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What motivates journalist Jon Anderson to slash his way through the nightmarish Darien jungle of Panama, a menacing place of poisonous plants, scorpions, and vampire bats? He's traveling in the footst...
Length: 29:00mins
Education Subject areas: Journalism
Year produced: 1990
Production code: 90A21
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
Year produced: 2001
Production code: 65039
Five two-man crews race catamarans along 1,000 grueling miles of Atlantic coastal waters from Florida to Virginia Beach. The catamarans were filmed from helicopters, fixed wing planes, camera boats, a...
Length: 30:00mins
Year produced: 1986
Production code: 86A18
Veteran filmmaker Gary Scurka provides a rare inside look at life in wartime from the perspective of the young men of the battalion. With the journalist in tow, the marines encounter ambushes and fire...
Length: 80:00mins
Year produced: 2003
Production code: 20218
War is closing in on Iraq. The United States believes Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction that could be used to attack America. Iraq denies it has these weapons and has argued that America'...
Production code: 20205
The most terrifying legacy of September 11th 2001 is the realization that a no-threat scenario is impossible. Another attack can happen at any time; but in the next attack the perpetrators might well ...
Production code: 20180
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
National Geographic's award-winning producer, Lisa Truitt, takes viewers behind-the-scenes on her filming adventure in the Arctic in this episode of ON ASSIGNMENT. Truitt and her National Geographic f...
Length: 26:00mins
Year produced: 1996
Production code: 20295
Author Sebastian Junger and photographer Reza enter a modern day Armageddon. Traveling through war-torn Afghanistan, National Geographic Explorer follows these two journalists on their search for Ahme...
Length: 48:00mins
Year produced: 2002
Production code: 65053-03
In the San Juan Mountains in Colorado, is Bridalveil, a waterfall 40 stories high, frozen in mid-cascade. Delicate and dangerous, it's one of the country's most famous ice climbs. But for ten years, n...
Year produced: 1994
Production code: 93A22
Some children really are raised by animals, adopted by the pack or the pride or the herd after their human caregivers turn their backs....
Education Subject areas: Literature
Year produced: 2007
Production code: 14011-10
1500 years after the fact - or the fiction - what can archaeology and scholarship tell us about this most romanticized of all kings?...
Production code: 14011-11
Are vampires real or unreal, dead or alive? Let's tear open the crypt, drag them into the light of day and find out once and for all....
Production code: 14011-01
National Geographic follows Michael Davie into the thick of the Balkans conflict as he travels through Albania, investigating the lives of young Kosovo refugees....
Year produced: 1999
Production code: 20045
Photojournalist Peter Crosby and World Bank economist Atsuko Horiguchi are on a mission. They want to see the China that tourists don't get to, without guides and translators. They plan to ride from B...
Length: 12:00mins
Production code: 93495
The cheetah is the fastest animal on land. Nothing can escape its sprint. But now the cheetah is in trouble, and is even facing extinction. Photographer Chris Johns is in search of the cheetahs of sou...
Length: 20:00mins
Production code: 93198
Dirt track racers run the course at South Carolina's Cherokee Speedway, a proving ground for many race car drivers hoping to make it big on the asphalt tracks of the NASCAR circuit. Dirt track drivers...
Year produced: 1998
Production code: 94797
Over the years, piranhas have gotten a bad reputation. They are seen as vicious creatures waiting to strike, with no mercy. Richard Conniff writes about animals like piranhas, and sees himself as an i...
Length: 10:00mins
Production code: 93698
National Geographic host Boyd Matson gets behind the wheel of a classic racing sports car for the 15th annual Vintage Grand Prix in Pittsburgh. Strapping himself into a 1958 British-made Morgan Plus-4...
Length: 14:00mins
Production code: 94597
Actor Cliff Robertson has been flying planes since he was 14. But it was only about 10 years ago that he started flying in gliders and became a wave-soaring enthusiast. A mountain wave is a unique met...
Length: 16:00mins
Year produced: 1997
Production code: 93597