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We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Salvatore Vecchio

Documentary which follows crocodile expert Brad Bestelink on a quest to dive with crocodiles without a cage or any other protection.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Brad Bestelink

A documentary which follows two lion brothers as they become rulers of a pride in Botswana after a battle for dominance.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dave Birch

In the far reaches of the North, wolf and bear come head to head. Winter has been long. The melting ice reveal scattered carcasses in the Swamp: a...

Genre: Documentary

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20 years after the TV Mini-Series "Tales of the Serengeti", our crew reunites to truly explore the Serengeti, with no fiction. We almost didn't...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Krass

Even 2,000 years after his death, General Hannibal's battle strategies are still studied today. But of all his military feats, perhaps his greatest...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: J.V. Martin

Enter the harsh and unforgiving Kalahari and follow a lion pride attempt to save their threatened bloodline.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nigel Barber

Before he wrote the book that revolutionized the way people understood evolution, a young Charles Darwin found himself, by chance, on a strange sea...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ann Dewig

Roughly 20 miles off the coast of west Africa, sits a volcanic relic now completely blanketed in equatorial rainforest: the island of Bioko. It's...

Genre: Documentary

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Honeybees are in crisis – but there is hope. Biologists are studying the estimated 20.000 bee species in the world to look for viable...

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Spend three years in China's remote and inhospitable Tibetan Plateau, home to nearly all the world's snow leopards.

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A visually stunning portrait of one of nature's most agile and fearsome predators, the Goshawk. This secretive bird of prey can be hard to see in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: J.V. Martin

Smithsonian Institution scientists race against time to save endangered frogs from a deadly fungus that is ravaging amphibians worldwide.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Allen Farmer

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The history of the people and the planes that first broke the speed barrier in 1947 and the impact it has had on aviation and how we fly today.

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A high-tech autopsy on a Nile crocodile unlocks secrets behind its hunting prowess.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gregory Erickson

This is the story of a cheetah born into the Linyanti cheetah coalition. He is the runt of the litter and will have to fight hard for every scrap of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chris Cook

Ascension Island, a remote Mid-Atlantic outpost famous for its big game fishing, is under siege. Tiger sharks, hammerheads, even great whites, lured...

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In China's Valley of the Kings, there stands a tall, carved stone. It honors the resting place of a woman named Wu Zetian, who rose from concubine to...

Genre: History

Cast: Eric Meyers

Brazil's massive Pantanal is a land of extreme contrasts, ruled by dramatic cycles of torrential rain and arid heat. At the peak of the dry season,...

Genre: Documentary

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