Top 100 Nonfiction TV Shows of 2023
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The Murdochs: Empire of Influence, Season 1
October 16, 2022James Murdoch rises to the top of his family’s empire, overseeing all of News International in Europe, and he seems destined to someday take control of the co...
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The West: A Film by Stephen Ives and Presented by Ken Burns
September 15, 1996This series chronicles the saga of the American West, tracing the lives of a diverse cast of characters, from explorers, soldiers and Indian warriors to settler...
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Alaska Daily, Season 1
October 6, 2022After a fall from grace, fiercely talented and award-winning investigative journalist Eileen Fitzgerald leaves her high-profile New York life behind to join a d...
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Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, Season 2
August 29, 2022Stanley Tucci visits the region that made the dream of unified Italy a reality. Piedmont boasts refined French heritage and precious peasant traditions. Once th...
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The White Lotus, Season 1
August 16, 2021Stripped of his gadgets, Quinn reluctantly takes a scuba class with Mark, who’s struggling to process revelations regarding his late father. Hoping to reignit...
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Top Gear, Series 15
July 18, 2010The boys build motorhomes before setting off for a bank holiday weekend in the West Country to see how each of their creations performs in the real world. Meanw...
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The Murdochs: Empire of Influence, Season 1
September 25, 2022Meet the Murdochs -- a family of extreme power and no small amount of sibling rivalry. This episode revisits the origins of Rupert Murdoch's news empire in his ...
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The White Lotus, Season 1
August 15, 2021A cautiously optimistic Belinda walks a fine line with Tanya, while Armond brainstorms ways to deal with Shane. After her husband belittles her work, Rachel app...
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Alaska Daily, Season 1
October 20, 2022Eileen, Roz and Sylvie travel to Meade to learn more about a suspect in Gloria's case and connect with the local police chief; Austin learns about a political c...
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True Life: 2008
July 20, 2008Everybody shops. But for some people, walking out of a store with a bag full of something new provides a thrill like no other. On this episode of True Life, you...
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Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News, Season 1
October 5, 2022Virtue Signal's Kylie Weaver sits down with Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Big News tackles the media's role in escalating Russia-Ukraine tensions, and Hot Take appl...
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Welcome to Wrexham, Season 1
September 28, 2022Fans grumble about Wrexham’s lackluster performance and aim their ire at manager Phil Parkinson. Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney debate his future with the c...
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Top Gear, The Specials, Vol. 1
March 30, 2009Our story begins in a little village on the border between Zimbabwe and Botswana. Unusually, James was the first to arrive, in his 1985 Mercedes 230E. Next up i...
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Deadliest Warrior, Season 2
May 18, 2010The Nazi SS, Adolf Hitler’s homicidal shock troops of WW II , battle the Viet Cong, the murderous masters of jungle warfare. Two of the most lethal foes eve...
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Top Gear, Season 18
December 28, 2011In this year's Top Gear special, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May set out to boost the British economy by embarking on a trade mission to India. E...
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The Murdochs: Empire of Influence, Season 1
September 25, 2022As they come of age, the Murdoch children get a taste of the family business and begin a decades-long competition to be Rupert’s heir apparent. Now owner of t...
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Top Gear, Season 19
March 18, 2013In the second part of the Top Gear special, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May continue their epic African Odyssey. Having survived insane traffic,...
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Season 10
October 8, 2017The gloves are off and the rivalry continues as Bourdain and his long time friend, three-Michelin-starred chef Eric Ripert, embark on a ski-and-cheese-filled jo...
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The Curse of Oak Island, Season 10
October 18, 2022Matty Blake reveals Rick, Marty and the team's most compelling finds unearthed in the mysterious Oak Island swamp.
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Top Gear, The Specials, Vol. 2
December 27, 2009Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are dropped deep in the Bolivian rainforest armed only with three shabby 4x4s. Forcing their way through gullies,...
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Welcome to Wrexham, Season 1
September 14, 2022In this “very special episode”, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney take us through on a tour of Wales - and TV show formats.
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JFK: Destiny Betrayed
March 8, 2022This chapter examines Kennedy’s autopsy, from the inexperienced doctor who burns his notes, to the autopsy photographer who claims that photos have been alte...
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Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, Season 1
August 29, 2022Stanley Tucci eats and drinks his way around Milan. Here, Stanley enjoys an aperitivo, feels inspired to make pizzoccheri – a noodle made from buckwheat, and ...
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Top Gear, Series 12
March 30, 2009In one of the most spectacular and incredible Top Gear road trips ever attempted, the boys head to Vietnam, aiming to travel the entire length of the country in...
