Top 100 Nonfiction TV Shows of 2021
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True Life: 2011
January 10, 2011In this special episode we're catching up with some of your all-time favorites. We'll show you who’s reached new highs, who's hit new lows and who’s story t...
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The Nate and Jeremiah Home Project, Season 1
October 20, 2021Two new parents fell in love with their Victorian's character and history, but the old-fashioned layout isn't working for their young family. Nate and Jeremiah ...
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Nature, Vol. 10
November 25, 2020Green lights dance across a star-filled sky, and snowflakes sparkle on the trees. It is little wonder Lapland is famous as a realm of elves and flying reindeer,...
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Deadliest Warrior, Season 1
May 5, 2009Mafia – the deadly crime family that rule New York’s 1920's underworld, versus Yakuza – feared gang lords that dominate the mean streets of 1940's Tokyo.
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Halloween Wars, Season 11
October 18, 2021There's a mysterious noise in the basement, and everyone is too afraid to peek ... until now! Zak Bagans challenges the four remaining teams to imagine what lur...
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Finding Your Roots, Season 3
January 26, 2016Uncover a history of tragedies and triumphs in the families of three of America’s funniest men-Jimmy Kimmel, Norman Lear and Bill Hader—as they learn how co...
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Still a Mystery, Season 4
October 21, 2021Two women die suddenly under mysterious circumstances, and authorities initially suspect suicide. Both of their families believe it is murder and try to figure ...
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Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Vol. 12
May 28, 2012Tony tries clam tostadas from a street cart that may be the world's best.
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NOVA, Vol. 23
October 6, 2021Outnumbering atoms a billion to one, neutrinos are the universe’s most common yet most elusive and baffling particle. NOVA joins a global team of neutrino hun...
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Beat Bobby Flay, Season 28
October 20, 2021Chefs Mark Henry and Larry Delgado hope to leave a grill mark on grill master Bobby Flay's record. Chef Josh Capon and TV host Laura Vitale are there to try and...
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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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Antiques Roadshow, Season 25
October 18, 2021Steals and deals abound as ROADSHOW features great bargains including a Chiparus sculpture, an 1811 North Carolina fraktur, and "New Republic Portfolio" prints....
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The Clinton Affair
November 18, 2018Republicans take control of the House for the first time in 40 years, led by a new breed of politician, Newt Gingrich. Gingrich's uncompromising partisanship de...
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The Clinton Affair
November 18, 2018Democrats retake the White House after twelve years of Republican control, but the scandals that plagued Bill Clinton during the campaign follow him to Washingt...
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Outgrown, Season 1
October 17, 2021With her twin sons in college, a divorcee is starting the next chapter of her life in Boise, Idaho. Her first priority is getting Luke and Clint's help in renov...
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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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House Hunters International, Season 159
October 20, 2021After four years of long-distance dating, a couple is ready to live on the same continent in Sydney, Australia. Coming from Santa Monica, she's dreaming of Bond...
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Eli Roth's History of Horror, Season 3
October 2, 2021Everyone knows horror sequels suck. Or do they? Fans of films like A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Psycho II, The First Purge, Bride of Chucky, Scream 2 and Gremli...
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Love It or List It, Season 18
October 12, 2021A blended family thought they could fix up their massive home themselves, but Mom is struggling with buyer's remorse. Hilary offers a plan to keep them out of a...
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Muhammad Ali: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon
September 21, 2021Muhammad Ali faces Joe Frazier in the “Fight of the Century.” Though he loses, Ali becomes a hero. The Supreme Court overturns Ali's conviction, validating ...
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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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NOVA, Vol. 18
December 27, 2017Investigate how an asteroid vanquished the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Join scientists as they drill into the impact crater and, for the first time, reconst...
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Confronting a Serial Killer, Season 1
April 18, 2021Best-selling author Jillian Lauren stumbles upon serial killer Sam Little while researching a new crime novel and quickly realizes that his decades-long murdero...
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Season 11
April 29, 2018Bourdain digs deep into the proud, often misunderstood culture of West Virginia, as he traverses a 5,000 foot mine, observes the demolition derby-like sport of ...
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Nature, Vol. 10
October 20, 2021A story of surprise and revelation. A veteran wildlife cameraman is bee obsessed. Seeking refuge from the pandemic in a small city garden, he is filming the wil...
