On the 27th of December 1973, a nightmare began for an entire family. On that night, a German businessman called Thomas Niedermayer was kidnapped from his home in Belfast. He…

Computer-generated imagery and other visualization techniques reveal how it would look if all the water was removed from RMS Titanic’s final resting place.

Marco Polo became a legend after his epic, 24 year trek across Asia. Was he the world’s greatest overland explorer? Or the biggest liar? National Geographic’s own legend, Michael Yamashita,…

Through never-been-seen-before footage and fascinating interviews with key members of the 1985 Chicago Bears — Mike Ditka, Jim McMahon, Mike Singletary, and others — you will hear the inside story…

The True Story of Sargent Joseph Hoover went to war to preserve the Union. After being captured and sent to a prisoner of war camp, he understood what it was…

The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was the starting point for the slow but sure collapse of communist authoritarian rule in Eastern Europe. The Helsinki Effect offers…

In the nine months prior to World War II, 10.000 innocent children left behind their families, their homes, their childhood, and took the journey… to Britain to escape the Nazi…

On the eve of an invasion in 1982 Lebanon, an 11-year-old boy at a mountain school is determined to express his feelings to a classmate. As tension builds across the…

Former combat videographer Miles Lagoze presents personal footage of U.S. Marines in the Afghan war zone.

French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegui, who has been charged by the king with ridding the country of…

The inside story of SpaceX’s plan to get humanity to Mars, providing an unprecedented glimpse into one of the world’s most revolutionary companies. A behind-the-scenes journey with Elon Musk and…

The comedian takes a look back at the darker side of the royal family’s 1000-year history, and wonders how generations of land-grabbing, child-murdering, wife-beheading, slave-trading, misogyny, violence and empire-building have…