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Evil Lives Here: Shadows of Death, Season 4
October 12, 2022In 2017, a young couple's hope for a "happily-ever-after" ends in bloodshed, leaving two grandmothers to make sense of unbearable horror and grief.
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Top Gear, The Specials, Vol. 2
February 7, 2011The Top Gear boys are once again let loose in the USA, this time for an epic road trip up the east coast. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are com...
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Season 2
November 3, 2013Japan is a paradox. The low birthrate, the dedication, the conformity, and the life of a salary man are well known. There is also a competitive and rigid cultu...
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The Murdochs: Empire of Influence, Season 1
October 2, 2022As they come of age, Rupert Murdoch’s children get a taste of the family business, beginning a decades-long competition to take over a company that is upendin...
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The White Lotus, Season 1
August 15, 2021As a new wave of guests arrive at the White Lotus, resort manager Armond tries to assuage an unreasonable Shane and his easy-going wife Rachel, while spa direct...
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Top Gear, Series 11
July 13, 2008In a race across Japan, Jeremy Clarkson tries to prove that the technical tour de force that is the Nissan GT-R is faster than Richard Hammond and James May tra...
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Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, Season 2
August 29, 2022Stanley Tucci visits the Veneto, once the center of a world-trading empire, and home to the "Floating City," Venice. Stanley explores the ingenuity of the Venet...
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Season 9
July 2, 2017Food takes center stage in this tour of the northern Portugal city by Bourdain, whose local travel companions include his former Les Halles boss Jose Meirelles.
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Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, Season 1
August 29, 2022Stanley Tucci heads to Rome in search of the famous Four Pastas. Stanley orders rigatoni all’amatriciana, samples carbonara and tries a selection of cheeses a...
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Top Gear, Season 13
June 21, 2009Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May set out to discover what Top Gear might have been like 60 years ago in a race from London to Edinburgh. James gra...
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The U.S. and the Holocaust: A Film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, Season 1
September 18, 2022After decades of open borders, a xenophobic backlash prompts the United States to pass laws restricting immigration. In Germany, Hitler finds support for his an...
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America's Book of Secrets, Season 1
January 21, 2012An inside look at the secret protocols, elite security and hidden history of the world's most public of private residences. What is the most secret room in the ...
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NOVA, Vol. 25
October 19, 2022Hallucinogenic drugs--popularly called psychedelics--have been used by human societies for thousands of years. Today, scientists are taking a second look at man...
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Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, Season 1
August 29, 2022Stanley Tucci visits Sicily. Here, Stanley tries a salty cruchy sensation, tastes the grapes grown in the region's unique soils, and reflects on Sicilian hospit...
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Welcome to Wrexham, Season 1
September 7, 2022Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney try to fulfill one of their biggest promises to Wrexham as a previous owner’s dark shadow still lingers.
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Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 7
September 14, 2009Tony visits Sardinia, his wife's homeland, and learns what it means to be Sardinian. From the craggy mountainous landscape to the exotic cuisine and ages old tr...
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Welcome to Wrexham, Season 1
August 31, 2022The first Wrexham home opener of the new era arrives, whether Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds are ready for it or not.
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Top Gear, Series 14
December 27, 2009Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are dropped deep in the Bolivian rain forest armed only with three shabby 4x4s which they bought from the local s...
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Top Gear, Season 21
March 17, 2014In the first of an all-new two-part special, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May are on a mission to build a bridge over the River Kwai in Thailand....
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The Defiant Ones, Season 1
July 9, 2017Years before they brokered one of the biggest deals in music history--the 2014 sale of Beats Electronics to Apple for $3 billion--Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine navig...
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Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, Season 2
August 29, 2022Stanley Tucci visits Umbria, nicknamed The Green Heart of Italy. While this small, predominantly rural region lives in the shadow of its more glamourous neighbo...
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Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 1
July 25, 2005Explore the city of light and love's unexpected surprises on a journey through the lives of the city's working class. Explore the varied ethnic communities whic...
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Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 9
August 16, 2010In this episode, we get a glimpse of Rome through Tony's eyes as he dines on mouth-watering classic Italian dishes and attempts to embody the mindset of the Rom...
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The Staircase, Season 1
May 5, 2022December 2001. When businesswoman and beloved mother Kathleen Peterson is found dead after reportedly falling down a flight of stairs, the unusually bloody scen...
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Top Gear, Season 21
March 24, 2014Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May continue their journey in three ancient and barely functioning trucks, heading toward their final challenge - bu...
