Dare to take a shocking look at our time. We live in a violent era where man's inhumanity to man abounds. Death tolls are rising and acts of violence are becoming increasingly frequent. As we close in on the year 2000, we must ask ourselves whether t...
" All the scenes you will see in this film are true and taken only from life. If often they are shocking, it is because there are many astounding and unbelievable things in this world...."
Gaultiero Jacopetti. There is more of a strange and grotesqu...
The term terrorism is largely aynonymous with "political violence," and reters to a strategy of using coordinated attacks that typically fall within the time, manner of conduct, and place commonly understood as unconventional warfare. "Terrorist atta...
See and explore the power and the beauty of our planet's natural phenomenon. These natural wonders are a real, daily threat to a large fraction of the world's population, but they also provide new and fertile lands for human use. Scientists are learn...
Life is full obstacles: birth. growing up, finding a mate, making a home and dying. Animals have devised bizarre solutions to survive, such as a Godwit whose intermal organs shrink, and an Owl butterfly whose "eye" spots deceive predators. Other weor...
Travel to wind-swept islands off New Zealand, as scientists and divers battle weather and fear to gain a greater understanding of the little-known great white shark. The great white is one of the world's most accomplished aquatic assassins due to the...
The Antarctic Katabatic, the world's most powerful wind, is an elemental force. Beginning as a breeze, the katabatic slowly builds up speed across the yeast white continent and whips down to the sea, shaping land and ice, influencing all life and spa...
World War II Army Enlistment Records provide a rich source of information for genealogists and other researchers at the National Archives and Records Adminstration interested in Army enlistees in World War II. Since their release through NARA's Acces...
This isolated archipelago of eight paradise islands situated in the Pacific Ocean is fiftieth state of the USA.Even though Hawaii is one on American's favorite vocation spots, 30 years of mass tourism have failed to spoil the tropical beauty of this ...
Situated on the northwest corner of South America, the Peruvian Andes contrast dramatically with the lush tropical rain forests making Peru one of the most geographically and culturally diverse countries on earth.
Traveler Neil Gibson starts his ad...
Argentina is the world's eighth largest country, and one of remarkable variety. The magnificent desolation of Patagonia and the High Andes contrast dramatically wit hthe urban frenzy of Buenos Aires, one of the world's largest and most cosmopolitan c...
Cuba is the largest and least commercialized Caribbean country. The political isolation that has kept tourists away helps keep the culture intact and visitors are spoilt by a vibrant and colonial welcome.
Traveller Ian Wright skydives onto a Havana ...
Mongolia is sandwiched between Russia and China and has always stirred up images of the weird and wonderful. Independent since the collapse of the soviet Union in 1991, it retains its eastern charm and remains one of the most adventurous and rewardin...
Spanning a number of states in the western part of North America, the Rockies cover over 1000 square miles from Canada to New Mexico. Steeped in the myths and legends of cowboys and indians, it's an area better known as the Wild Wild West.
Traveler ...
Tanzania is one of Africa's largest countries, a land of vast plains, lakes and mountains. It is home to the Serengeti, Mount Kilimanjaro and offers some of the best wildlife spotting opportunities on the planet. Traveler Ian Wright begins his journe...
Join traveler Justine Shapiro as she explores Venice by boat and on foot, through the romantic canals by pin-up gondolier Gianbattista into a maze of labyrinthine alleyways where she stumbles upon hidden treasures.
Venice is the only truly amphibiou...
Sydney is the gateway to Australia, a vibrant and cosmopolitan city built around a beautiful natural harbor, overlooking the South Pacific. Inhabited by aboriginal people for over 60,000years, the arrival of the convict ships from Britain in the 19th...
Known as the 'great' desert city of Morocco, Marrakech lies 60 miles from the coast, next to Morocco's towering Atlas Mountain Range. The city itself is a fusion of Africa, Europe and the Islamic world, divided between the Ville Nouvelle, built by th...
Breast cancer prevention only 5 yearsago did not exist. But now these are ways of finding pre-cancerous cells long before they have turned into a cancerous lump. In 2000, a new treatment known as ductal lavage, which involves washing out the breast's...
Will science really find a way to give us greatly extended lifespans and even immortality? Meet scientists dedicated to this mission. We also explore cyronics, where humans are frozen, in suspended animation, with the hopes that future technology wil...
Waiting in lines, problems at work, challenging relationships, traffic, financial difficulties, the death of a loved one - these are some of the biggest reasons we all feel stress. A little stress can be good - It keeps us alert, safe and helps us ad...
See and explore the power and the beauty of our planet's natural phenomenon. Tornadoes are formed when a special type of thunderstorm, called a supercell, pulls in warm humid air and pushes it through a powerful updraft. In the United States, this ha...
The world's most talented builders and engineers design and contruct mind-boggling structures that stretch the limits of engineering to the extreme. At a half-mile high, Millennium Tower was a piker by comparison. With its twenty-four steel, concrete...
Human beings now travel the globe, to some of the most remote and hostile regions, and in doing so come up against the most deadly weather, violent storms that can rip a person to shreds, floods tha carry them away and drown them and blizzads that ca...
Naked Science explores the life and death of the Sun. We explore what will happen in the future as the Sun ages? How are our lives linked to the Sun's life cycle? How are explosions on the Sun generated? What the effects of solar storms on Earth and ...
In this episode, we take a look at the most up-to-date research being carried out into the phenomena, involving modern imaging teachnologies that take us right into the center of the issue - the brain itself. Naked Science investigates this mysteriou...
"Animal of the Chinese Zodiac" pits the zodiac predictions of each of the animal signs against the twelve living, breathing animals themselves. Those of you born in the Chinese year of the Snake are said to be seductive and beguiling but does the sna...
Bill Nye explores the most important discoveries leading to our understanding of the universe. The theories of Einstein and Galileo led to significant breakthroughs in understanding the universe. Additionally, the work of Aristotle, Copernicus, Keple...
If unidentified flying objects did come from space, how could they have traveled to earth? And how could they survive in our atmosphere? Finally, Naked Science asks possibly the most shocking question of all, could aliens already be among us. To find...
The Republic is awork ofart thathas intrigued,provoked,ppalled and inspired readers since it was written in ancient Athens 2500 years ago. Its author, Plato, has simultaneously been called the father of philosophy, the first fascist, a revolutionary,...