Documentary / Biography

Naturalist Casey Anderson and his longtime friend and cat expert, Tyler Johnerson, set out to track one of North America's most elusive ghosts: the mountain lion. Armed with specialized camera technology, Casey and Tyler hope to document "never before seen" footage of mountain lions...

In season three of Shark Men, expedition leader Chris Fischer has to learn to work with Pete Klimley (a.k.a. Dr. Hammerhead) and a brand-new science team.

Three psychics put a new spin on an old story - by searching for lost treasure using only the power of their minds. John, a remote viewer; Susette, a psychic; and Mike, a dowser, live in central California, an area with a history steeped...

Engineer Kevin Cook travels the world to attempt to put a cash value on the world's most iconic and priceless monuments.

National Geographic follows a large scale expedition setting out to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of legendary polar explorer Ronald Amundsen.

After the death of their mighty male, the swamp pride is being hunted by two young male lions seeking to kill the pride's cubs. Their mothers must fight tooth and claw to ensure that doesn't happen.

Dive into the tumultuous history of the atom bomb - filled with deception, twists and danger that even Hollywood couldn't make up. Culling from rarely seen archival footage and interviews with leading experts, we'll see how Soviet spies gathered top-secret information during WWII. Learn...

Join the Strike Force as they brave dangerous territories teeming with some of the world's most venomous creatures; wrangle deadly sea snakes and get up close and personal with poisonous jellyfish.

As former marines and survivalists, the owners of Forge Survival Supply share their expertise with people who want to be prepared for the unexpected.

Jump onboard for an adrenalin-packed adventure exposing the harsh working environments endured by Alaska's fishermen in Alaska's Fishing Wars.

A tuft of tangled human hair is dug out of Greenlands permafrost. From these 4,000-year-old threads of evidence, scientists attempt the impossible to be the first to reconstruct the identity of a Stone Age human being. From the scraps of DNA, an ancient face...

In 2009, a giant rocked a small Filipino community when it attacked and killed two schoolgirls. The beast terrorized the region for two more years, killing fishermen and water buffalo. A crocodile hunter wrangles a croc believed to be the culprit, but at 23...

The USS Freedom and USS Independence are the pioneering warships changing the face of battle on the sea with cutting edge design. Go inside the rigid testing that these ships must face to become part of the Navy.

A massive Nile crocodile attacked renowned kayaker Hendri Coetzee, now, the two survivors return to the scene of the tragedy, hoping to track down and capture the deadly predator.

Every year, Colombia exports nearly 400,000 tons of cocaine- street value $1.2 billion. Traffickers send drugs by cargo ship, private plane and even submarine. The Nat Geo cameras roll as a specialized team of DEA agents hunt down these traffickers.

There's a fine line that marks the difference between a vacation to paradise and a vacation from hell. From kidnap and torture to foolish plans to smuggle drugs, this nail-biting series tells the harrowing stories of people who set out hoping for adventure or...

The new season of Locked Up Abroad kicks off with an episode featuring Erik Aude, a Hollywood actor who was locked up in Pakistan for opium smuggling; other stories include Stephen Comiskey, arrested in Saudi Arabia for being gay; truck driver Thomas Hamill who...

It was a headline-grabbing heist of NASA proportions. Each year, hundreds of students apply to NASA's prestigious Co-operative Education Program, but only a handful are accepted allowing them to work alongside NASA's top scientists and go on to careers at NASA and elsewhere. In...

Colombia is in the throws of a gold rush unlike anything it has seen in years. Across dense jungle and the rural countryside, wildcat miners are tearing up huge swaths of land in a frenzied search for the precious metal. Even more worrying for...

Expedition leader and wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn leads an expert team of night filming specialists into the jungles of Costa Rica on the hunt for Central America's big cats. Pumas, ocelots and the elusive jaguar all live in the dense tropical forest but filming...

To reveal the secrets of the most mysterious of all big cats, a team of conservationists hire one of the U.S.'s finest trackers to locate, capture and film wild jaguars using all means necessary.

Wolves, tigers, lions and leopards have fearsome reputations - but in reality they seldom attack people. Scottish filmmaker Gordon Buchanan explores the deadly exceptions to this rule, looking at why some predators suddenly develop a taste for human prey.

Learn the haunting story of one of Hitler's most secretive concentration camps: a place called Berga, where American POWs worked and died as slave laborers.

Could a remote island chain in Polynesia be remnants of the lost continent of Hiva that Easter Island elders claim was once home to their ancestors?

Glimpse the far ends of the universe as revealed through the Hubble Telescope and meet one of the astronauts risking everything to save it from being lost forever.

Until now, former president George W. Bush, has never discussed on camera what he was thinking and feeling, and what drove his real-time, life-or-death decisions in the first minutes, hours and days after the attacks of September 11, 2001. In the most in-depth televised...

Inside 9/11: The War Continues tells the evolving story of radical Islam's war against the West. Osama bin Laden has finally been brought to justice, but al Qaeda is still going strong. For bin Laden, 9/11 was just the beginning the attack was designed...

Known Universe Season 3 journeys to the farthest reaches of the universe to explore the most powerful stars, to study the biggest cosmic blasts and to examine how the newest technologies can help humans build for the future and survive the dangers of space....

The Bugatti Veyron is a "super" super car part automobile and part airplane. And with a base price of $1,750,000, it is the most expensive production car in the world. Designed with materials and construction techniques normally found in the aerospace industry, this remarkable...

Follow one mother as she struggles to teach her offspring how to survive in one of the most cutthroat environments on the planet. And high-speed cameras reveal every stunning detail of one of the most important lessons: how to hunt for prey.

Experience an earthquake inside the San Andreas Fault, blast out of a volcano, encounter bizarre cave-dwelling creatures and enter caves full of giant crystals -- all inside our planet. As we descend we piece together our planet's extraordinary story, layer by layer, discovering how...

Drugs: A multibillion-dollar industry that fuels crime and violence like no other substance on the planet. Turning cartel leaders into billionaires, the illegal drug industry also provides vital income to hundreds of thousands of poor workers across the globe. While some users sacrifice their...

After filming one of the most unusual attacks ever seen in the African savannah, filmmaker Reinhard Kuenkel and lion expert Craig Packer explore the dark relationship between lions and cheetahs.

When a German submarine sank passenger liner RMS Lusitania on May, 1915, it redefined the laws of conflict. The loss of the boat and 1,198 lives shocked the world. But was the U-boat's torpedo the only thing that sank the Lusitania? Or was a...

Expedition Whisky is the story of the discovery of Ernest Shackleton's secret stash of whisky and his forgotten expedition, Nimrod.

Could the fabled lost city of Atlantis have been located? Using satellite photography; ground-penetrating radar and underwater technology; experts are now surveying marshlands in Spain to look for proof of the ancient city.

Discover the dangers and drama of getting the perfect shot in the wild, and witness how wildlife filmmakers have survived in some of the world's harshest environments. Go where each breath burns your lungs, stand between a river and millions of stampeding, thirst-crazed wildebeest,...

Getting "high" can be an unquenchable desire one that impacts the human body of the first-time recreational user and severe addict alike. National Geographic goes beneath the skin to reveal how our bodies react to three common drugs: marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy. Drugged reveals...

Lions, polar bears, great white sharks, and crocodiles are not natural born killers. They enter a world full of danger, and must develop the skills needed to overcome prey with fatal precision. These creatures need years of practice to hone their hunting skills to...

Every day thousands of men, women, and children attempt to enter the United States illegally some looking for work, some seeking a new life, and others trying to smuggle drugs or other contraband. Many will do whatever it takes, often risking their lives by...

Bones of Turkana follows the story of famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and his wife Meave, daughter Louise and their colleagues, as they work in the arid northern regions of Kenya's Turkana Basin to unravel the mysteries of human evolution.

National Geographic follows a group of four-legged forces to be reckoned with in today's workplace. They diagnose bladder cancer by the smell of a patient's urine. They bust drug smugglers hiding massive quantities of marijuana. They locate people trapped in the rubble of collapsed...

Danger, technology and teamwork come together in this program about a group of young soldiers, the US Army's 23rd Engineer Company. These Sappers are charged with clearing routes in southern Afghanistan and disarming the military's number one threat: IEDs. This is an up close...

This is the story of Solo, a lonely African wild dog that has befriended a number of jackals and hyenas in the Okavango Delta. Solo has helped the jackals raise their pups as if they were her own.

Master chainsaw sculptor, "The Machine" Jesse Green pushes the envelope to keep his small business moving forward. With the high demands of clients and employees, it's not an easy task running a small business. However, he and his crew create some of the most...

It is said that money makes the world go round. But when it comes to cash, gold, diamonds or even bits of digital data, without the engines that power the world's financial systems, the money machine would grind to a halt. National Geographic Channel...

9/11 Voices From The Air' tells the extraordinary story of the 9/11 terrorist attacks through the actual audio recordings made of the day's critical communications. This drama-documentary uses previously unreleased recordings made between Air Traffic Control, the Federal Aviation Authority, the Military and the...

Meet the Hutterites a small religious colony in rural Montana who holds desperately to their sacred traditions while fighting the modern temptations of the outside world. King Colony is made up of 59 people and they are almost all related. This family lives together,...

American Cougar tells a unique story of a community of cougars whose skills are illustrated and tested as they struggle to survive in the severe landscape of the Northern Rocky Mountains.

America's Doomsday plan. It's the government's ultimate playbook, with a strategy for even the darkest hours - developed when Cold War tensions were high, but never used until 9/11. We'll fly an E4-B - the president's command, control and communications center for times of...