Movies: The Smithsonian Network

  • 2009
    Picturing the Presidents

    Picturing the Presidents (2009)

    Picturing the Presidents

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    We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents....

    Picturing the Presidents
  • 2015
    Moby Dick: Heart Of A Whale

    Moby Dick: Heart Of A Whale (2015)

    Moby Dick: Heart Of A Whale

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    Herman Melville's epic ocean adventure "Moby Dick" is an American masterpiece. But was this stirring tale of violence and revenge simply an allegory, or were there real giants of the deep deliberately attacking whaling ships? With the help of centuri...

    Moby Dick: Heart Of A Whale
  • 2010
    Diving with Crocodiles

    Diving with Crocodiles (2010)

    Diving with Crocodiles

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    Documentary which follows crocodile expert Brad Bestelink on a quest to dive with crocodiles without a cage or any other protection....

    Diving with Crocodiles
  • 2010
    Pride in Battle

    Pride in Battle (2010)

    Pride in Battle

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    A documentary which follows two lion brothers as they become rulers of a pride in Botswana after a battle for dominance....

    Pride in Battle
  • 2017
    Desert Lions

    Desert Lions (2017)

    Desert Lions

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    Enter the harsh and unforgiving Kalahari and follow a lion pride attempt to save their threatened bloodline....

    Desert Lions
  • 2018
    Hannibal's March on Rome

    Hannibal's March on Rome (2018)

    Hannibal's March on Rome

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    Even 2,000 years after his death, General Hannibal's battle strategies are still studied today. But of all his military feats, perhaps his greatest was leading his massive Carthaginian army of men and three-dozen elephants across the Alps and into th...

    Hannibal's March on Rome
  • 2015
    Secrets of the Hive

    Secrets of the Hive (2015)

    Secrets of the Hive

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    Honeybees are in crisis – but there is hope. Biologists are studying the estimated 20.000 bee species in the world to look for viable pollinators of our crops. In their quest they discover the marvellous world of bees: bees that live in flowers, inva...

    Secrets of the Hive
  • 2015
    Surviving the Serengeti

    Surviving the Serengeti (2015)

    Surviving the Serengeti

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    20 years after the TV Mini-Series "Tales of the Serengeti", our crew reunites to truly explore the Serengeti, with no fiction. We almost didn't survive it....

    Surviving the Serengeti
  • 2020
    Monkeys of Bioko

    Monkeys of Bioko (2020)

    Monkeys of Bioko

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    Roughly 20 miles off the coast of west Africa, sits a volcanic relic now completely blanketed in equatorial rainforest: the island of Bioko. It's home to some very rare species, including the drill -- one of the most endangered primates in the world....

    Monkeys of Bioko
  • 2016
    China's Emperor of Evil

    China's Emperor of Evil (2016)

    China's Emperor of Evil

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    In China's Valley of the Kings, there stands a tall, carved stone. It honors the resting place of a woman named Wu Zetian, who rose from concubine to become China's only female emperor. For more than a millennia, history claimed she killed her own ch...

    China's Emperor of Evil
  • 2013
    Kennedy's Suicide Bomber

    Kennedy's Suicide Bomber (2013)

    Kennedy's Suicide Bomber

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    In 1960, a lone assassin planned a deadly attempt on the life of President-Elect John F Kennedy. With a Buick packed with dynamite, nothing was going to stop Kennedy's Suicide Bomber....

    Kennedy's Suicide Bomber
  • 2015
    Samurai Warrior Queens

    Samurai Warrior Queens (2015)

    Samurai Warrior Queens

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    The drama documentary tells the real life story of Samurai woman Takeko Nakano who in 1868 fights for her clans' independence in a final battle that marks the end of the Samurai era....

    Samurai Warrior Queens
  • 2015
    Napoleon's Waterloo

    Napoleon's Waterloo (2015)

    Napoleon's Waterloo

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    It lasted only one day on a small piece of land, but the impact the Battle of Waterloo had on history is massive and far-reaching. This is the definitive account of the fight that ended Napoleon's rule as emperor and altered the destinies of France, ...

    Napoleon's Waterloo
  • 2018
    Volcanoes: dual destruction

    Volcanoes: dual destruction (2018)

    Volcanoes: dual destruction

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    Volcanoes: dual destruction
  • 2019
    Darwin & the Beagle's Scandal

    Darwin & the Beagle's Scandal (2019)

    Darwin & the Beagle's Scandal

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    Before he wrote the book that revolutionized the way people understood evolution, a young Charles Darwin found himself, by chance, on a strange sea voyage. This is the story of the HMS Beagle, which traveled from Great Britain to survey South America...

    Darwin & the Beagle's Scandal
  • 2020
    Survival Of The Snow Leopard

    Survival Of The Snow Leopard (2020)

    Survival Of The Snow Leopard

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    Spend three years in China's remote and inhospitable Tibetan Plateau, home to nearly all the world's snow leopards....

    Survival Of The Snow Leopard
  • 2020
    Shark Ganglands

    Shark Ganglands (2020)

    Shark Ganglands

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    Ascension Island, a remote Mid-Atlantic outpost famous for its big game fishing, is under siege. Tiger sharks, hammerheads, even great whites, lured here every year by the bountiful reefs, are displaying aggressive behavior, culminating in the island...

    Shark Ganglands
  • 2019
    Wolf vs Bear

    Wolf vs Bear (2019)

    Wolf vs Bear

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    In the far reaches of the North, wolf and bear come head to head. Winter has been long. The melting ice reveal scattered carcasses in the Swamp: a feast worth fighting for. The bears must fatten up before Winter comes again, the wolves must strengthe...

    Wolf vs Bear
  • 2015
    iCrocodile

    iCrocodile (2015)

    iCrocodile

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    A high-tech autopsy on a Nile crocodile unlocks secrets behind its hunting prowess....

    iCrocodile
  • 2014
    Cheetah: Race to Rule

    Cheetah: Race to Rule (2014)

    Cheetah: Race to Rule

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    This is the story of a cheetah born into the Linyanti cheetah coalition. He is the runt of the litter and will have to fight hard for every scrap of food and attention to survive....

    Cheetah: Race to Rule