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Carrier
April 27, 2008On a bright May morning, 5,000 sailors and Marines bid farewell to their loved ones before the mammoth USS Nimitz pulls out of Coronado, California, and sets a ...
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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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Muhammad Ali: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon
September 20, 2021Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and adopts the name Muhammad Ali. For three years, Ali dominates the heavyweight ranks but in 1967, he refuses induction ...
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Love It or List It, Season 15
July 16, 2018After outgrowing their hastily bought home, a family hopes either David can find them a home with more space or Hilary can help them love their home again.
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This is Life with Lisa Ling, Season 8
October 17, 2021Lisa reveals the deep roots of conspiracy thinking and misinformation in America, and how tech companies have been profiting from the fallout.
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The Layover, Season 1
December 6, 2011Via vespa, trolley tracks, and by foot, Tony dives into Roman culture.
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Halloween Wars, Season 11
September 20, 2021What happens when toys come alive and seek revenge? Inspired by a possessed doll at Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum, four teams of cake and sugar artists create ...
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A Perfect Planet
January 18, 2021There are not five separate oceans, but one. Its waters linked by powerful forces that keep them on the move. This constant mixing is vital for the health of oc...
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Citizen Hearst, Season 1
September 27, 2021After taking control of the San Francisco Examiner in 1887, William Randolph Hearst was eager to try his luck in New York. Hearst bought the failing Journal in ...
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Ancient Aliens, Season 14
December 18, 2020Rebellious angels, giant hybrid beings, and humans taken up to a heavenly realm above the Earth. Is it possible that The Book of Enoch was stricken from the Bib...
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Frontline, Season 37
October 23, 2018How state governments and Wall Street led America’s public pensions into a $4-trillion hole. FRONTLINE investigates the consequences for teachers, police, fir...
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Evil Lives Here, Season 10
October 3, 2021When Matt Roth is just a boy and his stepfather, Kenneth Roth, brings him along on handyman jobs, he thinks he is just there to help his dad. He doesn't realize...
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Escaping Polygamy, Season 4
July 9, 2018Shanell and Kollene get word that a young FLDS woman, Mattie, needs their help. Caught for breaking the cult's harsh rules, Mattie is living in isolation and wa...
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Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways
October 18, 2014Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters connect with Steve Albini, owner of Electrical Audio in Chicago, and record a song with Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen.
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Evil Lives Here, Season 10
October 10, 2021Christina Gaines goes on a date with Patrick Fowler, a supposed "perfect gentleman." She soon discovers Patrick's true nature, and she realizes she's been duped...
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The Dead Files, Vol. 17
October 17, 2021Amy and Steve travel to Coolidge, Arizona, where a mother and her daughters are facing an onslaught of paranormal activity from an interdimensional being. Under...
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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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Love It or List It, Season 17
August 25, 2020A woman who agreed to move into her new husband's bachelor pad when they first got married is ready for a change. While Dad and son are in outdoor heaven on the...
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Too Cute!, Season 6
December 14, 2016In a cozy home of Himalayans, a shy kitten named Hugo follows in his father's footsteps. While a rags to riches rescue mix brings her brood of puppies to their ...
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The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, Season 1
April 14, 2020A life-threatening incident forces the team to re-assess their methods of investigation, and disturbing new evidence at homestead one has Tom and Travis on edge...
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Mysterious Creatures with Forrest Galante, Season 1
October 18, 2021Rumors of witchcraft bring Forrest to Africa's Zambezi River, the site of crocodile attacks plaguing a local fishing village. He and his childhood friend are de...
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Love It or List It, Season 12
November 9, 2015Sam and Valerie purchased their midcentury modern home under pressure to quickly find a place to live. Sam regretted the purchase as soon as they moved in, but ...
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Planet Dinosaur
September 14, 2011For decades the dinosaurs of Africa were lost to us. But recent discoveries have now revealed some of the most spectacular dinosaurs ever found. Two giant kille...
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House Hunters International, Season 159
October 21, 2021When her boyfriend is offered a job in Melbourne that he can't refuse, a New Yorker nervously trades her beloved hometown for his native Australia. She wants a ...
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Walking With Dinosaurs
October 4, 1999The story begins in 220 million years BC when ancient reptiles ruled a land dominated by desert. One group of reptiles in particular is about to take over the w...
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Love It or List It, Season 15
July 30, 2018A couple shares an eclectic home that reflects one of them more than the other. One is ready for David to find their dream home with a pool, but the other sees ...
