Untamed Americas 2012

Narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin, this four-hour high-definition miniseries event explores the Americas like we've never seen them before, giving us an intimate look at some of the greatest wildlife spectacles and against-the-odds fights for survival ever captured on camera.

Soaring mountains, burning deserts, tangled forests, and curvaceous coasts. A grizzly bear takedown of helpless elk calves in Yellowstone. Bighorn sheep going head-to-head in battle. Giant Humboldt squid cannibalizing their kin. Puma cubs hunting solo for the first time. The landscapes and wildlife of the Americas are savage, shrewd, and stunning. These are the great outdoors, our wildest frontiers … our Untamed Americas.

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Wheel 2 Wheel

Hong Kong-based Morgan Parker undertakes an epic 25,000 km solo motorcycle trek from Hong Kong to Brisbane to highlight the work of ten grassroots charitable organizations, while tackling some of the world’s most pressing humanitarian issues. The journey will be featured in a 10-series documentary on National Geographic Channel. 

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Shark Men - Beach Patrol

Shark Men boldly unmasks the mysteries of the world’s largest predatory fish as it chronicles a team of expert anglers led by Chris Fischer and Dr. Michael Domeier.

Hollywood has typecast the great white shark as a ferocious predator intent on finding yet another swimmer to feast on, yet this apex predator has no taste for human flesh. The stereotype inflates the bounty for their teeth, jaws and fins, yet despite years of research, the great white remains one of the most vulnerable and elusive creatures of the deep.

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Animal Impact Jungle

Two National Geographic documentaries employing new camera technologies and cutting edge animation to reveal the astonishing abilities that allow animals to survive in a hostile world. Contains the films 'Jungle' and 'Savannah'. 
Jungle: Rising hundreds of feet from the dark depths of the tropical forest floor, the layers of twisting branch and canopy push the limits of animal engineering. We peel back these jungle layers to dissect amazing moments of impact. From ninja ants to rainforest raptors, cutting edge HD cameras dive underwater and fly through the trees and animation penetrates fur, feathers, skin and bone to reveal the surprising animal science hidden deep in the jungle. 

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Eternal Arms Race

Evolving For Advantage On some ancient battlefield, an early human soldier realized that a sharpened stick could become a deadly spear that would send the terrified enemy scrambling for safety. In response, the defeated soldiers came up with their own innovation: wooden shields that blunted the spears and suddenly turned the tables. It was then up to the attackers to devise another new weapon that could defeat the shields and restore their advantage. An arms race was born.

But it was far from the first. For billions of years, life on Earth has been engaged in its own ETERNAL ARMS RACE, the subject of Part 3 of NATURE’s TRIUMPH OF LIFE. As predators became better hunters, their prey also evolved better defenses.

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Documentary Wild: Savannah

Two National Geographic documentaries employing new camera technologies and cutting edge animation to reveal the astonishing abilities that allow animals to survive in a hostile world. Contains the films 'Jungle' and 'Savannah'. 

Savannah: In grasslands around the world, Nature's eye-blinking moments go under the microscope to reveal the bio-mechanics operating inside the brawn, the astonishing abilities that allow animals to survive a hostile world. In moments of impact, incredible to behold, are caught, dissected and analyzed. Predator against prey, wing against air, venom through fangs, a roar erupting in a lion's throat - the split second when creatures come into contact with each other and the world around them. Within creatures great and small ... lion attacks wildebeest, rattlesnake stalk prey, termites defend their ten foot mound, eagle and jackrabbit outmanoeuvre each other and cheetah races gazelle. Elaborate animated impact sequences spin around animals caught in a frozen moment that is then examined in depth to understand the amazing abilities that give each animal the instinct, intelligence and brute prowess to survive.

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HOOKED - VAMPIRE FISH

It's the astounding world of monster fish with monster teeth. Sporting mega-mouthfuls of razor-sharp weapons - they chomp, shred, slash and slice. What began with the prehistoric, 40-ton Megalodon - with teeth the size of meat cleavers - lives on today in toothy super-species, from sharks to Brazil's mysterious Payara, AKA 'Vampire Fish.' Reeling them in is a knockdown, no-holds-barred fight to the finish. And one intrepid ichthyologist's Amazon expedition to study them is the ultimate adventure

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Crocodile King

The largest reptile on earth is lurking in the rivers of Australia's Northern Territory. A master predator, each year this cunning croc is tested by nature's harsh extremes and must battle for dominance with its own kind. 
Using high-speed cameras and infrared technology, National Geographic reveals how this stealthy "salty," with senses and instincts honed over the ages, is able to retain King Croc status.