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FRONTLINE, Volume 43
October 18, 2022Lt. General Michael Flynn: from elite soldier overseas to waging “spiritual war” in America. With the Associated Press, examine how Flynn emerged as a leadi...
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Top Gear, Season 22
January 19, 2015In part two, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May continue in their quest to take three V8-engined sports cars on an epic journey through Patagonia to...
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Fixer Upper: The Castle
October 15, 2022A revealing walk through the castle shows decades of damage and neglect that will be a restoration challenge for Chip and Jo. But the landmark’s rich history ...
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Welcome to Wrexham, Season 1
October 12, 2022For the first time in 14 years, Wrexham has a chance to be promoted out of the National League. Can they do it?
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America’s National Parks, Season 1
August 29, 2022Grand Canyon National Park a high-rise haven sculpted by the elements, where all life is connected. Following the cycle of seasons from winter to fall, explore ...
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Welcome to Wrexham, Season 1
August 24, 2022Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney attempt a takeover of the world’s third oldest professional football (a.k.a. soccer) club, located in Wrexham...
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness: A Film by Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers, Season 1
June 27, 2022The Storm, the first two-hour episode of Hiding in Plain Sight, focuses on more than twenty young people who provide an intimate look at what it’s like to exp...
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MythBusters, Season 19
March 5, 2016This is it. The last ever episode of MythBusters. Prepare to be blown away by the most epic grand finale in television history!
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Evil Lives Here: Shadows of Death, Season 4
October 17, 2022In 2021, when 33-year-old Erika Verdecia goes missing, her family launches their own search for her. What their homegrown investigation uncovers is a tragic tra...
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Top Gear, Season 22
January 12, 2015The world's biggest car program is back with a brand new, two-part special in which Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May take three V8-engined sports ...
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MythBusters, Season 8
May 5, 2010On this Episode of MythBusters the fans take command in Mythssion Control. First up it's Hyneman vs Newton. Then - Kari, Grant and Tory are back in the school o...
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Planet Earth, Series 1
March 12, 2006Tour the mightiest mountain ranges, starting with the birth of a mountain at one of the lowest places on Earth and ending at the summit of Everest. One of Earth...
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Air Disasters, Season 18
October 16, 2022Colgan Air Flight 3407 prepares to land in Buffalo after a short, 50-minute hop from Newark. Suddenly, the twin-engine turboprop takes on a mind of its own, pit...
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No One Can Hear You Scream, Season 1
October 18, 2022Penny Waldroup takes all the right steps to leave her abusive husband, Brad, but she still must see him for their children. And on a visit to his remote mountai...
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Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 9
September 6, 2010Tony gets to know a little bit about the lives of the city's working class. Explore the varied ethnic communities that contribute to the pulse of Paris.
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NOVA, Vol. 25
July 13, 2022Follow the dramatic story of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope--the most complex machine ever launched into space--in hopes of peering deeper back in time tha...
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Ken Burns: The Civil War
September 9, 2015This episode opens with a dramatic account of the turning point of the war: the Battle of Gettysburg - the greatest battle ever fought in the Western Hemisphere...
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Ancient Aliens, Season 18
September 16, 2022In the 20th century, a mysterious British woman who claimed to be the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian priestess shocked Egyptologists by accurately locatin...
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Season 1
May 5, 2013The two funniest and most brilliant chef/restaurateurs in Canada, Joe Beef's Dave McMillan and Fred Morin, take us across Canada by rail.
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American Greed, Season 15
October 18, 2022Estimated at over 4.5 billion dollars and breaking a government record, the largest heist in cryptocurrency history has been linked by authorities to the most u...
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Top Gear, Season 21
February 10, 2014The 21st season of Top Gear kicks off with hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May attempting to prove that hatchback cars from the 80's are better...
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Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, Season 2
October 9, 2022Calabria is a region of rugged landscapes, dramatic mountain ranges, and some 500 miles of incredible coastline. Connected to Basilicata in the north and separa...
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The White Lotus, Season 1
August 16, 2021After Shane shoots down her latest career plans, Rachel is further blindsided by an unexpected arrival. Just as Belinda begins to take her business proposition ...
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Ken Burns: Baseball
September 18, 1994In New York City, in the 1840s, people need a diversion from the "railroad pace" at which they work and live. They find it in a game of questionable origins. ...
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Welcome to Wrexham, Season 1
October 5, 2022With one match left to play in the regular season, Wrexham has a chance to win the league and promotion.
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Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, Season 2
August 29, 2022Stanley Tucci sets out to explore how Italian immigration has transformed the food scene in his adopted hometown of London. Forget what you think you know about...
