Documentary / Biography - DVD

Corey Haim and Corey Feldman's first meeting since their fallout continues to flare at the diner and topics and personal accounts that were never made public come flying out. When they are unable to see eye-to-eye about their issues, they decide to see a...

Deep within the former Soviet Union lies a classified, subterranean world of Cold War secrets. In Ukraine, which once had the world's third largest nuclear arsenal, Don ducks behind the Iron Curtain to reveal a how the Soviets were really preparing for a Nuclear...

In Miami, Detective Carlos Castellanos is working the homicide case of a man found dead in a motel bathroom, the victim of an apparent robbery. With little evidence to go on, Castellanos must track down the victim's missing belongings in the hopes that what...

Our modern day landscapes are littered with the remains of amazing ancient superstructures. But new, cutting edge archaeology is beginning to reveal that this century's most exciting discoveries will lie at the bottom of the ocean, where entire submerged cities and extraordinary structures are...

Adventure has a new name! Host, Navy pilot and survival expert Hunter Ellis takes a fresh look at the world's greatest ancient mysteries and puts adventure back into history as he travels to some of the most intriguing, remote and physically challenging locations in...

MODERN DADS features four unapologetically loud, riotously funny, unconventional stay-at-home dads in Austin, Texas who get the job done. Banding together like a fraternity, their "guys club" is a tribe of suburban, child-rearing dudes who are just trying to do their thing...with a kid...

On 9/11, photo-journalist & filmmaker, Andrea Booher, was designated by Mayor Giuliani as one of only two photographers to be allowed unlimited, 24-hour access. She was assigned to the Urban Search & Rescue teams, whose only mission was to find survivors. At the World...

Viewers will feel like they're in the battle, facing the enemy, while watching this new series that recreates famous battles using state of the art computer graphics. US Air Force fighter pilots risk their lives flying sleek F-86 Sabres above "MiG Alley", the most...

In Memphis, Sergeant Caroline Mason and her team respond to a convenience store shooting, where surveillance cameras captured the last few moments of a man's life. Investigators must sift through the footage for clues that will point them to the killer. And in Miami,...

When this 60 tons of high-tech military hardware rumbles onto the battlefield at nearly 40 mph, there's nowhere for the enemy to hide. Behind its impenetrable armor lies one of the most effective computerized weapons systems. Its main weapon--an awesome 120mm rifled gun that...

There was only one ancient city in the Americas that ever truly rivaled the size, scale, and power of its Old World counterparts--Teotihuacan, the City of the Gods. And today, it's the largest ghost town in the world. Still home to the world's third...

Once scorned and rejected by Ford, it took a struggling company like Chrysler to gamble that the minivan might work. The minivan was an entirely new type of vehicle--a cross between a conventional van and a station wagon. Introduced in 1984, the minivan became...

A wall of silence from a frightened community hampers efforts to solve a brutal murder; and a mother of two is shot execution-style in her kitchen in an affluent neighborhood. In a visual style more like drama than reality show, we tail Miami homicide...

Coyame, Mexico is a small town not far from the US border. It's home to three thousand people and possibly the best-kept secret of all-time. In August of 1974, the USA military was tracking a mysterious object over Mexico; then suddenly it disappeared from...

Family and friends stage interventions to halt the self-destructive behavior of Cristine, a wife and mother who drinks at least 18 beers a day, not stopping until she passes out; and Kelly, an anorexic who weighs 93 pounds and whose 3-year-old daughter isfollowing in...

When our investigators find two ghostly locomotives, upright and intact, just a few miles off the New Jersey coast, they must figure out how these massive land vehicles ended up 90 feet below the Atlantic. With no shipwreck nearby, our detectives launch an investigation...

Using cutting-edge computer gaming technology, we recreate conflicts that shaped the ancient world and witness great battles like never before. Hosted on location by Matthew Settle, we return to Thermopylae in 480 BC, where 300 Spartans occupied a mountain pass and held off the...

Chalons, 451 AD. What made this battle so compelling? Attila the Hun, the terrifying menace who had his eyes set on what was left of the Western Roman Empire. By this time, huge chunks of the Roman Empire operated under the autonomous control of...

At 24, Sara had everything she ever wanted in her sleepy Minnesota town. She had a fairy-tale wedding in Hawaii, a beautiful baby girl, a house, three cars, and even competed in beauty pageants. Then, it all abruptly ended in divorce. Not knowing how...

The Tecumseh was an iron-hulled, single-turret monitor, similar in design to the famous USS Monitor. In August 1864, she was in the vanguard of a monitor flotilla that spearheaded the Federal attack on Mobile Bay. The Confederate defense centered on theirshore batteries and the...

In 1641, a deadly combination of treacherous waters and high winds brought the Concepcion to an untimely end. Though the ship would never sail again, its saga was just beginning. For over 300 years, tales of the treasure aboard the lost galleon brought adventurers...

Host John Chatterton dives the remains of a ship recently found off Florida whose past is as illustrious as her demise was mysterious. The Eleanor Bolling was the workhorse that carried Admiral Richard Byrd on his 1928 Antarctic expedition. But after Byrd's return to...

Earth gives birth to volcanoes when hot magna rises to the surface, infiltrates weak spots in the outer crust, and explodes in a spectacular burst of energy and power that can kill thousands in moments. Despite this apparent danger, people insist on living near...

Here's the fascinating story of Catherine Shelton, a criminal defense attorney in Dallas, Texas. Catherine was known as a tough, smart lawyer and a dogged advocate for her clients; she was also known for her own run-ins with the law outside of the courthouse....

A rapist who attacked a woman on a barroom pool table, a thief who absconded with over $10,000 in gold jewelry from a casino, and a prostitute who plied her trade while testing HIV-positive ask the board for parole.

Floodwaters wreak havoc beneath the streets of Chicago, and intrepid cave diver Jill Yager discovers a 150-million-year-old species of crustacean. Bill Kurtis hosts.

For a dozen turbulent years between WWI and WWII, the U.S. Navy poured millions of dollars into an audacious dream: to rule the skies with a fleet of massive airships. Armed with squadrons of scout planes, these "Battleships of the Skies" could travel far...

Through rain, snow, heat, or gloom of night, we have all come to count on our trusty postman to deliver our mail. The United States Post Office handles more than 603 million pieces of mail a day. Six days a week, over 128 million...

Arising from the horrible carnage, deprivation, and suffering caused by war is a countless array of everyday items--from hairbrushes to microwaves--that directly descend from wartime innovations. Wartime research and development have revolutionized communication, transportation, and medicine. From Spam to nuclear power to hair spray...

In darkened alleys and on city streets, a war of flames rages on. Firefighters rush into burning buildings, one step behind and arsonist who strikes the match. Join Bill Kurtis and arson investigators from Chicago's police and fire departments as they sift the ashes...

In March 2002, in Vilnius, Lithuania, construction workers uncovered a mass grave filled with close to 2,000 skeletons. Scientists determined that the remains belonged to the last remnants of Napoleon's Grand Army retreating from Moscow in 1812. The find offers new insight into Napoleon's...

Estas son las historias que han surgido durante los siglos del milenio. Estan llenas de leyendas y mitos, y envueltas en un halo de verdades tentadoras. Ellas hacen parte de los MISTERIOS DE LA ANTIGUEDAD. Cuando los pioneros y aventureros llegaron al Caqsn del...

In Tucson, a young man is found shot to death on the street. Detectives Bill Hanson and Mike Carroll follow two clues that could lead to a suspect - a dropped cell phone and a pawnshop slip tucked in the victim's pocket. In Memphis,...

For many, fame is a dream: critical acclaim, privilege, wealth, and a world of adoring fans. But in a split second, everything can disappear, and in Celebrity Close Calls, it almost did. In this new BIO series, celebrities share exclusive firsthand accounts of near-death...

You're in the cockpit with some of the fiercest dog fighting ever seen in Vietnam! These pilots fight in a supersonic world, and split second decisions determine life or death. American F4 Phantom pilots Fred Olmsted and Dan Cherry take on the famed MiG-21--the...

Motel Massacre/Pure Innocent (#52). A Memphis motel turns into a war zone when a gunfight leaves two men dead and another critically injured. Sgt. WD Merritt and the homicide team spring into action to find their shooter. In Kansas City, homicide Det. Everett Babcock...

Profile of the Hollywood directing legend who became known for his "spectaculars", making such lavish productions as The Ten Commandments and The Greatest Show on Earth. Cecil B. DeMille helped establish Hollywood as the movie-making capital of the world, and contributed many innovations to...

In the wilds of the American West, average citizens often stepped into the fray to keep their towns from being taken over by society's dregs. It seemed like pickpockets and pimps rolled into main street the moment gold was struck. And often, it was...

THE ALLIES: In this episode we uncover Allied secrets off WWII, like a battleship made of ice, bat bombs, floating tanks, rocket-propelled wheels that would roll through enemy lines, pigeon-guided missiles, and earthquake bombs designed to penetrate the earth and shake structures to pieces....

September 14, 1944--the South Pacific. While clearing mines for the Allied invasion of the Palau Islands, the USS Perry is rocked by a huge explosion and immediately begins to list. All hands abandon ship into open waters, drawing enemy fire from shore. Two days...

The U-2513 is what's known as a Type 21 German U-boat. In the 1940s, the Type 21 was a secret weapon that threatened to change the course of two wars: WWII, and then later, the Cold War. During WWII, German hopes were riding on...

For more than a thousand years, the Taino people flourished on the islands comprising the Greater Antilles--modern-day Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Five centuries ago, they seemingly vanished--millions of people gone in the blink of an eye. The DSD team...

More than 1000 years ago in Mexico, the great temple-city of Palenque thrived as an important center of the Mayan world. Mysteriously abandoned in 835 AD, it has preserved countless secrets ever since. Journey to the Mexican jungle on a quest to unearth the...

In 1944, a Japanese plane carrying a copy of "Z-Plan" - Japan's strategy to win the war in the Pacific - went down in the Philippines. The papers fell into the hands of pro-American guerrilla forces, and US military officials desperately wanted to retrieve...

For more than a half-century, America's Central Intelligence Agency has systematically suppressed, distorted, and even fabricated reports of UFO sightings. With the assistance of the CIA's official historian and newly declassified documents, we provide anobjective, balanced, and at times, highly controversial examination of the...

A visit to "Supermax" high-security prisons to meet inmates who are isolated in tiny cells 23 hours a day. Includes interviews with penal experts who say that this extreme isolation is cruel and inhuman punishment.

Spartacus is one of the Ancient World's most famous figures. A Thracian soldier, Spartacus was captured by Romans and sold as a slave for training as a gladiator. With 70 other gladiators, he escaped and hid on Mount Vesuvius in 71 BC, where he...

Teutoburg Forest, 9 AD. According to the Roman historian Dio, Arminius (aka Herman), Chief of the Cherusci, and his father Segemerus, ambushed and wiped out three legions led by Quinctilius Varus. Not a good day to be out in the woods of Germany if...

In 197 BC, the classic military conflict between the Ancient World's two dominant military systems took place in a chain of hills called Cynoscephalae (Greek for "Dogs' Heads") in Thessaly, Greece. King Philip V led the Macedonian phalanx, the fighting force that conquered the...

Follows the revolutionary rise of the legendary blackjack team, the Tommy Hyland Team. Beginning with Hyland's bold decision to turn blackjack card-counting into a business venture, we follow as he implements a multi-person card-counting system. The well-oiled plan works without a flaw, and the...