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- Explore how opportunistic smuggling networks in Latin America turned into powerful and ruthless drug cartels with unprecedented power.
- Aimed at the adventure seeker, Departures is an action-packed and personal journey about two travelers. Scott Wilson and Justin Lukach leave their lives behind in search of unique experiences through some of the most beautiful and remote places on earth. From epic landscapes and unforgettable culture, to the often trying times that come with international travel, the series chronicles the unforgettable friendships, personal successes and sometimes crushing disappointments that befall them on their journey. Accompanied by their friend and cameraman, Andre Dupuis, Departures showcases the revelations of two travelers who strive to find themselves and new perspectives while trekking across the globe. Departures is as much about the journey as it is the destination. No prizes, no contests, just real life and real travel.
- A drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.
- Documents the 9 month journey from conception to birth with images taken inside the womb. New photographic and camera techniques allow the viewer to see previously unknown images concerning a time we all go through.
- Follow the team of Coastguards operating around Curacao, Aruba and St. Martin. They work hard daily to fight drug trafficking, prevent illegal immigration and manage numerous rescue missions, with support from the Dutch Royal Navy and US Coastguard.
- In 2009, just two minutes into US Airways flight 1549, a flock of birds struck the plane taking out both engines. With no power, the Captain decided to attempt the near impossible - to land it in New York's Hudson River.
- Each episode explores the engineering breakthroughs that have enabled us to develop the largest structures currently in existence. This is done by presenting multiple landmark inventions.
- American documentary television series. Produced in conjunction with the National Geographic Channel, the series examines various disasters or violent incidents. It replaced Seconds From Disaster, a similar program with a more forensic approach.
- Great Migrations takes viewers on the epic journeys animals undertake to ensure the survival of their species.
- Explorer Hazen Audel journeys to the world's most inhospitable places to learn survival skills that have kept tribal people alive for thousands of years. He has a week to study before taking on tribal challenges that will force him to the very limit.
- Could any of the Romanov family have survived or escaped their prison in remotest Russia in 1917? This programme explores the latest science and newly-discovered documents behind one of history's greatest mysteries.
- Witness some of the most daring air rescue missions of the last half-century, featuring old, single-engine warhorses and high-tech wonders of ingenuity and design.
- A team of experts must deliver an oversized object from point A to point B within the given timelimit.
- National Geogenius was a quiz show made by the National Geographic channel in the UK. It ran for 2 series in 2001 and 2002. At the start of the show a route around the globe was shown on a CGI globe. Throughout the episode contestants would answer questions relating to the route followed around the CGI globe. The 4 initial contestants were whittled down to 2 for a final round. The winner being either the player with the most points when the time ran out, or the first player to have answered enough questions to complete a circumnavigation of the globe. Winners had their points converted into air miles and progressed to a semi-final and then a final. The series champion won enough air miles for a trip around the world.
- Reputed as one of Africa's deadliest animals, buffalo are one of the fiercest and most powerful members of the Big 5. Their volatile tempers and tendency to charge and gore their opponents with their enormous horns ensures that few predators will take them on. Even lions, Africa's most notorious predators, scatter before their hooves! But there is a greater threat than predators facing the buffalo herds.... Two years ago they might have gored him; now they eat out of his hands. Lindsay Hunt has wound his way deep into the buffalo world, to earn the trust of one of Africa's most fearsome beasts. In the face of devastating disease epidemics, he has devoted his life to fighting for the buffalo on every front. Lindsay Hunt is the 'Buffalo Warrior.'
- The first ever documentary film to give the viewer the real inside story on the controversial profession of Bounty Hunting. Narrated by Val Kilmer, the film follows the life of "World Famous Bounty hunter" Leonard Padilla and Robert Dick.
- An age-old question among military personnel: which branch is the best? Operation Trident Fury was a gathering of powerful military forces for a live fire exercise off the Pacific coast. Weapons systems are pushed to the limit with the goal of sinking the destroyer, HMCS Huron. Watch the fierce competition from air and naval forces as they compete to deal the fatal blow, and Sink the Destroyer.
- Filmed over the course of two decades, this beautiful portrait of North America's Pacific Coast will show off its abundance of marine life. But it wasn't always so. The richly illustrated action sequences of whales, seals, dolphins, sharks, sea otters and seabirds combine to make this an unforgettable and inspirational story.
- An in-depth look at the undersea life of dolphins, and a short documentary proving that dolphins are found to recognise people and sounds, even after 20 years.
- Livres no Rio de Janeiro accompanies a team that handles with the rescue, rehabilitation and release of animals.
- The films follow Anthropologist Dr. Luisa Elvira as she investigates the little-known, exotic and dramatic indigenous sports of Latin America. Travelling from rural Mexico to the Peruvian Andes, and from the Brazilian Mato Grosso to the shanty towns of Bahia, the films explore the richness of ancient Latin American culture and traditions.