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Welcome to Wrexham, Season 1
August 31, 2022With just weeks before the season begins, Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds find themselves having to convince star football players and executives to take a cha...
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Top Gear, Season 19
March 11, 2013In the first of a two-part Top Gear special, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May are in Africa with a simple mission to find the definitive source o...
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The Murdochs: Empire of Influence, Season 1
October 9, 2022As his children jockey to someday run the family business, Rupert Murdoch makes his first moves toward choosing a successor, declaring Lachlan the “first amon...
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Top Gear, Season 20
August 19, 2013Everyone has an opinion on bad cars. Now it's time to hear the ones that really count - ours. As it's the worst car in the history of the WORLD, we're out to na...
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Body Cam, Season 6
October 19, 2022In North Carolina, after a home invasion gone wrong, a fleeing burglar takes a heavily pregnant woman as a human shield. Officers in Ohio meet a hail of bullets...
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Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 6
January 12, 2009Tony steps away from the Venice of tourists and into the Venice of the locals, visiting the famous Rialto Fish Market, experiencing Burano risoto and tasting "f...
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Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, Season 1
August 29, 2022Stanley Tucci explores Bologna, seen by many as the food capital of Italy. The region of Emilia-Romagna is home to globally renowned protected food products: pa...
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Ken and Barbie Killers: The Lost Murder Tapes, Season 1
December 13, 2021Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka embark on a passionate love affair. Then, missing schoolgirls Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French turn up dead, and a battered and...
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Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, Season 1
August 29, 2022Stanley Tucci feasts on pizza in Naples. Stanley embarks on a whirlwind tour to find the freshest mozzarella and the best San Marzano tomatoes, and enjoys a spe...
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Season 10
October 1, 2017Bourdain tours the historically rich streets of Singapore and immerses himself in the vast array of multicultural foods found throughout this island city-state.
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The Curse of Oak Island, Season 10
October 11, 2022Matty Blake examines the best clues and historical evidence to identify the groups and individuals most likely connected the Oak Island Mystery.
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Welcome to Wrexham, Season 1
September 28, 2022Unfortunate occurrences at the first home game attended by the Co-Chairmen lead to a police investigation and raise the ugly specter of football Hooliganism.
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Chopped, Season 53
October 19, 2022Four chefs with a talent for live-fire cooking bring their passion to the Chopped kitchen. Second-guessing in round two leaves one chef confused about the main ...
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The U.S. and the Holocaust: A Film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, Season 1
September 18, 2022The first reports of the killing reach the United States. A group of dedicated government officials form the War Refugee Board to finance and support rescue ope...
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Welcome to Wrexham, Season 1
August 24, 2022Wrexham Football Club attempts to qualify for the playoffs as their new owners try to (very quickly) learn the ins and outs of a game and an industry they know ...
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King Tut: A Century of Secrets, Season 1
October 20, 2022Narrated by Josh Gates, the world’s leading Egyptologists are on a quest to uncover the secrets of Howard Carter's history-making discovery of Tutankhamun's t...
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Welcome to Wrexham, Season 1
September 7, 2022Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney land an important partnership as the Wrexham goalies - and fans - face some tough contests.
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Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, Season 1
August 29, 2022Stanley Tucci explores his former home: Tuscany. Stanley does a wine bar crawl, celebrates the importance of the lowly loaf and samples dishes which use stale b...
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NOVA, Vol. 7
April 4, 2012Where do nature’s building blocks, called the elements, come from? They’re the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies ...
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Welcome to Wrexham, Season 1
October 12, 2022An inside look at the unusual beginnings and dynamics of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s football friendship.
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Welcome to Wrexham, Season 1
October 12, 2022Hollywood stars and Wrexham residents descend on London for the Red Dragons’ big match at legendary Wembley Stadium.
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Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings, Season 5
October 18, 2022Ryan Martin looks to take back the points lead, but others are doing what they can to knock him out and racers begrudgingly leave Team Texas.
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The U.S. and the Holocaust: A Film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, Season 1
September 18, 2022After Kristallnacht, Jews are desperate to escape Hitler’s expanding reach. Americans are united in their disapproval of Nazi brutality but divided on whether...
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Alaska Daily, Season 1
October 13, 2022When Roz and Eileen find a lead in Gloria's case, Eileen calls in a favor to help them track down the person of interest; Claire investigates why a beloved loca...
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Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, Season 2
October 16, 2022In this episode, Stanley Tucci visits the Italian island of Sardinia. Famous for its harsh, rugged landscape, crystal blue ocean, and passionately preserved tra...
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