It's a year that many have prophesied will bring a catastrophic end to life as we know it. Whate...
Nostradamus 2012
It's a year that many have prophesied will bring a catastrophic end to life as we know it. Whate...
Gypsy Child Thieves
With extraordinary access to the closed world of Europe's Gypsies, as well as dramatic covert fo...
2012 Apocalypse
December 21, 2012. Doomsday fanatics claim that this is when life on Earth will come to an end. But ...
Travels to the Edge With Art Wolfe - The Southern Ocean, South Georgia Island
Lying between wind-ravaged Cape Horn and Antarctica, South Georgia Island is an icy oasis with an ab...
Travels to the Edge With Art Wolfe - Antarctica and the Falkland Islands
It is spring on the Antarctic Peninsula and the frozen wilderness is a veritable nursery for penguin...
The American Dream - A case against the Federal Reserve system
The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you've been scammed by the mo...
Andes: The Dragon's Back
With glaciers marking its tip, active volcanoes running along its spine, snow-capped peaks rising hi...
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe is a 1966 American documentary film chronicling the life and career of ...
The Pink Floyd Story
Over 40 years after Britain's foremost 'underground' band released their debut album Pip...
Facing the Fat
Obesity has become one of the most overwhelming diseases in our modern society, even now considered ...
Conspiracy Theory - Mysteries of The Freemasons
They claim they're merely a civic-minded fraternity, bound together by harmless rituals. But thr...
Cuba: Wild Island of the Caribbean
Cuba’s political and economic isolation has provided the outside world little opportunity to see its...
Is That Skunk
Both anJerry Dragoo shows off some cute skunk kits. Newborn skunk babies have markings on naked skin...
Parrots in the Land of Oz
For tens of millions of years, parrots have survived and thrived in Australia even as the continent ...
A Bengal Tigers Motherly Love
Bengal tigers living in the forests of India are rarely seen, but we succeeded in filming a female t...
Why do viruses kill
Just months ago, the world stood in fear of an emerging new disease that threatened to kill millions...
Bermuda Triangle
Since the 15th century, the Bermuda Triangle has mysteriously vanished an untold number of ships, pl...
Life After People: The Bodies Left Behind
What if every human being on earth disappeared? This isn't the story of how we might vanish--it ...
Life After People: Outbreak
Pigs break loose, rabies spreads, and the Chicago river reverses. Also, the fate of Big Ben, the Que...
Life After People: The capital retreat
Nature attacks Washington DC and Los Angeles. The fate of the Constitution and other monuments. Wilt...
Life After People: Heavy metal
Once people disappear, New York City experiences its next great crash. In this episode, we reveal th...
Life After People: The Invaders
In a life after people, invasive animals and vines spread: pythons battle alligators, plants strip o...
Life After People: Bound and buried
The fate of the treasures left entombed, like the mysterious Doomsday Vault, the Mona Lisa, and the ...
Life After People: Sin City Meltdown
The apocalyptic future of our gambling meccas. In Las Vegas, a new rat pack takes over, wax figures ...
Life After People: Armed and Defenseless
The fate of mankind's machinery of war: a sunken nuclear missile explodes, Pearl Harbor comes un...
Life After People: Waters of Death
Destructive waters overtake the world we leave behind. Rain floods New Orleans again, and when power...
Getaways: Masai Mara Safari
Thanks to its wildebeests, lions and cheetahs the Mara, Kenya, is the most predator-packed reserve i...
Getaways: Mana Pools Safari
Whether you're on a Zimbabwe family safari or a Zimbabwe honeymoon safari, you'll want to ta...
The Last Day of the Dinosaurs
Take a seat at the heart of the most dramatic event in Earth's history: a fully immersive thrill...
The Holy Grail (2010)
The Holy Grail is a sacred object figuring in literature and certain Christian traditions, most ofte...
