Documentary / Biography

Take a thrilling journey into the deep secrets of the earth. What forces send tons of molten rock and lava flying heavenward in a volcanic eruption, or turn the very ground we stand on into rubble in the sudden fury of an earthquake? Hawaii's...

Strategic bombing was essential to the U.S. victories in Europe and Japan during World War II. But aside from ultimate success, the air wars fought in the Pacific and Atlantic shared very little. This authoritative program uses extensive expert commentary, interviews with veterans and...

Any detective will tell you that the beginning is the most important time in a criminal investigation. If there are no significant developments within the first 48 hours, the chances of solving the case are cut in half. THE FIRST 48 chronicles this critical...

There's no way a travel show can appeal to every possible visitor, but BEST OF BOTH WORLDS does a better job than most. With two hosts visiting the same place in markedly different styles, viewers get a much better sense of the range of...

Head to a remote firing range in Michigan for a one-of-a-kind duel between 18th century artillery and modern weapons.

In a case of young man shot dead in Little Haiti, Miami Detective Ervens Ford and his team learn the suspected killer is a member of a notorious gang, and when two teenagers are brutually gunned down in the Pork-N-Beans project, Sgt. Pepi Granado...

A revealing look at the lives of teenagers who come to New York City with dreams of becoming the next supermodel. Unprepared for the high-pressure world of modeling, many descend into abuse or addiction. We'll see how they're also often victimized by parents, who...

For years, people have claimed that the government has covered up proof of the existence of UFOs. For years, the government has denied the rumors as groundless. Spaceships versus weather balloons. Aliens versus mannequins. Both sides claim the other is lying or misguided; both...

Earthquakes have ripped through the planet's surface ever since it was born, and throughout history, mankind could do little to counter their seismic impact. We place today's advancements in historical context and explore the evolution of 21st-century technology--from global positioning systems and interferometric radar...

A look at the phenomenon of the drug ecstasy from its manufacture in secret Dutch labs to its sale in New York City's hottest clubs. Law enforcement officials describe how use of the drug is skyrocketing, and medical experts tell us how dangerous ecstasy...

Soon after discovering a bullet-ridden body in Overtown section of Miami, Sgt. Joe Schillaci learns the murder may spark a bloody turf war between rival heroin dealers inthe neighborhood. Schillaci realizes, to prevent further bloodshed, he must infiltrate the world of heroin dealers and...

Can a police officer stop your car without suspicion, confiscate your possessions, and sell them? He can if he's implementing new drug seizure laws. See how highway cops are turning a profit by abusing a law that was meant to protect ordinary citizens from...

In a time of lawlessness and danger, he earned his reputation and nickname as one of the greatest hunters in the nation. But it was his famed Wild West show that made Buffalo Bill Cody an American legend. BUFFALO BILL: SHOWMAN OF THE WEST...

Depending on who you ask, they are the bane of the highways or a physical manifestation of the American dream, icons of freedom and mobility that let travelers take the comforts of home on the road or "silver Twinkies." WHEEL ESTATE explores the weird...

In Memphis, Sgt. Bart Ragland must find out who shot and robbed a family man. In Tucson, Detective Bill Hanson hunts two suspects who allegedly gunned down a local high school student as he and his friends walked home from the mall.

In Cincinnati, Ohio a children's Peace Bowl football tournament is interrupted by gunfire, leaving a teenager dead. With no leads, Detectives Greg Gehring and Kurt Ballman hope a witness will come forward to lead them to a suspect. And in Dallas, Texas Detectives Robert...

In Miami, Detective Rolly Garcia investigates the murder of a 17-year-old boy beaten to death and dumped in the back seat of his car. To find his suspect, Garcia must first track down the victim's secret girlfriend, who may have been the last person...

CHARLIE SHEEN: BAD BOY ON THE EDGE takes viewers through the near 30-year career of Charlie Sheen who has made a living following his own bliss. After his very public firing from the CBS hit series Two and a Half Men, Sheen went on...

Candy Lady/Best of Friends (#50). In Memphis, TN, Sergeants Bill Ashton and Caroline Mason hunt for the killer of a beloved neighborhood "Candy Lady", shot through her closed front door. From the projects of the city to the trailer parks of the countryside, they...

<html>He earned his nickname for bravery at Bull Run and led some of the most stunning campaigns of the Civil War. An outstanding leader and brilliant tactician, Stonewall Jackson is widely regarded as one of the greatest Confederate commanders. In an exhaustive investigation, BIOGRAPHY^(r)...

The wrecks of two Coast Guard Cutters, Bedloe and Jackson, are discovered off North Carolina's Outer Banks, the notorious Graveyard of the Atlantic. The two cutters are sister ships, virtually identical, so no one, not even the living survivors, has beenable to tell which...

What would you do if you were forced to your knees to face the assassins gun at point blank? What if you received a well oiled-stained box with no return address? Could you tell if your hotel phone was bugged? Would you step between...

He had an IQ of 169, an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration; graduated Magna cum Laude with a degree in Economics from Yale; and possessed uncanny musical talents. Meet Ken Uston--a 38-year-old senior vice president of the PacificStock Exchange in San...

In the 1990s, much of the outlaw culture surrounding bikers has been softened and re-appraised, but some biker gangs remain unchanged, unreformed and deadly. New York's infamous Ching-A-Lings are a classic example of all the bad stereotypes that bikers have tried to throw off...

Imagine the ultimate cheating move--so outrageous, audacious, and simple that not even the best casino detective can come close to catching the genius behind it... In this hour of a series profiling people who took Vegas for lots of cash, we meet RichardMarcus, who...

