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Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests and violence in Los Angeles, LA92 immerses viewers in that tumultuous period through stunning and rarely-seen footage. Produced by Oscar winner Simon Chinn and Emmy winner Jonathan Chinn and...

Go behind the scenes as National Geographic explores manufacturing Goliaths and brings to life some of the greatest one-of-a-kind car factories in the world. See firsthand how cutting-edge robot labor and human touch combine to craft a $45,000 BMW Z4. Get an inside look...

Follow a pride in Botswana to discover the brutal realities of family life for lions. As few as one in five cubs live to two years old and it takes them years to develop the abilities needed to become an apex predator. Watch as...

With three animal hospitals, husband-and-wife veterinarians Dr. Will Draper and Dr. Fran Tyler divide and conquer to treat the pets that flock to their practice. But running a successful vet practice while juggling the demands of a busy family life -- which includes their...

With the recent plummet in California's water supply, America is being hit with a stark reality: a future where fresh drinking water is alarmingly scarce. PARCHED is an important event series that takes a definitive look at the water wars that are now upon...

After decades of pursuing mobsters and drug kingpins, the FBI is struggling to broaden its mission in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Now, enter the inner sanctum of today's FBI with unprecedented access granted to National Geographic.

The world's oceans have become a lawless world where bandits operate with impunity. If you want to get away with murder, this is the place to do it, and it's not uncommon. Lawless Oceans takes you on a visceral journey to solve the mystery...

<p>Journalist Mo Rocca hosts the 28th annual National Geographic Bee: an entertaining and challenging competition that motivates students in grades 4-8 to learn more about the world and how it works. The bee engages students in challenging them to memorize accurately, compellingly and creatively....

Streetwise snake-catchers Simon Keys and Siouxsie Gillett rush across their city to save both snakes and people. From deadly black mambas in wardrobes to cobras in factories, Simon and Siouxsie put their lives on the line to catch these deadly invaders -- by hand....

Welcome to the extraordinary everyday life of Matt Wright, rugged Australian helicopter pilot and animal relocation expert. Whether wrangling deadly snakes, wrestling wild bulls, or dangling below a helicopter to land inside a crocodile nest, when people and animals get in each other's way,...

Puppy Days is a portrait of the formative time in a dog's life - and a portrait of America. Cameras follow six first-time owners at the exact moment they receive their puppies and will track them for the next twelve weeks as owners and...

Brent & Grant Reed's backyard is a wild place -- Africa's Okavango Delta. Together these brothers have built a successful safari company, living and working alongside the most iconic animals on Earth. Follow this charismatic duo running a company in the wilderness, from pulling...

Welcome to Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists, where the dedicated team and state-of-the-art surgical suite handle all kinds of cases, from bighorn sheep, porcupines, and seals, to familiar household pets. From the moment their owners rush them into the ER, through diagnosis, surgery, and treatment,...

The Emmy-nominated series, hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson returns, bringing together celebrities and scientists to explore topics and colliding science and pop culture in a way that TV has never seen before. Guests include "The Walking Dead" creator, Robert Kirkman, actress and neuroscientist...

Ruthless predators and powerful prey are embroiled in rivalry, betrayal and battle, in a never-ending crusade for survival, with characters so wild and ambitious and conflict so cutthroat, that no fiction can do it justice. Each episode presents the battle from one character's point...

Home to extraordinary wildlife, the Hawaiian islands are also home to extraordinary people, like the veterinarian as unique as his name -- Buckeye Bottoms -- the official go-to guy in the Aloha State for all animals that grace the islands. Whether it's a Hawaiian...

National Geographic journeys to the depths of outer space to reveal stunning, up-close images of our mysterious solar system. This 3-disc set features Inside The Milky Way, Most Powerful Stars, Stellar Storms, Hubble's Amazing Universe, Comets, and Cosmic Fury.

The great white shark: an animal of myths and legend. All the Earth's oceans are home to these fearsome predators, yet the movements of these intriguing beasts have remained largely an enigma until now. Now, National Geographic journeys on a deep-sea expedition with world-renowned...

Animal Fight Night features same-species battles between some of the biggest and baddest fighters of the animal kingdom, and some of the most surprising, revealing the extraordinary motivations and strategies that fuel each incredible brawl.

Expedition Mars brings to life one of the greatest sagas of the space age -- the epic adventures of Spirit and Opportunity -- the rovers that reinvigorated NASA's Mars program after a string of disappointments in the 1990s, and opened the Martian frontier with...

It was once known as "the place where Noah left his Ark": 1,500 square miles of lush floodplains in central Mozambique, packed with wild animals. But 15 years of civil war has taken a heavy toll- and many species have been almost completely wiped...

Deep in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park, where Jane Goodall began her pioneering work, epic and startling dramas worthy of Shakespeare are lived out by chimpanzees and gorillas. In a kingdom where "royal" families rule with tolerance and battle fiercely, seethe with resentment and...

Live Free or Die explores one of America's most remote subcultures, following six people who have chosen to walk away from our modern society and 'rewild,' living in backwoods and swamps where they hunt their own food, build their own shelters, and survive only...

Executive Produced by James Cameron, Atlantis Discovered investigates and explores intriguing artifacts like archaeological finds, satellite photographs, manuscripts, underwater explorations, and more. While decoding the artifacts, the show delves into the tales surrounding them, seeking the truth behind each piece to reveal the stories...

From a dancing pup to a yoga-loving pooch that does more than just downward dog, this one-hour special features some of the funniest canine videos to craze the Internet. We also meet the owners and dogs to see if these talented "troublemakers" are still...

