Lionsgate

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"...

What really happened in Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947? Did a flying saucer crash in the vast desert scrubland? The initial Army Air Force press release claimed they had recovered a flying disk. But a day later, the story dramatically changed--now they called it a weather balloon! In 1987, secret documents surfaced indicating the existence of the \"Majestic 12\"--an elite group of scientists and military and intelligence officials, allegedly brought together by President Harry...

Just off the coast of Northern California, our Deep Sea Detectives dive into a cove near Mendocino--a rocky inlet called "the Washing Machine" for its turbulent currents. There they find the wreckage of The Frolic, a clipper that smuggled opium into China during the 1840s. Who built and owned it? How did remnants of its cargo--Chinese ceramics--turn up in 1984 in a Native-American village in the Redwood Forest? How could there be no historical record of a shipwreck just off the California...

Program #101: VICE DETAIL: Vice Det. Tim Louis leads an undercover operation against a massage parlor suspected of being a house of prostitution. In a second Vice operation, Louis himself is undercover at an X-rated theater where lewd acts are said to be taking place. Moving from the Morals Crew to gambling and bookmaking, Det. Louis successfully raids a bookie parlor. BOMB SQUAD: Bomb Squad Det. Silvia Faris, one of only a handful of women in the country chosen to do this dangerous job, must...

Danny White (Nick Moran: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) and his crew of wannabe gangsters find themselves pitted against the local mafia headed by Leigh and Hellman (Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano: The Matrix) when they accidentally kill a local businessman they were hired to kidnap. With nowhere else to turn, and bleeding from a fatal gunshot wound, Danny visits his estranged father Alan (John Hurt: Contact) looking for help. When Alan sees Danny's condition he only has one...

In Miami, Ricardo John catches his first case as lead detective: a young woman apparently raped and murdered in a vacant lot. In Dallas, Detectives Scott Sayers and Kenneth Penrod investigate a home invasion that left one man dead and his fiancee critically wounded. The case hangs on whether the surviving witness can identify her attackers.

The spectacular Incan city of Machu Picchu was thought to exist only in legend. Then in 1911, explorer Hiram Bingham III stumbled upon its remains high in the Andes Mountains. Although the site has been extensively studied, its purpose and function remain unclear. LOST CITY OF THE INCAS ventures to the peaks of South America to unravel the mysteries of this enigmatic city. Witness incredible footage of the earliest expeditions to Machu Picchu, and meet the men and women who have dedicated...

America is a nation defined by natural resources. The image of the inexhaustible bounty of the land has survived to the present day, despite countless examples of our dwindling natural wealth. Perhaps more than any other industry, logging embodies this dichotomy. TIMBER! is a definitive portrait of one of America's longest lasting industries. Sawmills were among the very first industrial buildings built in America, and today we process millions of board feet a day. Yet there is a price for...

In Detroit, Officer Anthony Wright Jr. is investigating the death of a man found shot behind an abandoned house. Wright learns that there has been a second shooting just minutes after the homicide, and it has been caught on tape. In Memphis, when a woman is found dead inside a house fire, Sergeant Kevin Lundy, who spent over a year working in arson, is called to the scene. He discovers that the victim had been shot, and was likely killed by someone she knew. Lundy must find out whom she might...

Holy Crap. Dick is dead. Died last night after band practice, and his bandmates, Zeke & Earl (Michael Abbott, Jr. & Andre Hyland), don't want anybody finding out how. That's too bad though, 'cause news travels fast in small town Alabama, and these guys suck at covering their tracks. The authorities haven't ID'd the body just yet, but Zeke's wife (Virginia Newcomb) and his daughter are suspicious already.

On 9/11, photo-journalist & filmmaker, Andrea Booher, was designated by Mayor Giuliani as one of only two photographers to be allowed unlimited, 24-hour access. She was assigned to the Urban Search & Rescue teams, whose only mission was to find survivors. At the World Trade Center, Andrea kept a small green diary where she wrote the name and contact information of every responder that she met or photographed. Together, they crawled into voids, up stories of debris and down crevasses hundreds...

For 24 years, he ruled his country with an iron hand. But the waves of freedom that swept Europe in 1989 cost him his life. Nicolae Ceausescu will be remembered as much for his sudden death as his long tenure as dictator of Rumania. Through extensive archival footage and interviews with those who served him, BIOGRAPHY chronicles the rise and fall of the man who was utterly consumed with a desire to be the best. See how, together with his wife, he fashioned an image of perfection for...