Filthy Cities

It stinks to be Dan Snow in `Filthy Cities', a three-part documentary in which the historian sniffs out the murky pasts of London, Paris and New York. With the help of hands-on demonstrations, stunts and state-of-the-art CGI, Snow gets down and dirty as a medieval muckraker, tans leather by 18th-century methods using dog excrement and urine, and learns about deadly parasites that thrived in the slums of 1800s Manhattan. … MORE