Discovery

There are some places in the world where the sun doesn't set for months or doesn't rise for months - leading to phenomena known as the midnight sun and polar nights. How do the people living in these places live their lives differently from those with nor...

From abandoned man-made mines to natural sinkholes and underwater pits, we reveal the deepest most dangerous holes on the planet that will make you think twice before taking that stroll as they have swallowed machines, animals and people.

The depths of the Mariana Trench conceal many peculiar creatures.

For more than 10 million years, Megalodon was at the top of its game as the oceans’ apex predator...until 2.6 million years ago, when it went extinct. So, what happened to the largest shark in history?

At the beginning of the Triassic Period, with the continents locked together from pole-to-pole in the supercontinent of Pangea, the world is hot, "flat", and very, very dry. But then 234 million years ago, the climate suddenly changed for the wetter.

Just how deep does the ocean go? Way further than you think. This animation puts the actual distance into perspective, showing a vast distance between the waves we see and the mysterious point we call Challenger Deep.

Dispel myths and garner new insights into the Titanic with archive footage and interviews from real survivors.

In 1985 a top-secret Cold War search for two missing Navy submarines in the Atlantic would lead to discovering the final resting place of RMS Titanic, the luxury liner that sunk on April 15, 1912, with more than 1,500 souls aboard.

From an iceberg to human error, a confluence of factors led to the sinking of the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic. Learn about the series of events leading up to the disaster, the laws that followed, and the discovery of the wreckage nearly 75 years later.

Investigate one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history.

Follow the process of making traditional Japanese masks by Craftsmen who have been making masks for 40 years.

One of the most impressive places in Sri Lanka is Sigiriya, a site often named the 8th wonder of the world.

Up in the mountains of North Carolina exists a mysterious place where if you follow a partially stolen yellow brick road you might find an abandoned Wizard of Oz Theme Park. The story of this often-called creepy park though is much deeper than even Doroth...

In today’s video, we’re going to discuss the nine circles of Hell as they are presented in the Divine Comedy. The Divine Comedy is a 14th-century epic poem written by Italian poet Dante Alighieri, consisting of three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Parad...

This documentary special takes viewers on an epic South American adventure to find the actual place that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World, the first novel about people and dinosaurs—the original Jurassic Park.

The simulation hypothesis proposes that all of our existence is a simulated reality, such as a computer simulation. The simulation hypothesis bears a close resemblance to various other skeptical scenarios from throughout the history of philosophy. The hyp...