Documentary / Biography - DVD

It is the greatest escape story in history: how Moses and the Israelites fled from enslavement in Egypt with the parting of the Red Sea. Geo-archaeological evidence shows that a volcanic eruption caused a mega-tsunami and this could have temporarily turned deep water shallow....

In 1985, the haunting picture of an Afghan refugee girl with startling sea-green eyes graced the cover of National Geographic magazine. Now, the search is on to find the nameless woman whose youthful image became a global symbol of wartime dignity, resilience, and survival....

Rebuilding Titanic is a five-part series showcasing a determined team of experts as they bring the Titanic back to life. These experts use 100 year-old methods to rebuild iconic sections of history's most famous ship, including a piece of the steel bow, the anchor,...

In the past decade, researchers working in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula have made a series of startling discoveries, revealing a gaping hole in our understanding of the Maya could it be that what we thought we knew has suddenly turned out to be just half...

The year 2011 gets off to a disturbing start. On New Year's Eve, blackbirds die in Beebe, Arkansas by the thousands. Nearby, fish and more birds perish. Then a wave of unsettling animal deaths seems to sweep the globe. Are the deaths connected? A...

Party Like goes behind the scenes at some of the world's most extravagant parties, past and present, to discover what it takes to put on the biggest, most excessive and most outrageous events ever. What can modern party planners learn from the excesses of...

Some of the world's deadliest creatures are easiest to miss. They are small, they hide in plain sight and they strike without warning. In Brazil, a barber sweeping his shop fails to notice the poisonous, wandering spider climbing up his broomstick and onto his...

The Burmese python, one of the largest, most powerful snakes in the world, has established a breeding population in Florida's Everglades and soon, the snakes will be poised to spread to other areas in the United States. How far will they get? Biologists are...

Just prior to the end of World War II, the German military secretly undertook a massive push to design miracle weapons -- colossal tanks, the world's first guided missiles, and high-speed jets that could attack New York. Now, nearly 60 years later, a team...

National Geographic investigates the science behind severe genetic disorders and the extraordinary people who live with them. Bones: Imagine breaking a rib just by coughing or having an internal organ turning to bone. These are just two of the many life-threatening challenges faced by...

Narrated by Jason Robards, this National Geographic Special takes viewers on a journey to Churchill, Manitoba, where the residents have learned to live with a unique wildlife problem. Each fall the largest, most deadly carnivore in the Arctic migrates through this isolated Canadian village...

Circle the globe with National Geographic on an underwater voyage powered by earth's great ocean currents, the incredible superhighways of marine life. You'll plunge into an alien world where millions of sea creatures, from tiny seahorses to enormous sharks, spend their entire lives adrift,...

The mysterious puma. Only a lucky few have ever seen this magnificent cat that prowls the Andes. For two years, acclaimed natural history filmmaker Hugh Miles lived among Patagonia's pumas, capturing never-before-seen images of this shy, secretive predator. Experience the unprecedented trust formed between...

Share the drama as daring adventurers from 97 countries attempt a seemingly impossible feat to cut through Panama's hostile terrain and join the Atlantic and Pacific oceans! By succeeding, they halve the distance of coast-to-coast water travel but formidable obstacles had to be conquered....

Are we alone? Is anybody out there? Meet the scientists of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, who monitor the radiowaves of deep space for signs of intelligent life. Discover why scientists agree that life as we know it can exist in many places...

High in the cloud forests of Peru is the mountaintop fortress of a lost civilization and an ancient legend of murder. The Chachapoya, or Cloud Warriors who lived over 400 years ago, vanished virtually overnight. For years, anthropologists have been hunting for who or...

It is a bizarre battle in the heart of the Florida Everglades that Mother Nature never intended: American alligator versus Burmese python. On September 26, 2005, a park biologist snapped a photo of a six-foot alligator half inside the belly of a dead 13-foot...

The ancient city of Teotihuacan in Mexico was home to one of the most powerful and least understood civilizations. The civilization appeared out of nowhere to build some of the largest pyramids in the world, only to mysteriously vanish almost one thousand years later....

Imagine a flu that kills 70 percent of those it infects and has the potential to become as contagious as the common cold. Would a wide spread panic break out? Would martial law have to be imposed? Would the global economy come to a...

A fragment of a pinky bone and a tooth twice the size of today's average molar are the only remnants of a species we now know lived at the same time and place as modern humans - and interbred with them.

Mariana van Zeller journeys to the heart of the American escort industry and uncovers the gritty reality behind the supply and demand of high-end sex work.

With shark attacks increasing worldwide, a team of daring divers sets out to try and dispel myths about sharks. From free diving in bikinis, to releasing urine near great whites, the team will do just about anything to prove sharks aren't the man-eaters they're...

Follow intrepid explorer and filmmaker Shane Reynolds around the world as he searches for the last truly wild places on the planet. Episodes include Big Alaska, Ghosts of Madagascar, The Lost Jungle, Giants of the Sea, and Swamp Beasts.

India proves to be an extraordinarily diverse country, its landscape shared between one-fifth of the world?s human population and its spectacular wildlife. Viewers are invited to celebrate a land of beautiful and varied extremes as we venture 21,000 feet up in the Himalayas to...

Space: the final frontier for an out-of-this-world vacation. Space tourism will literally revolutionize our view of the world, and some of the world's leading scientists and engineers are working at light speed to bust the industry wide open. Through the eyes of space visionaries,...

