Follows baseball legend David "Big Papi" Ortiz as he takes a journey through baseball history, along with some other baseball greats who will join him.
At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, the USA women’s basketball team dominated the competition. Eight wins. Zero losses. Gold medals around their necks. They made it look easy. But that’s barely the start of the real story of the Women’s Dream Team. Because the truth about how the team came together, and what they endured on their grueling 14-month road leading up to the Olympics, is one of the most unlikely and most complicated tales told in sports history. Nothing less than the future of basketball was in their hands. If the ’96 team won and captured the hearts of fans, the NBA was prepared to launch the WNBA. If they failed, the league would scrap their plans.
Crime experts explore the motives and modus operandi of female killers. While males are often driven by anger, impulse and destruction, women usually have more complex, long-term reasons to kill.
The Apollo space program: 12 manned-missions, one impossible goal. With rare archival footage and audio, this remarkable documentary sheds new light on an incredible time in human history.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year? or is it? The holiday season is known to be joyous, but for some it brings out trouble. From Black Friday shopping madness, to full family brawls, CHRISTMAS WARS gives viewers the gift of seeing the human behavior that will secure a place on Santa's Naughty list.
The last decade has seen a revolution in manufacturing. A just in time economy means the products we love are being made on a massive scale in record time. While lightening logistics mean global trade and distribution happens faster than ever. This is the story of how some of today's biggest brands, from Tesla Cars to Gibson Guitars, from Tabasco Sauce to Space Rockets, are made in America.
Former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and wine enthusiast Morten Brink Iwersen go on a European road trip through classic wine districts and political dilemmas.
If viewers have never seen a hairless rat with a pustule on its neck, or a plump fair pig with an abscess on its rump, they are in for a treat as some of National Geographic's most renowned and beloved vets work to drain some of the worst abscesses they have ever seen. From the office to the field, no pustule or abscess will go undrained.