Professor Jim Al-Khalili's programmes are always worth watching, and not just to encourage the idea of having documentaries presented by people who know their subject.
Alongside the coverage of high-ranking officials praying at his coffin on Sunday, television documentaries presented Mr. Suharto to the nation in a way that he had not been seen for a decade.
Sadly, like most of the programmes made for the BBC's Dylan Thomas season, which include excellent documentaries presented by poets Owen Sheers and Benjamin Zephaniah, it has not been networked nationally, although there are plans to show the season on BBC4.
That tough, unsentimental aesthetic — versions of which can be seen in films by Mr. Puiu and Mr. Muntean — may be a dominant national, generational style, but the diversity of features, shorts and documentaries presented by "A New Beginning" shows great range and variety as well.
This weekend features two documentaries, presented with the festival Doc NYC: on Saturday at 11 30 a.m., "Turtle: The Incredible Journey," to be shown for the first time in 3-D, chronicles the life of a loggerhead turtle from birth through a 6,000-mile 6,000-mile
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