Air Crash Investigation - S12E12 28 Seconds to Survive (Santa Barbara Airlines Flight 518)

On 21 February 2008, Santa Barbara Airlines Flight 518 en route from Merida to Caracas, Venezuela veered off course and crashed into the side of a mountain shortly after takeoff. All 46 passengers and crew aboard the plane died. Investigators determined that the aircraft took off with inoperative navigation due to the pilots' failure to do their pre-flight checklist.Type of aircraft: ATR 42-300

Europe's Last Pagans

The Mari El pagans are so loyal to their gods that their belief survived both the Christian expansion and the ban on all religions during Soviet times.

Crash Course: Biology - Episode 33: Great Glands - Your Endocrine System

Hank fills us in on the endocrine system - the system of glands which produce and secrete different types of hormones directly into the bloodstream to regulate the body's growth, metabolism, and sexual development & function.

Louis Theroux - Extreme Love 1/2: Autism

Louis Theroux travels to America again, where 1 in 100 children is diagnosed with autism. Louis takes a look at several families in which one or more children has this diagnosis, and how the family deals with this. Visiting schools were the ratio student/teacher is 1 on 2, Louis looks how autism influences the kids and the problems it gives. He visits the home of Nicky, a 19 year old student who is soon to go to a more regular school...

Planet Earth - Episode 01: From Pole to Pole

The first episode illustrates a 'journey' around the globe and reveals the effect of gradual climatic change and seasonal transitions en route. During Antarctica's winter, emperor penguins endure four months of darkness, with no food, in temperatures of −70 °C (−94 °F). Meanwhile, as spring arrives in the Arctic, polar bear cubs take their first steps into a world of rapidly thawing ice. In northern Canada, the longest overland migration of an...

Louis Theroux - America's Most Dangerous Pets

Did you know that there are more Tigers in the US than there are in the wild? Louis Theroux visits several places where 'Americas Most Dangrous Pets' are being held.He visits Joe “Exotic” who owns a private zoo with 167 tigers, just as a tornado is coming up.Through the documentary, Louis keeps asking the owners of the animals if they think the animals are happy like this and if they wouldn't prefer a life in the wild. Most owners have an inte...