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Travel Docos

Along with the Lonely Planets and Pilot Guides there are a few more personal journeys in this collection too. Billy Crystal visits Moscow, Ruby Wax hangs out in Miami, Billy Connolly shows us Scotland and Michael Palin goes all over the place. Put on your loudest Hawaiian shirt and kick off your Birkenstocks, this is travelling the cheap way. Bon Voyage. Pictured: Michael Palin visits Ancient Rome

The Moaning of Life (2013)

8.2/10
Starring: Karl Pilkington, John Montgomery

As if being sent around the world three times already by Ricky Gervais in An Idiot Abroad wasn't enough, everyone's favourite 'round-headed buffoon' i... Read more

The Real New Zealand (1997)

Director: Shirley Horrocks

An entertaining look at New Zealand through the eyes of international tourists who choose to move out of their comfort zones and stay in local homes r... Read more

The Story of India (2007)

8.6/10
Starring: Michael Wood

A six-part BBC series with engaging historian Michael Wood taking a fascinating look at the 10,000-year history of the Indian sub-continent. A colourf... Read more

The Trail of Genghis Khan (2010)

8.3/10
Director: Tim Cope
Starring: Tim Cope

For young Australian adventurer Tim Cope, this was the journey of a lifetime - travelling 10,000kms alone on horseback across the Eurasian steppe thro... Read more

The Wonder of Britain (2015)

Despite being a small nation at just 93,000 square miles (or roughly one third of the size of the state of Texas) Great Britain is blessed with an inc... Read more

This Is New Zealand (1970)

Director: Hugh Macdonald

Directed by Hugh Macdonald, "This Is New Zealand" was made to promote the country at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. An ambitious concept saw iconic NZ imag... Read more

Treasures of the Silk Road: Mysteries of the Taklamakan (2005)

Director: Serge Tigneres

Along the border between central Asia and India, behind the high Pamir and Tien Shan mountain chains, the Silk Road arrives at an immense basin formin... Read more

Up the Yangtze (2007)

7.5/10
Director: Yung Chang

In China, it is simply known as 'The River'. But the Yangtze (and all of the life that surrounds it), is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation... Read more

Victoria's Empire (2009)

7.7/10
Starring: Victoria Wood

Humorous and grave in equal measures, her epic journey takes us on a breathtaking tour of the old Empire beginning in India and continuing through Hon... Read more

Wainwright Walks: Coast to Coast (2009)

8.6/10
Starring: Julia Bradbury

Having completed his Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, Alfred Wainwright became obsessed with finding the perfect route across the north of Engl... Read more