EXP Shkence programme guide

Dokumentarë 111 Europe/Tirane

Schedule for Wednesday, August 12, 2026

23:50 1h
S4E1 - Megastructures
Measuring more than 320 metres high and stretching higher than the Eiffel Tower, Dubai’s Burj Al Arab is an architectural icon for the 21st Century. Rising out of the sea like a proud ship at sail, the Burj pushes the boundaries of engineering to the limit. How does a bold young design team that has never built anything taller than 16 stories tackle building the tallest and most luxurious hotel in the world? To start, the team creates an artificial island 270 metres off the coast of Dubai. Engineers utilize ground-breaking concrete blocks to reduce wave impact and prevent water from flooding. To protect the Burj from the elements, architects create a visually stunning exoskeleton with trusses longer than an Airbus 380 and heavier than 20 double-decker busses. However, the team receives devastating news that threatens the Burj’s entire exoskeleton. Engineers must design an ingenious way to counteract ’mini-tornadoes’ that threaten the hotel’s structural integrity. The architects must also create a gravity-defying restaurant that is suspended 200 metres above the sea and nearly 20 metres out on both sides from the building’s narrow core. Expert testimony, CGI and footage of the Burj throughout the building stages follow the birth of this historic triumph.

Year

2007
- Documentary
- technologies
00:50 50 min
MythBusters
Mythbusters takes myths, tall tales and urban legends and gives them the scientific treatment to determine their validity. Myths are proved true, probable, possible, improbable or busted. Often after the real-world practical tests have proved or debunked a Myth, the team will take the experiment to the extreme, many times using more modern technology than the myth could have used or upping the black powder for impressive explosions.

Original title

MythBusters 1109 Location Location Location

Year

2003

Rated 10+

10+
- mystery
- reality show
- scientific show
01:40 1h 26m
H2Oil
Moving between a local microcosm and the global oil crisis, H2Oil weaves together a collection of compelling stories of people who are at the front lines of the biggest industrial project in human history: Canada’s tar sands. H2Oil is a feature-length documentary that traces the wavering balance between the urgent need to protect and preserve fresh water resources and the mad clamoring to fill the global demand for oil. It is a film that asks: what is more important, water or oil? Will the quest for profit overshadow efforts to protect public health and the environment in Canada’s richest province?

Year

2009
- Documentary
- documentary
03:06 1h 9m
S1E1 - Wonders of the Solar System
Professor Brian Cox explores the powerhouse of them all, the sun. In India he witnesses a total solar eclipse and in Norway, he watches the battle between the sun’s wind and Earth, as the night sky glows with the northern lights. ...

Year

2010

Rated 10+

10+
- Documentary
- documentary
- family
- nature
04:15 50 min
S1E2 - Some Assembly Required
14-year-old Jarvis Raines (Kolton Stewart) is an average teenager who becomes a boss overnight after he sues a toy company over a defective chemistry set that blows up his house. Jarvis' first act as CEO of Knickknack Toys is to recruit a diverse group of kids from his high school to help him run the company. Usually something backfires when they are trying to develop a new toy. Before the end credits there are usually advertisements showing Knickknack Toys' newest products, which are shown or often invented in said episode.

Year

2007
- Series
- comedy
- reality show
- documentary
05:05 50 min
S1E7 - Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman
Aliens almost certainly do exist; why have we not met them? We now have instruments powerful enough to scan for them and one astronomer claims she has heard efforts to communicate.

Original title

S1E7 - Through the Wormhole

Year

2010

Rated 10+

10+
- Documentary
- nature
- science fiction
- scientific show
05:55 1h
Birdmen Chronicles
Wingsuiting is an activity that probably comes the closest to realising man’s age-old desire to fly. Participants don a specially designed jumpsuit that adds surface area to their bodies, enabling a significant increase in lift and controlled flight. They literally fly like birds. As the sport is only a few years old, little information is available on how many people take part in it, and high publicity around fatal wing suiting accidents has led to it being (perhaps unfairly) labelled as “probably the most dangerous sport in the world.” It is normally associated with thrill-seeking daredevils flying ridiculously close to rock faces, taking apparent pleasure in defying death with every unbelievable flight.

Year

2011
- Documentary
06:55 1h 5m
S34E16 - Nova
Nova examines the goals of the highly secretive American space program prior to Sputnik. The Eisenhower Administration’s covert objectives in space gave the impression that the Soviets had a commanding lead in space technology.

Year

2007

Rated 10+

10+
- Documentary
08:00 50 min
Ancient Aliens
Science and mythology - and how they are the same thing.

Year

2009

Rated 10+

10+
- Documentary
- history
- science fiction
- thriller
08:50 50 min
S1E3 - Pop Sci’s Future Of - Sex
- Series
09:40 1h 5m
S1E3 - Human Universe
Brian Cox explores the ingredients needed for an intelligent civilisation to evolve in the universe - the need for a benign star, for a habitable planet, for life to spontaneously arise on such a planet and the time required for intelligent life to evolve and build a civilisation. Brian weighs the evidence and arrives at his own provocative answer to the puzzle of our apparent solitude.

Year

2014

Rated 10+

10+
- Documentary
- family
10:45 18 min
Explained
A documentary series that looks to explore the big questions of today.

Year

2018
- Documentary
11:03 22 min
Explained
A documentary series that looks to explore the big questions of today.

