3 Documentaries - 76 mins total
Audience - General
Classification - Exempt
Region - 0
Format - PAL
Language - English

Product weight 120g

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Lawrence of Arabia

TE Lawrence was probably one of the greatest adventurers of the great War and was immortalised in film by Peter O'Toole. But what was the true story behind this man who helped liberate the Arabs from the Turks? This documentary contains rare footage of Lawrence of Arabia riding with King Faisal at their triumphant arrival into Damascus.

The Elusive Treasure

Howard Carter had searched for nearly twenty years to locate Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Undeterred by the great War and the ancient Egyptian curse, he finally discovered the tomb in 1922 with the royal seal still intact. It was one of the greatest archaeological finds of the century and new footage of the discovery has been unearthed. The curious events and deaths that were to followed the tomb's opening are also recaptured - did the Pharaoh's curse exist?

Captain Courageous

Danish Captain Henrik Kurt Carlsen was given the name 'Captain Stay-put' by the press in 1952 when his ship, 'The Flying Enterprise' rolled on her side and couldn't right itself. Making sure that the passengers were taken off, he stayed on board his ship as rescue efforts to tow him into Falmouth filed. Captain Carlsen only jumped off the ship at the last moment before it sank and was rescued by the Turmoil.

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