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Using archive footage, computer animation and expert interviews, the characteristics of natural disasters are...

Dr Spencer Wells retraces the footsteps of 200 random New Yorkers and proves they are all cousins.On the most diverse street...

Off the southern coast of Africa lies an underwater metropolis like none other on the planet: Aliwal Shoal.  A fossilised...

Imagine you're lost at sea...what scares you the most? Exposure? Exhaustion? Or...sharks? In Surviving Shark Night, Mike...

Heading deep into war-torn Afghanistan, expert tracker Boone Smith and his team of conservationists set out on a mission to...

Find out how Atlantic convoys and brave sailors served and saved Britain during WWII.As the rest of Europe fell to the Nazis,...

Delving into the secret world of the Central Intelligence Agency, this two-part special investigates the clandestine...

In America today, as many as 80,000 convicts are serving their time in solitary confinement but is it a necessary last resort,...

How can a holiday suddenly turn into a horrific nine-day struggle for survival?Told through interviews and dramatic...

They're one of our closest relatives but, without the work of scientists like British biologist Angelique Todd, you would know...

Follow top Egypt archaeologist Dr Zahi Hawass and a team of experts as they head to the dark and mysterious tombs in the...

Prepare to go beyond the dojo of pure-style martial arts and explore five new realms of combat. Fight Lab brings a selection...

It's been called the most important piece of film evidence of all time.Locked away in the vaults of the National Archives, the...

Venture into the underwater graveyards of the Maya with intrepid journalist Diego Buñuel as he seeks to shed some light on...