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Thanks to Automatic Content Recognition technology it will fill in all the needed meta data, genre, and even proper artwork. Easily turn any song into unique rimless iPhone ringtone using SYC 2. The number of new antibacterial products has tripled. But does the use of these products just make the germs even more resistant? At the same time, the search for new microbial life has taken researchers from the lab and to the ocean floor to the heavens. A meteorite from Mars has fossilized structures on it that look suspiciously like small bacteria.
Scientists are coming to the conclusion that life may be far more common in the universe than we had supposed. Is it possible or wishful thinking? Herein find the story of one man's obsession and his quest to reverse extinction.
Experts use original plans and state-of-the-art mapping to reconstruct the bunker in which Nazi leader Adolf Hitler spent the final weeks of the Second World War. Naval Task Force It was the first enemy vessel-of-war captured in battle on the high seas by the U. Navy since A programme on the courage and ingenuity of East Germans who were willing to risk their lives escaping through, over, and even under, the murderous Wall that divided Berlin between and The programme includes astonishing actuality footage of escapes as they happened such as tunnelling, swimming and even escaping in a microlight aircraft along with recreations of some of the most daring escape attempts, and some of the deadly failures.
Narrated by actor Danny Glover, "The Real Eve" reveals that our shared genetic heritage links every living person on earth and traces the expansion of modern humans throughout the world.
The discovery of the Eve gene stunned the world. In this telling anthropological video, we access the very latest DNA reconstructions, and for the first time, tell conclusively the story of where, when and how the human race came about and then populated the world. This program makes extensive use of the latest in computer visualization techniques to offer viewers an astonishing view of life in Ancient Egypt, and to uncover the eons-old secrets of the Valley of the Kings.
Central to the film is a sense of the geography of Ancient Egypt, and of the great journey that the Pharaoh's funeral processions would take from Thebes to the Valley of the Kings. Using Satellite Mapping Data - recently declassified - a completely accurate 3D model of the entire terrain of the mysterious Valley of the Kings is rebuilt.
Hordes of men on horseback dominated the steppes of central Asia 2, years ago. From conquests to defeats, their history is written in blood and fire. Fearsome archers on horseback, the Hsiung-nu crossed the steppes of Mongolia. Opposing the Hsiung-nu warriors was an equally fearsome army, comprised of Chinese warriors who considered the Hsiung-nu to be barbarians.
The first emperor of China had life-sized reproductions of his men placed in his tomb, each with unique facial features. Comprised of foot soldiers, archers, crossbowmen and cavalry riders, this phantom army mounted an eternal guard over its emperor Qin Shi-huang, the Hsiung-nu's worst enemy. Writing was not known by the Hsiung-nu - archaeological remains are the only trace of their history.
K Kursk was an Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy, lost with all hands when it sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, At m long and four stories high it was the largest attack submarine ever built. Our film reenacts the explosion and actual footage portrays the raising of the submarine. The fossil remains of young dinosaurs are very rare.
This past fall there was thus great excitement in the palaeontological community over the discovery, in the hills of Argentina, of the nesting grounds of large plant-eating sauropod dinosaurs. Mammoths have always fascinated people. From the creators of the earliest known cave paintings and carvings to the 20th century practitioners of modern art and even to today's tourists, humans have tried to grasp the essence of this magnificent creature - its enormous size, strength and beauty and its coexistence with and importance to humans.
In , palaeontologists made the remarkable discovery of a pygmy mammoth on Santa Rosa Island, the most complete collection of its kind in the world. Area 51 is a remote peace of land in Nevada, USA. It is owned by the US Government and is apparently used for the testing of secret technology and new military aircraft.
The film follows an underwater expedition to the German battleship Bismarck and digitally reconstructs events that led up to the ship's sinking during World War II. At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world came closer than it has ever come to all-out nuclear war. As the situation worsened, Britain's war cabinet made preparations to evacuate to 'Turnstile', the top secret nuclear bunker tunnelled deep under the Wiltshire hills.
