All Seasons

Season 1988

  • S1988E01 People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe

    • January 15, 1988

    You can learn a lot in 20 years--just ask Jane Goodall. She spent much of her life with the chimpanzees of Gombe in Tanzania and changed the way we see these bright, playful animals. Filmmaker Hugo von Lawick followed her progress and shares the fruits of his labor in People of the Forest, an epic look at birth, life, and death in the jungle. The individual personalities of the chimps stand out so clearly it's sometimes a strain to remember these creatures aren't human, and their struggles with other tribes, predators, and the forces of nature are alternately thrilling and heartbreaking. The photography is lush--with 20 years of footage to pick through, it should be--and Donald Sutherland's narration is clear and unobtrusive. People of the Forest lends a strong sense of empathy to the viewers and leaves us with greater respect for our closest cousins. --Rob Lightner

Season 1992

Season 1994

  • S1994E01 Normandy: The Great Crusade

    • Discovery

    Documentary on the World War II invasion of Normandy by the Allies on June 6, 1944 utilizing diaries, personal letters, home movies, snapshots, period music and vintage radio broadcasts and newsreels.

  • S1994E02 Watergate: A Third Rate Burglary

    • August 7, 1994
    • Discovery

    Watergate is a documentary series co-produced by the BBC and Discovery, broadcast in 1994. It was based on the book Watergate: The Corruption and Fall of Richard Nixon, by Fred Emery. The British version was broadcast by the BBC in May 1994, and narrated by Fred Emery. It was broadcast as 5 episodes of 50 minutes each.[1] In the United States, the series premiered on August 7, 1994 and was narrated by Daniel Schorr in 3 parts, with two episodes shown back to back for the first two parts.

  • S1994E03 Watergate: The Conspiracy Crumbles

    • August 8, 1994
    • Discovery

  • S1994E04 Watergate: The Fall of a President

    • August 9, 1994
    • Discovery

  • S1994E05 The Conspiracy of Silence

    • March 5, 1994
    • Discovery

  • S1994E06 Queen of the Elephants

    • March 9, 1994
    • Discovery

    Embark on a 300-mile odyssey by elephant with author Mark Shand and Parbati Barua, India's only female elephant driver and trainer. Barua leads this journey tracing the traditional migratory routes of these endangered animals. It's an extraordinary adventure that explores the dilemmas facing the elephants, and their deeply-rooted significance to the Indian culture.

  • S1994E07 Understanding Viruses

    • November 25, 1994
    • Discovery

    Viruses are pure purpose, things on the very edge of life. We can't taste them, smell them or see them, but they're there: in the air, in the water, in every living thing on the planet. They're the tiniest, simplest forms of life on earth, yet they know ways to enter our bodies, kidnap our cells and outwit our immune defenses. Viruses range from the common cold to HIV to H1N1 and have caused epidemics more decimating than wars. Viruses are old. Some believe they're older than all other forms of life. And they are patient. Without a living cell to invade, they wait in a crystalline form, somewhere between life and death. Some can wait for centuries. Their only goal is to reproduce.

  • S1994E08 Understanding - Magnetism

    • September 11, 1994
    • Discovery

    Without magnetism, we would not have music as we know and experience it today; we would not have computers, motor vehicles, compasses, or MRI scans. Magnetism literally shapes our modern-day world. Learn how magnetic forces were first discovered and how magnetism affects both humans and other animals. Explore the role of magnetism in computers, audio recording, medicine, travel and its importance in your daily life.

Season 1995

  • S1995E01 On Jupiter

    • December 3, 1995
    • Discovery

    This 53 minute program - narrated by actor John Hurt - chronicles the story of Jupiter starting with Galileo Galilei's Jupiter observations in the 1600's through the impacts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy on July 16-22, 1994. Computer animations and information are provided to give the viewer a solid background on the significance of Galileo's encounter with Jupiter. Also featured are interviews with comet discoverers Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy, Caltech planetary scientist Andrew Ingersoll, Galileo Project Manager Bill O'Neil and other members of the Galileo mission team.

  • S1995E02 Wings: Harrier

    • Discovery

    This episode will profile the Harrier, the revolutionary jet that hovers. With a camera mounted in the cockpit Wings viewers will get the pilot’s eye view of vertical landing amongst the trees aboard an aircraft carrier. This program will examine the aircafts role in both the war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands and the Gulf War. But mostly focuses on the view of the AV-8B in the U.S. Marines used in the first Gulf war.

  • S1995E03 Nuremberg: Tyranny on Trial

    • Discovery

    This Emmy-award winning film gives a concise and analytical account of the first Nuremberg Trial and its twelve successors. It explores the trials against the background of the emerging Cold War and the shifting allegiances of former wartime allies and enemies in the immediate post-war period. Original black and white photography shot on location in New York, Washington, London and Nuremberg is combined with unseen archive images and the private photographs of prosecutors and defenders to create a memorable account of the trial of the century.

  • S1995E04 Nile: River of Gods

    • Discovery

    Coursing 4,000 miles through three countries, the Nile River sustains some of the world's richest wildlife habitats and has shaped the ways and beliefs of cultures since the beginning of recorded history. Narrated by Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham, this spectacular film takes you on an odyssey of exploration as you journey down the entire length of the Nile. Nile: River of Gods, an exploration of the Nile, its history and wildlife, is both a journey of discovery from the mountains of Central Africa to the teeming Egyptian Delta, and a voyage through time from the days of the earliest Pharaohs to the present. The life of the great river, depicted on the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs, endures in the customs of the peoples of the Nile even today.

  • S1995E05 Carrier: Fortress at Sea

    • March 29, 1995
    • Discovery

    An in depth look at life aboard an aircraft carrier. Filmed aboard the U.S.S. Carl Vinson (CVN-70) as it embarked on its 6-month mission to enforce the "No-Fly Zone" over Kuwait.

  • S1995E06 Shipwreck: The Mystery Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

    • Discovery

    Documentary re-creating the mysterious sinking of the cargo ship "Edmund Fitzgerald" on November 10, 1975 in Lake Superior. Features dramatic re-enactments of events aboard the doomed ship, and actual live-action footage from a descent to the wreck during the summer of 1995.

  • S1995E07 Forbidden City: The Great Within

    • Discovery

Season 1996

  • S1996E01 Titanic: The Investigation Begins

    • Discovery

  • S1996E02 Atlantis

    • Discovery

    Is "Atlantis: The Evidence" a thinly disguised example of Eurocentrism in the media? Watch Discovery: Atlantis for a more comprehensive view on an age-old debate.

  • S1996E03 Invisible Enemies

    • Discovery

    A nuclear holocaust was our worst fear for decades during the Cold War, but prophets of doom have now raised the specter of a different kind of holocaust, a swift and lethal plague that no vaccine or drug can stop. Is such a nightmare possible? While no scientist believes that entire cities could be wiped out, a menacing threat to human life could infect and wipe out millions around the world. Deadly viruses, bacteria and parasites are returning to haunt us. Every corner of the world is now within reach. Exotic microbes can travel from the heart of Africa to New York City in a single day. In a world of changing climate and surging populations, microbes are finding new openings to infect us and spread, and, we discover, there are many more diseases out there than we have names for.

  • S1996E04 Extreme Machines: Rockets

    • Discovery

    From the liner notes: Extreme Machines is dedicated to finding out how machines work. This program examines the earliest Russian rockets to today's latest American hardware. We take a detailed look at a rocket engine and how it works and look into the uses of rockets from guided missiles to carrying scientific instruments for gathering information in or above the Earth's atmosphere.

  • S1996E05 The Ultimate Guide: T-Rex

    • Discovery

  • S1996E06 Wernher Von Braun: He Conquered Space

    • Discovery

    A look into the life of Wernher von Braun, one of the most important figures in American rocket development. From his boyhood sketches to his design of Hitler's dreaded V-2 rocket to the creation of the rocket that shot American astronauts to the moon, von Braun's inventive genius is explored.

  • S1996E07 Beyond Darwin

    • August 18, 1996
    • Discovery

  • S1996E08 The Leopard Son

    • October 11, 1996
    • Discovery

    The true story of the birth, growth and coming of age of a leopard cub in Africa's Serengeti plain. The journey of "The Leopard Son" begins at his mother's side where he discovers, through play, essential skills for survival in the wild. As it is with humans, there inevitably comes the day when a child must leave his mother to go out on his own. For young leopards, though, it's the parent who makes the final break. Left with a last meal to carry him over the next few days, the leopard son realizes that he must start to make his own kills... or starve. From this point forward, the young leopard is forced to put his skills to the test in order to sustain himself. His attempts to hunt lead him far from home, on and adventurous and sometimes dangerous trip that has much to teach him. After a year of wonderous experiences, the leopard returns to his mother's territory and to the tree he regards as his home. There, life and death on the Serengeti come full circle.

  • S1996E09 Understanding The Universe

    • June 18, 1996
    • Discovery

    The video introduces the concept of the use of different lights from the electromagnetic spectrum (X-ray, infrared, radio waves, etc) as a means of studying those astronomical wonders in other than visible light. A fascinating segment about the missing matter of the universe and its strange manifestation in the universe will tantalize your honors and other students who have an abiding interest in astronomy.

  • S1996E10 Invisible Enemies

    • January 28, 1996
    • Discovery

    A nuclear holocaust was our worst fear for decades during the Cold War, but prophets of doom have now raised the specter of a different kind of holocaust, a swift and lethal plague that no vaccine or drug can stop. Is such a nightmare possible? While no scientist believes that entire cities could be wiped out, a menacing threat to human life could infect and wipe out millions around the world. Deadly viruses, bacteria and parasites are returning to haunt us. Every corner of the world is now within reach. Exotic microbes can travel from the heart of Africa to New York City in a single day. In a world of changing climate and surging populations, microbes are finding new openings to infect us and spread, and, we discover, there are many more diseases out there than we have names for.

Season 1997

  • S1997E01 UFO Down To Earth: Reason To Believe

    • Discovery

  • S1997E02 UFO Down To Earth: Retrieval

    • Discovery

  • S1997E03 UFO Down To Earth: Dreamland

    • Discovery

  • S1997E04 UFO Down To Earth: Great Balls Of Fire

    • Discovery

    Programme investigating whether the experience of alien abduction may simply be a common neurological disturbance in the brain.

  • S1997E05 Our Time in Hell The Korean War Part 1

    • November 16, 1997
    • Discovery

    On 25 June 1950, the North Korean army invaded South Korea, violating a truce struck at the end of World War II, and starting a conflict that would bring the U.S., China, and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. By August 1950, the North Koreans had pushed the ill-prepared American and United Nations forces into a small area around the port city of Pusan. Facing strong opposition from President Truman and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur launched a massive invasion of the port of Inchon and went on to recapture Seoul, turning the tide of the war. When the North Koreans retreated to their homeland, MacArthur followed them, assuring a skeptical Truman that the Chinese would not enter the war. Little did he know that Chairman Mao was sending a quarter-million troops into North Korea to repel the Americans and take the whole peninsula. Our Time in Hell tells the story of the Korean War with newsreels, old footage and extensive interviews with American soldiers.

  • S1997E06 Our Time in Hell The Korean War Part 2

    • Discovery

  • S1997E07 On the Brink: Doomsday

    • Discovery

    Hiroshima. August 6, 1945: the atomic bomb explodes. More than 70,000 dead and many more are wounded. That day, mankind discovers the power of nuclear weapons and it discovers the fear that comes with it too. A few years later the H-Bomb explodes in the Pacific Ocean. The fear and paranoia grow in an alarming way and in the next 50 years, during the Cold War, humanity almost disappears in accidental nuclear apocalypse. In this travel across time military and war experts explain how the human race was very near total extinction by a nuclear holocaust. A danger what still exists today.

  • S1997E08 Area 51: The Real Story

    • Discovery

  • S1997E09 Battleship

    • Discovery

    A history of battleships. Tells the stories of (among others): the Bismarck, the Yamato, the Prince of Wales, the Repulse, and the USS Missouri. Over nearly one hundred year history, no other warships in the world have so distinguished themselves as the battleships. For every nation, they have become the ultimate “Ships of State.” As proud symbols of naval might, as powerful floating fortresses, as the home of a unique community of “Battleship Sailors” and major instruments of national policy in war and peace, battleships remain unique in the annals of naval history. This is the story of the battleship, as a symbol and as a fighting machine. Reinvented again and again.

  • S1997E10 Beyond T-Rex

    • Discovery

  • S1997E11 Wolves at Our Door

    • October 27, 1997
    • Discovery

    Reveals wolves' complex social behavior, including the dominance of the pack's alpha male and the submissiveness of the omega wolf. You'll see the pack initiate new members, and witness the critical moment when the alpha selects a mate.

  • S1997E12 Ultimate Guide: Dogs

    • Discovery

    From the Ultimate Guide series produced by The Discovery Channel, this episode profiles dogs and our best understandings of them. Narrated by Will Lyman.

  • S1997E13 Top Secret: NSA

    • Discovery

  • S1997E14 The Floating Inferno - Yarmouth Castle

    • Discovery

    The Yarmouth Castle embarked on an overnight trip from Miami to the Bahamas every weekend until November 1965 when this mdnight cruise to paradise became a floating inferno that left 87 passengers dead. When a small storeroom fire went undetected, it let to one of the deadliest American shipwrecks since the 1930's. The fire was finally disocvered, but it was too late. Firehoses malfunctioned, radio equipment was destroyed, communication broke down, alarms failed, the captain abandoned ship, passengers panicked. Survivor and crew interviews, thrilling re-enactments, rare film footage, and frightening details reveal the bravery, terror and mystery aboard the Yarmouth Castle.

  • S1997E15 First Alien Encounter

    • November 1, 1997
    • Discovery

    Scientists keep searching for life beyond Earth. What might other life-forms look like? Should there be an official plan in case contact is made?

Season 1998

  • S1998E01 Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster

    • Discovery

    "Titanic - Anatomy of a Disaster" is an original Discovery Channel production that looks into not only the history but the mystery surrounding the sinking of Britain's most luxurious passenger liner. Having assembled a unique investigative team of oceanologists, marine engineers, archaeologists, microbiologists, metallurgists, engineers, writers, historians and movie makers, Discovery Channel spent many months unraveling this mystery. Discover the truth about one of history's greatest disasters. Touted as unsinkable prior to its maiden voyage, the manner in which the Titanic sank has long been a source of debate. Watch as scientists and researchers combine underwater archaeology, forensic science, metallurgy and other disciplines to get to the bottom of this 90-year-old mystery. In the frigid North Atlantic night, on the fourth night of its maiden voyage the "unsinkable" R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg on its starboard side and went down. But exactly how did the vessel sink? This investigation narrated by Martin Sheen, takes you on an extraordinary research and recovery expedition to uncover the truth. In Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster, you'll take part in the first expedition to use science to piece together the the Titanic's final hours. First, follow a group of investigators as they dive to the site and analyze the clues to separate fact from fiction. Then, through dramatic re-enactments, computer animation and other state of the art techniques, see how these scientists faithfully recreate the iceberg damage and the sinking process to discover what might have been done to prevent it.

  • S1998E02 Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy

    • March 10, 1998
    • Discovery

  • S1998E03 In Celebration of Trees

    • Discovery

    Filmed by Emmy Award-winning cinematographer Al Giddings, this timeless program takes a stirring look at the largest, tallest, longest-living things on the planet: trees. Stunning location footage captures the variety and the grandeur of the Pacific Northwest, the Florida Everglades, the Shenandoah Valley, and the Great Sonoran Desert. Quotations from Sierra Club founder John Muir and others who revere nature are interwoven with information on topics ranging from the function of forest ecosystems, to the effects of deforestation, to the integration of parks into urban landscapes.

  • S1998E04 Cleopatra's Palace: In Search of a Legend

    • May 23, 1998
    • Discovery

    Frenchman Franck Goddio leads an underwater 1998 expedition to find the Egyptian queen's home. On the submerged island of Antirhodos, the team also hunts for her temple. Omar Sharif narrates.

  • S1998E05 Lost Treasures of the Yangtze Valley

    • February 24, 1998
    • Discovery

    The first and last encompassing view of the Three Gorges area before it is changed irrevocably, flooded by the building of the Three Gorges Dam in the heart of China. No area of China represents more emotional or historical importance to its people for it was in these gorges and mountains that Chinese life began. The Yangtze River is China's longest river, and the third largest in the world after Nile and Amazon. More commonly known among the Chinese as the Chang Jiang, or the 'long river', the Yangtze is the lifeblood of northern China but also a large, muddy, unpredictable killer. As China constructs the world's largest and most powerful dam on the Yangtze River, scholars and scientists race to uncover and preserve artifacts that tell its story and the story of the people who have lived on its shores for over 50,000 years. This documentary is about the valley's past. Offering glimpses of some of the monuments and archaeological sites that will be drowned when the dam is completed, it focuses on the race to discover more about the Baa civilisation before its ancient homeland is destroyed.

  • S1998E06 Ultrascience: War 2020

    • March 9, 1998
    • Discovery

    A bloodless war could be the product of the new millenium. The military is developing an armory of non-lethal weapons and tactics designed to confuse, immobilize and frighten the enemy. With the spread of computer networks, we increasingly rely on cyberspace to order our world. A war of the future could see nations battling for control of communication systems without dropping a single bomb. This video concludes this picture of the future by gazing forward to a world where war is conducted with psychological weapons and even mass mind control.

  • S1998E07 Pirates

    • Discovery

    Presents the adventures of history's most famous maratime outlaws, including the likes of Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Captain Morgan, and pirate queen Anne Bonny. Features colorful dramatic re-enactments and the insights of scholars.

  • S1998E08 Fireworks

    • Discovery

    Documentary reveals how fireworks are made, how they create their effects and how pyrotechnicians design and execute firework displays.

  • S1998E09 Search for the Sea Serpent

    • Discovery

  • S1998E10 Egypts City of the Dead

    • Discovery

Season 1999

  • S1999E01 Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy

    • April 6, 1999
    • Discovery

    New evidence has suggested that Nazism was not just a political movement but an occult religion with Hitler as the Messiah...

  • S1999E02 If We Had No Moon

    • May 30, 1999
    • Discovery

    What would life on earth be like without the moon? Well, chances are, there wouldn't be any life on earth without the moon. Life - if it had started at all - would still be in the earliest stages of evolution. Scientists use the latest computer simulations to show how an ancient rogue planet - Orpheus - collided with the earth millions of years ago, producing a sizable chunk of debris that eventually became our moon. If that collision had never occurred, we would live in a very different place. Imagine a moon-less weather report - blizzards over the Sahara, flood waters swallowing the Pyramids, 90-degree temperatures in Antarctica. As the earth wobbles on its axis - unsecured by the moon's gravitational pull - the polar caps would grow and recede at frightening rates. And without the moon, our planet would spin much faster - meaning four-hour days and searing temperatures. Worse yet, evidence reveals that we are in fact losing our grip on our lunar friend thanks to the ebb and flow of the oceans' tides. Experts reveal theories for salvaging the moon - including hijacking Europa from Jupiter - and demonstrate how we can prepare ourselves for our eventual life without it.

  • S1999E03 Deep Inside The Titanic

    • Discovery

  • S1999E04 Examining the SR-71 Blackbird Design Concept

    • Discovery

  • S1999E05 Napoleon's Obsession: The Quest for Egypt

    • Discovery

    "Napoleon's Obsession: The Quest for Egypt" details the real facts behind a little-known account in Napoleon's illustrious military career. Those who do know of the French leader's invasion of Egypt, and the so-called Battle of the Pyramids, may have fallen victim to one of the best public relations campaigns in history. As we learn in this documentary, hosted by renown Egyptologist Bob Brier, Bonaparte's attempt to conquer Eqypt was nothing short of an exercise in vanity. By 1798, General Bonaparte was looking for new military challenges after conquering Europe. He turned his sights on the historical and symbolic wealth of Egypt and The East. Economical with everything except the lives of his men, Bonaparte was ill prepared for this invasion and marched his troops from Alexandria through 130-degree desert heat in woolen uniforms and with very little water. Napoleon had a few victories, including a melee against the defending Mamelukes of Cairo, which became know as the Battle of the Pyramids (in reality, it was fought in a melon patch, miles from the city). On the whole, the campaign was disastrous; the French Fleet had a nasty encounter with Admiral Nelson, and the troops were stranded in Egypt without reinforcements or supplies. Napoleon's reaction? He commissioned paintings of victories and wrote glowing letters. He even returned to France a hero after sneaking out of Egypt in the middle of the night, leaving his men behind, and not even informing his second in command. Thankfully, Brier reminds us several times throughout the production of the practical contributions Napoleon made from this ill-conceived campaign. To Egypt he brought several artists, scholars and scientists and established the Institut de l'Egypte. Their work and the soldiers' looting led to the discovery of the Rosetta stone and the birth of modern Egyptology. But while these contributions are impressive, Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt included horrible atrocities against Turkish civilians. Sti

  • S1999E06 The Original Vampire: The Mosquito

    • Discovery

    It annoys us, it attacks us and it makes us itch. But, more than that, of all the great hunters and predators that stalk the planet, it is the one that has taken more human lives than any other: the mosquito. But it is an unwitting killer. Each year, all around the world, 700 Million people are infected with mosquito-borne illnesses... 3 million of them die. And the numbers are rising, the diseases are adapting and evolving. We are caught in a battle against the mosquito, a race against time to learn more about this formidable foe, this enemy with a thirst for blood.

  • S1999E07 Eyewitness to Jesus

    • January 8, 1999
    • Discovery

    A fragment of papyrus that has recently been re-discovered could be the link that can date the Gospel of Matthew all the way back to a time contemporary to the life of Jesus. The Gospel of Matthew may have been written by someone who actually witnessed events in the life of Jesus, a possible eyewitness to the last supper and perhaps even the crucifixion. Matthew D'Ancona of Magdelene College in Oxford travels from Egypt to the Holy Land in pursuit of the evidence that can prove this papyrus was written during the life and times of Jesus.

  • S1999E08 Sen Toku: Search for the Japanese Fleet

    • Discovery

  • S1999E09 Ancient Astronauts

    • Discovery

    To many who see them, the legacies of the ancients are beyond understanding: Strange creatures, exotic spirits, mysterious gods, architectural marvels. Researchers still debate their origin and meaning. They appear unearthly, alien, leading some to believe the knowledge of the ancients arrived from another world. What strange forces were at work here? Did alien gods instruct our ancestors or is there another explanation hidden in history? Other clues, strewn through human antiquity, may yet reveal the real ancient astronauts.

  • S1999E10 Eye on the World - The Camera at War

    • June 30, 1999
    • Discovery

    For over a century the camera has been war's most efficient spy, keeping watch over the enemy, helping to predict enemy movements and guiding missiles to their targets. Now from its position in space camera has brought the earth and all its battlegrounds under constant and silent surveillance. But is the camera and its all-seeing eye a force for good or evil? How often has the information provided by the camera been misinterpreted, how often has it misled with deadly consequences ? Nothing stops the camera now, the camera and its related imaginery can see through clouds and at night, though it can't tell the difference between truth and the lie. 'Eye on the World' traces the rise of the camera from the balloon tethered above the enemy lines to its position in orbit. Precise Media Productions for Discovery Networks Europe

  • S1999E11 Spying Game - Tools of the Trade

    • Discovery

  • S1999E12 Spying Game - Cloak and Dagger

    • Discovery

  • S1999E13 Spying Game - To Catch a Spy

    • Discovery

  • S1999E14 Peru's City of Ghosts

    • Discovery

    Join a team of archaeologists and the Discovery Channel in an investigation into the mysterious lines of the Nazca region in Peru. Created by the Nazcas, these huge sculptures are only visible from the sky and depict people, animal, geometric forms, and strange creatures. See a premier exhibition of pottery and textiles, musical instruments, and mummies from this long-forgotten, pre-Columbian civilization and visit Cahuachi, a buried city of pyramids and ceremonial buildings which may have once been the religious capital of the Nazca people.

  • S1999E15 War Stories: Escape from Auschwitz

    • Discovery

    Taken prisoner during the African campaign, Arthur Dodd was one of the few prisoners of war to find himself dispatched to the hellish concentration camps of Auschwitz. A witness to the inhumane treatment of prisoners by the Nazis, he managed to take part in a prison escape and assisted Polish partisans in sabotaging the camp's generator. Recaptured and returned to the camp, Dodd would later be forced to participate in the 'death march' as the Nazis retreated from the advancing allies, attempting to destroy any evidence of their acts before leaving. The horrors witnessed and endured by Dodd were only magnified when he returned home to a disbelieving nation. Leon Greenman, a British Jew in Auschwitz at the same time as Dodd, offers his own powerful testimony of the time.

  • S1999E16 War Stories: Resistance Fighter

    • Discovery

    Born Guido Zembsch-Schreve in Switzerland of Dutch parents, the man whose codename would be Pierre Lalande spoke Dutch, French, German, and English. In Britain, Lalande was recruited by the secret service in operation at that time, and tested with the entrapment of a female traitor. His success in this role led to his assignment to France, where he soon set up an escape network that would save hundreds of lives. Lalande was captured and deported to the slave labor camp of Dora, where the Nazi's secret V2 rocket was being developed. His assistance in sabotaging the V2 and records that he kept would help both the war effort and war crimes investigations.

  • S1999E17 War Stories: Nazi Hunter

    • Discovery

    Ian Bell was captured by Rommel's army in North Africa and dispatched to a prison camp, The Citadel, in Italy. A daring escape, accomplished by grabbing onto the axle of a moving goods train, led Bell into the company of the partisans in the Apennines. Working with them, he undertook many raids on German troops until he was recaptured and returned to a very different Citadel. As the war had progressed, the prison had become a virtual slaughterhouse. A quick-witted Bell managed to save himself from the firing squad, only to be brutally tortured by the Gestapo. At the war's end Bell was recruited as a Nazi hunter and took pride in his successes. But was the notorious Martin Bormann allowed to slip through his fingers?

  • S1999E18 War Stories: War Correspondent

    • Discovery

    They were the men and women who risked their lives at the front line to send the story home. Everywhere the soldiers went, it was their job to go too. Some never returned. Claire Hollingworth, a newspaper reporter assigned to Poland, took a shopping trip into Germany one summer afternoon and inadvertently discovered Hitler's troops massing on the border. Her report broke the news of Poland's invasion on September 1st. Billy Jordan, assigned to the Desert Campaign, found himself filming a turning point, the Battle of El Alamein. Later assignments in Tunis and Monte Cassino almost cost him his life. Harry Oaks, dispatched to film the liberation of a prisoner of war camp, found himself in the heart of never-before-seen horror at the concentration camp of Belsen.

  • S1999E19 War Stories: Special Operations

    • Discovery

    Created by Winston Churchill to prepare Europe for the coming invasion, the Special Operations Executive would work with the French Resistance behind enemy lines, attacking military and economic targets following Churchill's orders to "set Europe ablaze." A war correspondent-turned soldier, George Millar's knowledge of France proved invaluable as he and the French Resistance derailed supply trains and sabotaged railway lines, bringing German supplies and troop movements to virtual standstill. How he survived a number of close calls, which took the lives of those around him, is only part of the story of one British soldier undercover, codename: Emil.

  • S1999E20 War Stories: The Jewish Brigade

    • Discovery

    Winston Churchill recognized that in the Jewish population he had a hard core of potential soldiers both driven and dedicated to bringing down the Nazi regime. The Jewish Brigade would fight under its own flag making an enormous contribution to the war effort. Edmund de Rothschild joined as Captain of a Battery that comprised Jewish soldiers from 50 different countries. Mark Hyatt recounts how captured German soldiers faced the humiliation of surrendering to relatives of those they had in turn humiliated and murdered. Some of those captured would never make it home. At the end of the war, the Brigade found itself torn between humanity and army regulations as supplies and transport were put to use aiding the torrent of Jewish refugees throughout Europe. With growing support for the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, these British Jews would soon find their weapons turned against their fellow countrymen in the struggle to establish the State of Israel.

  • S1999E21 The Race for the Poles

    • Discovery

    This amazing story tells the tale of those brave and ambitious adventurers who sought to be the first men to stand on the Earth's geographical poles. Their names - Peary, Cook, Amundsen, and Scott - will forever be synonymous with the frozen regions they sought to conquer. This fascinating and informative program presents new insights into the events surrounding these adventurers and their missions of discovery to the north and south poles. At the beginning of 20th century there were only 2 regions of our planet that were completely undiscovered and Arctic and Antarctic were still unknown and mysterious parts of the globe. Many have tried and many have failed to become the first to reach the end of the world and this documentary is the chronology famous explorers endeavors to become the first people to reach North and South Pole. This two-hour special chronicles the race to be the first to reach the North and South Poles, and of the men who led those expeditions: Robert Peary, Frederick Cook, Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton.

  • S1999E22 Savage Sun

    • Discovery

    It is the largest body in our solar system. Internal temperatures can reach millions of degrees Celsius and surface explosions leap tens of thousands of kilometers into space. It is the most awe inspiring and fearsome body in our solar system, yet, without it, life on earth could not exist. Viewers will come away with a greater appreciation of this mighty body and the way it influences every aspect of life on earth.

  • S1999E23 Super Structures: The London Underground

    • Discovery

    The world’s first underground railway was opened over one hundred years ago on January 10, 1863 in London. The first underground trains were moved by steam engines. Expansion lines were added using a cut and cover method of construction. This underground system of rail lines is still growing through the present day with the latest line expected to carry an incredible 30,000 people per hour in each direction!

  • S1999E24 Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls

    • September 8, 1999
    • Discovery

    The scrolls of Kumr'an are among the most precious treasures of human civilization. They contain all scrolls of the Jewish Bible (except Esther scroll), and many previously unknown books, which shed light to the sectarian beliefs of the late Second Temple age in Judea under Roman rule. The books proved to remain unchanged through two millenia of rewriting by Jewish scholars, proving the ancient roots of Judean culture and religion. Sectarians of Kumran are thought to spark the fire of rebellion against the Roman empire with their apocalyptic prophecies of doom's day and the battle of light and dark.

Season 2000

  • S2000E01 95 Worlds and Counting

    • May 30, 2010
    • Discovery

    Go where the real action is... the moons! Once dismissed as insignificant ice balls, we now know they are anything but boring. Imagine the most explosive world in the solar system, producing more heat than anything but the sun. That's Jupiter's fireball of a moon Io, which is exploding before our eyes. Try to picture a geyser blasting 5 miles high in the furthest reaches of the solar system, a geyser not of steam but of liquid ice. Visit Neptune's moon Triton, a world so piercingly cold that everything familiar to us on Earth, including the air, is frozen solid. And then there is Europa; a moon that may harbor the only other liquid water ocean in the solar system, an ocean that may even harbor life. There are moons out there with atmospheres so thick, you can strap on wings and fly. There are moons so small that you wouldn't stand on them, you'd hover! Moons where you'd weigh no more than a mouse, where you can throw a ball around the entire body, and where a good jump sends you a mile and a half into the air. Imagine spelunking on a world called Phobos, scuba diving on Europa, or bungee jumping off one the solar system's largest cliffs. Spend an hour exploring the moons, and you'll never ignore them again!

  • S2000E02 Inside the Space Station

    • December 10, 2000
    • Discovery

    Through the use of extensive computer animation, this video offers an update on the construction of the International Space Station some 220 miles above the surface of the earth. The only major international program of its type, the implications of the station are immeasurably important to the viability of human habitation in space. This glance into the possible future of the human race is hosted by Liam Neeson.

  • S2000E03 SR-71 Blackbird: The Secret Vigil

    • Discovery

  • S2000E04 The Seven Wonders of the World

    • Discovery

    The Seven Wonders of the World (or the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) refers to remarkable constructions of classical antiquity listed by various authors in guidebooks popular among the ancient Hellenic tourists, particularly in the 1st and 2nd centuries BC. The most prominent of these, the versions by Antipater of Sidon and an observer identified as Philo of Byzantium, comprise seven works located around the eastern Mediterranean rim. The original list inspired innumerable versions through the ages, often listing seven entries. Of the original Seven Wonders, only one—the Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest of the ancient wonders—remains relatively intact.

  • S2000E05 CIA SpyFi

    • Discovery

  • S2000E06 Raising the Mammoth Part 1

    • March 12, 2000
    • Discovery

    A scientist wants to recover some mammoth DNA to clone a live mammoth. So he finds a buried mammoth in the vast, rock hard permafrost of Siberia, digs it out in the middle of a blizzard and flies it home. Of course he needed a little help. So he befriended an arctic nomad who knows ever rill, rock, pond and stream in the entire region. As background to the quest, National Geographic relates the migratory history of the mammoth family.

  • S2000E07 Raising the Mammoth Part 2

    • March 12, 2000
    • Discovery

  • S2000E08 From Remagen to the Elbe: Surrender of the Third Reich

    • August 12, 2013
    • Discovery

    In this remarkable full color film, we relive the last months of the war, with scenes from the heady drive of the U.S. Army across Germany. In the final days of WWII, as American armies closed in on the remaining German troops scattered throughout the country, Eisenhower executed a sweep of the German countryside. The First Army's push towards the Rhine yielded the capture of Cologne and an intact bridge in the city of Remagen, which signaled the beginning of the end for the Nazi regime. As Allied troops closed in on all sides, the American president maintained his objective of capturing or destroying all remaining armed German forces, flushing out isolated pockets of resistance. This culminated in the meeting of British, American, and Soviet forces near the Elbe and Mulde Rivers, as Berlin fell to the Russians. Hitler's suicide on April 30, 1945, foretold the end of the Nazi regime, the final days of which are captured in this illuminating documentary, which includes footage of the Allied advance that has never before been seen. Get behind the glossy images of war put forth by Hollywood studios, and experience the true story behind its closing days.

  • S2000E09 The Lost Mummy of Imhotep

    • Discovery

    The Lost Mummy of Imhotep uncovers what may be Egypt's fabled city of the dead and the legendary Imhotep, buried beneath the sands of Saqqara. At the dawn of Egyptian civilization, Imhotep built the first pyramid, became legendary as a physician and governed the greatest state on earth. The ancients made him a god, and Hollywood made him "The Mummy." But few realize that the character was based on one of the most important figures in all of ancient history, a man historians have called the world's "first known genius." For some archaeologists, Imhotep's lost burial site has been the Holy Grail of Egyptology. Now, at long last, Polish archaeologist Karol Mysliwiec may indeed have found him.

  • S2000E10 The Riddle of Pompeii

    • Discovery

    In AD 79 the legendary volcano Vesuvius erupted in one of the deadliest volcanic eruptions of all time, destroying the town of Pompeii. For 400 years archaeologists have studied the ancient bodies found buried beneath layers of ash and rock. The explanation for the victims' deaths has always been that they were killed by flying rocks and boiling lava. This is the interpretation still given to tourists who visit the site at Pompeii today. Yet an intriguing mystery lies at the centre of this explanation. The people of Pompeii had ample warning that the volcano was about to erupt, and yet they apparently stayed awaiting death in their hundreds. Why? The skeletons of those who stayed behind were miraculously preserved in the dust and very few show any sign of damage, violence or attempts to flee. How, then, did they die? This film reveals the terrible truth of what happened to the people of Pompeii on that fated day. Produced & Directed by Gary Johnstone Executive Producer for the Discovery Channel : Michael Quattrone An Optomen Television Production for The Discovery Channel and Channel Four MMI

  • S2000E11 The Riddle of Pompeii

    • Discovery

  • S2000E12 Rage to Revenge: The Science of Violence

    • November 16, 2000
    • Discovery

    Exploring the biological, sociological and psychological responses to anger and hatred. Included: physiological changes to the human body during extreme anger; how people deal with the consequences of violent acts.

  • S2000E13 Neanderthal: Part 1

    • Discovery

    Long ago, two species of human beings coexisted on Earth until competition drove one of them to extinction. This program, set in the southwest of France 35,000 years ago, uses re-creations of cinematic proportions to reconstruct life in the Neanderthal world at the time Cro-Magnons first entered the scene. All aspects of Neanderthal clan life are examined, including tool- and weapon-making, hunting and gathering, health and healing, childbirth, rituals, and making fire. Footage of skeletal remains and the scholarly research of eminent paleontologist Chris Stringer and Oxford Universitys Paul Pettitt support the documentary. A Discovery Channel Production.

  • S2000E14 Neanderthal: Part 2

    • Discovery

  • S2000E15 On the Inside: The Leaning Tower of Pisa

    • Discovery

    It's a marble masterpiece, one of the most famous buildings in the world. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is simply an impossibility. More like something you dream than something that can exist. For hundreds of years, the world has watched in amazement as the building defies gravity, teetering on a razor's edge. It really is quite miraculous that it has not fallen over. And thank goodness it hasn't. If the Tower were to fall no one would feel it more than the people of Pisa. For them the Tower is the heart of their city. It is what draws hundreds of thousands of tourists every year, each one anxious to give a helping hand. It really needs one. The Leaning Tower of Pisa can tumble in an instant. For 800 years architects and engineers have been trying to fix the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Nearly every attempt has been disastrous. But somehow the Tower has serenely survived. Today the Tower is in greater danger than ever. It's lean is so extreme that the Italian government has closed it to avoid a potential disaster. It's been more than ten years since anyone has walked up its marble stairway which leads to its stunning bell chamber... until now. We will take a behind the scenes look inside the Tower that's been locked off to the public for so long and climb to the top for a rare view of its breathtaking vistas. We'll examine the bizarre history of the 800 year effort to save the Tower and introduce the current plan that some believe just may make the Tower safe forever, that is if it doesn't destroy it first.

