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- Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory.
- An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.
- An English Duke from 1876 is inadvertently dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive.
- Science documentaries about various topics.
- Footage of real tornadoes without any coherent story.
- A con man (Matt Dillon) travels to Cambodia (also on the run from law enforcement in the U.S.) to collect his share in an insurance scam, but discovers more than he bargained for.
- An elite team is investigating the Bermuda Triangle with the aid of a secret weapon -- a map, decades in the making, marking the location of unidentified undersea wrecks and anomalies.
- A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.
- A team of scientists testifies that they found the remains of a sea creature with ties to human origins - a modern day mermaid. They claim a massive government cover-up is currently hiding the creature's existence from the general public.
- A look at different matters of the world such as immigration, global warming and capitalism through the eyes of scientists and philosophers.
- Computer-generated imagery and other visualization techniques reveal how it would look if all the water was removed from RMS Titanic's final resting place.
- Follow ocean legend Sylvia Earle, renowned underwater National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry, writer Max Kennedy and their crew of teenage aquanauts on a year-long quest to establish Blue Parks across an unseen American Wilderness.
- While Tropical Storm Allison brings one of the worst floods to hit Houston rages outside, the staff of Hermann hospital races against time to ensure hundreds of patients are evacuated safely.
- Port Royal, the 'wickedest city on Earth', famous for its Caribbean pirates, liquor, is torn apart on June 7th 1692 by quake and tsunami. Two thirds of buildings are sucked into the ocean, the rest buried where they sink. 2,000 die. Marine archaeologist Jon Henderson goes in search of what happened. Scientific data combines with computer graphics to DRAIN the waters to investigate final moments and resurrect past secrets.
- What lies beneath the mythical triangle? With the aid of data from sophisticated sonar surveys, National Geographic explores what the ocean floor looks like below the Bermuda Triangle.
- Take a thrilling ride right into the heart of the planet's most amazing forces - revealing the speed of a twister, the power of a hurricane, the lethal force of a lightning bolt, the instant devastation of a flood, or the explosive punch of a volcano. Feel what it's like to be inside a house when a storm rips the roof off, when a cloud of volcanic ash overtakes you, or what a street sign picked up by a tornado would do to your car window. This is Nature at its wildest and most furious.
- An island blows up, and from its remains a black poison fills the ocean. A team of underwater specialists with high-tech gear have to stop the poison before it contaminates the earth, but things get increasingly bizarre the more they investigate.
- Teen detective Nancy Drew goes undercover at a prestigious all-girls academy to investigate a series of accidents committed by someone known as the "Black Cat".
- A prophetic 19th Century French physician named Michel de Nostradamus recorded above one thousand possibilities during his lifetime. Half his prophecies have come true. With the new millennium upon us, his published collections of quatrains have become more and more popular as people search for some answers and new directions.
- A team of technicians and scientist undertake a thorough site survey of the Titanic shipwreck area to examine how the passenger ship sank.
- Shark experts has discovered three sharks who developed unique and deadly skills. These sharks are situated on three locations. The Tresher shark at the crowded New York coast line, who are only there for excactly 2 weeks. They developed the skill to stun or kill there prey with a tail whiplash. Further down south at the outer banks there is a ship graveyard from WW II which became a artificial reef and is the home for great numbers of sand tiger sharks who developed a stealth adaptation which keeps them motionless in the mercy water. Normally a shark has to keep moving to stay alive, which makes this skill quite unique. On the other side in the pacific/ bering sea a third ninja sharks manifest itself and is called the Salmon shark. There ninja skill is a super heated core, to survive in the freezing cold water. See how they research these species
- Follow the people who follow the storms. Prepare to take a ride inside some of the most extreme weather conditions experienced on earth.
- Scientists and engineers who built the world's largest solar telescope and launched the first solar probe into space help predict and prepare the planet for solar storms.
- Bob Ballard reveals the inside stories behind his most exciting discoveries, while sharing the personal triumphs, challenges and tragedies that led him to them.
- This documentary focuses on boom-and-bust economic cycles, most notably that of Alberta oil during the '70s and early '80s. When the bust hit after a drop in world oil prices, those business people who knew how to "ride a tornado" cut their losses and moved on, while others were left devastated. When Newfoundland was faced with a possible oil boom of its own in the mid-'80s, it took the lessons of Alberta to heart. Part 3 of the series, Reckoning: The Political Economy of Canada.
- A travel by the wonders of the universe as brief as unforgettable.
- An artist reminisces about her childhood explorations above and in the waters of the Florida Everglades and surrounding seas during which she learned to know and love the plants and animals she encountered there. Deep diving sequences performed by Mehgan Heaney-Grier, US champion free-diver. Direction and cinematography by Bob Talbot of Free Willy fame.
- An in depth look at 2005 and major weather disasters that happened all over the world.
- In 2012, hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey bringing devastation to it and New York City with high winds and powerful storm surge.
- A group of FDNY firefighters from Ladder 6 company miraculously survive the World Trade Center collapse because they stopped to help Josephine Harris, an elderly woman trapped on the staircase. A true story.
- Comets - friend or foe? Once thought mystical, bringers of bad fortune: recent space missions reveal their origins and composition.
- The Earth is not flat. That's the conceptual spark for a new film created at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Using an advanced media projection technology called Science On a Sphere developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), FOOTPRINTS is the first fully produced film of its kind. The movie presents advanced satellite data and other visual effects on a dramatic spherical screen, affording viewers a chance to experience planets and planetary science in a way that's more natural to their actual appearance. The Earth guest stars in a variety of guises, from depictions of the biosphere to planetary views of city lights at night to dramatic examinations about the science of hurricane formation. Other moons and planets make exciting cameos too, with special presentations of Mars and Earth's moon. What's more, the two agencies have announced that they're releasing this new production to a consortium of science museums that already have Spheres on display. In ten U.S. cities this fall FOOTPRINTS will join other supporting Spheres on public exhibition.
- Two young actors travel around the country taking film footage for about various aspects of oyster and clam life, and the business industries connected with them. Footage is shown from New England, Florida, the Gulf Coast, and California.
- Extreme weather events are a fact of life. Globally, a number of extreme weather-related events occur every year. Taking a huge toll in loss of life and property, often amounting to billions of dollars in damage. The impacts of these events indicate that we are not well adapted to the present climate... and climate continues to change.