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- Aimed at the adventure seeker, Departures is an action-packed and personal journey about two travelers. Scott Wilson and Justin Lukach leave their lives behind in search of unique experiences through some of the most beautiful and remote places on earth. From epic landscapes and unforgettable culture, to the often trying times that come with international travel, the series chronicles the unforgettable friendships, personal successes and sometimes crushing disappointments that befall them on their journey. Accompanied by their friend and cameraman, Andre Dupuis, Departures showcases the revelations of two travelers who strive to find themselves and new perspectives while trekking across the globe. Departures is as much about the journey as it is the destination. No prizes, no contests, just real life and real travel.
- Explore how opportunistic smuggling networks in Latin America turned into powerful and ruthless drug cartels with unprecedented power.
- Documents the 9 month journey from conception to birth with images taken inside the womb. New photographic and camera techniques allow the viewer to see previously unknown images concerning a time we all go through.
- In 2009, just two minutes into US Airways flight 1549, a flock of birds struck the plane taking out both engines. With no power, the Captain decided to attempt the near impossible - to land it in New York's Hudson River.
- A drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.
- Follow the team of Coastguards operating around Curacao, Aruba and St. Martin. They work hard daily to fight drug trafficking, prevent illegal immigration and manage numerous rescue missions, with support from the Dutch Royal Navy and US Coastguard.
- American documentary television series. Produced in conjunction with the National Geographic Channel, the series examines various disasters or violent incidents. It replaced Seconds From Disaster, a similar program with a more forensic approach.
- Each episode explores the engineering breakthroughs that have enabled us to develop the largest structures currently in existence. This is done by presenting multiple landmark inventions.
- Great Migrations takes viewers on the epic journeys animals undertake to ensure the survival of their species.
- Could any of the Romanov family have survived or escaped their prison in remotest Russia in 1917? This programme explores the latest science and newly-discovered documents behind one of history's greatest mysteries.
- Explorer Hazen Audel journeys to the world's most inhospitable places to learn survival skills that have kept tribal people alive for thousands of years. He has a week to study before taking on tribal challenges that will force him to the very limit.
- A team of experts must deliver an oversized object from point A to point B within the given timelimit.
- Witness some of the most daring air rescue missions of the last half-century, featuring old, single-engine warhorses and high-tech wonders of ingenuity and design.
- 'Amazing Adventures of a Nobody' is a documentary/factual entertainment TV series that follows Leon, the presenter, on his travels around the UK on just 5 pounds a day. The 5 pounds has to cover food, accommodation and travel; the 5 pounds reflecting the average hourly wage according to the Department of Trade and Industry in the U.K. Leon had certain cities he had to pass through and was only ever allowed to stay for 24 hours in each city. The 5 pounds could not roll over and had to be spent, with each morning being presented a new five pound note for each new day. The public could buy him things and he could work for goods, but was never allowed to be given money directly. The results were truly amazing, hence the name, with our "nobody" meeting some fascinating people such as Jack the lobster fisherman in locations as grand as Lord Glasgow's Scottish castle and as beautiful as the Welsh Coast.
- The world famous Little Penguins of Australia's Phillip Island entertain over half a million tourists a year with a sunset parade from the surf to their burrows. But behind the scenes the penguins lives are even more interesting.
- Reputed as one of Africa's deadliest animals, buffalo are one of the fiercest and most powerful members of the Big 5. Their volatile tempers and tendency to charge and gore their opponents with their enormous horns ensures that few predators will take them on. Even lions, Africa's most notorious predators, scatter before their hooves! But there is a greater threat than predators facing the buffalo herds.... Two years ago they might have gored him; now they eat out of his hands. Lindsay Hunt has wound his way deep into the buffalo world, to earn the trust of one of Africa's most fearsome beasts. In the face of devastating disease epidemics, he has devoted his life to fighting for the buffalo on every front. Lindsay Hunt is the 'Buffalo Warrior.'
- National Geogenius was a quiz show made by the National Geographic channel in the UK. It ran for 2 series in 2001 and 2002. At the start of the show a route around the globe was shown on a CGI globe. Throughout the episode contestants would answer questions relating to the route followed around the CGI globe. The 4 initial contestants were whittled down to 2 for a final round. The winner being either the player with the most points when the time ran out, or the first player to have answered enough questions to complete a circumnavigation of the globe. Winners had their points converted into air miles and progressed to a semi-final and then a final. The series champion won enough air miles for a trip around the world.
- Storm Worlds imagines the unimaginable, taking viewers on a voyage into the heart of extreme alien storms and playing them out on Planet Earth through extraordinary computer animation. Using new scientific discoveries, Storm Worlds unravels the mysterious weather that rages on other planets and wreaks havoc on the Earth. In 'Deadly Dust', a Martian dust storm envelops our entire planet. 'Alien Wind' tracks, in real time, the most extreme storm ever discovered in the Universe, then unleashes it on the Earth. And in 'Cosmic Fire', Earth is hit by a giant storm from the Sun.
- The film explores Iguacu National Park on the Brazilian-Argentine border, home to some of the largest waterfalls on Earth. The story follows animals native to this Atlantic rainforest habitat, including kamikaze-like swifts who live behind and fly through the thundering masses of falling water, as well as spotted jaguars and a family of coatis. The film also shows the struggle of park rangers to defend this threatened reserve from opportunistic exploitation. (Also entitled "The Megafalls of Iguacu") on National Geographic Channel.)
- A Sudanese refuge living in Canada disovers that he's become the King of his tribe in the South of Sudan, setting him on a journey in which he is torn between his new duties and getting his refugee family to Canada.