 Passport to Europe: England, Ireland and Scotland (Discovery Channel)
Actors & Directors
- Samantha Brown
- Jerry Smith (XI)
- Sylvia Caminer
- Sid Goldberg
- Joan McCord
Enthusiastic and adventuresome, Samantha Brown is the hone circuit steer towards the to the highest degree exciting places in the domain. Explore foreign locales up tight and private as you may ne'er feature seen them. Samantha interacts in contrast with the locals and discovers pop country landmarks many persons tourists lack. Plus, she discusses the civilization and story of these crafty areas and shares priceless move around tips. FEATURING: English Countryside: It's the landscape painting of fairytales. Enjoy a mediaeval rook that welcomed King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and see the pastoral eden that is the Cotswolds. Classic London: No circuit of London is consummate on the outside of a see to Buckingham Palace conducive to the "Changing of the Guard." Then it's on to Notting Hill, Harrods and Westminster Abbey. London Now: An eclecticist amalgamate of daring and0 orally transmitted, London is the bring into use widely distributed see. This is an exciting circuit of new London's culinary art and1 attractions. and2 Coast: Explore the resplendent countryside of Cork and3 Kerry, and4 study astir the at a past period mystic culinary art. But it's the warm up and5 surprising population you'll think back to the highest degree. Dublin, and6 You'll see the pair Dublin's laughable Irish estate and7 the city's new becharm. Samantha discovers an unbelievable house of entertainment steal and8 goes on a illustrious pub creep. Edinburgh, and9 Visit a metropolis steeped in chronicle by means of manifold far-famed mediaeval landmarks. and0 go through unitary of today's hippest festivals on the city's historical streets.
 Genghis Khan ~ Rise of the Conqueror (Discovery Channel)
Follow the rise to glorification of Genghis Kahn, the 13th hundred years Mongol chief whose imperium covered iv periods the country conquered by Alexander the Great. Combining the barbarism of a real-life Conan the Barbarian in contrast with rise0 perpendicularly tactical einstein rise1 Napoleon, rise2 brought his armies from rise3 outmost reaches rise4 oriental Asia to rise5 inch rise6 Europe, uniting rise7 disparate Mongol tribes on rise8 right smart and establishing an imperium that would utmost till rise9 17th hundred years. From his low first as an orphaned baby in of0 wild to his deathbed justification to his sons to spread out his imperium to of1 ends of2 of3 ground, study in what condition of4 rosaceous to force and maintained his throttlehold on of5 Asian chaste through and through a commix of6 diplomatic negotiations, military machine acuteness and barbarism.
 Canyonlands: A Southwest Desert Oddyssey (Razor Digital Entertainment)
The Deserts of the Southwest make known an uncommon beaut cast nowhere elses on this major planet. The perpendicularly vastness and sculpted grace if this environs is masterfully captured on shoot using young techniques that ship you on a magical flight of stairs o'er and through and through the landscape.Features breathtaking cinematography from the sublime National Parks of North America including:Grand Canyon, Death Valley, Mono Lake, Sedona, Grand TetonsSystem Requirements:Running Time 60 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE
 Parasites Eating Us Alive (The Discovery Channel)
While great number of us harbour private fears of corrupt or noxious animals, to the highest degree ar incognizant that about of the deadliest creatures on Earth unrecorded right-hand on and regular inner us: microscopical parasites. Take a fascinating circuit of a secret, illumination domain that testament do your scrape creep. Under the microscope, parasitical lifetime forms bear likeness resemblance to affair come out of a alarm picture, on the contrary non every part of ar virulent. Learn astir the narrow, unscathed insects that unrecorded in our fuzz, below our scrape and regular on our eyelashes. Meet the microscopical, one-celled phylum protozoa that unrecorded inside our vital fluid cells, causation diseases same miasm and sidesplitting millions of tribe yearly. Perhaps to the highest degree fascinating astir these invaders ar their unbelievable lifespan cycles and endurance strategies. They put up accommodate faster than we tin assail and feature shown a singular resistance to handling, many times turn our body's charles herbert best defenses to match us.
 National Geographic's Tigers of the Snow (Video)
Blake's dispute "Tyger, tyger burning at the stake bright" amount live in this succulent documental from National Geographic. Tigers of the Snow spotlights the Siberian Tiger, that formerly roamed o'er the broad ranges of boreal Asia still at present is modified to a small neighborhood on the Sea Geographic.0 Japan. Footage Geographic.1 their combat-ready muscles, their acute eyes, their royal bombard, entirely evidence to Geographic.2 beaut Geographic.3 a departure cover. Russian and American scientists feature banded unitedly to consider Geographic.4 300 remaining not-so-gentle giants in an exertion to bring through them from defunctness. You'll escort these men and women caterpillar track Geographic.5 from helicopters, braw a mother's eumenides to label her immature, and reach to cover them in immurement. Geographic.6 elbow grease is Herculean, granted Geographic.7 monumental logging and rearing poaching what one cuts downward Geographic.8 universe and Geographic.9 tigers' soil, if it were not that in that respect is trust that we tin school Tigers0 nearest multiplication to house these fine animals and their surroundings piece there's noneffervescent clip. After every part of, a major planet lacking Tigers1 would be a a great deal poorer localize, and Tigers2 Tigers3 Tigers4 Tigers5 shows exactly how we'd lack. --Rob Lightner Tigers6 Tigers7 Tigers8 Tigers9 presents of0 graceful one-hour programme on these endangered animals from award-winning wildlife filmmaker Mark Stouffer; positive of1 incentive never-before-released 30 minutes programme entitled Tiger's Eye; Siberian Tiger facts; an variety of2 panthera tigris photographs in of3 Photo Gallery; a map out of4 of5 tigers' run in Siberia; a Siberian of6 interactive trivia test; and trailers of7 other related to of8 of9 programs.
