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Rick Steves Egypt: Yesterday and Today
134
55m
8.5/10
Visit the ancient wonders and rich culture of Egypt with Rick Steves.
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The Story of God with Morgan Freeman: Beyond Death
829
50m
8/10
What happens after we die? Travel the world with actor Morgan Freeman as he explores the religious answer.
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The Neanderthals: Tracking Our Ancestors
923
42m
7.5/10
Study the fossils of our ancestors as we trek with a team of scientists to understand who the neanderthals were.
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Becoming a Man: Tracking the White Reindeer
1,035
48m
7.5/10
Travel with the Tsaatan tribe in northern Mongolia, as a young man hopes to marry and become a man in the eyes of the tribe.

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The Roman War Machine
6,208
180m
8.88/10
Examine the history of Ancient Rome with The Roman War Machine, a four-part documentary series narrated by Joseph Campanella.
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Lost Kingdoms of Central America
1,155
240m
8.4/10
Explore the lost kingdoms of Central America with archaelogist and historian Jago Cooper.
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Journey to the Edge of the Universe
3,202
90m
8.7/10
Building on images taken from the Hubble telescope, Journey to the Edge of the Universe explores the science and history behind the distant celestial bodies in the solar system and beyond.
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Born to be Mild
2,227
15m
8.97/10
Explore the world of mildly interesting things together with The Dull Men’s Club. They indulge in the curiosity of what appears at first glance to be rather uninteresting to the average person.

Science

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Quantum Computing
1,324
15m
7.78/10
What's in store for our future quantum computers? This short documentary covers the past, present and future of quantum computers.
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Venus: Death of a Planet
464
50m
8/10
Scientists explore Venus and how it went from sustaining life-giving habitats to now having a toxic environment.
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The Voynich Code: The World’s Most Mysterious Manuscript
2,967
50m
8.48/10
Dive into The Voynich manuscript - the world's most mysterious manuscript. A book, written by an unknown author, illustrated with pictures that are as bizarre as they are puzzling.
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Parallel Universe: Is There Another “You”?
751
34m
8/10
Join a group of scientists as they discuss the hypothesis that our universe is just one of many parallel universes.

History

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Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World
2,370
74m
8.27/10
Travel with presenter Bettany Hughes as we take a historical tour through Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World.
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Building the Great Pyramid
1,059
58m
7.83/10
Building the Great Pyramid tells the story of building of the Great Pyramid at Giza in ancient Egypt through the commentary of the fictional builder, Nakht.
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China’s Forbidden City
7,472
103m
7.33/10
Explore who built and ruled in China's historical Forbidden City.
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Tutankhamun: The Golden King and The Great Pharaohs
1,084
27m
8.8/10
Dig through the archaeological treasures Tutankhamun left behind and experience what 3,000 years of ancient Egypt looks like.

Nature

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Wildest Asia
774
50m
8.25/10
Join in as we explore Wildest Asia, a documentary film travelling across Asia to witness its astounding nature and animal wildlife.
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Great Nature: Land of Extremes – Ethiopia
1,151
46m
8.5/10
Join a Japanese documentary crew as they journey to Ethiopia to investigate its extreme nature firsthand.
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Deep Ocean: Descent into the Mariana Trench
1,959
50m
8.33/10
Explore the deep sea in the Mariana Trench with David Attenborough.
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The Ultimate Guide: House Cats
1,222
50m
8.5/10
This documentary reveals the history behind cat domestication and why house cats has retained many features of their wild ancestry.

Psychology

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I, Psychopath
1,500
54m
6.5/10
I, Psychopath studies the mind of Sam Vaknin, author, narcissist and suspected psychopath.
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Greed: A Fatal Desire
1,795
90m
8.57/10
Greed: A Fatal Desire investigates humanities greed and need for more stuff. It also asks whether or not this greed is what leads to our growing unhappiness.
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The Man Who Loved The Number 12
2,422
48m
7/10
Meet Hugh, a man who's fascination and obsessiveness with the number 12 has become so extreme it's causing his life to be filled with problems.
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Natural Born Genius
1,231
51m
8.5/10
Why do some kids grow up more intelligent than others? Get to know the science behind our developing mind in Natural Born Genius.

