Documentary / Biography - DVD

Located between the warrior kingdom of the Hittites and the powerful empire of Egypt, the ancient city of Qatna was wiped off the face of the earth as it grew too powerful its role in the rise of the Egyptian empire lost in the...

National Geographic goes deep inside the complex human drama at the heart of America's war on terror. Follow an elite FBI counter-terror team as they uncover two disturbing terror threats hatched on American soil. The first involves young men in Northern Virginia directed to...

Were you born to rage? Is the need for anger management in your genes? Many, like ex-punk rocker Henry Rollins, have struggled with feelings of aggression their entire lives, and National Geographic is on a mission to figure out why. Scientists are investigating a...

National Geographic recreates the London blitz of World War II with real bombs as high-speed cameras capture the blasts. Then, commemorating its 70th anniversary, intimate testimonies from survivors reveal what it was like to live through the bombings, never knowing whether friends and family...

Based on Richard Muller's book, Physics for Future Presidents, National Geographic investigates the science behind the dangers of a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse, or HEMP. Picture an instantaneous deathblow to the vital engines that power our society, delivered by a nuclear weapon designed not to...

You climb into bed, turn off the light, and close your eyes, but you can't fall asleep. For most of us, it's just one annoying night, but for people with fatal familial insomnia, or FFI, it's the beginning of the end. An extremely rare...

Deep beneath the legendary Easter Island, National Geographic undertakes a groundbreaking expedition to map a vast cave system utilized by the people who carved these iconic statues. Protected by sheer cliffs, narrow labyrinths and underwater entrances, many of the caves have not been explored...

For more than 100 years, National Geographic explorers have defined the spirit of adventure. Now, provocative interviews and spectacular footage introduce you to a new generation of explorers who take you on an unforgettable journey, that give you a glimpse of where adventure will...

National Geographic cameras travel to Iceland, Africa, Japan, California, and Greece to record how the huge plates of the earth's crust crash together and spread apart causing ground-shattering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Follow scientists around the world as they search for clues to the...

Imagine living hundreds of miles from your nearest neighbor or grocery store and having mail delivered by airplane a few times each year, and battling the long, harsh winters with temperatures that plummet to -51 degrees Celsius. Such are the living conditions chosen by...

Discover how William Beebe extended the boundaries of deep-sea exploration between 1930 and 1934 by submerging himself in an over-sized giant steel ball with its designer Otis Barton.

Every day in the United States, 12,000 Special Agents spread out from 56 field offices to investigate a myriad of cases, but few have witnessed their efforts in the field up close and personal, until now. With extraordinary access to teams of FBI agents,...

In West Bengal, villagers are waging war with marauding elephants that destroy their homes without warning. Elephants are gigantic and usually docile herbivores, but authorities say that wild elephant attacks are increasing. Why? National Geographic turns to Pittsburgh Zoo elephant manager Willie Theison, also...

Discover the last descendants of America's first mustangs, isolated for centuries in the rural Southwest. Hit the trail with famed "horse whisperer" Pat Parelli, scientists and wranglers as they round up these living pieces of history with the hope of breeding them back from...

Can a picture save a species? Photographers Susan Middleton and David Liittschwager are in a race against the clock to capture powerful portraits of America's most threatened creatures. Join them on this unforgettable adventure that takes them from the California Sierra to the deep...

Zoologist Lucy Cooke loves the animals that the rest of us don't think twice about. The ugly underdogs who don't receive as much love and adoration as the more cute and cuddly ones do. Shunned for their appearance, unfriendly demeanor or unsanitary reputations, Lucy...

Auto theft, drug overdoses and even trespassing grizzly bears are all in a day's work when it comes to the calls Montana police respond to in the rugged land known as America's Final Frontier.

The discovery of a human skull in the depths of Lake Superior begins a story that will take historian and author Brendon Baillod across two Great Lakes and a century of history. It takes him and a team of elite technical divers more than...

A sea monster cemetery lies at the top of the world - an incredible grave site containing countless fossilized remains of huge marine predators from the Jurassic era. National Geographic joins an expedition to this remote burial ground where archaeologists contend with powerful polar...

Up to one million gladiators are thought to have died in arenas across the Roman Empire. And, although fascination with gladiators has been high, the details of their lives and deaths remain fragmentary. Now, with the discovery of an ancient Roman burial site containing...

From the bizarre to the elusive to the downright deadly, throughout his career herpetologist Dr. Brady Barr has risked life and limb to study some of the fiercest creatures on the planet but never with technology like this. Brady is back with a new...

Fuzzy babies. Stay-at-home dads. Flamboyant feathers. Exactly what you think when you hear the words T-Rex, right? If not, then think again. For hundreds of years, we thought dinosaurs ruled the planet as scaly, reptilian beasts that terrorized early earth. But new scientific advances...

Featuring the very best footage and spectacular orchestral score of National Geographic's Great Migrations event, this film brings together images from around the world filmed over 3 years resulting in a completely unique, narration-free, musical journey around the world. Great Migrations: Rhythm of Life...

On Sept. 11, 2001, New York City's mayor led a city struck by tragedy back from the brink -- from the moment the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history began. Intimately involved and personally vulnerable, Rudy Giuliani revisits the day he was confronted by...

National Geographic follows the quirky team at the eco-friendly company TerraCycle as they ingeniously transform materials headed for the landfill into clever products that generate cash. Pet Project: The team has just two weeks to pull together an entire line of pet products made...

