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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Through eyewitness video, historical archives, and cutting edge CGI, National Geographic provides a comprehensive, yet intimate look at the most significant natural disasters of all time. A team of world experts reveal the pivotal moments that turned the top ten from natural phenomenon into human catastrophe and explain why these disasters became genuine game-changers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Planet Dinosaur brings to life pre-historic monsters stranger and scarier than anything ever seen before, monsters that scientists never knew existed until a few years ago. Transporting viewers to locations across the planet and back through hundreds of millions of years, Planet Dinosaur brings to life the most amazing creatures that ever lived. This is unlike any dinosaur show you've ever seen, a completely immersive visual experience studded with...
Pub. Date
[2014] [2014]
Language
English
Description
Between the blue sky above us and the infinite blackness of space lies a frontier full of enigmas that scientists have only just begun to investigate. It takes viewers on an exploration to probe the earth-space boundary zone, which is home to some of nature's most puzzling and alluring phenomena: the shimmering aurora, streaking meteors, and fleeting flashes that shoot upwards from thunderclouds, known as sprites.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Plants live secret, unseen lives. They are capable of forming mutually beneficial relationships with animals. But they can also be as aggressive, competitive, and dramatic as any living thing on our planet. Using specialist cameras, this spectacular series allows us to travel beyond the power of the human eye, to look closer at their interconnected world. Each episode introduces a set of plants, reveals the battles they face, and the ingenious ways...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Creature teachers Chris and Martin Kratt will take families along on extraordinary animal-powered adventures. The show transforms the Kratt Brothers into animated versions of themselves, allowing the real-life zoologists to visit wild animals in their little-seen habitats and showcase key science concepts.
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The Kratt Brother's adventure continues into the jungle! Join the brothers in discovering some of the most interesting and elusive creatures in the world. Learn how lizards walk on water, orangutans create medicines, and tarsiers survive in total darkness. Martin and Chris study the ways of this diverse ecosystem, all while helping out their jungle friends.
12) Your brain
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
How does your brain create your reality? Are you in control, or is your brain controlling you? Discover the surprising answers based on the latest research in this journey into the human brain with neuroscientist Heather Berlin.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Scientist Bill Nye examines the earth's warming temperatures through the prism of the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Ultimately Dr. Schwarzenegger encourages Bill to find solutions in science, and Bill heads to Silicon Valley to explore the ways technology companies like Google and Tesla are taking the lead in mapping out a clean energy future that can save the planet.
15) The planets
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Among the stars in the night sky wander the eight-plus worlds of the solar system, each home to truly awe-inspiring sights. Volcanoes three times higher than Everest, geysers erupting with icy plumes, cyclones larger than Earth lasting hundreds of years. Each of our celestial neighbors has a distinct personality and a unique story. In this five-part series, NOVA will explore the awesome beauty including Saturn's 175,000-mile-wide rings, Mars's ancient...
17) Addiction
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As the deadliest drug epidemic in US history rages, follow the cutting-edge work of doctors and scientists as they explore how addiction affects the brain, and how the opioid crisis should be addressed.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"How did NASA engineers build and launch the most ambitious telescope of all time? Follow the dramatic story of the James Webb Space Telescope -- the most complex machine ever launched into space. If it works, scientists believe that this new eye on the universe will peer deeper back in time and space than ever before to the birth of galaxies, and may even be able to "sniff" the atmospheres of exoplanets as we search for signs of life beyond Earth....
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Vikings were the most ferocious warriors of the Middle Ages. Especially fearsome were the select few who wielded a formidable weapon: a light, razor sharp, virtually indestructible sword with its maker's name, ULFBERHT, inlaid along the blade. But who Ulfberht was, where the sword came from, and how it was made remained secrets for more than 1,000 years.
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