A fascinating, up-close look at three separate penguin colonies’ struggle to survive that uses life-sized “spycameras” to get right into the birds’ inner circle.
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Life on Fire: Wildlife on the Volcano’s Edge is a beautifully filmed and gripping nature documentary mini-series from PBS that rivals the best from the BBC.
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The red planet awaits, and with Curiosity, NASA has sent their most sophisticated rover yet to explore it. Ultimate Mars Challenge takes a look at the program, from beginning to the final innovative landing, to design the Curiosity rover. It’s a must for space fans.
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The History Channel’s The Men Who Built America is another historical mini-series from the cable network that fails to live up to its ambitious title.
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The History Channel’s documentary mini-series Mankind: The Story of All of Us doesn’t live uo to its name, instead offering no more than a Eurocentric, popcorn history of the world with glaring omissions and major flaws in reasoning.
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History Channel collects three of their most compelling 3D history documentaries into one gift-able package for the holiday season with History in 3D.
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The History Channel’s The Universe in 3D offers three episodes in 3D allowing fans of the series to immerse themselves in the wonder of space even further.
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Ken Burns paints a folksy and intimate portrait of one of the worst environmental and human disasters in American history with his latest documentary film, The Dust Bowl.
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Rescue is superb eye candy, as is typical with IMAX exhibition films, but, also typically, it lacks some depth as an outright documentary.
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Ken Burns’ flawed, but interesting, documentary mini-series on World War II hits Blu-ray in a solid six-disc set from PBS and Paramount.
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