Mumbai: Discovery Plus, India’s first aggregated real-life entertainment streaming app, is all set to offer unlimited entertainment to its users this festive season, as it premieres 55 brand new shows across genres ranging from war, history, adventure, food, sports, science, crime and more, this November. The fastest growing streaming platform offers thousands of hours of exclusive content across 40+ genres including Science, Adventure, Military, Survival, Food and Lifestyle.
This November, Discovery Plus presents a festival bonanza for its passionate communities, with exciting titles like India: The Forgotten Army, Gordon’s Great Escape, The Indian Dream Hotel, Hitler’s Money Trail, Everest’s Greatest Mystery, Amma & Appa, Leaving Neverland,and 28 new BBC titles including Churchill’s Desert War – The Road to El Alamein, Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur, Steve Jobs – Billion Dollar Hippy, How To Go To War, Secrets of SAS- In Their Own Words, Food- Delicious Science and I survived a Fatal Flightamongst others.
Highlights:
- India: The Forgotten Army
India: The Forgotten Army is a special on World War 1. The documentary focusses on the often-overlooked contribution of Indian Soldiers in World War 1 and features experts including Dr. Shashi Tharoor- Former Minister of External Affairs, India, Tony McClenaghan- Military Hostorian, England, Dr. Santanu Das- Professor of English Literature, King’s College London amongst others.
Streaming now on the app.
- The Indian Dream Hotel
Expanding the lifestyle and travel genre on Discovery Plus, The Indian Dream Hotel is an interesting and rather funny non-fiction series, inspired by the Dev Patel film ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’.
Premiere Date: 16th November 2020
- Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy:
Evan Davis decodes the formula that took Apple from suburban Californian garage to global supremacy, telling the story of Steve Jobs’s rise, fall and triumphant rise again.
Premiere Date-: 9th November 2020
- Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
Sir David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery in Argentina of the largest animal to ever walk the earth, a new species of the plant-eating titanosaur.
Premiere Date-: 9th November 2020
- Gordon’s Great Escape
Following the success of Hell’s Kitchen, Gordon Ramsay is back with Gordon’s Great Escape, a three part food travel series that sees Gordon sample India’s best fare, with varying effects on his untrained digestive system.
Premiere Date-: 9th November 2020
- Leaving Neverland
When allegations of sexual abuse by Michael Jackson involving young boys surfaced in 1993, many found it hard to believe that he could be guilty of such unspeakable acts. Filmmaker Dan Reed’s Emmy winning two-part documentary film ‘Leaving Neverland’ explores the separate but parallel experiences of two young boys, James “Jimmy” Safechuck, at age 10, and Wade Robson, at age 7, who were both befriended by the star.
Premiere Date-: 16th November 2020
- Amma & Appa:
This exciting documentary film explores the clash of cultures when a German girl decides to marry a Tamilian boy. Amma & Appa tells the story of an Indian groom’s family meeting his German bride’s parents for the first time
Premiere Date: 23rd November 2020
