A mind-blowing romp through history builds a pathway to the present – and a breakthrough that stands to profoundly change our future.

Connections with James Burke

Cleopatra may be the most famous ancient monarch, but she is only one in a long line of Egyptian queens, spanning 3,000 years of history.

Queens of Ancient Egypt

The Naked City’s most notorious crimes of the 20th century, told in the hard-boiled voice of the classic noir stories of the era.

Scary Tales of New York

Homicide detective Rod Demery and forensic scientist Turi King examine a skeleton unearthed in a remote sea cave in Scotland. Dated to the time of the Picts, the team recreate the attack to deduce the victim’s most likely killer. Suspects include a sea raider, a pagan, and a rival leader.

Homicide detective Rod Demery and forensic scientist Turi King examine a murder victim unearthed in a remote sea cave in Scotland.

Rosemarkie Man

Life on Earth can be fiercely competitive and, at the same time, intricately interconnected as species survive through one another.

Nature's Hidden Miracles

Nepal is known for its Bengal tigers, but only 300 remain in the wild. Tracker Casey Anderson is determined to walk in their footsteps.

The Tracker’s Diary: Tigers of Nepal

A (very) fictional nincompoop of an Evil Genius orders science-brained minions to make his ultimate goals of world domination a reality.

Science For Evil Geniuses

It’s the dry season near the Serengeti and hungry lions threaten the livelihood of cattle-herder Rugari and his family. He could kill the predatory lions and protect his cattle, but his daughter seeks another solution. Filmed on location in Tanzania—where the worlds of lions and humans collide.

When hungry lions threaten the livelihood of a cattle-herder and his family, they are faced with a terrible life-and-death decision. Filmed on location in Tanzania.

Living with Lions

A whirlwind tour of 2023's biggest breakthroughs, from discovering the earliest human footprints and detecting distant gravitational waves, to unlocking the power of fusion.

A whirlwind tour of 2023's biggest breakthroughs, from the earliest human footprints and distant gravitational waves to the power of fusion.

Amazing Dinoworld 2

With Artificial Intelligence evolving so rapidly, will it surpass human intelligence? Could this lead to our replacement—or, worse, our extinction? Top experts provide a clear understanding of the immense benefits and potential dangers of AI.

With Artificial Intelligence evolving so rapidly, will it surpass human intelligence? Top experts provide a clear understanding of AI's potential benefits and dangers.

AI Tipping Point

Explore the most exciting disciplines in popular science today to see how the cutting-edge technologies work and impact the real world.

Forging the Future

Can AI enable us to live forever? Explore the latest advancements in AI, robotics and biotech with visionaries who foresee a new age of “post-biological” life. As scientists point toward a world where humans and machines merge, we have to ask: “Will AI be the best, or the last thing we ever do?”

Can AI help us live forever? Explore the latest in AI and biotech with visionaries who foresee a new age of “post-biological” life.

Artificial Immortality

Dr. Jane Goodall and her staff prepare to reintroduce a special group of rescued and rehabilitated chimpanzees to the wild.

Rescued Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane Goodall (Season 2)

A giant mass of floating seaweed is invading popular beaches in the US and Caribbean! At sea, the sargassum belt is a floating ecosystem, but when it hits the shore it turns toxic. Scientists are racing to figure out how to protect the coast while tracking and studying this natural wonder.

A giant mass of floating seaweed is invading popular beaches in the US and Caribbean!

The Great Seaweed Invasion

Forget the textbooks! These 8 fast-paced episodes reveal the funny, disturbing, weird, but always interesting bits of history.

History: The Interesting Bits

4-part series revealing the real history of the Wild West. Beyond gunslingers and lawmen, we meet the diverse pioneers who shaped a country.

The Real Wild West

Be an eyewitness to cataclysmic events all across the globe with dramatic footage of natural and manmade disasters from the past 100 years.

Desperate Hours

We think of fungi as the bottom of the food chain, the recyclers in the circle of life. But fungi are predators. They feed on life. And there are more out there than we ever knew. As we spread into every corner of planet Earth, they are also discovering us – and that we might be the perfect host.

We think of fungi as the bottom of the food chain, the recyclers in the circle of life. But fungi are predators. And there are more out there than we ever knew.

Attack of the Zombie Fungus

This ten-episode series explores the world’s most celebrated, renowned structures and spaces in different architectural genres.

Top 10: The Art of Architecture

WW2. The British Royal Navy turn to a retired wargamer and an unlikely group of young women to develop tactics and sink the German U-boats.

War Gamers

Circle the globe on this exhilarating 5-part epic that “connects the dots" between the GIANTS of the natural world, past and present.

Giants

Gjellestad, Norway. Archaeologists made the discovery of a lifetime: a 20-meter-long, 1200-year-old Viking funeral ship. Who is hiding in the grave? Is Gjellestad one of the oldest Viking settlements? What can this coffin tell us about the daily lives, beliefs, and traditions of the Vikings?

Gjellestad, Norway. Archaeologists made the discovery of a lifetime: a 20-meter-long, 1200-year-old Viking funeral ship. Who is hiding in the grave?

Vikings: The Lost Kingdom

Lift the Ice follows the adventures of six uniquely skilled experts as they investigate the remarkable mysteries emerging from our ice.

Lift the Ice

We’ve known about them for centuries and have been photographing them for decades, but a new pair of missions will be launching to bring us closer than we’ve ever been to Jupiter’s icy moons. Revealing answers to what may be astronomy’s biggest question…do the conditions for life exist beyond Earth?

Two new missions will bring us closer to Jupiter’s icy moons. Revealing answers to what may be astronomy’s biggest question…do the conditions for life exist beyond Earth?

Jupiter's Moons and the Search for Life

Humanity is closer than ever before to a perpetual clean power source after a team of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain. We now know one thing is possible, we can reach ignition.

Humanity is closer than ever before to a perpetual clean power source.

Fusion: Harnessing the Power of Stars

Just how much ‘science’ is in ‘forensic science’? It’s time to put crime scene investigation methods on trial.

CSI On Trial

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

California

These are the Innovators, explorers, and incredible minds that pursue progress… at any price.

Deadly Science

Pirates! Hollywood has fueled our imaginations and turned them into popular icons. Beyond literature and fantasy, the documentary reveals who these fearless adventurers and these masters of the sea once were.

Pirates! Hollywood has fueled our imagination, but the documentary reveals who these fearless adventurers and these masters of the sea once were.

The True Story of Pirates

Only a few years ago science fiction, today reality: private companies send astronauts, tourists and technology into space. The competition for technical supremacy in space has begun. This film shows the complicated dynamics between public and private interests in the "New Space".

This movie shows the complicated dynamics between public and private interests in the "New Space".