Dr. Susan Kelleher owns and operates one of the busiest exotic animal care practices located in South Florida, Broward Avian and Exotics Animal Hospital. "Everything but dogs and cats. If it will fit through the door, I'll treat it!" is Dr. K's motto. And...

It can happen in a flash. An ambush you never see coming. Hikers are easy prey for hungry mountain lions. A chimp cuts loose on an unsuspecting woman. Buffalo snap an impale pursuing hunters. National Geographic explores what defines the stealthy, fierce, ultimate predators...

With unprecedented access, National Geographic explores the inner workings of government and power, and goes inside some of the world's most restricted and top secret places. Features six classic programs: Inside Guantanamo, Top Secret: Plant 42, Inside The US Secret Service, Inside The DEA,...

If you haven't heard of Plant 42, you are not alone. Go inside America's "black world" of off-the-record projects developed in secret. Host Jake Ward, editor of Popular Science, explores the little-known projects still being built in America that are so confidential, some are...

From futuristic aircraft flying faster than the speed of sound, to stealth weapons and propulsion systems, Ward explores as deep inside each secret site as possible.

At -100 degrees F, you can burn up to 5,000 calories a day, and with winter at less than 1% humidity, your body will lose water just breathing. This is Antarctica, where close-knit communities of scientists, engineers, and hardened field vets have forged an...

Travel- with unprecedented access- to American embassies around the world in this fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the intriguing, glamorous, sometimes dangerous lives of U.S. diplomats. Confront the aftermath of 9/11 with America's newly appointed ambassador to Pakistan. Join Howard Baker as he takes charge...

The stakes are high as Cesar Millan, the world's leading dog behaviorist, is called in to rehabilitate dangerous dogs and train their desperate owners. Cesar is summoned by neighbors, co-workers, relatives, and friends who "blow the whistle" on a four-legged menace that has turned...

Cesar Millan is back in his element - rehabilitating dogs and training people, but this time he's bringing his skills to a community near you. Each week Cesar will travel to a community that is in desperate need of his help. He is summoned...

Explore some of history's notorious mysteries and conspiracy theories in this collection of 6 classic programs. Programs include Undercover History: The Hunt for the Boston Strangler, Final Report: Oklahoma City Bombing, Final Report: Watergate, Final Report: DC Sniper, Final Report: OJ Simpson Trial, and...

Though myth-busting archaeology, dramatic recreations, and cutting-edge forensic investigation, National Geographic attempts to accurately reconstruct the faces that may have walked beside the legends of the bible. With unprecendented access to four ancient skulls from the Holy Land, Lost Faces of the of the...

The sinking of the Titanic was far more than a simple accident. It was a tragedy that could have been prevented. It was the result of a long chain of mistakes: a fatal series of avoidable human errors that sent the Titanic and more...

It's among the most tantalizing mysteries in all of ancient Egyptian archaeology: What became of the legendary Queen Nefertiti and Akhenaten, the radical pharaoh and probable father of King Tutankhamun? And why were the relics of their fabled Amarna dynasty deliberately obliterated by later...

This National Geographic documentary explores the causes and effects of nature's more destructive forces; hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and tornadoes. Through actual footage of storms and disasters, from both media and the National Geographic cameras, the viewer is shown how powerful and unpredictable nature can...

More than 80 million years ago, the Oviraptor, a strange bird-like dinosaur, walked the sandy banks of an oasis in what is now the "Gobi in Mongolia." A creature that measured some 8 feet in length, its razor-shard claws were deadly weapons of protection...

This release from National Geographic includes a collection of fascinating documentaries the animals that humans often feel the closest to: cats and dogs. The programs examine the history of pets and humans, and how dogs and cats have evolved biologically over the hundreds of...

Harnessing the magic of the most modern visual effects, we tell the story of the human body -- inside and out -- as it lives, grows, and dies on this predestined journey we call life. Through our subject 'Adam,' we reveal the incredible changes...

Nat Geo explorer Albert Lin unearths the terrible secrets that lie hidden in the tomb of China's first emperor. The Terracotta Warriors are just the tip of the iceberg in this massive mausoleum that has gone largely unexcavated until now. The silent statues guard...

World War II saw the greatest-ever loss of ships and lives at sea. Beneath the ocean lies a hidden graveyard of ships and submarines. Now, we drain the biggest ship graveyard in the world, and each vessel tells its tale.

The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pope Pius XII of complicity in the Holocaust, and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope." But a key part of the story remained...

Three-quarters of Earth is an alien world, lying beneath the surface of the oceans. And although it's home to over half of the world's species, we know less about the bottom of our own planet's ocean than we do the surface of Mars. If...

American War Generals is the story of how the Army's withdrawal from Vietnam shaped America's future wars and the generals who fought them. "We think if we go to war we automatically win," General Stanley McChrystal tells us. "I realized in the summer of...

National Geographic joins veteran wildlife cameraman Andrew Manske and hard-nosed outdoorsman Brian Bildson as they venture into some of North America's most remote and inhospitable regions in an attempt to capture extraordinarily rare footage of wolves hunting bison. Leading their team to the vast...

Set sail with an extraordinary family as they spend an Antarctic summer studying isolated colonies of penguins amid the icy wonders of the Earth's most spectacular wilderness. Aboard their 50-foot steel-hulled schooner, naturalist Sally and Jerome Poncet and their three young boys embark on...

The threat of sea monsters, real or imagined, has been a source of dread and fear for sailors ever since someone put a boat in the water and set out to explore. In this special the legends and lore come to life, as leading...