Documentaries

Planet Mechanics Dick Strawbridge and Jem Stansfield use their Eco-engineering smarts on a mission to lower energy consumption. Across the series they build Britain's first street legal, air driven motorbike, a wood fueled truck and power a farm using cow poo.

An examination of the nature of human perception and how it can be fooled.

David Attenborough's ground-breaking exploration of a group of organisms that are vast in number, yet often too small to be noticed: the invertebrates.

The life story and achievements of dreamer and physicist Albert Einstein.

Here is where you'll witness some of the most deadly situations ever caught on tape and put your survival knowledge to the test. Do you have what it takes to come out alive?

Ever wondered what the world would be like without any humans?

After crash-landing in the snowswept Andes, a Uruguayan rugby team has no choice but to turn to desperate measures in order to survive.

Dramatized reconstruction of real-life air disasters, along with interviews with aviation experts and eyewitnesses.

Teams of tuna fisherman battle the elements, and each other, to catch the most Giant Bluefin Tuna.

Three adventurous friends embark on a unique road trip across America. They test their survival skills by giving each other challenges in various terrains, using limited or unconventional resources to overcome obstacles.

It takes a Texas seven or just one real-life hero to break through bars.

Survivors share their stories and experience of survival abroad.

National Geographic: Incredible Human Machine takes viewers on a two-hour journey through an ordinary, and extraordinary, day-in-the-life of the human machine. With stunning high-definition footage, radical scientific advances and powerful firsthand accounts, Incredible Human Machine plunges deep into the routine marvels of the human body. Through 10,000 blinks of an eye, 20,000 breaths of air and 100,000 beats of the heart, see the amazing and surprising, even phenomenal inner workings of our bodies on a typical day. And explore striking feats of medical advancement, from glimpses of an open-brain surgery to real-time measurement of rocker Steven Tyler's vocal chords.

The film runs through the effect each degree in temperature change has on the world.

Does alien life exist out there in the Universe Scientists are now getting closer than ever to answering that question thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope. This revolutionary spacecraft is on a mission to find habitable alien planets. Thanks to Kepler we now know of thousands of possible planets and we're getting closer than ever to finding the holy grail: a twin of our Earth. We use CGI to bring these alien worlds to life, and with the help of scientists, we speculate on what extra-terrestrial life might be like.

Infrared cameras, sensors and computerized test dummies allow engineers to exactly calculate the incredible physics and physiology that produce martial arts' devastating force-at last, separating myth from reality.

Set 70 million years ago in the Cretaceous period in North America, this animated documentation/drama follows the journey of a young Edmontosaurus named Scar and his herd as they migrate south for the winter. This film depicts recent findings about Dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurs with feathers.

What really happens when a person gets punched in the face or you get hit by a water balloon, or when a piece of raw chicken is blown up? These events reveal some extraordinary hidden attributes on Discovery Channel's series TIMEWARP where an amazing, unseen world comes to light through high-speed digital photography.

The story of the discovery that everything is made from atoms, one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs in history, and the brilliant minds behind it.

The British Tim Shaw conducts remarkable experiments and lets the people on the streets and at home predict the outcomes.

The life stories of history's greatest minds, from their days as young adults to their final years: their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius.

Follow James Burke through the history of science and technology in this collection of 10 1-hour episodes, starting with "The Trigger Effect."

James Burke explores key moments in Western History where new knowledge in science changed the way the modern Western world thinks.