From here, they controlled the RAF's nuclear bombers, which were fully armed and standing by at 4 minute readiness. This is the story of just how close those bombers came to taking off. The Legion is an army surrounded by romance, myth and intrigue. Its history spans more than a hundred and fifty years. The Legion is world renowned for its bravery.
From fighting Russian Cossacks in to patrolling Sarajevo in , they have always been in the thick of the action. At any one time there are approximately ninety to a hundred different nationalities serving in the French Foreign Legion. Legionnaires sworn allegiance, and only obligation, is to the Legion itself, not to France. The Legion never leave their weapons behind, and never fail to take an objective.
Death comes first. Weather Extreme - Tornado is both a fascinating and terrifying examination of the potential impact of a full-force tornado on crowded metropolitan areas. Immerse yourself in the fury of a devastating Force-5 tornado as it demolishes downtown Dallas.
How well is Dallas prepared for these disasters? What's been planned? What's been neglected? Find out in these gripping, heart-stopping depictions of megastorm events that scientists predict are actually close at hand.
With dramatic footage from past disastrous storms, mesmerizing eyewitness accounts, and photo-realistic computer animation, you'll get as close as you'll ever want to be to Mother Nature's rage. This documentary features a small town in Oklahoma where a large number of Bigfoot sightings have been documented with recordings.
The untold, true story of the underwater siege, with four submarines at the front line of a nuclear standoff. It's a tale that takes you inside the heads of the Soviet submariners and their US Navy counterparts in an eyeball to eyeball confrontation. The Limit - looks at the technology of the sport and the problems with the current regulations being too reestrictive.
Over 8, species of ants cover the planet. Most are harmless, but some have When they swarm the effect is so daunting that the whole jungle flees; even elephants are said to run from them. This documentary uses a hi-tech 'ant cam' to get close to the action. Also featured are the dreaded Bulldog ants from Australia, the individualistic Tasmanian Jackjumper ants and others.
The platypus has both baffled and inspired the scientific community since its discovery by Europeans over years ago. Three years in the making, this blue-chip natural history film takes us down the east coast of Australia to the many serenely beautiful habitats of the platypus. Technology specially created for this film captures images from inside the nesting chamber of a wild platypus and records the extraordinary sounds of the mother suckling her offspring and we watch as they grow from newborns to adulthood.
Not quite documentary, not quite drama, this reenactment of a fictional conscript's life building the Great Pyramid of Giza is best described as docudrama.
Omar Sharif voices the thoughts of the aged Nakht remembering the moment Egyptian soldiers drafted him into the king's service. Since the first Pong machine was unveiled 30 years ago, computer games have become the world's second largest entertainment industry, after music.
This program profiles game developers who revolutionized the industry and made playing video games a familiar household activity, and also indirectly fueled the snack food industry. Unique access to the creative geniuses of the last 30 years in a riveting voyage of innovation and blood on the carpet. Producer: Rod Iverson. The human race likes — and needs — to play games. This documentary shows the history of video games from Atari over to Nintendo and gives insights about the power of arcade games and home-games-consoles.
Ronald L. Mallett, PhD is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Connecticut. He discovered a possible way to travel in time by applying Einstein's theory of relativity to laser light moving in a circle. The program uses CGI to illustrate his theories. Mallett was one of the first African-Americans to obtain a PhD in theoretical physics. He was inspired to do so because he wished to travel back in time to visit his dead father, who died when Mallett was ten.
The Himalayan Towers also called Stone star-shaped towers, are a series of stone towers located mostly in Kham, an ancient province of Tibet, in Sichuan and in Tibet. The towers are located in regions of Changthang, Gyalrong, Miniak and Kongpo. The towers can be found both in cities and in uninhabited regions.
They have been described for the first time during the Ming Dynasty Carbon dating by Frederique Darragon shows they were built approximately to 1, years ago. Since they are generally located in prosperous villages, it is believed that their primary function was as a demonstration of a family's prestige within the community. At that time, wealth was acquired especially by the trade with the Mongols.
