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Animal Autopsy - Whale	Animal Autopsy will delve under the skin of the world's largest animals to reveal their unique anatomy and unravel their evolutionary secrets. Most wildlife documentaries show you how animals behave, but by exploring inside nature's giants we emerge with a deeper understanding of how these animals work. We will discover how elephants are able to consume so much food; why crocodiles have such an incredibly strong bite; why giraffes have such a long neck and why the closest living relative of the (More Info) Categories: Health, Nature Duration: 00:47:34 Date Added: 2011-06-05 00:00:00 Views: 752 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Aspartame: Sweet Misery A Poisoned World	This documentary is a close examination into what some consider to be a "hoax": aspartame toxicity. This documentary attempts to look at what is definitively known about aspartame and discovers that the label "hoax" in this case is a dangerous misconception. This controversial documentary is sure to open eyes to the possible dangers of what lurks in our food. (More Info) Categories: Conspiracy, Food, Health Duration: 01:29:54 Date Added: 2011-06-12 00:00:00 Views: 456 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Ötzi: The Iceman Murder	Ötzi the Iceman is the modern nickname of a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC, found in 1991 in a glacier of the Otztal Alps, near the border between Austria and Italy. The nickname comes from the valley of discovery. He rivals the Egyptian “Ginger” as the oldest known human mummy, and has offered an unprecedented view on the habits of Chalcolithic (Copper Age) Europeans. Ötzi was found by two German tourists, Helmut and Erika Simon, on (More Info) Categories: History, Mystery, Health Duration: 00:49:37 Date Added: 2011-06-20 00:00:00 Views: 561 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Bodyshock - Half Ton Man	This documentary opens with paramedics removing a wall of Patrick Deuel's house in Valentine, Nebraska and transporting him six hours to a hospital where he spent months trying to lose weight to qualify for a gastric bypass operation. The Half-Ton Man also tells the story of other heavily overweight people and their loved ones, neighbors and doctors. It examines how they got that way and how they have succeeded and failed in their struggles to change. (More Info) Categories: Health, Survival Duration: 00:49:16 Date Added: 2011-03-27 00:00:00 Views: 552 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Bodyshock - Half Ton Son	Nineteen-year-old Billy Robbins weighs 60 stone and is reported to be the world's heaviest teenager. He has spent the past three years living in a chair as his mother cooks for, cleans and feeds him. But Billy has made the decision to turn his life around in the hope that one day he may be able to move out of his mother's home. Billy realizes that after being fed up to 8,000 calories a day, he has to change his diet not only in order to gain his own independence from his mother, but i (More Info) Categories: Health, Food Duration: 00:48:02 Date Added: 2011-03-06 00:00:00 Views: 494 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Cheating Death - Amazing Survivals - Humans Can't Fly	A circus performer misjudges the distance on a jump and more amazing survival stories. (More Info) Categories: Disaster, Health, Survival Duration: 00:20:30 Date Added: 2011-01-19 00:00:00 Views: 519 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura - Plum Island	Jesse storms Congress to find out if the government is conducting dangerous experiments at the Plum Island Animal Research Center off the coast of Long Island. The center, which began as a bio-warfare lab run by former Nazi scientists, has been blamed for spreading diseases and viruses throughout the mainland, including African swine flu and Lyme disease. Some suspect the mysterious Montauk Monster emanated from the facility. (More Info) Categories: Conspiracy, Health Duration: 00:44:03 Date Added: 2011-05-30 00:00:00 Views: 692 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Dirty Jobs: High-Rise Window Washer	DIRTY JOBS profiles the unsung American laborers who make their living in the most unthinkable — yet vital — ways. Our brave host and apprentice Mike Rowe will introduce you to a hardworking group of men and women who overcome fear, danger and sometimes stench and overall ickiness to accomplish their daily tasks. In This Episode: Mike travels to Hawaii where he harnesses up and hops into a bosun's chair to clean windows 40-stories above downtown Honolulu. (More Info) Categories: Comedy, Health, Society Duration: 00:42:02 Date Added: 2011-09-16 15:03:44 Views: 359 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Dust To Dust: The Health Effects Of 9/11	Just days after September 11, 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency assured the public that there should be no concern about any health hazards associated with exposure to smoke and debris in lower Manhattan. This disturbing documentary asks whether the EPA’s pronouncement was based on science or politics. Now many of the first-responders who risked their lives within that toxic chemical soup are seriously ill or dying. Filmmaker Heidi Dehncke-Fisher and producer Bruc (More Info) Categories: Disaster, Health, 9/11 Duration: 00:57:54 Date Added: 2010-10-28 00:00:00 Views: 412 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Extraordinary People - The Rainman Twins	From the moment they were born, Flo and Kay Lyman were unlike any sisters on planet earth. Thought to be mentally retarded, they were tormented by kids. What no one realised is that Flo and Kay are among the most brilliant people the world has ever seen. This is the untold story of the only identical twin autistic savant sisters known to exist. Over a span of 50 years, Flo and Kay have memorised the world around them. They never forget a date, never forget a song, never forget wha (More Info) Categories: Health, Mystery Duration: 00:45:07 Date Added: 2011-05-29 00:00:00 Views: 521 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Flow - Water Privatization	How Did A Handful Of Corporations Steal Our Water? Water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the planet. 'Flow' confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindl (More Info) Categories: Health, Society, Disaster Duration: 01:23:33 Date Added: 2011-03-06 00:00:00 Views: 839 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Food Inc	The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several thousand years prior. Controlled primarily by a handful of multinational corporations, the global food production business - with an emphasis on the business - has as its unwritten goals production of large quantities of food at low direct inputs (most often subsidized) resulting in en (More Info) Categories: Food, Health, Society Duration: 01:33:44 Date Added: 2010-11-14 00:00:00 Views: 603 Rating: 8.50/10 Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

