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  • 2015
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    Raiders of the Jade Empire
    Raiders of the Jade Empire

    1 2015 HD

    China, as we know it today, would not exist without the Han Dynasty. About two millenniums ago, its emperors ruled for over 400 years, and yet, few...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Eric Meyers

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  • 2018
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    Volcanoes: dual destruction
    Volcanoes: dual destruction

    7.00 2018 HD

    Genre: Documentary

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Ann Dewig

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  • 2016
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    Pompeii: The Dead Speak
    Pompeii: The Dead Speak

    1 2016 HD

    When Mount Vesuvius obliterated the city of Pompeii in 79 A.D., it preserved the bodies of about 2,000 victims, freezing them in their final moments....

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Steven Kamer

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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.

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2014
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    Stranded: Alpine Air Crash
    Stranded: Alpine Air Crash

    1 2014 HD

    In November 19, 1946, a U.S. military transport plane goes out of control while flying over the Swiss Alps and crashes high in the mountains....

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Beng Spies

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  • 2021
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    Breaking the Sound Barrier
    Breaking the Sound Barrier

    8.00 2021 HD

    The history of the people and the planes that first broke the speed barrier in 1947 and the impact it has had on aviation and how we fly today.

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2019
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    Isle of Chimps
    Isle of Chimps

    1 2019 HD

    A colorful portrait of Uganda's gamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, a place where orphaned and rescued chimpanzees - victims of the illegal exotic pet...

    Genre: Documentary

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Alan Sklar

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  • 2015
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    Goshawk - Soul of the Wind
    Goshawk - Soul of the Wind

    1 2015 HD

    A visually stunning portrait of one of nature's most agile and fearsome predators, the Goshawk. This secretive bird of prey can be hard to see in the...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: J.V. Martin

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  • 1970
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    Tiger Tales
    Tiger Tales

    1 1970 HD

    Peek at the first hours of three tiger cubs to their first swim at the National Zoo.

    Genre: Documentary

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