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Killing Fields, Season 1
January 19, 2016The detectives track down the last people who may have seen Eugenie alive. As the team decides where to go from here, we get a glimpse into Rodie Sanchez and Au...
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Evil Lives Here, Season 10
October 17, 2021Craig Lester Thrift brags about getting away with murder, but everyone thinks he is kidding. Robyn Barry knows Thrift better than anyone, and she begins to susp...
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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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Carrier
April 28, 2008Mentoring and camaraderie are what hold the ship together. But life on deployment is stressful for everyone aboard, and there can be considerable friction betwe...
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The Nate and Jeremiah Home Project, Season 1
October 6, 2021Keeping their mother's memory alive is top priority for two sisters who just inherited their childhood home. They need Nate and Jeremiah to help decide what can...
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Fareed Zakaria GPS
October 17, 2021This week an all new episode of Fareed Zakaria GPS.
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Carrier
April 27, 2008The men and women of the USS Nimitz live beneath the runway of a major airport. They sleep on the roof of a nuclear power plant. It's a perilous environment. Th...
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The Engineering That Built the World, Season 1
October 17, 2021A little-known 19th Century French artist embarks on an impossible 20-year odyssey to build the tallest statue in the world, and erect it on U.S. soil.
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House Hunters International, Season 50
February 21, 2013Beth Morehart knew that when her newlywed husband Tyler enlisted in the Coast Guard, Tyler would be gone for weeks at a time at sea. So they jumped at an opport...
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The Clinton Affair
November 19, 2018Monica Lewinsky confides the details of her relationship with President Clinton to coworker, Linda Tripp, who surreptitiously records their private conversation...
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Frontline, Season 42
October 12, 2021The Taliban take over Afghanistan, and the threat of ISIS and Al Qaeda intensifies. On the ground, reporter Najibullah Quraishi investigates uncertainty and fea...
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House Hunters, Season 187
October 20, 2021With their last child heading off to college, a soon-to-be empty nester couple searches for a new home. He wants to downsize and live in the heart of San Franci...
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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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Top Gear, Season 22
February 9, 2015Caution: contains explicit language. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May attempt to improve the ambulance. Their three very different creations are p...
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Eli Roth's History of Horror, Season 3
October 15, 2021In films like The Dead Zone, Scanners, Doctor Sleep and Beetlejuice, horror superstars Stephen King, David Cronenberg, Mike Flanagan, Brian DePalma, Sam Raimi, ...
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Signs of a Psychopath, Season 3
October 20, 2021A man crashes into the back of a woman’s vehicle early one morning. Officers respond to the scene only to find her car abandoned. Witnesses point to the other...
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The Curse of Oak Island, Season 9
October 5, 2021Over the course of the Lagina's decade long Oak Island search, there have been thousands of finds the audience has never scene. Now, we're sharing 10 of the mos...
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House Hunters International, Season 159
October 21, 2021A New Yorker fell in love on a business trip to Mexico, and now they're closing the distance with a home in Mexico City. It might be his hometown, but she's opi...
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Expedition Unknown, Season 9
August 19, 2021The hunt for El Dorado is Josh's most grueling journey ever and one of the crew tumbles into a raging river. When cutting-edge aerial scans reveal a lost city, ...
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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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Eli Roth's History of Horror, Season 3
October 8, 2021Horror has warned us about pandemics for years, in films that mirror reality (Outbreak, Contagion, 12 Monkeys), surreal plagues (Shivers, Rabid), zombie outbrea...
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In Pursuit with John Walsh, Season 3
October 21, 2021John is in pursuit of fugitive Jason Hines, accused of sexually abusing multiple minors and possibly involved in his wife’s disappearance. Later, a slew of wo...
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Finding Your Roots, Season 3
February 9, 2016Uncover a long history of military service in the families of Patricia Arquette, Julianne Moore and John McCain, and how this has instilled in each of them an e...
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Muhammad Ali: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon
September 22, 2021Muhammad Ali shocks the world when he defeats George Foreman in Zaire, winning back the heavyweight title and becoming the most famous man on earth. He faces Jo...
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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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Houses With History, Season 1
September 30, 2021Mike, Jen and Rich must decide if they are going to take on a 1735 Cape Cod with an "off-center” chimney and a stormy history or an 1830s Colonial home that i...
