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Since the 1990’s the Yarlung Tsangpo River has been the destination of a number of teams that engage in exploration and whitewater kayaking. The river has been called the “Everest of Rivers” because of the extreme conditions of the river.…

Filmmaker Marc Fafard examines the historical and cultural significance of the seafaring Vikings. Vikings were one of the Norse (Scandinavian) explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late eighth to the early…

This documentary is about NASA′s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft. It is the third mission in NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Probes program.

A rare documentary of science fiction on American television. During half an hour you will watch a synthesis of what was the first forty years of the science fiction production for television. From precursors as “Rocky Jones, Space Ranger“, “Space…

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Assassinated as the…

Jack London, also known as The Story of Jack London, is a 1943 biographical film made by Samuel Bronston Productions and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Alfred Santell and produced by Samuel Bronston with Joseph H. Nadel…

Witness the Great Migration as over 1.5 million animals travel more than 500 miles across the Serengeti plains in Tanzania and Kenya. Narrated by James Earl Jones.

No matter where in the world the President travels, if he flies in an Air Force jet, the plane is called Air Force One. Technically, Air Force One is the call sign of any Air Force aircraft carrying the President.…

Scientific American Frontiers was an American television program primarily focused on informing the public about new technologies and discoveries in science and medicine. It was a companion program to the Scientific American magazine. The show was produced for PBS…

A look at the Alaskan wilderness throughout the year, from the harsh winters to the rejuvenating spring, and the animals (including its human residents) who learn to adapt to the extremes of Alaskan weather. imdb

Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American paleoconservative radio host and documentary filmmaker. His nationally syndicated news/talk show The Alex Jones Show airs via the Genesis Communication Network on over 60 AM, FM, and Short Wave radio…

The CBS series is taken off the air in 1953 because of protests from civil rights groups; host George Kirby. The TV series used African-American actors in the main roles, although the actors were instructed to keep their voices and speech patterns as close to Gosden and Correll’s as possible.

The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Project Apollo and the third human voyage to the Moon. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Mission Commander…

Atlas is a family of U.S. space launch vehicles. The original Atlas missile was designed in the late 1950s. It was a liquid-fuel rocket burning LOX and RP-1 in three engines configured in an unusual “stage-and-a-half” or “Parallel Staging” design:…

How solar eruptions could threaten our high-tech society. A SpaceRipTV original, in collaboration with Space.com.

Barack Obama’s background made him uniquely able to capture the imagination of the electorate. But it wasn’t always that way. Raised by his white mother and white grandparents, young “Barry Obama” often felt like an outsider.

From 1996 to 2001, Boeing and Lockheed Martin produced rival designs and prototypes for the Joint Strike Fighter, a stealthy, affordable combat plane intended for the 21st century needs of the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marines. In “Battle of…

The Big Picture is a product of the US Army. I edited these episodes shortening them. They needed it. The Korean War started June 25th 1950 and these films show the optimism before China sent a couple hundred thousand troops to prop up North Korea.

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist. His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, explaining the perihelion advance of…

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) was an American general, United Nations general, and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the…

At the beginning of the Century, the House of Windsor ruled the greatest empire the world has ever seen. Ninety years later, the empire would be gone, and they would be wondering whether they could hang onto the throne.
The…

Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18, 1949), known as the Green River Killer, is an American serial killer. Ridgway murdered numerous women in Washington during the 1980s and 1990s. He strangled them with rope, fishing line and anything else he…

“The family that slays together, stays together.” This was a family without limits. “Sadistic,” “dysfunctional”…they did whatever it took to remain in power.
Saddam Hussein (April 28, 1937 – December 30, 2006) was the President of Iraq from July 16,…

Birth of the B-29 was a 1945 propaganda film commissioned by the US War Department. As the name implies, it concerned the production of the B-29 bomber and its use in the aerial bombing of Japan in World War II.…

Kung Fu Master and pop culture icon Bruce Lee gives an interview. Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco and grew up in Hong Kong. His martial arts career led to a widespread interest in Chinese martial arts in the west.

