Discovery Channel (Firm)
Pub. Date
�2000
Edition
Expanded video ed.
Description
Examines the 155-million-year history of dinosaurs from the aggressive Coelophysis, who first learned to hunt in packs, to Tyrannosaurus Rex, the most terrifying carnivore on the planet. Covers the Late Triassic, Late Jurassic, Early Cretaceous, and Late Cretaceous periods.
5) Earth
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
A story of three animal families on a journey across our planet - polar bears, elephants, and humpback whales. It captures rare footage of nature's wildest and most elusive animals.
9) Warriors
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Dramatizes the lives and battles of six of the most powerful leaders of all time: Spartacus, Attila the Hun, the Shogun, Richard the Lionheart, Cortes, Napoleon.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
It's a series of programs exploring great figures and events from biblical times. Historical, archaeological and anthropological evidence gives fresh insights into the historical realities of the times. Stylish drama re-enactments, CGI graphics, and expert opinions offer a comprehensive exploration into some of the Bible's most compelling people and stories.
11) Survivorman
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Imagine being stranded in the most extreme enviornments for 7 days. With no support crew and operating the camera himself, survival expert Les Stroud tackles this question as he tests himself in the wilderness, ranging from the desert to the Arctic.
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Reveals the crime busting techniques and forensic science used by the FBI to break the most baffling cases. Whether the crime lab handles bullets or bombs, fingerprints or fibers, the FBI's lab - the largest facility in the world - takes on tough cases, grappling with fraud, drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder, extortion and terrorism. Reveals the first time the crime busting techniques and forensic science used by the FBI to break the most baffling...
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Introduces us to the most diverse group of animals ever to live on this planet. From the smallest to the largest, from the slowest to the fastest, from the least attractive to the most irresistible. Looks at 4,000 species, including ones that have outlived the dinosaurs and conquered the farthest places on Earth. Examine how their adaptations for finding food have had an effect on the way they socialize, mate and live.
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Global warming is revealing some strange secrets about our planet's past inhabitants. Long buried under frozen ground, as the Siberian permafrost melts, woolly mammoth remains -- from bones to complete bodies -- are being exposed. Scientists around the world are using these remains to uncover astonishing new information about this extinct giant's physiology, behavior and environment. WOOLLY MAMMOTH: SECRETS FROM THE ICE brings these groundbreaking...
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
He lived fast, died young and left a good-looking corpse. The life story of Big Al, the most complete Allosaurus skeleton ever found, from his hatching 145 million years ago, to his death as a 15-year-old adolescent. Includes companion program, "Big Al uncovered", that explains how scientists discovered the skeleton in 1991 in Wyoming, and how they were able to trace his life story from his remains.