  • S2000E16 Crime Scene Clean-Up: The Real Crime Scene Investigation

    • Discovery

    Crime Scene Clean-Up goes behind the scenes into a world few have had to enter – the bloody aftermath of a traumatic crime scene. After the cops and coroner have come and gone, leaving their fingerprint dust and discarded gloves behind, what happens then? Who cleans up after death? Meet Ron Gospodarski, a man with unusual insight into a crime scene. Ron's business is to clean up after death, a business born out of the concerns of blood tainted by TB, Hepatitis and AIDS. Follow Ron on his daily journey through New York City. A Partisan Pictures Production for Discovery Communications, Inc.

  • S2000E17 Mysteries of El Nino

    • Discovery

    El Nino has impacted people globally for the past 15,000 years, causing storms, floods, fires, drought, disease, famine, and even the extinction of entire societies. In this program, experts from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, and elsewhere study the causes, impact, and implications of the dreaded natural cataclysm that is both a climatic and social phenomenon. High-tech El Nino surveillance, analysis of recent super-El Ninos, and research into the extinction of Peru’s ancient Moche people are featured, along with outstanding computer-modeled imaging and riveting archival footage.

  • S2000E18 Real M.A.S.H.: The World of Combat Medicine

    • July 27, 2015
    • Discovery

    What is it like to be a soldier who goes to war to heal? Lt. Diane Carlson Evans, who served as a nurse in Vietnam, responds, "Think of having a plane crash every day." This gritty program presents the history of the modern medic while tracking a class of prospective corpsmen training to earn the nickname "Doc" at the Navy’s Field Medical School. Archival photos and rare film footage document hard-minded innovations of medical expediency from the Civil War to today, such as triage, field hospitals, and prosthetics. Pararescuemen and combat medics who served in Vietnam and Somalia talk about their experiences. Produced by Hoggard Films for Discovery Channel

  • S2000E19 A Supercarrier Is Burning: U.S.S. Enterprise

    • Discovery

    Documentary film footage and survivor interviews of a major fire that broke out on the deck of the nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise. We see aircraft, munitions and jet fuel engulfed in flame and exploding as the crew members frantically fight to prevent more explosions, save their ship and their own lives.

  • S2000E20 Jack the Ripper: An Ongoing Mystery

    • Discovery

  • S2000E21 Killer Elephants

    • Discovery

    Killer Elephants shows the slaughtered carcasses of young bull rhinoceros on an African Wildlife Preserve. Upon conducting an investigation into the cause of these deaths, the initial understanding was that they were caused by poachers interested in cashing in on the valuable ivory tusks of the rhinos. Yet, as carcasses were autopsied, it was obvious that the tusks remained intact and death was caused by catastrophic brutal force. Upon completion of the investigation, it was clearly determined that the deaths of these young, healthy and vibrant rhinos were caused by young bull Elephants whom had been displaced from their herds to the African Wildlife Preserve. Being social by nature, the young bull elephants developed a profoundly deep internal rage that vented through the intensely aggressive killing of the bull rhinoceros on the preserve although there was never an issue of the shortage of food or a competition for sustenance.

  • S2000E22 Quest for the Giant Squid

    • December 15, 2000
    • Discovery

    The Discovery Channel and Smithsonian Institute team up to find the bus-size marine monster alive in its habitat. Sonar, a manned submersible and high-tech cameras are used to search as record numbers of dead giant squid are raised by fishing trawlers.

  • S2000E23 The Ultimate Guide: Planes

    • May 22, 2000
    • Discovery

    The airplane has developed at almost warp-speed in less than a century. Get up close and personal to trace the story of the ever evolving airplane to see how, where, when and why they fly.

Season 2001

  • S2001E01 When Dinosaurs Roamed America

    • July 15, 2001
    • Discovery

    Late Triassic Segment (220 Million Years Ago) The program starts in the Late Triassic, near modern-day New York City. The narrator explains how the Permian mass extinction led to new forms of life, including, eventually, the dinosaurs. The camera tracks a Coelophysis through the woods. The program decipts Coelophysis as preying mainly on small animals, such as insects and Icarosaurus. It encounters other, larger non-dinosaurs such as Rutiodon, Traversodon, and Desmatosuchus. Nevertheless, the quick Coelophysis is a very successful inhabitant of this world. Early Jurassic Segment (190 Million Years Ago) The program moves on to the Early Jurassic of Pennsylvania, showing a pack of Syntarsus. These dinosaurs, closely related to Coelophysis, are hunting for the primitive herbivorous dinosaur Anchisaurus, only to be driven away by a Dilophosaurus, which kills and eats the Anchisaurus. Late Jurassic Segment (150 Million Years Ago) The show skips to the Late Jurassic, where a pterosaur soars while a Ceratosaurus chases a Dryosaurus and its two young. The Ceratosaurus catches one of the juveniles, while the other Dryosaurus escape to the cover of a herd of Camarasaurus, feeding on the sauropods' conifer tree scraps that fall to the ground. The Ceratosaurus disturbs a Stegosaurus and gets whipped by its tail. Two Stegosaurus eventually mate. As the rainy season comes, a herd of Apatosaurus arrive, followed by a hungry Allosaurus. The Allosaurus cannot get past the Apatosaurus's whipping tails, but it manages to catch and eat the Ceratosaurus, still pursuing the Dryosaurus. Later, as the Apatosaurus leave the area, one Apatosaurus stumbles. Disabled, it is an easy meal for a small group of Allosaurus. Middle Cretaceous Segment (90 Million Years Ago) The program then shows a New Mexico forest of the Middle Cretaceous. Some coelurosaurs scamper through the forest, among frilled and feathered dinosaurs. One lone dromaeosaur [3] tries to attack a Nothronychus

  • S2001E02 Parallel Universe

    • June 1, 2001
    • Discovery

    The strange notion of parallel universes is gaining strength in the scientific community and may solve our most basic questions about the universe, including the origins of the Big Bang itself.

  • S2001E03 Rasputin: The Devil in The Flesh

    • Discovery

    Learn why Rasputin was considered the Devil in human form.

  • S2001E04 Valley Of The T-Rex

    • September 10, 2001
    • Discovery

    Join paleontologist Jack Horner on a journey into the arid badlands of Montana where more T. rex skeletons have been uncovered than any other place on earth. Follow Horner – who found five T. rex dinosaurs here in a single summer – as he scrutinizes the T. rex's arms, large olfactory lobes, tiny eye sockets and unique teeth, to gain insight into whether T. rex was a ferocious predator or an opportunistic scavenger. For example, Horner surmises that the T. rex's stumpy arms wouldn't allow T. rex to scoop up prey, indicating he may have come along after the kill. Among Jack Horner's finds is the oldest T. rex ever found. At 68 million years, it's 3 million years older than any other specimen challenging the beliefs of when T. rex roamed the Earth. Also, see a 90% complete never before seen juvenile tyrannosaur called Daspletasaurus – an earlier large meat-eating cousin of T. rex. Visit dig sites, labs and museums, and witness brilliant computer animation that visualizes how these creatures lived and died. Plus, see new evidence that could allow scientists to reach ever further back in time.

  • S2001E05 Atlantis: The Lost Continent

    • Discovery

  • S2001E06 The Mystery of The Black Death

    • Discovery

  • S2001E07 The Most Evil Men in History – Adolf Hitler

    • Discovery
  • S2001E08 The Most Evil Men in History – Idi Amin

    • Discovery
  • S2001E09 The Most Evil Men in History – Josef Stalin

    • Discovery
  • S2001E10 The Most Evil Men in History – Pol Pot

    • Discovery
  • S2001E11 Mysteries of the Alaskan Mummies

    • Discovery

    Halfway around the world from Egypt, hundreds of mummies have been found in the Aleutian Islands of the Alaskan coast, preserved in much the same way as Egyptian mummies but in a harsher climate. These mummies, curled in the fetal position, are yielding their mysteries to science. They bear mute testimony to a sophisticated 9000-year-old Unangan culture that once thrived in one of the most inhospitable places on earth. The program presents a comprehensive look at the mysterious remains, their remote island home and the scientists who have braved the harsh Aleutian climate to chart the fate of the ancient Unangan people.

  • S2001E12 Ancient Earthquakes: Sunken Cities

    • January 30, 2001
    • Discovery

    Underwater archaeological research on the North Coast of Egypt reveals a site just outside the ancient city of Alexandria beneath the waters of Abourkir Bay. Also: the site of Cleopatra's sunken palace.

  • S2001E13 The Hindenburg Disaster - Probable Cause

    • January 1, 2001
    • Discovery

    The Hindenburg Disaster: Probable Cause When the Hindenburg took to the skies in 1936, it was the largest flying machine in history. It was created when aeronautical engineering was a “new” science and the stresses involved in flight were not as well known as today. The cause of the Hindenburg’s tragic demise in only 34 seconds is still not clear. The documentary recruits specialist investigators to re-examine the airship disaster and look at modern airship technology for examples of where technology has advanced since the tragedy. Using blueprints held by the United States Navy and historical Civil Aeronautics Board charts that follow the Hindenburg’s route; the program re-creates the Hindenburg’s last journey and its ten successful voyages prior to the disaster

  • S2001E14 Best Kept Secrets of Mysterious Societies

    • Discovery

    Now on Best Kept Secrets: a glimpse inside America's most dangerous and mysterious secret societies. What secrets are locked inside the Tomb of Skull and Bones? And who belongs to this prestigious and private fraternity? Answer: some of the most powerful people on the planet. Next, Earth First. They call themselves peaceful environmentalists. But are they putting innocent lives in danger? Plus the Secrets of the Ku Klux Klan revealed. From the Klan's secret handshake, to the hidden meaning of the KKK symbol. We take you inside the most feared secret society in America. Next, this mild-mannered professor is the voice of The National Alliance, but is he also the inspiration behind the Oklahoma City bombing? Last, what's in a rave? Youth, music, all-night parties and drug abuse? These stories and more on Best Kept Secrets.

  • S2001E15 The Hidden History of Egypt

    • Discovery

    What did the Egyptians do when they weren't building pyramids, and just what are hieroglyphics about? Terry Jones - of Monty Python fame - learns that Egyptian women were on equal footing with men in all aspects of society, including wages and property ownership. Paper, papyrus, originated in Egypt, allowing for the development of the sciences, art and literature. These discoveries establish how attached to life the ancient Egyptians were and discards the supposition that because of their elaborate tombs, they were more focused on death and the afterlife. On this subject, and about this documentary in general, Jones said: "I'm not interested in this stuff; these are just the funeral arrangements of a megalomaniac who lived three and a half thousand years ago before they thought of cryogenic freezers. I want to know how ordinary people lived in ancient Egypt." And so the previously un-heralded life of the craftsmen, traders and laymen of ancient Egypt is explored in The Hidden History of Egypt.

  • S2001E16 Pyramids: The Ultimate Guide

    • Discovery

    These are some of the world's greatest monuments. They combine colossal mass with precision engineering. For over 4,000 years they were unsurpassed, yet they were built by peasant societies with only simple tools. And the Egyptians weren't alone. From China to the Americas, pyramids were the crowning achievements of other civilizations around the world. While searches for treasure have always brought thieves and bounty hunters to the pyramids, the challenge for today's explorers is to reveal the amazing stories of the people who built them.

  • S2001E17 Skeletons of Roman Ashkelon

    • Discovery

    On the shores of Israel's Mediterranean coast lay Ashkelon, a seaport since 3,500BC. It became one of the most important cities of the ancient world. The Romans conquered Ashkelon in 37BC and stayed for four centuries. Archaeologists have excavated here and the most surprising finding was a pit with numerous skeletons of newborn babies, thrown into the sewers beneath a Roman bathhouse. The investigations carried out are essential to unravel a mystery that has remained hidden for long. This program investigates a murder-mystery nearly two thousand years old.

  • S2001E18 Giants: Mystery and the Myth

    • November 16, 2014
    • Discovery

    This unique special looks at the whole phenomenon of giants from the earliest beginnings of civilization to the present. Also features interviews of Zecharia Sitchin, author of The Cosmic Code which talks about the content of the Sumerian Tablets. According to a scientist’s experiment on fish in a biodome with double the atmospheric pressure and a few other conditions, the fish grow to an unbelievable size which is proof that Earth had the right conditions back then to support the idea of Giants ever existing.

  • S2001E19 Haunted Desert: Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls

    • Discovery

    Ever since they were discovered in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have proved to be one of the most important finds ever, informing man-kind of their origins and, since they contain a 2000-year-old incarnation of the Bible, charting religious and sociological history. Learn how archaeologists found them and how the entire world reacted to their discovery, and watch a reenactment that purports to trace just how the documents ended up where they did.

  • S2001E20 Jesus: The Complete Story

    • Discovery

  • S2001E21 The Secret History of Hacking

    • Discovery

    The Secret History of Hacking is a documentary film that focuses on phreaking, computer hacking and social engineering occurring from the 1970s through to the 1990s. Archive footage concerning the subject matter and (computer generated) graphical imagery specifically created for the film are voiced over with narrative audio commentary, intermixed with commentary from people who in one way or another have been closely involved in these matters. The film starts by reviewing the concept and the early days of phreaking, featuring anecdotes of phreaking experiences (often involving the use of a blue box) recounted by John Draper and Denny Teresi. By way of commentary from Steve Wozniak, the film progresses from phreaking to computer hobbyist hacking (including anecdotal experiences of the Homebrew Computer Club) on to computer security hacking, noting differences between the latter 2 forms of hacking in the process. The featured computer security hacking and social engineering stories and anecdotes predominately concern experiences involving Kevin Mitnick. The film also deals with how society's (and notably law enforcement's) fear of hacking has increased over time due to media attention of hacking (by way of the film WarGames as well as journalistic reporting on actual hackers) combined with society's further increase in adoption of and subsequent reliance on computing and communication networks. John Draper, Steve Wozniak and Kevin Mitnick are prominently featured while the film additionally features comments from or else archive footage concerning Denny Teresi, Joybubbles, Mike Gorman, Ron Rosenbaum, Steven Levy, Paul Loser, Lee Felsenstein, Jim Warren, John Markoff, Jay Foster, FBI Special Agent Ken McGuire, Jonathan Littman, Michael Strickland and others.

  • S2001E22 Stealth Secrets

    • January 1, 2001
    • Discovery

    The future of stealth flight, including bombers that can travel at five times the speed of sound, brought to life through 3-D animation

  • S2001E23 Best Kept Secrets of the Military

    • January 1, 2001
    • Discovery

    Here find confidential stories from the top secret files of the Pentagon: A nuclear bomb is lost off the East Coast! Could it suddenly wipe out an entire city? This bomb is still capable of a nuclear explosion, and it has never been recovered. Plus... earth shattering sky quakes rattle Los Angeles. Are they being caused by a top secret spy plane? We examine supersonic aircraft operating whose existence is not being acknowledged by the authorities. And, the government's classified doomsday plan revealed: The politicians will be safe, but what about your family? There are highly elaborate plans for the uppermost levels of the government, of course, and for you? You're on your own. Plus, new secret weapons for the twenty-first century soldier... Can technology outweigh paying top-dollar to the world's most lucrative industry?

  • S2001E24 Atlantis - The Lost Continent

    • January 1, 2001
    • Discovery

    Atlantis is a mirage, the fascinating myth of the lost Golden Age, a fatal attraction along centuries. Its story, handed on by Solone, one of the seven wise men of Greece, and told for the first time by Plato, fascinated people like Christophe Columbus, Napoleon and even Hitler, enchanted by the myth of an extremely progressive civilization, swept away by a flood at the dawn of history. The research for Atlantis is an enthusiastic travel across oceans and continents and ten thousand years of history. From the hidden valleys in looking for a magic, enchanting world. A marvelous adventure in the wake of tenaciously and restless was the research for its priceless treasure. A journey to look for the truth behind the legend that still goes on today to seek, in the deepest oceans Atlantis ruins, waiting to be awaken by a brave adventurer.

Season 2002

  • S2002E01 The Ultimate Guide Volcanoes

    • Discovery

    Take a look at the latest volcanic survey data and marvel at the frightening number of volcanoes heating up around the world. Is this a simple, geological coincidence, or the sign of some larger, potentially deadly pattern at work? Join one group of scientists as they reveal a number of cutting-edge theories to explain the sudden surge in volcanic activity. Then, watch as they put those theories to the test at the summit of smoldering Mount Tungurahua in Ecuador. It's a high-stakes game of man versus the mountain; because if any of these theories prove correct, they could help forecast future volcanic activity and save lives all over the planet.

  • S2002E02 Tracking Africa's Dinosaurs

    • Discovery

    The discovery of a previously unknown dinosaur skeleton in Morocco sheds some light on a period in history about which we know relatively little. In the high Atlas Mountains of Morocco lie the fascinating footprints of an unknown species of dinosaur, estimated to be 180 million years old. Two world-renowned palaeontologists, Dale Russel, from North Carolina University and Philippe Taquet, from Paris Natural History Museum investigate and reconstruct the fossilized skeleton of the oldest vegetarian dinosaur who lived on earth.

  • S2002E03 Fun House

    • October 13, 2002
    • Discovery

    The history of the fun house, from the 1901 ride "A Trip to the Moon," dark rides and water rides through Disneyland's film-inspired rides to Universal Studios Florida Theme Park "Terminator 2: 3D," which combines moving, 3-D images, live actors and computer-generated special effects.

  • S2002E04 Planes That Never Flew: The Last Rocket Fighter

    • Discovery

    See the controversy surrounding the production of the SR-177 fighter.

  • S2002E05 Engineering the Impossible

    • Discovery

    This documentary focuses on three incredible, yet physically possible, engineering projects: the nine mile (14 km)-long Gibraltar Bridge, the 170-story Millennium Tower and the 4000+-foot-long Freedom Ship. This program won the Beijing International Science Film Festival Silver Award, and earned Discovery's second-highest, weeknight rating for 2002.

  • S2002E06 End of Extinction: Cloning the Tasmanian Tiger

    • Discovery

    Hidden away in a Sydney vault is a young, pickled pup. For almost 140 years, it's remained locked in its glassy tomb. But this is no ordinary pup. In fact, it's not a pup at all. It's a fetus of an animal more closely related to an Australian kangaroo. It was a marsupial which looked like a dog had stripes like a tiger, yet carried its young in a pouch. How the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, came to be extinct is a tragedy, and how it might live again is the pursuit of a scientific miracle. Is it possible or wishful thinking? Herein find the story of one man's obsession and his quest to reverse extinction.

  • S2002E07 Ancient Inventions w. Terry Jones-Sex and Love

    • Discovery

  • S2002E08 Unsolved History - Inside Hitlers Bunker

    • October 23, 2002
    • Discovery

    Experts use original plans and state-of-the-art mapping to reconstruct the bunker in which Nazi leader Adolf Hitler spent the final weeks of the Second World War

  • S2002E09 Attack and Capture: The Story of U-Boat 505

    • Discovery

    On June 4, 1944 Captain Daniel Gallery and his men of the U.S. Naval Task Force 22.3 did the nearly impossible - they captured a German U-boat. It was the first enemy vessel-of-war captured in battle on the high seas by the U.S. Navy since 1815.

  • S2002E10 Escape from Berlin

    • Discovery

    A programme on the courage and ingenuity of East Germans who were willing to risk their lives escaping through, over, and even under, the murderous Wall that divided Berlin between 1961 and 1989. The programme includes astonishing actuality footage of escapes as they happened (such as tunnelling, swimming and even escaping in a microlight aircraft) along with recreations of some of the most daring escape attempts, and some of the deadly failures.

  • S2002E11 The Real Eve

    • Discovery

    Narrated by actor Danny Glover, "The Real Eve" reveals that our shared genetic heritage links every living person on earth and traces the expansion of modern humans throughout the world. The discovery of the Eve gene stunned the world. It seems we could all be descended from just a few females �“ or even just one. In this telling anthropological video, we access the very latest DNA reconstructions, and for the first time, tell conclusively the story of where, when and how the human race came about and then populated the world.

  • S2002E12 Journey Through the Valley of the Kings

    • Discovery

  • S2002E13 The Emperor of the Steppes

    • Discovery

    Hordes of men on horseback dominated the steppes of central Asia 2,000 years ago. They were the Hsiung-nu and their vast empire reigned from 300 BC to 200 AD. From conquests to defeats, their history is written in blood and fire. Fearsome archers on horseback, the Hsiung-nu crossed the steppes of Mongolia. Opposing the Hsiung-nu warriors was an equally fearsome army, comprised of Chinese warriors who considered the Hsiung-nu to be barbarians. The first emperor of China had life-sized reproductions of his men placed in his tomb, each with unique facial features. Comprised of foot soldiers, archers, crossbowmen and cavalry riders, this phantom army mounted an eternal guard over its emperor Qin Shi-huang, the Hsiung-nu's worst enemy. Writing was not known by the Hsiung-nu - archaeological remains are the only trace of their history.

  • S2002E14 Raising the Kursk

    • March 24, 2014
    • Discovery

    K-141 Kursk was an Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy, lost with all 118 hands when it sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000. At 154m long and four stories high it was the largest attack submarine ever built. Our film reenacts the explosion and actual footage portrays the raising of the submarine. (By CineNova for Worldwide Discovery Channel, with NBC’s ‘Dateline’.)

  • S2002E15 Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York

    • December 20, 2002
    • Discovery

    A Discovery Channel Special discussing the history of the real gangs of New York.

  • S2002E16 Dinosaur Babies

    • Discovery

    The fossil remains of young dinosaurs are very rare. This past fall there was thus great excitement in the palaeontological community over the discovery, in the hills of Argentina, of the nesting grounds of large plant-eating sauropod dinosaurs.

  • S2002E17 Island of the Pygmy Mammoth

    • May 13, 2002
    • Discovery

    Mammoths have always fascinated people. From the creators of the earliest known cave paintings and carvings to the 20th century practitioners of modern art and even to today's tourists, humans have tried to grasp the essence of this magnificent creature - its enormous size, strength and beauty and its coexistence with and importance to humans. In 1994, palaeontologists made the remarkable discovery of a pygmy mammoth on Santa Rosa Island, the most complete collection of its kind in the world.

  • S2002E18 Return to Area 51

    • Discovery

    Area 51 is a remote peace of land in Nevada, USA. It is owned by the US Government and is apparently used for the testing of secret technology and new military aircraft.

  • S2002E19 James Cameron's Expedition - Bismarck

    • December 8, 2002
    • Discovery

    Expedition: Bismarck is a 2002 documentary film produced for the Discovery Channel by Andrew Wight and James Cameron, directed by James Cameron and Gary Johnstone, and narrated by Lance Henriksen. The film follows an underwater expedition to the German battleship Bismarck and digitally reconstructs events that led up to the ship's sinking during World War II. In 2003 the film was honored with an Emmy award for Outstanding Sound Editing for Non-Fiction Programming.

  • S2002E20 Vulcans, Victors and Cuba

    • Discovery

    At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world came closer than it has ever come to all-out nuclear war. As the situation worsened, Britain's war cabinet made preparations to evacuate to 'Turnstile', the top secret nuclear bunker tunnelled deep under the Wiltshire hills. From here, they controlled the RAF's nuclear bombers, which were fully armed and standing by at 4 minute readiness. This is the story of just how close those bombers came to taking off.

  • S2002E21 Secrets of the Valley of the Kings

    • Discovery

  • S2002E22 Vatican Inside The Eternal City

    • Discovery

  • S2002E23 Warriors of the French Foreign Legion

    • Discovery

    The Legion is an army surrounded by romance, myth and intrigue. Its history spans more than a hundred and fifty years. The Legion is world renowned for its bravery. From fighting Russian Cossacks in 1853 to patrolling Sarajevo in 1992, they have always been in the thick of the action. At any one time there are approximately ninety to a hundred different nationalities serving in the French Foreign Legion. Men from China, Japan, America, Africa, Iceland, Australia, and Russia have found their way into the hallowed ranks of the Legion. Legionnaires sworn allegiance, and only obligation, is to the Legion itself, not to France. The legions motto is simple: Legio Patria Nester - The Legion Is Our Country. The Legion never leave their weapons behind, and never fail to take an objective. Death comes first.

  • S2002E24 Weather Extreme - Tornado

    • Discovery

    Weather Extreme - Tornado is both a fascinating and terrifying examination of the potential impact of a full-force tornado on crowded metropolitan areas. Immerse yourself in the fury of a devastating Force-5 tornado as it demolishes downtown Dallas. How well is Dallas prepared for these disasters? What's been planned? What's been neglected? Find out in these gripping, heart-stopping depictions of megastorm events that scientists predict are actually close at hand. With dramatic footage from past disastrous storms, mesmerizing eyewitness accounts, and photo-realistic computer animation, you'll get as close as you'll ever want to be to Mother Nature's rage.

  • S2002E25 Cannibalism: The Last Taboo

    • Discovery

  • S2002E26 Hackers: Outlaws and Angels

    • December 11, 2002
    • Discovery

  • S2002E27 Bigfootville

    • October 15, 2002
    • Discovery

    This documentary features a small town in Oklahoma where a large number of Bigfoot sightings have been documented with recordings.

  • S2002E28 Cuban Missile Crisis: Secret Submarines

    • Discovery

    The untold, true story of the underwater siege, with four submarines at the front line of a nuclear standoff. It's a tale that takes you inside the heads of the Soviet submariners and their US Navy counterparts in an eyeball to eyeball confrontation.

  • S2002E29 The Secret Life of Formula One

    • February 3, 2002
    • Discovery

    The Limit - looks at the technology of the sport and the problems with the current regulations being too reestrictive.

  • S2002E30 Thunderbirds

    • January 1, 2002
    • Discovery

    The elite U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds amaze millions with their precision formation flying. How do they learn to do that-and how could you? Follow a team of new members as they discovery just what it takes to soar above it all.

Season 2003

  • S2003E01 Bugs!

    • Discovery

  • S2003E02 Killer Ants

    • Discovery

    Over 8,000 species of ants cover the planet. Most are harmless, but some have ...a violent streak. African driver ants, known locally as ‘Siafu’, or 'Safari Ants' have the largest colonies of any social insect. When they swarm the effect is so daunting that the whole jungle flees; even elephants are said to run from them. This documentary uses a hi-tech 'ant cam' to get close to the action. Also featured are the dreaded Bulldog ants from Australia, the individualistic Tasmanian Jackjumper ants and others.

  • S2003E03 Pompeii: The Last Day

    • Discovery

  • S2003E04 Platypus: World's Strangest Animal

    • Discovery

    The platypus has both baffled and inspired the scientific community since its discovery by Europeans over 200 years ago. Three years in the making, this blue-chip natural history film takes us down the east coast of Australia to the many serenely beautiful habitats of the platypus. Technology specially created for this film captures images from inside the nesting chamber of a wild platypus and records the extraordinary sounds of the mother suckling her offspring and we watch as they grow from newborns to adulthood.

  • S2003E05 Building the Great Pyramid

    • Discovery

    Not quite documentary, not quite drama, this reenactment of a fictional conscript's life building the Great Pyramid of Giza is best described as docudrama. Omar Sharif voices the thoughts of the aged Nakht remembering the moment Egyptian soldiers drafted him into the king's service

  • S2003E06 Hitler's Doctors: Deadly Reforms

    • Discovery

  • S2003E07 The Story of Computer Games

    • January 1, 2003
    • Discovery

    Since the first Pong machine was unveiled 30 years ago, computer games have become the world's second largest entertainment industry, after music. This program profiles game developers who revolutionized the industry and made playing video games a familiar household activity, and also indirectly fueled the snack food industry. Unique access to the creative geniuses of the last 30 years in a riveting voyage of innovation and blood on the carpet. Producer: Rod Iverson. The human race likes – and needs – to play games. That’s probably why video games have been so popular since the very first time of their invention. This documentary shows the history of video games from Atari over to Nintendo and gives insights about the power of arcade games and home-games-consoles.

  • S2003E08 The World's First Time Machine

    • March 12, 2003
    • Discovery

    Ronald L. Mallett, PhD is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Connecticut. He discovered a possible way to travel in time by applying Einstein's theory of relativity to laser light moving in a circle. The program uses CGI to illustrate his theories. Mallett was one of the first African-Americans to obtain a PhD in theoretical physics. He was inspired to do so because he wished to travel back in time to visit his dead father, who died when Mallett was ten.

  • S2003E09 Secret Towers of The Himalayas

    • Discovery

    The Himalayan Towers also called Stone star-shaped towers, are a series of stone towers located mostly in Kham, an ancient province of Tibet, in Sichuan and in Tibet. The towers are located in regions of Changthang, Gyalrong, Miniak and Kongpo. The towers can be found both in cities and in uninhabited regions. They have been described for the first time during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Carbon dating by Frederique Darragon shows they were built approximately 500 to 1,800 years ago. Since they are generally located in prosperous villages, it is believed that their primary function was as a demonstration of a family's prestige within the community. At that time, wealth was acquired especially by the trade with the Mongols. For strength, many of the towers use a star pattern of walls as opposed to a strictly rectangular method. Heights can exceed 60m. For more information see the work of Frederique Darragon, who has extensively studied the towers and written a book titled The Secret Towers of the Himalayas. She also filmed and co-produced a documentary also called "Secret Towers of the Himalayas".

  • S2003E10 Harley Davidson Birth of the V Rod

    • Discovery

  • S2003E11 Hitler And The Spear Of Destiny

    • June 24, 2003
    • Discovery

    Legend has it that the relic known as 'The Spear of Destiny' or 'The Holy Lance' was used to wound the side of Christ at his crucifixion and now holds mystical powers. It is said that whoever possesses the spear holds the fate of the world in their hands. Rulers such as Constantine, Charlemagne, Napoleon, and Hitler sought the spear, hoping that either stories of its powers were true or that it would serve as proof of their own power to their followers. 'Hitler And The Spear Of Destiny' charts the history behind the spear and uses the latest forensic technology to come up with some startling revelations.

  • S2003E12 Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story

    • Discovery

    What caused the notorious arena to be built, and what made Roman society demand such extreme entertainment to be played out there? Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story revolves around the true story of Verus, who rises from slave to star gladiator, but who faces the ultimate challenge in one of the very few gladiatorial fights that was recorded and described by contemporary writers. Discover Verus' story, live his journey and experience his quest for freedom.

  • S2003E13 Nubia: The Forgotten Kingdom

    • December 10, 2003
    • Discovery

    Once a powerful, sprawling presence in Northern Africa, the ancient kingdom of Nubia now lies buried beneath mounds of red brick rubble in the Sudan. Forgotten by history and largely neglected by archaeology, its cities have lain buried for centuries, harboring priceless secrets of a civilization that once rivaled Egypt. Join world-renowned archaeologists Julie Andersen and Salah Ahmed as they unearth Dangeil - a thriving Nubian city that once sat at the juncture of several prominent trade routes. While excavating a massive temple to the god Amun, the team makes a surprising discovery that could solve the mystery of why the city was abandoned.

  • S2003E14 Lost Temple to the Gods

    • Discovery

  • S2003E15 James, Brother of Jesus

    • Discovery

    It is arguably the most important archaeological discovery ever made – an ossuary, or “bone box”, with an inscription on it’s side that reads: “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus”. If authentic, it is the first time that Jesus’ name appears on a 2,000 year-old artifact literally carved in stone. But is it authentic? “James, Brother of Jesus” tracks three stories: Is the inscription forged? Where was it found and how did it surface? Who was James, and how did he come to be called “brother of the Lord”?

  • S2003E16 Coming Home From Space: The Challenge of Re-Entry

    • June 26, 2003
    • Discovery

    On the morning of February 1, 2003 disaster struck. A stunned nation woke to images of Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrating into a shower of hot metal over the Texas sky. In that instant, millions wondered, “What went wrong?” Only through understanding the daunting and complex challenges faced by engineers and scientists responsible for bringing the shuttle and her crew safely back to earth could this question be answered.

  • S2003E17 An Inside Look: Instanbul

    • Discovery

  • S2003E18 Nefertiti Resurrected

    • August 17, 2003
    • Discovery

    Loved by a king. Hated by an empire. Erased from history. She could be the biggest find since King Tut. Has the famed Egyptian beauty, Queen Nefertiti, been found in a secret chamber deep in the Valley of the Kings? A Discovery Channel Quest expedition, led by Dr. Joann Fletcher and a team of internationally renown scientists from the University of York Mummy Research Team, hopes to find out. If they're right, the finding will be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries since Nefertiti's stepson-King Tutankhamen-was discovered in 1922. "Great Royal Wife" of the "renegade" pharaoh Akhenaten, Nefertiti's turbulent reign to life as never using cutting edge computer animations to recreate ancient Egypt's great temples, x-rays to reveal the telltale signs of foul play on her mummy; and forensic graphics to recreate the mummy's face. Have they found the ancient world's greatest beauty?

  • S2003E19 Little Lost Souls: Children Possessed?

    • March 20, 2003
    • Discovery

  • S2003E20 Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science

    • January 9, 2003
    • Discovery

    Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science featuring scientists from various disciplines analyzing the most compelling evidence for the existence of Bigfoot, including the Skookum cast and the Patterson–Gimlin film.

  • S2003E21 Killer Crocs of Costa Rica

    • Discovery

  • S2003E22 Quest for the Lost Pharaoh

    • Discovery

    An Egyptologist seeks the answer to a mystery four thousand years old, and tries to bring a vanished kingdom and a pharaoh lost to history back to life. Unravelling the tale of a priest and his family by following the clues left to us by the ancients, Vassil Dobrev will attempt to reconstruct the past and fill the gaps of history in his quest for the lost pharaoh.

  • S2003E23 Superweapons of the Ancient World: The Ram

    • Discovery

  • S2003E24 Planet Storm

    • Discovery

  • S2003E25 Gadgetmania

    • Discovery

    Shows how infomercials evolved from the huckstering sales pitch of the pre-TV era into a $14 billion-per-year industry and an icon of pop culture. Includes interviews with Ron Popeil (Ronco), Philip Kives (K-Tel), Ed Valenti and Barry Becher (Ginsu), and others; clips from classic commercials; detailed information on the structure and mechanics of informercials; and a behind-the-scenes look at the QVC shopping channel.

  • S2003E26 Seven Wonders of the Wild West

    • Discovery

    Embark on a road trip into the heart of the American west and discover the 14 seminal locations – seven man-made and seven natural – that have made the west so wild. On the first leg of this epic journey, tour the wonders that stand as modern monuments to the American dream – from the engineering marvel of the Hoover Dam to the "Big Room" of Las Vegas. Then, ride off into the sunset toward a more idyllic west. Climb the dizzying heights of Devil's Tower in Wyoming, plunge the depths of the mighty Grand Canyon and explore the landscape that has provided the foundation for the American dream.

  • S2003E27 Garavito: The World's Worst Serial Killer

    • Discovery

    Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos, also known as La Bestia ("The Beast") is a Colombian rapist and serial killer. In 1999, he admitted to the rape, torture, and murder of 138 children and teenagers. His victims, based on the locations of skeletons listed on maps that Garavito drew in prison, could eventually exceed 300; Garavito continues to confess to more murders. He has been described by local media as "the world's worst serial killer." According to the Attorney General's Office and various judicial bodies, Luis Alfredo Garavito is the "second serial killer of the world." Likewise, the judicial body ruled that all Garavito's sentences total 1,853 years and nine days in jail.

  • S2003E28 The Search for the Loch Ness Monster

    • Discovery

  • S2003E29 Seven Wonders Of Ancient Greece

    • January 31, 2003
    • Discovery

    Documentary which explores the Seven Ancient Wonders of Greece: the Theatre of Epidaurus, Olympia, Delphi, the Colossus of Rhodes, Santorini, The Palace of Knossos and the Parthenon.

Season 2004

  • S2004E01 Drain the Ocean

    • August 9, 2009
    • Discovery

    Discovery Channel Embarks On a Virtual Expedition to DRAIN THE OCEAN For an Unprecedented View of What Lies Beneath Digital ocean mapping and CGI technology vividly illustrate the mountains,plains, canyons and creatures of the deep as never seen before,revealing a world of almost unimaginable scale right here on Earth - The oceans cover three-quarters of our planet, hiding a whole other world beneath the waves. If we could pull an imaginary plug at the bottom of the sea and, layer by layer, expose the majesty and mystery of what lies beneath, we would be astounded. Narrated by Avery Brooks (STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE) and combining the latest scientific data with state-of-the-art CGI computer hardware plus specially written software, this innovative and visually striking special drains the water from the oceans to reveal the mountains, canyons, plains and volcanoes that are more dramatic than anything visible on dry land. The ocean is the last frontier and images of the deep are only glimpsed in the lights of a submarine or ROVs (remotely operated vehicles), with most of this undersea world having never known the light of the sun. Leading international scientists and institutes in the field of oceanography and marine science join in this quest to lay bare the landscapes of the deep and share their experiences and ideas about what this mysterious world might look like. Deep water corals that rival an urban skyline in size, a submerged canyon that is bigger than the Grand Canyon, a mountain range that runs for 65,000km - all these features have only been known in recent decades and while exploring these fascinating landscapes, scientists have discovered life forms that they had no idea existed - or could exist - in these bizarre, hostile environments. Combining CGI with cutting-edge digital ocean-mapping technology, leading oceanographers and geologists re-create the spectacular formations growing and shifting below the waves of the world's oceans. T

  • S2004E02 Lost Nuke

    • Discovery

    In February, 1950, a U.S. Air Force bomber carrying a nuclear bomb went missing off the coast of British Columbia. More than half a century later, a Canadian expedition team travels to the remote mountain crash site in the hope of solving the mystery of the world's first lost nuclear weapon.

