Matt Wright tracks down, captures, and transports a diverse range of dangerous animals, including crocodiles, wild buffalo and even polar bears, that are posing a threat to people.
An exploration of how traditional healers and Western practitioners in various countries use psychotropic plants—such as ayahuasca, iboga, peyote, and salvia divinorum.
A provocative journey into the extraordinary lives of women from the Old and New Testament. The series explores women who rose from obscurity, slavery and prejudice to become prophets, lovers, judges, and queens who left their mark on history.
Travel from the steamy delta beyond New Orleans, upstream to headwaters in great northern swamps, and along the Mississippi's greatest tributary, the Missouri. The crew encounter a wealth of wildlife, from tropical manatees to ancient horseshoe crabs, primitive giant fish, colorful herons, industrious beavers, deadly rattlesnakes, herds of buffalo, and prairie dog colonies. Dramatic reconstructions illustrate what the river was like when the first explorers encountered it, meeting Indian tribes and witnessing new wildlife spectacles.
For over a century, locomotives played a vital role in wartime. We explore some of the trains and railways, from the American Civil War through World War II, that turned the tides of battles and changed history. Rarely seen archival footage and accounts from vets who were there highlight these thrilling stories of engineering genius and extraordinary bravery.
Andrew Zimmern reveals his personal list of favorite foods, places and experiences that should be on everyone's travel itinerary. He navigates each city like a local and gives his spin on amazing eateries, including what to order and where to find it.
Michael Wood embarks on a great historical adventure, exploring the stories, people and landscapes that have helped create China's distinctive character and genius over four thousand years.
Infiltrate the legendary secrecy of one of the world's most powerful criminal organisations to expose the stark realities deep Inside the Mafia. With remarkable access to FBI and DEA agents and former mobsters, get intimate detail on the cutthroat deals, gangland assassinations and secret rituals within the infamous global mob.
"Every estate is unique. Like Coliseum, an arena not only so in Italy, but all over the world on an ancient Roman arena. Great Wall of China, Dujiangyan, Huangshan, also opera ...... is the world's only our movie is hard to interpret the intentions behind these substances to the image of the 'unique' reason can not be copied, and its history along the way from the tortuous experience. "" documentary records themselves are in need of guide words "language, not a tourist manual, so this is not a purely beautiful piece. Crews find and organize is a story of a rich history, "boring narrative and interesting coincidences in history." In the face of the vicissitudes of the scene, with their efforts to understand the cultural and spiritual being numerous times to pay tribute to these antiquities, ruins to explore every tortuous experience in historical events. We look through the lens of their hands is not only seen