We join candidates for the rank of Master Sommelier on a beautiful and often bumpy road to certification. Featuring interviews with Master Sommeliers Larry Stone, Jay Fletcher, and Advanced Sommelier Julie Dalton, we find out just what it takes to reach the coveted rank of Master.

We join candidates for the rank of Master Sommelier on a beautiful and often bumpy road to certification.

School for Sommelier

Rachel Barton Pine overcame a troubled home and personal trauma to become one of the world's foremost violinists. Her inspiring journey continues as she gives back to others and moves us with her virtuosic performances.

Rachel Barton Pine overcame a troubled home and personal trauma to become one of the world's foremost violinists.

Music Moves Our Souls

Elvis Presley paid $4 to record two songs for his mother and the rest, as they say, is history. But without Elvis, would rock and roll have gone the same route? And how have the many iterations of rock and roll developed and changed our taste and culture since the 1950's?

Elvis Presley paid $4 to record two songs for his mother and the rest, as they say, is history. But without Elvis, would rock and roll have gone the same route?

The Birth Of Rock

How did one man succeed in relaunching the Olympic spirit and turn the Games into a global event?

The Olympic Games: A Mirror To Society

Discovered by accident in 1946, the microwave oven revolutionized kitchens and today is one of the most ubiquitous household appliances in the world. But the technology behind it is about so much more than popping popcorn. In fact, it might just be the greatest time saver of all time.

Discovered by accident in 1946, the microwave oven revolutionized kitchens and today is one of the most ubiquitous household appliances in the world.

The Microwave

A century after he transformed baseball, celebrity culture, and the American experience, the Babe remains. Known as the Sultan of Swat and the Bambino, Babe Ruth was something completely new. During the 1920s in the United States, the Babe was everywhere.

A century after he transformed baseball, celebrity culture, and the American experience, the Babe, the Sultan of Swat, the Bambino - Babe Ruth remains.

Babe Ruth

Walt Disney’s memory has long been overshadowed by the corporate powerhouse that bears his name. Explore the personal side of the man who brought animated characters to life, revolutionized entertainment, and saw the future as a magical place filled with possibilities.

Explore the personal side of the man who brought animated characters to life, revolutionized entertainment, and saw the future as a magical place with many possibilities.

Walt Disney

Meet Alex McCoy, an award-winning chef on a mission to perfect an American classic: the hamburger. He'll walk you through his tips and tricks to craft the perfect burger, all in the comfort of your kitchen.

Meet Alex McCoy, an award-winning chef on a mission to perfect an American classic: the hamburger. He'll walk you through his tips and tricks to craft the perfect burger.

Cooking the Perfect Burger

Steak and potatoes - if there's a better combination out there, we've yet to taste it. Award-winning chef Alex McCoy tests a variety of methods to ensure that you cook the ultimate steak right from your home.

Award-winning chef Alex McCoy tests a variety of methods to ensure that you cook the ultimate steak right from your home.

Cooking the Ultimate Steak

Few films have had a bigger impact on the American psyche than “Woodstock.” Producer Dale Bell reveals what it took to create the revolutionary documentary that captured the defining moment of 1960s counterculture.

Producer Dale Bell reveals what it took to create the revolutionary documentary that captured the defining moment of 1960s counterculture.

Capturing Woodstock

What do you get when you combine a passion for tiny-house living with cutting-edge green technology? Designer Graham Hill converts a small shed in Hawaii into the ultimate eco-friendly tiny house and a blueprint for sustainable home design.

Tiny House: Living Off the Grid

Increasingly high-tech tools are being used to evaluate youth baseball players. The question is can they outperform professional scouts?

Predicting A Pro

The face of baseball is rapidly changing. The next generation of major league stars are using cutting-edge science and technology to drive their performance to unprecedented heights.

Engineering A Pro

What does it take to become a professional tennis player? Both on and off the court preparations help build the strength of character and focused mind to take on the challenges of a sport that demands precision and superior athleticism.

What does it take to become a professional tennis player?

Path to the Pros

What do you get when you cross a clown teacher, a comedian and neuroscientist? Surprising new insights about what it takes to be funny.

Can You Learn to Be Funny?

More than 400 million cups of coffee are consumed in the United States alone each day, making it one of the hottest drinks – even when served cold. Experts reveal some of the surprising secrets that make your favorite coffees taste the way they do.