While the people of the world have been winning their freedoms from the monarchies of the world for the last 200 years, secret banking families and societies have sought to create control by creating money out of nothing lending it…

Click and Clack of Car Talk go in search of the car of the future. For 30 years Click and Clack have advised motorists about their cars on their PBS radio show

Carrier is a 10-hour documentary film about a six-month deployment of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in 2005 from the United States to the Middle East and back.
The miniseries in ten parts is directed by Maro Chermayeff, and produced…

Chaplin is a 1992 British biographical film about the life of English comedian Charlie Chaplin. It was produced and directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Robert Downey, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Kevin Kline, and Anthony Hopkins. It also features Geraldine Chaplin…

This is a Coronet educational film from 1950 about the rise of communism in Russia and China in the first half of the last century. It has communisms greatest hits and has information on Mao, Stalin, Lenin with a special…

The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde aircraft was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport (SST). It was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufacturing efforts of Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation. First flown in 1969, Concorde entered…

Narrated by Morgan Freeman, Cosmic Voyage explores some of the greatest scientific theories, many of which have never before been visualized on film before in a mix of ground-breaking computer animation and cutting-edge science.

Science with sideburns and a tokes. Carl Sagan produced this 1980 series of spacey shows which was the most popular PBS TV show in the 1980’s even though there were only 13 episodes. “Billions and Billions… whoa dude!…. nuclear winter…

A small town thrust into big politics when George W. Bush moves in next door. Gritty, authentic and often funny, CRAWFORD is Hulu’s first movie premiere.

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A 1949 educational film about the Do’s and Dont’s of dating. How does Woody choose a date? Janice is snooty and always acts bored. Betty just doesn’t seem like much fun. Ann knows how to have a good time. It…

Apollo 8 was the first manned voyage to a celestial body. Its three-man crew of Mission Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans to see the far side of…

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an African American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States…

Democracy Now! is a daily independent newshour broadcasting on over 500 radio and television channels. For more information, including complete transcripts of the shows, visit the website, democracynow.org. OK, OK, so it’s more like “Communists Now!”, but we’ll give em…

Despotism examines how a country becomes a despotate.  It explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on…

Duck and Cover was a social guidance film produced in 1951 by the United States federal government’s Civil Defense branch shortly after the Soviet Union began nuclear testing. Written by Raymond J. Mauer and directed by Anthony Rizzo of Archer…

Ripples in the fabric of space-time from monumental collisions between black holes, and how scientists are trying to measure them with lasers and mirrors. From LIGO and the National Science Foundation.

I am in Oregon and I remember this when it happened. This would be an example of what not to do when you are faced with a dead whale on the beach
This most famous explosion occurred in the United…

The Solar System, or solar system, consists of the Sun and the other celestial objects gravitationally bound to it: the eight planets, their 166 known moons,three dwarf planets (Ceres, Pluto, and Eris and their four known moons), and billions of…

A telescope is an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects by the collection of electromagnetic radiation. The first known practically functioning telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century. “Telescopes” can refer to…

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly named the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST) is a space observatory being used to perform gamma-ray astronomy observations from low Earth orbit. Its main instrument is the Large Area Telescope (LAT), with…

The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of the Apollo program and the third human voyage to the moon. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Commander…

On the outskirts of Ghana’s biggest city sits a smoldering wasteland, a slum carved into the banks of the Korle Lagoon, one of the most polluted bodies of water on earth. The locals call it Sodom and Gomorrah.
Correspondent…

Bernie” Madoff is an American former businessman and former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange who was convicted of operating a Ponzi scheme that has been called the largest investor fraud ever committed by a single person. On March…

Frontline on PBS presents “Heat”. “Heat” discusses the effects of Global Warming on the planet. There are also discussions about coal, electric cars and alternative energy sources. It explains the impact and politics of our various options, examining electric cars,…

The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, SIRTF) is an infrared space observatory. It is the fourth and final of NASA’s Great Observatories.
The planned nominal mission period was to be 2.5 years with a pre-launch expectation…