Doomsday Voyage (1972)

Episode Number: 317 Season Num: 10 First Aired: Tuesday December 28, 2004
Doomsday threats range from very real (nuclear arsenals) to controversial (global warming) to futuristic (nanotechnology, cyborgs, and robots). Despite the Cold War's end, we live under the shadow of nuclear weapons, arms races, and accidental launches. Next, we stir up a hotter topic–the connection between global warming and fossil fuels–and ask if they're cooking up a sudden, new Ice Age.

A bunker near the Kennedy Space Center once served a top-secret military function should doomsday ever come to the Sunshine State; experts use declassified intel to reveal the sinister purpose of this forbidding facility and why it was abandoned.

Almost certainly, it was conceived by a former Boy Scout — it’s the ultimate circumstance in which to “be prepared.” With devastating events in recent years like Hurricane Sandy, the tidal wave and nuclear disaster in Japan, the earthquakes in Haiti and Indonesia, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the so-called “doomsday” scenario has been a subject of a little more than just speculation. Discovery Channel looks at the United States government’s contingency plan for if and when such a disaster occurs in America’s Doomsday Plan.

Catastrophe is sadly never far from the news headlines, with this year's tsunami in Japan and the Chilean earthquake of 2010 continuing to loom large in the memories of millions. In the UK premiere of Doomsday Earth join experts who examine the likelihood of the planet being struck by both a mega-tsunami and a mega-quake…

Intégralement composé d’archives inédites, le documentaire « Black Power Mixtape » donne un éclairage rafraîchissant sur le mouvement Black Power et son histoire. Le réalisateur Göran Hugo Olsson y fait apparaître les grands axes de ce mouvement précurseur – mais sous une forme très originale : à la manière d’une « mixtape », il allie la bande-son d’alors et des voix connues d’aujourd’hui. Les images qu’il utilise ont été tournées par une équipe suédoise en voyage aux Etats-Unis à la fin des années soixante. Un regard extérieur complètement nouveau, qui ouvre des perspectives insoupçonnées. Les interviews enregistrées tout récemment avec des protagonistes d’alors et d’aujourd’hui font découvrir sous un jour nouveau l’histoire et l’importance de cette lutte des noirs pour les droits civiques. On voit intervenir des piliers du mouvement tels que Stokely Carmichael et les fondateurs des Black Panthers Bobby Seal et Huey P. Newton. Les archives sont enrichies par les commentaires de stars d’aujourd’hui, comme Erykah Badu.

Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. With Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself.

Take a tantalizing tour around the world through the bedrooms of history! Shot in exotic locales with a stunningly beautiful and sexy international cast, Virgin Report is one of the finest and wildest of the successful "Sex Report" films made in Europe during the 1970s. Experience the expression of love from the age of gods and demons to our own modern era, with stops along the way to peer at medieval convents, exotic wedding night rituals, adolescent experimentation, and much, much more! Featuring the luscious Britt Nichols (Tombs of the Blind Dead), Christina von Blanc (A Virgin among the Living Dead), Eva Garden (Swinging Wives), and horror favorite Howard Vernon (The Awful Dr. Orlof), this delicious dish of delights rips away the chaste clothing of civilized society to expose the naked, unbridled truth of love and lust!