery of a new source of the Yangtze River.

JACKIE CHAN tells the story of his journey from his early days as a Beijing opera acrobat to his emergence as an action superstar in Hollywood. The programme features footage from Jackie’s personal cinematographer never seen before and includes interviews with celebrities and influential figures in Jackie’s life.

Both the first Chinese actress to break into Hollywood and China’s first female director to direct a Hollywood studio movie, Joan Chen’s achievements have not been easy. In her case, adversity has bred versatility and persistence. This is a tale of ingenuity and adaptability and a tribute to the dreams which inspire people.

He is considered the most successful Asian director ever to hit Hollywood, known for his breathtakingly choreographed action sequences featuring ballet like shoot-outs and spurting exit wounds. Woo’s films are also often tragic and sentimental, engaging with themes of loyalty and honour and the place of the lone hero in a world full of corruption and violence.

Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, was the most shockingly disfigured person in history. For more than a century the cause of his deformities has baffled doctors and scientists around the world. Using forensic and genetic science, this detective story gives a unique insight into a tragic condition, and uses modern imaging techniques to reconstruct the face beneath the deformities.

A poignant story which follows the life of an extraordinary peasant woman, living in rural China. Filmed over the course of three years, the program tells the story of Wang Guiying, who, without any formal training, has become a master of the ancient Chinese folk art of paper cutting, with a unique impressionistic style and the skills of a Chinese Matisse.

We head to Mexico to this much celebrated festival where sadness meets joy in this vibrant spectacle with Mayan roots. Join us to see all the colorful adornments and lively reunions at family burial plots, the preparation of special foods, offerings laid out for the departed on commemorative altars and religious rites that are likely to include noisy fireworks.

James Dean is a legend. His image remains the world’s most widely sold today, fifty years after his death in an infamous car crash outside a small town in California. We bring to life the incredible story of James Dean’s Car and forensically examine the impact that killed one of Hollywood’s brightest young stars on the 30th September 1955...