Discovery Movies

Explores the plans for the construction of the monumental dam on China's Yangtze River, the structure that when completed in 2009 will become the...

Frank Latimore is cast as Balboa, the heroic Spanish explorer who discovers the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, he must pacify the wrath of his...

The two cult cops from Valais have to deal with a simple sprayer case while the rest of the department has to solve the discovery of a charred body....

An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.

An old widower, Jasper, routinely makes coffee in two mugs and picks up trash around his community. Some of his more interesting finds speckle his...

Wolves have been demonized for centuries, blood thirsty beasts haunting our nightmares. We were determined to dispel this myth and show the true...

Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become involved in a very secret project involving alien life. Needless to say, the authorities...

During a thunderstorm, a young boy's effort to capture lightning in a glass bottle as part of a science fair project succeeds beyond his wildest...

Self-discovery and introspection

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short dramatizes how the work of Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman, who searched for a cure for...

In the 1930s a trio of unlikely adventurers set off to find a heretofore uncharted land. It has existed in stories and myths for centuries and is...

Documentary that takes a scientific and historical look at the story of Moses. Uses archaeological evidence from the stables of Ramses II to...

Ama, the daughter of Senegalese asylum seekers, feels completely Dutch. When Ama's mother and brother are arrested, Ama sets off in search of her...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contribution to the U.S. war effort.

In 1929, an expedition of university botanists enter an uncharted forest where they discover, and must escape an ancient organism.

Peep the chicken ventures out on an adventure into the Big Wide World and makes some friends along the way. Narrated by Peter Ustinov, this 1988...

The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer who laid the foundations of modern oceanography.

Documentary looking at the ways which computer on-line services and the Internet have evolved, how they have been applied and the problems they can...