Documentary Archive

After Armageddon

2012-02-19T12:24:00.000-04:00

A HISTORY CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY: After Armageddon discusses what life would be like for those left on the planet after a devastating pandemic while exploring the challenges and dangers we might have to overcome to survive in this new world.

Ancient Aliens - Aliens and Evil Places

2012-02-13T14:06:00.000-04:00

PART OF THE HISTORY CHANNEL SERIES, ANCIENT ALIENS: Aliens and Evil Places discusses some of the more ominous and foreboding places and happenings on the planet, and wonders if they might be in any way related to ancient alien visitations.

Nova - Absolute Zero

2012-02-13T13:25:00.002-04:00

PART OF THE PBS SERIES, NOVA: Absolute Zero is a two episode documentary that discusses what cold actually is as a force in the universe, and how mankind's understanding of the lower temperatures changed the way our civilized world has evolved.

The Conquest of Cold
Episode 1

Episode one of this series discusses what drove early scientists to start looking at the more frigged temperatures as a force to be studied and measured, and how our understanding of cold began to develop from then.

The Race for Absolute Zero
Episode 2

Episode two of this series explains how and when scientists began to peruse and apply the lowest of the low temperatures to create human advances such as steam locomotion, refrigeration, and air conditioning.

The Universe - Astrobiology

2012-02-12T15:57:00.000-04:00

PART OF THE HISTORY CHANNEL SERIES, THE UNIVERSE: Astrobiology explores the question of whether or not life could have arisen on other planets in the universe while discussing how it might have gotten its initial foothold here on Earth.

Lost: The Mystery of Flight 447

2012-02-12T15:40:00.000-04:00

ABBC DOCUMENTARY: Lost: The Mystery of Flight 447 examines the events leading up to the June 1st, 2009 crash of this Airbus A330-200 aircraft into the Atlantic Ocean. This accident has been dubbed the worst in the history of French aviation.

Monster of the Milky Way

2012-02-12T02:18:00.000-04:00

A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY: Monster of the Milky Way explores the super massive black hole residing at the center of our galaxy while explaining how it might have formed in the early universe, and how scientists know its actually there in at all.

The Universe - Biggest Blasts

2012-02-09T16:20:00.000-04:00

PART OF THE HISTORY CHANNEL SERIES, THE UNIVERSE: Biggest Blasts lists the top ten biggest explosions in the universe, from the planetary collision that birthed our moon, to violent ends of dying stars, to the explosion that kicked off the universe, itself.

Origins Of Us

2012-02-09T15:42:00.000-04:00

A THREE PART BBC DOCUMENTARY: Origins Of Us explores the varying changes our primate-ancestor's bodies went through during their journey along the evolutionary branch of the family tree that leads to modern-day humans.

Origins Of Us

Bones
Episode 1

Episode one of this series discusses how our evolving bones allowed us to leave our woodland environment, and stride out into the open savannas of our ancient African homeland.

Guts
Episode 2

Episode two of this series explores how our stomachs and digestive systems evolved to cope with the change of diet we encountered in our new and rapidly changing world.

Brains
Episode 3

Episode three of this series examines the roles our big human brains played in our evolutionary advance, and what the changes were in our past lifestyles which may have driven this radical development.

Nova - Last Extinction

2012-02-09T03:18:00.000-04:00

PART OF THE PBS SERIES, NOVA: Last Extinction discusses possible scenarios which may have led to mega fauna such as the woolly mammoth, the sabertooth cat, and the giant sloth of 12,000 years ago to suffer a sudden mass-extinction.

The Universe - Magnetic Storm

2012-02-06T23:29:00.001-04:00

PART OF THE HISTORY CHANNEL SERIES, THE UNIVERSE: Magnetic Storm discuses the release of solar flairs and CMEs from our sun, why we are protected from them here on Earth, and what would happen to our way of life if we were to be hit by a large enough one.

The Universe - Stopping Armageddon

2012-02-06T23:02:00.000-04:00

PART OF THE HISTORY CHANNEL SERIES, THE UNIVERSE: Stopping Armageddon discusses the inevitability of an eventual meteor strike to our planet, and what we, as a technologically advanced species, might be able to do to avert such a disaster.