The Gulf of Mexico is home to thousands of gas and oil platforms, in addition to some of the planet's most severe storms. So who do you call when a well or platform stops producing, or is toppled by a massive storm? Meet the...

It resembles a terrifying Stephen King novel, but it's all too real. In a lakeside village in Cameroon, West Africa, 2,000 people mysteriously die in one night. Witnesses claim their neighbors were suffocated by a white fog as they slept. Without any other clues,...

Go inside the one-of-a-kind party thrown each year for Brutus, naturalist Casey Anderson's grizzly companion, as they celebrate their unique relationship and reflect on the bond they have formed over the years. Trace Brutus's growth from a cub with no home to a true...

In 1869, John Wesley Powell set out with a crew of nine down the uncharted Green and Colorado Rivers. The men struggled for survival throughout their adventure. Featuring spectacular footage of the Grand Canyon, the film uses the journals of Powell and two of...

Garbage Moguls takes a look inside one of the world's most eco-friendly manufacturers: TerraCycle. These young eco-capitalists make really clever products that turn trash into cash. Follow the team's unorthodox creative process as they successfully develop, create, test and sell two unique products composed...

National Geographic separates fact from fiction to discover the real science behind climate change, the melting ice caps and why the intensity of tropical storms has increased by 50% in the past 30 years.

Journey to the heart of the forests depicted in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book for an unprecedented look at one tigress's struggle to raise her cubs and survive in the wild. From high atop an elephant's back the safest way to see these fierce creatures...

Follow the largest carnivore that walks the earth, the great Kodiak bear, down ancient feeding trails, up salmon-rich rivers - even into a den where a mother nurses her newborn cubs. You'll watch cubs learning to fish, bears gorging in berry-laden fields, and a...

Explore an often inescapable nightmare of nature that's much more common than most of us realize. Witness actual footage and re-creations of successful and tragically failed rescues. Learn life-saving survival tips when you are knee-deep and sinking fast.

Accomplished adventurer and author Jon Bowermaster discovers a new Vietnam from the sea and guides an intimate tour of this intriguing country. More than a travelogue, Descending the Dragon is a personal look into the heart of this sea-loving nation, its hopeful spirit and...

A forensic breakthrough leads scientists back to the scene of a 5,000 year old murder on a glacier high in the European Alps. As three possible motives emerge, the story of the Iceman's violent death illuminates the origins of conflict in the Copper Age.

Heroin is one of the most addictive drugs on earth. Stronger, purer and easier to get than ever before, heroin is attracting a whole new breed of addict. Dangerously pure, the newest forms of heroin can be snorted or smoked, rather than injected, attracting...

Women are being incarcerated in record numbers--and the majority of women in prison are mothers. Since mothers are often the primary or sole caregivers to their children, their incarceration can destroy a family. Lisa Ling sets out to understand what life is like for...

The most celebrated and magnificent flying machine ever built, Hindenburg was a luxury liner in the sky. Stretching 804 feet in length and lifted by seven million cubic feet of hydrogen, the legendary German airship was a stunning technological masterpiece. Including rare, never-before-released footage,...

Cross the threshold of the final frontier as mankind embarks on the greatest adventure of all time: space travel. From heroic space pioneers to modern-day cliff-hanger missions, it's a thrilling look at humanity's quest to conquer space. Be there with astronaut Michael Foale as...

Go on an action-packed adventure through the high Alps, to the battlefields outside of Rome, and uncover the story of the great warrior and brilliant military strategist, Hannibal Barca. As one of the greatest military commanders ever known, he would challenge the impossible and...

Host John Bowler travels across America to meet amateur inventors who are making amazingly weird things and to help them to improve one of their creations in 48 hours.

What if a man-or a woman-could strap on a mechanical suit...an "exoskeleton..." and then leap a tall fence? Or toss a car off a cliff? Or carry hundreds of pounds for miles? Or rescue a trapped victim? Or help a paraplegic simply walk again?...

National Geographic joins an international team of scientists on a mission to unlock the hidden secrets of Mt. Nyiragongo, an active volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The scientists' mission: to collect a fresh sample from the deadly yet mesmerizing lava lake...

National Geographic's critically acclaimed series Locked Up Abroad, takes viewers inside firsthand accounts of capture, imprisonment and pure terror. Combining revealing personal interviews with dramatic re-enactments, each episode focuses on one extraordinary situation, recounting the brutality, the bravery and, in some cases, the bad...

Cannibalism has long been considered a dark chapter in man's history. Yet we think of it only as isolated occurrences. Now a Neolithic burial pit in Germany, found filled with expertly butchered human remains, challenges those assumptions. Archaeologists have never seen anything like it...

In Papua New Guinea, there are people who may be the last on Earth with living memory of a practice most of the world believes to be long vanished human mummification. In a search for the last mummy made in the region, a National...

Go behind the scenes with three ingenious filmmakers as they re-create large-scale historical events with a green screen, everyday items, and plenty of imagination. Making History thrusts us into historical events from around the world, using awesome digital re-creations to capture the experience from...

With exclusive access to one of the most important discoveries of modern times, National Geographic chronicles the amazing story of how an amateur metal-detecting enthusiast discovered a gold hoard dating back a millennium, and valued at over $5 million. The importance of the discovery...

In September 2007, record-breaking aviator Steve Fossett went missing somewhere over the Sierra Nevada mountain range, sparking the biggest peacetime search and rescue operation in the history of the United States. Over the ensuing days and weeks, reports would surface of a half dozen...