Top 100 Nonfiction TV Shows of 2022
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The Kitchen, Season 29
November 28, 2021The Kitchen throws it back to iconic party bites that deserve a comeback -- with new twists! There's a fabulous "fon-duo" of Taleggio Fondue and Quick Horchata ...
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This American Life, Season 1
March 22, 2007Three stories of people who hatched plans in the hopes of making their dreams come true, but were snapped back to reality by unpleasant outcomes: an elementary ...
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See No Evil, Season 8
November 25, 2021In Fontana, California, a bizarre traffic accident takes the life of 18-year-old Cristian Dominguez Aguilar. With the driver vanished into thin air, police turn...
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Planet Earth II
March 4, 2017Jungles provide the richest habitats on the planet - mysterious worlds of high drama where extraordinary animals attempt to survive in the most competitive plac...
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Chaos in Court, Season 1
October 21, 2020A courthouse brawl after a manslaughter conviction; a woman claims Jesus is her attorney; a man becomes outraged when denied bond; a group text gone wrong; an a...
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Ancient Aliens, Season 11
July 27, 2018Could the ancient ruins of Sardinia, Italy hold clues to an extraterrestrial past? Oak Island treasure hunter Marty Lagina and Ancient Astronaut theorist Giorgi...
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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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MythBusters, Season 5
January 17, 2007Arggghhh me hearties -- Jamie and Adam have plundered the seven seas in search of pirate parables and maritime myths and the result is this 2-hour spectacular. ...
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Murder Comes to Town, Season 5
July 24, 2018The town of Cleveland, OK experiences overwhelming heartbreak when its esteemed Sheriff is mysteriously gunned down in the night. As the community wrestles with...
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The Unexplained Files, Season 1
September 11, 2013Ghost Yacht- Three friends go sailing ... and vanish without trace - their catamaran left drifting like a ghost ship off the coast of Queensland. Freaky Fires- ...
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House Hunters International, Season 32
February 16, 2012The Weins seek an apartment in Vienna, Austria so Eva can reconnect with her family's history.
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House Hunters International, Season 160
November 17, 2021A fitness entrepreneur and his showbiz wife are leaving their hectic LA lives to pursue a business venture in Tulum, Mexico. She wants to start slow with a mode...
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House Hunters, Season 187
November 17, 2021A single attorney looks to buy her first home in red-hot Inglewood, California. With prices in that area going through the roof, she might have to consider a fi...
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Island Life, Season 19
February 19, 2020A warehouse manager is ready to move to Mount Desert Island, Maine, where she vacationed with family when she was younger. Now, she's looking for a home with a ...
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Dateline: Mystery
May 23, 2010This is a harrowing, dramatic story of heroism at sea after a cruise ship starts to take on water and sink with nearly 600 people on board. Remarkably, the resc...
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Planet Earth II
February 18, 2017From adorable pygmy sloths to huge living dragons, islands offer a refuge for the planet's strangest creatures. But life on these isolated lands is full of ...
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Hemingway: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Season 1
April 6, 2021Hemingway, having achieved a level of fame rarely seen in the literary world, settles in Key West with Pauline Pfeiffer and spends his time seeking new conquest...
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Season 7
May 15, 2016Bourdain visits the Crow reservation, hunts with podcast host Joe Rogan, and eats dinner at Butte institution Lydia's supper club.
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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 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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Buried in the Backyard, Season 4
November 25, 2021A small farm town is rocked when a popular hostess at the town's favorite tavern disappears into the night.
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NOVA Universe Revealed
October 27, 2021The sun is our life-giving source of light, heat, and energy, and new discoveries are unraveling its epic history. Join Nova on a voyage to discover its place i...
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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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Top Gear, The Specials, Vol. 1
December 2, 2006The team travel to Norway where they attempt Olympic events - in cars. A rocket-powered mini is fired off a ski jump, Jeremy and James tackle the biathlon with ...
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Good Eats, Season 9
January 18, 2006Beef tenderloin is one of the most luxurious cuts of critter known to man, expensive too. Alton investigates where this costly cut comes from, how to buy it and...