Inside the Milky Way

2012-02-05T16:03:00.000-04:00

A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY: Inside the Milky Way explores our home galaxy, from where we reside within it, to its birth in the early universe, though to it's eventual emergence with our closest neighbor (the Andromeda Galaxy).

The Deep - Investigated

2012-02-04T22:56:00.000-04:00

A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY: The Deep Investigated explores varying levels of depths, anomalies, and exotic sea creatures which live in, on, and around our ocean floors, while explaining how these things came to be, and what they mean for life on the surface.

Naked Science - Earth Under Water

2012-02-03T12:22:00.000-04:00

PART OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SERIES, NAKED SCIENCE: Earth Under Water discusses the fate of major cities along our coastlines as global climate change drives the ice-regions of our planet into meltdown and sends billions of gallons of new water into our oceans.

Naked Science - Earthquake Swarm

2012-02-02T18:36:00.000-04:00

PART OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SERIES, NAKED SCIENCE: Earthquake Swarm discusses the possible geological events which could have led to the thousand, plus, earthquakes that rocked the city of Reno between February and November of 2008.

Meltdown: A Global Warming Journey

2012-02-02T01:46:00.000-04:00

A BBC DOCUMENTARY: Meltdown: A Global Warming Journey examines the facts on recent worldwide climate change to determine whether the cause of this warming trend is due to human activity, or if it's just the latest upswing of Earth's routinely changing temperatures.

Hubble's Amazing Universe

2012-01-29T12:05:00.000-04:00

A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY: Hubble's Amazing Universe explores the 21+ year service record of this iconic space-based telescope while explaining how the extremely sharp imagery sent back expanded the way we see the universe

Aftermath: Population Zero

2012-01-28T12:03:00.000-04:00

A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY: Aftermath: Population Zero imagines what the future would hold for our planet, our cities, our polluted environment, and the creatures left living amongst it if all human interference was to suddenly come to a instant stop.

Ape Man: Search for the First Human

2012-01-17T01:04:00.001-04:00

A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY: Ape Man: Search for the First Human reconstructs a story based on the fossil remains of a Sahelanthropus Tchadensis (a seven million year old ancestor of man) found in the Djurab Desert in Northern Chad.

2012 Apocalypse

2012-01-16T02:02:00.000-04:00

A DISCOVERY CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY: 2012 Apocalypse examines the plausibility of doomsday scenarios such as total crustal displacement and super volcano driven nuclear winters while discussing the likelihood of Armageddon on December 21, 2012.

China's Mega Dam

2012-01-15T14:00:00.000-04:00

A DISCOVERY CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY: China's Mega Dam discusses the building process of the biggest dam ever constructed while examining the negative effects the ensuing reservoir has had to the surrounding locals, cultural relics, and natural ecosystems of the area.

Ape to Man

2012-01-14T13:42:00.001-04:00

A HISTORY CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY: Ape to Man reenacts fossil digs from the last century and a half which, when placed in a consecutive time-line, unfolds a three million year branch of the evolutionary family tree that outlines the ancestry of the human race.

The Universe - Catastrophes That Changed The Planets

2012-01-13T22:33:00.000-04:00

PART OF THE HISTORY CHANNEL SERIES, THE UNIVERSE: Catastrophes That Changed The Planets explores major impact events and planetary readjustments that manipulated the early solar system into the arrangement we're familiar with today.

The Universe - Crash Landing on Mars

2012-01-13T21:53:00.001-04:00

PART OF THE HISTORY CHANNEL SERIES, THE UNIVERSE: Crash Landing on Mars portrays the hypothetical crash-landing of a maned-mission to the red planet while discussing measures this future crew might have to take to escape from their perilous situation.

Stupidity

2012-01-13T20:14:00.000-04:00

A BBC DOCUMENTARY: Stupidity explores what it actually means to be classed as the dumb or stupid of a societal atmosphere, whether or not it's even possible to measure this classification, and what the causes might be for the general dumbing-down of modern mankind.