The last crusaders
A modern-day warrior, Green Beret Terry Schappert, reveals how 700 Christian soldiers defeated 40,00...
The Killer Wave of 1607
On January 20, 1607 a killer wave struck the counties of the Bristol Channel and flooded miles inlan...
Raging nature tornadoes
Tornadoes analyzes the most destructive tornadoes ever caught on tape. From the 1999 Oklahoma City T...
Kilauea Mountain of Fire
Kilauea's lava flows have created a fertile feeding ground for turtles just offshore. Green sea ...
Clever Monkeys
When monkeys left the forest and began living in open grasslands, they had to adapt. Baboons, for ex...
Yellowstone - Autumn
In late August there are more living things here than at any other time of the year. But winter is a...
Yellowstone - Summer
Summer. As the spring melts the winter snow, the full extent of Yellowstone is gradually revealed. N...
Yellowstone - Winter
In winter, Yellowstone is frozen solid - locked in snow as deep as a house for over six months. As w...
Animal Armageddon - Panic in the Sky
Wildfires, acid rain, earthquakes, global darkness, and snow storms spell death for the dinosaurs du...
Animal Armageddon - Doomsday
An asteroid the size of Mount Everest is about to end the age of the dinosaurs, followed by powerful...
Animal Armageddon - Hell on Earth
A superplume causes increased temperatures worldwide. Fish must either adapt, or die. All of the pla...
Animal Armageddon - Death Rays
A dying star explodes, causing the atmosphere to be destroyed. This wipes out most of the oceans'...
Norway Massacre: The Killer's Mind
The special examines the motives behind and analysis of the shocking attacks that took place Friday ...
Anglo-Saxons
The arrival of the Anglo-Saxons was part of a general movement of Germanic peoples around Europe bet...
How Drugs Work - Cocaine
This episode focuses on cocaine as it uses real life stories and computer graphics to explore inside...
How drugs work - Ecstasy
The series focuses on how ecstasy creates highs and lows in the human body. Cameras follows two rec...
Comet Collision
In July 2005, NASA's Deep Impact probe collided with comet Tempel 1, providing the first-ever gl...
The Gorilla King
In 1974, Dian Fossey and researcher Kelly Stewart witnessed something few have ever seen: a newborn ...
The Battle for Marjah
The Battle for Marjah is an HBO documentary, covering the efforts of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6...
Taboo - Justice
Systems of justice in different cultures are examined. Included: tribal justice in the West African ...
Taboo - Signs of Identity
Profiling young women of Ethiopia's Hamar tribe who voluntarily submit to brutal beatings to sho...
Taboo - Prostitution
Profiling sex workers in Bangladesh, Sydney, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Washington, D.C...
Taboo - Trials of Faith
Exploring how far some people will go to test their faith. Included: Christians who subject themselv...
A look at religions that measure devotion by physical suffering.
Taboo - Extreme Kids
"Extreme Kids" explores child kickboxing matches in Thailand and a self-mutilation ritual ...
Taboo, season 5, episode 14 "Outsiders".
Taboo - Beauty
In a youth-obsessed Western culture, some feel the need to obsessively diet, exercise and partake of...
Weirdest Planets
Launched on March 6th 2009, the Kepler Space Observatory's intended mission was to find life sus...
Complexity - Secret Life of Chaos
Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and scie...
How Science Changed Our World
Professor Robert Winston presents his top ten scientific breakthroughs of the past 50 years. Tracing...
Extraordinary People: The Million Dollar Mind Reader
Derek Ogilvie says he can read the minds of infants who are too young to communicate verbally. Now h...
Curiosity with Stephen Hawking, Did God Create the Universe?
Amazing documentary hosted by Stephen Hawking asking the key question so many people have wondered s...
Ultimate Journeys Vietnam
'Ultimate Journeys' brings the wonders of the world to light, as you have never seen them be...
White Falcon, White Wolf
Extending above the Arctic Circle in the far north of Canada, Ellesmere Island is one of largest unt...