  • S2004E03 The Blue Realm

    • Discovery

  • S2004E04 Jekyll and Hyde: The True Story

    • Discovery

    In 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a best selling book, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. It told the terrifying story of the power of addiction and the monsters that lurk within us all. It became an instant success and changed the face of horror stories forever. It was the first time that literature had depicted evil residing in someone rather than an objective character, a creature. In the novel Henry Jekyll, a respected doctor, concocts a potion to release his inner evil and becomes Mr Hyde. It was a book surrounded in mystery. Robert Louis Stevenson had been known as the charming author of beloved children's stories such as a Child's Garden of Verses. What could this mild-mannered man know of inner demons and the power of evil and addiction? But just as Dr Jekyll had two faces, so to did Stevenson. He had been obsessed, since childhood, with the notorious Scotsman William Deacon Brodie (known as Deacon), a legendary sociopath who lived 100 years earlier. By day, Deacon was a gentleman, a respected citizen with wealth and power. By night he was a compulsive gambler, sex addict and a criminal. In this film, the true story of Robert Louis Stevenson is revealed. A brilliant but tortured soul, Stevenson was born into a wealthy Victorian family. A sensitive and sickly child, plagued by nightmares and lung disease. He was raised by a God-fearing spinster nurse who attended to his spiritual health and administered what became a life long regime of drugs. It was her stories of Deacon that planted the seeds of a dark obsession.

  • S2004E05 The Boys of H Company

    • Discovery

    At 9.00am on 19 February 1945, the soldiers of the United States Marine Corps 5th Division, H Company lowered themselves down rope cargo nets into landing crafts rocking in five-foot seas. They were less than a mile from the shore of the remote Pacific island of Iwo Jima. H Company was made up mostly of 18 to 20-year-old boys who had been training for this day for over a year. For most of them, Iwo Jima was their first time in combat. The boys knew little of the island. They had seen mock-ups in briefings but nothing could have prepared them for what lay ahead on the black sand beaches of 'Iwo'.

  • S2004E06 Building the Queen Mary 2

    • Discovery

  • S2004E07 Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets Part 1

    • Discovery

  • S2004E08 Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets Part 2

    • Discovery

  • S2004E09 Building The Ultimate Racing Car

    • Discovery

    See how F1 cars are designed.

  • S2004E10 The Reich Underground: The Last Stand

    • Discovery

    See the huge labrynth of underground tunnels Hitler ordered built to keep the Nazi war machine running.

  • S2004E11 Top 10 Sexual Fantasies

    • Discovery

  • S2004E12 Europe's Secret Armies Resisting Hitler

    • Discovery

  • S2004E13 Europe's Secret Armies Resisting Hitler: French Resistance

    • Discovery

  • S2004E14 The Mystery of the Parthenon

    • Discovery

  • S2004E15 Secrets of Future Airpower

    • Discovery

  • S2004E16 Alien Insect - Praying Mantis

    • Discovery

    The film enters the world of a real-life alien - the praying mantis - and shows the life cycle and behavior of the most formidable and rarest representatives of the mantis family, including several that have never been filmed before. World-wide, there exist some 2,200 species of this bizarre insect family, most of them in the subtropical and tropical zones, a few in the temperate zones of the Old an the New World. Wherever they live and whatever their size, they share one gruesome feature: Every mantis is a perfect killing machine, a living steel trap. Anything but prayerful, mantises prey on everything that moves and can be overwhelmed. This macro documentary shows the life cycle and behavior of the most formidable and rarest representatives of the mantis family, including several that have never been filmed before.

  • S2004E17 Unsolved History - Killing Hitler

    • February 24, 2004
    • Discovery

    This is a documentary, going into a specific plot to kill Hitler. A group of experts try to recreate the events, and test two variations on it, to see how close the people actually came to succeeding. It consists of the experiment, old footage from the period and recreations. They give some basic background to the attempt, and there's plenty of info about it, the room, the placement of the target, etc. They also show the actual explosions that they cause(all in the interest of historical exploration, of course).

  • S2004E18 An Inside Look: Return of the Buffalo

    • January 9, 2004
    • Discovery

  • S2004E19 An Inside Look: Survival Training

    • Discovery

  • S2004E20 Mummy Detective: Part 1: The Three Kings

    • February 19, 2004
    • Discovery

    The Three Wise Men who visit Christ are the most mysterious characters in the Bible. They are the first recorded Christians in history - the first to worship Christ. Each year they appear on thousands of Christmas cards, and hymns about them are sung in cathedrals around the world.

  • S2004E21 Mummy Detective: Part 2: Crypt of the Medici

    • February 20, 2004
    • Discovery

    They were the most powerful and influential family in the world. Richer than the Rockefellers, mightier than the Tudors. They were the Medici. They bankrolled the Renaissance and ignited the Reformation. They were soldiers, bankers, politicians and Popes - and they dominated Europe for 300 years.

  • S2004E22 Mummy Detective: Part 3: Murder of a Pharaoh

    • February 21, 2004
    • Discovery

    In April 1167 B.C the unthinkable happenad. The Pharaoh was murdered in his harem. The murderers used black magic to silence the guards and a poisonous snake to finish him off. The plot was led by ladies of the harem but also had the backing of some thirty senior courtiers. They planned to put their own candidate on the throne of Egypt - but they were caught, tried and then put to death in a variety of horrible ways.

  • S2004E23 Mummy Detective: Part 4: Lost Mummy of Imhotep

    • February 22, 2004
    • Discovery

    At the dawn of Egyptian civilization, Imhotep built the first pyramid, became legendary as a physician, and governed the greatest state on earth. The ancients made him a god. Then Hollywood made him "The Mummy." Today, Egyptologists may have found his tomb, and it could be the greatest discovery of the 2Oth century. By now, millions of people around the world know the name of Imhotep, the Egyptian high priest who turned into 'The Mummy.'

  • S2004E24 Lizzie Borden Had An Axe

    • October 30, 2004
    • Discovery

    The murder of Lizzie Borden's Mother and Father undergoes a forensic investigation - on this Discovery Channel special.

  • S2004E25 The Girl with X-Ray Eyes

    • Discovery

    17 year old Russian Natasha Demkina appears to have the incredible ability to see inside the human body – She is ‘The Girl With The X-Ray Eyes’. Her story sounds like it has come straight from the pages of a science fiction comic book, but apparently Natasha is able to look into people’s bodies and correctly diagnose their medical problems, without any help from ultrasound or x-ray equipment. Many of her patients feel her diagnoses have saved their lives. She's now caught the rest of the world's attention. And everyone asks the same question, is her gift real? To find out, Natasha's agreed to be tested by a body of skeptical scientists in the U.S. So is this young woman really able to see directly inside the human body? ‘The Girl With the X-Ray Eyes’ will reveal all.

  • S2004E26 The Dinosaur Feather Mystery

    • Discovery

    At 55-77 cm (1.8-2.5 ft) long from its nose to the tip of its tail, Microraptor was among the smallest known dinosaurs. Aside from its extremely small size, Microraptor was among the first non-avian dinosaurs discovered with the impressions of feathers and wings. Three specimens of M. zhaoianus have been described in detail, in addition to six specimens of M. gui described by Xu et al. in 2003, from which most feather impressions are known. Unusual even among early birds and feathered dinosaurs, Microraptor is one of the few known bird precursors to sport long flight feathers on its feet as well as its forearms and hands. Their bodies had a thick covering of feathers, with a diamond-shaped fan on the end of the tail (possibly for added stability during flight). Some specimens demonstrate a raised feather "crest" on the head, similar to some modern birds, like the Pileated Woodpecker. Bands of dark and light present on some specimens may indicate color patterns present in life. Several anatomical features found in Microraptor, such as a combination of unserrated and partially serrated teeth with constricted 'waists', and unusually long upper arm bones, are shared with both primitive avians and primitive troodontids.

  • S2004E27 An Inside Look - Secrets of the Inca

    • Discovery

    A look into the culture of the people of Peru as it relates to their Inca heritage. Festivals in Cuzco today celebrating the Inca Sun god and the wonders of Maccu Picchu are only some of the topics covered in this documentary.

  • S2004E28 Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt

    • Discovery

    At the dawn of history, the ancient Egyptians showed the world how to build the impossible... In an age before machines, when copper was the strongest metal yet discovered, great pharaohs like Khufu and Ramses II demonstrated how boundless ambition and vast quantities of human labour could transform rock and stone into some of the most incredible monuments ever created from carving out spectacular tombs in the Valley Of The Kings to the building of the iconic Great Pyramid. In this fascinating documentary special we uncover the secrets of Ancient Egypt Pharaoh, engineers and architects and bring to life great buildings and the ancient Egyptians saw them - towering over their great civilisation in the history of Africa, and perhaps the World....

  • S2004E29 The Real Valkyrie Secret Plot to Kill Hitler

    • Discovery

    On July 20th 1944, a select group of senior German officers made a daring attempt to assassinate their leader, Adolf Hitler. Many high ranking officers in the German Army were appalled by the abhorrent crimes committed against civilians and enemy troops, which they believed to be morally wrong. Casualties among the German forces were enormous and many officers believed this was due to Adolf Hitler's insistence on pursuing disastrous offensive strategies. A growing number of army officers decided that the only way to save Germany was to eliminate Adolf Hitler and his supporters and stage a coup. They then hoped to negotiate a ceasefire with the Allies. The "July Plot", led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, was the closest anyone came to assassinating Adolf Hitler and overthrowing the Nazi government and Discovery Channel's Virtual History team has attempted to recreate the incredible tale in this groundbreaking documentary. With the use of state of the art Computer Generated Imagery, "The Secret Plot to Kill Hitler" is able to recreate and bring to life the extraordinary events that took place on July 20, 1944 and afford the viewer a rare insight into this plot, one of the most fascinating near misses of twentieth-century history.

  • S2004E30 Rameses: Wrath Of God Or Man

    • Discovery

    Explore the origins of the Old Testament's Plague of the Firstborn in this landmark documentary that seeks to investigate the death of Ramses II's eldest son. Join Egyptologist Kent Weeks as he takes a journey into the Valley of the Kings to unearth the remains of the controversial prince and determine the exact cause of his death while simultaneously tracking the path of the Israelites as they made their arduous journey from Mount Sinai to the Red Sea. By combining faithful reenactments of the events as well as spectacular CGI effects, this documentary takes viewers back in time to explore one of history's greatest mysteries.

  • S2004E31 Journey to the Centre of the Earth

    • Discovery

  • S2004E32 Iceberg Cowboys

    • Discovery

    Travelling with the International Iceberg Patrol is a wild, dangerous ride.

  • S2004E33 The Honey Tribesmen

    • Discovery

    The Shenke tribe of Beekeepers in Ethiopia. Their primary product is honey. They keep their bees in split logs in the top of trees. Very tall trees... that they have to climb by hand with flaming torches to smoke the bees. A man with 40 hives can support 2-3 wives.... the more hives the more wives.

  • S2004E34 L.A. 10,000 B.C.

    • Discovery

    Learn how the first residents of Los Angeles developed and later honed critical battle techniques against the malevolent mega fauna that roamed the landscape. Real stunt performers and high-tech, mechanical recreations of primitive beasts demonstrate a series of pivotal, first encounters between man and monster. With each challenge, early man learns to fashion specific weapons to neutralize the abilities of his much larger foes. And the skills he develops in combat with these goliaths, like the Woolly Mammoth, the Cheetah Bear, the Saber-Toothed Cat and the Giant Terror Bird, go a long way toward ensuring his survival, not only throughout the Pleistocene era, but in the millennia to come.

  • S2004E35 Anatomy of a Grizzly Attack

    • Discovery

    This video investigates the biomechanics behind the deadly grizzly attack that killed bear advocate Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend in the Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska.

  • S2004E36 The Russian Revolution in Colour

    • Discovery

    The Russian Revolution of 1917 changed the world forever. Almost overnight, an entire society was destroyed and replaced with one of the biggest and most radical social experiments ever seen. Within a generation, millions would be killed and almost one third of the world’s population would be living in the shadow of communism. The programme make use of dramatised recreations, written witness acounts, interviews with experts and colourised archival footage to tell how this extraordinary event happened. They focus on the sailors from the island naval base of Kronstadt, who in 1917 took up the revolutionary cause with bloody enthusiasm, only to have their dreams shattered when Lenin creates a brutal police state. The sailors denounce their former ally and face the Red Army for a final battle.

  • S2004E37 Aircraft Carrier: City at Sea

    • Discovery

  • S2004E38 Video Game Invasion: The History of a Global Obsession

    • March 21, 2004
    • Discovery

    A breakthrough documentary on the multi-billion dollar industry & the pioneers behind the blips on the screen. Decades later it's all gone extreme! Go beyond the pixels and behind the scenes for the true story about video games. Hosted by Tony Hawk, world champion skateboarder and co-creator of such hit video games as "Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater" and "Tony Hawk’s Underground," VIDEO GAME INVASION explores the creation of video games in an entertaining and comprehensive fashion, taking viewers through the maze of games that comprised the evolution of video gaming.

  • S2004E39 The House that Mackintosh Built

    • Discovery

    Today, the architect, designer and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh is considered one of the leading figures of early 20th Century Modernism. But for all of his international influence and renown, Mackintosh only ever completed one architectural commission outside of Scotland during his lifetime--a residential renovation at 78 Derngate in Northhampton, England.

  • S2004E40 Pharaoh's Revenge: Egypt's Lost Treasure

    • June 23, 2004
    • Discovery

    Follow archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass in his international campaign to recover Egypt's most iconic stolen treasures. For more than two hundred years, since Napol?on Bonaparte's expeditionary force landed at Alexandria in 1798, the Nile Valley has been systematically looted of its treasures. It's a story of breathtaking greed, hypocrisy and cultural philistinism, and it's a story that continues to this day. For Dr. Zahi Hawass, it's time to act. With exclusive access to the innermost workings of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo, this programme will examine the stories behind three of Egypt's most important artefacts: how they were discovered, where they are now and Dr. Hawass's attempts to bring them home.

  • S2004E41 Columbus: Secrets from the Grave

    • August 31, 2004
    • Discovery

    WHO WAS CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS? The answer to this deceptively simple question is undergoing a sea change. The rote response based on dusty, if questionable, documents in Genoa and recited in primary schools in the Old World and New is that Cristoforo Colombo, born in 1451: was an Italian ,was the son of lowly wool-workers, and therefore uneducated as well as lacking in experience in seamanship had legions of relatives in his hometown Genoa, none of them noble. Historians and scientists questioning Columbus' heritage have put modern forensic techniques to work to help answer questions. Perhaps the most critical is DNA testing performed this year on bones that are believed to be those of Christopher Columbus, as well as remains from Columbus' son (Hernando) and brother(Diego). Annunciada Colon, Columbus' direct descendent, handed over the key to a burial chest, disinterred from the Cathedral in Seville, Spain, that is reported to hold Columbus' bones. But there is debate about whether Columbus' body which was moved repeatedly over the centuries actually rests there. Dr. Antonio Lorente of the University of Granada in Spain, a specialist in forensic genetics, is attempting to compare the genetic material from the three sets of remains to see if he can prove that this is Columbus.

  • S2004E42 The Mysterious Death of Cleopatra

    • Discovery

    Top US Criminal Profiler, Pat Brown, and a team of experts in archaeology and toxicology, psychology and Egyptology, re-examine the suicide story and find that all the leads point to a very different story – the murder of the Egyptian queen. The team identify a prime suspect, a man who had everything to gain by Cleopatra’s death. The Mysterious Death of Cleopatra combines modern criminal profiling techniques, stylish dramatisations and state of the art CGI to investigate the most famous suicide in history. History is rewritten as a compelling case for murder is presented.

  • S2004E43 Cruising Antarctica

    • September 11, 2004
    • Discovery
  • S2004E44 An Inside Look: Gold

    • February 17, 2004
    • Discovery

  • S2004E45 Destroyer: Forged in Steel

    • December 1, 2004
    • Discovery

    The Arleigh Burke destroyer is America's most modern surface warship. This sleek, 500-foot long vessel bristles with state-of-the-art weapons and technology. Armed with long-range cruise missiles, 5-inch main guns, torpedoes and high-speed cannons, this extremely fast and stealthy warship will be the mainstay of the Navy's forward projection of force well into the 21st century. At the Bath Iron Works in Maine, follow the construction of one of these impressive vessels from its keel laying to its initial slide into the Kennebec River.

  • S2004E46 Dive To Bermuda Triangle

    • May 2, 2004
    • Discovery

    What are the biggest mysteries kept by the 1.5 million square miles of Atlantic we call the "Bermuda Triangle"?

  • S2004E47 Rebuilding a Race Car Legend - Ford GT40

    • January 1, 2004
    • Discovery

    Get an inside look at the rebuilding of a race car legend in this exciting documentary. In one-third of the time it typically takes to design and produce a high-quality automobile, the Ford Motor Co. brings their GT40 back to life as the 2005 Ford GT. The GT40 dominated the arduous Le Mans endurance race in the 1960s, besting every other high-speed racer. Now, it's been redesigned to put everyday drivers behind the wheel of a precision machine.

Season 2005

  • S2005E01 Alien Planet

    • May 14, 2005
    • Discovery

    Alien Planet is a 94 minute mockumentary, originally airing on the Discovery Channel, about two internationally built robot probes searching for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV. It was based on the book Expedition, by sci-fi/fantasy artist and writer Wayne Douglas Barlowe, who was also executive producer on the special. It premiered on May 14, 2005. The show uses sophisticated computer-generated imagery, which is interspersed with interviews from such notables as Stephen Hawking, George Lucas, Michio Kaku, and Jack Horner. The show was filmed in Iceland and Mono Lake in California.

  • S2005E02 Anatomy of Sex

    • Discovery

  • S2005E03 Supersonic: Pushing The Envelope

    • Discovery

    Where can you get the fastest ride on the planet? Journey with the world's biggest adrenalin junkies.

  • S2005E04 Last Mysteries of the Titanic

    • Discovery

  • S2005E05 Impossible Heists - New York Rare Gem Heist

    • Discovery

  • S2005E06 World's Biggest Airliner: Building the Airbus A380

    • Discovery

  • S2005E07 Sniper School

    • Discovery

  • S2005E08 Sunrise Earth - Glacier Of Kenai Fjords

    • Discovery

    Perched in Alaska’s dawn hours along the terminal moraine of Kenai Fjord’s lagest tidewater glacier, cool, blue cracks of ice flow toward the sea.

  • S2005E09 Delta Company - The Push to Baghdad

    • September 5, 2012
    • Discovery

    Delta Company, 1st Tank Battalion was a lead ground attack element in the 2003 Iraq War. Accompanying them for the entire three-week charge from Kuwait to Baghdad were Marine Corps combat cameraman equipped with the latest high definition cameras. Delta Company is the two-hour television special based on that combat footage, including personal accounts of the Marines as they are leading the charge. The stunning footage in this program has never been seen on television before. Highlights include dramatic tank, air, and infantry combat, briefings and interaction between soldiers, and interviews with key military participants along the road to Baghdad. With the help of a heroic lance corporal who detonates a failed line charge by hand, Delta Company overcomes the obstacles at the Diyala Bridge. The unit achieves the first opposed bridge crossing in Marine Corps history since the Korean War. Amid scattered resistance, the Delta Company tanks push through and enter the city. Soldiers interact with civilian populations, joining them in toppling statues of the former dictator. As major combat operations conclude, Marines reflect on their experience and prepare to return home.

  • S2005E10 Delta Company - A New Era in Baghdad

    • September 5, 2012
    • Discovery

    Delta Company, 1st Tank Battalion was a lead ground attack element in the 2003 Iraq War. Accompanying them for the entire three-week charge from Kuwait to Baghdad were Marine Corps combat cameraman equipped with the latest high definition cameras. Delta Company is the two-hour television special based on that combat footage, including personal accounts of the Marines as they are leading the charge. The stunning footage in this program has never been seen on television before. Highlights include dramatic tank, air, and infantry combat, briefings and interaction between soldiers, and interviews with key military participants along the road to Baghdad. With the help of a heroic lance corporal who detonates a failed line charge by hand, Delta Company overcomes the obstacles at the Diyala Bridge. The unit achieves the first opposed bridge crossing in Marine Corps history since the Korean War. Amid scattered resistance, the Delta Company tanks push through and enter the city. Soldiers interact with civilian populations, joining them in toppling statues of the former dictator. As major combat operations conclude, Marines reflect on their experience and prepare to return home.

  • S2005E11 The History of Singapore - I. Raffle's Little Child

    • December 5, 2005
    • Discovery

    he first episode chronicles the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles, and tells the story of Singapore's birth and growing pains through to the high noon of Empire. With a vision of Singapore as a trading port in its own right, Raffles attempted to shift the centre of the trading network to Singapore with the promise of free trade. But money-making schemes, monopoly of opium and alcohol supplies, secret societies and other vices plagued the tiny nation, and the city grew more squalid and violent as there was no government to speak of. However, with the opening of the Suez Canal, Singapore became a truly international port, no longer having to rely on regional trade. With this transformation, Britain began to be more concerned about Singapore and granted it colonial status. By applying some governance and sorting out the social problems, Singapore became more stable and Raffles' vision was becoming reality. But the seeds of Singapore's downfall were also being sown as the arrival of new goods and people also brought new ideas which would convulse Singapore in the 20th century.

  • S2005E12 The History of Singapore - II. The Accidental Nation

    • December 12, 2005
    • Discovery

    Nationalism arrived in Singapore in 1901 with Sun Yat Sen. Japan's invasion of China in the 1930s further fueled this, triggering a nationalist outpouring. Japan soon attacked the small island and Britain surrendered in February 1942. After the war, it was clear that the British no longer had the funds for the Empire and it was time for Singaporeans to fill the political vacuum. A new professional class of people like Lee Kuan Yew became the first Singaporean nationalists - they regarded Singapore as their homeland, not China or India. This episode follows the political changes that took place in the mid 1950s, in particular the struggle between Lee Kuan Yew and Lim Chin Siong. Viewers learn of the threat of communism, Singapore's relationship with and separation from Malaya, and the eventual formation of an independent government and nation.

  • S2005E13 The History of Singapore - III. The Lion City, Asian Tiger

    • December 19, 2005
    • Discovery

    Singapore's journey did not have a promising start, and few believed it could survive as an independent nation-state. After its separation from Malaya, Singapore had lost its industrial and emotional hinterland, was surrounded by potentially hostile neighbours, and was beleaguered by political unrest. This episode shows how Singapore turned yet another weakness into strength. Under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yew, political opponents were neutralised, trade union activism was discouraged and the nation was re-educated with a series of public campaigns. With the influx of multi-national corporations, Singapore's programme of state capitalism flourished. But even with a hard-working and efficient population, the nation lacked entrepreneurial or political energies. It needed to re-invent itself to continue to flourish in the 20th century. The challenge for Singapore as it moves from youth to middle age is to be a nation that can draw on its past as an inspiration for its future.

  • S2005E14 The History of Singapore - IV. Mangrove to Metropolis

    • December 26, 2005
    • Discovery

  • S2005E15 The True Legend of the Eiffel Tower

    • Discovery

    This documentary-drama tells the fascinating tale of one man’s towering ambition, and the structure he created. The dramatic five year period preceding the unveiling of the Eiffel Tower is recreated in breathtaking detail. Through startling HD technology, we journey through the colour and glamour of nineteenth century Paris, feasting upon a visual banquet of music halls, dancing girls, beautiful landscapes and awe-inspiring architecture. Swept up in a whirlwind of silk and satin, we drink in the nocturnal delights of the ‘world capital of pleasure’ during Paris’ belle �poque. The political wrangling, intense rivalry, and profound danger surrounding Eiffel’s project are revealed, and the enormity and scope of his vision is bought sharply into focus.

  • S2005E16 Comet Collision

    • January 1, 2005
    • Discovery

    In July 2005, NASA's Deep Impact probe collided with comet Tempel 1, providing the first-ever glimpse of the interior of one of these "dirty snowballs" and valuable insight into the formation of our solar system. NASA's brilliant, but risky, plan to send a tiny, copper-plated probe hurtling directly towards the city-sized comet at a speed of 23,000 mph was a smashing success. The resulting explosion of particles provided experts with new data about the composition of life-building materials that were present in the early solar system. Watch as state-of-the-art spacecraft animation and stunning location photography bring the mission to life, taking viewers behind the scenes of NASA's high-profile mission. Follow the entire journey of the doomed Deep Impact probe, from its initial design to the extraordinary challenge of building a spacecraft that's intended to be smashed to pieces.

  • S2005E17 Genghis Khan

    • Discovery

  • S2005E18 Amazon Abyss

    • August 22, 2005
    • Discovery

    Follow the high-adrenaline adventures of a team of divers as they explore and film the depths of the Amazon river system, home to many of the strangest and fiercest creatures in the world. Led by celebrated wildlife photographers Mike deGruy and Kate Humble, the team goes in search of the biological treasures hidden beneath Amazon's silty surface. What they discover, electric eels, anacondas, wood-eating fish, freshwater dolphins and more, are unlike anything you'd find at the local aquarium..

  • S2005E19 Killer Hurricane: Anatomy of Katrina

    • Discovery

    Shocking footage of a gut-wrenching natural catastrophe. Hurricane Katrina brought destruction to New Orleans - high winds and debris pummeled buildings and the storm surge flooded the streets. (from Discovery Channel's "Killer Hurricane")

  • S2005E20 The Mystery of the Human Hobbit

    • Discovery

  • S2005E21 The Real Da Vinci Code

    • August 21, 2005
    • Discovery

    Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code may be a novel, but Brown claims that his book is based on research and that all the art, architecture and secret societies he describes are real. It's a controversial claim because, if based in truth, The Da Vinci Code threatens to turn our view of history on its head. Millions of readers have been hooked, but what do historians think of the book and do its major claims stand up to scrutiny? Has the truth about the Holy Grail been suppressed by the Catholic Church? Has the Grail been kept safe by powerful secret societies? And is the real truth about the Grail encoded into Leonardo's great painting of the Last Supper? Tony Robinson sets out to discover the facts about the Holy Grail and cut through the thicket of mystery that surrounds the subject. Like many Grail hunters before him, has Dan Brown has been duped and could one of the most alluring elements of the modern Grail obsession be an elaborate hoax?

  • S2005E22 Osama: Dead or Alive

    • Discovery

  • S2005E23 The Next Wave: Science of Tsunamis

    • Discovery

    Most Pacific Rim countries participate in an advanced tsunami warning system—but when the 2004 Indian Ocean tele-tsunami struck, no such system existed for that region. This program recounts the events of the disaster and explores the potential for more occurrences like it—including scenarios involving vast destruction in the United States. Following a country-by-country breakdown of the 2004 tragedy, the video shows how landslides can cause tsunamis of almost unimaginable power, how such a collapse in the Canary Islands could swamp America’s East Coast, and how a truly global tsunami warning system might be established. A Discovery Channel Production. (45 minutes)

  • S2005E24 Brainman

    • Discovery

    Brainman is a Discovery Channel documentary that takes viewers inside the peculiar brilliance of Daniel Tammet, called a "super brain," .

  • S2005E25 Coastal Crisis: The Vanishing Lands

    • June 11, 2005
    • Discovery

    One-hour documentary on Louisiana's vanishing coastline and the science of restoration. The show was produced by Washington, D.C.-based 62 Blue Productions. The documentary features a number of Louisiana scientists, researchers, and coastal-advocacy leaders, including several local figures. Parts of the documentary, a year in the making, were taped in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, which are suffering the state's worst wetlands loss. The how uses Louisiana as a focal point for understanding the complexity of both the land loss problem and solutions and the reaching impacts of restoration.

  • S2005E26 Living with Wolves

    • May 8, 2005
    • Discovery

    During centuries wolves were characterized as blood-thirsty beasts, enemies of owners of ranch and killer of helpless live-stock. Adjusted to overcome this misunderstanding, the cameramen-naturalists of Jamie and Jim Dutcher lived six years in a tent camp, in the wilderness of Idaho, living with the covey of wolves, listening to them and earning their trust.

  • S2005E27 Khubilai Khan: Fall of the Mongol Hordes

    • March 20, 2005
    • Discovery

  • S2005E28 Seven Wonders Of Ancient Rome

    • January 31, 2005
    • Discovery

    Documentary which explores the Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome: Circus Maximus, Trajan's Forum, Aqueducts, Baths of Caracalla, Roman Roads, Pantheon and The Colosseum.

  • S2005E29 Who Killed King Tut - Case Reopened

    • Discovery

  • S2005E30 Alien Planet

    • May 14, 2005
    • Discovery

    What happens when we find life outside our own planet? Discovery Channel brings viewers on a virtual mission of the future. Right now, the search for planets with "life signatures" goes on. These efforts are global, and experts tell us on camera how this search for life is progressing around the world. No longer just the domain of science fiction, what could alien life really look like? Alien Planet dramatizes an exciting — and possible — answer. The drama takes place on Darwin IV, a fictional planet 6.5 light-years from Earth, with two suns and 60 percent gravity. Having identified Darwin as a world that could support life, Earth sends a pilot mission consisting of the mothership Von Braun and three probes: Balboa, Da Vinci and Newton. This unmanned fleet is responsible for finding and assessing any life-forms on Darwin IV. Initially, the expectation is to find microscopic life, but the probes soon find themselves in the middle of a developed ecosystem teeming with life of all sizes. The viewer experiences Darwin IV through the "eyes" of the probes Ike (Newton) and Leo (Da Vinci), whose data is relayed back to the mothership and then communicated to Earth. The biological and atmospheric data from the probes and mothership are relayed to viewers through computer voice simulation and on-screen readouts. Real scientists consider data in this planetary environment. They discuss the larger issues of the possibilities of life outside our solar system and deconstruct the animals on Darwin IV, basing the analysis on the laws of evolution and physics. Where possible, life-size animal images and the real probe prototypes will help the audience to understand the current, real basis of the search for other planets. Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku and other big thinkers and scientists will participate in the discussion of where science is today. Other participants include Jack Horner, Craig Venter, George Lucas and NASA's chief scientist, Jim Garvin. The drama

  • S2005E31 UFO's Over Phoenix

    • June 6, 2005
    • Discovery

    In March, 1997, hundreds of people reported seeing strange lights in the night sky over central Arizona. Join host Michelle Trachtenberg to uncover the events of that evening and the theories that might explain them.

  • S2005E32 Britains Secret UFO Hunters

    • August 20, 2005
    • Discovery

    Learn about the secret organisation established in London's Metropole Hotel to monitor British airspace during the Cold War. The Government has denied its existence -until now.

  • S2005E33 How William Shatner Changed the World

    • January 1, 2005
    • Discovery

    William Shatner presents a light-hearted look at how the "Star Trek" TV series have influenced and inspired today's technologies, including: cell phones, medical imaging, computers and software, SETI, MP3 players and iPods, virtual reality, and spaceship propulsion.

Season 2006

  • S2006E01 Wunder des Weltalls - Kosmische Katastrophen

    • Discovery

  • S2006E02 Wunder des Weltalls - Die Sonne

    • Discovery

  • S2006E03 Wunder des Weltalls - Mondreisen

    • Discovery

  • S2006E04 Wunder des Weltalls - Allein im All

    • Discovery

  • S2006E05 Wunder des Weltalls - Der unsichtbare Kosmos

    • Discovery

  • S2006E06 Wunder des Weltalls - Faszination Milchstrasse

    • Discovery

  • S2006E07 Wunder des Weltalls - Der Blick zu den Sternen

    • Discovery

  • S2006E08 Wunder des Weltalls - Bis ans Ende der Zeit

    • Discovery

  • S2006E09 Wunder des Weltalls - Der Halleysche Komet

    • Discovery

  • S2006E10 Wunder des Weltalls - Die Stars des Sonnensystems

    • Discovery

  • S2006E11 Wunder des Weltalls - Das Licht der Galaxien

    • Discovery

  • S2006E12 Wunder des Weltalls - Planet Erde

    • Discovery

  • S2006E13 Wunder des Weltalls - Der Urknall

    • Discovery

  • S2006E14 Secrets of Mary Magdalene

    • Discovery

    Secrets of Mary Magdalene strips away the veils of history to reveal the flesh and blood woman who served as Jesus' foremost apostle and possibly the love of his life. Based on the nonfiction book "Secrets of Mary Magdalene" by bestselling authors Dan Burstein and Arne De Keijzer, this documentary special uncovers the latest information on one of the world's most controversial religious figures.

  • S2006E15 Catching the Comet

    • January 22, 2006
    • Discovery

    We’ve watched them streak across the sky for centuries, but what - beyond their sometimes extraordinary and fleeting beauty - do we really know about comets? Follow a breakthrough mission to demystify and - for the very first time - capture the contents of a comet. Premiering Sunday, January 22 at 7 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT on Discovery Channel, Catching the Comet follows the exploration of a comet by devising an innovative way to bring one home. This one-hour special follows the Stardust mission, the first U.S. space project dedicated to the exploration of a comet, and the first robotic exercise designed to return comet dust to Earth. Last year a NASA spacecraft flew past the comet, dubbed Wild 2, to collect comet dust - particles smaller than a grain of sand - in a specially designed high-tech capsule. On January 15, 2006, that capsule will fall to Earth in the Utah desert. In the middle of the night, at a restricted location on a U.S. army base, waiting helicopters will pluck the canister from its landing spot and transport it to a specially prepared lab for analysis. What will the experiments reveal about this mysterious dust - and how will this new discovery inform our understanding of comets? In Catching the Comet, follow the 4.8-billion kilometre Stardust operation, from mission control to the preparations for the capsule’s return and its actual fall to Earth. What do scientists know about comets already? Comets are like “cosmic refrigerators” - so cold, untouched and remote that they provide clues to the physical and chemical conditions of the solar system as it existed 4.6 billion years ago. That old stuff stuck at the back of the “cosmic fridge” is best described as frozen primordial ooze from the time the planets and Sun were formed. When scientists observe comets today, they are reaching back into the past and learning about the origin of the solar system and perhaps the beginning of life on Earth. But these balls of gas, dust and ice cont

  • S2006E16 Apollo 11: The Untold Story

    • July 24, 2006
    • Discovery

    When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon in July 1969, Apollo 11 was hailed as the supreme triumph of American technology. But behind the flag waving lies a very different story: the untold account of how close the mission came to disaster. Now, nearly forty years later, men on that mission reveal what really happened on the first voyage to the moon, and unpublished NASA documents are made public for the first time. It's a tale of how primitive computer technology coupled with human errors and mechanical failures nearly caused the tragic loss of the crew. Apollo 11: The Untold Story reveals how, in deep space, the lunar module lost all contact with earth, coming within seconds of crashing. By running off course, the lunar module became critically low on fuel over inhospitable boulder-strewn lunar terrain. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin recalls how the astronauts believed they saw a UFO some 200,000 miles from earth, an event covered up at NASA's insistence for over thirty years. We discover how Mission Control's total computing power was the equivalent of one of today's laptops while the power of the lunar module was equal to a modern digital watch. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin reveals how a ballpoint pen saved him and Neil Armstrong from a lonely death stranded on the moon; and we discover how behind the scenes, so great were the fears that the crew wouldn't return that during the mission White House officials prepared a secret memorial speech for President Nixon to deliver to the world in the event of tragedy. Everybody thinks they know about Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong's "one small step for man", the stars and stripes planted firmly in the moon rock, the triumphant return to earth. This film, drawing on first hand testimonies from Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 flight director Gene Kranz and key personnel from the mission, reveals just how complicated that mission really was. For a group of pioneering men armed with experimental 1960s technology, Apollo 11 was

  • S2006E17 Secrets of The Occult: The Magicians

    • Discovery

    The claims of the occult magicians are put under the microscope to reveal the fascinating interface between occult beliefs of ancient Egyptians and Greeks to modern discoveries of the mind and the physical world. “Secrets of the Occult” tells the stories of the first magicians, and the modern scientists who unravel the mysteries of our world.

  • S2006E18 Secrets of The Occult: The Scientists

    • Discovery

    This documentary highlights the advances achieved by innovators who challenged the established ‘reality,’ including like Newton, Galileo, Carl Jung and Einstein.

  • S2006E19 First Emperor: The Man Who Made China

    • January 29, 2006
    • Discovery

    The First Emperor: The Man Who Made China follows the rise and fall of Chin Shi Huang, China’s legendary first emperor. The Discovery Channel was allowed unprecedented access to Emperor Chin’s underground burial complex that spans over seven square miles. The team employs cutting edge technology such as ground-penetrating radar combined with CGI to illustrate the design and layout of the largest unopened tomb in the world.

  • S2006E20 Revealing Mars

    • March 10, 2006
    • Discovery

    On August 12, 2005 NASA launched Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter designed to explore the Red Planet from the orbit. The M.R.O. will make a more comprehensive inspection of Mars than any previous mission, examining landscape details as small as a coffee table with the most powerful telescopic camera ever sent to orbit of a foreign planet. This 47 min. long documentary will walk you through the orbiter's scientific payload, illustrate how each instrument works and give you a sense of the high-quality images and data these tools will produce by comparing them to tools used for the investigation of the atmosphere and geology of Earth.

  • S2006E21 Nostradamus: The Truth

    • May 19, 2006
    • Discovery

    Documentary examining the prophecies of the ancient seer. Were Nostradamus' insights really as specific and lucid as some people have claimed?

  • S2006E22 Panic in the Ring of Fire

    • Discovery

    In May 2006, Mt. Merapi, a.k.a. The Mountain of Fire in central Java, was living up to its reputation as one of the most active volcanoes on planet earth. Vulcanologists, scientists, media and the people of Indonesia all watched the mountain nervously as it theatrically streamed molten lava and hurled dust and debris into the atmosphere. A small production team representing Discovery Channel Canada travelled to the central city of Yogyakarta to make a television film about the reality of daily life for the simple villagers and farmers who lived in the potentially lethal shadow of the mountain.

