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Delivering an unparalleled look at the cheetah's circle, EXPLORER follows a mother and her cubs' struggle to survive...
Length: 45:00mins
Education Subject areas: Biology, General Science
Year produced: 1999
Production code: 36197
The concept is simple. This is a real-life woodpecker soap, filmed in intimate and revealing detail. Each bird in the group has a distinct character, with its own agenda for survival and immortality. ...
Length: 26:00mins
Year produced: 1998
Production code: 34096
More than a decade ago, Chobe National Park stole the hearts of Dereck and Beverly Joubert. They quit their jobs in their native South Africa, sold everything they owned and made a new home in the par...
Length: 27:00mins
Education Subject areas: Life Science, Personal & Social Perspectives
Year produced: 1993
Production code: 91A68
Follow marine scientists as they discover the mating ritual of the Atlantic nurse shark in the remotest of Florida's Keys, The Dry Tortugas. Here, protected marine life exists as it did twenty-five ye...
Length: 52:00mins
Year produced: 1995
Production code: 93A54
Atmospheric pollutants--emitted mainly by motor vehicles and industry--dangerously increase the natural acidity in rain. Acid precipitation has a number of harmful effects for plants, soil, and water....
Length: 01:00mins
Education Subject areas: Earth Science, Personal & Social Perspectives
Year produced: 2010
Production code: QAI1360
This short discusses the acorn weevil. It explains how this insect lays its eggs in acorns, where they stay until they hatch. It also talks about the dangers the larvae face as they begin their journe...
Length: 02:00mins
Education Subject areas: Biology, Life Science
Year produced: 2008
Acorn woodpeckers peck holes in trees to hoard acorns and fend off ground squirrels who try to steal them....
Length: 03:00mins
First discovered in the 1940s, active galaxies release enormous quantities of energy into space. Learn about some active galaxies, including seyfert, quasar, and radio galaxies. Black holes--bodies so...
Education Subject areas: General Science, Physical Science
Africa is a large continent that stretches north and south of the Equator, between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. It is formed of a gigantic plateau, with a variety of relief features, including hill...
Education Subject areas: Earth Science, General Science
To call this trek an ambitious hike would be something of an understatement. In National Geographic's AFRICA EXTREME Wildlife Conservation Society ecologist, Dr. Michael Fay, sets out to survey the bi...
Year produced: 2001
Production code: 20058
The search is on to find Africa's most deadly snake. Boomslangs, rinkhals and black mambas - these are three of the deadliest snakes in the world that can kill their victim whether man or beast with a...
Year produced: 2000
Production code: 34598
Short titled "Science and Exploration: The Impact of the Columbian Exchange on Europe and America". This short tells the history of the Columbian Exchange, starting with the explorat...
Length: 05:00mins
Year produced: 0000
Production code: EDU06
Young laysan albatrosses learn to fly at breeding colony in Hawaii. Those unlucky to fall into the ocean might be eaten by tiger sharks, if they cannot take off....
Nutria, semi-aquatic South American rodent imports, have invaded Louisiana wetlands. Once prized for their fur, zoologists examine how much environmental damage the nutria appetite creates. Voracious ...
Straight out of science fiction, a six-foot alligator ends up dead inside the belly of a 13-foot python. Why did these two massive predators come to mortal blows? And how did a Burmese python end up i...
Year produced: 2006
Production code: 20340
Born of Fire brings you up close and personal - both above and below the surface -with our lava- and magma -driven world. We start at the beginning, in an obscure corner of the universe, where a relat...
Education Subject areas: Earth Science, Physical Science
Year produced: 2007
Production code: 14010-01
Why do mountains have a triangular shape? How much rain must fall to start a river? How does one grain of sand become an entire dune? Join National Geographic as we show you how our Amazing Planet is ...
Production code: 14010-03
Beautiful, bewildering, and mysterious- our oceans dominate our planet. But how did they form and why haven't they evaporated? Starting with the primordial weather burped out of the molten earth and r...
Production code: 14010-02
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...
Production code: 10996
National Geographic follows in the footsteps of a pioneering pack of red wolves reintroduced to the wilds of North Carolina - the Milltail Pack. Because so little is known about the red wolf in the wi...
Year produced: 2002
Production code: 30054