Host Neil deGrasse Tyson will tackle one of science's major challenges in each episode, framed as a simple question that ordinary people wonder and worry about. Neil will guide us as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery. Episode includes: Magic and the Brains: Are the secrets behind the world's greatest magic tricks actually wired into the human brain? Featuring eccentric magicians...

"Learn the plane truth about the history of aviation in this thrilling collection of five top Discovery programs. From the earliest fixed-wing aircraft to the radical prototypes of the future, we'll soar straight to the heart of the fascinating world of flight."--Container.

In Africa in the Masis Mara National Reserve, filmmakers Keith Scholey and Amanda Barrett follow the lives of a lion cub with a weak and injured mother and a cheetah with five newborn cubs.

Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister spending a year in England, use clues in their ancestor Sherlock Holmes' casebook as they try to solve the mystery of a monster threatening a peaceful country village where a documentary film is being made.

How Hollywood Does It is a look at the history, techniques, movements and people who create the magic of motion pictures. Documentary talks about some of the different styles of documentary filmmaking from the birth of cinema to the present day. It is a multi-part look at the history, techniques, movements, and people who create the magic that we call motion pictures. Today's program will talk about a style of filmmaking outside of the normal fiction...

Theo Foster's Twitter account used to be anonymous--until someone posted a revealing photo that got him expelled. No final grade. No future. No fair. Theo's resigned to a life of misery working at the local mini-mart when a miracle happens: Sasha Ellis speaks to him. Sasha Ellis knows his name. She was also expelled for a crime she didn't commit, and now he has the perfect way to get her attention: find out who set them up. To uncover the truth, Theo...

In this double feature, National Geographic explores the amazing and secret world of the great apes. Mystery gorillas: Join primatologist Mireya Mayor at the heart of the jungle to explore the great apes' secret world. Search for the great apes: Join Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas to better understand the mountain gorilla and the elusive orangutan.

Three student filmmakers set out into the forest to film a documentary on a legend known as The Blair Witch. As they become lost in the woods, an unseen evil begins to stalk and harass them. They soon realize that what they are filming is not a legend, but their own descent into a horrifying encounter with the supernatural.

Looking for a way to make your chores less of a, chore? Then it's robots to the rescue in these four fascinating programs. Take a nuts-and-bolts tour of your beeping, buzzing and whirring future in this look at the machines that will change our lives forever.

Teenage Rockhopper penguin Cody Maverick is an up-and-coming surfer who is about to enter his first pro competition. Followed by a documentary crew to film his experiences, Cody leaves Antarctica for the warmer climes in order to surf in the Big Z Memorial Surf Championship covered by the SPEN network. His hero, champion surfer Big Z, has been gone for ten years, and Cody wants to win the championship in his memory. On his journey he encounters surfer-dude...