James May's 20th Century - Episode 3	James May discovers just how far he can push his body, and explores some of the most remarkable medical advances over the last hundred years. He begins by testing himself in a centrifuge - a devilish machine that is used to train fighter pilots and astronauts. As the pace picks up and the 'g-forces' increase, he dramatically passes out. Then James is invited to watch open heart surgery - where a man's heart stops beating in the middle of an operation. Fortunately, it is all part of the procedure (More Info) Categories: Health Duration: 00:28:56 Date Added: 2011-03-06 00:00:00 Views: 294 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

James May's Things You Need To Know - The Human Body	Do you ever stop to contemplate the wonder of your body? Well, neither had James May - until he realised that his body was by far the most impressive vehicle he was ever going to own. James asks the big questions: How did I get my Granny's chin? Why do I catch colds? Why am I hung over? What will we look like a thousand years from now? To find the answers, he plunges into the exciting and sometimes downright bizarre world of motion graphics. The answers are packed with facts that (More Info) Categories: Health, Nature Duration: 00:28:58 Date Added: 2011-09-02 19:38:00 Views: 604 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution - S01E01	Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution (also called Jamie's American Food Revolution in the United Kingdom) is a television series which premiered on ABC on March 21, 2010. The show is hosted by Jamie Oliver and produced by Ryan Seacrest and Oliver. The series premiered in the UK on Channel 4 on September 13, 2010. Oliver, a celebrity chef and health campaigner in the UK, uses a grassroots campaign in the US to curb obesity. His efforts are focused in Huntington, West Virginia, statistically (More Info) Categories: Food, Health, Society Duration: 00:42:13 Date Added: 2010-10-14 00:00:00 Views: 402 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution - S01E02	Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution (also called Jamie's American Food Revolution in the United Kingdom) is a television series which premiered on ABC on March 21, 2010. The show is hosted by Jamie Oliver and produced by Ryan Seacrest and Oliver. The series premiered in the UK on Channel 4 on September 13, 2010. Oliver, a celebrity chef and health campaigner in the UK, uses a grassroots campaign in the US to curb obesity. His efforts are focused in Huntington, West Virginia, statistically (More Info) Categories: Food, Health, Society Duration: 00:42:31 Date Added: 2010-10-14 00:00:00 Views: 343 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Long Way Down - Episode 1	In a follow-up to the documentary series "Long Way Round", actors and best friends Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman travel from John O'Groats, Scotland down to Cape Town, South Africa on motorcycles. They travel down through Europe and Africa, getting an up-close view of the local cultures. They also stop at various UNICEF projects to offer support and assistance to the children there. Episode 1: Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor plan their motorcycle journey from John O' (More Info) Categories: Travel, Health, Nature Duration: 01:00:01 Date Added: 2010-10-13 00:00:00 Views: 483 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Long Way Down - Episode 2	In a follow-up to the documentary series "Long Way Round", actors and best friends Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman travel from John O'Groats, Scotland down to Cape Town, South Africa on motorcycles. They travel down through Europe and Africa, getting an up-close view of the local cultures. They also stop at various UNICEF projects to offer support and assistance to the children there. Episode 2: The guys continue their journey, going from London to Libya, and taking in s (More Info) Categories: Travel, Health, Nature Duration: 01:00:10 Date Added: 2010-10-13 00:00:00 Views: 399 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Long Way Down - Episode 3	In a follow-up to the documentary series "Long Way Round", actors and best friends Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman travel from John O'Groats, Scotland down to Cape Town, South Africa on motorcycles. They travel down through Europe and Africa, getting an up-close view of the local cultures. They also stop at various UNICEF projects to offer support and assistance to the children there. Episode 3: Ewan and Charley continue their journey, going from Libya to Ethiopia. The g (More Info) Categories: Travel, Health, Nature Duration: 00:49:43 Date Added: 2010-10-13 00:00:00 Views: 472 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Long Way Down - Episode 4	In a follow-up to the documentary series "Long Way Round", actors and best friends Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman travel from John O'Groats, Scotland down to Cape Town, South Africa on motorcycles. They travel down through Europe and Africa, getting an up-close view of the local cultures. They also stop at various UNICEF projects to offer support and assistance to the children there. Episode 4: The guys pass the halfway mark on their journey, going from Ethiopia to Keny (More Info) Categories: Travel, Health, Nature Duration: 00:59:28 Date Added: 2010-10-13 00:00:00 Views: 400 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist