PBS - Travels to the Edge With Art Wolfe - Brazil: The Pantanal (2008) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS - Travels to the Edge With Art Wolfe - Brazil: The Pantanal (2008)
English | Subtitle: English | 720p HDTV SoS | AVI | XviD 1280x720 4255Kbps 29.97fps | AC3 384Kbps 6CH 48KHz | 00:24:01 | 800MB
Located in the heart of South America, the Pantanal is the world's largest wetland and home to one of the densest concentrations of wildlife on the planet. It's a unique place where human activity and wildlife coexist. Here Brazilian cowboys ride herd alongside toothy caimans, giant otters, capybaras, macaws and toucans. In episode five, Art Wolfe arrives just as the seasonal floods have receded and discovers both an ecological paradise and a vibrant cowboy culture.
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Discovery Channel - Perfect Disaster: Ice Storm (2006) HDTVRip SoS
Discovery Channel - Perfect Disaster: Ice Storm (2006)
English | HDTVRip SoS | AVI | XviD 640x480 1014Kbps 29.97fps | MP3 98Kbps 2CH 48KHz | 00:43:29 | 348MB
Perfect disasters are storms that are larger, more dangerous and more deadly than any before them. When all the right ingredients combine, the resulting catastrophes will be "impossible" — a tornado with wind speeds that exceed those seen in a category 5, or a solar storm that causes a worldwide blackout. What would happen if one of these "super storms" crashed into a city like New York, London, Hong Kong, Dallas, Sydney or Toronto?
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Discovery Channel - Perfect Disaster: Fire Storm (2006) HDTVRip SoS
Discovery Channel - Perfect Disaster: Fire Storm (2006)
English | HDTVRip SoS | AVI | XviD 640x480 1014Kbps 29.97fps | MP3 98Kbps 2CH 48KHz | 00:43:27 | 348MB
Perfect disasters are storms that are larger, more dangerous and more deadly than any before them. When all the right ingredients combine, the resulting catastrophes will be "impossible" — a tornado with wind speeds that exceed those seen in a category 5, or a solar storm that causes a worldwide blackout. What would happen if one of these "super storms" crashed into a city like New York, London, Hong Kong, Dallas, Sydney or Toronto?
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PBS Nature - The Venom Cure (2005) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - The Venom Cure (2005)
English | 720p HDTV SoS | AVI | XviD 1280x720 3465Kbps 29.97fps | AC3 384Kbps 6CH 48KHz | 00:54:03 | 1.46GB
Poisons, toxins and venoms are the defense and attack mechanisms of the natural world. Gila monsters are armed with toxic saliva, cone shells use poison harpoons, scorpions sting, snakes and spiders inject their victims with venom, blue-ringed octopuses and poison dart frogs kill anything that touches their skin. Almost any of these deadly weapons could kill a human in moments. Yet scientists are finding impressive new possibilities for them - new drugs, new cures, new ways to save lives.
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National Geographic - Eden at the End of the World (2008) 720p HDTV SoS
National Geographic - Eden at the End of the World (2008)
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It is the last great wilderness of its kind, a rare and endangered haven for some of Earth's hardiest creatures. Covering hundreds of thousands of square miles of Chile and Argentina, this wild place is known as Patagonia. In spite of its remote location, Patagonia and its wildlife are under pressure from the human footprint. For centuries, wind, geology and tempestuous seas kept Patagonia beyond the commercial reach of man. An astonishing array of wildlife flourishes in the region's nearly 347,000 square miles, including such birds as Magellanic penguins and Andean condors, land mammals such as the guanaco and puma, and marine mammals such as orcas and elephant seals.
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PBS - Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe: Australia: Arnhemland and the Kimberley (2008) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS - Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe: Australia: Arnhemland and the Kimberley (2008)
English | 720p HDTV SoS | AVI | XviD 1280x720 4255Kbps 29.97fps | AC3 384Kbps 6Ch 48KHz | 00:24:01 | 800MB
Australia's Northern Territory is an immense, untamed wilderness as brutal as it is beautiful. For the Aboriginal people, it's the place of the 'Dreamtime', where land and story meet. In episode two, Art Wolfe captures images of rock art intricately painted over thousands of years ago; discovers canyons carved by wind and water; and witnesses an ancient aboriginal dance as he chronicles the connection between the region's first people and the natural world.
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PBS Nature - The Beauty of Ugly (2007) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - The Beauty of Ugly (2007)
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In the animal world, as in our own, looks aren't everything. In fact, some of the most aesthetically challenged creatures -- from warthogs and proboscis monkeys to bull elephant seals -- are also the most fascinating. A stunning variety of these ghastly yet glorious forms are explored in NATURE's 'The Beauty of Ugly'. On the Web site for the program, you'll get an in-depth look at some of these intriguing creatures. You'll learn about the remarkable sensory abilities of the weird little star-nosed mole and the unusual social system of naked mole-rats and their imperious mole-rat queen, discover the threats faced by the Cape Griffon vulture, and get a fish-eye's view of the needle-toothed viperfish and other deep-sea creatures, as photographed by a unique undersea camera called the Eye-in-the-Sea, designed by ocean researcher Dr. Edith Widder.
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PBS NOVA - Lizard Kings (2009) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS NOVA - Lizard Kings (2009)
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They look like dragons and inspire visions of fire-spitting monsters. But these creatures with their long claws, razor-sharp teeth, and muscular, whip-like tails are actually monitors, the largest lizards now walking the planet. With their acute intelligence, these lizards—including the largest of all, the Komodo dragon—are a very different kind of reptile, blurring the line between reptiles and mammals. Thriving on Earth essentially unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, they are a very successful species, versatile at adapting to all kinds of settings. This program looks at what makes these long-tongued reptiles so similar to mammals and what has allowed them to become such unique survivors.
