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  • 2009
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    Picturing the Presidents

    Picturing the Presidents

    7.00 2009 HD

    We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.

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  • 2020
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    Monkeys of Bioko

    Monkeys of Bioko

    8.00 2020 HD

    Roughly 20 miles off the coast of west Africa, sits a volcanic relic now completely blanketed in equatorial rainforest: the island of Bioko. It's...

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  • 2019
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    Wolf vs Bear

    Wolf vs Bear

    8.00 2019 HD

    In the far reaches of the North, wolf and bear come head to head. Winter has been long. The melting ice reveal scattered carcasses in the Swamp: a...

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  • 2015
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    Surviving the Serengeti

    Surviving the Serengeti

    1 2015 HD

    20 years after the TV Mini-Series "Tales of the Serengeti", our crew reunites to truly explore the Serengeti, with no fiction. We almost didn't...

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  • 2016
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    China's Emperor of Evil

    China's Emperor of Evil

    10.00 2016 HD

    In China's Valley of the Kings, there stands a tall, carved stone. It honors the resting place of a woman named Wu Zetian, who rose from concubine to...

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  • 2010
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    Pride in Battle

    Pride in Battle

    9.00 2010 HD

    A documentary which follows two lion brothers as they become rulers of a pride in Botswana after a battle for dominance.

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  • 2015
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    Moby Dick: Heart Of A Whale

    Moby Dick: Heart Of A Whale

    6.00 2015 HD

    Herman Melville's epic ocean adventure "Moby Dick" is an American masterpiece. But was this stirring tale of violence and revenge simply an allegory,...

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  • 2018
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    Hannibal's March on Rome

    Hannibal's March on Rome

    5.20 2018 HD

    Even 2,000 years after his death, General Hannibal's battle strategies are still studied today. But of all his military feats, perhaps his greatest...

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  • 2020
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    Survival Of The Snow Leopard

    Survival Of The Snow Leopard

    10.00 2020 HD

    Spend three years in China's remote and inhospitable Tibetan Plateau, home to nearly all the world's snow leopards.

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  • 2020
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    Shark Ganglands

    Shark Ganglands

    1 2020 HD

    Ascension Island, a remote Mid-Atlantic outpost famous for its big game fishing, is under siege. Tiger sharks, hammerheads, even great whites, lured...

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  • 2017
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    Desert Lions

    Desert Lions

    1 2017 HD

    Enter the harsh and unforgiving Kalahari and follow a lion pride attempt to save their threatened bloodline.

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  • 2010
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    Diving with Crocodiles

    Diving with Crocodiles

    1 2010 HD

    Documentary which follows crocodile expert Brad Bestelink on a quest to dive with crocodiles without a cage or any other protection.

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  • 2019
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    Darwin & the Beagle's Scandal

    Darwin & the Beagle's Scandal

    1 2019 HD

    Before he wrote the book that revolutionized the way people understood evolution, a young Charles Darwin found himself, by chance, on a strange sea...

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  • 2013
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    Kennedy's Suicide Bomber

    Kennedy's Suicide Bomber

    1 2013 HD

    In 1960, a lone assassin planned a deadly attempt on the life of President-Elect John F Kennedy. With a Buick packed with dynamite, nothing was going...

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  • 2015
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    Napoleon's Waterloo

    Napoleon's Waterloo

    1 2015 HD

    It lasted only one day on a small piece of land, but the impact the Battle of Waterloo had on history is massive and far-reaching. This is the...

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  • 2015
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    iCrocodile

    iCrocodile

    1 2015 HD

    A high-tech autopsy on a Nile crocodile unlocks secrets behind its hunting prowess.

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  • 2014
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    The Last Emperor of Mexico

    The Last Emperor of Mexico

    1 2014 HD

    In Austria, he was known as an art collector and idealist. In Mexico, he was a colonialist aggressor responsible for thousands of deaths. And in...

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  • 2015
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    Samurai Warrior Queens

    Samurai Warrior Queens

    8.00 2015 HD

    The drama documentary tells the real life story of Samurai woman Takeko Nakano who in 1868 fights for her clans' independence in a final battle that...

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  • 2015
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    Secrets of the Hive

    Secrets of the Hive

    8.50 2015 HD

    Honeybees are in crisis – but there is hope. Biologists are studying the estimated 20.000 bee species in the world to look for viable...

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  • 2014
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    Cheetah: Race to Rule

    Cheetah: Race to Rule

    1 2014 HD

    This is the story of a cheetah born into the Linyanti cheetah coalition. He is the runt of the litter and will have to fight hard for every scrap of...

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