Discovery Channel (Firm)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
These intimate interviews of the former chiefs themselves, along with two former presidents, provide an unprecedented look behind the closed door of the Oval Office and the annals of history that have unfolded there over the years. Spend almost three hours with the most powerful advisors and closest confidants of presidents past and discover the closely guarded secrets to being the president's gate keeper.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Is the apparent 'grand design' of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion, or does science offer another explanation? Delve into the mind of Stephen Hawking as he attempts to answer some of life's biggest questions: Is there a god? What is the meaning of life? And why does the universe exist?
28) Dinotasia
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The dinosaur gets a makeover and then some in this fantastically groundbreaking documentary. Based on cutting-edge paleontology and the latest fossil records, Dinotasia presents a series of vignettes about dinosaurs, both familiar faces and some we have only found out about in the past ten years. The film uses CGI to bring the stories to life, but draws on animation's birth in silent film and early Disney to create proper, traditional visual storytelling....
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Dare to dive into the deadliest seas of all time. The makers of the dazzling Walking with Dinosaurs invite you to swim with monstrously terrifying, and enormously fascinating, creatures from 100 million years ago. Time-travel through marine history with intrepid explorer Nigel Marven as he dives in the late Cretaceous Sea, the most frightening waters in history. Fight a deadly battle with sea scorpions and a giant tentacled orthocone.
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Introduces us to the most diverse group of animals ever to live on this planet. From the smallest to the largest, from the slowest to the fastest, from the least attractive to the most irresistable. Looks at 4,000 species, including ones that have outlived the dinosaurs and conquered the farthest places on Earth. Examine how their adaptations for finding food have had an effect on the way they socialize, mate and live.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Hawking unfolds his personal, compelling vision of the biggest question of all: Who or what created the universe in which we live? The groundbreaking series into the Universe with Stephen Hawking combined cutting-edge computer graphics with Hawking's witty, distinctive and incisive world view. Now, the journey is taken a step further, as physics and cosmology become tools to answer questions that philosophers have struggled with for thousands...
34) Ice age giants
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Step back in time by 40,000 years and the world is a very different place. Hairy beasts and ferocious predators rule, while immense animals migrate across vast, unfamiliar landscapes. With unique access to excavations and state of the art forensic analysis and spectacular CGI, travel back to a land before time to reveal the Ice Age through the eyes of the animals that lived there.
35) Earth
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A story of three animal families on a journey across our planet - polar bears, elephants, and humpback whales. It captures rare footage of nature's wildest and most elusive animals.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Journey into a strange world where flightless terror birds as tall as a man can kill with a single snap of their powerful beaks. Early ancestors of man struggle for power and territory trying to defend themselves against saber-tooth tiger attacks. This begins with the end of the dinosaurs and ends with the rise of the first humans.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Each season, as the ever-thinning Arctic ice recedes, polar bears face a daunting challenge; Grizzly bears in British Columbia must use ingenuity and fancy footwork to collect their catch; The annual rains of the Serengeti draw in the greatest concentration of large animals on Earth; Each year, billions of sardines flood South Africa's east coast creating an action-packed feeding frenzy; Thousands of animals make the long trek toward the life saving...