Australia - Land of Parrots
Parrots and cockatoos are the most conspicuous birds in Australia. They're everywhere, and often...
Atlas India Revealed
Explore the culture, beauty and diversity that comprise India. Discovery Atlas: India Revealed prese...
Birds of Paradise
Living in the depths of the New Guinea rainforest are the spectacular birds of paradise - creatures ...
Alien Insects: Praying Mantis
Praying mantids are large insects, from one to three inches long, with a distinctive appearance. Dep...
Human Planet: Rivers
Humans have always been drawn to rivers. They flow through every environment on earth, bringing us m...
Human planet: Jungles
Tropical rainforests may cover only two per cent of the planet’s surface but they’re home to half of...
Oceans: Atlantic Ocean
The team explores a corner of the Atlantic Ocean. This ocean is the youngest of the great oceans and...
Oceans: Indian Ocean
In the first of two episodes in the rich tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the team explores its ...
Oceans: Arctic Ocean
The team ventures into one of the world's most hostile environments, the Arctic Ocean, which pla...
Oceans: Mediterranean Sea
The team embarks on an expedition to explore the profound effect that man is having on the Mediterra...
The Medieval Mind: How To Build A Cathedral
The great cathedrals were engineering marvels of the medieval world built with not much more than pu...
Nature - White Shark - Red Triangle
Each year, in the late summer, a region known as the Red Triangle bustles with marine mammal activit...
Nature - Turtles and Tortoises
A turtle’s shell is among the most peculiar but successful pieces of design in the natural world. Un...
Nature - The Secret World of Sharks and Rays
Woldwide, there are more than 370 species of sharks, which vary greatly in size, shape, preferred ha...
Nature - Silent Roar: Searching for the Snow Leapard
Only a privileged few have ever seen a snow leopard, the powerful and mysterious predator of the Him...
Nature - Jaguar Year of the Cat
The most powerful jungle cat in the America's, and the living symbol of the gods for the Mayans,...
Nature - Alligators & Crocodiles
With guidance from leading experts on Alligators and Crocodiles, the first episode reveals that the ...
Nature - Sharkland
The waters off the tip of Southern Africa are a haven for sharks. Roughly 140 different species inha...
Nature - Raptor Force
Humans have had a unique relationship with raptors, nature’s aerial killing machines, for more than ...
Nature - Supersize Crocs
Gigantic crocodiles,some known to exceed 20 feet, are very, very rare, but still out there in the wi...
The Devil's Bible
It's a mysterious book that in its day was believed to contain all human knowledge. But why did ...
Lost Worlds - Braveheart's Scotland
Scotland in the time of 13th-century Scottish knight William Wallace is re-created. Included: the to...
Lost Worlds - The Real Dracula
Re-creating places and structures associated with 15th-century Romanian prince Vlad Tepes Dracula. I...
Lost Worlds - Churchill's Secret Bunkers
Re-creating underground bunkers in London used by Winston Churchill during World War II for safety a...
Lost Worlds - Jesus' Jerusalem
Jerusalem in Jesus's time is re-created. Included: Herod's Temple Mount; and the Via Doloros...
Lost Worlds - Hitler's Supercity
Plans and the ruins of structures created by Hitler's architect Albert Speer are used to re-crea...
Lost Worlds - Secret Cities of the A-Bomb
A team of field investigators uncovers the clues that will recreate vanished or hidden worlds. They ...
Lost Worlds - Athens - Ancient Supercity
A team of field investigators uncovers the clues that will recreate vanished or hidden worlds. They ...
Lost Worlds - Ramses' Egyptian Empire
The mighty Egyptian civilization is in its golden age. Its ruler is Ramses II, a man who intends to ...
Lost Worlds - Knights Templar
The Knights Templar defended the Holy Land through bloodshed and prayer. Founded in the 12th century...