Meet the Barretts, a small-town Tennessee family responsible for putting guns in the hands of some of the best military snipers on the planet.

Journey into the remote mountain forests of central China where the world's few remaining giant pandas live but now on the edge of extinction. Join a team of heroic scientists committed to saving the species as they scale treacherous slopes and penetrate blinding thickets...

While Bernie Madoff serves time in jail for his massive Ponzi scheme, the U.S. Marshals Service auctions off the contents of his New York homes. Up on the auction block: a $500,000 diamond ring, rare Persian rugs, a 1917 Steinway piano, and thousands of...

They called her the Virgin Queen England's first Queen Elizabeth, a revered ruler in her own lifetime. Yet behind her fame lie many dark secrets, and an unsolved mystery: why didn't the queen marry and provide an heir to the throne? For centuries, rumors...

It started as a crazy dream: Could a jetliner really fly using nothing more than solar energy? National Geographic goes inside the nearly 10-year journey of the engineers who created Solar Impulse HB-SIA, from the first brainstorming session until it took flight. Witness the...

The saga surrounding Louis XIV's blue diamond is a web of intrigue, betrayal and a bizarre curse, spanning three centuries. First brought back from India, it was then stolen during the French Revolution. Later, in London, another diamond appeared -- slightly smaller but equally...

National Geographic journeys a thousand feet beneath the sea, to a world hidden from human eyes, to watch the earth's largest predator pursue its prey. Using the most sophisticated "animal camera" yet devised, National Geographic tracks the sperm whale and its prey the deep-sea...

The gender of a newborn child is not always clearly male or female. For parents of gender variant children, the decisions they face have lifelong and sometimes horribly conflicting consequences. National Geographic investigates the science behind gender, how doctors and parents approach gender decisions,...

From out of the dusk and darkness of the night come more than half of all living things. Perceived as mysterious and supernatural, night creatures are masterpieces of adaptation... guided by their superior sense of sight, sound, and smell. Watch as National Geographic cameras...

Power lines down, amazingly high speed winds, and deadly cold temperatures raged through the eastern United States with one violent bang. Storm of the Century presents an up close and personal look into the terrifying effects of these acts of nature. National Geographic has...

Plunge into the ocean depths with renowned filmmaker and shark expert Michael deGruy as he takes you to the underwater realm of sharks! You'll swim terrifyingly close to see these efficient predators in action, and watch in fear as deGruy re-enacts a shark attack...

Around the globe, over 200 million children are engaged in child labor, often, doing the most brutal or degrading of jobs. Girls are especially vulnerable. Even in countries as wealthy as the United States, girls face harsh lives as victims of sex trafficking or...

Sparkling diamonds. Exquisite emeralds. Brilliant rubies. Shimmering pearls. For centuries, these precious gems have captured humankind, leading men and women to give up fortunes - even their lives - to posses them. Join National Geographic on a journey around the globe to discover the...

Do we really know who our co-workers, loved ones and friends are? Maybe not as well as we think. Each hour-long episode of Taboo examines a topic from a variety of cultures and perspectives, venturing into closed worlds rarely seen.

Three undercover police officers in New York City are tasked with solving a 1985 multimillion-dollar jewelry heist. At first they think it's little more than an inside job, but as they go undercover to follow the trail of clues, they encounter a world of...

A 9/11 survivor, an astronaut, and a blue hole diver all survived dramatically different traumatic events only to tell strikingly similar stories: each felt a mysterious presence that guided them to safety in their time of greatest peril. But what were these strange presences?...

A woman who lives at home with 400 pigs. A 15-year-old in rehab for playing video games. A grown man who enjoys dressing up as a baby. A criminal so in love, he gets married over a radio show. And a man who would...

Eight years after 9/11, the Taliban remains a formidable enemy, maintaining a shadow government that straddles Afghanistan and Pakistan in an area dubbed "Talibanistan." National Geographic takes you inside the forbidden zone to provide first-person coverage of the fight on the ground and in...

Join Cara as she leaves her family's nest for a trip across the Atlantic! Cara must outwit a hungry shark, find just the right food, and get the perfect place to nap. Then one day, Cara's instincts tell her she must return home. Learn...

Tasha and her brother Lars are growing up, and it's time for their mom to give them lessons on living by themselves. Tasha and Lars learn to hunt, hop ice floes, and avoid the mean-tempered bears. Then Tasha is left to face the brutal...

Venture beyond the dense green curtain into a pristine rain forest that thrives in splendid isolation on a Panamanian island, sustained by the complex partnership of plant and animal. Climb a colossal tree, from shadowy forest floor to leafy canopy, marvel at the exotic...

When it sank in the deep Atlantic during World War II, the Japanese submarine I-52 went to the bottom with over 100 lives and cargo that included two tons of gold. Now, a military veteran-turned-adventurer bucks the odds on a long-shot mission to solve...

They swim with sharks, confront venomous snakes, and stalk hungry lions. They're National Geographic filmmakers, and for these remarkable adventurers, capturing unforgettable footage in the wild is not just a job, it's a way of life. Join a cinematographer in the rain forest canopy...

How could a tiny Tyrannosaurus rex baby grow into a six-ton super carnivore? Dinosaur builder Hall Train and renowned paleoartist Jason Brougham team up with top scientists to uncover the truth about this fascinating creature and to create the world's most accurate, fully skinned,...

National Geographic gets to the science behind what makes a man manly his Testosterone Factor. It's one of the most important and powerful hormones in a man's body, but how does testosterone really impact his strength, status, success and even commitment?