When a pair of bicycle mechanics first lifted off from a North Carolina beach, they had no idea that their invention would transform the way wars are fought. Yet within a few years, the Army came knocking on the Wright brothers' door, and a...

World renowned treasure hunter Robert Marx searched the Bermuda Triangle for 12 years for the Maravilla, a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of the Bahamas in 1656. Spurring on the quest to find the ship, was a detailed, 300-page account written...

Sexual attraction is confusing, maddening, euphoric and even dangerous. It is, like love, an intangible essence. We can examine it only through its physical symptoms--the beating pulse, the sweating palms, the rise and fall of chemicals in the brain--all part of the unexplained emotion...

They mark the joys and sorrows of life. They honor the cycles and mysteries of the natural world and preserve a connection to our past. From the Catholic Sacraments to the tattooing and scarring of some African tribes, rites and rituals have always helped...

Arched over vast playing fields, domed stadiums are engineering marvels that seem to defy nature and physics, and have transformed the face of sports in America. Houston's groundbreaking Astrodome was the "eighth wonder of the world." New Orleans's Superdome and Seattle's Kingdome improved on...

In 1954, Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Arab Republic of Egypt's first prime minister, had a plan to bring his poor country into the 20th century. To pull it off, he needed to harness the flow of the world's longest river--the Nile. The ambitious plan...

They were peasants throwing off the yoke of oppression and intellectuals tired of having their lives run by dictators. Pushed to the limit, they chose to fight. And their struggles would never have succeeded without the aid of the GUNS OF THE REVOLUTION. From...

They were first deployed in battle by the Nazis during their attack on the Greek island of Crete during World War II. Since then, paratroopers have become a key component of modern warfare, adding the element of surprise to attacking forces and never allowing...

Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, contains some of the earliest surviving dwellings in North America. Over 1,000 years ago Native Americans built sophisticated systems of housing in the canyon. The most elaborate of the nineteen towns was Pueblo Bonito. Founded with a cluster of twenty...

In a survey of early American abodes, our journey begins in the New England with the post and beam timber frame, continues to the Southeast with the "log house", onto the "sod house" of the Great Plains, and finally ends in the Southwest with...

Jesse James led a deceptive, mysterious life--and the truth about his death remains buried in controversy. Was he shot in the back by a fellow outlaw, or did he make that story up? Did he fake his own death to get the law off...

He was 25 years old when he claimed the double crown of Egypt. By the time he died at age 92, he had transformed his nation and carved out a place in history as one of the most fabled rulers of all time RAMSES...

She was 19 when she arrived at the dreaded death camp of Auschwitz. But fate smiled on Luba Tryszynska, and after two years she was transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where she was put to work nursing injured German soldiers. Her life would take its most...

The heartbreaking story of Africans forcibly enslaved and shipped to America is a well-known tale; yet, it is just one tragic episode in the saga of world slavery. For nearly 6,000 years of recorded history, conquerors have imprisoned their enemies and forced them to...

In Christianity's medieval battle to retake the Holy Land from Islam, the failure of wealthy Crusaders left a growing number of disgruntled Europeans. And so, in 1212, two 12-year-old boys began their own Crusade and thousands of children tagged along. We reveal how these...

Peter, a 21-year-old college graduate and aspiring actor, is wasting his life to a serious video game addiction. Alienated from his mother who abandoned him when he was 12, Peter escapes into the fantasy world of video games instead of dealing with the problems...

Twenty-three-year-old Jason was one of seven children born into an extremely strict Southern-Baptist family. The kids were not allowed to listen to the radio, see movies or wear certain clothes. His father, a preacher, and his mentally unstable mother were quick to dole out...

Lonnie was unaware that her boyfriend Michael was wanted for fraud in Texas. Then she realised that Michael had stolen large amounts of money from her and, that she didn't really know the man she loved. When confronted Michael brutally attacked Lonnie, choking her...

In one of the greatest Naval Battles in History, USS Enterprise and sister carriers Yorktown and Hornet, turn the tide of the Pacific War. In just a few violent days in the waters off Midway Island, the American Carrier fleet pulverizes the Imperial Japanese...

It's the deadliest weapon our country has ever developed and it's just been stolen. Accused of treason, innocent Air Force pilot Jack Holloway (Dolph Lundgren, Universal Soldier, Rocky IV) makes a daring escape while en route to prison. In a deadly race against time,...

It's a down-and-dirty fight, Hollywood style, when classic producer Sonny Wexler (Burt Reynolds) takes one last shot at the big time, to try and save his failing career. His chance comes in the form of a brilliant script optioned from a promising young writer...

Danny White (Nick Moran: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) and his crew of wannabe gangsters find themselves pitted against the local mafia headed by Leigh and Hellman (Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano: The Matrix) when they accidentally kill a local businessman they were...

(#65). In Miami, Detective Manny Castillo is investigating a brutal double homicide. The key to the case could be a surviving third victim, who is clinging to life after being shot multiple times. In Dallas, detective PE Jones faces the ultimate whodunit when he...

Skilled fighter pilots Paul Speer and Phil Wood, tackles the fierce North Vietnamese MiG over the killing skies of Vietnam. They fly the U.S. Navy's top fighter, the F8 Crusader. In one of the longest, gut-wrenching dogfights on record, Lt. Commander Richard Schaffert--out of...

Two-million years ago, Homo erectus first shaped hard rock with a hammerstone to create sharp-edged tools. We follow the story of the axe from that point forward, tracing its journey as both deadly weapon and lifesaving tool. Then, we see how colonial blacksmiths made...