Lost Worlds - Atlantis
A team of field investigators uncovers the clues that will recreate vanished or hidden worlds. They ...
The Minotaur's Island
Before Crete collapsed in fire and violence, it boasted an advanced, prosperous Mediterranean civili...
Blood of the Vikings (full documentary)
Blood of the Vikings was a 5 part 2001 BBC Television documentary series that traced the legacy of t...
Last Stand of the 300
In the year 480 B.C., the Greeks and the Persians fight one of the most famous battles in history at...
Gangland - The Assassins
Logan Heights is the most notorious Hispanic street gang in San Diego. With over 400 soldiers, the g...
9/11: After the Towers Fell
9/11: After The Towers Fell is the definitive look at the aftermath of 9/11. The most devastating te...
Stone Age Apocalypse
Human evolution is believed to have begun some six million years ago. Despite the passage of so much...
Boy Interrupted (2008)
Boy Interrupted is a film that raises questions. It asks how a young boy can end his life at the ten...
My Flesh and Blood
Documentary following Susan Tom of Fairfield, California and her 11 adopted special needs children. ...
Atlantis - End of a World, Birth of a Legend
This drama-documentary tells the dramatic story of the greatest natural disaster to shake the ancien...
Black Holes
Black holes are one of the most destructive forces in the universe, capable of tearing a planet apar...
Dinosaur Revolution - The Watering Hole
This episode transports us to the town of Lourinha, Portugal, where the largest concentration of fos...
Dinosaur Revolution - Evolution's Winners
This episode highlights new discoveries that shed light on the evolution from early dinosaurs such a...
Evolve - Size
SIZE: How do we measure up? Understand the amazing processes that gave us vertebrates smaller than a...
Evolve - Shape
Living organisms have entered into a battle for survival for hundreds of millions of years and the p...
Evolve - Sex
Sex is a necessity for most species to survive. As evolution continues, are we approaching a time wh...
Evolve - Jaws
Get ready to pry open some of the deadliest jaws on the planet as we expose this fierce and ferociou...
Evolve - Guts
It doesn’t just take willpower to survive. It takes guts. Life needs energy to exist and almost all ...
Evolve - Communication
Communication isn’t just the key to a good relationship; it also goes a long way toward ensuring the...
Evolve - Flight
Humans have always been fascinated with the one part of the world that we could not conquer- the sky...
Evolve - Eyes
They are one of evolution’s most useful and prevalent inventions. Ninety five percent of living spec...
Evolve - Venom
The deadliest natural weapon employed in the animal kingdom, venom has independently evolved in crea...
Inside the Nuclear Threat
What could we do if we had evidence terrorists were close to acquiring nuclear weapons, or even maki...
Evolve - Speed
Speed, the ability to react and move can often mean the difference between life and death in the ani...
Evolve - Skin
It makes up 16% of your body weight, is the largest organ in the human body, allows birds to fly, ma...
Bin Laden's spy in America
Find out how a master spy for Egyptian Islamic Jihad and al Qaeda managed to "triple cross"...
100 Greatest Discoveries: Genetics
Thirteen vital contributions to a field tht is now a cornerstone of the life sciences: -Gregor Mende...
History Channel documentary series "Ancient Aliens".
Bulgaria's Abandoned Children Revisted (2009)
In 2007 the BBC documentary film Bulgaria's Abandoned Children caused an international outcry be...
Mystery Of The Human Hobbit
On the far-flung island of Flores, in the Indonesian archipelago, a team of archaeologists happened ...
Aftermath: Population Zero
Imagine if one minute from now, every single person on Earth disappeared. All 6.6 billion of us. Wha...
Genghis Khan
Always strike first and always take revenge. Genghis Khan learnt these lessons the hard way during a...
Brain Story - The Final Mystery
How do our brains generate consciousness? We take it for granted that the brain makes being alive fe...