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PBS - Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe: Antarctica and The Falkland Islands (2008) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS - Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe: Antarctica and The Falkland Islands (2008)
English | Subtitle: English | 720p HDTV SoS | AVI | XviD 1280x720 4258Kbps 29.97fps | AC3 384Kbps 6CH 48KHz | 00:24:00 | 800MB
It is spring on the Antarctic Peninsula and the frozen wilderness is a veritable nursery for penguins, shore birds and seal pups. In episode four Art Wolfe crosses the infamous Drake Passage the treacherous body of water south of Cape Horn to explore the Falkland Islands and the Antarctic coast in search of wildlife and landscapes inherent to this pristine and unforgiving land.
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PBS Nature - The Vanishing Lions (2006) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - The Vanishing Lions (2006)
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Africa's lion population appears to be declining at an alarming rate. NATURE's THE VANISHING LIONS searches for explanations and solutions to the troubling trend. Across Africa, the King of Beasts is in trouble. In the late 20th century, wildlife preserves were created to curtail safari hunting, but the African lion population continues to decline. Their numbers have dwindled from 100,000 in the early 1990s to no more than 30,000 and as few as 16,000 today. What could be endangering the King of Beasts?
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PBS Nature - Kalahari: The Great Thirstland (2003) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - Kalahari: The Great Thirstland (2003)
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In this land of extremes, only the most determined animals survive in NATURE's KALAHARI: THE GREAT THIRSTLAND. It's been 20 years since the Boteti River has brought substantial water to the grasslands of the Kalahari. Dust, vegetation, and sand dominate the landscape as the wildlife hides from the relentless summer sun and the cold winter nights. Some sleep for years, entombed in protective cases, lying dormant and waiting for water to come. But most live a nomadic existence, surviving by seeking out moisture under the sand, or by making the most of their adaptations.
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PBS NOVA - AstroSpies (2008) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS NOVA - AstroSpies (2008)
English | 720p HDTV SoS | AVI | XviD 1280x720 4043Kbps 29.97fps | AC3 384Kbps 6Ch 48KHz | 00:53:11 | 1.65GB
Millions remember the countdowns, launches, splashdowns, and parades as the U.S. raced the Soviet Union to the moon in the 1960s. Few know that both superpowers ran parallel covert space programs to launch military astronauts on spying missions, and even fewer know what became of the military astronauts they trained. Highly classified for decades, these top-secret missions might easily have triggered a shooting war in orbit. NOVA travels to Russia for exclusive access to cosmonauts and their restricted space facility and obtains candid first-time interviews with astronauts in the American military space program. ASTROSPIES uncovers new clues about the tensest period of the Cold War, when the U.S. and USSR were on the verge of war and desperate for intelligence on each other’s nuclear capabilities.
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PBS Nature - The Queen of Trees (2006) HDTVRip XviD SoS
PBS Nature - The Queen of Trees (2006)
English | HDTVRip SoS | AVI | XviD 720x416 1973Kbps 29.97fps | MP3 160Kbps 2CH 48KHz | 00:53:43 | 600MB
NATURE reveals the importance of an unlikely partnership between a regal tree and a tiny wasp in The Queen of Trees. It may be one of nature’s oddest couples: a tiny wasp that can barely be seen, and a giant fig tree, the sycomore, which shelters a remarkable menagerie of wildlife among its limbs. The wasp and the fig depend on each other for survival. Without the wasp, the tree could not pollinate its flowers and produce seeds. Without the fig, the wasp would have nowhere to lay its eggs.
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PBS Nature - In the Valley of the Wolves (2007) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - In the Valley of the Wolves (2007)
English | 720p HDTV SoS | AVI | XviD 1280x720 4461Kbps 29.97fps | AC3 384Kbps 6Ch 48KHz | 00:53:45 | 1.82GB
Highly recommend this program. Narrated by F. Murray Abraham. In 1995, the first gray wolves were transported from Alberta, Canada to Yellowstone National Park, to repopulate the sprawling landscape with the species, absent for more than 70 years. The following year, a second wave of wolves was brought to the park from British Columbia, Canada; five of them were released together, and they were named the Druid Peak pack. Since the arrival of those first immigrants, wolves have thrived in Yellowstone -- and none more dramatically than the Druids. The epic history of the Druids, one of more than a dozen packs now occupying the 2.2 million acres of Yellowstone, is documented in NATURE's IN THE VALLEY OF THE WOLVES. The program was produced and shot in High Definition by Emmy-award winning filmmaker Bob Landis. On the Web site, you'll learn how the successful reintroduction of Yellowstone's apex predator has changed the entire ecosystem of the park, and about the threats that these majestic animals continue to face on their road to recovery.
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PBS Nature - Cloud's Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns (2003) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - Cloud's Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns (2003)
English | 720p HDTV SoS | AVI | XviD 1280x720 3435Kbps 29.97fps | AC3 384Kbps 6CH 48KHz | 00:54:32 | 1.45GB
NATURE presents the compelling story of a remarkable denizen of the West in CLOUD: WILD STALLION OF THE ROCKIES. America's wild horses lead an exhilarating but perilous existence. The climate can be brutal, mountain lions and other predators stalk the young, and their dependence on public grazing lands for sustenance often puts them in competition with livestock interests. In some places where these magnificent animals roam, it is not unusual for a wild horse to fall victim to an illegal horse shooter. Against this backdrop, NATURE presents Cloud's story. Filmed in the mountains of Montana, this poignant, engrossing chronicle focuses on an extraordinary stallion, whose life has been recorded since his birth in the wild in 1995 by Emmy-winning filmmaker Ginger Kathrens.
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