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The story of an epic, eight hour television series in the making. This is the story of a team of filmmakers who set out to tell the story of Africa through the people who live there. The Making of Afr...
Length: 52:00mins
Education Subject areas: Media/Multimedia Production
Year produced: 2001
Production code: 65039
Felipe Lettersten is a sculptor forging statues of native peoples who may one day be no more. He searches the Americas for indigenous tribes that have so far held on to their traditional costume and c...
Length: 23:00mins
Education Subject areas: Art
Year produced: 1994
Production code: 91A33
Follow two young photographers intent on creating portraits of the one hundred rarest and most endangered species in America - pictures that create an urgent poignancy, as we may have to say goodbye t...
Year produced: 1998
Production code: 10996
A story on the rock carvings in Arizona's Verde Valley. Peter Welch talks about the people who made the rock art and what the images may symbolize....
Length: 03:00mins
Education Subject areas: Visual Arts
NGM photographer Joel Santore gets very close and very personal with the great bears of the North....
Production code: 20136
Welcome to Madidi National Park in Bolivia, where even the pigs can kill you. This spectacular wildlife reserve is one of the last untouched places on earth, where breathtaking landscapes and an abund...
Year produced: 1999
Production code: 21198
Shrouded in myth, the Blue Nile is one of Africa's greatest rivers. From its source in the Ethiopian highlands, the Blue Nile plunges a vertical mile in its 840 mile course to the plains of Sudan, car...
Year produced: 2000
Production code: 20056
A story about street life on La Rambla in Barcelona. Shots and sequences on street performers, musicians, dancers, and residents....
Education Subject areas: Music
Year produced: 0000
As springtime dawns on the frozen landscape of Canada's high Arctic, Adam Ravetch sets off in search of one of the region's most massive and misunderstood animals - the walrus. Known as "The ...
Year produced: 2004
Production code: 30090
Brazilian Soraia Carvalho and Egyptian Fawa Wozzy rehearse and perform belly dancing in Cairo, though some Islamic conservatives believe it is taboo. Lute maker Eid Mohammed Ali and dance teacher Heb ...
In Egypt, it is sometimes said you could take away the pyramids, you could take away the Nile, but you could never take away belly dance. Lucy grew up in a poor section of Cairo, and all she ever want...
Length: 25:00mins
Education Subject areas: Art, Music
Year produced: 1992
Production code: 91A52
Photographer Chris Johns discusses his thoughts about the infatuation with mystery and abstraction in photography. Using his photo of camels walking in the desert, he talks about how viewing his work ...
Length: 01:00mins
Cameramen scale mountains, swim with sharks, and fend off angry wildlife charging the lens, often proving more adventurous than the adventurers they film. Documentary cameramen dare to be different; t...
Year produced: 1989
Production code: 88A38
In each 30-minute episode, Dr. Heithaus and National Geographic's Crittercam team will take you on a wild adventure, partnering with world experts to deploy Crittercam on species as varied as humpback...
Length: 30:00mins
Production code: 63207-07
Production code: 63207-11
Production code: 63207-13
Production code: 63207-01
Production code: 63207-09
Production code: 63207-05
Production code: 63207-08