  • S2006E23 The Mystery Dinosaur

    • July 11, 2012
    • Discovery

    The documentary tells the story of Jane, a pristine dinosaur skeleton unearthed in Southeastern Montana by a group of mostly amateur fossil hunters from the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, where the dinosaur is now prominently displayed. Jane was built to kill. Twenty-two feet long and 7 1/2 feet high at the hip, the dinosaur during its day tipped the scales at about 1,500 pounds. It had 72 serrated teeth.

  • S2006E24 T. Rex: New Science, New Beast

    • November 26, 2006
    • Discovery

    Delve deep into the world of TYRANNOSAURUS REX (by studying "Sue") as we revisit the past to rewrite the history of this hulking beast. Discard your previous assumptions and explore the latest T-rex discoveries to reveal the true history, biology and mechanics of this massive creature.

  • S2006E25 Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans?

    • Discovery

    Traditional history tells us that European settlers discovered America about the time of the Renaissance. But revolutionary new archaeological data and the latest DNA research reveal that Europeans visited our shores far earlier – some 17,000 years before Columbus was even born. Filmed in glorious high definition, this two-hour, epic drama follows an intrepid family of stone age hunters as they trek from their homeland in southwestern France, cross 3,000 miles of ocean and eventually make their first permanent settlement in what is today the northeastern U.S. Along the way, they overcome starvation and storms with the help of a revolutionary weapons technology they would later bequeath to the native peoples of the Americas. But awaiting the pioneers’ arrival is a stark, empty continent, filled with a plethora of bizarre and lethal animals – all brought to life by brilliant computer animation. Firmly rooted in the latest scientific discoveries, it’s a compelling vision of the greatest migration in human history.

  • S2006E26 Gold Diggers: World's Biggest Bank Robbery

    • April 8, 2006
    • Discovery

    In 2005, 168,000,000 Brazilian Real (almost 80,000,000 US dollars) was stolen from a Brazilian bank, making it the biggest peace-time robbery in history. It was perhaps the most audacious bank heist ever. The gang were widely hailed as folk-heroes. The crime was technically brilliant, and they disappeared without trace. Police were stunned by what they found – and so was the Discovery audience. The gang had burrowed in from over a block away, creating a tunnel that was wood-panelled, strip lit – and even air-conditioned! They destroyed all forensics at the scene, and only took bank notes that were untraceable. Not a single alarm was triggered. By the time the theft was noticed, the gang had disappeared into thin air...

  • S2006E27 Guge. The Lost Kingdom of Tibet

    • Discovery

    In the barren landscape of remote western Tibet lies the ruins of a mysterious kingdom. A kingdom whose capital was 3600 meters high on the Tibetan plateau. A kingdom that offers archaeological treasures that compare with Italy’s Pompeii. Once controlling the trade in gold, silk and spices between India and China, it was a kingdom of fabulous wealth and great religious significance. For two centuries it was the cradle of Himalayan Buddhism. Yet this spiritual and commercial hub, which prospered for seven centuries, vanished without a trace in 1630. Until now the mystery of what was the Tibetan kingdom of Guge has remained unresolved.

  • S2006E28 Saving Ronald Reagan

    • October 3, 2006
    • Discovery

    On March 30 1981, as Ronald Reagan paused to wave at reporters outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, six shots rang out. Instinctively special agent Jerry Parr hustled the seemingly unhurt president into his waiting limo, but as the car sped away, Reagan coughed up blood and accused Parr of breaking one of his ribs. At the George Washington Hospital, Dr. Ben Aaron looked at the blood flowing out of Reagan's chest, unaware of the bullet lodged just 3 inches from his heart, and faced the biggest decision of his life. If he performed an operation on the president's chest, he risked killing a 70-year-old man whose body was in shock and might not be able to cope with the trauma. But if he waited, a major blood vessel might burst, which could also kill him.

  • S2006E29 What Lies Below

    • October 28, 2006
    • Discovery

    A team of cave explorers, each with their own speciality, travel to any given location on planet Earth to explore and document the millions of uncharted miles of caves that rest beneath our feet, much of which has never been seen or tread on by mankind.

  • S2006E30 Munich: The Real Assassins

    • Discovery

    n September 1972, during the Olympics in Munich and before the eyes of millions of television viewers, 11 Israeli athletes were killed after being taken hostage by a little-known radical Palestinian group called ‘Black September’. It was an event that shocked the world, and the Israeli government wanted revenge. Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, sent elite undercover agents across Europe and the Middle East to hunt down and kill the 11 people they believed were responsible for the Munich massacre. Steven Spielberg's movie Munich is based on a fictionalized account of these events. Now, for the first time, the programme reveals the real story behind Israel's campaign of revenge and how it spiraled out of control. Featuring the testimony of senior Mossad figures, undercover assassins, eyewitnesses and relatives of the victims, and seen through the eyes of the five elite Israeli agents handpicked to carry out the mission, Munich: The Real Assassins premieres September 5 at 9pm and encores September 6 at midnight, 5am and 10am, and September 12 at 5pm. Ordered from the top, this crack assassination squad set out from Israel to Rome, Paris, Frankfurt, Beirut, Athens, the Swiss Alps and London on an epic two-year mission. Given millions of dollars via a secret Frankfurt bank account, they were handed the list of “The Eleven” – and a license to kill. This film will reveal the daily realities of their lives as assassins, from the dramatic assassinations to the bitter moral dilemmas and brutal failures.

  • S2006E31 Greatest Fireworks on Earth

    • August 1, 2015
    • Discovery

    Fireworks are used to celebrate important events. Captured in high-definition video, viewers experience a high-rolling fireworks extravaganza in a number of events in destinations around the world.

  • S2006E32 The Scorpion's Tale

    • March 13, 2006
    • Discovery

    Scorpions belong to the oldest land-based arachnides. Over 1800 different species are known to exist. Usually, they do not surpass the size of 10cm in length, but exceptions are know, such as the Emperor Scorpion (Pandinus imperator) which can grow up to become over 20cm in size. Scorpions mostly live at night and hide away during the day. They live mainly on insects but some species also feed on rodents and reptiles (lizards that are not big enough to be an opponent). Today humans threaten the existence of some species of scorpions. Take a look into the live of these amazing creatures!

  • S2006E33 King Tut's Mystery Tomb Opened

    • July 9, 2006
    • Discovery

  • S2006E34 Egypt's New Tomb Revealed

    • June 23, 2006
    • Discovery

    A new tomb is found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, with 28 jars and 7 coffins. What lies sealed inside the jars? Are there mummies in the coffins? And, if so, are they tied to King Tut's tomb?

  • S2006E35 Global Warming: What You Need to Know with Tom Brokaw

    • July 2, 2006
    • Discovery

    Global warming is the rise in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation. Since the early 20th century, Earth's mean surface temperature has increased by about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F), with about two-thirds of the increase occurring since 1980. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and scientists are more than 90% certain that it is primarily caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. These findings are recognized by the national science academies of all major industrialized nations

  • S2006E36 The Mystery of the Human Hobbit

    • March 4, 2006
    • Discovery

  • S2006E37 Mount St. Helens: Forecast for Disaster

    • July 29, 2006
    • Discovery

    Is Washington's Mount St. Helens going to blow again? This new documentary looks at scientific efforts to collect valuable information that might provide advance warning of a volcanic eruption, the last of which happened in 1980. "Feasting on Asphalt" (9 p.m., Food Network): Before people needed to conquer, build, shop and commute, they needed to eat. That's why there are roads -- at least, according to Alton Brown. So this intrepid culinary investigator hits the road with his motorcycle to find what's on the menu. "Feasting on Asphalt," which premieres tonight, is a four-episode series documenting Brown's quest. Loosely following Route 50, Brown and crew will meander from Savannah, Ga., across the bayous of Louisiana, over the hill country of Texas, across the high dusty dessert, then west to Las Vegas and the California coast. Brown ("Good Eats" and "Iron Chef America") will be eating on the go at every level, from foraging in the forest to hitting roadside diners -- not to mention churches, VFW halls, and homes of folks nice enough to offer a weary traveler a meal.

  • S2006E38 Addicted to Oil: Thomas L. Friedman Reporting

    • June 24, 2006
    • Discovery

    Explores how America's addiction to oil funds terrorists, has a visual model of the global heating, explores several alternative energy sources and the current administrations attitude towards energy.

  • S2006E39 UFOs Over Illinois: Anatomy of a Sighting

    • April 22, 2006
    • Discovery

    The focus of this video is indeed "the anatomy of a sighting," the process by which investigators went about studying this case in the absence of any video or significant photographic evidence. A trucker first spotted the UFO just before 4 AM on January 5, 2000, and alerted the local police dispatcher. Then, as the object made its way south-southwest across the Illinois skies, police officers from the localities of the corresponding towns reported their own sightings of the object. We have the tape of these calls to the dispatcher. The final witness was a teacher traveling to work just before 7 AM. While witness testimony naturally differed slightly (the first and last witnesses saw a more box-like structure, whereas the policemen described the object as having the shape of an arrowhead), important correlations did exist in their individual descriptions.

  • S2006E40 Champ: America's Loch Ness Monster

    • Discovery

  • S2006E41 Da Vinci's Lost Code

    • Discovery

    Da Vinci's lost code featuring scientists and forensic experts were investigating the mysterious painting is modern and the new instructions of the works . Equipped with the text in Indonesian Executive producer for Discovery Channel, Jack E. Smith; narrated by David Soul

  • S2006E42 Europa: Mystery of the Ice Moon

    • August 1, 2006
    • Discovery

    After the Jupiter mission, NASA scientists now believe that life forms exist on EUROPA, the giant frozen moon orbiting Jupiter. Using 3-D mapping imagery, scientists reveal their hypotheses and exclusive footage of what it might be like to take the 7-year voyage to discover the climate and origins of this mysterious moon. Viewers are taken on an exploration journey as three NASA scientists venture to a cold desolate glacier in the Canadian Yukon Territory. This is the only known environment that is similar to EUROPA's icy surface, and gives scientists an idea of the monumental yet exciting possibilities that come with ice exploration. Oceans explorer Mike Cameron makes a special appearance (James Cameron's brother who created vital technology on James Cameron's explorations of "Titanic" and "Bismarck"), as he creates a working model of a probe concept to extract scientific data from the Earth's surface that could one day explore EUROPA's oceans. Cameron's camera technology and robots survived extraordinary conditions to some 15,000 ft. below the Earth's ocean surface inspire him to imagine what it would take to bore through many miles of ice and into this icy moon's ocean that just might contain life.

  • S2006E43 China's Mega Dam

    • January 28, 2006
    • Discovery

    The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China is the largest public works project in the history of mankind. Its size, scale and potential are unprecedented in engineering history. Join Discovery Channel cameras - granted exclusive access to the site - as they document the dramatic effect this massive construction project will have on the surrounding countryside.

  • S2006E44 Battle of Chernobyl

    • Discovery

    The accident that occurred at Chernobyl on 26 April 1986 was the most disastrous reactor malfunction in the history of nuclear power. Fifty-six people died immediately following the accident and substantial amounts of radioactive material were released into the atmosphere. This contaminated not only the surrounding area but spread across western Europe and eventually around the globe. Hundreds of thousands of people had to be evacuated from the region around the power plant and to date approximately 4,000 have died from the long-term effects of radiation poisoning.

Season 2007

  • S2007E01 Alcatraz: Living Hell

    • January 31, 2007
    • Discovery

    Alcatraz was the countrys first maximum security penitentiary designed for troublemakers both high risk and high-profile. Infamous gangsters and cons like Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly and "The Birdman" Robert Stroud; and many other criminals who were no less dangerous. Over 29 years, these desperate inmates challenged the prison again and again. The Rock was tough, but the inmates were convinced they were tougher. Go behind the legend and discover the strengths and weaknesses of Alcatraz, on Building the Rock.

  • S2007E02 Drift: The Sideways Craze

    • Discovery

    This film follows the Nation's top ranked Drifters on and off the track. It shows the journey of a Drift enthusiast building his car and learning from his mentors, Samuel Hubinette and Ken Gushi.

  • S2007E03 Secrets of the Pyramids

    • Discovery

    This astounding documentary explores the phenomenon of the pyramids - the architectural skills required to build them and their spiritual and cultural significance recreating the former glory of the pyramids in Egypt, China, South and North America

  • S2007E04 Space Station and Beyond

    • January 3, 2007
    • Discovery

    NASA made history with the first live HDTV broadcasts from space, in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Discovery HD Theater and Japanese broadcast network NHK.The broadcasts featured Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria on the International Space Station, with Flight Engineer Thomas Reiter serving as camera operator aboard the 220-mile-high laboratory. "HDTV provides up to six times the resolution of regular analog video," said Rodney Grubbs, NASA principal investigator. "On previous missions, we've flown HDTV cameras but had to wait until after the mission to retrieve the tapes, watch the video and share it with the science and engineering community, the media and the public. For the first time ever, this test lets us stream live HDTV from space so the public can experience what its like to be there." Known as the Space Video Gateway, the system transmits high bandwidth digital television signals to the ground that are not only spectacular, but also valuable to scientists, engineers and managers.

  • S2007E05 Machu Picchu: Road To The Sky

    • Discovery

    Journey back to the 15th and 16th centuries and see how the Incas, without force, grew so powerful and so far in just 50 years. Explore the emperor's winter retreat high in the Andes called Machu Picchu and with the aid of computer imaging, see how the wonderous city might have been in its prime. The culture and various technologies used by the Inca's are also presented, demonstrating why the ancient civilization was so successful.

  • S2007E06 Monumental Vision In China

    • Discovery

    Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers specializes in constructing geoglyphs, huge sculptures that can cover hundreds of meters of ground, made of rocks and other natural materials. Jia Yu Guan, in the Go­bi Desert, is the site for three mon­u­men­tal ge­o­glyphs near the west­ern gate of the Great Wall. The three earth art­works will in­clude An­drew's sig­na­ture piece, The Rhythms of Life with a span of 200me­ters x 200 me­ters.

  • S2007E07 The World Strangest UFO Stories: Have Aliens Invaded Scotland?

    • February 1, 2007
    • Discovery

  • S2007E08 Titanic: Untold Stories

    • January 1, 1997
    • Discovery
  • S2007E09 Time: Daytime

    • June 17, 2007
    • Discovery

    Debating whether time is experienced from within the body or from the outside.

  • S2007E10 Secrets of Egypts Lost Queen

    • Discovery

  • S2007E11 Spear of Jesus

    • Discovery

  • S2007E12 The Reich Underground

    • Discovery

    The story of a massive project that was initiated by Hitler to defeat the Allies. If successful, it could possibly have changed the course of history.

  • S2007E13 Emperor of the Seas

    • November 19, 2007
    • Discovery

    Between 1405 and 1433, with approximately 300 ships and 28,000 crewman, China`s Zheng traveled to Southeast Asia, the Persian Gulf, and Africa. Who was this extraordinary man who led seven voyages around the world eight decades before Columbus discover the New World.

  • S2007E14 Achieving the Unachievable

    • November 1, 2007
    • Discovery

    M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective with his graphic Print Gallery, and found himself trapped by an impossible barrier. His uncompleted master-piece quickly became the most puzzling enigma of modern art, for both artists and scientists. Half a century later, mathematician Hendrik Lenstra took everyone by surprise by drawing a fantastic bridge between the intuition of the artist and his own, and completed Escher's work mathematically. This story was made accessible to all audience and most magically presented in this 52-minute film awarded for best visual effects at the 3rd Bangkok Science Film Festival in 2007.

  • S2007E15 Building The Biggest - Rollercoasters

    • February 20, 2007
    • Discovery

  • S2007E16 Birth of a Racer

    • November 10, 2007
    • Discovery

    'Birth of a Racer' is the true story of one man and his team of maverick engineers from around the world in their quest to build a motorcycle unlike any other in existence. Michael Czysz is a maverick with a dream. But Michael's dream has to become reality before he either runs out of money or kills himself riding the bike on the test track.

  • S2007E17 America's Lost H-Bomb

    • August 19, 2007
    • Discovery

    February 5th 1958, a U.S. Air Force B-47 jet bomber collided with a fighter craft during a military exercise. Badly damaged, the crew asked permission to jettison its thermonuclear device (H-bomb) to avoid a possible explosion while trying to land at the Army airport near Savannah, Georgia. The bomb was dropped into the Atlantic Ocean near the border between Georgia and South Carolina. Despite initially telling the public that only "parts of a nuclear bomb" were lost in the accident, the U.S. Government searched in vain for what was a potentially fully operational atomic weapon save for a "nuclear capsule" which was not present in the device when it was lost. Nevertheless, the ocean's elements could corrode and eventually open up the bomb, releasing the refined radioactive uranium that remains inside. This documentary shows efforts lately made to find and recover the weapon.

  • S2007E18 Science of Interrogation

    • Discovery

    How do you crack psychopaths and pathological liars in cases where no forensics tie the criminal to the crime? The stakes are always very high in a criminal interrogation, get it wrong and a killer can go on killing or an innocent person goes to jail. It’s the ultimate cat and mouse game. What is the science of interrogation? What are the key elements in its arsenal? How have they led to the conviction of the toughest criminals or cleared the innocent? This is the story of the science and techniques of interrogation and how they have been applied in real-life cases, using actual police footage as illustrations. Learn of the exciting new frontiers in lie detection. Functional MRI can look inside the skull and reveal how people use different parts of the brain when they are lying. Is there any truth in the claims made about truth serums? Can thermal imaging of the face detect tell tale signs of lying? These are the pioneering technologies which all claim to expose the liar.

  • S2007E19 Surviving the Drought

    • Discovery

    The Ruaha National Park in the south of Tanzania used to be a true paradise for wildlife gathered around the rich Ruaha river. Today however, its sparkling waters are nothing more than a remote dream. Scorching heat and severe drought have dried up the riverbed, leaving animals wandering around, suffering from dehydration. A life-or-death quest for water has begun and the bewildered animals have no choice but to follow the dry riverbed upstream hoping to find water. Witness to this tragedy, a pride of hungry and thirsty lionesses and their cubs overlook the last pockets of water. Although it is dangerous for the young cubs to travel, the females have no choice but to follow the herds of herbivores in their migration. Days go by as the leaden sun scorches the savanna and the winds blow away the few hopes of rain. Will the lionesses and the other animals find water in time to save themselves?

  • S2007E20 Egypt's Ten Greatest Discoveries

    • Discovery

    Egypt's pre-eminent archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, and his team select the ten most important discoveries in Egypt. From major battles, to mega-construction, these discoveries reveal the amazing stories of the lives of kings, queens and ordinary people. Take a marvellous journey down the mighty Nile and back through time to uncover many of ancient Egypt's long-lost mysteries. It's all here – from pyramids and temples, to pharaohs and mummies – in this fascinating collection that explores one of the greatest cultures the world has ever known. Discover why for more than three thousand years, Egypt's wealth and magnificence were unrivalled.

  • S2007E21 B-17 Flying Legend

    • Discovery

    An in-depth study of the last remaining flyable B-17s in existence today. Beautifully edited with current and historic footage of the B-17, the producers have captured the true meaning of why she was called 'The Queen of the Skies.'

  • S2007E22 Egypts New Tomb Revealed

    • Discovery

    Less than 50 feet from the tomb of King Tutankhamen, a team of world-renowned archaeologists has discovered one of the most significant finds in the Valley of the Kings of the past 80 years: a tomb of painted coffins that seem to date from the tumultuous era of King Tutankhamen himself. Why was this tomb of painted coffins hidden in a chamber of solid rock? Are there mummies in the coffins, and if so, can they shed light on the mystery of Tutankhamen's reign and why it was erased from the history of ancient Egypt? The answers to these questions may change the face of ancient Egyptian history forever.

  • S2007E23 The Lost Tomb of Jesus

    • March 4, 2007
    • Discovery

    In 1980, in East Talpiot, Jerusalem, a bulldozer accidentally uncovered what may be the most explosive archaeological discovery of all time. Of the ten ossuaries, or stone coffins, found inside the first-century tomb, six bore inscriptions: Jesus, son of Joseph; Maria; Mariamene (the name by which Mary Magdalene was known), Joseph, Matthew, and Judah, son of Jesus. At first dismissed by archaeologists as coincidence, the ossuaries were deposited in the endless warehouses of the Israel Antiquities Association and forgotten. Twenty-five years later, Emmy-winning journalist Simcha Jacobovici and his team, Felix Golubev, journalist and producer; Hollywood kingpin James Cameron; Paleo-biologist and best-selling author Charles Pellegrino; and renowned Biblical scholar James Tabor, took a fresh look at this astounding cluster of New Testament names. Granted unparalleled access, but battling a host of problems, the team goes in search of the ossuaries…and the lost tomb…

  • S2007E24 B17: Flying Legend

    • Discovery

    An in-depth study of the last remaining flyable B-17s in existence today. Beautifully edited with current and historic footage of the B-17, the producers have captured the true meaning of why she was called 'The Queen of the Skies.'

  • S2007E25 The Real Superhumans And The Quest For The Future Fantastic

    • November 8, 2007
    • Discovery

    Since the beginning of life on Earth, evolution has been dictated by Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. And now, humanity is on the brink of a change so radical, so rapid and unlike any other stage in human history. And while most of us are waiting at the precipice, have some already taken the leap?

  • S2007E26 Attack on the Pentagon

    • September 7, 2008
    • Discovery

    We all remember that fateful day, but few of us know what really happened when Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon, forcing ordinary men and women into the most extraordinary circumstances of their lives. Through eyewitness accounts, "Attack on the Pentagon," a 2003 DVD from The Discovery Channel, tracks the 757 as it descended to within 3,000 feet of the White House, banked over the Potomac River, made a sharp turn and headed straight for the Pentagon, knocking down lamp poles and street signs as it flew. Nearly 200 people lost their lives that day, and hundreds more were injured. Yet amidst the shock and sorrow, the triumph of the human spirit shone through. Hear from a worker in the Army's Accounting Office, whose unplanned meeting on another floor took her away from her normal workspace - and saved her life. Meet Lt. Col. Marilyn Wills, who wrung precious drops of water from her sweater - drenched by the building's sprinklers - into the mouths of gasping victims as she crawled from the rubble. And follow the men and women of the Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue team, who - when reports came in that a second aircraft was headed for the Pentagon - were torn between saving their own lives and continuing their search efforts. From the testimonies of survivors, rescuers and those who lost loved ones, discover the untold stories of heroism - and tragedy - behind the attack on the Pentagon.

  • S2007E27 Conspiracy Test: Gulf War Illness

    • Discovery

    Could radiation exposure be the principle cause of Gulf War illness? Or is it the Anthrax Vaccine? Discovery Channel's "Conspiracy Test, performs a laboratory test known as Spectral KaryoTyping (SKY) that may provide new insight.

  • S2007E28 The Lost Tomb of Jesus: A Critical Look with Ted Koppel

    • March 4, 2007
    • Discovery

  • S2007E29 Killer Squid

    • December 15, 2007
    • Discovery

    Killer Squid, about the Humboldt squid, the most advanced of the mollusca, but which live only a year (until they breed) and actually go into cannibalistic feeding frenzies. The tentacles have 36000 teeth and the food is manipulated with a beak. But they can hunt in schools, and actually have social behavior not seen before in cephalapods. They have good problem solving ability, like octopuses. Over-fishing may have created the impression that they behave aggressively. This is as high as invertebrate evolution ever got.

  • S2007E30 Moon for Sale

    • Discovery

    After 40 years, man is preparing to return to the Moon. But this time the astronauts won’t just land on the Moon – they plan to stay. From his office in Nevada, Dennis Hope has spawned a multi-million dollar business selling lunar real estate. But scientists believe the real prize is trapped in the Moon’s rocks. It contains large deposits of an extremely rare gas called Helium-3. Could Helium-3 be mined and used as a new source of almost inexhaustible, clean and pollution-free energy on Earth? Whoever succeeds in transporting Helium-3 back to Earth could solve the world’s energy crisis. Who will win what has been dubbed the second Moon race? And should we be exploiting the Moon’s valuable resources at all?

  • S2007E31 Noah's Ark: The True Story

    • Discovery

    Search for the truth behind the story of Noah and his ark. Find out how Noah could have built such a structure and whether or not a great flood took place on the earth. The search for remains of the ark continues today.

  • S2007E32 Expedition Alaska: Looking for Climate Change

    • Discovery

    Expedition: Alaska. An epic journey into the heart of America’s last frontier. We follow a team of scientists and wildlife filmmakers as they explore the uncharted corners of the awe-inspiring Alaskan landscape, finding evidence of how climate change is affecting this great wilderness. Filmed over one summer – the team witnesses the transformation of Alaska from an icy wasteland into an Arctic Eden where America’s greatest wildlife spectacles are played out under a midnight sun. But this is an environment under threat. Temperatures are rising in Alaska four times faster than anywhere else in the world. How is this affecting the frozen ground that covers vast areas of the northern plains? Is sea ice still thick enough to support an Inuit hunter’s weight? Are the glaciers shrinking? If so, how quickly? Does the polar bear have a future on American soil?

  • S2007E33 Passport to Pluto and Beyond

    • May 5, 2007
    • Discovery

    Passport to Pluto takes you inside this historic NASA endeavor, from Pluto’s discovery at Lowell Observatory in 1930 through launch of the New Horizons spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Enter the clean rooms, scan control screens, and visit the launch pad to see the mission come together for its voyage to Pluto and beyond.

  • S2007E34 Roving Mars

    • Discovery

    Action. Drama. Anticipation. Exultation. Experience it all as you join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the mysterious red planet. Through the eyes of these two intrepid, death-defying rovers, and with NASA scientists and engineers at your side, you'll see Mars in a way no one ever has before. You'll feel what it's like to stand on the startling surface of the planet that's intrigued mankind for eons. And you'll uncover its ultimate mystery: Is there life on Mars? ROVING MARS -- It's the ride of a lifetime.

  • S2007E35 Unraveling the Mystery of Alien Abduction

    • September 19, 2007
    • Discovery

  • S2007E36 Celebrating The American Woman

    • Discovery

  • S2007E37 Baby Mammoth

    • January 1, 2007
    • Discovery

  • S2007E38 Ten Ways The World Will End

    • May 9, 2007
    • Discovery

    There are endless gruesome ways that the world could end; through nasty, natural disasters or because of some man-made abomination. From maniac killer robots and super volcanoes, to an alien invasion and mutant psycho humans, all options are covered in Ten Ways the World Will End.

  • S2007E39 Real Superhumans

    • November 8, 2007
    • Discovery

    Since the beginning of life on Earth, evolution has been dictated by Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. And now, humanity is on the brink of a change so radical, so rapid and unlike any other stage in human history. And while most of us are waiting at the precipice, have some already taken the leap?

  • S2007E40 The Lost Tomb Of Jesus

    • March 4, 2007
    • Discovery

    In 1980, in East Talpiot, Jerusalem, a bulldozer accidentally uncovered what may be the most explosive archaeological discovery of all time. Of the ten ossuaries, or stone coffins, found inside the first-century tomb, six bore inscriptions: Jesus, son of Joseph; Maria; Mariamene (the name by which Mary Magdalene was known), Joseph, Matthew, and Judah, son of Jesus. At first dismissed by archaeologists as coincidence, the ossuaries were deposited in the endless warehouses of the Israel Antiquities Association and forgotten. Twenty-five years later, Emmy-winning journalist Simcha Jacobovici and his team, Felix Golubev, journalist and producer; Hollywood kingpin James Cameron; Paleo-biologist and best-selling author Charles Pellegrino; and renowned Biblical scholar James Tabor, took a fresh look at this astounding cluster of New Testament names. Granted unparalleled access, but battling a host of problems, the team goes in search of the ossuaries…and the lost tomb…

  • S2007E41 Rogue Nature: Elephants

    • May 4, 2007
    • Discovery

    In Zambia, elephants and humans have had trouble coexisting. Salmoni travels to South Africa to determine if it is possible for an entire elephant population to turn "rogue."

  • S2007E42 Chernobyl: Life in the Dead Zone

    • November 4, 2007
    • Discovery

    In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power lost control of one of its four reactors resulting chain reaction that created a series of explosions. 'Chernobyl: Life in the Dead Zone' explores how nature and animals would react and survive if the world was suddenly without humans. This fascinating programme takes place at the site of the world's worst nuclear accident - hastily abandoned by panic-stricken humans. In houses where people once lived and laughed, wildlife is making itself at home. Watch as the wild animals face challenges in an environment totally outside their comfort zone, while once-domestic species must rediscover their wild natures within.

  • S2007E43 Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea

    • May 17, 2007
    • Discovery

    The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The story is told from the perspective of Prof. Holbourn (a passenger), the German U-boat and its captain and crew, and other passengers, crew and Admiralty staff.

  • S2007E44 The Curse of Tutankhamun

    • September 4, 2007
    • Discovery

    Explore some of King Tut's lavish funeral rites and treasure.

  • S2007E45 Superspy: The Man Who Betrayed the West

    • Discovery

    The incredible true story of a high-ranking intelligence officer, Robert Hanssen, who betrays US secrets to foreign powers, and the young FBI agent tasked with capturing him. Based on witness testimony and official case records that remained secret until now, it's about betrayal from within, by a traitor believed to be a friend. In the secret world of counter intelligence, one fear looms larger than all others. A threat from within by a traitor you believe is a friend. Suspicion points to a key figure in western intelligence, trading secrets worth billions of dollars, causing damage on a global scale. Enter the world of espionage and discover the incredible story of Robert Hansen, double agent. In the heart of Washington DC there's a spy among the very people charged with protecting the nation - the FBI. When a double agent secretly accuses one of the top names in US intelligence a desperate race begins. How can the traitor be netted before he betrays more precious secrets? Can the shocking claims be probed without alerting a man who himself knows every trick of the spying trade? The agonising choices facing US spymasters in the of fall 2000 sound like a thriller plotline – but they are fact. There was no manual for a mission like this. In the secret world of counter-intelligence it was a nightmare scenario. The spy catchers had a spy in their midst. With exclusive first-time access to Eric O'Neill, the FBI agent tasked with discovering the truth, this film at last reveals the untold story of the West's worst ever spying disaster involving turncoat FBI boss Robert Hanssen. His treachery led to torture and death for several agents, advanced the threat of nuclear war, and cost the US billions of dollars. The most sensitive spy-on-spy mission ever mounted was handed to 27-year-old rookie Eric O'Neill who, with only four years experience at the FBI, had to draw out the 25-year veteran spymaster and catch him off guard. Using O'Neill's testimony and a stylishly craft

Season 2008

  • S2008E01 UFO's Over Earth: The Fayetteville Incident

    • Discovery

  • S2008E02 Download: The True Story of the Internet

    • March 3, 2008
    • Discovery

  • S2008E03 eco Tech: Future Fuels

    • Discovery

  • S2008E04 eco Tech: Powering Up

    • Discovery

  • S2008E05 Ancient Chinese Inventions

    • May 13, 2008
    • Discovery

    A documentary which challenges the assumption that there is something essentially Western about science and technology.

  • S2008E06 Flying Aircraft Carrier

    • May 29, 2009
    • Discovery

    When the USS Macon met its end, the Navy's zeppelin ambitions died with it. The USS Macon was one of only two flying aircraft carriers ever built. The other was her sister ship, the USS Akron. The Macon was built by Prague-born engineer Dr. Karl Arnstein in Akron, Ohio. Her first flight was in April 1933. Both the Macon and the Akron were capable of carrying small F9C “Sparrowhawk” propeller planes, which were launched and retrieved during flight. The Macon was 785 feet long. The wreck site of the Macon was finally discovered in 1990, 55 years after it sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. A fisherman who had marked the exact coordinates where he'd lost a net assisted the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Navy with locating the site. The crash was caused by a violent storm, which tore off the upper fin of the Macon and sent her spiraling down into the sea. The ship landed gently before it sank, however, and only two of eighty-three men were lost. The Macon’s site is the best documented underwater site in the world apart from the Titanic. The wreck site remains secret to the public. It lies within a marine sanctuary and is not accessible to divers due to its depth. The hangar for the USS Macon, which is large enough to fit three Titanics, still stands in Sunnyvale, California. A new zeppelin will soon be delivered to the site, which will then open as a tourist attraction. In its heyday, the Macon was used for scouting purposes over the Pacific Ocean. Some historians believe that the attack on Pearl Harbor might have been prevented if the ship had still been in use.

  • S2008E07 Unwrapping the Shroud: New Evidence

    • December 14, 2008
    • Discovery

    The Shroud of Turin is one of the great enduring mysteries of all time, with its authenticity debated for years. Many believe it's the burial cloth of Jesus and the only physical link to Him, while others maintain that it is nothing more than an elaborate hoax. In fact, in 1988, a team of scientists radiocarbon dated the Shroud and concluded it was fake, dating back to the Middle Ages (1290-1360), long after Jesus was crucified. And that's where the story stood, unchallenged -- until now.

  • S2008E08 Gettysburg: The Speech that Saved America

    • December 6, 2008
    • Discovery

    The story behind Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

  • S2008E09 Gettysburg: The Battle that Changed America

    • December 6, 2008
    • Discovery

    The pivotal role the Battle of Gettysburg played in American History.

  • S2008E10 Alaska: Surviving the Last Frontier

    • December 5, 2008
    • Discovery

  • S2008E11 Ultimate Top Ten: Military Machines

    • Discovery

    At supersonic speeds, across vast oceans, whenever and wherever they're called to duty, these machines help guard us all.

  • S2008E12 The 10 Commandments of the Mafia

    • July 15, 2008
    • Discovery

    In 2007, Italian police make an astonishing discovery during a raid on a Mafia boss' villa: a list of the Mafia's most sacred laws. It's an incredible find: a code of conduct for the Mob. Now, for the first time, former Mobsters speak out about the rules that govern their criminal world; and reveal what happened when gangland began to question the so-called 'Ten Commandments of the Mafia'.

  • S2008E13 The Sphinx Unmasked

    • April 6, 2008
    • Discovery

    The Sphinx is the largest free-standing stone sculpture on earth. But for most of the 4,500 years of its existence, its true origin and the identity of its face have been cloaked in mystery. An Egyptologist is on the verge of cracking the riddle.

  • S2008E14 Naica: Secrets of the Crystal Cave

    • Discovery

    A team of international scientists explore a Mexican cave filled with giant crystals. With temperatures near 120 degrees Fahrenheit, and over 80 per cent humidity, the cave is one of the deadliest environments on earth. Without specialized suits and equipment, the scientists would die in minutes. Their mission: to unlock the secrets of the mysterious ancient crystals, some of the largest ever discovered.

  • S2008E15 Why Ancient Egypt Fell

    • Discovery

    Once the envy of the ancient world, the mighty civilization of Egypt stood for thousands of years until it underwent a swift decline and eventual fall. Find out how such a magnificent empire could collapse so entirely given its wealth, power and rich culture.

  • S2008E16 Dinosaurs: Return to Life?

    • June 14, 2008
    • Discovery

    In the film, Jurassic Park Four, scientists are once again recreating dinosaurs through genetic engineering. We'll learn why the dream of recreating the dinosaur genome is coming closer to reality.

  • S2008E17 Nazi UFO Conspiracy

    • November 3, 2008
    • Discovery

    A credible investigation of possible connections between UFO sightings in the past half century and secret flying saucer technologies developed by the Nazis in WW2.

  • S2008E18 Unwrapping the Shroud: New Evidence

    • December 14, 2008
    • Discovery

    The Shroud of Turin is one of the great enduring mysteries of all time, with its authenticity debated for years. Many believe it's the burial cloth of Jesus and the only physical link to Him, while others maintain that it is nothing more than an elaborate hoax. In fact, in 1988, a team of scientists radiocarbon dated the Shroud and concluded it was fake, dating back to the Middle Ages (1290-1360), long after Jesus was crucified. And that's where the story stood, unchallenged -- until now. Discovery Channel's one-hour original special UNWRAPPING THE SHROUD: NEW EVIDENCE attempts to unravel the truth about the cloth on Sunday, December 14, 2008 from 10-11PM ET/PT. The special event features the story of Ray Rogers, a respected chemist from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and member of the original team of scientists who examined the Shroud. Rogers came across a paper written by a husband and wife from Columbus, Ohio that claimed the 1988 radiocarbon dating was inaccurate. According to the couple, the test sample that was used had been taken from a section of the Shroud that had been repaired in the 16th Century, skewing the results. Expecting to prove this couple wrong, Rogers went back to examine the sample of the Shroud he tested years earlier, and what he found astonished even himself. In his last days (he had been battling cancer), Rogers made a video -- which before now has never been seen -- detailing his conclusions.

  • S2008E19 Investigation X: UFO Outbreak

    • Discovery

  • S2008E20 Killer Virus: Hunt for the Next Plague

    • Discovery

    There is a strange and deadly new virus in Asia, and it claims the lives of nearly 50% of its victims. A team of virus hunters travels to Bangladesh, the latest front in the battle against the recently-discovered Nipah virus, to capture the puppy-sized bats that are believed to be the source of this frightening killer. We'll also trace the evolution of AIDS, SARS, West Nile, the Spanish Flu and the Avian Flu - all diseases that made the jump from animal to human, and then human to human. Increasingly, our global progress is itself a factor that helps these viruses to become resilient. What seems exotic and distant in Africa or Asia today could arrive on our doorsteps tomorrow. Is Nipah the next epidemic?

  • S2008E21 What's that about the Brewery?

    • January 26, 2008
    • Discovery

    How do beer giants make beer taste exactly the same in billions of bottles every year? Meanwhile, small and original brewers blaze new trails in beer making. Can chemical warfare help make better beer? Meet the builders of the latest high-tech breweries. See who's making the best - and some of the strangest - new suds on the market today.

  • S2008E22 Dark Fellowships: The Vril

    • September 29, 2008
    • Discovery

    Dark Fellowships attempts to uncover the truth about some of the most renowned and feared secret organizations throughout history. In the first episode, Dark Fellowships: the Vril, meet a bizarre occult group, whose members allegedly included many leaders of the Nazi Party, even Hitler himself.

  • S2008E23 Moon Machines: Saturn V

    • July 6, 2008
    • Discovery

    This episode of MOON MACHINES immerses viewers in the incredible story of the mighty Saturn V moon rocket � technology that joined the vision of World War II German rocket scientists with that of a generation of young, dedicated engineers from across the United States. With the backdrop of Russia�s Sputnik launch and President Kennedy�s ambitious commitment to reaching the moon, engineers and scientists would produce a 363-foot-tall rocket with more than one million working parts that delivered 7.5 million pounds of thrust. Saturn V was so large that even those who built it were amazed and could hardly believe its power.

  • S2008E24 Moon Machines: Lunar Rover

    • July 10, 2008
    • Discovery

    In the early days of the Apollo project, grand ideas were devised for how to travel on the moon. With excitement running high and "GO" fever very much the buzz, engineers came up with all manner of vehicles for traversing the new frontier. But one by one the projects were shelved as each was deemed too expensive or too dangerous. Lunar Rover reveals the untold story of how a small team of engineers convinced NASA to build what ultimately became the Lunar Rover. The greatest challenge for the Lunar Rover team was to design, build, test and deliver the final flight-worthy product to NASA in less than 18 months.

  • S2008E25 What's that about the Brewery?

    • January 26, 2008
    • Discovery

    How do beer giants make beer taste exactly the same in billions of bottles every year? Meanwhile, small and original brewers blaze new trails in beer making. Can chemical warfare help make better beer? Meet the builders of the latest high-tech breweries. See who's making the best - and some of the strangest - new suds on the market today.

  • S2008E26 Radioactive Paradise: Bikini Atoll

    • Discovery

    July, 1946. Bikini. It was the first of 23 nuclear tests the US government made in their race against the Soviets during the Cold War. Between 1946 and 1958 the United States embarked on one of the most spectacular scientific experiments the world has ever seen. To test the newly invented atomic weapon, 67 nuclear bomb tests were conducted in the South Pacific on Bikini and Enewetak Atoll – among them some of the biggest explosions the world has ever experienced. A remote atoll in the Marshall Islands, set in the vast blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and Hawaii. Ironically though, it was this isolation, that sealed the atoll's fate: During "Operation Crossroads" in July of 1946, two atom bombs were used to sink a ghost fleet of 84 vessels, destroying the natural environment and leaving parts of the huge atoll ring permanently contaminated in the process. The islanders are still reliant on imported food even today. The American armed forces singled out Bikini Atoll as the place to detonate the first atomic bombs since Nagasaki. They assembled a huge fleet of decommissioned warships to be sunk in the most dramatic way possible. It wasn't just about testing the destructive power of the bombs though; at the outset of the cold war, they were also seeking to make an impression on the Soviet Union. In February 2008 a top team of scientists, historians, divers and Bikini experts embarked on an exciting scientific mission to this "paradise lost" in order to find some answers to the questions surrounding the atoll, its nature and how it has dealt with its nuclear history. A submersible designed to hold eight people allowed the scientists to explore the underwater world and the nuclear fleet it still harbours on its grounds in a way no scientist has ever been able to before. Spectacular, never seen before footage of the underwater world of Bikini is combined with outrageous air shots filmed from a helicopter and mind-blowing archive material that

  • S2008E27 Michelangelo Code: Secrets of The Sistine Chapel Part 1

    • July 18, 2008
    • Discovery

    Art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, attempts to unlock the secrets of arguably the world's most famous work of art, the Sistine Chapel, and its pictorial codes and iconography.

  • S2008E28 Michelangelo Code: Secrets of The Sistine Chapel Part 2

    • July 18, 2008
    • Discovery

    Next part of the art documentary in which top critic and art writer Waldemar Januszczak reveals the hidden meaning behind the most famous work of art in the world. His shocking discoveries come from 20 years of research and unprecedented access to the Vatican, taking him as far afield as Texas and Jerusalem, as well as all over Italy.

  • S2008E29 ULTIMATE OLYMPICS: Go Beijing

    • September 8, 2008
    • Discovery

    Beijing set itself the challenge of becoming the ultimate Olympic city: hi-tech, green and distinctively Chinese. Will the people of Beijing manage their dreams?

  • S2008E30 ULTIMATE OLYMPICS: Rivals

    • September 8, 2008
    • Discovery

    China's rise up the Olympic medal table has been astounding and is second only to the USA. How will China claim first place at the Beijing Olympics?

  • S2008E31 Jack the Ripper: The First Serial Killer

    • August 7, 2008
    • Discovery

    Criminal psychologist at New Scotland Yard Laura Richard uses modern investigation techniques to try and build a portrait of the Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper. She and other experts, including a pathologist, historian, profiler and policeman, examine the crimes and try and establish why the particular victims were chosen, and the possible motivations and reasons for the crimes.

  • S2008E32 Mars: The Quest for Life

    • November 21, 2008
    • Discovery

    Mars: The Quest for Life looks at the Phoenix lander and show follows the man in charge, Peter Smith, as he and his team struggle to defy the odds and get Phoenix safely onto the surface of Mars. Featuring never-before-seen footage of Phoenix’s dramatic, emotional landing, the program explores the secrets that Phoenix might finally unlock about life on another world.

  • S2008E33 Nazi UFO Conspiracy

    • November 3, 2008
    • Discovery

    A credible investigation of possible connections between UFO sightings in the past half century and secret flying saucer technologies developed by the Nazis in WW2.

  • S2008E34 When Rome Ruled Egypt

    • Discovery

    A story of war, love, betrayal and treasure, When Rome Ruled Egypt recounts the days of Roman occupation, and ... goes in search of the immense riches they may have left behind.

Season 2009

  • S2009E01 The Beauty of Snakes

    • Discovery

    Explores every aspect of the snakes' lives. How they mate, give birth, hunt and feed, move and sense the world around them - from the deserts of Namibia to the forests of the Amazon. Snake-mounted cameras show off their remarkable control and grace as well as the blazing speed with which they strike.

  • S2009E02 Naica: Secrets of the Crystal Cave

    • May 9, 2009
    • Discovery

    A team of international scientists explore a Mexican cave filled with giant crystals. With temperatures near 120 degrees Fahrenheit, and over 80 per cent humidity, the cave is one of the deadliest environments on earth. Without specialized suits and equipment, the scientists would die in minutes. Their mission: to unlock the secrets of the mysterious ancient crystals, some of the largest ever discovered.

  • S2009E03 Discovering Ardi

    • October 11, 2009
    • Discovery

    Older than Lucy, "Ardi" reveals startling new details about the evolution of the hominid family tree. Following the publication in the journal Science on the find and study of a 4.4 million-year-old female partial skeleton nicknamed "Ardi," Discovery Channel will present a world premiere special. The two-hour groundbreaking special documents the sustained, intensive investigation leading up to the landmark publication of the Ardipithecus ramidus fossils. The scientific investigation that began in the Ethiopian desert 17 years ago opens a new chapter on human evolution, revealing the first evolutionary steps our ancestors took after we diverged from a common ancestor we once shared with living chimpanzees. "Ardi's" centrepiece skeleton, the other hominids she lived with, and the rocks, soils, plants and animals that made up her world were analyzed in laboratories around the globe. The scientists have now published their findings in the prestigious journal Science. "Ardi" is now the oldest skeleton from our (hominid) branch of the primate family tree. These Ethiopian discoveries reveal an early grade of human evolution in Africa that pre-dated the famous Australopithecus nicknamed "Lucy." Ardipithecus was a woodland creature with a small brain, long arms and short legs. The pelvis and feet show a primitive form of two-legged walking on the ground, but Ardipithecus was also a capable tree climber, with long fingers and big toes that allowed its feet to grasp like those of an ape. The discoveries answer questions about how hominids became bipedal. This landmark Discovery Channel special reveals the scientific analysis undertaken by an international team of 47 scientists as they painstakingly piece together the hominid bones and link the evidence of thousands of other animals and plant fossils. The international research team weighed in on the scope of the project and its findings: "These are the results of a scientific mission to our deep African past," s

  • S2009E04 A Bengal Tiger's Motherly Love

    • Discovery

    Bengal tigers living in the forests of India are rarely seen, but we succeeded in filming a female tiger called Machali raising her cubs. Although known for their fierce nature, we witnessed an incredible affection of the mother tiger for her cubs. We also found a strict hierarchy exists among the little ones as their strategy to survive. It is said that male tigers take no part in the rearing of the cubs and will even occasionally kill them. However, for the first time, the camera has captured an endearing scene of a father tiger interacting with his offspring.

  • S2009E05 Crown of thorns: Starfish monster from the shallows

    • January 1, 2005
    • Discovery
  • S2009E06 2012 Apocalypse

    • August 11, 2009
    • Discovery

    December 21, 2012. Doomsday fanatics claim that this is when life on Earth will come to an end. But what does science have to say about this looming apocalypse? What real threats could possibly bring about cataclysmic changes on Earth in 2012?

  • S2009E07 Jack The Ripper In America

    • November 16, 2009
    • Discovery

    The greatest serial killer in history has never been named. But what if we are looking in the wrong place? In the 1890s a series of murders took place across the United States, and incredible new evidence may reveal the true identity of Jack the Ripper.

  • S2009E08 Americas First Nations

    • December 9, 2009
    • Discovery

    The Iroquois Confederacy's system of democracy begins with a legend. In the distant past, five nations were at war with one another. With the help of the warrior Hiawatha -- also called Ayonwatha -- a leader known as the Peacemaker united all five: the Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca and Cayuga. (Today, there are six nations -- the Tuscarora became part of the confederacy around 1720.) Central to the Peacemaker's plan was the creation of a body of leaders entrusted to govern the nations as a whole while preserving the rights of each tribe.

  • S2009E09 Factory City

    • Discovery

    They live there. They eat there. Their children attend school there. But most of all, they work there. They are the 17,000 employees of EUPA, a "Factory City" in the southeast corner of China. EUPA's massive workforce pumps out 15 million irons per year, millions of sandwich grills, microwaves, coffee makers and blenders. Now they are about to take the manufacturing world by storm with their introduction of solar powered products. From the 2500 microwaves that come off the line each day to the four tons of rice served daily in the five cafeterias, we showcase the process and the personalities that keep this massive machine well-oiled. The show will focus not only on how the goods are made, but how the Factory City operates.It's a novel concept for the rest of the world. But it's become a way of life in China, where a new industrial revolution is unfolding on a scale the world has never seen.

  • S2009E10 Direct from the Moon

    • Discovery

    With stunning footage from the Kaguya lunar orbiter, NGC reveals images of the moon and Earth like never seen before, and unlocks the secrets of 4.5 billion years of Earth, moon and solar system history.

  • S2009E11 Whistler's Twin Peaks

    • Discovery

  • S2009E12 A Rain Story

    • October 10, 2009
    • Discovery

    The beautiful, mysterious world of rain is visualized using the latest filming technology. Ultra-high speed cameras capture breathtaking images in Odaigahara, the rainiest area in Japan that receives an annual rainfall of 5,000 millimeters. On the ground form lakes that only appear after summer heavy rains, allowing rare frogs to thrive. In winter, a unique natural phenomenon called Glazed Frost takes place if rain falls unfrozen and the air temperature is below zero. Through poetic cinematography, we discover just how rain enriches the natural beauty in Japan, a country unusually blessed with rain.

  • S2009E13 Secret America

    • Discovery

    They're the most iconic symbols of America, but lurking behind each one are conspiracy theories, myths, and lies. The Statue of Liberty, White House, street plan of Washington D.C., U.S. Flag, and Great Seal all hold mysterious secrets: masonic markings, coded texts, ghosts and more inhabit our most well-known national treasures. 1. Are there really Masonic markings on the map of D.C, ghosts in the White House, satanic messages on the Great Seal, and sinister origins behind Lady Liberty? 2. The Washington Monument, Mount Rushmore, the Liberty Bell, U.S. Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial all hold untold tales of intrigue. Did the Freemasons imbed codes on Washington's most famous obelisk? What's Mount Rushmore's connection to the KKK? Are Lincoln's hands sending us a secret message?

  • S2009E14 Who Sank the Titanic?

    • January 1, 2008
    • Discovery

    Who Sank the Titanic reveals the full story of the fateful decisions that led to the demise of the Titanic. From possible engineering flaws to a procession of bad decisions and unlucky circumstances, who was ultimately responsible for one of recent histories most famous tragedies?

  • S2009E15 Arctic Circle: On Thin Ice

    • Discovery

    Chronicling the effects of climate change on the land and animal inhabitants, meet an international team of scientists who are vividly demonstrating how global warming threatens the very existence of polar bears, seals and other creatures. Later, witness huge ice shelves crumbling into the sea, polar bears struggling to survive and torrents of water flowing where there should only be ice.

  • S2009E16 Arctic Circle: Battle for the Pole

    • Discovery

    In an epic race to claim territory, meet the very people battling to pump oil and gas from beneath the pristine Arctic seabed. For the engineers constructing ice-breaking tankers and the crew of the world’s northernmost oil rig, the pursuit is all about excitement, opportunity and new frontiers. But the more energy exploited from the Arctic, the more the ice will melt – locking into a destructive cycle whose effects are only starting to become apparent and which may be unstoppable.

  • S2009E17 Deadly Waters

    • August 3, 2009
    • Discovery

    SURVIVORMAN's Les Stroud is back for more shark action, this time venturing to five of the most notorious shark-infested waters in the world to find out which is the most dangerous.

  • S2009E18 America's Lost Submarine

    • January 1, 2009
    • Discovery

    A vacation along Panama's Pearl Islands led Archaeologist James Delgado to an astounding discovery, the world's first working submarine, rusting on a remote beach, forgotten for over 135 years. We follow Delgado as he uncovers the mystery surrounding this maritime treasure. How did the vessel work, what killed its inventor and crew, and why did it end up here in this deserted archipelago? We also trace the amazing life of emigrated German engineer Julius Kroehl and how he invented a diving craft that was half a century ahead of its time.

  • S2009E19 Prehistoric New York

    • June 28, 2009
    • Discovery

    200 million years PREHISTORIC NEW YORK was a region that was a semi-tropical landscape rattled by earthquakes and scarred by lava flows. It was home to a bizarre array of amphibians and reptiles, including the dinosaur Coelophysis, a meat-eating, ostrich-like creature. Mastodons roamed the streets of what is now Manhattan. Scientists believe the honey locust trees that now line Fifth Avenue near Rockefeller Center evolved their thorns to protect them from munching by these mastodons.

  • S2009E20 The Sun

    • August 9, 2009
    • Discovery

    Explore the mystery of our sun, the best known star in our solar system, using the latest technology and advances in astronomy.

  • S2009E21 Two Weeks in Hell

    • December 20, 2009
    • Discovery

    You are given a pass into the intense training and testing that determines who will be allowed to become a Green Beret candidate. Over two weeks, the most insane, mind-twisting games are played, and physical limits are stretched beyond imagination to enable the watchers to select the right individuals. During the Green Beret DVD Two Weeks in Hell, you will see some of the most intelligent and creative individuals alive, and witness brutality of training like you have never before seen.

  • S2009E22 The Loch Ness Monster Revealed

    • April 20, 2009
    • Discovery

    Is the Loch Ness Monster a gigantic flesh-eating reptile that survived the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago? Or is it a giant squid or sturgeon? Or is this a creature not yet seen or understood in maritime history? Philippe Cousteau leads a team of eminent scientists on a mission to unravel the mystery that has captured the imagination for centuries. If this is a pre-historic creature or a more closely related species than we have yet seen, how did it get there, what does it look like and how does it survive. Philippe Cousteau dives into the murky depths of one of the places of greatest natural beauty on earth, in his bid to find the creature that may lurk there. This programme explores the truth behind the legendary creature who may or may not exist in Scotland's Loch Ness. Philippe Cousteau Jr. dives into the murky depths to examine the evidence, with a team of eminent scientists.

  • S2009E23 Inside The FBI

    • March 18, 2009
    • Discovery

    Following the FBI in San Diego, CA as they investigate a suspected pedophile case and mass murders perpetrated by a drug cartel.

  • S2009E24 Under New York

    • April 9, 2009
    • Discovery

    journey through the New York water system, from high above the upstate New York watershed through the underground infrastructure to its final destination at an apartment tap in New York City. Along the way, intrepid hosts John Rosiello and Christine McKinley jump from a plane, bike down the steep slopes of the Catskill Mountains, kayak down the raging creeks that feed into the reservoir system, go deep underground to unearth the hidden workings of the intricate dam systems, explore abandoned aqueducts and scramble dozens of stories above the city streets atop a New York apartment building. Given unprecedented access by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Under New York goes underground with a crew digging an immense filtration plant deep in the earth and rappels down the face of a 240-foot dam with members of the specially trained DEP police team. The hosts join water crews on the streets of New York trying to trace buried water leaks and climb to the top of an apartment building where local guys are still doing things the old fashioned way when it comes to building a wooden water tower. Under New York celebrates engineering and ingenuity - and the people who make it all work and keep the water flowing. Under New York explores one of the greatest water systems of the world and takes viewers to places few have ever seen or can hope to see. Produced by Optomen Productions for Discovery, Under New York is an adventurous exploration of an engineering marvel.

  • S2009E25 Inside National Security Agency

    • Discovery

  • S2009E26 Inside Planet Earth

    • June 7, 2009
    • Discovery

    It’s the ultimate voyage our world has to offer: a journey from the temperate surface of our world to the fiery core of the Earth. With the aid of stunning visual effects, the unexplored interior of the Earth is split wide open, giving us an unbelievable view. From glowing seams of pure iron ore to sparkling diamond caverns to the magnetic field that keeps us safe from the lethal radiation of space… for now, this is the fantastical world we live in — and never see. From the heights of Mount Everest to the molten lava fields of Hawaii to the very core of our planet, the geologic forces that have changed the planet’s face over the past 4.6 billion years are revealed. With state-of-the-art effects and the latest scientific information, this is the story of striking meteorites, gigantic eruptions, the movement of continents and other geologic events that have shaped our amazing Earth.

  • S2009E27 Inside The Aryan Brotherhood

    • Discovery

    Formed in the 1980s, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is one of America's fastest growing and most violent white supremacist gangs. Consisting of 5,000 members both in and outside of prison, they adhere to Nazi ideologies and are notorious for killings and kidnappings. For the first time, they have allowed cameras to access the criminal world they run from inside the prison walls. Viewers will learn the secrets of their drug smuggling methods as they strive to control the Texas Meth trade and their shocking plans to ignite a bloody gang war. Some of the most violent inmates belong to the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas and you will witness firsthand their attempts to govern by terror and ruthless behaviour.

  • S2009E28 Earth : The Sequel

    • Discovery

    A revolution is on the horizon, where entrepreneurs and inventors are creating new ways to power our planet and revitalize our economy.

  • S2009E29 Alaska: Arctic Roughnecks

    • Discovery

  • S2009E30 BMW: An Expression of Joy

    • Discovery

  • S2009E31 Who Was Jesus? Part 1

    • April 5, 2009
    • Discovery

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  • S2009E32 Who Was Jesus? Part 2

    • April 5, 2009
    • Discovery

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  • S2009E33 Who Was Jesus? Part 3

    • April 5, 2009
    • Discovery

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  • S2009E34 The Last Beekeeper

    • August 26, 2009
    • Discovery

    Bees are vanishing. In 1950, there were 500,000 beekeepers in the U.S. Today there are less than 1,600. Examining the enormity of this loss, Jeremy Simmons' documentary The Last Beekeeper follows the lives of three commercial beekeepers (from South carolina, Montana, and Washington) over the course of a year as they struggle with Colony Collapse Disorder. When they take their bees to California's enormous annual almond pollination (an event so large it requires nearly all the bees in the US), it becomes painfully and poignantly clear the bind they are in. "If all the bees die, what do you have to live for?" asks one of the beekeepers. It's a question for all of us. The cause of Colony Collapse Disorder remains unknown and if honeybees continue to decline at the same rate, they will cease to exist in the U.S. by 2035. Jeremy Simmons' buzz-worthy documentary The Last Beekeeper, a World of Wonder film produced by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato. Emmy Award winner for "Outstanding Nature Programming" 2010.

  • S2009E35 Storm Force: Landslide

    • Discovery

  • S2009E36 Hudson Plane Crash - What Really Happened

    • March 4, 2009
    • Discovery

    Inside story of Flight 1549. How does a plane lose both engines over a city, and crash lands without a single death? New footage and exclusive interviews with crew, survivors, and rescuers tell the amazing story of survival.

  • S2009E37 Jack the Ripper - Killer Revealed

    • October 11, 2009
    • Discovery

    The identity of Jack the Ripper has remained an unsolved mystery for over a century. Now historian Mei Trow presents a new theory on the unparalleled reign of terror in which at least five women were killed in London’s East End in 1888. Based on two years of exhaustive research, and using modern psychological and geographical profiling techniques, Trow identifies Robert Mann, a Whitechapel mortuary assistant, as the Ripper. Mann was mentioned during the original investigation but has never been put forward as a possible suspect – until now. As Trow pieces together the evidence linking Mann with the Ripper murders, he also makes the case for two additional Ripper victims.

  • S2009E38 Mystery of the Lost Catacombs

    • Discovery

    In ‘Mystery of the Lost Catacombs’ venture beneath the Vatican in Rome, Italy, to witness the thousands of ancient Roman skeletons discovered by scientists in a catacomb. Delve into this intriguing case to determine who these people were and how they came to be buried piled high in a series of secret chambers. Numerous explanations of what may have potentially happened are revealed in this special documentary. Find out whether these bodies are evidence of a mass suicide, terrible disaster, an epidemic, or even a mass murder.

  • S2009E39 Chain Gang: Maricopa County

    • Discovery

    In the Arizona county, jails are notorious for unusual and dangerous conditions in which inmates live outdoors in tents and work on chain gangs.

  • S2009E40 Did the Mob Kill JFK?

    • November 22, 2009
    • Discovery

    “Did the Mob Kill JFK?” relies primarily on the testimony of author Lamar Waldron and a jailhouse informant who claims that mobster Carlos Marcello boasted that organized crime had orchestrated President Kennedy’s murder. The reason: Because the CIA had been working with the mob to try and assassinate Fidel Castro, with the mob participating in the hopes of getting their casinos in Cuba reopened.

  • S2009E41 The Ends of the Universe: Hubble's Final Chapter

    • May 11, 2009
    • Discovery

    A final mission to Hubble attempts to repair the massive telescope.

  • S2009E42 Hudson Plane Crash – What Really Happened?

    • March 4, 2009
    • Discovery

    Inside story of Flight 1549. How does a plane lose both engines over a city, and crash lands without a single death? New footage and exclusive interviews with crew, survivors, and rescuers tell the amazing story of survival.

  • S2009E43 Stephen Hawking and the Theory of Everything (1)

    • April 6, 2009
    • Discovery

    The legendary physicist’s search for the secrets of the universe How did the universe come into being? Why are we here? And where are we headed? Stephen Hawking--one of the world’s most famous physicists and author of the international bestseller A Brief History of Time--wants to answer those questions. Trying to unify Einstein’s theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, he seeks a single explanation for the entire universe. But he’s racing against time, trapped in a relentlessly deteriorating body ravaged by Lou Gehrig’s disease. Join Hawking and other renowned thinkers as they explore the revolutionary new ideas that have evolved since the publication of his blockbuster book. Besides interviews, this stimulating documentary uses computer graphics and simple, easy-to-understand demonstrations to explain complex concepts. Topics include black holes, string theory, supersymmetry, dimensions beyond our perception, and the mysterious M force--all potential keys to unlocking the elusive "theory of everything" that seems so tantalizingly close.

  • S2009E44 The Bodymachine

    • June 21, 2009
    • Discovery

    The Body Machine is a landmark special on the human body that shows us just how much, how many, how large, how strong, how fast - just how amazing the body really is. Utilizing impressive large-scale real-life stunts, CGI and strong character stories, the show makes the staggering scale of the inner workings of the body tangible. We will show you how far our blood travels in just one day - an astounding 19, 000 km - from Quebec City to Buenos Aires and back. You will see all the cranial fluid you produce in your lifetime laid out in front of you - all 26,280 pint glasses worth. And in just one day you will take 23,000 breaths - enough air to fill 7,714 helium balloons. You will see all this and much more.

  • S2009E45 Revealed The Da Vinci Shroud

    • July 1, 2009
    • Discovery

    One of the holiest relics in Christianity, the Turin shroud is believed to have swathed the body of Christ after his death. The image of a bloodied, crucified man burned into the fabric of the cloth was first revealed in 1898 when it was captured in a photographic negative. Subsequent tests in 1988 ultimately dated the shroud to between 1260­1390AD, apparently confirming its status as a medieval forgery. According to Clive Prince and author Lynn Picknett, that forger was none other than Leonardo Da Vinci. A master artist, scientist and anatomist, Da Vinci was the only person with the talents to undertake such a project. Yet scientists have been unable to explain how the image was created. Over 50 attempts to duplicate the relic have failed. New research using Da Vinci’s other works for comparison has drawn some fascinating conclusions...

  • S2009E46 The World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs

    • April 7, 2009
    • Discovery

    The World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs, follows host Ruud Kleinpaste, as he embarks on an entomological odyssey around the globe in search of the ultimate biggest and "baddest" creepy crawlies. The World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs will then profile the "stars" of the show, with Ruud explaining in his audience-friendly style exactly what makes them so amazing.

  • S2009E47 End of Extinction: Cloning the Tasmanian Tiger

    • October 11, 2009
    • Discovery

    Hidden away in a Sydney vault is a young, pickled pup. For almost 140 years, it's remained locked in its glassy tomb. But this is no ordinary pup. In fact, it's not a pup at all. It's a fetus of an animal more closely related to an Australian kangaroo. It was a marsupial which looked like a dog had stripes like a tiger, yet carried its young in a pouch. How the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, came to be extinct is a tragedy, and how it might live again is the pursuit of a scientific miracle. Is it possible or wishful thinking? Herein find the story of one man's obsession and his quest to reverse extinction.

  • S2009E48 The Last Maneater Killer Tigers of India

    • October 11, 2009
    • Discovery

    The last tigers in the world to hunt, kill, and eat humans live in mangrove forest swamps of eastern India. Hear villagers' harrowing tales of survival and find out what it's like not living on the top of the food chain.

  • S2009E49 Planes That Never Flew: The Atomic Bomber

    • May 23, 2009
    • Discovery

    An account of world-beating aircraft projects that were scrapped before their time. Each aircraft is recreated and shown using computer graphics. Includes archive footage and interviews. In the grip of a rapidly escalating Cold War America poured billions into developing a giant nuclear powered bomber, a plane so fantastic that it could stay aloft for months at a time. The Convair WS 125 was the ultimate doomsday machine... Recently declassified Russian Cold War era documents disclose they actually flew a prototype Atomic engined bomber.

  • S2009E50 Engineering Disasters

    • December 28, 2009
    • Discovery

  • S2009E51 Perfect Disaster - Fire Storm

    • December 28, 2009
    • Discovery

  • S2009E52 The Hawking Paradox

    • December 28, 2009
    • Discovery

    Physicist Stephen Hawking revises his earlier theory on black holes.

  • S2009E53 Surviving the Drought

    • March 15, 2009
    • Discovery

    The Ruaha National Park in the south of Tanzania used to be a true paradise for wildlife gathered around the rich Ruaha river. Today however, its sparkling waters are nothing more than a remote dream. Scorching heat and severe drought have dried up the riverbed, leaving animals wandering around, suffering from dehydration. A life-or-death quest for water has begun and the bewildered animals have no choice but to follow the dry riverbed upstream hoping to find water. Witness to this tragedy, a pride of hungry and thirsty lionesses and their cubs overlook the last pockets of water. Although it is dangerous for the young cubs to travel, the females have no choice but to follow the herds of herbivores in their migration. Days go by as the leaden sun scorches the savanna and the winds blow away the few hopes of rain. Will the lionesses and the other animals find water in time to save themselves?

  • S2009E54 DaVinci: Unlocking the Genius

    • May 4, 2009
    • Discovery

    Leonardo da Vinci was the original Renaissance man. He’s best known for having painted the Mona Lisa but he was also an engineer, a musician, a military weapons designer, a futurist and an unparalleled inventor. With remarkable foresight, da Vinci’s accomplishments came before Newton’s theory of gravity, Darwin’s The Origin of Species – and even before the world was known to be round.

  • S2009E55 Hunting the Lost Symbol

    • Discovery

  • S2009E56 Somali Pirate Takedown - The Real Story

    • June 21, 2009
    • Discovery

    The real story behind the Somali Pirate capture of the Maersk Alabama - and the kill shots that saved the life of Captain Richard Phillips.

Season 2010

  • S2010E01 Americas First Nations

    • Discovery

  • S2010E02 Nostradamus Decoded

    • February 26, 2010
    • Discovery

    The possible prophet might have been able to see into the future or to manipulate people's minds.

  • S2010E03 Sodom and Gomorrah

    • Discovery

    Scholars suggest that events described in biblical tales of the impenitent cities actually may be evidence of an ancient asteroid strike.

  • S2010E04 Truth Be Told I'm Addicted To Plastic Surgery

    • Discovery

  • S2010E05 Atlas 4D: Hawaii

    • June 14, 2010
    • Discovery

    Hawaii - a magical place steeped in mystery. Discover why Hawaii exists, how it affects a huge slice of the globe, and why the surf is always up. From blind spiders to the active volcanoes, this iconic island chain has many stories.

  • S2010E06 The World's Strangest UFO Stories: Did Aliens Build the Pyramids?

    • Discovery

    A look at historical and archaeological evidence that supports a popular theory that ancient aliens where responsible for constructing the great pyramids.

  • S2010E07 Scandals of the Ancient World: Egypt

    • May 27, 2010
    • Discovery

    Scandals of the Ancient World digs up the juiciest "dirt" of Ancient Egypt. In a centuries-long romp through sex, drugs, celebrity scandals, military mishaps, and murders, this show is the Vanity Fair of the Ancient World. New technology, recently discovered writings and fresh theories will explain once and for all the how and why behind the most salacious events of ancient civilizations, through the use of stylized dramatizations and active on site interviews. Scandals of the Ancient World will highlight topics that you won't find in the typical "how the pyramids were built" program. This isn't your father's Egypt.

  • S2010E08 Cereal Beyond the Bowl

    • Discovery

  • S2010E09 Around The World In 90 Minutes

    • Discovery

    At midnight, travel to the tiny country of Monaco and watch residents riding on a gondola on a beautiful summer night. By 12:05 a.m. you are transported to Canada to watch a gaggle of geese forage for food on a grassy knoll. Seem impossible? Not when the photographs are provided by the International Space Station as it orbits the Earth. Around The World in 90 Minutes tells the spectacular story of what happens around the globe during one 90-minute voyage through a series of high definition images broadcast from thousands of miles away.

  • S2010E10 9/11: After the Towers Fell

    • September 5, 2010
    • Discovery

    When the Twin Towers Collapsed on September 11, 2001, thousands were feared trapped beneath the tons of steel and rubble. Rescue Workers, family, and friends rushed to Ground Zero to save the buried. These are the stories of the race to rescue survivors.

  • S2010E11 Secrets of the Secret Service

    • June 13, 2010
    • Discovery

    This is a no-holds-barred investigation of America's most mysterious law enforcement agency. Classified technology, secret strategies, deception, and human courage combine to provide the best protection possible.

  • S2010E12 Da Vinci's Machines: Scythe Chariot

    • February 10, 2010
    • Discovery

    A team of expert builders will try to construct this unique invention using only materials available in da Vinci’s own time. It’s a modern twist on the classics, but will these outrageous machines work? Scythe Chariot The danger level hits a new high when the team devotes their talent to re-creating Leonardo’s deadly bladed chariot. But instead of horsepower, the team updates da Vinci’s 15th-century design with robot power.

  • S2010E13 Last Day of the Dinosaurs

    • August 29, 2010
    • Discovery

    'Last Days of the Dinosaurs' takes an unprecedented look at the lives of dinosaurs - a species that ruled the earth for 150 million years, then suddenly vanished. Their disappearance is one of the planet's greatest mysteries - unimaginable, until now. Combining the latest science, geology and palaeontology, it all comes down to one cataclysmic day. With ground-breaking photo-realistic animation this unique television event reconstructs the dinosaur world of the late Cretaceous period, and re-imagines the colossal fireballs, devastating blast-waves, giant earthquakes and mega tsunamis that changed life on the planet forever; ultimately setting the stage for the next species to rule the earth - mankind.

  • S2010E14 The Universe: Alien Galaxies

    • May 17, 2010
    • Discovery

    Galaxies, home to stars, planets and us, come in all shapes and sizes. Witnesses the evolution of galaxies; from clouds of cold gas floating in the voids of space 13 billion years ago, to the magnificent spirals that fill our night sky.

  • S2010E15 Angels vs Demons: Fact or Fiction

    • July 10, 2010
    • Discovery

    The Vatican has condemned it. Readers around the world love it. And now we separate the fact from the fiction in Dan Brown’s controversial bestseller Angels & Demons. We examine the cutting-edge science of anti-matter and question the historical accuracy of theology, conspiracies, symbolism and cults as described by the The Da Vinci Code author.

  • S2010E16 Secret History of the Freemasons

    • September 5, 2010
    • Discovery

    Documentary about an unprecedented inside look into one of the world's most private mysterious secret organizations, the Freemasons. Their inner workings, secret rituals, revelations of the 33rd-degree Master Mason is also to be revealed, history, and secrets will be uncovered. Centuries old rituals are filmed for the first time ever and to be showcased aswell.

  • S2010E17 God's Wrath

    • September 12, 2010
    • Discovery

    The Bible contains some of the greatest stories of mass destruction to ever befall mankind, where God's Wrath set off disasters from Noah's Flood to Sodom and Gomorrah and the Ten Plagues of Egypt. While scientists now believe they can explain the natural forces behind these Biblical tales, that does not mean the modern world can escape from the kind of events that decimated the ancient world. In fact, now they might bring even greater destruction upon us. ‘God's Wrath' explores what the repercussions might be if these events were to occur again.

  • S2010E18 NYC Inside Out: Water And Waste

    • November 9, 2010
    • Discovery

    Go inside New York City's water and waste system that produces 1.2 billion gallons of water and produces 1.3 billion gallons of waste a day.

  • S2010E19 NYC Inside Out: Power

    • November 10, 2010
    • Discovery

    Explore the largest and most complex power system on the planet, consuming more energy in a single day than the entire nation of Greece in one year.

  • S2010E20 Rescued: The Chilean Mine Story

    • Discovery

    Exclusive foorage of the rescue, including interviews with the miners and their families, engineers whose technological innoations made it possible and Chilean president Pinera.

  • S2010E21 Track Me If You Can

    • March 12, 2010
    • Discovery

    We live in a world where we are being constantly watched and monitored. What would it take to wipe the slate clean and live a life free of big brother? Security expert Aton Edwards takes the viewer on an amazing journey off the grid and under the radar.

  • S2010E22 Alien Storms

    • March 21, 2010
    • Discovery

    Although we have extreme weather on earth, it is nothing in comparison to the wettest, dustiest and most brutal 'Alien Storms.' Radical weather is not uncommon in the solar system and storms on other planets are bigger, more powerful and stranger than their counter-parts on earth. This program is an in-depth investigation into the source of such dramatic weather in the solar system and why it is so different from the weather we experience on earth. Watch how once the incredible dust storms on Mars have started, it can take months for the skies to clear and learn how Neptune's extreme winds can reach speeds of 2,500 an kilometers an hour.

  • S2010E23 Track Me If You Can

    • Discovery

  • S2010E24 World's Most Expensive Rides: Pagani Zonda

    • March 21, 2010
    • Discovery

    The supercar you never heard of; extreme, exotic, Italian. The Pagani Zonda. A hot rod that helped write the history books and one of the rarest racecars on the planet -- only 50 ever sold.

  • S2010E25 World's Most Expensive Rides: Baia High Performance Cruiser

    • Discovery

    The Baia High Performance Cruiser: Italian styling, luxury cabin and tons of power. The customized stretch Hummerzine boasts four wheel drive, bling-packed party wagon. And the Shelby Cobra an alltime classic and inspiration for a million muscle cars.

  • S2010E26 World's Most Expensive Rides: Bombardier Global Express

    • Discovery

    The Bombardier Global Express, the longest range private jet in the world. The Ferrari Modena Stretch, a racecar that thinks it's a limo and the luxurious, 2 million dollar Marathon RV.

  • S2010E27 World's Most Expensive Rides: Confederate Wraith

    • Discovery

    Confederate Wraith, a one of a kind southern classic. The Linda Lou, a 200-foot, five deck ultra-luxurious cruiser. And the ultimate pimped-out SUV, the Christian Audigier VIF1. Designed by a fashion designer, with 24-carat trim, computer, cigar humidor.

  • S2010E28 World's Most Expensive Rides: S&S X Wedge Chopper

    • Discovery

    The S&S X Wedge Chopper aka the mother of all choppers. The Conquest Knight, military-grade armor, luxury carpeting and leather interior. And the Featherlite Vantare Platinum Plus, the most expensive RV in the world.

