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An Inconvenient Truth	Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather: floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced, a catastrophe of our own making. If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom think again.From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sunda (More Info) Categories: Disaster, Nature, Science Duration: 01:32:37 Date Added: 2010-12-08 00:00:00 Views: 468 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

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

Bear's Mission Everest	Learn life-saving survival skills in some of the toughest, most treacherous environments on the Earth with a man no stranger to extremes, Bear Grylls. Drawing upon all his experiences as a soldier, mountaineer and seasoned adventurer, watch as Bear strands himself in popular wilderness destinations. Armed with a few supplies and the clothes on his back, see how he claws his way back to civilization while demonstrating survival techniques along the way. Join adventurer Bear Grylls on h (More Info) Categories: Survival, Travel, Nature Duration: 00:43:24 Date Added: 2010-10-28 00:00:00 Views: 555 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Build It Bigger - Hurricane Proof Homes	A new, high-tech method of construction is replacing homes damaged by hurricanes in the Gulf Coast. Danny will join a team of 100 factory workers as they race to build an entire house that can withstand 160-mph winds in just five days. When they finish, two halves of the finished house will be shrink-wrapped and loaded onto trucks for delivery. Danny will embark on a 200-mile journey in Mississippi to deliver the home to its new owners, and he will help with the final installation. (More Info) Categories: Technology, Engineering, Nature Duration: 00:42:32 Date Added: 2011-06-13 00:00:00 Views: 434 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura - Global Warming	Whether global warming is real or not, some people may be using the issue to earn billions of dollars, start a one-world government and control people’s lives. Jesse’s deep investigation uncovers evidence that could point to one man being behind an entire global-warming conspiracy. Featured Experts and Eyewitnesses: Lord Christopher Monckton, British politician, business consultant, policy advisor, writer and inventor who disagrees with mainstream scientific consensus on global wa (More Info) Categories: Conspiracy, Mystery, Nature Duration: 00:42:43 Date Added: 2010-12-05 00:00:00 Views: 312 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura - Worldwide Water Conspiracy	They call it "Blue Gold." Water is the new oil. Once a human right, it's now a valuable commodity, and corporations and super-rich oil dynasties are believed to be buying up water rights, controlling nations and populations. Jesse looks into the possibility of these activities finding their way to American shores and uncovers what may be a plot to literally steal the Great Lakes. (More Info) Categories: Conspiracy, Mystery, Nature Duration: 00:43:19 Date Added: 2010-12-05 00:00:00 Views: 278 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Cosmic Journeys - Super Hurricanes	Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets. In This Episode: Why some tropical storms erupt into monster hurricanes capable of wrecking coastlines. Can they be predicted? September 12th, 2008. A hurricane named Ike is headed toward the beaches of Galveston Island in Texas. The eye of the storm, where the most intense winds are, is still hundreds of miles awa (More Info) Categories: Nature, Disaster, Science Duration: 00:19:37 Date Added: 2010-12-23 00:00:00 Views: 336 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Body And Soul	In the first episode of the three-part series, Andrew Marr explores how Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection has taken on a life of its own far beyond the world of science. He argues that Darwin's theory has transformed our understanding of what it means to be human. Over the last 150 years, Darwin's ideas have challenged the need for a creator, undermined religious authority, and provided new ways of looking at the origins of human morality. Marr's jou (More Info) Categories: History, Nature Duration: 00:57:51 Date Added: 2011-09-06 16:37:33 Views: 542 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Born Equal	Andrew Marr discovers something surprising about his own evolutionary history as this epic series continues with an exploration of Darwin's impact on politics and society. Under the banner of Survival of the Fittest, Darwin's theory of natural selection has been used to justify imperial expansion and the oppression of indigenous peoples; to inform the science of eugenics - the selective breeding of humans which was implemented in the United States in the early 20th century; and to (More Info) Categories: History, Survival, Nature Duration: 00:58:35 Date Added: 2011-09-06 16:37:13 Views: 587 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Dinosaur Planet - Pod's Travel's	Dinosaur Planet is a four-part American nature documentary first aired on Discovery Channel in 2003. It was hosted by Scott Sampson and narrated by Christian Slater. Dinosaur Planet depicts dinosaurs living in various parts of the world (Asia, North America, South America and Europe) during the Late Cretaceous, using CGI (just like Discovery Channel's earlier When Dinosaurs Roamed America and BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs). In actuality, a good part of the dinosaurs were designed b (More Info) Categories: Nature, History Duration: 00:41:30 Date Added: 2011-06-12 00:00:00 Views: 777 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Dinosaur Planet -1- White Tip's Journey	The pack of a female Velociraptor called White Tip has been killed by another pack, and she must find a new one. She tries to hunt a herd of Prenocephale, but comes close to injury -- Velociraptor cannot efficiently hunt without a pack. Now hunting lizards, White Tip hears a loud shriek. Rather