As one of Germany’s beauties, the river was the gem of German landscape. But with industrialization it became the country’s hardest working river and like everything that has been overworked, it lost it magnificence and charm. Due to tender love and care, the river is now a reigning example of one of the most successful and outstanding renaturation projects in the country.
Meet three rescued meerkat families (mobs) who are learning the way of life in the wild for the very first time.
Las ardillas poseen asombrosas habilidades para sobrevivir en hábitats diversos. Este documental explora algunas de las especies de ardillas más fascinantes y muestra cómo han llegado a tener tanto éxito enfrentándose a entornos extremos y a vecinos humanos curiosos.
La Tierra es un planeta nacido del fuego. Durante miles de millones de años, los volcanes han contribuido a forjar el mundo que conocemos.
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi would have been 100 years in October 2019. The Shah's story begins with good ideas and ideals and ends in bloody chaos. On the one hand, he helped carry Iran into modernity. His wealth was legendary, and his marriages made tabloid headlines for years. However, his name also stands for a time of human rights violations, vicious oppression and intolerance.
El espacio va en camino de convertirse en un basurero: satélites inservibles, partes de cohetes e incluso herramientas perdidas por los astronautas. Según fuentes de la NASA, hay más de medio millón de objetos clasificados como basura espacial orbitando alrededor de nuestro planeta. ¿Es peligrosa esta chatarra espacial? ¿Puede caer en la Tierra? ¿Es posible retirarla?Incluso las pequeñas partículas pueden tener, debido a la velocidad que circulan, un efecto negativo y ser peligrosas para satélites, estaciones espaciales y cohetes.
"AMERICA'S MUSICAL JOURNEY" celebrates the unique diversity of cultures and creative risk-taking that characterize America, as told through the story of its music.
¿Cómo evolucionaron los primeros antepasados de la humanidad hasta convertirse en una de las especies más exitosas de la Tierra? Un viaje extraordinario que sigue los pasos de los primeros homínidos. Usando los últimos hallazgos paleoantropológicos mezclados con el último CGI de Square Enix, finalmente se cuenta esta historia.
A two season series with 12 episodes that tell the in-depth story of high-profile catastrophic events while explaining the engineering failures that reveal what went wrong.
Serie en la que el neurocientífico Dr. Jack Lewis va en busca de personas con condiciones neurológicas inusuales que nos dan una visión de cómo funciona el cerebro.
The Bronze Age saw the rise of urban societies, vast trading empires and military might. How did this come about, and why did it end?
Take a 4.5 billion-year trip back to the chaotic beginning of our solar system where survival of the fittest played out on an interplanetary scale.
In this prequel to Ancient Earth, travel back in time to the first two of the most powerful extinction periods in history.
Documentary about Joseph Greenstein, who became famous for his strongman feats like bending iron bars and breaking chains with his teeth.
The underground world is a largely unexplored universe. Find out what goes on in the subterranean world of our planet Earth.
Quantum physics? Theoretical physicist Brian Greene helps you understand its origins and its impact on today's world.
A look at how human history has been shaped by processes in physics, geology, biology, and chemistry that predate our species—and even our planet.
The KGB has influenced world events on numerous occasions before. Assassinations, coup d’états, theft of nuclear secrets and sexpionage are just standard trademarks for an organisation that still sends shivers down the spines of politicians and military figures the world over. It may have changed its name on various occasions, from Cheka to SPD to OGPU to NKVD to MGB to KGB to an array of different names after the collapse of the Soviet Union to FSB and SVR today, but it will forever be known, internally and externally, as the KGB.
A series two million years in the making, learn how we omnivorous humans went from hunting and gathering on the Serengeti to dinner via InstaCart.
Desde que llegó, Internet ha transformado cada aspecto de la vida humana, revolucionando las comunicaciones, la cultura, los negocios, las relaciones sociales. Expertos en la temática reflexionan sobre la creación de esta infraestructura y sus amenazas.
Leonardo da Vinci: the most famous, most admired of all painters. Yet, the man himself remains elusive. Old accounts describe someone too handsome, too strong, too perfect to be accurate. Then, a chance discovery takes the art world by storm. Could it be an unknown self-portrait by da Vinci?
El 30 de enero de 1933, Adolf Hitler toma posesión como canciller del Reich alemán y se dispone a construir una nueva nación. Pero ¿cómo lograron convencer los nazis al pueblo para que apoyara las pretensiones de Hitler?
The true story of the smallest Green Beret soldier who became a war hero-only to be killed homeless and alone, whose life and death are shrouded in mystery.
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be struck by lightning or be propelled by hurricane-speed winds? What is it really like inside a burning house? In this fun (and funny!) science series Nigel Latta subjects himself to a variety of 'don't try this at home' experiments to explore some of the more dramatic aspects of fundamental science.