Discovery Channel Documentaries

  • Premiered: Jan 1988
  • Episodes: 419
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Season 2015
2015x2
Under Siege: America's Northern Border
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Mar 13, 2013
Everyday, money, guns and drugs pour across America’s northern border into the United States. Even more terrifying, many consider our northern border to be the focal point for illegal .. show full overview
2015x1
One Day In Auschwitz
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Jan 25, 2015
Seventy years after her liberation, Kitty Hart-Moxon makes a final return to Auschwitz-Birkenau to walk among the crumbling memorial with students Natalia and Lydia, who, at 16, are the .. show full overview
2015x7
World War Two: The Final Hours
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Mar 01, 2015
Using partly colourised archive footage, some of which have never been seen before, the film immerses viewers into the intensity of the final, apocalyptic hours of WW2.
2015x3
The Last Frontiersmen
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Mar 25, 2015
Deep in the Rocky Mountains, a few wildmen have left the 21st century behind to live like the first explorers of America.
2015x4
Terror in the Skies: AirAsia and Beyond
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Apr 15, 2015
Details the events of December 28, 2014, when AirAsia flight 8501 and its 155 passengers and seven crew members were lost in a storm 40 minutes into their journey from Indonesia to .. show full overview
2015x21
Tony Robinson's Victory in Europe
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May 08, 2015
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of WW2, Tony Robinson’s Victory in Europe will use never-before-seen archives of 3D pictures to tell the story of the last days of the Nazi .. show full overview
2015x5
Churchill and Me
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May 15, 2015
Brand new and exclusive to Discovery Channel, CHURCHILL & ME WITH HUGH DENNIS follows the comedian, actor and writer Hugh Dennis, on his journey to discover what Sir Winston Churchill .. show full overview
2015x6
Churchill's Toyshop
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May 22, 2015
CHURCHILL'S TOYSHOP explores the secretive and strange arms race between Britain and the Nazis during WW2. Convinced that the path to victory lay in out gunning the Nazis but faced with .. show full overview
2015x8
Day After D-Day
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Jun 02, 2015
Tells the story of the crucial 72 hours following the D-Day invasion, told by combat veterans who fought in the villages, beaches, hedgerows and bridgeheads of Normandy.
2015x11
Killer Space Junk
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Jul 13, 2015
In 2014 the International Space Station had to move three times to avoid lethal chunks of space debris, while satellites are mysteriously breaking down. With first-hand accounts from .. show full overview
2015x12
Direct From Pluto: First Encounter
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Jul 15, 2015
After a nine-year journey to Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is on the verge of delivering the first up-close images of the mysterious dwarf planet. Pluto: First Encounter .. show full overview
2015x15
Big Bang Aftershock
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Jul 18, 2015
Big Bang Aftershock The discovery of gravity waves in early 2013 was huge news around the world ... and so was the retraction after the scientists realized they'd made a mistake. This is .. show full overview
2015x16
Hunt for the First Star
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Jul 24, 2015
Hunt for the First Star A spectacular journey to the birth of stars and matter a billion years after the big bang. Scientists look for evidence of an extraordinary phenomenon known as .. show full overview
2015x20
How We Built the Bomb
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Aug 05, 2015
In 1943, a group of America's most brilliant physicists converged on a desert mesa in New Mexico to work for the top secret Manhattan Project. In this isolated community, they worked .. show full overview
2015x14
The Krays: The Prison Years
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Sep 10, 2015
The Krays: The Prison Years is a one-off documentary which explores the fascinating and largely untold story of the Kray twins after they were imprisoned in 1968. The hour- long .. show full overview
2015x13
Stonehenge: Secrets of the Stones
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Sep 15, 2015
Stonehenge: Secrets of the Stones Dated to the late Stone Age, Stonehenge may be the best-known and most mysterious relic of prehistory. Every year, a million visitors are drawn to .. show full overview
2015x22 Season finale
Inside the Vatican's Vault
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Sep 19, 2015
Enter the secret world of The Vatican, with exclusive access to the Canonization of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII. Follow the countdown to this ceremony as a million pilgrims arrive in Rome to celebrate these two new Saints.
2015x23 Season finale
United States of Paranoia
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Nov 07, 2015
Some Americans believe that George Orwell's 'Big Brother' is a real phenomenon - the programme investigates whether this is paranoia, or whether people are monitored and controlled.

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