Exploration Movies

The historian investigates the discovery of a group of Viking graves in the eastern Baltic that date back over 1200 years, predating the established...

The deep waters of the Southern and Pacific Oceans still hold many mysteries. Two international teams of scientists set out to explore the icy depths...

The story of the 1914-1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark lead a U.S. expedition to the Pacific Ocean and back.

Five astronauts make the first manned trip to Mars in the second decade of the 21st century. They must battle and overcome inferior computer...

Over the centuries, explorers traded tales of a lost civilization amid the dense Amazonian rainforest. Scientists dismissed the legends as...

Did the Peruvians cross the sea? The filming of a Norwegian archaeological expedition to the Galapagos islands in 1952, lead by Thor Heyerdahl. A...

On a deserted beach, a little guy embarks on a mysterious ship. This is how his journey starts, a journey between dream and reality.

A riveting story of polar exploration that investigates the motivation, psychology, science, and physical endurance that have characterized the...

Celebrates 30 years of televised specials by The National Geographic Society.

Discover how the big, bold ideas of Silicon Valley are helping launch a new era of private space exploration in this half-hour KQED Science...

Antarctica: A Frozen History takes a look at the history and stories of the human explorations in the Antarctic. Although quite slow paced and...

Deep in the jungle of Central Vietnam, lies a magnificent underground kingdom. Hang Son Doong which translates as “mountain river cave”,...

Explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his ten-man crew sailed their reed boat, the Tigris, over routes he believes were followed by Sumerian traders 5,000...

Computer-generated imagery and other visualization techniques reveal how it would look if all the water was removed from RMS Titanic's final resting...

Dr. Mark Fairchild, world-renowned archaeologist, traces the hidden years of Saint Paul's life in the mountainous Turkish countryside of Rough...

Examining theories about the discovery of America long before Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage by explorers from such places as China, Japan, Wales...

A solitary dish washing robot living out his life in the back room of a restaurant is enlightened to the world that exists beyond his four walls,...

Filmmaker Marc Fafard examines the historical and cultural significance of the seafaring Vikings.