2020

The world's highest bridge spans an 1,800-foot chasm known as the "Crack in the Earth", and to build this engineering marvel, experts use cutting-edge construction technology that can conquer the deadly cliffs of this rugged environment.

Dogs have long been dependable companions by our sides. But it wasn’t always that way, and a look at their closest living relative, the wolf, makes it clear why. Research into dog domestication and intelligence offers clues into the human-dog relationship. And analyzing dogs’ brain activity and genes may even help answer whether dogs are in it for the food—or if they really love us.

David Pratt has been visiting Afghanistan since the mid-1980s, when he was a recent graduate of Glasgow School of Art. Working for various news organisations, he crossed the border into Afghanistan from Peshawar in Pakistan in disguise and travelled for long periods with a group of Mujahideen. He witnessed their intense guerrilla struggle against the occupying Soviet Red Army and learned the hard way how to survive in gruelling circumstances in the remote mountains of Afghanistan, as well as how to get his pictures out to the world.

A young woman in Mobile is found dead behind an abandoned building, and detectives need her boyfriend to help solve the case. A young father’s murder case sends Atlanta detectives to the Poconos Mountains in search of his killers.

When satellites spot anomalies in the unexplored Amazonian jungle, experts wonder if they've discovered relics of a lost civilization; an on-the-ground investigation reveals a dark truth that's more sinister than ever imagined.

In the middle of Canada’s largest city, a natural wilderness is thriving in the unlikeliest of places. Accidental Wilderness: The Leslie Street Spit, a documentary from The Nature of Things, tells the surprising story of the Leslie Street Spit — a remarkably rich wilderness located a few short kilometres from the heart of Toronto. Here, the distinction between city and wilderness disappears: a coyote roams freely in a cottonwood forest while in the distance, the CN Tower looms on the cityscape.

Archaeologist Raksha Dave and historian Dan Snow uncover the untold story of the aftermath of the famous eruption in AD79, finding out what happened when the ash and dust settled. Dan squeezes into a network of illegally dug tunnels that burrow into a huge unexcavated villa, while Raksha is given privileged access to the highly restricted Regio V area of the town.

We don't yet know where the edge of the universe is or what happens there; but thanks to cutting-edge technology and new discoveries, experts might finally reveal the secrets of the phenomena that can be found in deepest reaches of the cosmos.

The ultimate guide to the Solar System, told by the dedicated people who sent spacecraft to explore the sun, the planets and much more.

Frontline goes inside the battle for Hong Kong, following protesters through the most intense clashes over several months of pro-democracy protests. The film examines their struggle against what they say is growing influence from the communist government of mainland China.