Revealing terrifying accidents, fights for survival, and stories of close calls and near misses by the astronauts who survived them. This series offers chilling accounts of the challenges of space exploration as told only by the explorers who lived them and the men and women in mission control who helped each team avert disaster.
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Search for Second Earth brings to life, in breathtaking CGI, an epic future journey that our species has already begun: the voyage of an autonomous spacecraft to a planet beyond our Solar System in search of life. Join NASA planetary explorers Gentry Lee and Steve Squyres; and exo-planet hunters Sara Seager, Francois Forget and Natalie Batalha on their quest to find life beyond Earth.
Ed Wardle is dropped into the unforgiving Yukon wilderness with just basic provisions and cameras to film himself as he attempts to survive completely alone in the wild.
Documentary series exploring what happens when flights lose control.
Carl Sagan covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.
Explore some of the most death-defying accidents caught on film. Survivors and eyewitnesses explain what went wrong and a panel of experts dissect the scientific principle behind these
Surviving Disaster is unlike any other series on television, as it may actually save a life. What's the best way to survive an earthquake, home invasions, plane hijacking, bioterrorism, hurricane, or even a nuclear attack? Navy SEAL Cade Courtley vividly takes viewers through catastrophic scenarios and arms them with the knowledge needed to survive the unthinkable.
From the planets to the stars and out to the edge of the unknown, history and science collide in a wondrous yet deadly adventure through space and time.
An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls back the curtain on the familiar narrative of the moonshot, revealing a fascinating stew of scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama.
Mykel Hawke is a former Special Forces survival expert. His wife Ruth is a television journalist. Together, they take on some of the most forbidding and remote locations around the world. Dropped into each spot, they must survive as a team for four days and nights, with only a knife and the clothes on their backs. As they test their will and their marriage, the two find common ground standing up to nature as husband and wife in the wildest places on Earth.
Profiles of some of the men who choose to live off the grid in the unspoiled wilderness, where dangers like mudslides, falling trees and bears are all part of everyday life.
Bear strands himself in popular wilderness destinations where tourists often find themselves lost or in danger.
For thousands of years, man lived wild. He made fire, built shelter, and hunted food with his own two hands...but as he got smarter, his waist got bigger. Now, it’s time to get guys off of the couch and into the weather on TWC's "Fat Guys in the Woods."
A factual, fast paced, adrenalin-driven show featuring the biggest, strangest, and most jaw-dropping mishaps from the world of construction.
Hawking gives us the ultimate guide to the universe, a ripping yarn based on real science, spanning the whole of space and time -- from the nature of the universe itself, to the chances of alien life, and the real possibility of time travel.
Survival expert Bear Grylls puts himself into potentially life-threatening situations to show the how-to, hands-on, step-by-step instructions on everything you may need to know when faced with a worst case scenario.
Everest veteran Ben Webster leads a group of climbers through every aspect of a daring summit attempt. This is the ultimate reality program that explores the trials of a team climbing the world's highest mountain. And, for the first time ever, feature footage will be shot from the perspective of each climber. Four climbers, four cameras. Who will make it to the top? Who will survive?
Bill Pullman introduces and narrates this four-part documentary on the world's first national park, Yellowstone.
Viewers go deep into an Alaskan winter to meet six tough and resilient residents as they try to stay one step ahead of storms and man-eating beasts to make it through to spring. The closest neighbor to Sue Aikens is more than 300 miles away. Eric Salitan subsists solely on what he hunts and forages. Chip and Agnes Hailstone catch fish for currency in bartering for supplies, and Andy and Kate Bassich use their pack of sled dogs for transportation.
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8 episodes • 2015
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fire on the Mir | Nov 10, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Shipwrecked | Nov 17, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Secret Mayday Mission | Nov 24, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Toxic Leak | Dec 1, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Point Of No Return | Dec 8, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Gasping for Air | Dec 15, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Abandon Ship | Dec 22, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Solar Panel Crisis | Jan 12, 2016 | 0.0 |