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Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Embark on an astounding journey across 100,000 light-years to witness key moments in the history of the Milky Way. Using cutting-edge science, National Geographic constructs a 3-D state-of-the-art CGI model of the galaxy. Peer into the heart of the Milky Way on the hunt for super-massive black holes, watch how stars are born and die, fly out and above the plane of the galaxy to understand its true shape, and scour its dusty spiral arms for the possibility...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Directed by filmmaker Peter Jackson, this is a three-part documentary series that takes audiences back in time to the band's intimate recording sessions. The documentary showcases the warmth, camaraderie, and creative genius that defined the legacy of the iconic foursome, and is compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage shot in January 1969 (by Michael Lindsay-Hogg) and more than 150 hours of unheard audio, all of which has been brilliantly restored....
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
December 1944, Hitler wages one more desperate bloody attack. Hitler struck back with a brutal counterattack and the Battle of the Bulge was the single biggest and bloodiest battle U.S. soldiers have ever fought. Almost 80,000 Americans were killed, injured, or captured in an infernal test of courage and endurance that ultimately ended with a hard-won victory for the Allies. Told through the eyes of the U.S. soldiers and combat officers in the field....
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Earth has never experienced anything like us: a single species dominating and transforming the planet. Biologist Shane Campbell-Staton travels the world to explore our global impact. Because while we may tell ourselves what it means to be human, the clearest vision of who we are emerges from what we do.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Martin Dohrn, a veteran wildlife cameraman and bee enthusiast, embarked on a special challenge during the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020: to film all the bees he could find in his tiny urban garden in Bristol, England. By the end of the summer, he became bee obsessed and developed relationships with some individuals. Dohrn saw more than 60 species of bees that come in all shapes and sizes, from Britain's largest bumblebees to scissor bees, which are the...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Epic in scope, this multi-generation, globe-trotting saga covers not only the entire gamut of wine making, but wine's place in a treacherously globalized and hyper-marketed world. From the billionaire power brokers of Napa Valley, to the aristocratic rivalries of competing Florentine dynasties, to the efforts of three generations of a Burgundian family fighting to preserve their few acres of land, Mondovino: the series brings to life the human drama...
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1958, Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, went on a murder spree that took the lives of 11 victims, including Caril's mother, stepfather, and baby stepsister. Charles was sentenced to death, and Caril became the youngest woman ever sentenced to life in prison. To this day, she maintains her innocence and that she did not know Charles had killed her family when she accompanied him. The series looks deeper...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the sheer scale and majesty of the largest ocean on Earth, the isolation of its islands, the extraordinary journeys wildlife and humans have gone through to reach these specks of land, and what happened to both after their arrival. This film captures the amazing natural sights of the region and its people: from erupting undersea volcanoes to jeweled tropical reefs; from tiger sharks catching albatross chicks to giant crabs opening coconuts;...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
What supernatural lives will be revealed when "Underground Portals" explores the 10,000-year-old prehistoric art work discovered in a cave in India. Could the face of Giza's Great Sphinx prove to be older than once thought, and what otherworldly being might it actually represent? History continues its exploration of unexplained events and phenomena in this collection that journeys through the Egyptian pyramids, Central American temples, and Earth's...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This season travels the universe across an expanse of tens of thousands of years to the present day as we investigate the possibilities and probabilities of life beyond Earth. We look at the unexplainable, enormous man-made caves, structures, crop circles containing encrypted messages, and complex mathematical and astronomical equations perplexing our leading scientists. Experts have found thousands of strange drawings of beings with blue skin, multi-limbed...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Pyramids hidden beneath the ice of Antarctica. Egyptian hieroglyphs of flying ships carved on sandstone walls in Australia. Giant Caucasian mummies buried beneath the desert in China. A new planet found right in our own solar system. According to ancient astronaut theorists, these discoveries may reveal not only that extraterrestrials visited Earth in the distant past, but that they may still be among us today. In season nine, the search for answers...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Celebrating twelve years of extraterrestrial exploration, this season of HISTORYʼs ANCIENT ALIENSʼ takes flight with a special two-hour crossover episode with HISTORYʼs THE UNXPLAINED's host, the ultimate 'final frontiersman' William Shatner. Follow this season's thrilling investigations from the ancient civilization of Peru to the fascinating realms of genetics and harmonic code and join ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio A. Tsoukalos as he reveals...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
30th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
The 1988 PBS series in which mythologist and storyteller Joseph Campbell joins Bill Moyers to explore what enduring myths can tell us about our lives. In each of six episodes Moyers and Campbell focus on a character or theme found in cultural and religious mythologies.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Directed by filmmaker Peter Jackson, this is a three-part documentary series that takes audiences back in time to the band's intimate recording sessions. The documentary showcases the warmth, camaraderie, and creative genius that defined the legacy of the iconic foursome, and is compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage shot in January 1969 (by Michael Lindsay-Hogg) and more than 150 hours of unheard audio, all of which has been brilliantly restored....
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"They are the most iconic animals on Planet Earth - voracious crocodiles, acrobatic birds, majestic elephants, stupendous whales. To see them is to marvel - and to ask a surprisingly challenging question: Where did these amazing creatures come from? Traveling millions of years into the past, we unravel these iconic creatures' lineage - a story full of twists and turns, punctuated by dramatic events in earth history. Along the way we meet an extraordinary...
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