For strength, many of the towers use a star pattern of walls as opposed to a strictly rectangular method. Heights can exceed 60m. For more information see the work of Frederique Darragon, who has extensively studied the towers and written a book titled The Secret Towers of the Himalayas. She also filmed and co-produced a documentary also called "Secret Towers of the Himalayas". Legend has it that the relic known as 'The Spear of Destiny' or 'The Holy Lance' was used to wound the side of Christ at his crucifixion and now holds mystical powers.
It is said that whoever possesses the spear holds the fate of the world in their hands. Rulers such as Constantine, Charlemagne, Napoleon, and Hitler sought the spear, hoping that either stories of its powers were true or that it would serve as proof of their own power to their followers.
What caused the notorious arena to be built, and what made Roman society demand such extreme entertainment to be played out there? Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story revolves around the true story of Verus, who rises from slave to star gladiator, but who faces the ultimate challenge in one of the very few gladiatorial fights that was recorded and described by contemporary writers.
Discover Verus' story, live his journey and experience his quest for freedom. Once a powerful, sprawling presence in Northern Africa, the ancient kingdom of Nubia now lies buried beneath mounds of red brick rubble in the Sudan.
Forgotten by history and largely neglected by archaeology, its cities have lain buried for centuries, harboring priceless secrets of a civilization that once rivaled Egypt. Join world-renowned archaeologists Julie Andersen and Salah Ahmed as they unearth Dangeil - a thriving Nubian city that once sat at the juncture of several prominent trade routes.
While excavating a massive temple to the god Amun, the team makes a surprising discovery that could solve the mystery of why the city was abandoned. But is it authentic? Where was it found and how did it surface? On the morning of February 1, disaster struck. A stunned nation woke to images of Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrating into a shower of hot metal over the Texas sky. Loved by a king. Hated by an empire. Erased from history. She could be the biggest find since King Tut. Has the famed Egyptian beauty, Queen Nefertiti, been found in a secret chamber deep in the Valley of the Kings?
A Discovery Channel Quest expedition, led by Dr. Joann Fletcher and a team of internationally renown scientists from the University of York Mummy Research Team, hopes to find out.
If they're right, the finding will be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries since Nefertiti's stepson-King Tutankhamen-was discovered in Have they found the ancient world's greatest beauty?
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science featuring scientists from various disciplines analyzing the most compelling evidence for the existence of Bigfoot, including the Skookum cast and the Patterson—Gimlin film. An Egyptologist seeks the answer to a mystery four thousand years old, and tries to bring a vanished kingdom and a pharaoh lost to history back to life. Unravelling the tale of a priest and his family by following the clues left to us by the ancients, Vassil Dobrev will attempt to reconstruct the past and fill the gaps of history in his quest for the lost pharaoh.
Includes interviews with Ron Popeil Ronco , Philip Kives K-Tel , Ed Valenti and Barry Becher Ginsu , and others; clips from classic commercials; detailed information on the structure and mechanics of informercials; and a behind-the-scenes look at the QVC shopping channel.
Embark on a road trip into the heart of the American west and discover the 14 seminal locations — seven man-made and seven natural — that have made the west so wild. On the first leg of this epic journey, tour the wonders that stand as modern monuments to the American dream — from the engineering marvel of the Hoover Dam to the "Big Room" of Las Vegas.
Then, ride off into the sunset toward a more idyllic west. Climb the dizzying heights of Devil's Tower in Wyoming, plunge the depths of the mighty Grand Canyon and explore the landscape that has provided the foundation for the American dream.
In , he admitted to the rape, torture, and murder of children and teenagers. His victims, based on the locations of skeletons listed on maps that Garavito drew in prison, could eventually exceed ; Garavito continues to confess to more murders.
He has been described by local media as "the world's worst serial killer. If we could pull an imaginary plug at the bottom of the sea and, layer by layer, expose the majesty and mystery of what lies beneath, we would be astounded.
The ocean is the last frontier and images of the deep are only glimpsed in the lights of a submarine or ROVs remotely operated vehicles , with most of this undersea world having never known the light of the sun. Leading international scientists and institutes in the field of oceanography and marine science join in this quest to lay bare the landscapes of the deep and share their experiences and ideas about what this mysterious world might look like.