  • S2010E29 Joao Maguiejo’s Big Bang

    • Discovery

    Charismatic cosmologist Joao Magueijo believes he knows what happened at the beginning of time. His brilliant new theory provides fresh answers to the question "how did we all get here?" and explains many of the paradoxes of ‘The Big Bang' - the zero hour when everything we know came into being. Whether he is right or wrong, his radical ideas have caused waves in the world of science and threatened to undermine many of the most fundamental beliefs in physics. He has been accused of being an anarchist and a heretic. In this visually-inventive and mentally-stimulating documentary, Magueijo explains exactly what makes his ideas so revolutionary.

  • S2010E30 Human Sacrifice: The Bloodthirsty Gods

    • Discovery

    Human Sacrifice examines the history of human sacrifice from around the globe. Each episode will explore historic and archaeological evidence, from the prehistoric era until the practice died out - or did it? We will see what the ancients said about human sacrifice, and ask overarching questions about the existence and reason for the practice. Why did a culture turn to human sacrifice? What were the constants in each religion, and what were the differences? And finally, are the ancient sacrifices around the world long gone, or are we experiencing a re-birth of ritual killings?

  • S2010E31 The Kennedy Detail

    • Discovery

    It was their duty to prevent one of the greatest tragedies in U.S. history and they failed, a fact that has haunted them ever since. For years, the men of President John F. Kennedy's Secret Service detail have kept silent about that terrible day in Dallas, but now they've gathered together back at the scene of the assassination and are speaking out about their experiences there for the first time Revealing, gut-wrenching and heartbreaking, The Kennedy Detail is their story told through their eyes for the very first time

  • S2010E32 Deception with Keith Barry

    • July 14, 2010
    • Discovery

    ‘Deception with Keith Barry' is a one-hour programme focusing on Keith Barry, a mentalist, illusionist, and expert in the fields of perception and deception. Over the course of this special, Keith will demonstrate some amazing skills but these are not "magic tricks". Rather, Keith uses his powers of perception and persuasion to read his subjects' thoughts and control their behaviours.

  • S2010E33 Shaken and Stirred: Racing Classic Astons at Spa

    • December 19, 2010
    • Discovery

    Follows vintage Aston Martin racing teams as they compete in endurance races at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. "Shaken and Stirred" also acted as the pilot for "GT Racer: The Series".

  • S2010E34 James Bond: A True Story

    • December 21, 2010
    • Discovery

    Takes a look at Ian Fleming & the real-life story behind James Bond. Author Ian Fleming wanted his suave secret agent to be the ultimate spy - but who provided the inspiration for Bond? This film reveals Fleming's wartime service in naval intelligence and profiles two men who could have supplied the basis for Bond's character.

  • S2010E35 Finding Amelia

    • December 11, 2010
    • Discovery

    In July 1937, Amelia Earhart vanished from the skies and entered the realm of myth and mystery. Most people believe that she ran out of fuel and crashed in the sea. But one man is convinced she met a different fate, and he believes he is on the verge of proving it. Follow Ric Gillespie and his team as they travel to Nikumaroro, a remote Pacific island 350 miles from Amelia's last known location. That's where he believes Amelia landed her plane, struggled to survive as a castaway and finally died. He has found new clues and compelling evidence during his past expeditions, but no hard proof — yet. This time, he and his team are returning with the latest in scanning technology and an ambitious plan. They'll be deploying an advanced submersible to search the island's reef for wreckage from Amelia's plane. On land, they'll look for artifacts that may carry her DNA too. Will Ric, after 22 years of searching, solve the greatest of all aviation mysteries...finding Amelia?

  • S2010E36 My Sex Robot

    • November 17, 2010
    • Discovery

    Our world is about to change. Academics believe that within 40 years humans will be having sex with robots and even falling in love and marrying their android companions! In this extraordinary shock-doc we meet three robot fetishists who talk openly and for the first time about their passion for fembots and the inventors vying to bring them the world's first sex robot.

  • S2010E37 First Life with David Attenborough

    • October 24, 2010
    • Discovery

    Billions of years ago, when life began, the surface of Earth was a very dangerous place to be. Searing temperatures scorched the land, noxious fumes belched from volcanoes and with no protective ozone shield, the sun's rays cooked anything that moved. Nothing could live here. But deep under the oceans, the seeds of life had already been sown. In the frozen depths of the deepest trenches, the first animals were born. Before long the oceans were alive with vast reefs of strange creatures, each trying out newly evolved solutions to the problems of living. They had the first shells, the first back bones, the first legs and the first teeth. They were the first swimmers, the first parasites and the first predators, some of which grew to immense sizes, even bigger than a man. Many died out, but the successful ones became the blueprints of all modern life on Earth, from the tiniest ant to the largest mammal — they were even the first ancestors of you and me. David Attenborough is synonymous with the Natural World. From bacterium to blue whale, he has seen it all for himself. But now he embarks on the journey he always wanted to make but never thought possible — a voyage back in time to see how the first animals evolved and how they lived. Recent discoveries at fossil sites around the world over the last twenty years have propelled our understanding of the first life forms to new heights and with the emergence of ground breaking ways of visualizing them, including state of the art CGI, Attenborough will finally realize his dream and see for himself the animals that laid the foundations for all life on Earth.

  • S2010E38 Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking: The Story of Everything

    • May 2, 2010
    • Discovery

    Professor Stephen Hawking traces the life span of the universe from the Big Bang to the ultimate cosmic implosion, all mapped in stunning CGI.

  • S2010E39 The Science of Sex Appeal

    • Discovery

    Take an up close look at how genetics, hormones and neurological factors are believed to influence our sexual attraction levels to one another. This program makes you rethink the concept of true romance, and see it in an entirely different way. The Science of Sex Appeal isolates every detail of human sex appeal and explores it in terms of its evolution and function. It shows us what is genetic, what is hormonal, and what neurological. What is based on sight, what on smell and what on small, subtle cues like voice and movement? Ultimately, it takes one of our deepest subconscious processes and lays it out to us in shocking and specific detail. You'll never look at a stranger, or your loved one, or yourself, in quite the same way again.

  • S2010E40 Unknown

    • Discovery

  • S2010E41 Unknown

    • Discovery

  • S2010E42 Olympic Park Machines With Jonny Smith

    • Discovery

    In July 2005, London won the bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. Now the race is on to transform a massive waste land the size of Monaco, into a venue worthy of holding this historic global event. Going behind the scenes to explore the state-of-the-art machinery that makes this mammoth task possible, motoring journalist and mechanics enthusiast, Jonny Smith, discovers what it takes to build an Olympic games. From titanic tunnel borers, to gigantic cranes and space-age bulldozers, join Jonny as he gets his hands on these world-class machines and investigates their role in one of the most ambitious feats of construction Britain has ever undertaken.

  • S2010E43 Toughest Race on Earth

    • Discovery

    James Cracknell, double Olympic Gold medallist, is about to face his greatest ever test of endurance. He's rowed the Atlantic, conquered the Antarctic and won two Olympic gold medals. In this latest challenge James will be putting his body and his reputation on the line in setting out to conquer the toughest race on earth. It is called the Marathon des Sable (MDS), six back to back marathons across the Moroccan Saharan Desert where not everyone will finish, but typical to his ambition and drive James doesn't just want to finish the race, he wants to be in the elite top 50. The aim of the MDS is to test the limit of human endurance. Every year 1000 athletes from more than 30 nations run over 250 km in one of the most inhospitable places on the planet. Will James Cracknell find his way out of the dark, be able to add the Sahara to his role of honour and what challenge can he set himself next?

  • S2010E44 Ultimate Trains

    • Discovery

  • S2010E45 Rameses: Wrath of God or Man

    • May 1, 2010
    • Discovery

    Explore the origins of the Old Testament's Plague of the Firstborn in this landmark documentary that seeks to investigate the death of Ramses II's eldest son. Join Egyptologist Kent Weeks as he takes a journey into the Valley of the Kings to unearth the remains of the controversial prince and determine the exact cause of his death while simultaneously tracking the path of the Israelites as they made their arduous journey from Mount Sinai to the Red Sea. By combining faithful reenactments of the events as well as spectacular CGI effects, this documentary takes viewers back in time to explore one of history's greatest mysteries.

  • S2010E46 Oil Disaster: A Race Against Time

    • June 10, 2010
    • Discovery

    An exclusive, behind the scenes look at the engineering efforts to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • S2010E47 Mayday! Bering Sea

    • March 3, 2010
    • Discovery

    On 23rd March, 2008, the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, sank 200 miles from Dutch Harbor, with 47 on board. What transpired over the next 7 hours became the largest ever cold water rescue by the US Coast Guard.

Season 2011

  • S2011E01 How Beer Saved the World

    • January 31, 2011
    • Discovery

    Did you know that Beer was critical to the birth of civilization? That's right; Beer. Scientists and historians line up to tell the amazing, untold story of how beer helped create maths, poetry, Pyramids, modern medicine, labor laws and America.

  • S2011E02 Secrets of Interrogation

    • March 9, 2011
    • Discovery

    When tried and tested means such as DNA tests and circumstantial evidence fail, confronting a suspect face-to-face might be the only chance police have to reveal the truth about a crime. In this series, watch as dramatic re-enactments demonstrate how the experts see through deception. Learn whether it is possible for the innocent to prevail when they are facing a professional interrogator and how the power of psychology helps to lift the secrecy on acts of malice and revenge.

  • S2011E03 Explosions Gone Wrong

    • March 5, 2011
    • Discovery

    Sometimes deadly, sometimes catastrophic, always compelling; the biggest and baddest explosions ever caught on video. From gas stations and tanker trucks, to rocket failures and the manufacturers of their fuel, learn what makes these colossal explosions tick. Also: a disastrous explosion tears through NY City at 400 degrees, and without a single flame.

  • S2011E04 What Happened Before the Big Bang?

    • March 15, 2011
    • Discovery

    What came before the Big Bang? We dive into the strange world of loop quantum cosmology, multiverses and singularities. And we visit the room that NASA has created to model nothingness. It's a simple question: the answer is beautiful and very strange.

  • S2011E05 Bermuda Triangle Exposed

    • March 21, 2011
    • Discovery

    Examine the Bermuda Triangle by layer to reveal what's beneath the 440, 000 square miles of ocean in the deadly marine graveyard. Freak waves, magnetic anomalies, giant whirlpools and more have been blamed for its mysterious plane and boat disappearances.

  • S2011E06 Man Made Marvels H-IIA Space Rocket

    • April 10, 2011
    • Discovery

    The Japanese space industry is about to reach another milestone. From its base on Tanegashima Island, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is counting down to the la launch of the HII-A JAXA s engineering marvel. Though this isn t its first launch, every launch might be stymied by a myriad of possible problems, and sometimes the consequences are heart breaking, expensive or even deadly. This time, as the HII-A attempts to carry its heaviest payload to date into space and join the big league of commercial satellite launchers, the stakes are as high as they ve ever been for Japan s space program.

  • S2011E07 WikiLeaks War Lies & Videotape

    • Discovery

  • S2011E08 Pompeii: Back From The Dead

    • April 18, 2011
    • Discovery

    As Vesuvius rained destruction on the the Roman town of Pompeii, 74 men, women and children took refuge in a dark cellar. There, they waited, while their friends and neighbors fell victim to the heat and ash that swallowed the city. They thought they had survived the worst - instead, they became the last people to die in the disaster. The discovery of their bones - perfectly preserved - reveals much about the way the people of Pompeii lived - and died.

  • S2011E09 Man Made Marvels: Okinawa Aquarium

    • March 25, 2011
    • Discovery

    On the Japanese island of Okinawa, scientists and engineers have set themselves a monumental challenge: to construct Asia’s biggest aquarium. But that’s not all – the aquarium plans on being the first in the world to hold whale sharks – the largest fish in the ocean – and to successfully breed them in captivity. The Churaumi Aquarium is a modern marvel of engineering and technical skill – with the added challenge of being ecologically sound. Designing and building an aquarium that can safely house fish that can grow to 20 meters in length – as well as making them feel at home so that they will breed is a gargantuan task.

  • S2011E10 Space Pioneer: Venus

    • April 18, 2011
    • Discovery

    ‘Space Pioneer’ is a fascinating six-part series where physicist and host Dr. Basil Singer eagerly plays the role of human guinea pig in his quest to find answers. Follow him as he investigates whether humans could possibly call Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn’s moon Titan, and Jupiter’s moons Callisto and Gliese 581c their home in the future. In the name of science, Dr. Singer subjects himself to extreme temperatures, tests new survival technologies designed to keep humans alive in harsh environments, suffers the rigors of travel in zero gravity, explores ideas for new human habitats in the sky, and much more.

  • S2011E11 Nuclear Nightmare- Japan In Crisis

    • Discovery

  • S2011E12 MegaQuake: The Hour That Shook Japan

    • April 24, 2011
    • Discovery

    Experience Japan's earthquake and tsunami through new footage and first person accounts. Understand the mega-physics inside this latest Ring of Fire cataclysm that rocked the Earth on its axis. Scientists explore whether the Pacific NW U.S. could be next.

  • S2011E13 The Science of Lust

    • Discovery

    In this follow up to 2009’s hit Science of Sex Appeal, cutting edge scientists and human guinea pigs combine to explore the origins, experience, function and future of Man’s most urgent drive: Lust.

  • S2011E14 Man Made Marvels Sydney Opera House

    • May 14, 2011
    • Discovery

    Its breathtaking shape defied every engineering and construction rule in the book. The original plans were radical and impossible to build using existing technology, but the designers faced the challenges and responded with innovative, inventive answers. The building was as controversial as it was complex and in 1966 amid massive public outcry, designer Jorn Utzon left Australia and the job, leaving the interiors of the opera house to be finished by others. Fast forward to modern times, and the famous and loved icon is due for a makeover. Jorn Utzon has been reinstated as designer, creating the final chapter of one of the greatest design stories of recent history.

  • S2011E15 Nuclear Nightmare - Japan in Crisis

    • April 19, 2011
    • Discovery

  • S2011E16 Killing bin Laden

    • May 15, 2011
    • Discovery

    Examining how Osama bin Laden was brought down from intelligence-gathering that exposed his location to the military operation conducted by Seal Team 6, and the terrorist leader's May 2011 burial at sea.

  • S2011E17 Tornado Rampage

    • May 22, 2011
    • Discovery

    With nearly 200 tornados recorded and over 300 lives lost in just a single day, weather history was made on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 in the worst tornado outbreak since 1974. Discovery Channel's STORM CHASERS were filming that day in the center of the action and now present never-before-seen footage, recount their harrowing stories and put into both scientific and human context the overwhelming tragedy in the all new special TORNADO RAMPAGE 2011. STORM CHASERS' Reed Timmer, Sean Casey and Tim Samaras were all filming with their chase teams on Wednesday, April 27th for the new season of their series when they become caught up in unprecedented multiple tornados. Their exclusive, never-before-seen footage combined with meteorlogical expertise and years of chasing experience helps piece together a day that saw so much destruction and loss of life. Tornados are one of Mother Nature's most mystifying, deadly forces. When conditions are just right what starts as a breeze can becomes a mass of spinning energy as loud as a jet engine and as strong as a freight train. All three chase teams witnessed the storms from different locations across the South allowing Discovery to offer a comprehensive, 360° look at this unimaginable tragedy. "In all my years of chasing tornados, this was hands down the most unforgettable day. The intensity of the storm activity and the sheer number of tornados that touched down is overwhelming and heartbreaking. By studying this historic day we hope to learn more information for our research and help better predict tornados and save lives," said STORM CHASERS' meteorologist Reed Timmer TORNADO RAMPAGE 2011 is produced for Discovery Channel by Darlow Smithson. Tom Brisley and Guy Davies are executive producers. For Discovery Channel, Stephen Reverend is executive producer.

  • S2011E18 In Search of the King's Head

    • May 26, 2011
    • Discovery

    The story of a skull recently discovered in an attic in France, which was revealed to be the head of king Henry IV of France – decapitated by French revolutionaries in 1789.

  • S2011E19 Invasion of the Giant Jellyfish

    • Discovery

    There's an invasion underway: An army of brainless, bloodless phantoms, billions strong, is taking over our oceans, destroying our food supply, and turning our beaches into battle zones. After 600 million years of evolution, jellyfish are the planet's ultimate survivors, flourishing even in the face of climate change and pollution. Are they really mindless blobs or is the enemy smarter than anyone ever predicted? Could this be a real life war of the worlds?

  • S2011E20 Mayday: Collision Course

    • Discovery

  • S2011E21 King's of Construction: Gotthard Base Tunnel (Switzerland)

    • August 17, 2011
    • Discovery

    The Gotthard Base Tunnel is actually two main parallel tunnels measuring a record-breaking 57km each, served by a maze of access tunnels, shafts and passages. In total there will be 153.5 km of tunnel through the Swiss Alps. The project has been conceived to solve the problem of heavy European road traffic on this major route through the Alps, while simultaneously developing Europe’s high-speed rail network. The existing tunnel, much higher up, can only handle three-truck freight trains of up to 2,000 tons. The new tunnel will take 4,000 ton heavy freight trains – carrying entire trucks on board - effortlessly through the heart of the mountains. Passenger trains will be able to travel at speeds of up to 250kmph, resulting in a train journey time between Zurich and Milan of just two hours and 40 minutes – a third less than at present.

  • S2011E22 King's of Construction: Tung Chung Hong Kong's New Cable Car

    • August 24, 2011
    • Discovery

    On Hong Kong's mountainous Lantau Island a team of experts are building one of the most impressive cable cars ever: the Ngong Ping 360.

  • S2011E23 How Not To Become Shark Bait

    • Discovery

  • S2011E24 Super Typhoon

    • Discovery

  • S2011E25 Vesuvius: Deadly Fury

    • Discovery

  • S2011E26 King's of Construction: Ski Dubai

    • February 27, 2008
    • Discovery

    Ski Dubai has 5 runs that vary in difficulty, height and gradient, the longest run being 400 meters with a fall of over 60 meters. Test your skills on the worlds first indoor black run or practice your turns on the gentle beginner slopes. Skiers and snowboarders of all skill levels will enjoy these various slopes and snowboarders can also practice their stunts in the Freestyle Zone. Kids and parents alike will have fun in the huge interactive Snow Park, which at 3000 square meters is the largest indoor snow park in the world.

  • S2011E27 Man Made Marvels: Ultimate Casino

    • May 22, 2011
    • Discovery

    The world's ultimate casino, The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel will be the largest inhabited building on earth. Off the coast of China, on islands of Macau, this entertainment super structure will be the centerpiece of the Asian Las Vegas.

  • S2011E28 Surviving D-Day

    • June 4, 2011
    • Discovery

    By forensically analyzing war records and real testimony, SURVIVING D-DAY reveals that the difference between life and death for American soldiers hung on such details as what they ate for breakfast, the interpretation of a weather forecast, or the design of a buckle strap. Yet despite ingenious and creative tactical devices and strategies, the most powerful weapons of warfare were still leadership and bravery. The special tells these incredible stories -- many told by Omaha Beach veterans themselves -- to examine this historic day and reveal who survived... and why

  • S2011E29 NHK Mystery of the White Dunes

    • Discovery

  • S2011E30 Aliens of the Deep Sea

    • Discovery

    It has a soft boneless body and two eyes that take up a quarter of its body weight. It has eight tentacles of which one contains the sex organ, brain and intestines all in a single pouch. It’s a carnivorous predator with a tearing beak that can grow up to five metres long! It can change shape and colour at will, disappearing into the background, with a formidable intelligence able to solve complex problems and the ability to walk on land, sea and cross through fire. It’s not an alien from outer-space but an Octopus, a creature that has lived alongside humankind from the beginning. In a one-off special, Aliens of the Deep explores how we are only beginning to unravel the extent of the astounding intelligence of this strange but fascinating deep water wonder.

  • S2011E31 Dino Gangs

    • June 26, 2011
    • Discovery

    A groundbreaking discovery reveals that T-Rex may have been more deadly than we ever imagined. Many times more deadly. In the Gobi Desert, scientists unearth the remains of 68 Tyrannosaurus Rexes, packed closely together. For dino hunter Dr. Phil Currie, it's a find that leads him to a disturbing conclusion: T-Rex lived and hunted in bloodthirsty gangs, capable of taking down anything that crossed their path, and tearing their unlucky prey to shreds in a rapacious frenzy. Dr. Currie journeys to some of the most remote and inhospitable places on the planet in search of evidence that may reveal how just how brutally the tyrant lizard king lorded over their domain, and why their reign of terror lasted so long

  • S2011E32 Secrets of Seal Team 6

    • July 10, 2011
    • Discovery

    For three decades, the elite government operatives of SEAL TEAM VI have existed under the radar, but now, their cover is blown. We'll uncover the classified information the government doesn't want you to know and discover the SECRETS OF SEAL TEAM 6.

  • S2011E33 Who Survives?

    • July 27, 2011
    • Discovery

    After two hikers are stranded alone in the wilderness, they push themselves to their physical and emotional limits in an attempt to make it out of the wild alive.

  • S2011E34 Norway Massacre: The Killer's Mind

    • Discovery

  • S2011E35 Monsters and Mysteries in Alaska

    • August 15, 2011
    • Discovery

    Alaska: could its uninhabited frontier be hiding monsters and mysteries? For the first time, witnesses tell the stories of their encounters with the unknown Bigfoot, lake monsters and UFOs - all under the scrutiny of a top microexpressions expert.

  • S2011E36 Spies Beneath Berlin

    • Discovery

  • S2011E50 9/11: Heroes of the 88th Floor

    • September 4, 2011
    • Discovery

    9/11: HEROES OF THE 88th FLOOR is told through first-hand testimonials from survivors, recounting the 102 minutes before the North Tower collapsed. This program puts the spotlight on the extraordinary rescue work of construction manager Frank De Martini and construction inspector Pablo Ortiz, who both worked with the Port Authority on the 88th floor. Armed only with a flashlight, a crowbar and walkie talkies, the two men selflessly worked to rescue survivors from behind jammed doors on the upper floors of the North Tower. Sadly, both Frank and Pablo died in the terror attack--but their acts of heroism and courage saved the lives of 77 people and touched many more. Their bravery and sacrifice inspired those around them to step up and help others as they exited the towers, which in turn saved many more lives. Through archival footage and dramatic recreations, audiences relive their terrifying struggle for survival and discover what it was like to be trapped in the midst of this tragic day.

  • S2011E51 Extreme Drug Smuggling

    • September 15, 2011
    • Discovery

    An inside look at the extreme lengths cartels and drug traffickers will go to import millions of tons of cocaine, marijuana, and heroin into the US each year.

  • S2011E52 Alaskan Monster Hunt: Hillstranded

    • July 19, 2011
    • Discovery

  • S2011E53 iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World

    • October 16, 2011
    • Discovery

    Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman host a retrospective look and celebration of the life of Steve Jobs.

  • S2011E54 Supersonic: Pushing the Envelope

    • Discovery

  • S2011E55 Life On A Wire

    • June 22, 2011
    • Discovery

    Nik Wallenda comes from seven generations of daredevils and famous circus family 'The Flying Wallendas'. Nik is a daredevil for the 21st Century and along with his dad, who supervises the rigging and safety, he performs death-defying stunts. We follow his whole family (mom, dad, wife, kids) as they engineer and execute their life's passion.

  • S2011E56 Jack the Ripper: Prime Suspect

    • May 9, 2012
    • Discovery

    Featuring the latest news and theories in the 120-year-old worldwide quest to identify the person dubbed Jack the Ripper responsible for the murder of 5 common prostitutes around the seedy district of Whitechapel in London's notorious East End between 31 August 1888 and 9 November 1888. Will this serial killer's identity ever be revealed through DNA or other - as yet unrevealed - evidence?

  • S2011E57 Raising Big Blue

    • May 30, 2011
    • Discovery

    Scientists uncover a buried skeleton of a Blue Whale in an attempt to put it back together for display in a prominent museum. But it's not as simple as it seems, first they need to locate the buried whale, develop a method to clean the appalling stench from the bones and put all the pieces together.

  • S2011E58 The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire

    • Discovery
  • S2011E59 True Grit: The True Story

    • Discovery

    The line between good and evil in the Wild West was often blurred, and perhaps no Hollywood Western captured the realities of the dangerous frontier better than the Coen Brothers' "True Grit." Based on the book by Charles Portis, it's a brutal portrayal of frontier justice, but real life in the West was even more shocking. Explore a violent and unforgiving time in America's history and see how Rooster Cogburn and young Mattie's encounters with hangings, shootouts, and kidnappings would have been part and parcel with life in the Wild West.

  • S2011E60 The Supernaturalist

    • June 29, 2011
    • Discovery

    The Supernaturalist with Dan White Dan White performs mind-blowing magic: manipulating physical objects, performing surprising card tricks and making items appear from seemingly thin air. All of this, he admits, is merely an illusion. White has a mission: to find REAL magic. White travels to a remote corner of the planet and finds himself in a place where magic isn't just tricks. It is believed to be very real... and even dangerous. Locals in the Himalayan country of Nepal believe there are monks within its borders who use their powers to harm anyone who crosses their path. White relies on his talents as an illusionist to open doors normally closed to outsiders in an attempt to find one of these feared monks and - hopefully - witness his true magic. White's mission will introduce him to many people, each getting him one step closer to the men in the mountains.

  • S2011E61 Nefertiti: Mummy Queen Mystery

    • Discovery

    Loved by a king. Hated by an empire. Erased from history – that is, until now. Join famed Egyptologist Dr. Joann Fletcher as she leads a Discovery Quest to uncover what may be the most startling archaeological find of our lifetime – the long-lost mummy of Queen Nefertiti. For centuries, the whereabouts of one of Egypt's most famous – and controversial – leaders remained a mystery. Then, in 1898, hidden in a small chamber behind a secret wall in a tomb in the Valley of Kings, three anonymous, seemingly ordinary mummies were found – and soon forgotten. For a hundred years, they laid there in the dark, neglected and unexamined. Watch as Dr. Joann Fletcher returns to that hidden chamber to prove that one of the mummies – referred to as "younger woman" – is Nefertiti.

  • S2011E62 Shark City

    • August 1, 2011
    • Discovery

    Chief Shark Officer Andy Samberg takes us on a tour of a mysterious underwater world in the protected waters of the Bahamas, where it's shark-eat-shark, and shark-eat-pretty much everything else too. Join him as he explores the marvels of... Shark City!

  • S2011E63 Taxidermy USA

    • March 29, 2011
    • Discovery

    From the exotic to the downright bizarre, Taxidermy USA follows three unique families of taxidermists as they stuff and mount everything from African Lion and American Alligator to Canadian Black Bear and Domestic House Cat.

  • S2011E64 How Beer Saved The World

    • January 30, 2011
    • Discovery

    Did you know that Beer was critical to the birth of civilization? That's right; Beer. Scientists and historians line up to tell the amazing, untold story of how beer helped create maths, poetry, Pyramids, modern medicine, labor laws and America.

  • S2011E65 9/11: The Towers and the Pentagon

    • September 11, 2011
    • Discovery

    The attack of 9/11 resulted in the total collapse of the Twin Towers, but the Pentagon withstood it. Forensic engineers study the structural consequences of the attacks and explain why the results were so different.

Season 2012

  • S2012E01 The 9-11 Tapes: Chaos in the Sky

    • April 19, 2012
    • Discovery

    Newly released audio recordings which offer a unique insight and moving perspective on 9/11 and the fateful minutes that changed America forever. On the morning of the attacks, hundreds of hours of military and air traffic control conversations were captured on tape painting a chilling and tragic picture of events spiraling inexorably out of control. With events unfolding at breakneck-speed, the tapes reveal in minute-by-minute detail, the chaos and confusion wrought by the attacks. Revelations include how Air Force fighter jets, scrambled to protect Washington, set out in the wrong direction - ending up 60 miles out across the Atlantic ocean and that permission to shoot down hijacked passenger planes only came through after the last plane crashed. And while air traffic controllers watched the second plane crash into the World Trade Center tower, fighter jets were still 100 miles away from New York and amid all the confusion it took 39 minutes for the news of United 93's hijack to reach the military. With testimonies from the people who appear on the tapes, the film vividly conveys the emotion, courage and panic in the voices of air traffic controllers and military personnel whose job it was to protect America as it came under attack.

  • S2012E02 Cruise Ship Disaster: Inside The Costa Concordia

    • February 19, 2012
    • Discovery

    Cruise Ship Disaster: Inside The Concordia gives you an eyewitness account of the tragedy as the Concordia runs aground. The human and environmental toll captured the attention of the public eye and now Discovery Channel takes you inside the stranded ship. With never before seen footage from the evacuation, you can follow the Concordia passengers as they relive their flight to abandon ship and find safety.

  • S2012E03 Alive! Sixty Days Under the Snow

    • March 25, 2012
    • Discovery

    What is the longest a human can survive without food? How long does it take for hypothermia to set in? Can a human go into a form of hibernation? We tell the story of Peter Skyllberg who defied the weather, biology and human science by surviving for sixty days inside a car buried under a snow drift with only a few snacks. He was forced to live off nothing but snow from Dec 19 2011 until he was finally rescued on February 17 2012. Skyllberg was rescued by chance as a man on a passing snowmobile stopped thinking he had found a crashed car, after digging through a metre of snow to peer in he saw Peter wrapped in a sleeping bag in the back seat. When Peter was pulled out of the car he was suffering from hypothermia, starvation and was barely able to speak and now the questions as to his survival have begun.

  • S2012E04 Earth from Space

    • May 6, 2012
    • Discovery

    Venture on an epic quest to discover the invisible forces and occurrences that sustain life on this planet and - for the first time - see these processes in action in EARTH FROM SPACE, premiering Sunday, May 6 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Discovery Channel. An original Canada/U.K. co-production, this sweeping two-hour special reveals the Earth's deepest mysteries, captured in breath-taking detail, and raises profound questions and challenges the old assumptions of how it all works. Using the latest CGI technology, and joining NASA and the world's foremost Earth scientists, EARTH FROM SPACE transforms raw satellite data into a visible spectrum, offering viewers authentic, high-definition moving images that vividly illustrate these processes at work.

  • S2012E05 Rowing the Pacific

    • May 10, 2012
    • Discovery

    Rowing The Pacific is presented by James Cracknell and follows the inspirational story of Chris Martin and Mick Dawson who risked their lives over and over again to row across the Pacific Ocean. Facing hurricanes, life-threatening electrical storms with waves of over 50 feet, near starvation plus battling against a fire that very nearly killed them - we follow them on this epic adventure as they become the first men to row across the Pacific from Japan to San Francisco. With exclusive access to unique footage recorded on board the ship each and every day of the gruelling 189 day journey, we'll be giving you this high octane adrenaline-filled story, of a journey that changed two mens lives forever.

  • S2012E06 World's Toughest Drive

    • June 20, 2012
    • Discovery

    A daring three-man team pursue the world record for the fastest drive on polar ice to the South Pole, with no support vehicles or rescue teams, in a gruelling quest for glory.

  • S2012E07 World's Toughest Drive (Part 2)

    • June 27, 2012
    • Discovery

    Part two of two. The team struggles to achieve its objective of breaking the record for the fastest drive on polar ice to the South Pole.

  • S2012E08 Hell and Back: Special Ops Ranger

    • July 12, 2012
    • Discovery

    Following soldiers through eight weeks of training for the Ranger Assessment and Selection Program.

  • S2012E09 Meet the Elephant Man

    • August 12, 2012
    • Discovery

    Experts use photographs and first-hand accounts to produce a virtual re-creation of Joseph Merrick's body, examining how the proteus syndrome sufferer dealt with his condition.

  • S2012E10 Mars Landing 2012: The New Search for Life

    • August 8, 2012
    • Discovery

    Presented by Daily Planet co-hosts Ziya Tong and Dan Riskin, the Red Planet simply won't know what hit it. Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), more lovingly known as Curiosity, weighs a metric ton. That's 900 kilos of genius packed into a machine as wide as a Hummer. She's the Einstein of robots, and she has one painstaking question to answer: is there, or has there ever been life on Mars ? From her custom-built heat shield designed to withstand intense 1,600 C degree heat and speeds up to 21,735 km/hr, to her state-of-the-art supersonic parachute that will endure 29,484 kilos of force - Curiosity is set to break all records. For the first time ever, a rover will be able to supply NASA - and the rest of the world - with stunning HD images from 17 different cameras. She will be able to zap rocks with a laser that's as powerful as a million light bulbs focused on the head of a pin. She will drive for hundreds of kilometers and use her massive robotic arm to drill into Gale Crater; a multilayered cake of Martian history.

  • S2012E11 One Giant Leap: A Neil Armstrong Tribute

    • January 9, 2012
    • Discovery

    The Armstrong story provides a snapshot of a profoundly historic moment for the United States, when groundbreaking science and technology combined with an unmatched passion for satisfying curiosity. In celebration of Armstrong's life and innumerable contributions to space exploration, Discovery Channel and SCIENCE will air special premiere presentations of ONE GIANT LEAP: A NEIL ARMSTRONG TRIBUTE, featuring footage from Neil Armstrong's last public appearance. The feature also offers interviews with crewmates Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, and leverages special access to the Apollo 11 archives to take viewers through the complete journey - from initial training, to moon walk, to splashdown on Earth.

  • S2012E12 Scanning The Skies: The Discovery Channel Telescope

    • September 9, 2012
    • Discovery

    The monster Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT) is now operational at Lowell Observatory, near Flagstaff, Ariz., and it has a busy working life ahead of it. The DCT is the fifth-largest telescope in the continental United States. Take a look behind the scenes of this monster 'scope.

  • S2012E13 Secrets of Secret Societies

    • October 15, 2012
    • Discovery

  • S2012E14 Flipping the White House

    • October 28, 2012
    • Discovery

    When a U.S. President is sworn into office at high noon on inauguration day, the cool facade of the White House conceals a complex mission happening at warp speed. A hand-picked and highly trained team is tasked with transitioning the old administration out as the new administration moves in - all in less than six hours. The outgoing president exits the home on inauguration day, and the incoming president enters the home complete with pictures on the walls, books on the shelves, and socks in the drawers just a few hours later.

  • S2012E15 The True Story Saving Private Ryan

    • Discovery

    In Saving Private Ryan – The True Story, Historians, eye-witnesses and weapons experts reveal amazing new insights into the detail of Spielberg’s graphic depiction of the landings. Veteran Harley Reynolds was one of the first men to make it off Omaha Beach on D-Day and gives us his powerful eyewitness testimony. Pete Niland tells why his family story is thought by many to be the inspiration for the film, and why his uncle is the real Private Ryan. We take to the seas in one of the last surviving landing boats, see the real effects of an exploding mortar shell on the human body and test whether a sniper really can shoot an enemy straight their scope as shown in the film.

  • S2012E16 America's Doomsday Plan

    • November 4, 2012
    • Discovery

    If you fear the apocalypse, you're not alone. The United States is working tirelessly to prepare for it. How will the President, the military, the courts and Capitol Hill survive doomsday? The answer is secret - until now. America's Doomsday Plan received unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to capture the plans and facilities, standing by 24/7, to ensure the homeland survives a disaster. For the first time ever, the U.S. government's top-secret plans are revealed - including the protocols in place to protect the president and the highest levels of government from the most dreaded disasters imaginable. What happens when all hell breaks loose? The world got a glimpse of our government's response on 9/11, but little is known about what actually happens during a major catastrophe. Government officials and insiders share their knowledge behind the billion dollar world of planning for any disaster imaginable and show the high-security facilities that many Americans don't even know exist. "I don't want to have a major event and no longer have a government," said Damon Penn, FEMA's assistant administrator of the national continuity programs who is featured in the program. "I've got to be ready so that that never happens. It's all about preserving our way of life regardless of what the circumstances are." America's Doomsday Plan will take viewers inside the elaborate multi-billion dollar network of bunkers, command centers and the President's Doomsday Plane designed to keep him in command even on Armageddon. It will venture two-thousand feet deep into Cheyenne Mountain - America's impenetrable Command Center -- where the military bunkers down to monitor global skies for any dangers to national security. The episode explains how we've managed to outsmart the country's most fearsome enemies - and shares insight on how we continue to prepare for the worst.

  • S2012E17 Guns: The Men Who Made Them

    • December 4, 2012
    • Discovery

  • S2012E18 Zombie Apocalypse

    • December 18, 2012
    • Discovery

    Could humans really turn into zombies? Hear from scientists who are seriously studying the question, and from the “zombie preppers” who are getting ready for what they believe is the inevitable. It may not be what the Mayans were thinking about when they were creating the Mayan Calendar, but in today’s world many think zombies could actually be a part of society’s demise. Who knows though…perhaps zombies were all part of the Mayan vision of the end.

  • S2012E19 The World's Most Expensive Cars

    • December 20, 2012
    • Discovery

    Velocity Classic Special: The Auto Union is one of the rarest & most expensive race cars in history. This special focuses on the controversy surrounding its auction in Paris France (2007).

  • S2012E20 Star Trek: The True Story

    • December 30, 2012
    • Discovery

    Since the original motion picture premier in 1979 Star Trek has boldly gone onto produce multiple TV series, 11 further films and can boast the most loyal and passionate fanbase in the world. The origins of this multi-billion dollar business can be traced back to one man - LA cop, Gene Roddenberry. As the world of television blossomed in the 1950’s, Roddenberry began to write scripts for police dramas in his spare time. Until one day he came up with a ground-breaking new idea – Star Trek. Through key interviews with Herb Solow, the producer of the Star Trek TV series, Roddenberry’s son, Rod, and Mr Spock himself - Leonard Nimoy charts Roddenberry’s meteoric rise to fame and the lengths he would go to keep his series on air. Star Trek didn’t only delight Trekkies, but also went on to inspire the scientific world and NASA scientists to recreate as in reality what they had seen in on screen in Star Trek.

