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David Attenborough brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the last days of the dinosaurs. Palaeontologist Robert DePalma has made an incredible...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Attenborough

Astrophysicists show how black holes might hold answers to how the universe evolved, leading to life on Earth and, ultimately, the human race.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Janna Levin

Could scientists recreate Hollywood's Jurassic Park using 100-million-year-old dinosaur DNA? Director Steven Spielberg, author Michael Crichton,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeff Goldblum

Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Karl Steudel

NASA launches its most ambitious hunt for traces of life on Mars, landing a car-sized rover in a rocky, ancient river delta. The rover will stow...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Craig Sechler

A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexandros Vardaxoglou

In 1889, Gustave Eiffel decides to attempt the impossible for the Universal Exhibition in Paris: to build the tallest tower in the world. Before this...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Geraldine James

Three million years ago, camels roamed through Greenland’s endless forests and our ancestors lived in the trees. It all came to an end with...

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Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance genius. Not only did he paint masterpieces of art, but he was an obsessive scientist and inventor, dreaming up...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay O. Sanders

Murdered more than 5,000 years ago, Otzi the Iceman is the oldest human mummy on Earth. Now, newly discovered evidence sheds light not only on this...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay O. Sanders

Thundering across the sky on elegant white wings, the Concorde was an instant legend. But behind the glamour of jet setting at Mach 2 were stunning...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Damien Boisseau

Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil human ancestors.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay O. Sanders

In July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released its first images, looking further back in time than ever before to show our universe...

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Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx attempts to grab a piece of an asteroid to bring back to Earth so scientists can study it to learn about the planet's origins.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Craig Sechler

Predictions underlie nearly every aspect of our lives, from sports, politics, and medical decisions to the morning commute. With the explosion of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay O. Sanders

The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle like in the 1963 movie, but the big breakout was...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Donat

' Red string tied, wrapped in the creel, please turn kicks tale n'archinisei 'used to say older before they start their tales. But Knit Red Thread...

Genre: War

Cast: Thanos Samaras

For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alkibiadis Bakogianis

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jason Scott Lee

Dinosaurs are generally considered tropical animals. So what are their fossils doing north of the arctic circle? Paleontologists battle the fierce...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay O. Sanders