It offers three whirlwind tours of America's architectural treasures: the ten homes, ten parks, and ten towns that changed our country. Explore American houses through the ages, enjoy a lively history of landscape architecture and our most beloved parks, and discover the story of how we have planned our cities over time. In an episode called 10 Homes that Changed America, we explore American housing through the ages; including a 600 year old Native...

Follows Dr. Stephanie Dalley as she hunts for the gardens using ancient texts and spy satellite images to uncover evidence to support her theory that the gardens were built 100 years before commonly believed. Her search takes her to one of the most dangerous places on earth in a modern-day adventure story searching to find a site thousands of years old.

The Zero killer: No Allied aircraft can match Japan's deadly Zero until the American Navy deploys the fearsome F6F Hellcat. Strap in with legendary dogfighters Robert Duncan, Hamilton McWhorter, and Alex Vraciu to relive the epic dogfights of 1943 that wrote a new chapter in the annals of aerial combat. The last gunfighter: Tackle the fierce North Vietnamese MiG in the Navy's best fighter, the F8 Crusader, alongside jocks Paul Speer and Phil Wood,...

Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film chronicles 10 of their stories: three of the world's foremost...

Showcases bird's-eye views of flights of various birds across six continents.

Blending state-of-the-art digital graphics with real footage, Ocean Odyssey is a breathtaking underwater adventure that fully immerses you in the beauty and dangers of the deep. See the sperm whale and other marine animals.

Join Rick Steves as he travels across Europe on the most vivid trip viewers can take without a plane ticket. Shows include: Naples and Pompeii; Italy's Amalfi Coast; Milan and Lake Como; Tuscany's Dolce Vita; Italy's Great Hill Towns; and Cinque Terre: Italy's Hidden Riviera.

Presents excerpts from the first 25 years of the television series Nature.

Known commonly as the creator of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain's rich and varied life is eloquently revealed. The story spans Twain's career as prolific writer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, drama critic, publisher, and world traveler, while at the same time mirroring the rise of America from frontier days to world power. Over 1,000 period photos impart a sense of action and vitality as they illustrate Twain's life from his boyhood to...

A massive survey of science from flint tools to the theory of relativity. It was made as a science counterpart to Sir Kenneth Clark's series Civilisation, with Jacob Bronowski presenting his own view of science and mankind.