Society

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Burma’s Open Road
1,310
50m
7.8/10
Burma's Open Road explores the lives of diverse individuals in Myanmar whose livelihoods depend on, or will be impacted by, a road linking together Burma, India and China.
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Santorini: The Beauty on a powder keg
789
44m
8/10
Travel to the Greek island Santorini and explore its beauty, the warm society and its amazing local food.
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Cannibal Island
1,529
45m
8.33/10
Piers Gibbon ventures into some of the most remote areas of Papua New Guinea and comes face to face with real tribal cannibals.
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Enewetak Atoll: The Runit Dome
2,857
42m
8.4/10
ABC's reporter Mark Willacy goes in search of the secret story behind a concrete dome buried on the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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A Murder In The Family
23,873
48m
9.02/10
On a hot night in 2002, a murder took place in Manila, Philippines. The victim was a British business man named Steven Alston Davis. His death would transform the life of his mother, Margaret Davis. Investigating the case herself, Margaret spends all her resources to solve her son's murder.
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Haiti’s Prison From Hell
1,980
24m
8.25/10
Examine one of the most notorious prisons in the world found in Haiti. A prison where thousands of prisoners are locked up without trial and fight for their lives each day.
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H. H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer
814
59m
4.75/10
Take a look at America's first serial killer H. H. Holmes. A sadistic killer who created a castle of horrors to trap unsuspecting victims.
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Jack The Ripper
1,639
74m
8/10
Who was Jack the Ripper? A retired detective investigates the murder trail and believes he might have found out who the serial killer was.

Culture

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Cobra Gypsies
1,940
53m
8.2/10
Cobra Gypsies offers a contemporary and colorful window to the amazing ancient culture of the nomadic Kalbeliya tribes, living in rural Rajasthan, Northern India. The film explores their culture of eternal dance, syncopated music, snake charming, colorful fashion and the nomadic way of life of these exotic looking castoffs, ancestors to the modern Roma Gypsies living in Europe today.
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From Iron Ore to Iron Hoe
2,419
105m
8.75/10
Situated in poverty stricken western Africa, this documentary shows how a small African village burned and collected charcoal, dug ore and created flux, built a kiln to smelt iron and forged that iron - all in effort to create a single iron hoe tool.
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Zabbaleen: Trash Town
1,573
26m
8.22/10
Tens of thousands of people live in Zabbaleen, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, they all make a living out of recycling the entire capital city’s refuse. Their whole town is a slum providing the inhabitants with almost everything they need: from kids’ toys to fodder for livestock.
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Gold Dust
1,320
30m
8.5/10
This documentary digs deep into Burkina Faso's unregulated gold rush and the corruption behind it.

Lifestyle

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A Tale of Love and Honor: Life in Gion
1,734
49m
8.43/10
Within Japan, there's a place that's like another world: Gion, in Kyoto. When night falls in this historic district, nearly 100 geiko come out to entertain.
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Rick Stein’s Mediterranean Escapes
1,505
59m
8.33/10
Travel with Rick Stein as he journeys across the Mediterranean to experience the culinary wonders this area has to offer.
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The English Surgeon
1,868
93m
8.43/10
This documentary film offers a glimpse into the life of English neurosurgeon Henry Marsh. Situated in Ukraine, we become exposed to the overwhelming dilemmas he has to face and the burden he has to carry throughout his profession.
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Sunrise Ceremony
2,646
11m
8/10
Sunrise Ceremony is a short documentary focusing on the Apache Sunrise Ceremony - a rite-of-passage tradition where girls transition into womanhood and are recognized as adult women by the tribe.
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