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The White Lotus: Miniseries
August 16, 2021As Armond attempts to do damage control, Belinda tries to redirect Tanya's focus to her business proposal. Paula grows increasingly disillusioned with the Mossb...
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Love It or List It, Season 18
October 26, 2021A woman never wants to leave her charming 1985 home that's blocks from downtown, but her husband thinks they made a big mistake. He wants an open floor plan for...
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Barefoot Contessa Specials, Vol. 1
December 13, 2015Ina Garten and her husband, Jeffrey, are on a getaway in the Berkshires with friends. They're kicking off the festive season with a great winter weekend of snow...
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Good Eats, Season 9
February 1, 2006Alton completes his strategy of getting your money's worth from the luxurious cut of meat known as beef tenderloin. We learn the legends and preparations of Car...
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The White Lotus: Miniseries
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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House Hunters, Season 146
June 13, 2018Nashville newcomers are on the hunt for a house, but he wants an industrial loft and she wants a cozy Craftsman. They both agree on the need for additional spac...
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Frontline, Season 42
September 14, 2021An investigation of Boeing’s flawed 737 Max jet and the crashes that killed 346 people. With the New York Times, revealing the commercial pressures, flawed de...
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Yellowstone, Series 1
March 15, 2009As we follow the grip of winter over the course of six freezing months, we chart the fortunes of Yellowstone's wildlife in a finely balanced fight to survive. B...
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Fatal Frontier: Evil in Alaska, Season 1
November 14, 2021When a 19-year-old woman with a promising future turns up dead with a single gunshot wound to the back of the head, the trail leads to a rogue police officer.
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60 Days In, Season 6
April 23, 2020The Phase One participants reunite to relive their time in the Etowah County Detention Center, air grievances, and find out who really had each other's back.
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Cold Case Files, Season 2
September 10, 2021When 25-year-old schoolteacher Christy Mirack is found brutally murdered in her Lancaster, Pennsylvania, apartment in 1992, there is no shortage of suspects. Fr...
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The White Lotus: Miniseries
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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911 Crisis Center, Season 1
November 27, 2021911 Dispatcher Abby Encarnacion is pregnant with her first child and must navigate working 12-hour shifts, taking highly emotional calls, and instructing CPR to...
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The Curse of Oak Island, Season 9
November 9, 2021Dreams come true and hard work pays off when the team discovers gold in the Money Pit area.
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NOVA, Vol. 23
May 19, 2021On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg, the world’s largest airship, ignited in a giant fireball; this remains one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history. Now, ...
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War Stories
November 10, 2007Their mission was to destroy two cities in Japan, and that is what they did. Fifty years after the atomic bomb missions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, surv...
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Frontline, Season 42
November 23, 2021Amid record police shootings in Utah, an investigation into the use of deadly force in the state. With The Salt Lake Tribune, an examination of police training,...
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911 Crisis Center, Season 1
November 27, 2021It's dispatcher Marra Wargo's first week in her new position as Supervisor. Despite handling lifelong anxiety, she leads the team through a storm of emergencies...
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Planet Earth II
February 25, 2017The great mountain ranges are some of the planet's most spectacular landscapes, but they are unforgiving places to live in, and only a few animals have what it ...
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The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park
November 14, 2019The media jumps on the defense's strategy to make Jennifer seem fast and loose. The prosecution works to establish motive.
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House Hunters International, Season 160
November 12, 2021A young couple feels their house is owning them in New York and decides to relocate to Mexico City. They're looking for a lower cost of living and professional ...
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Top Gear, Series 14
November 15, 2009Jeremy, Richard and James take an Aston Martin DBS Volante, a Ferrari California and a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder to Romania in search of an obscure stretch of...
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MythBusters, Season 2
February 22, 2004Find out if a sinking ship will suck passengers down as it goes under. Put a lit firecracker down the neck of a trombone to make sweeter music, and determine th...
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MythBusters, Season 7
April 8, 2009It's another feature length episode of Mythbusters and this time the team are on a mission to mash metal. In this 'Demolition Derby' the team have four fables o...