than a carcass, she finds Oviraptor courting each other. When a young Oviraptor fails to attract a female, he takes his anger out on White Tip and chases her into a Protoceratops nest. A male P (More Info) Categories: Nature, History Duration: 00:48:22 Date Added: 2010-09-02 00:00:00 Views: 492 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Earthlings	Since we all inhabit the Earth, all of us are considered earthlings. There is no sexism, no racism, or speciesism in the term earthling. It encompasses each and every one of us, warm or cold-blooded, mammal, vertebrae or invertebrate, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, and human alike. Humans, therefore, being not the only species on this planet, share this world with millions of other living creatures as we all evolved here together. EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity’s ab (More Info) Categories: Society, Nature Duration: 01:35:28 Date Added: 2011-01-21 00:00:00 Views: 405 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Five Disasters Waiting To Happen	As the world swaps theories on global warming, Five Disasters Waiting To Happen looks at how some of the world's leading cities are dealing with the practical reality of climate change. London: London's flood defences are getting older. Since 1982, the Thames Barrier has protected the city from the threat of flooding, but it was only designed to last until 2030 and close once every two or three years. Nearly 25 years later, the barrier now closes five (More Info) Categories: Disaster, Nature Duration: 00:58:26 Date Added: 2011-08-18 20:57:51 Views: 855 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Gasland	When filmmaker Josh Fox received a letter from the US government offering him a large sum of money to drill for natural gas on his land, he decided to do some research into the process involved: hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking". The things he discovered turned his blood cold. Fox soon left on a cross-country journey to discover the devastating environmental impact of "fracking", and to try to have the method abolished. (More Info) Categories: Nature, Engineering, Disaster Duration: 01:42:50 Date Added: 2011-06-06 00:00:00 Views: 490 Rating: 10.00/10 Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Global Warming: Doomsday Called Off	In this eye-opening documentary viewers will discover how the most respected researchers from all over the world explode the doom and gloom of global warming. Humans stand accused of having set off a global climate catastrophe by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Once all of these satellites were strung together, we could then look at the temperature change overtime, and the strange thing we found is that there is very little change in the global temperatu (More Info) Categories: Mystery, Science, Nature Duration: 00:43:59 Date Added: 2011-06-22 00:00:00 Views: 302 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Grizzly Man	A docudrama that centers on amateur grizzly bear expert Timothy Treadwell. He periodically journeyed to Alaska to study and live with the bears. He was killed, along with his his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, by a rogue bear in October 2003. The films explores their compassionate lives as they found solace among these endangered animals. (More Info) Categories: Nature, Psychology, Disaster Duration: 01:44:06 Date Added: 2010-09-30 00:00:00 Views: 735 Rating: 8.00/10 Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Helicopter Logging	R&R Conner, Inc., the heli-logging crew featured on the History Channel's "Ax Men" series, produced this 4 part series to take you take you on a tour and show you things few people have ever seen. Heli-Logging, or Helicopter Logging, is a method of logging that uses helicopters to remove cut trees from forests by lifting them on cables attached to a helicopter. Helicopter logging is often used in inaccessible areas of forests. Because the use of helicopters reduces the level of in (More Info) Categories: Aviation, Nature, Technology Duration: 00:34:58 Date Added: 2011-05-26 00:00:00 Views: 384 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Home	Home is a 2009 documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on Earth. It shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet. The movie was released simultaneously on June 5, 2009 in cinemas across the globe, on DVD, Blu-ray, television, and on YouTube, opening in 181 countries. The documentary chronicles the present day state of the Earth, its climate and how we as the (More Info) Categories: Nature, Survival, Society Duration: 01:33:18 Date Added: 2010-11-08 00:00:00 Views: 358 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Horizon - How to Live to 101	The quest to live longer has been one of humanities oldest dreams, but while scientists have been searching, a few isolated communities have stumbled across the answer. On the remote Japanese island of Okinawa, In the Californian town of Loma Linda and in the mountains of Sardinia people live longer than anywhere else on earth. In these unique communities a group of scientists have dedicated their lives to trying to uncover their secrets. Horizon take (More Info) Categories: Science, Nature Duration: 00:48:57 Date Added: 2011-09-02 18:29:52 Views: 187 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

How The Earth Was Made - The Deepest Place On Earth	The Marianas Trench is the deepest place on earth, deeper than Mt. Everest is high. The trench is where the ocean floor disappears into the center of the earth. The pressures at this depth are 17 times greater than what it takes to crush a nuclear submarine. Only two men have ever been down the Trench, fewer than have set foot on the moon. Follow the daring missions into the abyss and explore the extraordinary geology that has created this deep scar along the ocean floor. (More Info) Categories: Mystery, Nature, Maritime Duration: 00:44:54 Date Added: 2011-03-16 00:00:00 Views: 473 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist