Documentary / Biography - DVD

The Nazca lines in Peru stretch for miles, forming perfect images of animals visible only from the air. Immense and precise, the pyramids remain among mankind's greatest accomplishments, and experts still debate how they were built. Span the globe in this riveting look at...

It was the most impressive fighting machine ever assembled. Its prowess on the battlefields of the ancient world was unmatched, and its power could challenge even that of the emperor. From its humble beginnings as a band of part-time soldiers to its ultimate evolution...

At the turn of the 19th century, upper-class men of Europe and America fought pistol duels to the death. The pistols created for these duels were some of the most beautiful ever made. We'll examine these magnificent weapons that gave this strange ritual its...

Born of immigrant parents in 1912, Phil Silvers grew up on the mean streets of Brownsville in Brooklyn. His talent and wit launched a show business career that culminated with the smash Broadway show, Top Banana, and the heights of TV stardom in the...

In 2002, a series of mysterious oil spills spread alarm up and down the Northern California coastline, when a 200-mile stretch of beaches became littered with the carcasses of oiled animals. Experts soon realized they had an escalating disaster on their hands. Finally, the...

When the tank first appeared on the battlefield in World War I, it was slow, clumsy and unreliable. But its potential was undeniable. By World War II, tanks developed into the most effective ground weapons the world had ever seen. HELL ON WHEELS is...

Ramses II was perhaps the greatest pharaoh to rule ancient Egypt. His reign lasted 67 years--it was one of the longest in Egyptian history. As king of one of the most powerful civilizations in the world--he possessed endless energy and a determination to insure...

It is one of the lowlights in the history of American government, an agency that almost immediately ran into problems and has since bounced from scandal to tragedy to the verge of bankruptcy. The Office of Housing and Urban Development was created to provide...

On November 29, 1992, 35-year-old Judy Blake Moilanen went walking with her five springer spaniels on Michigan's upper peninsula. When one of her dogs returned without her, Judy's mother went looking for her. She found her daughter's body in the woods, shot to death....

Hop in the cockpit for a daring century-long ride through the history of aircraft weaponry--from the first handgun fired from a biplane. Features interviews with Chuck Yeager, Korean ace Major Frederick Blesse, and pilots from Desert Storm and Kosovo, and historic footage of "Red...

Traces the marriage of firepower and the versatile chopper. From early testing in the 1950s to deployment in Vietnam and beyond, the helicopter has proven to be the most elusive weapons platform ever.

For centuries, popular culture has depicted Captain Kidd as an illiterate, devious, merciless pirate. But we turn the tables on accepted fact to uncover a different story. Kidd was an intelligent, well-read businessmen living in New York, when English King William III commissioned him...

Host Bill Kurtis explores the new, high-pressure world of children's sports where kids no longer play for fun, but for the dream of a lucrative professional career. Meet a 14-year-old girl besieged by college basketball recruiters, and a 12-year-old figure skater who spends two...

A day in the life of the New York Police Department's Emergency Services Unit as it saves lives and captures crooks around the clock. Viewers will see these elite cops stop a suicidal man from jumping off a bridge, nab dangerous drug dealers, and...

World premiere documentary that looks at the possibility of alien contact through the eyes of the UFO community, mainstream scientists and religious theologians.

Where other pilots try to survive by staying away from enemy guns, the men who fly ground support spend much of their buzzing just above the infantry and tanks they attack. One tiny mistake can slam them into the ground in a split second....

On the Hawaiian island of Oahu is a remarkable building, the Iolani Palace. Built in 1882 by King Kalakaua, it is the only royal residence ever to stand on American soil. But when a group of young sugar barons took over the Hawaiian government...

In 1943, the USS Murphy, along with seven other destroyers and two battleships, left New York Harbor to accompany a supply convoy headed to England. The convoy sailed dark on that moonless night--not even a cigarette could be lit on deck. Suddenly, the Murphy...

In the 11th hour Corey Haim questions whether he is going to do Lost Boys 2 which leads to an argument with Feldman - who helped Haim get the role in the first place. Haim really wants Feldman to stop worrying about his career...

Trent, 33, is a four-star chef who's served U.S. presidents and Hollywood stars. But as the child of alcoholics, Trent's formative years were marked with violence and abuse. He ultimately turned to drugs to cope, and today he is homeless, sick, battling freezing temperatures,...

In Detroit, Lead Detective Lance Sullivan investigates the murder of a woman shot in her home. Police catch their suspect driving the victim's car, but don't have enough to charge him. Now Sullivan must race to collect evidence for a murder warrant before his...

Adventure has a new name! Host, explorer 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 the...

Adventure has a new name! Host, explorer and survival expert Hunter Ellis / Zay Harding 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...

Not So Hot for Teacher: The Bratz are put to the test when they enroll in a fashion course tought by Burdine, who is determined to give the Bratz so much work, they'll have to give up their magazine. After Cloe learns their final...

Captain Mattei (Auteuil) is about to arrest a gang of bank robbers when a sniper watching from a rooftop singlehandedly decimates a whole army of cops, allowing the gang to escape. Unfortunately, one of the members of the gang is wounded, and their plan...

The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton was truly a once in a lifetime event with people all over the world tuning in to witness the celebrated union of the charismatic prince and the beautiful commoner, the first royal affair since Princess Diana...

The Aztecs were the largest civilization to ever rule Mesoamerica. Archaeology and modern science are now shedding new light on the blood rituals they practiced. Join host Josh Bernstein as he travels to Mexico City to investigate and use forensic science to examine the...

Profile of the notorious serial killer who murdered two children in Watertown, N.Y., and 11 women in Rochester, N.Y. Shawcross was captured when he was seen standing next to one of his victims, and was sentenced to 250 years in prison.

Was Ramesses II Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh? He built soaring statues, grand temples, and monuments to himself throughout Egypt. He even declared himself a living god. What forces drove him to be the greatest pharaoh? Join host Josh Bernstein as he travels to Egypt to...

Easy Prey/Widowmaker (#59). In Dallas, detectives are working a shooting that left a 26-year-old woman dead, when a mysterious caller gives them a one word nickname--"Mississippi." In Miami, an elderly man is found duct-taped and beaten to death outside his house as his wife...

Carthage, a remarkable city-state that dominated the Mediterranean for over 600 years, harnessed their extensive resources to develop some of the ancient world's most groundbreaking technology. For generations, Carthage defined power, strength and ingenuity, but by the third century B.C., the empire's existence was...

During the 1800s, the road west in America was a dangerous path into the unknown. As pioneers headed toward a new life, they faced unpredictable weather, uneven trails, and sometimes unforgiving Native Americans. Remarkable feats of engineering, such as blasting mile-long tunnels or building...

High-powered record promoter Charlie Minor, who garnered fame and fortune boosting the careers of artists like Sting and Janet Jackson, liked to live the high life in Malibu, one of Southern California's top beachside resorts. Hollywood stars, media moguls, and business tycoons would fill...

She ruled over men, bedding the likes of Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony, and led one of the world's greatest civilizations. Her name has been immortalized in myth and legend. So, how did Cleopatra become the last of the pharaohs? In the shadow of...

Lights in the sky, strange sounds in the woods, vicious attacks that couldn't be explained away.... The Wild West was overflowing with unexplained happenings. Some people even said the skies were filled with UFO's! How did technology help to craft the legends that have...

It's said revenge is a dish best served cold, but in the Wild West, it was often served with a heaping helping of technology. From a liver-eating madman bent on avenging the death of a loved one to a teenage girl who switched her...

An in-depth look at the world and work of morticians. We follow several morticians-to-be at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science as they learn embalming, the restorative arts, the use of hair and makeup on corpses, and the other skills of their ancient...

Ride along as we relate the racy history of the cars that were run for bragging rights on Sunday afternoons...and the men who trusted those same cars with their lives come Sunday night. It's a story about searching for any edge...boring a block, milling...

In an age of intrigue and vice, he was a voice of morality and virtue. Twenty-five hundred years after his death, he is revered as one of the greatest teachers in history, even credited as galvanizing East Asia's current "economic miracle." Confucius's name is...

A former top high school athlete gets hooked on pills and beer after suffering an emotionally devastating incident - he was not put into a big game against a rival school. And a mother fears for the life of her son, a former wrestling...

Asteroids on a collision course with Earth, super volcanoes, global warming, killer viruses--all are potential catastrophes that threaten to wipe out life on our planet. Are these simply natural disasters that have been occurring since time immemorial? Orare these threats terrifying prophesies from the...

Delve into the aftermath and repercussions of the 1947 Roswell incident, when many believe an alien spacecraft crashed in New Mexico. Based on The Day after Roswell by Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso and William Birnes, we explore if technologies like the laser,fiber optics,...

Rachel and Tommy (Update): #11. Friends and family gather to save two addicts -- Rachel, once a beautiful child in an upper-middle class family who has turned to heroin and prostitution, and Tommy, who quit his executive job and sold his Lexus, retirementplan, and...

Kelly F. and Mark (#10). Family and friends decide that an intervention is their only hope of saving two men: Kelly, a man with a 160 IQ who lives on the streets and survives on beer and other people's spare change, and Mark, who's...

On June 7, 1944, the troopship USS Susan B. Anthony transported nearly 3,000 Army and Navy men on their way to reinforce paratroopers dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day. Suddenly, two explosions hit the Susan B. just off the coast of "Bloody Omaha" in...

Explores the fascinating life of the Mafia's best-known "rat". Sammy Gravano shattered the mythical Cosa Nostra and revealed its seamiest secrets to the world when he broke the Mafia's blood oath of silence and testified against his boss, John Gotti.

The story of the sadistic torture and murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard in Wyoming in October 1998. Two small-time criminals kidnapped Shepard, beat him ferociously, lashed him to a fence in frigid temperatures, and left him there for 18 hoursbefore he was...

June 6, 1944--the destroyer USS Meredith joined the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Her 5-inch guns pounded German coastal batteries as American troops fought their way ashore at Utah Beach. On the night of June 7, the Meredith moved out into dangerous mine-infested waters to...

Meet the solitary Mountain Men who wandered the Wild West ranges in the 1800s and lived a crude existence, relying on simple tools for hunting and survival. Some of the colorful characters introduced include buffalo hunter Billy Dixon, whose Sharps Big 50Gun helped him...

R. Lee Ermey salutes more than two centuries of Christmas at War--from Valley Forge to Baghdad, we present inspiring stories about how troops have celebrated the holiday season. Topics include the WWI Christmas truce across the trenches of the French countryside, the men of...