Discovery Channel (Firm)

The Arctic and Antarctic remain the greatest wildernesses on Earth. The scale and beauty of the scenery and the sheer power of the elements, the weather, the rough ocean and the ice, is unmatched anywhere else on our planet. tells the compelling story of animals such as the wandering albatross, the adelie penguin and the polar bear, and paints a portrait that will take your breath away, at a moment when, melting fast, the frozen regions of our planet...

Features four revealing films previously seen on the Discovery Channel. Award-winning director and producer Gordon Forbes III lived beside and filmed the Navy's commando force for more than six years in order to make the films in this revealing collection. Go inside the world of a U.S. Navy SEAL; High-speed boats, top-secret aircraft, assault vehicles and mini submarines; Experience 'Hell Week' without the pain of actually going through it; and more....

Contains instructions for science fair projects based on experiments conducted on the "MythBusters" television series in attempts to discover the truth behind popular myths and urban legends.

"The Blue Planet: Seas of Life is the definitive exploration of the marine world, chronicling the mysteries of the deep in ways never before imagined."

Green Berets are American's unconventional warfare specialists. Go inside their selection process, a two-week hellish assessment with tasks specifically designed to mentally and physically break a man and expose his real character. Finishing this test doesn't mean they passed.

Includes recommended restaurants and hotels ; best shopping ; and top sights.

Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we come from? These are among the most enduring and profound questions we can ask, and it is an essential part of human nature to want to find the answers. We can trace our ancestry back hundreds of thousands of years to the dawn of humankind, but in reality our story extends much further back: it starts with the beginning of the universe. In this groundbreaking new series, Professor Brian Cox tells the epic story...

This film, like many from director Werner Herzog, is a poem of oddness and beauty. Investigating the lives of the "professional dreamers" who conduct research at the bottom of the world in Antarctica, he finds a happily cynical lot, who regard climate change and the potential extinction of Homo sapiens in rather a different light than most people. They study penguins, seals, volcanoes, miniscule underwater creatures, and the shifting ice patterns....