  • S2012E21 Sport Under Threat

    • July 15, 2012
    • Discovery

    SPORT UNDER THREAT looks at how organisers of sporting events handle the increased risk of terrorist activity, learning from past events that were disrupted by terrorism. Find out what security measures being taken at current major sports events, including housing special forces and attack helicopters in the Royal Navy's biggest warship the HMS Ocean, which will be anchored in the Thames during the 2012 Olympic Games.

  • S2012E22 Finding Atlantis

    • July 17, 2012
    • Discovery

    They say it was the most advanced society in the world: the most powerful army and navy, the most incredible architecture and riches beyond imagination. And, they say it vanished in a single day and a single night. The most extraordinary civilization, lost forever. And what if this astonishing tale was true? The discovery of Atlantis would change history. Myth would become reality. And we would meet for the first time an advanced culture, one that changes what we know about the progress of Western civilization. Now, the impossible may be in our grasp...Archeologists have identified a stele that may have stood at the entrance of this very city. It records a symbol suggestive of Atlantis; carved in stone is what looks to be an Atlantean warrior, guarding the entrance to the lost, multi-ringed city. Finding Atlantis follows a team of Spanish, American and Canadian scientists as they employ satellite space photography, ground penetrating radar, underwater archaeology, and historical sleuthing in an effort to find a lost civilization. Calgary-based Geophysicist Paul Bauman is one of those scientists examining the ancient site. "I'm a lot like a radiologist on a surgical team - I can provide archeologists with a lot of information, non-intrusively," says Bauman. In the vast mudflats of the Guadalquivir river delta, scientists examined strange geometric shadows of what look to be the remains of a ringed city. Here, Bauman and others employed the most advanced imaging technologies in the world to determine whether or not an ancient cataclysm suddenly buried a thriving civilization under metres and metres of ocean and mud. "There is evidence of cataclysmic events happening in that region over the course of history. There's no question about earthquake hazards and a tsunami specifically hitting this exact spot. There is also evidence further inland of memorial sites established by refugees fleeing such a cataclysm," says Bauman. Finding Atlant

  • S2012E23 Ultimate Armored Car: The Presidential Beast

    • February 12, 2012
    • Discovery

    Ultimate Armored Car: The Presidential Beast takes a in-depth look at the world’s ultimate armored vehicle; Cadillac One, The Beast, a key component in the Presidents security detail. The custom elements are the work of Texas Armoring Corporation, a company that has armored hundreds of cars for celebrities, athletes, and heads of state. This high tech team has delivered high-quality custom armored cars across the world. Applying their knowledge of armoring cars, they’ll create the highest-level armor they’ve ever attempted, and put it to the test.

  • S2012E24 Titanic: The Aftermath

    • April 1, 2012
    • Discovery

    Explores what happened after the Titanic sank: the lives the disaster affected and the changes it brought to sea travel.

  • S2012E25 The Ultimate Climb

    • April 1, 2012
    • Discovery

    Ever since he was a teenager, when he was inspired by the efforts of Bear Grylls, Geordie Stewart has been fired by a hugely ambitious desire - to climb the highest mountain in each of the world's seven continents. Last year, he attempted to fulfill that dream - and Discovery followed him every step of the way. The Ultimate Climb is an absorbing one-off film that features exclusive access to the footage Geordie shot on his epic quest, including some breath-taking moments. It tracks Geordie as he embarks on the greatest test of all, as the intrepid explorer tries to complete his seven summit dream, by climbing the highest and most famous mountain in the world: Everest. If he can achieve his goal, he will set a new record becoming the youngest Briton ever to climb all seven summits.

  • S2012E26 Scream: The True Story

    • Discovery

    The True Story is a documentary series revealing the real-life events that inspired some of Hollywood’s most famous blockbusters this episode looks at the real story behind modern horror classic Scream. Slasher film Scream, released in 1996 went on to spawn one of the most successful horror franchises in film history taking in in excess of 400 million dollars in the United States alone. The sadistic killer and his iconic mask have entertained and terrified audiences around the world. With Nightmare on Elm Street director Wes Craven at the helm, the first Scream film is credited with revitalizing the horror genre. Scream blended slasher violence with murder mystery and it played on the stereotypes and conventions of classic horror films breathing new life into the genre. Although the plot of the masked, small town serial killer targeting high-school students and picking them off one-by one may seem like pure Hollywood fiction it was partly inspired by true events and a real masked murderer who terrified students in a small town. The True Story explores the real life case of the masked killer charting the trials and tribulations of the full year long investigation. Including missed evidence, the wrongful arrest of an innocent scarred schizophrenic man and also how the forensic team finally pieced together the killer’s methodology using a key piece of evidence.

  • S2012E27 Alaska Marshals

    • November 13, 2012
    • Discovery

    Discovery News November 07, 2012 U.S. Marshals in Alaska Track Down Dangerous Fugitives While Battling the Elements in America's Last Frontier -- ALASKA MARSHALS premieres Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 10 PM E/P on Discovery Channel -- (Los Angeles, Ca.) In Alaska, America’s last frontier, some of the country’s most hardened criminals are on the run. In this cold, unforgiving landscape, only the most highly-trained deputies – with expertise in wilderness tracking and survival – are up to the task of hunting down and apprehending these extremely dangerous fugitives. ALASKA MARSHALS, takes viewers inside the barren Alaskan wilderness where law enforcement is unlike any other assignment in the U.S. Marshal Service. Each year, hundreds of fugitives flee here hoping to escape from the law. But this hasn’t stopped the dozen Marshals in charge from successfully taking down over 2,500 criminals in the past decade. For most of these Marshals, Alaska is home. Besides breaking the law, the biggest mistake these criminals make is thinking they could outsmart the deputies by hiding in their backyard.

  • S2012E28 Mayday Fire in the Hold

    • August 10, 2012
    • Discovery

    When mysterious cargo boxes ignite on ValuJet flight 592, they bring the whole plane down within a short time. The investigator struggle to find out what kind of cargo could possibly cause such fierce fire to bring a whole plane down.

  • S2012E29 Osama Bin Laden: The Finish

    • October 18, 2012
    • Discovery

    The riveting inside story of the biggest manhunt in history, the search for Osama Bin Laden, including a startling new revelation on the origin of the plans for 9/11. After masterminding the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden vanished. Over the course of the next decade, America discovered that its war with al Qaeda - a scattered group of individuals who were almost impossible to track - required a more innovative approach. Discovery Channel presents OSAMA BIN LADEN: THE FINISH on October 17 at 10 PM ET/PT, based on author Mark Bowden's gripping new book, "The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012) which was released today. With access to key military and agency sources, OSAMA BIN LADEN: THE FINISH goes inside the rooms where decisions were made and on the ground where the action unfolded. The one-hour special begins by looking at the tragic 2009 suicide bombing by a Jordanian triple agent who killed 10, including Jennifer Matthews, a mother of three and the CIA operative leading the hunt for bin Laden. A new strategy is needed to find bin Laden. Based off of Bowden's meticulously researched book that included first hand reporting, exclusive access to the White House and an exclusive interview with President Obama, the special looks at the step-by-step development to finally track down bin Laden and how intelligence agencies and special ops gathered information to find al-Qaeda and Taliban targets. After thousands of Special Forces missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the right weapon to go after bin Laden had finally evolved. By spring 2011, intelligence pointed to a compound in Abbottabad; it was estimated that there was a fifty-fifty chance that bin laden was there. OSAMA BIN LADEN: THE FINISH gives viewers a look at the top-secret strategies employed to finish the mission and President Obama's campaign promise: to get bin Laden. David Keane of Wild Eyes Productions, Bowden'

  • S2012E30 Death Row: The Final 24 Hours

    • April 30, 2012
    • Discovery

    What happens in the final 24 hours before an execution? Hear extraordinary insider stories told by the men who work on death row: the last minute appeals, what happens when things go wrong, and what it feels like to share a man's final moments on earth.

  • S2012E31 Pearl Harbor Declassified

    • Discovery

    The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, have often been called this generation's Pearl Harbor. But unlike the attacks on the Twin Towers 60 years later, it is shocking what little film documentation there is surrounding the surprise Japanese attack on that infamous December day in 1941. PEARL HARBOR DECLASSIFIED, a new and compelling look at an event that galvanized the country and led to America's entry into World War II. Using personal stories and new, state-of-the-art image stabilizing techniques, PEARL HARBOR DECLASSIFIED provides viewers with a dramatic look at the pivotal first 15 minutes of the bombing on Pearl Harbor and the devastating aftermath.

  • S2012E32 Shark Week 2012: 25 Best Bites

    • August 1, 2012
    • Discovery

    In honor of Shark Week's 25th anniversary, we count down the breaches and bites that have captivated audiences for all these years and kept them coming back for more.

  • S2012E33 Curse of the Axe

    • Discovery

    Archaeologists excavating a Huron Indian village explore how a piece of European iron got to North America 100 years before the first Europeans arrived.

  • S2012E34 Birth of a Kia Optima

    • September 22, 2012
    • Discovery

    From conception to creation, witness the birth of the KIA Optima; get an all-access pass inside the innovative design and manufacturing operation and experience what it takes to design and build these vehicles.

  • S2012E35 An Inside Look: Secrets of the Inca

    • November 12, 2012
    • Discovery

    A look into the culture of the people of Peru as it relates to their Inca heritage. Festivals in Cuzco today celebrating the Inca Sun god and the wonders of Maccu Picchu are only some of the topics covered in this documentary.

  • S2012E36 Birth of a Kia Optima

    • September 22, 2012
    • Discovery

    This is the story of one of the most radical makeovers in automotive history. The Kia Optima - from bland to bold, from safe to sexy.

  • S2012E37 Reign of the Dinosaurs: Evolution's Winners

    • December 6, 2012
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    This episode highlights new discoveries that shed light on the evolution from early dinosaurs such as the tiny Eoraptor to the bizarre looking crested dinosaurs of the Jurassic to the giant carnivores such as Tyrannosaurus Rex.

  • S2012E38 Reign of the Dinosaurs: The Watering Hole

    • December 7, 2012
    • Discovery

    This episode transports us to the town of Lourinha, Portugal, where the largest concentration of fossils in Europe exists. We’ll show you how this watering hole looked 150 million years ago, during the late Jurassic, where giant sauropods (four-legged herbivores) took a break along migration routes.

  • S2012E39 Reign of the Dinosaurs: Survival Tactics

    • December 8, 2012
    • Discovery

    Remember the ferocious Velociraptors made famous by "Jurassic Park?" Watch as bigger versions of them, Utahraptors, take down larger prey by hunting in groups. It takes revolutionary adaptations to stay alive during the era of the dinosaur, and this episode exposes how different species changed to survive.

  • S2012E40 Reign of the Dinosaurs: End Game

    • December 9, 2012
    • Discovery

    We get an up close and personal look at how they lived, from nesting in pairs to caring for their young and how they played together. The reign of the T.Rex ended when the impact of a huge asteroid hurtling toward Earth decimated the dinosaur population -- but not all dinosaurs died.

  • S2012E41 Sport Under Threat

    • July 15, 2012
    • Discovery

    SPORT UNDER THREAT looks at how organisers of sporting events handle the increased risk of terrorist activity, learning from past events that were disrupted by terrorism. Find out what security measures being taken at current major sports events, including housing special forces and attack helicopters in the Royal Navy's biggest warship the HMS Ocean, which will be anchored in the Thames during the 2012 Olympic Games.

  • S2012E42 Falklands Hero: Bravo November

    • March 27, 2012
    • Discovery

    While filming Frontline Battle Machines in Afghanistan, Mike Brewer was aboard a Chinook describing the vital work that these helicopters do in the theatre of war when the vehicle was sent on an urgent MERT mission to pick up servicemen injured in a firefight with the Taliban. During the rescue the pilot, Ian Fortune, was shot in the head, but courageously managed to land the aircraft. Back at base - as Ian was patched up - Mike found out that the helicopter, Bravo November, was The longest serving helicopter in the Royal Air Force. This ignited in him a desire to discover the full story behind the aircraft and the Chinook fleet it is still part of. Bravo November has been in service since 1982 and has served in the Falkland Islands, Lebanon, Germany, Northern Ireland, Kurdistan, Iraq and Afghanistan. And it was in the Falklands where it first entered the public consciousness.

  • S2012E43 Secrets Of Bin Laden's Lair

    • October 24, 2012
    • Discovery

    When SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden during Operation Neptune Spear in 2011, they captured a treasure trove of hard drives, computers, videos and personal papers that revealed invaluable information about the world’s most wanted man. Providing an exclusive, razor sharp insight into this highly classified information, one-hour special ‘Secrets Of Bin Laden’s Lair’ explores the herculean effort to seize and analyse this vital intelligence. Featuring exclusive interviews with the government insiders and journalists who were briefed on the findings, this compelling programme uncovers extraordinary details about the personal life of the notorious terrorist, his leadership of Al Qaeda, his life on the run, and chilling evidence of plots against the West. What have intelligence agencies learned from this material and what impact will it have on America’s war against terrorism?

Season 2013

  • S2013E01 The True Story Platoon

    • January 10, 2013
    • Discovery

    The True Story looks at the real lives and true stories behind Hollywood blockbusters and this episode examines Oliver Stone’s Oscar-winning war movie, Platoon. Platoon hit the silver screen in 1986 on a small budget with a cast of then unknown actors but gained worldwide acclaim for its gritty portrayal of the horrors of the Vietnam War. Oliver Stone wanted Platoon to be the most realistic war movie of all time and it was based on his own experiences as a solider in the conflict. But how much of it was real and how much was adapted for Hollywood fiction? Platoon tells the story of idealistic new recruit Chris Taylor (played by Charlie Sheen) as he embarks on his first tour of duty in the deadly, booby-trapped jungles of Vietnam. The movie sees Taylor’s patriotism crumble within days of joining a platoon of demoralized and battle weary soldiers as they fight a losing battle in one of the most controversial conflicts of the 20th Century.

  • S2013E02 Cruise Ship Disaster: Inside the Costa Concordia - Update

    • January 13, 2013
    • Discovery

  • S2013E03 Extreme Smuggling: Drugs

    • January 14, 2013
    • Discovery

    The rising demand in the United States for illicit drugs has created a fearless group of smugglers who are driven by greed to get their drugs to market by land, sea or air. This episode reveals the mind-boggling smuggling schemes employed by drug dealers, who will go as far as building real submarines and smuggling drugs inside bars of soap in order to push their products. Interviews with field agents directly involved in the cases will provide the inside stories of these risky drug busts, while footage shot by a producer brings viewers an unprecedented glimpse at the lives, inner workings and even homes of the smugglers themselves.

  • S2013E04 Extreme Smuggling: Drugs II

    • January 21, 2013
    • Discovery

    In this episode, learn how cartels utilize inventive trafficking tricks to get their drugs into the U.S. and employ extreme techniques to transport the mountains of money they make. Exclusive video footage takes viewers on high-speed pursuits of drug runners at sea and into a cartel's sophisticated tunnel network. Witness helicopter drug drops near the Canadian border and get inside access to a Peruvian cocaine smuggling ring. Compelling interviews with law enforcement and undercover video provides an inside look at what it takes to catch these criminals.

  • S2013E05 Extreme Smuggling: Animals

    • January 28, 2013
    • Discovery

    In this episode, enter the cruel and clandestine world of illegal wildlife trafficking, where millions of people pay big bucks for rare and exotic animals. Six out of every ten households in the United States owns a pet, but there is a dark side to the exotic pet trade: endangerment and extinction of species, irresponsible ownership and the spread of animal-borne diseases. The trafficking and smuggling of exotic and endangered wildlife is a booming black market business estimated to reel in an excess of ten billion dollars annually. Traffickers go to extremes from carrying live animals under their clothes to concealing millions of dollar's worth of ivory in hidden panels inside shipping containers. Watch undercover surveillance of the largest seizure of animals in American history, a restaurant raid in Cambodia and footage of shocking airport confiscations.

  • S2013E06 Extreme Smuggling: Weapons

    • February 4, 2013
    • Discovery

    Pulling back the curtain of the illegal gun trade, this episode gives an insider look at how criminals access and distribute weapons on the black market through corrupt gun dealers, straw buys and lack of regulation at gun shows. Watch actual surveillance footage of illegal gun deals going down with interviews from the agents of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Explosives who put their lives on the line to stop violent crimes and get illegal guns off America's streets.

  • S2013E07 The Da Vinci Code: The True Story

    • February 4, 2013
    • Discovery

    The True Story looks at the real lives and true stories behind Hollywood blockbusters and this episode looks at Ron Howard’s controversial box office hit The Da Vinci Code. The film adaptation of the best-selling novel by Dan Brown sees Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) caught up in a two thousand year old battle between a mysterious secret society and the orthodox church to suppress the greatest secret in history: The true nature and final resting place of the Holy Grail. The Da Vinci Code follows Langdon’s attempt to solve a series of puzzles and codes left behind by great renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci. Hidden in one of his greatest masterpieces are clues to the true nature of the Holy Grail – clues Langdon must decipher to lead him to the shocking truth. The film enthralled and enraged audiences in equal measure due its assertion that Jesus had a sexual relationship with Mary Magdalene, leading Catholics to call for a boycott on the film altogether. The film’s creator however, stood by his research and claims that 99% of the film was true.

  • S2013E08 Argo: Inside Story

    • February 23, 2013
    • Discovery

    In ARGO: Inside Story, Discovery Channel gains access to the top players involved to hear their side of the story, including the CIA’s “chief of disguise,” Tony Mendez, who was called upon to devise the rescue plan. The one-hour special gives an inside look at the dramatic escape and how Mendez forged identity documents and elaborate disguises to get past the security agents at the Tehran airport.

  • S2013E09 Secret Life of Money

    • March 7, 2013
    • Discovery

    The incredible life cycle of cash money is set to be examined by the Discovery Channel. SPOILERS: It doesn't come anywhere close to my wallet!

  • S2013E10 KKK: Beneath the Hood

    • March 20, 2013
    • Discovery

    Take a rare look into the lives of modern day Klu Klux Klan (KKK) members with KKK: Beneath the Hood. The special includes in-depth interviews from KKK leaders, including associates of the largest surviving organizations who reveal their true identities and open up about their lives and beliefs as Klan members. With the help of photojournalist Anthony Karen, who has chronicled the KKK for numerous years, Discovery Channel gains access to current members and no topic is off limits, including the Klan’s cross burning ceremonies. Filmmakers also go inside the home of KKK members Rev. Thomas Robb, his daughter Rachel and her children to give viewers an inside look at a klan family. Additional interview subjects include Frank Ancona, the Imperial Wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the KKK, one of the largest groups in the country; his deputy, Imperial Klaliff Michael Stagner; and the Grand Dragon of the Realm of South Dakota. Traditionalist American Knights member Richard Bondira grants his first televised interview during which he opens his archives of KKK artifacts for the first time with non-Klan members.

  • S2013E11 D-Day in 3D

    • May 26, 2013
    • Discovery

    Discover new secrets behind “D-Day” - the day that changed the course of the 20th Century. On June 6, 1944, the Allies’ invasion of Nazi-occupied France transformed the outcome of World War II; however, did you know “3D” photography was the key to “D-Day’s” success? This futuristic technology mapped every inch of the Nazi defenses, allowing the Allies to execute the greatest invasion in history. The U.S., along with its British and Canadian allies, faced a major challenge - the Nazis heavily fortified the entire Northern European coastline with numerous trenches, bunkers and high-powered weapons. The Allies had to find a weakness. They came up with a creative solution — 3D aerial photography. Spy planes carried two synchronized cameras, taking side-by-side photographs, which were then combined to create a three-dimensional map of the Nazi defenses. After two years of collecting data, these 3D photos showed the Allies that Normandy was the best place to take down the Nazis. The 3D photos helped the Allies create daring missions and overcome the “devil’s garden” – full of landmines, blockades and steel fences – on the beaches of Normandy.

  • S2013E12 Mile Wide Tornado: Storm Chasers Tribute

    • June 5, 2013
    • Discovery

    Mile Wide Tornado: Storm Chasers Tribute centers on the severe tornado that hit near Moore, Okla., On May 20 and left 24 dead, including three storm chasers. Also included are highlights and special scenes of storm chasers Tim & Paul Samaras and Carl Young from the Discovery series, which ran from 2007 to 2011.

  • S2013E13 Master and Commander: The True Story

    • June 15, 2013
    • Discovery

  • S2013E14 Skywire Live with Nik Wallenda

    • June 23, 2013
    • Discovery

    In one of the most daring and captivating live events in television history, Nik Wallenda will tightrope walk, unharnessed, across the majestic Grand Canyon in Arizona. Standing 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River, the tightrope walking legend will balance a distance of 1,500 feet on a wire only two-inches in diameter. The tightrope walk will challenge Wallenda to walk higher than he ever has before, as well as honoring his Great-Grandfather, the legendary Karl Wallenda, who died after falling from his tightrope in Puerto Rico in 1978.

  • S2013E15 The Last Huntsmen

    • August 23, 2013
    • Discovery

    Huntsmen and survivalists Jason Lesmiester, Cory Valdes, Roudy Roudebush and Rob Hardy guard those living on the edge of society from the dangers of the wilderness - especially deadly predators. In this special, Jason travels to Haines, Alaska to help a mining camp drive away a problematic bear invading the mining camp, eventually leading Jason to face-to-face confrontation with a Grizzly bear. Meanwhile in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, a logging camp hires Cory to carefully study the dense, rainforest terrain to determine if the workers reside in a jaguar's hunting ground. Despite his pitfall traps, a dangerous encounter at night prompts Cory to use every survival skill he knows. Finally, Roudy and Rob journey to Telluride, Colorado to map out every Black bear den for a logging company; however, the risks of being separated and altitude sickness transform this job into a treacherous adventure.

  • S2013E16 The President's Gatekeepers: Part 1

    • September 11, 2013
    • Discovery

    Marvin Watson; Rahm Emanuel. Topics discussed include 9/11 and going to war.

  • S2013E17 The President's Gatekeepers: Part 2

    • September 12, 2013
    • Discovery

  • S2013E18 Inside Raising the Costa Concordia

    • September 20, 2013
    • Discovery

    In this 1-hour special, Discovery will show how the engineers prepped for the job, which included building colossal barges complete with a hospital, gym and living quarters for the hundreds of divers and specialists. It will also reveal the step-by-step process involved with pulling the ship upright – a process known as parbuckling – and how they plan to refloat it before finally being towed away to be scrapped. Tune in to see the incredible story of Costa Concordia as the salvage team prepares for the largest refloat in history. The special will also include insiders’ accounts of what really went down in one of the cruise line industry’s biggest disasters.

  • S2013E19 Spain's Worst Rail Disaster

    • October 6, 2013
    • Discovery

    Spain's Worst Rail Disaster presents a second-by-second analysis of Spain's worst train disaster, and delves into the important questions that surround the fatal incident: what caused the train to derail? Was there a catastrophic technological malfunction or driver error? Or was it a combination of the two? Was the train going too fast? And what did the driver do in the moments before the crash? This one-off programme also looks ahead to the future of train travel in the wake of this terrible event, featuring contributions from leading researchers and train engineers about the world's most advanced train safety technology. As Europe and other parts of the world move towards creating a high speed rail network across continents, the programme explores whether we are at risk of creating a network more susceptible to serious train disasters. Exclusive footage filmed by cameras at the scene of Spain's Worst Rail Disaster explores the implications of this rail disaster for the future of high-speed train travel.

  • S2013E20 JFK: The Lost Tapes

    • November 21, 2013
    • Discovery

    The assassination of President John F. Kennedy left the country to mourn the loss of its Commander-in-chief, set off one of the greatest manhunts in American history, and left our government to answer the impossible question, what happens now? Newly released audio recordings from Air Force One, combined with digitally re-mastered audio from the Dallas Police Force, and the testimonies and radio recordings of on-site reporters, reveal the riveting, behind-the-scenes story of the Kennedy assassination in Discovery's JFK: THE LOST TAPES.

  • S2013E21 The Making of Mandela

    • December 8, 2012
    • Discovery

    Discovery Channel will premiere THE MAKING OF MANDELA, an all-new documentary celebrating the remarkable life of the legendary South African leader Nelson Mandela, a symbol of hope and peace not only to his own country but to the world, on Sunday Dec. 8 at 12PM ET/PT. Narrated by actor David Harewood (Homeland), THE MAKING OF MANDELA provides a true representation of Mandela's personal story and the crucial key decisions he made throughout his incredible journey to freedom. The film is also supplemented by Mandela’s own recordings for his book “A Long Walk to Freedom,” in which Mandela’s legacy is told through intimate and revealing interviews with those who knew Mandela best. "I have cherished the ideal of a free society in which all persons live together in harmony...It's an ideal which I hope to live for...but if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." - Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013.

  • S2013E22 Unknown

    • Discovery

  • S2013E23 Man, Cheetah, Wild

    • October 3, 2013
    • Discovery

    In MAN, CHEETAH, WILD, we follow the true story of one extraordinary cheetah family, and the remarkable man who walked among them for a year and a half. The breathtaking footage will bring viewers closer into the covert world of the cheetah than anyone thought possible. Living in the heart of Southern Africa, Kim comes from a family that has lived and tangled with ruthless predators for nearly a hundred years. In the Malilangwe Game Reserve in Southern Zimbabwe, Kim relocates a female cheetah that he had previously worked with. When he is able to locate her, he is surprised to find that she is mothering five new cubs. Mother cheetahs are notoriously protective of their young, but amazingly, she senses no threat from Kim and thus gives him the unparalleled opportunity to document the upbringing of one of the rarest wild cats on the planet. http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/man-cheetah-wild/about-the-show.htm

  • S2013E24 Close Encounters of the third kind: The True Story

    • Discovery

  • S2013E25 Megastorm: Worlds Biggest Typhoon

    • December 8, 2013
    • Discovery

    An analysis of the worst cyclone in history, which struck the Philippines in November 2013. Featuring human stories, exclusive footage and the science behind the disaster.

  • S2013E26 America's Hidden Secrets

    • Discovery

  • S2013E27 Yellowstone: Brink of Disaster

    • December 30, 2013
    • Discovery

    With forest fires destroying the landscape and a super volcano just waiting to explode, researchers at Yellowstone National Park use technology to understand triggers of a catastrophic event.

  • S2013E28 The True Story: Apollo 13

    • Discovery

    The True Story shows how Hollywood plucked this amazing story from obscurity and turned what NASA feared would be an embarrassing stain on its reputation into a fascinating tale of how 3 astronauts, with the support of a group of brilliant engineers, overcame staggering odds and survived. The documentary explores the amazing feat of heroism and ingenuity that rescued the three astronauts from their crippled spacecraft two hundred thousand miles from earth and brought them home. It reveals the almost unbearable conditions the astronauts had to suffer through: Intense cold, dangerous levels of carbon dioxide and crushing physical exhaustion. But how close to the truth was Hollywood’s portrayal of the story?

  • S2013E29 Waddle all the Way

    • Discovery

  • S2013E30 All The President's Men Revisited

    • April 21, 2013
    • Discovery

    Looks back at Watergate, the original game changer of America politics. How has Watergate changed the Presidency? What effect has the scandal had on our political leaders? And has hope and optimism forever been replaced in our national dialogue by doubt and cynicism? 2013 marks 40 years since 1973 - Watergate's most pivotal year. Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein doggedly investigated the scandal exposing the long, twisted trail of cover-ups and lies.

  • S2013E31 Mermaids: The New Evidence

    • Discovery

  • S2013E32 Pure Evel: American Legend

    • October 14, 2013
    • Discovery

    Packing a great deal of story into a one-hour package, “Pure Evel: American Legend” tells us as much about where we are now as it does daredevil motorcyclist and ‘70s icon Evel Knievel. Huckster, showman and — in the words of a biographer — in the “Hall of Fame for hedonists,” Knievel pioneered a wedding of TV and extreme sports that has become common currency, as well as a flag-waving streak that played perfectly as a counterpoint to Vietnam-era unrest. Both history and a fascinating profile, “Pure Evel” — timed to what would have been Knievel’s 75th birthday — is purely entertaining.

  • S2013E33 9/11 Firehouse

    • September 11, 2013
    • Discovery

    This is the dramatic and inspirational story of FDNY's "Ten House" heroes.

  • S2013E34 DIXIE MAFIA

    • February 2, 2013
    • Discovery

    Dixie Mafia is a one-hour special that tells the true story of Mississippi's battles with organized crime. Responsible for dozens of murders and countless other crimes, the Dixie Mafia rose to power in Biloxi during the 1960’s, and their reign of terror lasted decades. Now their torch has been taken up by a new gang, equally corrupt and equally dangerous. DIXIE MAFIA shows the rise and fall of real American gangsters, taking viewers into the lives of the crime bosses, organization members and law enforcement officers that still battle in America's deep south.

Season 2014

  • S2014E01 Billy Bob's Gags To Riches

    • January 28, 2014
    • Discovery

    Jonah is always on the lookout for the next big, million dollar idea, but he doesn't do it alone - he utilizes his ‘Redneck Think Tank' to test, develop and come up with new products. From cowboy sandals, redneck pumpkin teeth and a gun toilet plunger, Jonah is constantly taking pitches from hopeful inventors who are trying to cash in on their own crazy ideas but the negotiations can get pretty intense and in the end, Jonah could make some lucky inventors rich, or send them back to the drawing board.

  • S2014E02 The Ape Who Went To College

    • February 26, 2014
    • Discovery

    The Ape Who Went To College documents the amazing relationship between an orangutan called Chantek and his 'cross species foster mother' Dr Lyn Miles. Miles first met Chantek when he was months old when she started the experiment at the University of Tenessee. Over the course of ten years, Miles taught Chantek how to speak through the use of sign language and treated him like her own child; at ten years old Chantek had the cognitive level of a five year old and linguistic ability of a two year old, and by the time he was old enough to receive an allowance, even regularly visited his local McDonalds where he would spend his money on cheeseburgers! But despite the success of the experiment Chantek's erratic behaviour was starting to cause difficulties within the University campus where he lived and consequently Lyn lost control of her beloved Chantek, and he was moved and isolated from humans. Lyn spent two years desperately fighting for his freedom. This heart-warming, and at times heart-breaking, documentary looks at how the successful experiment changed science, and also exposes the bond between a human and an orangutan that allowed communication as never seen before.

  • S2014E03 A Day In The Life of Bear Grylls

    • Discovery

  • S2014E04 Secrets of Bin Laden's Lair

    • Discovery

  • S2014E05 Captain Philips-Somali Pirates Inside Story

    • February 26, 2014
    • Discovery

    Told through eyewitness accounts, exclusive Navy footage and hijacked with extra facts, this is the story of Captain Phillips and crew aboard the Maersk Alabama and their dramatic rescue after being taken hostage by Somalian Pirates. (Source: Discovery Channel)

  • S2014E06 Flight 370: The Missing Links

    • April 16, 2014
    • Discovery

    In an age when we can use apps to locate handheld devices, the special also looks at how a state-of-the-art airliner and its 239 passengers and crew can simply vanish. Since flight MH370 went off the grid on 8March 2014, questions about flight safety have once again taken centre stage. In an attempt to answer some of these questions, FLIGHT 370: THE MISSING LINKS addresses seven missing links: airport security, air traffic control, on-board communication systems, mechanical failure, tracking (both radar and satellite), international cooperation, and the black box.

  • S2014E07 Everest Avalanche Tragedy

    • May 4, 2014
    • Discovery

    Originally announced as a series following Joby Ogwyn's preparation as he trains to become the first person to jump from the peak of Mount Everest. The series would have culminated in attempting the stunt live on air. However due to the death of 12 Sherpa guides on April the 18th, the stunt was cancelled and instead NBC News will use the footage shot to present a special documentary highlighting the events leading up to the tragedy.

  • S2014E08 Bear Grylls Man vs Everest

    • Discovery

    Adventurer and successful Everest climber Bear Grylls tells stories of the hardcore adventurers for whom simply conquering Everest is not enough; these trailblazers push the boundaries to be the first to ski down, fly over or climb Everest.

  • S2014E09 Surviving the Kill Zone

    • May 13, 2014
    • Discovery

    Surviving the Kill Zone transports viewers to Africa during the final days of the longest dry season in living memory. More than 65 high-tech, remote-control cameras and expert visual teams film the wild animals of Zambia's Luangwa Valley. Thirst has trapped the hungry animals close to the Luangwa River - the last substantial source of water and food for hundreds of miles - and its banks and surrounding land are transformed into killing fields. The valley has become a temporary home to an extraordinary assortment of herbivores and predators, including lions, leopards, wild dogs, elephants, Nile crocodiles and hippos. Surviving the Kill Zone gives viewers unprecedented access to the both the harrowing and uplifting sides of the circle of life as these species collide in a daily battle for existence

  • S2014E10 Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives

    • June 1, 2014
    • Discovery

    On February 2, 1959, nine college students hiked up the icy slopes of the Ural Mountains in the heart of Russia but never made it out alive. Investigators have never been able to give a definitive answer behind who - or what - caused the bizarre crime scene. Fifty-five years later, American explorer Mike Libecki reinvestigates the mystery - known as The Dyatlov Pass incident - but what he uncovers is truly horrifying. Follow Mike as he traces the clues and gathers compelling evidence that suggests the students' deaths could be the work of a creature thought only to exist in folklore.

  • S2014E11 Drug Kingpin Hippos

    • Discovery

    During his stronghold on Columbia, Pablo Escobar, one of the richest and most violent drug lords in history, imported a host of rare and exotic animals for his private zoo on his famous estate, Hacienda Napoles, including four hippos. Over three decades later, this one-off special reveals another side to the cocaine trafficker, and explores the lasting threat that he and his hippos, now multiplied to over 30, pose for the country. Columbian authorities are battling to contain the hippos which now form the largest population of non-native hippos outside of Africa. If they keep reproducing at the alarming rate they are, experts believe there will be at least one hundred hippos in Columbia by the end of the decade. Thankfully there hasn't been a human tragedy but with reports of a hippo escaping the Hacienda Napoles, now a theme park and zoo, and running wild in the Magdalena river basin, that could be only a matter of time. Drug Kingpin Hippos joins a team of veterinarians as they race to capture, castrate, and relocate the male bull hippo before it reaches the huge expanse of the river, with major cities either side. The film also features rare archival footage and exclusive interviews, including one with Roberto Escobar, Pablo's eldest brother and best friend, providing viewers with a history of Escobar's rise to prominence, his demise as the world's preeminent narco-terrorist, and the continued hold he still has on the country, in the shape of hippos.

  • S2014E12 9/11 Rescue Cops

    • September 11, 2014
    • Discovery

    On the thirteenth anniversary of September 11th, Discovery tells the story of the heroism and sacrifice of the NYPD's elite Emergency Service Unit (ESU) and the E-Men heroes who were tasked with rescuing as many people as possible - by any means possible. Featuring previously unseen archive material and moving first-hand testimony, the truly inspirational story of the 9/11 rescue cops will be told on national television for the first time. New York City's elite ESU is a unique institution in law enforcement made up of around 300 highly specialized officers trained in search and rescue, building collapse and heavy weapons and hazardous materials containment. Of the 31 E-Men who rushed into the World Trade Center on that fateful day, only 17 survived. The 14 E-Men who perished were among 60 law-enforcement personnel who died on 9/11, the worst single day in US police history. Despite their devastating losses, the brotherhood of New York's E-Men has emerged stronger than ever and they are finally ready to tell their story.

  • S2014E13 Diving with Dinosaur Fish

    • September 27, 2014
    • Discovery

    The hunt for a mythic animal once thought to have been extinct for 65 million years: the coelacanth. It can be found 120 metres beneath the ocean off the wild coast of South Africa. French scientists and South African scientists teamed up with experienced Trimix divers, including Peter Timm, who discovered the coelacanths in Sodwana Bay in 2000 and award-winning underwater photographer Mr Laurent Ballesta and his advanced technical dive team to bring you this eye-opening documentary.

  • S2014E14 The Real Apes of the Planet

    • October 21, 2014
    • Discovery

    This Documentary explores the surprising and mind-blowing similarities that humans share with our fascinating primate cousins. Passing on family traditions and grooming practices as well as ingenious survival tactics and the primates' ability to solve complex problems and form communities with a hierarchy system, the special highlights devoted parenting to fun-loving kids. Viewers also witness how, akin to humans, apes may demonstrate deceitful behavior to get what they want, overindulge in life's pleasures and not always get along. With their highly intelligent minds, chimpanzees in Uganda demonstrate their problem- solving skills and tool use when posed with a honey challenge. The long-tailed macaques in Thailand find a clever way to floss after a meal, and an orangutan in Borneo maintains her personal hygiene with a little soap and water. In Iowa, a male bonobo named Kanzi picks his own food for a picnic; he uses lexigram and toasts marshmallows in a fire he makes himself while the white-faced capuchins in the rain forest of Costa Rica uncover the secret that the sap of the Guyabano tree acts as a mosquito repellent if rubbed on their fur. The Real Apes of the Planet uncovers how these animals are individuals with their own personalities and why brainpower is essential to primate survival.

  • S2014E15 The Science of Interstellar

    • October 29, 2014
    • Discovery

    Kip Thorne, the physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of the film Interstellar, shows us that the movie’s jaw-dropping events and stunning, never-before-attempted visuals are grounded in real science. Thorne shares his experiences working as the science adviser on the film and then moves on to the science itself. In chapters on wormholes, black holes, interstellar travel, and much more, Thorne’s scientific insights—many of them triggered during the actual scripting and shooting of Interstellar—describe the physical laws that govern our universe and the truly astounding phenomena that those laws make possible.

