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- Trooper Cronin is patrolling Palmer's slippery streets when he gets a call about a suspected drunk driver going in the wrong direction. Across the valley, Trooper Taylor investigates the theft of a $15,000 ATV and goes on a 12-hour hunt that leads him into the Alaska woods in the dead of night. North in Fairbanks, Trooper Mike Munson responds to a call that a man who threatened his former landlord's life is stalking outside the landlord's home.
- In Montana, Jason and his client have a close encounter with a mountain lion while marking trees infested with mountain pine beetles. Cory treks through the Ecuador jungle on the trail of a rare Andean bear. And Rob and Puma are hired by a resort in northeastern Pennsylvania to stop an infestation of black bears. The owners fear that an increase in bear activity could lead to an encounter with a guest or employee.
- For over 40 years the Big Red Box at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, carried skiers, hikers, paragliders, and sightseers up to the 3,400-meter summit of Rendezvous Mountain. But nothing lasts forever, so when cable inspector Norm Duke found evidence of stress fractures inside the aging steel track cables, there was no choice but to tear down and replace Jackson's iconic aerial tram. At a cost of $31 million, this 2-year mega-construction project is a top-to-bottom, state-of-the-art replacement. It will operate in 120-kph winds and 25-below zero temperatures, all with the quiet precision of a giant Swiss watch. Construction crews battled a record-breaking snowfall, zero visibility, high winds, and impassable mud-slick mountain roads to build its five towers and two terminals, and string more than ten miles of heavy steel cable. Filmed over a 2-year period, from Swiss factories to the mountains and towns of western Wyoming, Cable to the Sky tells the compelling story of dedicated men who risk their lives in a battle to finish this state of the art megastructure before winter closes in.
- Dr. Pol and Charles work with HATS, the Humane Animal Treatment Society, whose goal is to keep the animal population in check by way of spaying and neutering animals. But before they can be fixed, they'll have to be caught.
- After successfully handling a cow with a twisted stomach, a rabbit with overgrown teeth and a complicated foal delivery, Dr. and Mrs. Pol head off to their much needed vacation. Taking care of his patients is Dr. Brenda, who tends to Debo, a rambunctious escape artist dog who has broken his foot in four places. She also aids a cow that may have slipped on ice and a cat with a toy in its intestines. Eager to help, Charles goes on a farm call with Dr. Brenda to check on a baby goat with pneumonia.
- Charles is making the most out of an 9 hour layover in Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) to visit its iconic landmarks and getting around on foot and using public transportation on a 24 hours CTA transit pass.
- Troopers Noll, Taylor and Hess arrive on the scene of a crime of sheer brutality. A scorned ex-husband has been viciously stabbed, leaving him nearly eviscerated and on the verge of losing his life. In the Mat-Su Valley, Trooper Determan is called to investigate a rolled-over vehicle. When he and the paramedics arrive, they find the car in a frozen swamp with an unconscious man trapped inside. Then in Juneau, Wildlife Trooper Bjork investigates nearly 100 unattended shrimp pots in the waters.
- Cycling High" tells the story of Lance Armstrong's epic fall from grace as one of the world's greatest athletes. Guided by the extensive U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report, this documentary special pieces together the eyewitness testimony and delves into the science to show how the doping plot allegedly began and then mushroomed in its complexity. Using info-graphics, re-creations and archival footage, discover what the report says about how Armstrong and others outfoxed drug testing officials.
- The summer season is in high gear at the clinic as life-and-death situations stream in. Dr. Pol and Charles visit Stough Farms and Farmer Bill is one happy camper when he finds out that two-thirds of his cows are pregnant! At the clinic, Dr. Sandra examines a goat that gave birth the previous night. Its concerned owners suspect there may still be another baby inside. Meanwhile, Dr. Pol is across town at the Mogg's, tending to a pig that is suffering violent seizures.
- Charles is making the most out of an 8 hour layover in Frankfurt Airport to visit its famous landmarks and attractions on a tight budget.
- On the Parks Highway - the busiest stretch of road between Anchorage and Fairbanks - a head-on collision between an SUV and semi-truck shuts down the highway. Trooper Anderson arrives at the scene to find those in the SUV badly injured, and must work quickly with the emergency crew to save those whose lives are on the line. Across the valley, Trooper Noll responds to a burglary in progress and drives head-on into imminent danger, chasing after the suspect on ice-covered roads.
- The first signs of summer are gradually creeping across central Michigan and Pol Veterinary Services is in full swing. Dr. Pol and Charles head to Gross Dairy Farm for an emergency call to help a feisty cow with a twisted stomach and a foul stench. Back at the clinic, Dr. Pol examines Ginger the goat and suspects it might have polio. Dr. Brenda receives an emergency farm call of her own -- a new heifer at Delbert Garrett's farm has a prolapsed uterus and is still straining post-labor.
- An inside look at the final mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
- Charles is making the most out of an 18 hour layover in London Heathrow Airport (LHR) on a tight budget and to visit its best landmarks and free attractions. Charles be eating cheap and getting around with public transportation.