More than 400 million cups of coffee are consumed in the United States alone each day, making it one of the hottest drinks – even when served cold.

Coffee Buzz

Current research in nutrition points to our diet as the most important factor in continued good health and longevity. Doctors, chefs, and nutritionists show us how going green with fresh ingredients and flavors in our daily meals will improve our health.

Doctors, chefs, and nutritionists show us how going green with fresh ingredients and flavors in our daily meals will improve our health.

Veggie Power

Marjorie Merriweather Post, the woman who built Mar-a-Lago in the 1920s, had a grand vision for the estate to one day become a “Winter White House”. She may have never imagined in her wildest dreams the ironic twists and turns the Palm Beach property would take in accomplishing the mission.

In the 1920s, Marjorie Merriweather Post, envisioned Mar-a-Lago as a “Winter White House”. She may have never imagined the ironic twists and turns the Palm Beach property would take.

The Birth Of Mar-a-Lago

We are obsessed with flavor, yet taste is the most overlooked sense. Surprising new discoveries are changing our understanding of taste, and how it has evolved to keep us alive.

We are obsessed with flavor, yet taste is the most overlooked sense

Evolution of Flavor

Actress Hedy Lamarr, “the world's most beautiful woman,” had a knack for inventing. During WWII, in an effort to help the Allies, she devised a technology designed to intercept Axis communications – and created the foundation of wireless internet.

Actress Hedy Lamarr, “the world's most beautiful woman,” had a knack for inventing. During WWII, she devised a technology designed to intercept Axis communications.

WIFI | The Hollywood Actress Who Laid the Groundwork For Wi-Fi

FOUR TRILLION FRIES - we are what we eat: a drive-thru history of a hundred years of fast food, from the burger's humble beginnings to its conquest of America and the world beyond.

We are what we eat: a drive-thru history of a hundred years of fast food, from the burger's humble beginnings to its conquest of America and the world beyond.

4 Trillion French Fries

What makes a world-class musician tick? What drives the urge to create and perform music?

Curious Minds: Music

How do we make decisions as a country and a society about the quality of our food? How does this impact the global supply of food?

Curious Minds: Food Science

How can you explain Shakespeare's genius? How do you account for the lasting influence of his works 500 years later?

Curious Minds: Shakespeare

What does 'food security' mean in our daily lives? What are the factors affecting food supplies and distribution around the world?

Curious Minds: Global Food Supply

Wildlife expert and photographer, Casey Anderson, introduces us to some amazing wildlife in Yellowstone!

Casey's Wild Backyard

Doctors, chefs and nutritionists weigh in on how changes in diet can positively affect health and longevity.

Prescription: Nutrition

Go back in time to our earliest hunter-gatherer beginnings all the way to the future of seed storage and food production.

The History of Food

Investigating mankind's insatiable necessity to move faster and further; for pleasure, for work, to explore, to survive.

Speed

After circumnavigating Africa by bicycle and rowing from Africa to America, Riaan Manser is one of the most accomplished adventurers.

How To Adventure

Go deep into the harsh realities for football stars at one famed high school, where winning championships is a chance at a better life.

4th & Forever

What's My Car Worth takes viewers on a tour of the greatest garages in the U.S. Car assessment experts offer sellers their best bets.

What's My Car Worth? (Season 1)

What's My Car Worth? (Season 2)

What's My Car Worth? (Season 3)

What's My Car Worth? (Season 4)

What's My Car Worth? (Season 5)

What's My Car Worth? (Season 6)

What's My Car Worth? (Season 7)

They are the people that rock our world; what rocks theirs? Beyond the Spotlight goes beyond fame to reveal the passions of celebrities.

Beyond the Spotlight

Engineer and adventurer Rob Bell climbs aboard some of the world’s fastest theme park rides and discovers how these rides affect our bodies

Science of Thrills

In our new series with @My Name Is Andong, we’re exploring how to eat like different legendary figures from history.

Eat Like

Inspiration, power, greed, scandal—a story that was made for the movies. The gripping drama of how Hollywood was built.

Titans: The Rise of Hollywood

From NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Silicon Valley, from Hollywood to Haight-Ashbury, famous Californians tell the story of their state