closed caption video recordings

Examines the lives of prehistoric humans and the tools they used, explains why scientists believe all humans are descended from the same woman, follows researchers as they attempt to re-create the life of Otzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old skeleton, and discusses the importance of the Nile to ancient Egyptian civilization.

Describes the values, cultures, and histories of China and Japan, discussing such topics as the Great Wall, the Qin dynasty, and the samurai and interviewing Japanese students living in America about the culture clashes they have experienced.

Uses analysis from historians and National Park Service rangers and quotations from eyewitnesses and reenactors to give a detailed account of four of the Civil War's most pivotal and bloody battles: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, and Cold Harbor.

Uses computer-generated imagery to bring information gained from robotic probes and manned missions in space to life, illustrating black holes, comets, the births and deaths of solar systems and galaxies, and other aspects.

With a breakthroigh interactive approact to reading education, classic fairytales with an innovative preschool twist and colorful and empowering young heroes, Super WHY! teaches reading fundamentals through storybook adventures.

Presents an episode of the "Daily Planet" science magazine which uses interviews, field pieces, and experiments to investigate what is going on in the world, discussing the hidden message in a painting in a Nova Scotia cathedral, an ancient skull found in a Toronto neighborhood, NASA's plans to return to the moon, tennis technology, cornstarch, the "Spirit" Mars rover, and submarine fires.

Presents an episode of the "Daily Planet" science magazine which uses interviews, field pieces, and experiments to investigate what is going on in the world, discussing the science of twisted light, the X-Prize competition, rainbows, record grooves, fireworks, and other topics.

Presents an exploration of Martians and other life forms, providing information on blueberry rock from Mars turning up in the Utah desert, encounters between tourists and wild animals in Banff, Alberta, and more.

Jeff Corwin explores the habitats of the island nation of Borneo, introducing such animals as tree frogs, the Asian elephant, primates, bats and swiftlets, the proboscis monkey, the venomous mangrove snake, sea turtles, and the yellow-lipped sea krait.

Jeff Corwin explores the habitats of India, introducing such animals as the venomous Russell viper, green vine snake, gharial crocodile, rock python, cobras, elephants, monkeys, and sacred cows, with a focus on the relationship between animals and the people of the country.