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UFO
August 15, 2021UFO sightings don't just come from crackpots: in 2004, a team of elite Navy pilots and radar operators had one of many military encounters with unidentified aer...
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Frontline, Season 42
November 9, 2021A huge leak reveals hidden assets and deals of the wealthy and powerful. FRONTLINE and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists examine secret ...
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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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Maine Cabin Masters, Season 4
March 23, 2020Lifelong Mainers bought their Belgrade cabin in 1987, and the list of needed repairs continues to grow. Chase and the team give the camp much-needed life by reb...
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History Specials
October 30, 2005It began like the common cold. Then fever, baseball-sized black swellings on the neck, coughing of blood. Few lived more than two days. The year--1347. It was h...
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National Geographic Channel: Most Amazing
April 28, 2003A riveting 90 minute special that counts down dramatic events captured on film through the National Geographic lens. Five action-packed segments feature spectac...
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Holiday Wars, Season 3
November 8, 2021In the first qualifying round, the three teams of cake and sugar artists must showcase an unlikely understudy who dreams of winning a spot to pull Santa's sleig...
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Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
January 1, 2007Ireland is steeped in history and traditions, both oral and written. It is also steeped in the myth that it has the worst food on the planet. New York chef and ...
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The Zoo, Season 5
November 28, 2021At the zoo and the New York Aquarium, bull sea lions Clyde and Tacoma trade places to meet a new set of girlfriends. Sifaka lemurs Gemina and Andri form a new b...
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Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics, Season 19
November 8, 2021It's all about simple pleasures and four dishes that bring Ina Garten pure joy. She makes Smashed Hamburgers with Caramelized Onions, Giant Crinkled Chocolate C...
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Top Gear, Series 12
February 16, 2009Top Gear travels to the U.S. to take 3 new-generation muscle cars on a road trip from San Francisco to Utah. After the excitement of the last American road trip...
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The White Lotus: Miniseries
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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Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 2
January 7, 2008Tony visits a bar and grill in southwest Texas, journeys to Piedras Nigras in search of a dish that has become synonymos with Mexico, nachos, takes a boat tour ...
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America The Story of Us
April 25, 2010From Jamestown to Plymouth, early settlers fight for survival. Tobacco sows the seeds of opportunity; the north becomes a powerhouse of trade. Tension, taxation...
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Top Gear, Season 16
February 14, 2011The three wise men of Top Gear embark on a seasonal road trip as they attempt to recreate a certain famous journey across the Middle East to Bethlehem. They do ...
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Still a Mystery, Season 4
November 25, 2021He seems like a great partner, but when Susan Osborne and her 14-year-old son Evan disappear, it turns out "Mr. Right" has a secret. Then, when a young man is s...
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History Specials
March 4, 2007The Roman Empire, rotten to the core by the fifth century, lay open to barbarian warriors. Europe was beset by famine, plague, persecutions, and a state of war ...
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The Curse of Oak Island, Season 9
November 2, 2021Armed with scientific evidence that there are massive amounts of silver in the soil near the Money Pit, Rick, Mary and the team return to Oak Island, closer tha...
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My Lottery Dream Home, Season 11
November 27, 2021A devoted grandma won $1 million on a quick pick, and now she wants her youngest son and his family to find their own home in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Only an h...
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Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 8
January 18, 2010Istanbul has been subjected to stereotypes that minimize the food to lamb-on-a-stick and the culture to belly dancing; Tony soon discovers the faults in these m...
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Discovery Atlas, Season 1
October 1, 2006Coupling insightful storytelling with spectacular and ground-breaking photographic techniques, "Atlas: China Revealed" brings alive the fascinating and complex ...
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This is Life with Lisa Ling, Season 8
November 21, 2021Lisa investigates the murders of wealthy Native Americans during the 1920’s oil boom and witnesses how the descendants are fighting to revive what was nearly ...
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Hemingway: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Season 1
April 5, 2021Hemingway enjoys an idyllic childhood in Oak Park, Illinois but, yearning for adventure, volunteers for the Red Cross during World War I. He marries Hadley Rich...
