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Adventure, Environment, Exploration
XPLR: The finest independent adventure, expedition and environmental documentaries, including three of the "Top 20 Adventure Films of All Time."
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Saturn's Embrace
A stunning tour of the latest discoveries on Saturn and its amazing moons, including the discovery of salt water geysers on Enceladus
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Eco-Sanctuary Belize
To save its fragile rain forests and ecosystems, Belize has stuck its neck out find the right kind of strategies to protect the environment, learning from the ravage of the rain forests in the Amazon and learning from its own past mistakes
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Gravity Never Sleeps
Seven extreme sports in eight minutes -- Ken Bailey's award-winning, pioneering extreme adventure short film played for years on The Best of National Geographic
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Ode To Avalanche
Experience the terrifying beauty and deadly force of 20 powerful avalanches, set to Beethoven's great "Ode to Joy"
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Liquid Off the Throne of Shiva
World-class kayaker Scott Lindgren wrote, directed, shot, and lived this ultimate white-water adventure documentary
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Ice Challenger
The first crossing of the frozen Bering Strait from Alaska to Russia in a land-based vehicle
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The Bihac, Bosnia Kayak Club
Olympic kayaker Scott Shipley brought $50,000-worth of kayaks and gear to the children of war-ravaged Bihac, Bosnia
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In the Shadow of the Condor
Amazing documentation of an expedition in January of 2002 into the spectacular, pristine Corcovado wilderness in Southern Chile
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Corwin
The late Norman Corwin was the great writer and director of the Golden Age of Radio.
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The Rainforest Wisdom of Mo...
Writer Bob Howells heads into the pristine Peruvian Amazon with a local guide, Moises Chavez, on a jungle survival trip.
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Never Ending Thermal
Sean White's amazing "Endless Summer" of paragliding around the world
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Paragliding Across America
The first paragliding expedition attempting to cross the United States from coast to coast, California to North Carolina
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FALLING
Multiple Emmy Award-winning cameraman John Armstrong's beautiful elegy to extreme white water kayaking
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rig...
Tom Brokaw honors both the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing and the fall of the Berlin Wall
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Sacred Angkor
National Geographics Chris Rainier and Ethan Boehme team up to bring Rainier's photographs of Angkor Wat poetically to film.
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Ancient Marks
Chris Rainier and filmmaker Ethan Boehm team up to bring you photographs of exquisite tattoos and sacred scarring rituals.
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Marathon of the Sands
The best-known ultra marathon in the world, and the most grueling.
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Beyond Gravity
One of the classic "new wave" ice, rock and alpine climbing films, narrated by renowned mountaineer and author Greg Child
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Into the Thunder Dragon
A rare, wild sport: extreme unicycling comes to the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan
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Into the Tsangpo Gorge
In a remote corner of Tibet, seven young world-class kayakers take on the most feared whitewater river on earth
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Farther Than the Eye Can See
One of the top adventure films of all time -- blind climber Eric Weihenmayer's renowned summit of Mt. Everest
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Messner
The world's greatest mountain climber, looks back over his career with surprising candor
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The Waterkeepers
The heroic efforts of river, bay and soundkeepers from Alaska to North Carolina
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The Yunnan Great Rivers Exp...
A whitewater expedition through the upper Mekong, Salween and Yangtze rivers
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The Hudson Riverkeepers
A decades-long battle to protect one of the nation's great rivers, the Hudson
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Churning the Sea of Time
A Journey up the Mekong Delta, through Vietnam and Cambodia to the great ruins at Angkor.
