Enter a world filled with the most spectacular freaks of nature on the planet. Here you will find a weird and wonderful collection of leaping spiders, snot-casting fish, blood-sucking bats, flesh-boring bugs, and other bizarre creatures occupying our land, sea, and sky. Join us as we celebrate oddities of all shapes, sizes, and species, giving an up-close view of them in their natural habitat, and revealing how these misfits of nature have developed their strange adaptations over tens of millions of years.
Caring for everyone from prisoners to tiny babies - nurses share personal stories from the job they love. Capturing the highs and lows of day-to-day life across Northern Ireland.
The United States of Animals is your guide to amazing animals doing incredible things around the country. Showcasing the best and most accessible wildlife and revealing secrets behind the fascinating things that animals do, this field guide shows you where and when to go, and what to look for to help you become the wildlife expert you have always dreamed of being.
Stories of real people who face the surreal horror of losing loved ones to vicious crimes. With every tick of the clock, detectives work to seek justice for the families, all while never forgetting the victims whose own dreams were so callously interrupted.
Investigative journalists Mariana van Zeller and Darren Foster take you inside the nation's underground networks and to the heart of the most controversial issues.
Time Team America is an American television series that airs on PBS. It premiered on July 8, 2009. It is an Oregon Public Broadcasting adaptation of the British show Time Team, produced in collaboration with Channel 4 which commissioned the original show, in which a team of archeologists and other experts are given 72 hours to excavate an historic site.
The U.S. version features "freelance and university-affiliated experts [who] mostly join existing excavations...[and] arrive with resources that the archaeologists already on the case usually can’t afford and specific questions that, if answered, will advance the understanding of the site."
A second season was announced on October 18, 2011, scheduled to shoot during the summer of 2012 and to air in 2013. On December 20, 2011 it was announced that Justine Shapiro would host the second season.
Tougher In Alaska was a program on the History Channel that was a part of the network's "American Original Series" lineup. Starring long-time Alaska resident Geo Beach, the program explored the dangerous and extraordinary efforts put forth by Alaskans to perform jobs and provide services in such a remote, large, rugged, and hostile place. The program premiered on May 8, 2008 and aired one 13-episode season. The series was produced by Moore Huntley Productions, whose previous programs include several other programs about Alaska. The Principal Cinematographer was Daniel J. Lyons of Vermont Films.
"Love the Way You Lie" -- based on the best-selling 2012 novel "Gone Girl" -- presents two versions of actual murder cases and lets viewers decide which one to believe. Filmed in a classic "he said, she said style", each hourlong episode follows a highly disputable crime from dueling perspectives -- those who believe the suspect is guilty, and those who proclaim the suspect's innocence -- and features commentary from local authorities and true-crime experts, as well as first-person accounts from friends and families of the victims and suspects.