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Crocs Of Katuma

Katavi National Park in Tanzania: an isolated wilderness. Through the park flows the Katuma River: the lifeline for everything that swims, crawls, or walks. Follow the story of two mothersa crocodile and a hippopotamusand see the perils of raising a family in this remote, beautiful location.

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Naked Science Pyramids

In the space of 500 years, eighteen of these huge monuments were built. Focusing more on the "who" than the "how" of their construction, forensic anthropology learns that it wasn't slaves that built the pyramids, as originally thought. The facilities that housed the workers have been unearthed, giving a clearer picture of the mammoth project that was pyramid building

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Egypt Secrets of the Dead

From thousands of years ago, from the beginnings of civilization, the ancient Egyptians had clear ideas about life after death. They notion that life after death is new life, that's all. So they put all the essence for the day they leave the earthly realm to enter eternal life ..

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Giant Stingrey

Amazing video of a giant freshwater stingray caught in Thailand and covered as part of National Geographic’s Megafishes Project. This specimen measured 14ft long but fisherman in Thailand and Cambodia claim they can grow many times larger. Little is known about these freshwater giants but if the fishermen are to be believed (and why would a fishermen ever exaggerate a fish’s size?!), these stingrays, also known as whip rays, could be the world’s largest freshwater fish. Read more on the NGC site.

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Secrets Of The King Cobra

The SECRET LIFE of the KING is an unprecedented journey into the natural history of the wild King Cobra—following them into their world—revealing what they do, where they go, and who they interact with—when we are not around. And surprisingly, the people of India are very much a part of the story. Early evidence suggests that kings might be more intertwined with humans than previously thought., making this project more important than ever.1 It's a close and personal look into the secret life of the King—and the best chance we have of ensuring the survival of this legendary snake.

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Son Doong - The World's Biggest Cave

Hang Son Doong (roughly translates to Mountain River Cave in English) is the world's largest cave and it is so large that it could hold a modern-day skyscraper inside of its caverns, so large that it has its own small jungle. What's more, the cave was only discovered about 20 years ago and is just now being explored as a recent feature in National Geographic points out.

Located near the Vietnam-Laos border, the cave was found by a local man named Ho-Khanh in 1991. The locals, it is said, were too afraid of the cave to go exploring because of the sound coming from the fast-moving underground river.

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[National Geographic] Great Migrations: Rhythm of Life

Great Migrations: Rhythm of Life is an unprecedented National Geographic Film. This film is a unique presentation of the very best footage and spectacular orchestral score of NatGeo's Great Migrations Television Event. The film brings together images from around the world, filmed over 3 years, resulting in a completely unique, narration-free, musical journey around the world. Great Migrations: Rhythm of Life is a breathtaking ride on the tailwinds of billions of creatures marching, swimming and flying across the planet on death-defying journeys.

"Great Migrations" Rhythm of Life (2010)

AWARD-WINNING

2011 Emmy Award® winner for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Cinematography/Nature; Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Music & Sound

Shot from land and air, in trees and cliff-blinds, on ice floes and underwater, Great Migrations tells the formidable, powerful stories of many of the planet’s species and their movements, while revealing new scientific insights with breathtaking high-definition clarity. Narrated by Alec Baldwin. 

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Taboo - Beauty (2011)

National Geographic Taboo Beauty: In a youth-obsessed Western culture, some feel the need to obsessively diet, exercise and partake of beauty treatments or plastic surgery. However, some have taken these to fatal extremes. In Paris, we'll meet a young model with extreme anorexia, so fixated on her weight that at 55 pounds she died from the disease. In Texas, a woman feels the need to continually increase her breast size, all the way to a triple K cup.

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National Geographic Mega Structures Missiles

In Cruise Missile we look at how this ultimate surgical attack weapon is capable of speeds of over 800km/hour, can seek out and destroy enemies from 2,500km away and can strike a target within 10 metres. But the Cruise missile hasn’t always been the Generals’ silver bullet. It took engineers decades to get it right. To build such a weapon, they had to overcome a series of extreme technical challenges. How do you push a one and a half ton missile out of the ocean, make it dodge enemy radar, and then home in on its target to strike with deadly accuracy?

 

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National geographic: Great migrations

Three years in the making, and from award-winning National Geographic cinematographers, Great Migrations takes viewers around the world on the arduous journeys millions of animals undertake to ensure the survival of their species.

 

Shot from land and air, in trees and cliff-blinds, on ice floes and underwater, Great Migrations tells the formidable, powerful stories of many of the planet’s species and their movements, while revealing new scientific insights with breathtaking high-definition clarity. Narrated by Alec Baldwin. 

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