Lionsgate

In 1600, London citizens poor and rich attend the theater to enjoy grand spectacles of drama, music and dance. These huge playhouses like Shakespeare's Globe Theatre offer the highest form of entertainment to the masses of Elizabethan England. Nowhere inthe world is there a better stage. The impresarios are rich; the actors are worshipped and the playwrights immortalized. Yet in 1642, the stroke of a pen wipes British theater off the face of the earth. The stages are demolished and many plays...

AMERICAN HOGGERS follows legendary Brown County hog hunter Jerry Campbell and his family level-headed son Robert, firecracker daughter Krystal and family friend Lea as they struggle to rescue Texas residents and ranches from the devastating chaos caused by millions of invasive wild boars. Located in the heart of Texas, the family dedicates itself to the front lines riding horseback, driving a custom-rigged Jeep, using highly trained dogs with GPS tracking systems and employing good...

Family and friends stage interventions to halt the self-destructive behavior of Cristine, a wife and mother who drinks at least 18 beers a day, not stopping until she passes out; and Kelly, an anorexic who weighs 93 pounds and whose 3-year-old daughter isfollowing in her footsteps, often picking at her food or refusing to eat altogether. Her friends are seeking help not just to save Kelly, but her daughter as well.

On November 20, 1944, in the early morning hours off the coast of the island of Ulithi the USS Mississinewa sits at anchor. The massive tanker is filled with oil?a vital supply ship for the American fleet as it continues its attacks on the Japanese empire. At 5:45am, a massive explosion rips apart the Mississinewa. But this is no accident. This is the work of the Kaiten?a terrifying new Kamikaze weapon. The Kaiten is a manned, suicide submarine. With rudimentary cockpit controls mounted over...

In the 1940s, twenty-nine young men from government-run Navajo reservations bravely heeded the call of a nation, which once nearly wiped out their ancestors and the memory of their culture completely. During the second world war, the United States and its allies were struggling to find a code by which to communicate across the Pacific Ocean - one that could not be broken by the Japanese enemy. The solution came in the form of the Navajo people, whose language was as elusive as it was complex....

Moment of Truth/Cat and Mouse (#57). In Dallas, a woman is shot in while sitting in her car. Detective Eddie Ibarra and the homicide team focus in on two suspects swept up in a robbery investigation, and the pieces of the murder mystery begin to fall into place. In Detroit, a young woman and her daughter are shot dead in their apartment. Detective Ernie Wilson immediately gets the name of the shooter, but finding him is a game of cat and mouse.

Learn how universities underreport and cover up campus crime to protect their images. Meet a Lehigh University student raped after other rapes were hushed up, and a University of Minnesota coed whose rape proved that the school protected athletes accused of sex crimes. Also looks at an MIT fraternity brother's binge-drinking death.

True story of one of the Army's most distinguished divisions, the 101st, which was formed in WWI, becoming the 101st Airborne in WWII. The 101st participated in D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge, guarded black students in Little Rock, and was renamed the101st Air Cavalry in Vietnam to mark the transition from parachutes to helicopters.

Legendary drivers lead us on a record-breaking race through a century-long search for sheer acceleration that began before World War One, when hot-rodders modified Model-T Fords to see how fast they could go. Today's dragsters can cover a quarter-mile from a standing start in four-and-a-half seconds, hitting top speeds above 330 m.p.h. Top driver Gary Clapshaw shows us how to put together a modern dragster and revolutionary designer Bob Norwood unveils his newest car.

In the dangerous wilds of Western Cambodia is a vast ancient city spread over 75 square miles of dense jungle. The magnificent palaces and mysterious stone temples were hidden from human eyes for generations, but are now recognized as one of the world's great treasures. FORGOTTEN CITY OF THE JUNGLE is an incredible adventure through the awesome ruins of the ruins of Angkor. Marvel at the beauty of the incredible structures that have been reclaimed from the rapacious jungle, and explore newly...

Two-million years ago, Homo erectus first shaped hard rock with a hammerstone to create sharp-edged tools. We follow the story of the axe from that point forward, tracing its journey as both deadly weapon and lifesaving tool. Then, we see how colonial blacksmiths made axes, and pay a visit to Snow & Nealley in Bangor, Maine, manufacturers of quality axes since 1864. Plus, we look at specialized axes through the years, from a 17th-century Persian parade axe to the firefighter's pickhead axe.

The Nazca lines in Peru stretch for miles, forming perfect images of animals visible only from the air. Immense and precise, the pyramids remain among mankind's greatest accomplishments, and experts still debate how they were built. Span the globe in this riveting look at the most incredible accomplishments of the ancient world achievements that rival and even surpass those of today. From the secret formula of Damascus steel which helped drive the Crusaders from the Holy Land to the "computer"...