Brain Story - Growing the Mind
The changes in the brain during the growth and development of a baby into an adult are explored in t...
Brain Story - First Among Equals
What is it about brains that has put us in charge of the planet? Where have humans' unique lingu...
Brain Story - In the Heat of the Moment
Professor Greenfield explores the complicated origins of human emotions in this programme. She asks ...
Brain Story - All in the Mind
The story of how science has begun to understand the astonishing complexity of the brain is revealed...
Growing Up Tiger
At the Tiger Creek Wildlife Refuge in Texas, meet the founders of this home for more than 30 great c...
Man vs. Wild - Land of the Maori
Over 100 people drown each year in New Zealand, and Bear must cross a raging river on a tree trunk t...
Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy (1998)
Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy is a documentary on how Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime made use of a...
NY Ink - Last Man Standing
Ami reaches his breaking point with Chris, Megan finds herself caught in the middle, and the future ...
NY Ink - Roosters and Romance
Ami's business stalls, and seems to be on the brink. Meanwhile, Chris's attitude goes cold, ...
NY Ink - Think Again
After skipping out on her duties to work a magazine photo shoot, Jessica reevaluates her position at...
NY Ink - Out of the Box
When Ami's realizes his shop isn't doing as well as he had hoped, shop manager Jessica tries...
NY Ink - Blood Is Thicker Than Ink
Ami's apprentice and best friend, Billy is reaching his breaking point at the shop especially wh...
NY Ink - Dis-Appointment
Megan's partying the night before is affecting her work, making her miss a scheduled client and ...
NY Ynk - The Gloves Are Off
With the shop's rough opening week, Chris is causing problems with the shop managers and tattoo ...
NY Ink - Back in the New York Groove
In the series premiere, former Miami Ink tattoo artist Ami James returns to New York to fulfill his ...
LA Ink - Photo Finish
Kat Von D's stress levels reach an all-time high as she must complete a photo shoot in time to showcase her new clothing line to prestig...
LA Ink - Tats for Japan
Kat and the crew decide to throw a benefit for the earthquake victims in Japan, but find out High Vo...
LA Ink - Addicted
Kat uncovers Arianna's dark secret, when it becomes a matter of life and death. Meanwhile, Dan p...
LA Ink - Kat's New Roomate
While balancing a long distance relationship with her fiancé Jesse James, Kat decides to design her ...
LA Ink - Kat & Jesse in Baja
Kat accompanies Jesse to her birthplace in Mexico for arduous off-road in Baja 500 race and the trip...
LA Ink - New Beginnings
In the last 9 months, Kat has had a successful gallery opening, a whirlwind book tour, survived a de...
LA Ink - Kat's Gnarly Day
Kat invites her father to visit the shop and nothing goes down as planned. When she's five hours...
LA Ink - Corey's Vasectomy
Corey contemplates getting a vasectomy, but it's a tougher decision then he thought it would be....
LA Ink - Master Cleanse
Kat's overworked and tired, so Kim suggests that they both do a cleanse. Kat raises the stakes b...
LA Ink - Boobs Rule
While bathing suit shopping with Pixie, Kat learns her recent weight loss has changed more than her ...
LA Ink - LA Ink Grand Opening
LA Ink is open for business and Kat Von D and her crew celebrate with a huge rock n roll bash! It...
LA Ink - Nowhere to Work
Kat's nailed down her dream team, but the shop's not ready when Hannah and Kim arrive to wor...
LA Ink - Welcome Home Kat
Tatoo artist Kat Von D returns to her hometown of Los Angeles, California to finally open her own ta...
The Last Lioness
Fifty years ago there were close to half-a-million lions in Africa. Today there are around 20,000. T...
Finding Atlantis
Could the fabled lost city of Atlantis have been located? Using satellite photography, ground-penetr...
Mythbusters - Mission Impossible Face Off
First up, Adam and Jamie question whether realistic facial masks could be used to thwart security, a...