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Monsters Inside Me, Season 5
October 9, 20143 women living in vastly different locales have one thing in common: they've become unwitting hosts to baffling and deadly terrors. A teenage girl thinks she mi...
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Finding Your Roots, Season 3
February 16, 2016Uncover family mysteries about two legends of hip hop, Sean Combs and LL Cool J, through the use of DNA technology that reveals information that shakes their ve...
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Dinner: Impossible, Season 10
October 20, 2021Robert Irvine ventures to the remote forests of Mackinaw City, Mich., for a seemingly impossible two-part challenge: Create a Paul Bunyan-sized dinner to feed 5...
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Cities of the Underworld, Season 4
October 19, 2021Don explores the massive underground cities in the mountains of Turkey that may have been home to the first civilization on Earth.
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The Defiant Ones, Season 1
July 10, 2017Dr. Dre's formation of hip hop supergroup N.W.A. brings forth the seminal hip-hop record Straight Outta Compton. Though Dre's creative direction is integral to ...
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The Nate and Jeremiah Home Project, Season 1
October 13, 2021A pair of first-time homeowners traded in their tiny rental for a roomier home, but the lack of storage space seems to have followed them. Nate and Jeremiah hel...
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Air Disasters, Season 6
February 28, 2016In March 1994, on a flight from Moscow to Hong Kong, a fully automated Airbus A310 suddenly began banking steeply before it wildly corkscrew-spun into the snowy...
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The First 48, Vol. 1
June 3, 2004A wall of silence from a frightened community hampers efforts to solve a brutal murder; and a mother of two is shot execution-style in her kitchen in an affluen...
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Life Below Zero: Next Generation, Season 3
October 19, 2021With the rivers rapidly melting, Kaleb Rowland must battle dangerous conditions in search of vital building materials. Johnny Rolfe ventures far from his isolat...
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Ancient Aliens, Season 14
November 20, 2020According to the earliest Tibetan traditions, hidden high in the Himalaya Mountains is a kingdom of the gods--Shambhala. Is it possible that this mystical realm...
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NOVA, Vol. 6
February 23, 2011NOVA reveals how venom causes the body to shut down, arteries to bleed uncontrollably and limbs to go black and die. VENOM follows two scientists on their expe...
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Ancient Aliens, Season 17
September 17, 2021Mount Shasta in northern California is known as a hotbed of strange events, from Big Foot sightings to UFO encounters to hikers vanishing without a trace. Could...
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On the Case with Paula Zahn, Season 23
October 18, 2021The abduction of a young mother from a crowded hospital parking lot is the beginning of a terrifying mystery that will torment her loved ones for decades.
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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Season 4
November 2, 2014Bourdain and his crew take their long-awaited inaugural trip to Iran exploring Tehran and Isfahan, and sites that include Imam Square, the Borje Milad, mosques,...
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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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Ancient Aliens, Season 17
October 8, 2021An ancient figurine of a modern-day airplane. A primitive statue of a man in a spacesuit. Mysterious crystal skulls whose origins are entirely unknown. We're co...
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Detective Diaries, Season 1
October 19, 2021With retirement looming ever closer, Arlington P.D. detective Byron Stewart races to save his legacy on the force by solving his final case, the unexplained dou...
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Muhammad Ali: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon
September 19, 2021Cassius Clay rises from amateur boxer to 1960 Olympic gold medal winner. He turns professional and moves to Miami, sharpening his boxing skills and honing his g...
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NOVA, Vol. 24
October 20, 2021From crunchy crickets to nutty fly grubs, NOVA takes a tasty look at insect foods and how they could benefit our health and our warming planet.
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The Curse of Oak Island, Season 9
October 19, 2021For more than 2 centuries, searchers have been building a mosaic of valuable clues. And now, we're counting down their most meaningful discoveries.
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Love It or List It, Season 18
October 19, 2021A couple loves their family home so much they purchased it twice, but while he still enjoys the house after moving back in, she's done with the dated dysfunctio...
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The Layover, Season 2
November 26, 2012In Paris, Tony does as the French do, with a coffee at Le Pure Café, sits down at Le Dome for an enormous shellfish tower, finds the lost art of bread baking i...
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Top Gear, Season 17
September 12, 2011Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May attempt to make train travel cheaper, faster and more interesting by replacing the conventional carriages and loc...
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