Brit Eaton and Scott Glaves hunt for treasures by following the faded trails of ancient settlers. They explore old ghost towns, abandoned mining camps, and industrial graveyards of the Wild West looking for old relics of value. With a fist full of cash, our guys capture one-of-a-kind historical gems from a treasured era of American history.
The Detonators was a reality series documentary that aired on the Discovery Channel. The program featured the thought process and procedures in performing demolition through the use of explosives.
The show was hosted by two demolition experts: Dr. Braden Lusk, an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky College of Engineering, and Dr. Paul Worsey, professor and director of explosives engineering education at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Lusk and Worsey gave the viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the science of destroying large structures without damaging the surrounding buildings and landscapes.
The Detonators consisted of a single season with 13 episodes airing between January and July of 2009. No additional episodes have been produced since then, and the Discovery Channel's official website no longer carries information about the program.
It's a bike club. It's a brotherhood. The Devils Ride sports a diverse crew, but one bonded by a commitment to each other and the club. Meet Laffing Devils president Gipsy, who must balance the club's growing ranks with pressure from older members to maintain the status quo. An ex-Marine who served in Iraq, vice-president Billy the Kid. The Devils Ride finds the Laffing Devils not only in open conflict internally, but also at risk of losing their homebase.
INVISIBLE KILLERS, a three-part documentary series, looks at how viruses have shaped our health and history, the biological and social impact they have on our global society, and the incredible science that has arisen to combat them. Each of the episodes will focus on an individual virus, reaching back to tell the history of that virus, and looking closely at the state of the research and technology surrounding the disease today. Influenza, smallpox, and ebola are among the three most lethal viruses ever to have plagued mankind. Each has taken a devastatingly large toll on the human population. Smallpox killed more people than all the wars in human history, and we are just one test tube away from biomedical warfare. The flu spreads like wildfire across the globe every year, killing the young and the old alike, and ebola shocks and terrifies the world each time it emerges.
Big! is a TV series in which an episode consists of a team of engineers manufacturing the world's biggest items for the sake of setting world records.
The devices have to function to qualify.
The series originally aired on Discovery Channel in 2004. It is currently airing on The Science Channel weekday mornings.
Wilderness experts Damian Duffy and Matt Hoffman set off to solve some of the most incredible mysteries of the natural world, from unexplained sea creatures spotted in Alaska to deadly attacks by an airborne predator in Papua New Guinea.
This time instead of being in the 405 this show will take us to the Big Easy; New Orleans! Featuring no one else but Big Chief's number one enemy, Kye Kelly his third generation Camaro The Shocker. Big Chief claims that Kye Kelly is the one and only person he has not beat yet. Chief is so set on beating Kye Kelly that he now has a Promod called the Crowmod which his first goal is to use to beat Kye Kelly!
Deep in the heart of Washington's Olympic Peninsula is home to one of the country's last great forests - one so massive and diverse that it has been called America's "Last Untamed Wilderness." With land stretching over 2,000 square miles and filled with some of the rarest and most ancient trees on earth, this vast forest hides dark secrets, including an illicit underground black market of natural resource theft. However, Sheriff's deputies throughout the region have sworn to protect their communities and the forest at all costs.
No one makes big, bad, gigantic swords like Michael Craughwell, and he's putting it all on the line to make his passion a profession. Joined by a motley crew of artists and builders, this master of steel will attempt to bring the stuff of legends to life.
This epic series explores the lives of some of Egypt's greatest rulers: Ramses the Great, pyramid pioneer King Sneferu, the most famous woman who ever lived, Cleopatra, the rebel heretic Akhenaten, the ill-fated Tutankhamen and feminist trailblazer Hatshepsut. Hosted by renown Egyptologist Dr. Bob Brier, this series unveils the true stories of their battles, loves, obsessions, preoccupations and deaths. Brier guides viewers on an enlightening quest for answers to the mysteries surrounding the legacies of the pharaohs. Spectacular footage and unique information make this series a perfect guide to the history of ancient Egypt.
Some Assembly Required is a Discovery Channel TV series which premiered in the United States on December 27, 2007 and originally aired in 2007 and 2008. Hosts Brian Unger and physicist Lou Bloomfield explain how various things are manufactured and participate in the manufacturing process. The show is also titled as How Stuff's Made in the UK.
Before We Ruled the Earth is a two-part documentary television miniseries that premiered on February 9, 2003 on the Discovery Channel. The program featured early human history and the challenges human beings faced thousands of years ago. It also features animals examples such as:
⁕Woolly mammoth
⁕Megantereon
⁕American buffalo
⁕Cave bear
⁕Irish elk
The first episode was called "Hunt or Be Hunted" and the second called "Mastering the Beasts."
The show focuses on Barry White and his staff buying old cars for little money and turning them into Super Muscle cars. There is usually a deadline of between three and four weeks to complete the cars after which they are auctioned off at various locations around the United States.
Car fanatic Nate Boyer will customize anything that moves. As the owner of Kultured Customs, a thriving hot rod shop, Nate is always looking for the next big project. Now, he is taking his biggest gamble yet and opening “The Doghouse.”
Perfect Disaster was a one-hour American documentary television mini-series that premiered in 2006 on the Discovery Channel. The program depicted the worst-case scenario that major cities could expect in the near future if hit by extreme disaster. A large part of each episode was based around the lives of citizens from each city, with the remainder of the program showing us real-world scientists discussing the very high probabilities of these disasters.