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Discover a hidden treasure in the heart of Croatia. Plitvice Lakes National Park is an extraordinary natural preserve, and a land of wonders. Here, the continent's largest population of brown bears, packs of wolves and lynx, and a host of other rare and remarkable creatures seek safe haven in a kingdom formed, and ruled, by water.
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Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa, to find out how the modest corn kernel conquered America. With the help of real farmers, powerful fertilizer, government aid, and genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hidden truths about America's modern food system.
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It is the Age of Plastic. It's cheap, practical, and everywhere. But is it dangerous? Viewers are taken on a journey around the globe, from the Moroccan Sahara to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the Alps to reveal the far-flung reaches of the plastic problem. Interviews with experts in biology, pharmacology, and genetics shed light on the perils of plastic to the environment and expose the truth of how plastic affects the...
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An animal welfare film that will bring a smile to everyone's face. Focusing on the Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary, Chaser the Border Collie, and famed photographer Jane Sobel Klonsky, we highlight friskiness and intelligence, vitality and loving bonds, definitely proving that an old dog can teach us new tricks.
7) Planet ocean
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Using the extraordinary images of the Earth's oceans an international team of underwater cinematographers explain some of the planet's greatest natural mysteries, while reinforcing how essential it is to live in harmony with our oceans.
9) Paper clips
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Documents the Paper Clip Project in which the students of a rural Tennessee school collected six million paper clips to get a better idea of the number of Jews lost in the Holocaust and learned lessons about intolerance and acceptance of diversity.
10) Making rounds
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People spend a trillion dollars a year on high-tech tests, and yet almost 20 percent of patients are misdiagnosed. It reintroduces the oldest diagnostic method, listening to the patient, by following two leading cardiologists from Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Valentin Fuster and Dr. Herschel Sklaroff, over a one-month period as they care for critically-ill heart patients in the Cardiac Care Unit at Mount Sinai Hospital.
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The documentary provides viewers with highly personal insights from a group of Native American war heroes regarding their service on behalf of the United States and the Navajo Nation. The secret code these marines developed, based on the unwritten Navaho language, was never broken, giving American troops an upper hand in many battles that ultimately led to Japan's surrender in 1945.
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