Documentaries : Geography

Filmmaker Thomas Balmes offers an adorable glimpse at the first phase of life in this film following four newborn babies through their first year of life. Ponijao, Bayar, Mari, and Hattie were born in Namibia, Mongolia, Japan, and California, respectively. By capturing their earliest stage of develo...

Human Sacrifice: Human Sacrifice examines this terrifying practice through the lenses of history, science, forensics, and psychology....

They foresaw the coming of Christianity and the Spanish Conquest of Central America. Written over 800 years ago, the Mayan prophecies predicted the First World War, the rise of Hitler, and the December 2006 tsunami that devastated South East Asia. In just a few short years, on December 21, 2012, the...

exploring the scientific factors behind the magnitude 9 earthquake and the resultant tsunami that struck Japan on March 11. Professor of geological sciences Roger Bilham views the effects of the devastation from the air, and journalist Callum Macrae travels to the north of the country, where survivo...

Last Day of the Dinosaurs: A Storm is Coming: While the cycles of life and death flowed on Earth 65 million years ago, unbeknownst to the living things on the surface, death lurks in the ionosphere....

National Geographic: Secret Cities of the Amazon: Over the centuries, explorers traded tales of a lost civilization amid the dense Amazonian rainforest. Scientists dismissed the legends as exaggerations, believing that the rainforest could not sustain such a huge population -- until now. A new gener...

An examination of the U.S. government's role and its response to Hurricane Katrina.Won 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 4 wins & 8 nominations...

History Channel Evolve: Size: Life has evolved into a multitude of sizes. Over the course of three billion years, life has taken on many forms-from an .02-micrometer-long bacteria to the 110-foot-long blue whale. Scientists are learning how the struggle for survival has led some animals to become sm...

National Geographic's Lions of Darkness : Three young lions walk out of the night and take over an older lion's territory and his harem of eight lionesses. This National Geographic video captures a year in the life of these lions of darkness and their pride. Filmed and narrated by renowned wildlife ...

In September 2007 Sir Richard Branson's friend, the record-breaking aviator Steve Fossett, disappeared on a pleasure flight. There were rumours that Fossett, who had made the first solo balloon flight around the world, was in Argentina or that he had faked his death. His loss sparked the biggest pea...