National Geographic

National Geographic joins an international team of scientists on a mission to unlock the hidden secrets of Mt. Nyiragongo, an active volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The scientists' mission: to collect a fresh sample from the deadly yet mesmerizing lava lake at the volcano's heart a sample they will use to predict the volcano's future eruptions and potentially help the 2 million people who live in its path. Along the way, a host of deadly obstacles threaten their expedition,...

Located between the warrior kingdom of the Hittites and the powerful empire of Egypt, the ancient city of Qatna was wiped off the face of the earth as it grew too powerful its role in the rise of the Egyptian empire lost in the desert sands. Qatna and its many treasures lay hidden from humanity until now. In ten years of archeological digs, the lost city has been rediscovered and a team of international scientists has excavated its long-held secrets. Egypt's Lost Rival unearths the ground...

The Bugatti Veyron is a "super" super car part automobile and part airplane. And with a base price of $1,750,000, it is the most expensive production car in the world. Designed with materials and construction techniques normally found in the aerospace industry, this remarkable engineering achievement is one of the fastest street-legal cars ever built. With a unique 1,001-horsepower engine, the Bugatti Veyron reaches a top speed of 253 miles an hour. Now, National Geographic takes an insider...

Follow international sales trainer and author Grant Cardone as he helps struggling businesses turn things around.

What if a man-or a woman-could strap on a mechanical suit...an "exoskeleton..." and then leap a tall fence? Or toss a car off a cliff? Or carry hundreds of pounds for miles? Or rescue a trapped victim? Or help a paraplegic simply walk again? Separate science from fiction and meet real Super Humans living among us.

Three undercover police officers in New York City are tasked with solving a 1985 multimillion-dollar jewelry heist. At first they think it's little more than an inside job, but as they go undercover to follow the trail of clues, they encounter a world of murder and violence that involves all five Mafia families and leads right back to the police. In the annals of New York police corruption, one New York Times reporter swears there has never been anything like this. Now, these detectives have...

Some think of Dean Potter as a real-life superhero. He can climb the unclimbable, visualize the invisible and fly through the air with the greatest of speed. As perhaps one of the world's best BASE jumpers, Dean holds several records for height, distance and flight duration. Now, Dean has set his sights on Mount Bute a 9,000-foot granite launch pad along the British Columbia coastline.

It was a headline-grabbing heist of NASA proportions. Each year, hundreds of students apply to NASA's prestigious Co-operative Education Program, but only a handful are accepted allowing them to work alongside NASA's top scientists and go on to careers at NASA and elsewhere. In 2000, one "Co-op" showed an inordinate interest in the cache of moon rocks kept at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, repeatedly visiting the lab to examine them. Then the moon rocks mysteriously disappeared....

Venturing into vast underwater graveyards of Mayan human sacrifices in Mexico, journalist Diego Bunuel searches for new revelations about the infamous upcoming doomsday. Using groundbreaking National Geographic technology, Diego and a team of archaeologists will literally light up the abyss to explore these underwater tombs and gain key insight into why some believe the Maya may have predicted an impending apocalypse.

Explorer and scientist Paul Sereno made an extraordinary discovery in the middle of the Sahara desert: While prospecting for dinosaur bones, he stumbled across an ancient human cemetery more than 5,000 years older than the Egyptian pyramids. Who were these people and what were they doing in the middle of the desert? How did they live and die? What can this mystery tell us about our planet? And why are there two distinct groups of people here, existing thousands of years apart?

Animal advocate and host, Beth Stern, makes her way through some outrageous pet pampering and meets some shockingly over indulgent pet owners who wouldn't have it any other way. An avid pet owner and spoiler herself, Beth visits other owners who lavish attention on their catered-to critters in such an immeasurable fashion, that even our host doesn't know where it might end. Not content to simply sit back and watch, Beth rolls up her sleeves and gets down and dirty to experience what it means...

National Geographic explores, moment by moment, the day before everything changed in America and the world. Ordinary events are infused with meaning when viewed in a rear view mirror. Small decisions become matters of life and death the next morning.