National Geographic

Journey into the remote mountain forests of central China where the world's few remaining giant pandas live but now on the edge of extinction. Join a team of heroic scientists committed to saving the species as they scale treacherous slopes and penetrate blinding thickets of bamboo to befriend and study this mysterious and elusive creature. You'll share the thrill of discovery when they find, deep inside a cave, a mother tenderly cradling her newborn cub. The scientists hope this baby panda...

A woman who lives at home with 400 pigs. A 15-year-old in rehab for playing video games. A grown man who enjoys dressing up as a baby. A criminal so in love, he gets married over a radio show. And a man who would like to have sex with his car. To some people, practices like these reflect deeply held beliefs or deliberate lifestyle choices. But to others, they may seem grotesque, unhealthy or Taboo. National Geographic's popular series takes viewers on a journey beyond their comfort zones and...

In the late 18th Century, "privateers" were ships commissioned by governments to pillage, steal and burn merchant vessels. But few people know that during the Revolutionary war one band of privateers sailed under the orders of one of our greatest statesmen: Benjamin Franklin. In 1778, while ambassador to France, Franklin hired privateers to capture British sailors and use them to exchange for the Americans held by the British in insufferable conditions. National Geographic dives into the Irish...

As evident from 9/11 and more recent terrorist attacks, New York City is a top target number for international terrorists. National Geographic embeds with New York's finest, the New York Police Department, for an in-depth look at the terror task force responsible for defending the city that never sleeps. Major events take place throughout the year that could be a tempting target for a suicide bomber, truck bomb, backpack bomb or small arms attack.

Follow DEA agents on their quest to track down and bust narco-submarines in one of the most violent regions of Colombia.

Space: the final frontier for an out-of-this-world vacation. Space tourism will literally revolutionize our view of the world, and some of the world's leading scientists and engineers are working at light speed to bust the industry wide open. Through the eyes of space visionaries, glimpse future space resorts with panoramic views of all the world's oceans, giant inflatable space hotels, and spacecraft that may one day travel through worm holes to distant galaxies.

When a German submarine sank passenger liner RMS Lusitania on May, 1915, it redefined the laws of conflict. The loss of the boat and 1,198 lives shocked the world. But was the U-boat's torpedo the only thing that sank the Lusitania? Or was a second reported explosion caused by an illegal cargo of weapons? Dark Secrets of the Lusitania plunges below the waves on a new expedition to venture into the wreck in a bid to get to the bottom of this century-old war crime. With tense dives in high seas,...

Auto theft, drug overdoses and even trespassing grizzly bears are all in a day's work when it comes to the calls Montana police respond to in the rugged land known as America's Final Frontier.

Engineer Kevin Cook travels the world to attempt to put a cash value on the world's most iconic and priceless monuments.

British investigators discover bones hidden under the floor of an old army barracks near the Scotland border. Preliminary observations indicate the victim may have been bound and was killed with blunt force trauma to the skull. But, this victim died nearly 1,800 years ago. Solving the mystery of who murdered a 10-year old child in 213 AD, Murder in the Roman Empire delves into the life of an ancient Roman garrison using forensics, archaeology, and criminal investigation. Could an individual...

A tuft of tangled human hair is dug out of Greenlands permafrost. From these 4,000-year-old threads of evidence, scientists attempt the impossible to be the first to reconstruct the identity of a Stone Age human being. From the scraps of DNA, an ancient face appears. But as they break into this genetic code, they find far more than they bargained for, and the discovery threatens to turn our long-held concept of how humans populated the earth, on its head.

Wolves, tigers, lions and leopards have fearsome reputations - but in reality they seldom attack people. Scottish filmmaker Gordon Buchanan explores the deadly exceptions to this rule, looking at why some predators suddenly develop a taste for human prey.