  • S2014E17 Landing On A Comet: Rosetta Mission

    • November 12, 2014
    • Discovery

    Watch live on NASA TV as Rosetta's Philae lander attempts to land on Comet 67P, the first time a man-made object will ever touch down on a comet.

  • S2014E18 Stem Cell Universe with Stephen Hawking

    • February 3, 2014
    • Discovery

    The use of embryonic stem cells has ignited fierce debate across the spiritual and political spectrum. But what if we could create manmade stem cells - or find super cells in adults that could forever replace embryonic cells and remove the controversy? Today, we are on the brink of a new era - an age where we may be able to cure our bodies of any illness. Stephen Hawking has spent his life exploring the mysteries of the cosmos, now there is another universe that fascinates him - the one hidden inside our bodies - our own personal galaxies of cells. Hawking takes us on a fascinating journey exploring what these wondrous and baffling mechanisms are capable of. He is joined by the scientists who are on the front lines of discovery in this field including Dr. Doris Taylor who is customizing a donor's heart with the recipient's stem cells - her goal is to revolutionize heart transplants, Dr. Paul Lu and Dr. Mark Tuszynski may have created a breakthrough that could cure paralysis, and Dr. Vincent Giampapa who believes that stem cells can be used to stem the tide of aging and create a fountain of youth.

  • S2014E19 Eaten Alive

    • December 7, 2014
    • Discovery

    Naturalist and wildlife filmmaker Paul Rosolie enters the belly of an anaconda in a snake-proof suit.

  • S2014E20 Red Planet Rover

    • December 18, 2014
    • Discovery

    A behind-the-scenes documentary of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. From the Curiosity rover’s famous "7 minutes of terror" before landing in 2012 to this week’s stunning discovery of organics on the Martian surface, we will be treated to exclusive footage of the NASA team that made it happen and fresh details of what this week’s findings means for the search for extraterrestrial life throughout our solar system.

  • S2014E21 2014: The Year in Sci-Tech

    • December 22, 2014
    • Discovery

    2014: The Year in Sci-Tech In this year-end special, Science Channel reviews the biggest science and technology stories from 2014 Space technology this year reached some important goals, culminating with the spectacular landing of a space probe on a comet, millions of kilometers from Earth. But there were some setbacks, too. 2014: The Year in Sci-Tech shows some of the highlights and lowlights.

  • S2014E22 Ebola: Inside the Deadly Outbreak

    • September 18, 2014
    • Discovery

    Ebola: Inside the Deadly Outbreak As the worst Ebola virus outbreak in our history continues to spread and leave an unprecedented body count in its path, fear strikes around the globe. With inside access to families devastated by the death of their loved ones and the healthcare workers struggling to contain the widespread epidemic, risking their own lives in the process, Discovery Fit & Health and ABC News partner to bring viewers the one-hour premiere special Ebola: Inside the Deadly Outbreak. In a comprehensive look into the history, containment, and medical implications of this highly infectious disease, ABC News' chief medical editor and former acting director of the CDC, Dr. Richard Besser, leads viewers throughout the hour. Dr. Besser risks his life by traveling to the heart of the hot zone in Monrovia, Liberia, to share the heart wrenching journeys of patients and caretakers and reveals the moment that left him scared for his life.

  • S2014E23 Which Universe Are We In?

    • November 10, 2014
    • Discovery

    Which Universe Are We In? The most dangerous idea in science might turn out to be true: we live in a multiverse of truly infinite proportions. The universe we live in may not be the only one out there. In fact, our universe could be just one of an infinite number of universes making up a "multiverse The first 'hard evidence' that other universes exist has been found by scientists. Cosmologists studying a map of the universe from data gathered by the Planck spacecraft have concluded that it shows anomalies that can only have been caused by the gravitational pull of other universes. The map shows radiation from the Big Bang 13.8billion years ago that is still detectable in the universe - known as cosmic microwave radiation. Scientists had predicted that it should be evenly distributed, but the map shows a stronger concentration in the south half of the sky and a 'cold spot' that cannot be explained by current understanding of physics. Laura Mersini-Houghton, theoretical physicist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Richard Holman, professor at Carnegie Mellon University, predicted that anomalies in radiation existed and were caused by the pull from other universes in 2005.

  • S2014E24 Santa Sent Me to the ER

    • December 13, 2014
    • Discovery

    It’s “Ho, ho, oh no!” as, ‘Santa Sent Me To The ER’, unwraps the mortifyingly hilarious details of what really happens when Christmas cheer leads to “oh dear.” Each year, millions of Americans dream of celebrating the perfect holiday. Now, real people confess how their holiday dreams turned into yuletide nightmares. When their high expectations turn into spectacular disasters it’s up to trained medical professionals to pick up the pieces. We’re there as they sort out the details and patch up the damage, all the while keeping up just enough Christmas spirit to hopefully save the day for our red-faced revellers.

  • S2014E25 Spies in the Sky

    • Discovery

    For the first time in history we go inside the closely guarded National Reconnaissance Office, a secret intelligence agency, to meet the men and women behind America's spy satellite programme. ‘Spies in the Sky' explores this place that only a few people know exists. For over 50 years the NRO has been the United States' eyes and ears in space. The show takes you inside the National Reconnaissance office itself, speaking with the men and woman working there. Take a look inside this mysterious and previously unknown compound and the incredibly complex spy satellite systems, while exploring the development of high-tech surveillance through history.

  • S2014E26 Skyscraper Live with Nik Wallenda

    • November 2, 2014
    • Discovery

Season 2015

  • S2015E01 One Day In Auschwitz

    • January 25, 2015
    • Discovery

    Seventy years after her liberation, Kitty Hart-Moxon makes a final return to Auschwitz-Birkenau to walk among the crumbling memorial with students Natalia and Lydia, who, at 16, are the same age now as she was then. As Kitty tells them her story of daily existence, themes begin to emerge: the ever-present threat of death, resilience, friendship, human strength, resisting the Nazis' constant lethal intent, and living like an animal while still remaining human. Natalia and Lydia ask questions; Kitty provides answers, passing her legacy to the next generation.

  • S2015E02 Under Siege: America's Northern Border

    • March 13, 2013
    • Discovery

    Everyday, money, guns and drugs pour across America’s northern border into the United States. Even more terrifying, many consider our northern border to be the focal point for illegal crossings by individuals with ties to terrorist organizations. Charged with protecting our borders is the Department of Homeland Security, and nowhere is their job more challenging than along the 863-mile stretch of water on either side of Detroit’s Ambassador Bridge. Here, thousands of landing spots, narrow crossings and tremendous boat traffic make this newly explosive region nearly impossible to patrol. It’s up to the brave men and women of the DHS, armed with latest technology, to patrol the water, guard the checkpoints and track down the criminals in order to stem the tide and keep our country safe from foreign threats.

  • S2015E03 The Last Frontiersmen

    • March 25, 2015
    • Discovery

    Deep in the Rocky Mountains, a few wildmen have left the 21st century behind to live like the first explorers of America.

  • S2015E04 Terror in the Skies: AirAsia and Beyond

    • April 15, 2015
    • Discovery

    Details the events of December 28, 2014, when AirAsia flight 8501 and its 155 passengers and seven crew members were lost in a storm 40 minutes into their journey from Indonesia to Singapore. The special reveals “troubling connections” between the accident and 2009′s Air France disaster, and also explores technology designed to prevent such incidents from recurring. The doc will also feature computer-generated animation aimed at breaking down radar data from the final moments of the flight, while meteorologists will use weather data from the day of the accident to look at the effects of the storm on the Airbus A320. Also included in the doc are exclusive interviews with global experts, including legal representative for the victims’ families.

  • S2015E05 Churchill and Me

    • May 15, 2015
    • Discovery

    Brand new and exclusive to Discovery Channel, CHURCHILL & ME WITH HUGH DENNIS follows the comedian, actor and writer Hugh Dennis, on his journey to discover what Sir Winston Churchill means to people today and explore the legacy he left behind across the globe. Hugh's journey starts with his own recollections of Churchill's funeral, as a young boy watching the flypast from the garden of his father's vicarage, and goes on to describe growing awareness of the influence and personal style of an Englishman who dominated the 20th Century political and cultural landscape like no other. With all of his trademark wit and charm, Hugh will be meeting people and visiting places upon which Churchill left his indelible mark - from historians, to family members, and employees including former Personal Secretary Lady Jane Williams. There will also be famous faces such as Robert Hardy CBE who won a BAFTA for his portrayal as Churchill in Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years. Each gives their personal insight into the incredible man behind the public image.

  • S2015E06 Churchill's Toyshop

    • May 22, 2015
    • Discovery

    CHURCHILL'S TOYSHOP explores the secretive and strange arms race between Britain and the Nazis during WW2. Convinced that the path to victory lay in out gunning the Nazis but faced with limited resources, British weapon manufactures were forced to improvise. To combat the problem, Winston Churchill himself set-up a secret clandestine research institute, dedicated to coming up with super weapons that would give troops the edge in battle. He christened the department Military Defence 1 but it quickly becomes known as Churchill's toyshop. Using rare archive and interviews, the one-off special tells the story of the department and some of the most fantastic and improbable weapons ever created. With the help of modern experts and contemporary blue prints the series will also recreate some of the lost technology.

  • S2015E07 World War Two: The Final Hours

    • March 1, 2015
    • Discovery

    Using partly colourised archive footage, some of which have never been seen before, the film immerses viewers into the intensity of the final, apocalyptic hours of WW2.

  • S2015E08 Day After D-Day

    • June 2, 2015
    • Discovery

    Tells the story of the crucial 72 hours following the D-Day invasion, told by combat veterans who fought in the villages, beaches, hedgerows and bridgeheads of Normandy.

  • S2015E09 Drain the Titanic

    • Discovery

    The most famous shipwreck in the world, the Titanic, lies over 12,000 feet down in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Since the discovery of the wreck in 1985, there have been numerous expeditions to the site, but until now, no one has ever recorded the full extent of what really remains on this remote area of seabed. Now, over a century on from her tragic loss, we are able to reveal the overall wreck site: we will virtually drain the Titanic. Spectacular new visualisation techniques will depict this ‘draining’ process and offer viewers a ringside view for the emergence of the wreck from the waves – seen in full for the first time since April 15th 1912. Virtual fly-pasts enable us to explore the wreck site and tackle some long-standing mysteries. New science is painting a clearer picture of how the Titanic actually sank, and new theories are now emerging on how and when she actually broke apart, how she reached the seabed, and what has happened to the wreck in the course of a century underwater. With this information, not only do scientists have a phenomenal resource for tracking the status of the wreck, but it also means we can look into the future and see the eventual fate of the ship thought to be unsinkable.

  • S2015E10 Aftershock - Disaster in Nepal

    • Discovery

  • S2015E11 Killer Space Junk

    • July 13, 2015
    • Discovery

    In 2014 the International Space Station had to move three times to avoid lethal chunks of space debris, while satellites are mysteriously breaking down. With first-hand accounts from astronauts and experts, Killer Space Junk reveals the scale of the problem of space junk. Our planet is surrounded by hundreds of millions of pieces of junk moving at 17 000 miles per hour. Now the US government is investing a billion dollars to track them, and companies around the world are developing ways to clear up their mess – from robot arms, to nets, to harpoons.

  • S2015E12 Direct From Pluto: First Encounter

    • July 15, 2015
    • Discovery

    After a nine-year journey to Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is on the verge of delivering the first up-close images of the mysterious dwarf planet. Pluto: First Encounter Chronicles the drama of a quest that will bring the once 9th planet into focus, shattering all we have known and perhaps giving it new status within the Universe. Direct From Pluto reveals the latest photos, expert analysis, and behind-the-scenes action at mission control as the New Horizons mission finally reaches Pluto. "Science Channel viewers will see the very first close-up images of Pluto's surface and its moons, and learn more as leading experts discuss the previous planet's status as well as uncover some surprising research. Launched on Jan. 19, 2006, New Horizons set a speed record by reaching the moon in just nine hours -- 10 times faster than any Apollo mission. Still, it took almost a decade for the piano-sized spacecraft to travel the more than 3 billion miles (5 billion kilometers) to reach Pluto, where it is set to make its closest approach on July 14, completing the initial reconnaissance of the classical solar system. Science Channel's "Direct from Pluto" was on site to go behind the scenes at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland, home to New Horizon's control, during the flyby, while also exploring the history of Pluto's discovery and reclassification as a dwarf planet. In addition to being at APL for the flyby, the special filmed interviews at the Dwarf Planet Pride Day in Seattle and at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, where Pluto was discovered in 1930.

  • S2015E13 Stonehenge: Secrets of the Stones

    • September 15, 2015
    • Discovery

    Stonehenge: Secrets of the Stones Dated to the late Stone Age, Stonehenge may be the best-known and most mysterious relic of prehistory. Every year, a million visitors are drawn to England to gaze upon the famous circle of stones, but the monument's meaning has continued to elude us. Now investigations inside and around Stonehenge have kicked off a dramatic new era of discovery and debate over who built Stonehenge and for what purpose. How did prehistoric people quarry, transport, sculpt, and erect these giant stones? Granted exclusive access to the dig site at Bluestonehenge, a prehistoric stone-circle monument recently discovered about a mile from Stonehenge,

  • S2015E14 The Krays: The Prison Years

    • September 10, 2015
    • Discovery

    The Krays: The Prison Years is a one-off documentary which explores the fascinating and largely untold story of the Kray twins after they were imprisoned in 1968. The hour- long documentary utilises exclusive never-before seen footage, interviews and reconstructions to tell the story of the twins' lives from 1968 until their deaths. From their 30-day trial and Ronnie Kray's committal to Broadmoor, following his diagnosis as insane, to operations on the 'outside' and the twin's various marriages inside. A number of the subjects interviewed for the documentary had first-hand dealings with the Krays, including Wilf Pine, Ronnie Kray's business manager; Freddie Foreman, who was sentenced at the same time as the Krays for the disposal of the body of Jack 'the hat' McVitie; and Maureen Flanagan, a close family friend and former model who Reggie proposed to three times whilst in prison.

  • S2015E15 Big Bang Aftershock

    • July 18, 2015
    • Discovery

    Big Bang Aftershock The discovery of gravity waves in early 2013 was huge news around the world ... and so was the retraction after the scientists realized they'd made a mistake. This is a dramatic human story of brave scientists and big science in action at the South Pole.

  • S2015E16 Hunt for the First Star

    • July 24, 2015
    • Discovery

    Hunt for the First Star A spectacular journey to the birth of stars and matter a billion years after the big bang. Scientists look for evidence of an extraordinary phenomenon known as the Cosmic Dawn, a dramatic moment in the history of the universe when the very first stars were created.

  • S2015E17 Daily Planets 2015: Year in Sci-Tech

    • Discovery

    aily Planet’s 2015: Year In Sci-Tech Discovery Channel’s flagship science magazine with hosts Ziya Tong and Dan Riskin, continues to explore the latest science behind the headlines and the coolest scientific developments that impact our lives in every way. Technology catapults to new heights in 2015, going faster and further than ever before. Daily Planet has canvassed the world in search of the best and most fascinating science and tech stories of the year for 2015: YEAR IN SCI-TECH. This action-packed hour of fun and intrigue revisits the world’s first glimpse of Pluto and images of water on Mars while exploring what this all could mean for intelligent life in the universe – all while earthling’s inch closer to becoming actual space tourists. Throughout the hour, Tong and Riskin revisit the year’s most amazing techological feats and scientific discoveries, including new and elusive animal species discovered deep under the ocean, as well as the hottest tech trends – from hover boards to driverless cars and trucks, and the newest advances in mind-blowing virtual reality.

  • S2015E18 Castro: The World's Most Watched Man

    • Discovery

    idel Castro has managed to remain in power in Cuba for over 50 years. Relying on an intricate intelligence network, he has led his country through assassination plots, war and economic meltdown. With exclusive access to those who worked for and against him in the United States and the former Soviet Union, we uncover valuable insight to decades of tense relations, and piece together the profile of one of the most notorious political figures of the 20th century.

  • S2015E19 Blood Lions: Bred For The Bullet

    • Discovery

    Blood Lions follows internationally acclaimed environmental journalist Ian Michler onto breeding farms to witness the results of lions reared in battery cages – a stark contrast to their wild cousins. Aggressive farmers resent his questioning, but the highly profitable commercialization of lions is plain to see – cub petting, volunteer recruitment, lion walking, hunting, and the new lion bone trade are all on the increase and are being justified under the guise of conservation and research. In parallel, the film follows Rick Swazey, an American hunter, who volunteers his services after seeing footage of canned hunts. Rick purchases a lioness online from his home in Hawaii and then travels to South Africa to follow the path canned hunters do. Blood Lions bears witness, in intimate detail, to the lucrative business of breeding lions for hunting, how the authorities and most professional hunting bodies have become complicit in the practice, and how simple it is to set up a canned hunt. But the film also uncovers some hope, following the latest developments surrounding the Australian government’s announcement of a complete ban on the importation of all African lion trophies into the country. Blood Lions is a compelling call to action about the need for a global campaign to stop lions from being bred for the bullet.

  • S2015E20 How We Built the Bomb

    • August 5, 2015
    • Discovery

    In 1943, a group of America's most brilliant physicists converged on a desert mesa in New Mexico to work for the top secret Manhattan Project. In this isolated community, they worked against the ticking clock of global war to unlock the power of the atom before their Nazi counterparts or anyone else could.  Witness the birth of the very first nuclear bomb on HOW WE BUILT THE BOMB, which details the story of the men behind the bomb as told in their own words, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the exceptional individuals who have ushered in the atomic age, and in doing so, changed the world. Reimagined interviews combined with historical home movies create a one-of-a-kind documentary that bring to life the story of how American ingenuity overcame the 20th century's greatest scientific challenge and ended the Second World War.

  • S2015E21 Tony Robinson's Victory in Europe

    • May 8, 2015
    • Discovery

    To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of WW2, Tony Robinson’s Victory in Europe will use never-before-seen archives of 3D pictures to tell the story of the last days of the Nazi regime. During the one-off special, Tony Robinson will explore life in Europe before the war, with a look at Nazi propaganda – the Olympics, leader’s books and the Munich city of Nazism. Covering key events of their 12 year rule, Tony delves into incredible secret operations like the infamous Operation Market Garden, bloody final conflicts like the Battle of the Bulge, and the final liberation of Auschwitz. The photographs from this time provide an exclusive and unique record of the rise and fall of the Nazis, and give Tony an opportunity to look at this well-studied time in history with fresh eyes.

  • S2015E22 Inside the Vatican's Vault

    • September 19, 2015
    • Discovery

    Enter the secret world of The Vatican, with exclusive access to the Canonization of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII. Follow the countdown to this ceremony as a million pilgrims arrive in Rome to celebrate these two new Saints.

Season 2016

  • S2016E01 Telescope

    • February 20, 2016
    • Discovery

    NASA's James Webb Telescope is the next step in humankind's ongoing mission to see farther into the universe and answer fundamental questions that have ignited human curiosity from the beginning of time.

  • S2016E02 Snaketacular

    • January 29, 2016
    • Discovery

    Get up close and personal with some of the creepiest creatures on earth - snakes. Host Danny Trejo and experts provide insight on home videos and real snake encounters, in this nail-biting one-hour special!

  • S2016E03 Sonic Sea

    • Discovery

    Sonic Sea is a documentary about the devastating impact of industrial and military ocean noise on whales and other marine life. The film begins with a mystery: the unexplained stranding and mass mortality of several species of whales in the Bahamas in March 2000. As the mystery unfolds, the film explores the critical role of sound in the sea, and the sudden, dramatic changes human activity is inflicting on the ocean's delicate acoustic habitat -- changes that threaten the ability of whales and other marine animals to prosper, to function, and ultimately, to survive. Sonic Sea features several charismatic scientists, including Ken Balcomb, the former Navy pilot and acoustics expert who proved to the world that naval sonar is killing whales, as well as the musician and environmental activist, Sting, whose moving interview connects the sonic world of marine life with our sonic world on land. The film offers solutions (and, by extension, hope) for a quieter ocean, and underscores that the ocean's destiny is inextricably bound with our own.

  • S2016E04 Jupiter: Close Encounter

    • Discovery

    Can Jupiter unlock the secrets of Earth’s formation? How did a team engineer a spacecraft to endure a toxic mix of radiation and gaseous turbulence? After a five-year journey, the moment of truth is finally here. Jupiter: Close Encounter delivers a comprehensive, hour-long look at the unprecedented, amazing, and utterly extreme journey of NASA’s heavily armoured Juno Spacecraft on an odyssey to the largest planet in the solar system. Anchored by DAILY PLANET Co-Host Dr. Dan Riskin from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, Jupiter: Close Encounter follows NASA’s Juno Spacecraft mission as it attempts to enter a “polar orbit” around the king of the the solar system for the first time ever on July 4. The landmark mission will study the planet’s spectacular auroras, seek the inner-most core, and wade into Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. The gripping one-hour special introduces viewers to the dedicated and incredible team behind the high stakes-mission – scientists determined to provide new answers to the mystery of the solar system, Earth, and life itself.

  • S2016E05 Killing the Colorado

    • August 4, 2016
    • Discovery

    The drought in the American West is predicted to be the worst in 1,000 years. Join five Academy Award-winning filmmakers as they explore the environmental crisis of our time and how to fix it before it’s too late.

  • S2016E06 Rats

    • Discovery

    Oscar nominated director Morgan Spurlock unveils a new form of documentary horror storytelling, journeying around the world to bring viewers face to face with rats while delving into our complicated relationship with these creepy creatures. Taking us into the Rattus nests in ways never before captured on film, RATS dives deep into New York City's parks, subway tunnels, and sewers; venture to rice paddies in Cambodia and Vietnam where rats are caught and sold as food, cross worldly streets in India paroled by the revered Night Rat Killers, journey to English countryside where packs of terriers kill hundreds of rats per day, and look inside a New Orleans lab, where scientists are studying how flooding and abandoned neighborhoods are making rats more invasive than ever.

  • S2016E07 The Somme: The First 24 Hours

    • July 3, 2016
    • Discovery

    Discovery marks the centenary of the defining moment in World War One with a special one-off documentary, hosted by actor and historian Sir Tony Robinson, which poignantly examines the first day of one of the bloodiest battles in human history. This one-off special tells the powerful and moving story of five men, all members of a unique volunteer army – the Sheffield City battalion – as it recounts the soldiers’ last days, leaving their homes and loved ones to go and serve alongside their friends and neighbours, completely unaware of what lay ahead of them. Central to the programme is the story of Private Frank Meakin, who recorded his unique personal testimony of the war. Frank and his friends could never have anticipated what they would experience, but 100 years on we know in detail, thanks to his diary – an account that shouldn’t have existed, because keeping one was forbidden for servicemen on active duty on the Western Front. Frank’s diary, which was smuggled back from the Front, reveals the intimate details and dramatic stories of one battalion – and one British city – in the words of one man.

  • S2016E08 The Dark Side of the Sun

    • February 11, 2017
    • Discovery

    Scientists and engineers who built the world's largest solar telescope and launched the first solar probe into space help predict and prepare the planet for solar storms.

  • S2016E09 Jawai India's Leopard Hills

    • Discovery

    awai, in south-west Rajasthan, is a land shaped by lava that bubbled to the surface millions of years ago. That is not what makes this place special, though. The granite hills surrounding human settlements have been claimed by wild leopards and these leopards are living with humans for years in perfect harmony.

Season 2017

  • S2017E01 Rise of The Warrior Apes

    • March 5, 2017
    • Discovery

    Rise of The Warrior Apes tells the stunning twenty-year story of the fierce rivalry and unparalleled ambition behind the most formidable group of chimps ever known. Seen through the eyes of the scientists who have been filming them for 20 years, this is a privileged close-up of a secret world, deep in the African jungle. In a story never told before, we follow an elite group of influential males at the centre of the troop. As the scientists gradually uncover the secrets of their strict hierarchy they witness shocking evidence of unprecedented war-like behavior. In an investigative approach new to Natural History we tell the shocking 20-year story of politics, infighting and war at the heart of wild chimpanzee society. Using previously unseen archive footage and intimate testimony from the scientists, this is a story of the unbreakable friendships and intense rivalries inside a mighty chimpanzee empire.

  • S2017E02 Mosquito

    • July 6, 2017
    • Discovery

    Shot on four continents, MOSQUITO features insights from world and health leaders as well as intimate stories of the men, women, and children who are living in fear that the next bite could be a deadly one. Mosquito is narrated by actor Jeremy Renner and features interviews with leading experts, including former CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

  • S2017E03 Son of Sam: Terror in the Night

    • September 19, 2017
    • Discovery

    Son of Sam: Terror in the Night looks back at the murders of young couples committed in the New York area in the late 1970s. Between the summers of 1976 an 1977 six people were shot dead by an assailant using a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver. A further seven were injured and by the time the attacker was caught the case had spawned the biggest manhunt in the history of New York City and garnered worldwide attention. The shootings started July 29, 1976, when 18-year-old Donna Lauria and her friend 19-year-old Jody Valenti were sitting in Valenti’s car. But it would be almost a year before the serial killer acquired his infamous Son of Sam name. In April 1977 Alexander Esau and Valentina Suriani were sitting in the latter’s car near her home in the Bronx when they were both shot. Suriani died in the car whilst Esau passed away in hospital a few hours later. At the scene the police found a letter that was addressed to NYPD Captain Joseph Borrelli. The handwritten letter promises the police that the killer would be back and also identified himself the “Son of Sam.” In May another letter was sent, this time to Daily News writer Jimmy Breslin. It promised more killings and advised that Son of Sam was a keen reader of the reports in the newspaper. Several more shootings occurred until finally after an attack in July led to more witnesses than all the previous attacks. One in particular was a woman who saw a young man who’d just left a car that had been ticketed by a traffic cop. She noticed he was carrying something in his hand and soon after she heard gun shots. Police checked all the cars that had been given tickets in the area that night and one of them was the yellow Ford Galaxie belonging to David Berkowitz. At first they hoped he might be a good witness but when they contacted Yonkers police to arrange an interview they were shocked to hear that the local police had some suspicions about him. When his car was searched the police found ammunition, ma

Season 2018

  • S2018E01 This Is A.I.

    • June 21, 2018
    • Discovery

    An exploration of advances in artificial intelligence and its power to transform disciplines and industries; leading scientists and experts reflect on philosophical issues surrounding artificial intelligence as well as its transcendent promise.

  • S2018E02 Operation Thai Cave Rescue

    • July 13, 2018
    • Discovery

    This exclusive special goes behind the scenes of the Thailand cave rescue for the first time, highlighting the remarkable men and women who faced danger to become heroes and the groundbreaking technology that made the rescue possible.

  • S2018E03 Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow

    • October 13, 2018
    • Discovery

    ABOVE AND BEYOND examines the role NASA plays both in our country & for our planet, celebrating past accomplishments, investigating current initiatives & surveying future plans. NASA harnesses our drive to discover & embraces our need for answers.

  • S2018E04 1965 - How India Won the War

    • Discovery

    Watch how Indian Armed Forces took on the full might of Pakistan in the 1965 war.

  • S2018E05 Discovery Live: Into the Blue Hole

    • December 2, 2018
    • Discovery

    In this special Discovery Channel LIVE event, Sir Richard Branson and Fabien Cousteau will travel to the bottom of Belize's legendary Blue Hole. They will answer the question we've all been asking: what is inside this ancient mystery?

Season 2019

  • S2019E01 Cajun Navy

    • July 23, 2019
    • Discovery

    Cajun Navy tells the inspirational story of American heroes who risk life and limb to save people whose homes have wrecked by hurricanes. After Katrina, a flotilla of volunteers took to the waters to save lives and they've been doing so ever since.

  • S2019E02 Make it to the Moon

    • July 14, 2019
    • Discovery

    In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, MAKE IT TO THE MOON (narrated by Canadian actor Stephan James) features four trailblazing teams – contracted by NASA – who take up President Kennedy’s challenge to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade. These ‘unsung heroes of the unsung heroes’ must invent from scratch the innovative technology necessary to create the lunar module spacecraft, the onboard computer, the moon suit, and track it all through space.

  • S2019E03 Apollo: The Forgotten Films

    • July 20, 2019
    • Discovery

    Apollo: The Forgotten Films, tells the complete story of this most audacious of missions, with footage not seen anywhere else. The archives reveal the incredible lengths an army of engineers, scientists and astronauts went to, to achieve America’s greatest technological feat.

  • S2019E04 Confessions from Space: Apollo

    • July 20, 2019
    • Discovery

    Heroes of the Apollo Missions, Buzz Aldrin, Mike Collins , Charlie Duke and more come together to share insights, experiences, and stories of the greatest adventure mankind has ever undertaken.

  • S2019E05 Return To Chernobyl

    • July 29, 2019
    • Discovery

    The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was the worst nuclear accident in history. Now, cameras re-enter the exclusion zone as a new sarcophagus to absorb the deadly radiation is installed.

  • S2019E06 The Madeleine McCann Mystery

    • April 27, 2019
    • Discovery

    When three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared from her holiday apartment in 2007, it shocked the world. Still unsolved, new analysis is made to try and discover the truth.

Season 2020

  • S2020E01 Pandemic: COVID-19

    • March 25, 2020
    • Discovery

    The war against the COVID-19 pandemic has come to America, and using the latest information from the frontlines, experts reveals why this novel form of coronavirus is so deadly and how we're fighting back.

  • S2020E02 NASA & SpaceX: Journey to the Future

    • May 26, 2020
    • Discovery

    The documentary reveals the behind-the-scenes action with the teams of SpaceX engineers, NASA employees and scientists as they fulfil the SpaceX mission to “fly, test and fix” their way to the International Space Station – with the goal of eventually flying to the moon and to Mars. The Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Capsule will send U.S. astronauts into space for the first time since the Space Shuttle was retired in 2011.

  • S2020E03 The Serial Killer Among Us: Phillip Jablonski

    • September 3, 2020
    • Discovery+

    When dead bodies show up across California in 1991, investigators realise they are dealing with a twisted serial killer. Audio tapes and interviews with the victims’ loved ones reveal the shocking details of these chilling murders.

  • S2020E04 Prince Andrew, Maxwell & Epstein

    • November 12, 2020
    • Discovery+

    Experts in body language, linguistics and forensic psychology examine the words and actions of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew.

  • S2020E05 Faking It: Jimmy Savile

    • November 12, 2020
    • Discovery+

    Experts examine how one of the biggest stars in British showbusiness got away with decades of sexual abuse.

  • S2020E06 First To The Top of The World

    • November 12, 2020
    • Discovery+

    In 1967, a team of explorers with no experience with polar ice travel attempted to reach the North Pole. Film, audio diaries and interviews reveal the extraordinary details of this incredible expedition.

  • S2020E07 Tony Robinson's - VE Day: Minute by Minute

    • May 8, 2020
    • Discovery+

    Tony Robinson’s VE Day: Minute By Minute will take a unique look at a pivotal day in the history of the modern world, delving into the key events that made VE Day such a momentous twenty-four hours. This is the story of what happened on that most celebrated and important day, including original interviews with historians and veterans who tell their stories and share their first-hand experiences. Using unseen archive footage and stills, plus never told accounts from veterans who were there, this one-off special will chart the moment the clock struck midnight, to 24 hours later, when fighting officially stopped across Europe. Up and down the country it was dawning on people that they were waking up not with fear or anxiety, but with relief and excitement. This was a Great Britain no one had experienced for six years. A Britain at peace. At almost no notice street celebrations were being prepared and tens of thousands were flocking to London and other city centres.

  • S2020E08 Everest's Greatest Mystery

    • October 11, 2020
    • Discovery+

    Mountaineer Jake Norton and his team search the upper reaches of Everest for undiscovered clues that prove who was the first climber to get to the top. The mystery has perplexed historians for a century and a big find would change history forever.

Season 2021

  • S2021E01 JonBenét Ramsey: What Really Happened?

    • January 4, 2021
    • Discovery+

    Previously unheard audio diaries of legendary detective Lou Smit reveal details of the JonBenét Ramsey case. 

  • S2021E02 If I Cant Have You: The Jodi Arias Story

    • February 12, 2021
    • Discovery+

    The Jodi Arias trial for the murder of Travis Alexander gripped the nation with headlines of sex, lies, and betrayal. Jodi’s diaries, unseen police interviews from the investigation and exclusive testimonies reveal who Travis and Jodi really were. Jodi Arias is one of America’s most notorious killers. Her trial for the murder of Travis Alexander unfolded live on TV and gripped the nation.

  • S2021E03 The Vaccine: Conquering COVID

    • February 18, 2021
    • Discovery+

    The race to develop a vaccine for Covid-19 is a monumental feat of science.

  • S2021E04 Attack of the Murder Hornets

    • February 20, 2021
    • Discovery+

    As the Murder Hornet makes national headlines, a small town crew of beekeepers and scientists band together to protect their quiet Washington community from the dangerous invasive species. The fate of the North American honeybee hangs in the balance.

  • S2021E05 The Murder List

    • February 23, 2021
    • Discovery+

    A probation check on a shoplifter turns up evidence of dozens of rapes, plus a list with ten cryptic entries. Investigators fear they have stumbled upon a hidden serial killer, and they have just one year to decode the list before the suspect goes free.

  • S2021E06 When Philip Met Missy

    • April 27, 2021
    • Discovery+

    When a woman goes missing on a trip to Graceland, all eyes are on her husband, Philip. Police put him under surveillance, hoping that he'll slip-up - and that's when a mysterious younger woman enters the scene.

  • S2021E07 Broken Harts

    • May 18, 2021
    • Discovery+

    In 2018, two women drove themselves and their adopted children off a California cliff. None survived. Investigators expose the dark truth behind the Hart family's picture-perfect online life and challenge a system that failed six innocent children.

  • S2021E08 UFOs Declassified Live

    • June 30, 2021
    • Discovery

    The Pentagon’s recently released report on UFOs—or as they call them, UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena)—continues to generate TV analysis, including a three-hour blowout across Discovery’s linear platforms. Josh Gates (Expedition Unknown) hosts the three-hour event, questioning top experts from NASA and government as well as pop-culture figures including The X-Files creator Chris Carter as they sift through the inconclusive evidence and speculate on what’s still out there.

  • S2021E09 Bezos in Space: Blue Origin Takes Flight

    • July 20, 2021
    • Discovery

    Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin are revolutionizing the space industry, and following the milestone launch of the New Shepard, experts go inside the mission and reveal what it means for exploration in the Final Frontier.

  • S2021E10 Rebuilding Hope: The Children of 9/11

    • September 7, 2021
    • Discovery

    Four families with children who were born after their fathers perished on 9/11 share their stories of bravery and inspiration. They also reflect on how they rebuilt hope for their futures and came of age over the past 20 years.

  • S2021E11 Meghan & Harry: Recollections May Vary

    • April 30, 2021
    • Discovery+

    The royal couple's speech, tone of voice, movements, and expressions will be examined frame by frame.

  • S2021E12 Space Titans: Musk, Bezos, Branson

    • November 4, 2021
    • Discovery+

    Three of the most successful entrepreneurs launch a new space revolution.

  • S2021E13 The Grim Sleeper: Mind of a Monster

    • Discovery+

    In 2001, Los Angeles Police Department's cold case unit reopened the files on a series of unsolved murders from the 1980s. As police search for DNA evidence to unlock these homicides which occurred in the South Central Los Angeles area, they are stunned to discover a new victim 14 years after the last known murder. DNA evidence leads them to Lonnie David Franklin Jr., also known by the nickname 'The Grim Sleeper.' He was responsible for at least ten murders and one attempted murder in Los Angeles, California from 1985 to 2007. He was found guilty at his trial and received the death penalty. He eventually died of natural causes on March 28th 2020 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California.

  • S2021E14 Jimmy Savile: The People Who Knew

    • August 7, 2021
    • Discovery+

    Jimmy Savile abused hundreds of people, many of them children. Exclusive testimony from some of the women who survived Savile's abuse, and the people who knew the awful truth, speak out about one of the biggest names in British showbusiness.

  • S2021E15 Yellowstone Supervolcano: American Doomsday

    • June 24, 2021
    • Discovery+

    Hidden beneath Yellowstone National Park lies a supervolcano with an eruption potential poised for global catastrophe; now, scientists use cutting-edge tech to explore what they believe could be the largest natural disaster that's waiting to occur.

  • S2021E16 When Buildings Collapse: Disaster in Surfside

    • Discovery+

    The Florida town of Surfside is hit with tragedy as a 13-story apartment building suddenly crumbles to the ground, taking nearly 100 lives with it; investigators search the debris to uncover the cause of this deadly disaster.

  • S2021E17 The Architects of Ancient Arabia

    • March 31, 2021
    • Discovery

    Discovery Channel takes a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most important discoveries of modern history as expert teams uncover clues that reposition the global understanding and significance of ancient Arabia. Unearthing the previously unknown aspects of the ancient history of Saudi Arabia, experts uncover traces of a society from more than 7,000 years ago. Archeologists unearth evidence for an ancient ritual, completely unexpected and extraordinary as they continue to piece together Al Ula's rich history in time to welcome guests from around the world, as specialist teams seek to decipher the activities associated with ancient stone structures, with their findings aiding to deepen the historical legacy of the country, and of ancient Arabia. Using multiple modern technologies to record tens of thousands of sites, they choose some to explore in greater detail, to begin piecing together a new chapter in the story of human civilisation. 'The Architects of Ancient Arabia' reveals star

Season 2022

  • S2022E01 Artemis 1: Going Back To The Moon

    • November 20, 2022

    Follow the extraordinary, inside story of NASA engineers as they race to build and launch the world's biggest rocket, Artemis I, as it prepares for missions that will transport humans to the moon, then launch an amazing journey to Mars and beyond.