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A privileged glimpse at how the world's most valuable and sought-after rock is created, mined, cut, polished, and auctioned. Stockard Channing narrates this fascinating story that is thousands of millions of years old.

The world of penguins: Presents the life of penguins and how they solve the problem of living in two worlds, in the sea where they spend most of their lives swimming and feeding, moving so gracefully, and their return to land each year to breed and to moult. A sea otter story: warm hearts and cold water: The Monterey Bay Aquarium is a haven for orphaned otter pups where the staff teaches these pups the skills to survive in the wild. Explore with George...

The beautiful and elusive big cats, snow leopards and lions, are examined.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. finds out who we are and where we come from.

Contemporary Americans and Britons spend five months on an isolated stretch of the Maine coast recreating the life of American colonists in the year 1628. The modern colonists struggle to create a functioning and profitable colony using only the tools and technology of that era. Extensive research went into recreating this 17th-century environment in which the colonists negotiate personal and communal challenges as they deal with the demoralizing...

Looks at the life and career of Gene Kelly who revolutionized musical and movie dancing, making it accessible for all people. Uses extended film clips, interviews with colleagues and critics and filmed interview segments from 1976 with Kelly.

Jaguar : year of the cat follows a jaguar through the Belize rainforest. In Chasing big cats, filmmakers Owen Newman and Amanda Barrett share footage and stories of such big cats as the cheetah, leopard, lion, caracal, and serval.

From 1905 to 1930, Paris was the magnetic center for radical innovation and experiment, the Mecca for creative talents. On-camera, dramatic and historic moments are recalled by participants in these legendary events e.g. Marc Chagall, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Cocteau, Aaron Copland, and many more. Traces who came to Paris and why, whom they met, what they made there, and how being in Paris transformed them and their work.

A a compelling example of how every species is interconnected and of our potential to destroy or restore those connections, this documentary tells the story of the interdependence of the red knot shorebird and the horseshoe crab. Each year, the red knot winters on the southern tip of South America and then embarks on a 10,000-mile journey to its nesting grounds in the Arctic, timing its migration precisely to coincide with the annual spawning of the...