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Christmas Cookie Challenge, Season 5
November 26, 2021Five top cookie makers create Christmas cookies that reflect decades past. Then, they craft 3-D edible snow globes with 360-degree shine, drawing flavor inspira...
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Killing Gucci: People Magazine Investigates, Season 1
November 23, 2021The name Gucci is synonymous with glamour, but in 1995 the fashion world is shocked when the one-time heir to the family dynasty is gunned down. A two-year inve...
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Table Wars, Season 1
November 15, 2021Eight of the nation's top event designers must work in pairs to create an immersive dining experience that combines two opposite themes. Sparks fly as they try ...
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Tattoo Age, Season 2
July 25, 2018Taki and Horitomo are the dynamic duo of Japanese style tattooing in the United States. In addition to tattooing, they also document the art form through museum...
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The White Lotus: Miniseries
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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Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, Season 4
October 16, 2020Bianca Borges shows Christopher Kimball Deep-Dish Quiche with Mushrooms, Bacon and Gruyere inspired by Le Pichet. Chris bakes Cranberry and Candied Ginger Buckl...
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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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60 Days In, Season 6
April 30, 2020The Phase Two participants revisit their time in the Etowah County Detention Center, and Tony must answer to both Phase One and Phase Two for some of his more q...
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Christmas Cookie Challenge, Season 5
November 12, 2021Five former Christmas Cookie Challenge champions return to the workshop for another round of competition. After creating a Christmas village puzzle out of six p...
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MythBusters, Season 2
October 17, 2003MythBusters: Find out if dropping a penny from a skyscraper can be lethal to pedestrians on the sidewalk below. Explore the effects of microwaves and whether or...
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House Hunters International, Season 160
November 25, 2021After a successful stint in Japan, Dallas empty nesters want to experience life abroad again and find a home in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. They have a big budget t...
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The White Lotus: Miniseries
August 16, 2021Rachel shares some harsh truths with Shane and confides in Belinda, who's reeling from bad news of her own. As the Mossbachers turn the page on their harrowing ...
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House Hunters, Season 188
November 24, 2021A couple discovers that blending their families together and buying a home is putting their relationship to the test in Virginia. Her frugal ways are at odds wi...
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MythBusters, Season 2
September 23, 2003Jamie and Adam set out to methodically bust urban legends. If a flammable substance is sprayed down a toilet bowl, will a lighted match cause the toilet to expl...
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Top Gear, Season 31
November 23, 2021Freddie Flintoff, Chris Harris and Paddy McGuinness head to the British Grand Prix for a showdown with a trio of F1's finest drivers. Elsewhere, Paddy pays trib...
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The Curse of Oak Island, Season 9
November 23, 2021Faced with the threat of a shut down in the swamp, the team focuses their energy on the Money Pit and are euphoric when they find more gold, with evidence sugge...
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Ancient Aliens, Season 17
September 24, 2021Scientists now know that seven human-like species lived alongside Homo sapiens for thousands of years. But why is it that only humans survived? Is it possible t...
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NOVA Universe Revealed
November 24, 2021The Big Bang is when the cosmos started and time itself began. With animation based on space telescope images, NOVA winds back the ages to discover new clues ab...
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Planet Earth, Series 1
May 20, 2006Life goes to extraordinary lengths to survive this immense realm. A 30 tonne whale shark gorges on a school of fish and the unique overhead heli-gimbal camera r...
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Buried in the Backyard, Season 4
November 18, 2021The luckiest moment in a man's life gives way to a dark mystery when he vanishes after winning a multi-million-dollar lottery.
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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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The UnXplained, Season 3
November 26, 2021Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has been fixated on predicting our own demise. Perhaps it will be asteroids, black holes, or something even more myster...
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The Curse of Oak Island, Season 9
November 16, 2021The team is unstoppable when more evidence suggests the stone roadway is heading directly towards the Money Pit. But when delicate discoveries are made in the s...
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The First 48, Vol. 17
November 5, 2015In Atlanta, a young woman is found on the floor of an abandoned house, naked and strangled to death. As the investigation unfolds, further horrors are revealed ...
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