Documentaries : Geography

n parts of Florida, alligators are surging from waterways and ambushing people. Join our team of biologists, trauma physicians, and detectives as they investigate this disturbing trend....

This is the original In the womb, the first in the series. This show deals with single birth pregnancies, though in less detail (especially about stem cell allocation, egg transformation, lung development and peculiarities of multiple births) in some areas than the later ’In the Womb : Multipl...

When Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II, and his family disappeared 90 years ago, eyewitness accounts said the family was brutally murdered. What really happened to them?...

The river guides of Whitewater Voyages need a new raft that’s big enough and cool enough for the last run of the season. A team of extreme industrial artists have three days...

We esteem the healers and put our faith in them. But the sources of their power can be mysterious, and often the treatment requires not just faith, but a leap of faith....

A bull snake leaves a painful reminder of its fight to stay put in an Arizona home. Plus, an alligator in Florida, black bears in Nevada, and a rattlesnake alert in California....

There is a house in tropical Australia, surrounded by swamp and a deep rainforest. It was built to shelter humans, but its open doors and windows also allow nature to use it as a refuge. See bizarre and beautiful tenants inhabiting a human realm, and discover the history of an old cottage in Far Nor...

This is a bizarre island, where many animals are unique. Even today biologists cannot fully explain the origins of the anoa, the world's smallest buffalo, or the babirusa, the deer pig. It is a tale for which we have to go back millions of years....

This episode features the Russell family from Birmingham, AL. They are transplanted from a comfortable southern style home to a mud and stick compound in Northern Ghana. Their romantic notion of Africa fades as the grim reality of daily life sets in....

After Katrina, people ask why would anyone establish a city in a place that is below sea level, floods nearly every year, is as hot and humid as any tropical jungle, subject to outbreaks of deadly disease and faces annihilation as the result of a direct hit from a hurricane? More to the point, why w...