- Explore thirteen countries in the company of charismatic Lonely Planet guidebook authors who are determined to blaze a trail, experience new things and encounter new people by venturing down roads less travelled. Uncover destinations that are under-appreciated, yet to register or only just appearing on travellers radars.
- After weeks on the river, all crews have reached a crossroad with the same question in mind: Should they push on for profit or cash out and leave the Yukon behind? As the freeze sets in, they risk everything for the possibility to cash out.
- Are geniuses born or they are made? Hosted by R. Madhavan, Mega Icons will decipher the success stories of different inspiring personalities of India including Virat Kohli, former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Kamal Haasan, Kiran Bedi and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
- On the fierce battlegrounds of Botswana, being in a gang is everything. Strength comes in numbers, but victory only comes to those who play by gang rules. How to earn your place in the mob and how you fight to keep it is a matter of life - or death. And when Africa's greatest gangs collide, only those with real power, intelligence and teamwork will survive.
- It is one of Egypt's enduring mysteries. What happened to Nefertiti and her husband, Akhenaten - the radical king, and likely father of King Tut? In a dark and mysterious tomb located in the Valley of the Kings, there is a small chamber with two mummies without sarcophagi or wrappings. At times, both have been identified as Queen Nefertiti by scholars, filmmakers and historians. But the evidence has been circumstantial at best.
- It is birthing season in Michigan, which means Dr. Pol and his clinic staff have their hands full. After receiving an emergency calving call, Dr. Pol and Charles discover that a heifer is already in labor -- but is still out in the pasture. So before he can help her, they'll have to catch her! Meanwhile, Dr. Brenda gets an urgent call about a few sick piglets that were recently purchased for a 4-H project, and she must stop this potential pneumonia epidemic before it spreads even further.
- This program traces the origin and the history of the Red Cross to examine how the organization built a reputation of devotion to the spirit of goodwill and global humanitarianism. Norika Fujiwara, a famous TV talent in Japan, who is appointed as one of Japan's ambassador for the Red Cross, goes on a solemn mission to Solferino, Italy and Geneve, Switzerland. In her search of Red Cross monuments she will visit the Red Cross headquarters in a journey to discover what makes the organization respected around the world.
- The first crew, led by Neil Eklund, begins its raft building and search for wood. The next two crews follow close behind, but tensions arise as competition begins. These three crews must make money fast before winter ends all their efforts.
- Was he a villain or a visionary? Or was he a genius or did he order genocide? Herod killed his own wife and children but did he also try to kill the baby Jesus by ordering the murder of every baby boy in his kingdom? Join NGC as Secrets of HerodÂ's Reigndepicts a common man who became king of the Jews but could not satisfy his subjects. This program traces his bloody and pragmatic rise to power and the accomplishments and horrors that came with his rule.
- We know Bull Sharks swim upriver and we know they hunt in the sea. But we've never been able to see it all like this. We see them attack and consume other sharks. We watch their shady hunts in the deep. We follow them up freshwater rivers to pupping grounds. We see them hunt shoals of fish from drones above and we watch as they clash with hippos and crocodiles.
- Covers journalist Lisa Ling's journey into India's child labor world. 'Slave Girls of India' takes a look at the harsh lives young girls endure as domestic servants and prostitutes in the Indian subcontinent.
- Dr. Pol castrates feisty mini-horse, Mateo and tends to Jezebel a cow in distress and unable to birth her calf.
- The African bush is thick with thieves. In Botswana's dark, the criminal underworld, nothing and nobody is safe. Suspicion, injustice and terror rule supreme and crime does pay. Every animal must fight for what is rightfully - or wrongfully - theirs. Whatever the cost. In this land of cunning and mischief, when the going gets tough, even the most surprising characters are forced to turn to the dark side.
- When the '90s kicked off, the Berlin Wall has just fallen down, and soon other walls were coming downtown - between public and private, news and entertainment, reality and fantasy. The winds of change brought new voices speaking hard truth and thrust sex and celebrity into the limelight like never before. Our collective tabloid obsessions were fueled by the birth of the internet, heralding a new era of mass information...and misinformation.
- With more than 20,000 patients, Dr. Pol has seen it all. Specializing in large farm animals, this senior is anything but retiring as he takes an old school, no-nonsense approach to veterinary medicine.
- 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.
- From a hot pursuit on ice-covered roads to a moose disrupting busy streets, no patrol measures up to the bone-chilling magnitude as those of Alaska's state troopers. In Fairbanks, Trooper Rallo is in dangerous pursuit of a stolen vehicle. Down in Palmer, a call comes out to Trooper Taylor of a car accident involving a moose on the Glenn Highway, where thousands of drivers commute every day. In Homer, Trooper Chaffin searches for the suspect of a local burglary before he flees the state.
- In 1985, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Robert Ballard solved one of the greatest nautical mysteries of the 20th century when, while on a top secret naval assignment, he found the final resting place of the RMS Titanic. Now, join the legendary explorer as he reveals the details behind this story of stealth, subs and superpowers ripped from the pages of a Cold War spy thriller. Learn how Ballard's search for Titanic became the cover story to ward off Soviet suspicions.
- Charles and Sarah is taking on Yukon with a tight budget, exploring the best of Whitehorse and Klaune National Park