Year

2018
- Documentary
- documentary
11:25 43 min
Curiosity
What are you curious about? Whatever it is, it’s likely this unprecedented event series created by Discovery founder John Hendricks has it covered. Spanning five years with 60 episodes and companion content across Discovery’s networks, ”Curiosity” uncovers the truths behind life’s most challenging questions, with each episode focusing on a single enduring question in science, technology and society. From the macro to the micro, provocative and insightful subjects are explored to the fullest, a journey for answers undertaken by a different celebrity host every episode. The series premieres with astrophysicist Stephen Hawking renewing the centuries-old debate, ”Did God Create the Universe.” Other hosts include actors Morgan Freeman, Michelle Rodriguez, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robin Williams and Discovery Channel personalities Adam Savage and Mike Rowe.

Original title

Curiosity How Evil Are You

Year

2011

Rated 10+

10+
- Documentary
12:08 47 min
Curiosity
What are you curious about? Whatever it is, it’s likely this unprecedented event series created by Discovery founder John Hendricks has it covered. Spanning five years with 60 episodes and companion content across Discovery’s networks, ”Curiosity” uncovers the truths behind life’s most challenging questions, with each episode focusing on a single enduring question in science, technology and society. From the macro to the micro, provocative and insightful subjects are explored to the fullest, a journey for answers undertaken by a different celebrity host every episode. The series premieres with astrophysicist Stephen Hawking renewing the centuries-old debate, ”Did God Create the Universe.” Other hosts include actors Morgan Freeman, Michelle Rodriguez, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robin Williams and Discovery Channel personalities Adam Savage and Mike Rowe.

Original title

Curiosity How To Make a Mummy aka I Was Mummified

Year

2011

Rated 10+

10+
- Documentary
12:55 1h
Raw to Ready
Explore the science, innovation and sheer genius it takes to transform the most basic ingredients into powerhouse machines.

Original title

Raw To Ready 103 Bombardier

Year

2013
- Series
- history
13:55 51 min
Unacknowledged: An Exposé of the Greatest Secret in Human History
”Unacknowledged” focuses on the historic files of the Disclosure Project and how UFO secrecy has been ruthlessly enforced-and why. The best evidence for extraterrestrial contact, dating back decades, is presented with direct top-s...

Original title

Unacknowledged

Year

2017
- Documentary
- documentary
- mystery
- fantasy
- science fiction
14:46 54 min
Unacknowledged: An Exposé of the Greatest Secret in Human History
”Unacknowledged” focuses on the historic files of the Disclosure Project and how UFO secrecy has been ruthlessly enforced-and why. The best evidence for extraterrestrial contact, dating back decades, is presented with direct top-s...

Original title

Unacknowledged

Year

2017
- Documentary
- documentary
- mystery
- fantasy
- science fiction
15:40 45 min
S1E5 - The Machines That Built The World
In the 1870s, when Western Union offers a cash prize to anyone who can improve its network, two daring inventors go head-to-head in a fight that will forever change the way humans connect.

Original title

S1E5 - The Machines That Built America

Year

2021

Rated 10+

10+
- Documentary
- history
16:25 1h

Are You Racist

Rated 10+

10+
17:25 1h 5m
S2E3 - James May’s Man Lab
James May and the Man Lab crew set out build, solve, invent and generally do manly things.

Original title

S2E3 - James Mays Man Lab

Year

2010
- Documentary
18:30 1h
S1E3 - Twice Born: Stories from the Special Delivery Unit
This three-part miniseries steps inside the ground-breaking medical frontier of fetal surgery with an intimate look at The Special Delivery Unit at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where a courageous group of doctors and their patients take on the challenges of operations done on babies still inside their mother’s wombs. With exclusive access to this elite unit, the film captures rarely-seen, real-time footage of fetal operations. Meet expecting parents as they face gut-wrenching decisions: should they take a leap of faith to repair birth defects with prenatal surgery, even if it means they might lose their child? And, hear first hand from the unusual team of doctors who have defied skeptics and chosen to pursue this high-risk, high-reward career path.

Original title

S1E3 - Twice Born Stories From The Special Delivery Unit

Year

2015

Rated 15+

15+
- Documentary
- documentary
19:30 1h 35m
Woman in Motion
Nichelle Nichols’ daunting task to launch a national blitz for NASA, recruiting 8,000 of the nation’s best and brightest, including the trailblazing astronauts who became the first African American, Asian and Latino men and women to fly in space.

Year

2019
- Documentary
- biography
21:05 55 min

Tsunami Race Against Time
22:00 30 min
S1E3 - Ingenious Minds
Genius can be both a blessing and a curse. This real-life exploration into the world of exceptional yet troubled individuals will ask the question, ”How do they do it?” and through cutting-edge neuroscience attempt to find the answers. Individuals such as Temple Grandin, George Widener and Alonzo Clemens inspire the world with their unique abilities, but sometimes at the cost of their own personal happiness. Scientists will embark on a journey towards understanding the underlying brain mechanisms that can give rise to their remarkable gifts despite significant neurological dysfunction. Each episode we will meet a uniquely talented individual living with some chronic disability whose daily life can either be awe-inspiring or crippling at any given moment.

Year

2011

Rated 10+

10+
- Series
22:30 55 min
S1E3 - Top Shot
Sixteen marksmen with various specialties and in various lines of work come together for a season long competition. They compete in both team and head-to-head competitions with a wide variety of modern and historical weapons. One shooter is eliminated from the competition in each program.

Original title

S1E3 - Top Shot - Archer Enemies

Year

2010

Rated 10+

10+
- reality show
- other sports
23:25 1h
S2E11 - Megastructures
An enormous project is underway in the Arabian Gulf that will literally change the face of the coastline. It’s so vast it can be seen from space. Large artificial islands are being constructed and fashioned in the shape of massive palm trees. An ambitious engineering feat, it’s part of an even bigger plan to transform Dubai into one of the world’s premiere tourist destinations. Megastructures tells the story of the race to build this new engineering feat.

Year

2005
- Documentary
- technologies