Deep water corals that rival an urban skyline in size, a submerged canyon that is bigger than the Grand Canyon, a mountain range that runs for 65,km - all these features have only been known in recent decades and while exploring these fascinating landscapes, scientists have discovered life forms that they had no idea existed - or could exist - in these bizarre, hostile environments.
Combining CGI with cutting-edge digital ocean-mapping technology, leading oceanographers and geologists re-create the spectacular formations growing and shifting below the waves of the world's oceans. In February, , a U. Air Force bomber carrying a nuclear bomb went missing off the coast of British Columbia. More than half a century later, a Canadian expedition team travels to the remote mountain crash site in the hope of solving the mystery of the world's first lost nuclear weapon.
It told the terrifying story of the power of addiction and the monsters that lurk within us all. It became an instant success and changed the face of horror stories forever. It was the first time that literature had depicted evil residing in someone rather than an objective character, a creature. In the novel Henry Jekyll, a respected doctor, concocts a potion to release his inner evil and becomes Mr Hyde. It was a book surrounded in mystery.
Robert Louis Stevenson had been known as the charming author of beloved children's stories such as a Child's Garden of Verses. What could this mild-mannered man know of inner demons and the power of evil and addiction? But just as Dr Jekyll had two faces, so to did Stevenson. He had been obsessed, since childhood, with the notorious Scotsman William Deacon Brodie known as Deacon , a legendary sociopath who lived years earlier.
By day, Deacon was a gentleman, a respected citizen with wealth and power. By night he was a compulsive gambler, sex addict and a criminal. In this film, the true story of Robert Louis Stevenson is revealed. A brilliant but tortured soul, Stevenson was born into a wealthy Victorian family. A sensitive and sickly child, plagued by nightmares and lung disease. He was raised by a God-fearing spinster nurse who attended to his spiritual health and administered what became a life long regime of drugs.
It was her stories of Deacon that planted the seeds of a dark obsession. They were less than a mile from the shore of the remote Pacific island of Iwo Jima. H Company was made up mostly of 18 to year-old boys who had been training for this day for over a year.
For most of them, Iwo Jima was their first time in combat. The boys knew little of the island. They had seen mock-ups in briefings but nothing could have prepared them for what lay ahead on the black sand beaches of 'Iwo'.
See the huge labrynth of underground tunnels Hitler ordered built to keep the Nazi war machine running. The film enters the world of a real-life alien - the praying mantis - and shows the life cycle and behavior of the most formidable and rarest representatives of the mantis family, including several that have never been filmed before. World-wide, there exist some 2, species of this bizarre insect family, most of them in the subtropical and tropical zones, a few in the temperate zones of the Old an the New World.
Wherever they live and whatever their size, they share one gruesome feature: Every mantis is a perfect killing machine, a living steel trap.
Anything but prayerful, mantises prey on everything that moves and can be overwhelmed. This macro documentary shows the life cycle and behavior of the most formidable and rarest representatives of the mantis family, including several that have never been filmed before.
This is a documentary, going into a specific plot to kill Hitler. A group of experts try to recreate the events, and test two variations on it, to see how close the people actually came to succeeding. It consists of the experiment, old footage from the period and recreations. They give some basic background to the attempt, and there's plenty of info about it, the room, the placement of the target, etc. They also show the actual explosions that they cause all in the interest of historical exploration, of course.
They are the first recorded Christians in history - the first to worship Christ. Each year they appear on thousands of Christmas cards, and hymns about them are sung in cathedrals around the world.
They were the most powerful and influential family in the world. Richer than the Rockefellers, mightier than the Tudors.
They were the Medici. They bankrolled the Renaissance and ignited the Reformation. They were soldiers, bankers, politicians and Popes - and they dominated Europe for years. In April B. C the unthinkable happenad. The Pharaoh was murdered in his harem. The murderers used black magic to silence the guards and a poisonous snake to finish him off.
The plot was led by ladies of the harem but also had the backing of some thirty senior courtiers. They planned to put their own candidate on the throne of Egypt - but they were caught, tried and then put to death in a variety of horrible ways. At the dawn of Egyptian civilization, Imhotep built the first pyramid, became legendary as a physician, and governed the greatest state on earth.