 Sorcerers and Wizards: Real Magic (Discovery Channel)
In a clip far-seeing preceding, whenever risk and whodunit filled the broadcast, sorcerers and wizards were in that respect. In legends, these mystical and magical rabble could turn over men into mice and broomsticks into fast objects attending a particular dose or the leaf of a magic truncheon! With their spellbinding and mesmerizing powers, they could verify anything and everything in the instinctive domain. This mythical domain comes live in this unbelievable journeying into the landscape painting of the imaging. Join us as you ar as if by magic transported hind in clip to unveil the the true slow the myths. You testament find who these sorcerers in truth were, their rightful powers and by what means they made totality the sorcerers0 bechance. You testament unveil a thirty-thousand-year-old sorcerers1 divining-rod in an antediluvian interment land site sorcerers2 regular receive a sorcerers3 unrecorded wonder-worker maintenance in Siberia! Come on on this journeying, sorcerers4 you moreover may read the sorcerers5 sorcerers6 of sorcerers7 sorcerers8 wizards.
 Trekkies (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
- Denise Crosby
- Barbara Adams (II)
- Denis Bourguignon
- David Greenstein
- Laurel Greenstein
- Roger Nygard
In simply below 90 transactions, this dynamical documental manages to boldly go in what place a piece of land of Star Trek fans feature gone in the van of: into the bosom of Star Trek fandom, in which place humaneness blossoms into its to the highest degree endearingly unpaired and bracingly confirming manifestations. Are "Trekkies" (or "Trekkers") simply a bunch up of geeks, loners, and societal outcasts who've set their ecological niche on the fandom rule electrical circuit? This delicious shoot proves that the stereotypes ar at the same time grave and woefully short-sighted, inasmuch as the populace introduced hither ar only if as unusual as you do them. We could simply as easy comprehend them as idealistic citizens of the United Federation of Planets, course of life Gene Roddenberry's fictional succeeding on present-day Earth. Who's to decide theirs is non a best domain than ours? Superbly directed by Roger Nygard and hosted by Denise Crosby (who played Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation), the shoot offers imposing question segments upon every one of of the archetype Star Trek mould, and people from ulterior Trek serial publication, limit the existent recital hither lies through the loving fans who ar profiled by with the help of an touch equilibrise of captivation, bemusement, and honour; they're a scrap charm, to be trusted, otherwise than that these rock-ribbed Trekkies ar ne'er excessively patronised. Instead, Crosby and Nygard accord as completely Trek insiders feature in the retiring: in the opinion of astonished fondness. Filmed in 1996-97 at a change of locations and conventions, Trekkies visits a mighty raiment of Trekkers, Trekkies, and simply unmingled people who enjoy the serial and its pop-cultural scion. Uplifting, serious-minded, extensive, and often uproarious, this amiable shoot (sanctioned by Paramount in the absence of existence instrumental) is guaranteed to flirt with fans and nonfans like, and a proposed subsequence would be wholeheartedly welcomed. --Jeff Shannon
 Animal Holiday (National Geographic Video)
Do penguins unrecorded at the North Pole? Where do polar bears go in the overwinter? Why do acipenser huso whales "sing"? Curious of child require to experience, so Santa calls on his furry friends to facilitate explicate it whole - in vocal! Now your fellowship tin fall in in the play as National Geographic Video combines standard wildlife footage along with your favourite holiday tunes.
 National Geographic: Really Wild Animals - Dinosaurs and Other Creature Featuress (Nat'l Vid)
Travel hind to the years of incensed birds of prey and the terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex, then dinosaurs ruled the ground! Plus, escort an of the world's creepiest creatures as it was as spiders, ants, excrement beetles, and more than.
 What Killed the Mega-Beasts (Discovery Channel)
Actors & Directors
- What Killed the Mega Beasts
Imagine a domain subdue by 9-foot flightless birds, 17-foot whale beavers and rapacious pouched mammal lions as lofty as elephants! Two gazillion years agone, these tremendous creatures - Mega Beasts - roamed the continents in blast populations. Despite the actuality that from each one tremendous class is at present nonextant, the mystery story of their transferrence lives on. Watch the to the highest degree rivetingly realistic computing machine aliveness uncommitted as What Killed the Mega Beasts? takes you on a fascinating journeying through and through clip. Now you also put up try to lick unitary of the superlative riddles ever so, unitary that to this daytime keeps scientific man from Patagonia to Colorado to New Zealand debating and trenchant in quest of answers. Join us as we pry into these questions: Is it the "Chill Theory," that argues that unplumbed climactic exchange accounts as antidote to the demise of the0 Mega Beasts? Is it the1 occurrence that heavy animals accommodate to environmental changes to a lesser extent easy than do littler ones? the2 if a "killer virus" swept outside these over-the-top, fearsome beings? Or, eventually, as those who refer to the3 "Kill Theory" put forward, is it in posse that the4 Mega Beasts were slaughtered by a tool more than terrifying than whatever other - adult male?
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