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The Judd Family: Truth Be Told

2025

The Judd Family: Truth Be Told

2025
The Judd Family: Truth Be Told reveals the complex story of the Judds’ including their triumphs and tragedies across several decades. From Naomi’s beginnings in Kentucky as a young teen mom, then known as Dianna, struggling to survive with her young daughters, the doc illustrates how the famous country music mother-daughter duo of Naomi and Wynonna Judd came to be and where Ashley stood at the height of Naomi and Wynonna’s fame. Untold truths emerge, illustrating what tied them together, and what also drove them a part.
The Dakota Entrapment Tapes

2020

The Dakota Entrapment Tapes

2020
6
In a sleepy North Dakota town, where the crime rate is so low people often don’t lock their front doors, 20-year-old college student Andrew Sadek mysteriously disappears in May 2014 and is found dead almost two months later. What Andrew’s friends and family didn’t know was that in the months before his death, he had been coerced into becoming an informant for an aggressive police task force that had been secretly operating for years. As details of Andrew’s double life are revealed, the cover of the shadowy program is blown, laying bare the collusion and abuse of power of local law enforcement at all levels. Following the Sadek family’s fight for the truth about how their son was killed, the film skillfully uncovers the forces at play in his death and reveals why law enforcement secretly waged a war on drugs, on a college campus that didn’t have a drug problem.
Mega Machines: Sea Giants

2018

Mega Machines: Sea Giants

2018
The new tools and technology that are pushing the limits in the world's most unruly bodies of water, including an ocean miner used to extract salts that are used to manufacture plastics, multi-mission fireboats, and the world's biggest tidal turbine.
Broken Knuckles

2020

Broken Knuckles

2020
Documentary series following competitors in the brutal but compelling Bare Knuckle Boxing Scene. In this exciting series, we follow some of the most-notorious bare knuckle boxers as they train and prepare right up to the fight itself, but also get to know them personally; hear their stories, hear from their partners and understand why they took up such a dangerous sport in the first place.
Dynamic Planet

2023

Dynamic Planet

2023
A 3 year journey to the extremes of all 7 continents to meet the extraordinary people and animals on the front line of climate change. They reveal how science, nature and traditional knowledge can prepare us for a fast changing future.
The Amazon of the East

2017

The Amazon of the East

2017
Originating in the hidden heart of Borneo, the Kinabatangan River winds its way for more than 560 kilometers before feeding into the rich coral reefs of the Sulu Sea. We follow local wildlife photographer, Cede Prudente, as he captures the destruction, drama and diversity of life that the river supports in the hopes of raising awareness of the challenges facing the river system.
Ten Steps to Disaster

2021

Ten Steps to Disaster

2021
Experts take a deep dive into modern history's worst disasters to highlight ten crucial missteps behind each catastrophe.
Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death

2013

Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death

2013
9
Historian and author Helen Castor, presenter of the popular series She-Wolves, explores how the people of the Middle Ages handled the most fundamental moments of transition in life: birth, marriage and death. In doing so she reveals how people in the medieval world thought and what they believed in. For the people of the Middle Ages the teachings of the Catholic Church shaped thoughts and beliefs across the whole of Western Europe. But by the end of the Middle Ages the Church would find itself in the grip of momentous change and the way of medieval birth, marriage and death would never be quite the same again.
JFK: A New World Order

2013

JFK: A New World Order

2013
Fifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy’s life and legacy continues to capture the hearts and minds of an entire nation. Remembered for his charisma and formidable intellect, this series explores the highlights of his life – from WWII hero and respected U.S. Senator, to the 1960s Presidential race against Richard Nixon and his famous inaugural speech, to his final days of his brief presidency and all points in-between. Journey through the pivotal moments that created one of America’s most beloved, influential, and controversial figures!
Million Dollar Murders

2022

Million Dollar Murders

2022
7
Mysterious disappearances. Kidnappings. Hate crimes. Thrill killings. These are the toughest crimes to crack and the most complex become Million Dollar Murders. When there are few leads left to investigate police turn to the public for help to solve these crimes, offering a $1 million reward for new information, from someone, somewhere, who may know something.
Pink Collar Crimes

2018

Pink Collar Crimes

2018
7
The impossible-to-believe, often absurd, true stories about the most unexpected women — PTA moms, country-club chairwomen, and more — who took big risks, pocketed big cash and then served hard time.
Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio

2017

Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio

2017
6.5
Filmmaker Joe Berlinger’s real-time, eight-part investigation into a string of mysterious sex and drug-fueled disappearances and deaths in the heart of America’s rust belt.
World of Weapons

2020

World of Weapons

2020
A look at some of the most important, innovative and powerful weapons of all time. Through unique experiments run by weapons specialists, explore how and why these weapons work and the role each one has played in shaping the world we know today.
Boomtowners

2015

Boomtowners

2015
"Boomtowners" plunges into a modern-day "gold rush" that's attracting thousands of people from all over the country to the Bakken, a region of North Dakota. An oil boom has turned the area into the epicenter of a white-hot industrial revolution, but a rise in jobs has also led to a surge in population and living costs. Experience this phenomenon first-hand through the eyes of newcomers and longtime residents trying to make a living there in this groundbreaking new docu-series about tapping into the American dream.
Up From Slavery

2011

Up From Slavery

2011
In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. The nation was founded upon the idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The nation would pay a bloody cost for denying that right to more than twelve percent of its population. But when slavery was first brought to America's shores, this war, and even the nation it tore apart, was centuries in the future. With incredibly detailed historical reenactments, expert commentary and the stories of slavery told through first-hand accounts, this is an epic struggle 400 years in the making. A journey into the past like none other. This is the story of these men and women who by their hands laid the foundation of what would become the most powerful nation on Earth. Join us as we rise...UP FROM SLAVERY.
60 Days In: Narcoland

2019

60 Days In: Narcoland

2019
5.8
Six participants go undercover in crucial areas along I-65 – one of the biggest drug trafficking corridors in the country, encompassing six counties in Kentucky and Indiana – for a first-hand look into how drug cartels have infiltrated America’s Heartland.
Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper

2023

Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper

2023
1
Life-long birder Christian Cooper takes us on a journey to dive into and discover the wild, wonderful, and unpredictable world of birds.
4th and Forever: Alcoa

2020

4th and Forever: Alcoa

2020
In the shadows of the Smoky Mountains lives a football dynasty. Alcoa High School is southern Appalachia's true football powerhouse.
Fearless Planet

2007

Fearless Planet

2007
8
Discovery Channel's new adrenaline-filled, six-part series is a thrill ride through the earth's most awesome natural wonders, taking extreme filmmaking to a whole new level. Viewers join world paragliding record holder and renowned extreme sportsman Will Gadd as he journeys to some of the most amazing locations in the world —Alaska, the Sahara, Hawaii, the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon — to understand how these stunning formations were created. The series uses cutting-edge photo-real computer graphics to bring to life the geological processes that created these natural wonders.
Hunting ISIS

2018

Hunting ISIS

2018
6.8
Follow along as American fighters embedded with the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria, and medics supporting a coalition of local forces in Iraq, begin the difficult push to retake ISIS’ capital cities.