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Almost 250 years after a vicious storm sent the Auguste cargo ship to the bottom of a Cape Breton Bay, causing a ship of millionaires to go down with their wealth in gold, a team of archaeologists and divers hopes to finally uncover the forgotten story of the shipwreck and raise a lost treasure.
Two-thousand years ago, a series of events changed history and gave birth to Christianity. According to the Gospels, Jesus was crucified, resurrected and ascended into heaven. But how much is legend and how much is truth? Join National Geographic for a fascinating journey back to ancient Jerusalem. There, they investigate the disappearance of Jesus Christ after his death and attempt to gain new insight hidden within the diverse accounts of his resurrection that may ultimately shed new light on the mystery of Easter.
Through breathtaking discoveries, archaeologists are uncovering the early years of the ancient Maya to reveal a dynamic, sophisticated culture that was flourishing before the time of Christ. The Preclassic Maya—once dismissed as primitive—created massive pyramids, elaborate art, early writing, and more. Join National Geographic's Dawn of the Maya as it investigates the rise one of the world's greatest and most mysterious civilizations.
A great paradox underpins our existence: the forces that make life possible also imperil it. In FORCES OF NATURE, audiences will experience the spectacle of tornadoes, floods, erupting volcanoes, hurricanes and their aftermath.
Nat Geo WILD gets up close with the mysterious world of the social insects thriving right below our feet.
For decades the wreck of the liner RMS Titanic had eluded those seeking to locate her grave site. Many failed until Dr. Robert Ballard turned a dream into reality in 1985 when he found her remains over 12000' beneath the North Atlantic Ocean. Dr. Ballard tells how his missions to two lost submarines from the Cold War helped him find the debris trail of the Titanic that she left across the sea bed. Interspersed with this intriguing once-Top Secret mission is the story of Ballard's 2004 trip back to Titanic to document the ensuing effects of visitors and salvagers since his last trip in 1986. Understanding that the Titanic and her remains belong to everyone, Dr. Ballard returns with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to help make his vision of a museum - a museum available to all - become a reality.
Travel back in time and explore the ancient myths and legends of this fabled city.
Join two scientists and an explorer as they travel to Lebanon to find out more about the ancient Phoenicians. The scientists are using genetics to determine the link between the current Lebanese population and the early Phoenicians from bone excavations made at ancient sites. Meanwhile, the explorer tries to retrace the shipping and sailing routes of the Phoenicians, who were aggressive explorers that discovered and conquered other Mediterranean lands.
The first and last line of defense for the president.
"National Geographic Photographer Mike Yamashita sets out to visually document one of the greatest overland journeys ever made: the 24-year odyssey of Marco Polo. " In the course of this incredible journey Mike stumbles onto a nomadic Kazak wedding in Aksai and investigates the controversy of the Great Wall - why did Polo never mention this in his famous travelogue "The Description of the World"? And why did he never mention tea or chopsticks? Yamashita talks to noted Chinese historian Professor Liu Yingsheng about these and many other Polo conundrums. In Yunnan province, he visits the bound feet women, and travels to inner Mongolia to film the famous herds of the Mongolian horsemen. As Yamashita reaches Xanadu he ponders on how Polo became a trusted confidant to the Khan and spent 17 years in his service. What sights he must have seen. But did he? The mystery slowly but surely reveals itself.
Journey to the untamed Great Bear Rain Forest where the wildlife is like nothing you have ever seen.
Relive pivotal, history-shaping events of Would Wail
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extraordinary commemorative tribute. With narration from John McCain, Bob Kerrey, and Bob Dole, these are the unforgettable stories of D-Day veterans, recounted in the veterans' words. From the prelude to war to the stunning Normandy assault to the final victory and the war's aftermath, The Boys of Normandy is a powerful homage to the courage and sacrifice of ordinary soldiers, sailors, and
airmen who went to war as young men - and came home as heroes.
Few creatures are as mysterious or captivating as the whale. From the Florida Keys to the Arctic waters, from Puget Sound to the islands of the South Pacific, whales today are threatened with new challenges. Watch the struggle unfold as men and women confront the mystery of a sudden 'mass stranding' of a group of pilot whales; an intense controversy brews over the impact of military sonar on whales; and as one scientist endures bone-chilling Arctic water to launch a groundbreaking study of the great bowhead whale. Learn about the increased suicidal behaviours of whales, and the actions taken by those on the front lines of conservation as they fight to ensure that the ocean waters remain a safe home for these magnificent creatures.
National Geographic searches for and investigates the wreck of the gold carrying civil war era SS Republic which sank in a hurricane in 1865.
Film footage of a wild leopard in South Africa's Mala Mala preserve has documented unusual animal behavior. Filmmaker Kim Wolhuter followed a single large male leopard for 18 months, recording the most intimate details of its life. Shot mostly in the dark, when the big spotted cats are most active, the documentary recorded a leopard killing twice in quick succession—once for the hyenas that dogged its footsteps and again for its own meal, so it could eat in peace.
Nat Geo WILD gets up close with the mysterious world of the social insects thriving right below our feet.