- Roxanna was born in London to parents Aladin and Rebecca. Roxanna's grandparents experienced safe haven in Britain respectively during the Bangladesh Indepence war and the Nazi persecution of Jews. Aladin's parents are of South Asian and Middle Eastern origin whereas Rebbecca's mother is of European Jewish origin. The documentary incorporates specially commissioned animation to dramatize the biographies of Roxanna's grandparents and also mixes archive film with personal materials from the two families. The contemporary film footage is of Roxanna, her parents and grandparents.
- The world famous Little Penguins of Australia's Phillip Island entertain over half a million tourists a year with a sunset parade from the surf to their burrows. But behind the scenes the penguins lives are even more interesting.
- The Adventurist is a six-part series featuring the youngest man to ever climb all seven summits, Joby Ogywn. At each location, Joby learns a new, dangerous skill and must perform it at a high level after only a week of instruction.
- A Sudanese refuge living in Canada disovers that he's become the King of his tribe in the South of Sudan, setting him on a journey in which he is torn between his new duties and getting his refugee family to Canada.
- One in three of us will get cancer at some stage in our lives. From the moment of diagnosis, the common cry is, 'why me?' We blame our genes, our environment and our lifestyle, but could we be overlooking another crucial cause of cancer? In Australia, a mysterious cancer cluster has led to an unusual investigation. Sixteen women working in one workplace have developed breast cancer. The majority are young, none have a family history of the disease and no environmental cause has been found for the illness. A team of scientists has begun to investigate if the cause could be a virus. It is a controversial idea, with extraordinary implications. In the United States, researchers are hunting a virus that triggers breast cancer in mice and asking, could it spread to people? In the United Kingdom, childhood leukaemia is under the microscope and infection is the prime suspect. 20% of all cancers worldwide are caused by infections. Now, across the planet, new evidence is emerging that links viruses and bacteria to an increasing number of cancers. Should we be worried? Does this mean we could all 'catch' cancer? In Germany, clever detective work by Prof Harald zur Hansen solved the deadly riddle of viruses causing cervical cancer and, in 2008, won him a Nobel Prize. In the beautiful islands of Vanuatu, a medical revolution is underway - the roll-out of the world's first vaccine specifically engineered to stop a cancer. Featuring world experts, Nobel Laureates and virus hunters on the front line, Catching Cancer is a fast-paced investigation of a provocative idea. Voyaging deep into the mysterious cellular world of cancer, the film demonstrates how cancer begins and what factors rig the 'cancer lottery's' lethal odds. Combining intimate personal stories and intriguing science, Catching Cancer reveals how finding a hidden trigger, such as a virus, is not a reason to panic; it's a reason to celebrate.
- A documentary about the northern Thailand tradition of "fighting" rhinoceros beetles.
- Storm Worlds imagines the unimaginable, taking viewers on a voyage into the heart of extreme alien storms and playing them out on Planet Earth through extraordinary computer animation. Using new scientific discoveries, Storm Worlds unravels the mysterious weather that rages on other planets and wreaks havoc on the Earth. In 'Deadly Dust', a Martian dust storm envelops our entire planet. 'Alien Wind' tracks, in real time, the most extreme storm ever discovered in the Universe, then unleashes it on the Earth. And in 'Cosmic Fire', Earth is hit by a giant storm from the Sun.
- Scientists investigate what their led to believe to be the source of an unknown light that persuaded the Roman Emperor Constantine to convert to Christianity.
- Driving Dreams is about our never-ending love affair with the car. How the car of our dreams is created and marketed; how the modern car travels from the drawing board to the driveway. It's a tale of technology and psychology, hot design versus the bottom line, and a cultural revolution that's shaping a country.
- A profile of National Geographic Photographer Nevada Weir during a five-week first descent of Ethiopia's Blue Nile Gorge.
- 'Amazing Adventures of a Nobody' is a documentary/factual entertainment TV series that follows Leon, the presenter, on his travels around the UK on just 5 pounds a day. The 5 pounds has to cover food, accommodation and travel; the 5 pounds reflecting the average hourly wage according to the Department of Trade and Industry in the U.K. Leon had certain cities he had to pass through and was only ever allowed to stay for 24 hours in each city. The 5 pounds could not roll over and had to be spent, with each morning being presented a new five pound note for each new day. The public could buy him things and he could work for goods, but was never allowed to be given money directly. The results were truly amazing, hence the name, with our "nobody" meeting some fascinating people such as Jack the lobster fisherman in locations as grand as Lord Glasgow's Scottish castle and as beautiful as the Welsh Coast.
- Journeys into the world of cutting-edge architecture in Australia and Asia through the lens of renowned architectural photographer John Gollings.
- Ten part series on terrorism focusing on Islamic extremism from its early roots through the current conflict with the West. Two of the 10 parts are taken from earlier run theatrically released documentary 'Inside 9/11,' screened again with 8 new documentary hours as part of National Geographic "Terrorism Week: Reign of Terror: Al Qaeda and the World Islamic Front for Jihad"