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Private Notes
aka: Colombias Gold War
With the price of gold soaring to historic highs, Colombia is in the throws of a gold rush unlike anything it has seen in years. Across dense jungle and the rural countryside, wildcat miners are tearing up huge swaths of land in a frenzied search for the precious metal. But even more worrying for authorities is that this gold may be fueling a new chapter in the civil conflict that has defined Colombia for the last five decades. Navigating the ever-shifting front lines, National Geographic correspondent Mariana van Zeller examines how left wing guerrillas, criminal organizations and international mining companies are all staking their claim to Colombia's gold.
The world’s largest emerald is unearthed in Brazil in 2001, sparking an epic tale of deceit, obsession, and folly.
BASE jumper Dean Potter has set his sights on Mount Bute - a 9,000-foot granite launch pad along the British Columbia coastline.. But first, he has to prepare his body and develop a new wing suit.
The Inside story of the most audacious heist in NASA’s history – how an intern stole Moon rocks from the Johnson Space Center.
Could one of Leonardo da Vinci's lost works of art be hidden between a wall of an ornate building and another masterpiece? It's a captivating theory that has had one prominent scientist chasing a legend for more than 30 years. This is the exclusive behind-the-scenes story of the hunt for a priceless masterpiece that could lead to one of the greatest discoveries the art world has ever known.
This one hour program deals with the confirmation of the discovery of a lost work from Leonardo DaVinci.
Navigating a sea of lies and manipulation, animal rights activist Chris DeRose works with informants to bring both rural and inner city dog fighters to justice.
The world's oldest profession is now a thriving black market economy, with an underground workforce that's just an Internet connection and a phone call away. National Geographic's Mariana van Zeller journeys to the heart of the American escort industry and uncovers the gritty reality behind the supply and demand of high-end sex work.
Documenting the development of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Cal., and the November 26, 2011, launch of the craft, which is scheduled to land on the Red Planet in August 2012.
On May 22, 2011, an EF-5 tornado struck Joplin, Missouri, a city of 50,000 in the southwest corner of the state. Packing winds of more than 200 miles an hour, the tornado tore through the center of the city, tearing off two floors of the city's main hospital, demolishing churches and businesses, and rendering whole neighborhoods unrecognizable. More than 150 people lost their lives in the storm, and the devastation to the city was enormous.
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An ancient murder mystery plays out like an episode of C.S.I. When human bones are found hidden under the floor of an old army barracks, a homicide detective is called in to examine the evidence. Preliminary observations indicate the victim may have been bound and killed with blunt force trauma to the skull. The culprit must be found and brought to justice. But there is one key problem: The victim died nearly 1,800 years ago.
A wide-ranging investigation of animal die-offs, including the thousands of blackbirds that died in Arkansas on New Year's Eve, 2010, leads to an exploration of how the human mind is inspired, or derailed, by seeming patterns or coincidences in nature.
Easter Island has mystified the world ever since the first Europeans arrived in 1722.
Theologian and relic expert Candida Moss journeys to a remote island in the Black Sea to investigate the ruins of one of the oldest monasteries in Europe.