The ancients made him a god. Then Hollywood made him "The Mummy. By now, millions of people around the world know the name of Imhotep, the Egyptian high priest who turned into 'The Mummy. The murder of Lizzie Borden's Mother and Father undergoes a forensic investigation - on this Discovery Channel special.
Many of her patients feel her diagnoses have saved their lives. She's now caught the rest of the world's attention. And everyone asks the same question, is her gift real? To find out, Natasha's agreed to be tested by a body of skeptical scientists in the U. So is this young woman really able to see directly inside the human body? At cm 1. Aside from its extremely small size, Microraptor was among the first non-avian dinosaurs discovered with the impressions of feathers and wings.
Three specimens of M. Unusual even among early birds and feathered dinosaurs, Microraptor is one of the few known bird precursors to sport long flight feathers on its feet as well as its forearms and hands. Their bodies had a thick covering of feathers, with a diamond-shaped fan on the end of the tail possibly for added stability during flight.
Some specimens demonstrate a raised feather "crest" on the head, similar to some modern birds, like the Pileated Woodpecker. Bands of dark and light present on some specimens may indicate color patterns present in life. Several anatomical features found in Microraptor, such as a combination of unserrated and partially serrated teeth with constricted 'waists', and unusually long upper arm bones, are shared with both primitive avians and primitive troodontids. A look into the culture of the people of Peru as it relates to their Inca heritage.
Festivals in Cuzco today celebrating the Inca Sun god and the wonders of Maccu Picchu are only some of the topics covered in this documentary. At the dawn of history, the ancient Egyptians showed the world how to build the impossible In an age before machines, when copper was the strongest metal yet discovered, great pharaohs like Khufu and Ramses II demonstrated how boundless ambition and vast quantities of human labour could transform rock and stone into some of the most incredible monuments ever created from carving out spectacular tombs in the Valley Of The Kings to the building of the iconic Great Pyramid.
In this fascinating documentary special we uncover the secrets of Ancient Egypt Pharaoh, engineers and architects and bring to life great buildings and the ancient Egyptians saw them - towering over their great civilisation in the history of Africa, and perhaps the World On July 20th , a select group of senior German officers made a daring attempt to assassinate their leader, Adolf Hitler.
Many high ranking officers in the German Army were appalled by the abhorrent crimes committed against civilians and enemy troops, which they believed to be morally wrong. Casualties among the German forces were enormous and many officers believed this was due to Adolf Hitler's insistence on pursuing disastrous offensive strategies.
A growing number of army officers decided that the only way to save Germany was to eliminate Adolf Hitler and his supporters and stage a coup. They then hoped to negotiate a ceasefire with the Allies. The "July Plot", led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, was the closest anyone came to assassinating Adolf Hitler and overthrowing the Nazi government and Discovery Channel's Virtual History team has attempted to recreate the incredible tale in this groundbreaking documentary.
With the use of state of the art Computer Generated Imagery, "The Secret Plot to Kill Hitler" is able to recreate and bring to life the extraordinary events that took place on July 20, and afford the viewer a rare insight into this plot, one of the most fascinating near misses of twentieth-century history. Explore the origins of the Old Testament's Plague of the Firstborn in this landmark documentary that seeks to investigate the death of Ramses II's eldest son.
Join Egyptologist Kent Weeks as he takes a journey into the Valley of the Kings to unearth the remains of the controversial prince and determine the exact cause of his death while simultaneously tracking the path of the Israelites as they made their arduous journey from Mount Sinai to the Red Sea.
By combining faithful reenactments of the events as well as spectacular CGI effects, this documentary takes viewers back in time to explore one of history's greatest mysteries. The Shenke tribe of Beekeepers in Ethiopia. Their primary product is honey. They keep their bees in split logs in the top of trees.
Very tall trees A man with 40 hives can support wives Learn how the first residents of Los Angeles developed and later honed critical battle techniques against the malevolent mega fauna that roamed the landscape.
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