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Come along on a non-stop journey by air over four of the nation's most beautiful states: the exotic and breathtaking Hawaii, and the spectacular coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington. Points of interest include: the mansion William Randolph Hearst built and the Golden Gate Bridge in California; some of America's wildest spaces and also its most modern cities in Washington; volcanic Crater Lake and the Oregon Trail in Oregon; Hawaii's eight...

It D-Day back to its raw data to reveal how the odds of victory, in the greatest gamble of World War II, swung on what happened over a five-hour period on a five mile stretch of French coastline. Data gathered though forensic laser scanning, 3D computer modeling, and eye-witness accounts bring the battlefield to life as never before.

An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished prespective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines - and spine-tingling, first-hand accounts to an already...

After 300 years of relative isolation, China is reaching out to the rest of the world looking for resources, food, friends, and safe places to invest its new fortune. Follow this still-unexplored story of the stunning global transformation taking place.

In three episodes originally shown on the Food Network television program Good eats, Alton Brown shows how to make good pie crust, deciphers an old cake recipe, and makes icing.

Embark on an astounding journey across 100,000 light-years to witness key moments in the history of the Milky Way. Using cutting-edge science, National Geographic constructs a 3-D state-of-the-art CGI model of the galaxy. Peer into the heart of the Milky Way on the hunt for super-massive black holes, watch how stars are born and die, fly out and above the plane of the galaxy to understand its true shape, and scour its dusty spiral arms for the possibility...

In three 30-minute episodes originally shown on the Food Network television program Good eats, Alton Brown shows you how to prepare casseroles, mashed potatoes, and mac and cheese.

From its hot molten core to the mega sized waves battering its coast, Hawaii is an untamed and very wild bit of paradise that continues to transform itself and challenge expectations.

Captures never-before-seen footage of lions, leopards, jaguars, and cheetahs fighting to survive and thrive in their native habitats.

All of the federal government's efforts to stem the tide in the financial meltdown that began with the subprime mortgage crisis have added hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt. FRONTLINE reports on how this debt will constrain and challenge the new Obama administration, and on the growing chorus on both sides of the aisle that without fiscal reform, the United States government may face a debt crisis of its own, which makes the current...