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From deadly black mambas in wardrobes to cobras in factories, streetwise snake-catchers Simon and Siouxsie put their lives on the line to catch these deadly invaders – by hand.

Primal Survivor tracks wilderness guide and survival instructor Hazen Audel as he tackles some of mankind's most rigorous journeys, relying on skills learned from native inhabitants.After first living with the locals to understand their way of life, he sets out on solo journeys through territories that push him to his very limits.

Chronicles Hitler's life as a failed painter and far-right activist up to his election as Chancellor of Germany, leading to his relentless rise to power, culminating in the beginning of World War II.

From its hot molten core to the mega sized waves battering its coast, Hawaii is an untamed and very wild bit of paradise that continues to transform itself and challenge expectations.

Our primal curiosity has sparked new inventions and revealed the mysteries of the universe. This eight part mini series strives to trace the pivotal innovations that make us modern.

Never-before-heard trial testimony reveals shocking new details about World War II and the inner workings of the Nazi war machine. Hear the raw voices of Hitler's criminal henchmen - such as Hermann Goering, Wilhelm Keitel, Albert Speer and Rudolf Hess - as well as the victims and witnesses who bravely testified against them.

At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.

Father & son divers / explorers Mike and Warren Fletcher solve mysteries: Missing subs to missing millions.

Important battles of World War II are examined with paired military specialists focusing on the opposing generals involved.

The Light Illuminated" is a documentary program about Professor Shuji Nakamura, one of 2014 Nobel Prize winners in physics. In the early 1990s Nakamura and two other physicists developed the blue LED, a lighting technology which is now used around the world in a wide variety of applications. The lights are also much more efficient and are expected to help 1.5 billion people who lack access to electric grids. The program plans to examine how Nakamura discovered the technology and the impact it has had on the world.

An insight into the life and work of the famous lion whisperer, Kevin Richardson and his lion park which he struggles to keep running during a terrible drought in funding.

Research vessel and crew go around gathering data about sharks in a very unique way.

Author and explorer Piers Gibbon travels the globe and try to uncover science and secrets behind traditional healing and the world's most ancient forms of health-care. Joining Piers are volunteer patients who have experienced a range of extreme treatments. Their mission is to find a potential cure to their own medical ailments, something western medicine has failed to achieve.

The Swamp Pride is on its knees. Its mighty male was killed by poachers, leaving three mothers and their cubs defenseless in one of the toughest landscapes for a lion in Africa. Busanga Swamp is a quagmire, even in the dry season. Hunting in shoulder-deep water is all but impossible, and deadly hippos and crocodiles patrol the ever-present waters. Keeping cubs alive here is hard work, but for these lionesses it just got even harder: two massive young male lions are hunting them down. The males want to claim the Swamp Pride and its territory as their own, but to take over a pride they must kill its cubs. The mothers must fight tooth and claw to make sure that doesn't happen.

Underwater lost city of the Mayan culture.

Hurricane Sandy became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and killed at least 285 people along its destructive path across seven countries. Its storm surge hit New York on October 29th 2012, flooding the city. Its devastating tentacles reached from Cuba to Canada and millions were affected by widespread flooding, fires, blackouts and mass evacuations. What can this teach us about how best to prepare for the next Megastorm?

Morphine. Crystal meth. Sedatives. Testosterone. Leeches. A German soldier's feces. A bizarre combination of substances, but just a few of the more than 70 different drugs, vitamins and concoctions Adolf Hitler was consuming during the last nine years of his reign. This hard-hitting and in-depth film, a co-production between Channel 4 TV and National Geographic US, sets out to examine the medications Hitler was on, how often and how much he took, and to explore if drugs played a role in his behavior and actions. During the Nazi era, Adolf Hitler was presented to the German people as a great man of destiny, a man possessed of superhuman vigor and strength who would lead Germany to world domination. The truth was very different. Based on a secret American intelligence dossier and the medical diaries and journals of Dr Theodor Morell, the Fuhrer's personal physician, this documentary sheds new light on Hitler's health and extraordinary medicinal regime during the Second World War. They reveal that, far from being a picture of robust health, Hitler was a nervy hypochondriac. They chart Hitler's descent into illness and drug dependency, his use of uppers and downers, quack cures, powerful stimulants and multiple injections for various real or imagined ailments.

Firsthand accounts of World War II are shared in this documentary, which includes archival footage and more than 50 testimonies from American, British, German and Soviet servicemembers.

Each episode has a different hosts who travels to interview grand masters of their fighting style, which share their actual combat style with the host by the hosts and discuss the nature of their Chinese Kung Fu style.

Will the Cheetah blood brothers survive the odds stacked against them?

Powerful. Deadly. Elusive. Manana is a wild leopard. She could kill a man with ease. Yet besides her sits JV, unarmed and unharmed no bars, no cage. She gently brushes past him, almost touching. Today she will allow him to join her as a hunter, a privilege rarely bestowed on fellow leopards, let alone a human. John Varty, wildlife cameraman, has a unique friendship with this wild cat and has gained access to the mysterious world of one of nature's most enigmatic animals.