Mythbusters - Salsa Escape
Adam and Jamie go head to head in a madcap Mexican jailbreak as they taste-test the theory of the Sa...
Mythbusters - Running On Water
Can a combination of footwear and technique allow a person to run on water? Can a person survive an...
Mythbusters - Storm Chasing Myths
This special episode of MythBusters is quite literally a perfect storm. That’s because Adam and Jami...
Deadly Women - Mothers Who Kill
We want to believe that all women would give their lives to protect their children. What would drive...
Deadly Women - To Love and to Murder
Marriage is a lifelong commitment of love, and wedding vows. 'To have and to hold; for better, f...
Deadly Women - Fatal Obsession
These deadly women were consumed by obsessions that overtook their minds and their lives. These are ...
Deadly Women - Lethal Vengeance
Revenge is one of the oldest motives for murder. But these cases are much more than an "eye for...
Deadly Women - In Cold Blood
The heaviest judgments on convicted killers are reserved for those who premeditate murder. These wom...
Deadly Women - Blood for Money
Money is the driving force behind many crimes, especially murder. These women would stop at nothing ...
Deadly Women - Young Blood
Sometimes the innocence of childhood is swept away by dark thoughts and violent currents. In a child...
Deadly Women - Lethal Lovers
Psychopathic killers lurk in society, mostly acting alone. Sometimes fate brings them into contact w...
Deadly Women - Fortune Hunters
Greed is one of the oldest motives for murder, and these deadly women are no exception. They’ll do a...
Titanic: Untold Stories (1998)
Using actual recordings of survivors, the story of Titanic is once again told in this emotional docu...
Friday (1995)
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoki...
Extreme Engineering: Tokyo's Sky City
The metropolis of Tokyo, teeming with residents and workers, has long surpassed its maximum density....
Extreme Engineering: Tunneling Under the Alps
Climbing the Swiss Alps is an impressive feat -- but it's nothing compared with digging a 35-mil...
Extreme Engineering: Boston's Big Dig
The brains and brawn behind Beantown's "Big Dig" project struggle to keep themselves a...
Extreme Engineering: Widening the Panama Canal
After almost 100 years of connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Panama Canal must be expan...
Extreme Engineering: Subways in America
Gothamites who travel on the subway beneath New York City every day have long taken the mass transit...
Extreme Engineering: Transatlantic Tunnel
Though the massive railway project envisioned by engineers in this Discovery Channel documentary may...
Extreme Engineering: City in a Pyramid
Tokyo is one of the most crowded cities in the world. To relieve the stress on a city bursting at th...
Extreme Engineering: Building Hong Kong's Airport
Hong Kong's explosion in popularity forced the cosmopolitan city to erect a new airport. Facing ...
Extreme Engineering: Holland's Barriers to the Sea
The Delta Works, a series of massive, computer-controlled sea barriers and dams, straddle each of th...
Extreme Engineering: Bridging The Bering Strait
Highly skilled engineers and visionary architects take on a challenge of gargantuan proportions with...
Extreme Engineering: Excavators
At the world’s largest open pit iron mine, a $10 million new, custom-built super shovel is commissio...
Extreme Engineering: Venice Flood Gates
The rising Adriatic Sea threatens to flood Venice, Italy. With the city's fate hanging in the ba...
Extreme Engineering: Off-shore Oil Platforms
America runs on oil. One-third of that oil gets pumped from wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico. Fol...
Extreme Engineering: Cooper River Bridge
Charleston, South Carolina, is the construction site of the longest cable-stay bridge in America. It...
Extreme Engineering: Arctic Gas Processing Platform
Built in southern Spain, Snohvit is a massive, floating liquefied natural gas plant the size of two ...
Extreme Engineering: Turning Torso
Working against harsh Swedish winters, designers and visionaries set out to develop the tallest skys...
Achieving the Unachievable
M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective w...
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