Award-winning travel journalist Jonathan Thompson searches for adventures and reveals the wonderful cultures, allures and attractions of the world's most fascinating urban centers.
We live in a world full of contrasts. From the coldest to the driest, the most populated to the most remote, the highest to the lowest locations and everything in-between.
This series examines the impact these extremes in nature have on the environment and viceversa. Additionally we observe the changes our planet has endured through the passage of time.
This is fantastic family viewing at an environmentally crucial time
These are the most dangerous jobs on Earth. Many quit, some are fired, and others are injured...or worse. Featuring the world's most dangerous jobs as rookies attempt to prove they have what it takes to earn a permanent spot on the crew.
Al Murray's Road To Berlin is a British documentary television series about World War II, presented by Al Murray. The ten episode series was produced for the Discovery Channel, and first broadcast in 2004. During the series, Murray travels across the Western Front in a restored Willys MB Jeep, covering the timeline from the Invasion of Normandy to the fall of Berlin, interviewing survivors and showcasing some of the equipment used.
Insectia is a nature documentary program on the Discovery Channel. The show's host, Georges Brossard, explains the life of insects by traveling around the world and introducing specimens in their natural habitat.
Rogue Nature is a reality television program broadcast in The United States on Discovery Channel, Discovery HD Theater and Animal Planet. The show follows host, biologist Dave Salmoni as he explores nature's most dangerous animals to see if they really do go out of their way to kill humans.
If the internet crashes and power fails, modern technology could be rendered useless. Knowing this, these survivalists and preppers are on the hunt for bygone technology that will work in any worst-case scenario.
Machines! is a detailed, entertaining and "wow-fact" half-hour on how machines work. By using photo-real computer animation we are able to go where no camera can fit, or even survive. Entertaining, engaging and easy-to-understand commentary untangles complex design and engineering for all ages, while having some fun along the way.
Lobster Wars, also known as Deadliest Catch: Lobstermen in the United Kingdom, is a documentary television series on the Discovery Channel. It documents men and one woman fishing for lobsters off the Georges Bank near the northeastern coast of North America. It first aired on August 23, 2007.
Like the similarly themed Deadliest Catch, Lobster Wars is produced by Original Productions for Discovery, and is based on a pilot miniseries also produced by Original Productions, Lobstermen: Jeopardy at Sea. Executive Producer Thom Beers narrates the show in the US whereas voice artist Bill Petrie narrates it in the UK. The show features six boats: The Dragon Lady, The Timothy Michael, The William Bowe, The Direction, The Rachel Leah and The Excalibur — a fishing trawler that causes high tensions between the other 5 boats.
American Casino was an American reality television series which tracks the daily events of the managers and employees of the Green Valley Ranch Casino resort in Henderson, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas. The show originally aired on the Discovery Channel, but in June 2005, it was moved to the Travel Channel. In other countries including Europe, the show continued to air on Discovery.
The show began airing on June 4, 2004 and was loosely patterned after Discovery Channel's successful American Chopper reality show.
Buggin' with Ruud is a television show of 13 x 60min episodes that follow the adventures of Dutch-New Zealander Ruud Kleinpaste, an entomologist. The series was made by a small team in New Zealand at NHNZ Ltd and is broadcast in the United States on Animal Planet.