The BEST episodes of Discovery Channel Documentaries season 2010
Every episode of Discovery Channel Documentaries season 2010, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Discovery Channel Documentaries season 2010!
Documentaries that have been produced by the Discovery Channel.
#1 - 9/11: After the Towers Fell
Season 2010 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/5/2010
When the Twin Towers Collapsed on September 11, 2001, thousands were feared trapped beneath the tons of steel and rubble. Rescue Workers, family, and friends rushed to Ground Zero to save the buried. These are the stories of the race to rescue survivors.
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Season 2010 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/26/2010
The possible prophet might have been able to see into the future or to manipulate people's minds.
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Season 2010 - Episode 47 - Aired 3/3/2010
On 23rd March, 2008, the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, sank 200 miles from Dutch Harbor, with 47 on board. What transpired over the next 7 hours became the largest ever cold water rescue by the US Coast Guard.
#4 - Oil Disaster: A Race Against Time
Season 2010 - Episode 46 - Aired 6/10/2010
An exclusive, behind the scenes look at the engineering efforts to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
#5 - Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking: The Story of Everything
Season 2010 - Episode 38 - Aired 5/2/2010
Professor Stephen Hawking traces the life span of the universe from the Big Bang to the ultimate cosmic implosion, all mapped in stunning CGI.
#6 - First Life with David Attenborough
Season 2010 - Episode 37 - Aired 10/24/2010
Billions of years ago, when life began, the surface of Earth was a very dangerous place to be. Searing temperatures scorched the land, noxious fumes belched from volcanoes and with no protective ozone shield, the sun's rays cooked anything that moved. Nothing could live here. But deep under the oceans, the seeds of life had already been sown. In the frozen depths of the deepest trenches, the first animals were born. Before long the oceans were alive with vast reefs of strange creatures, each trying out newly evolved solutions to the problems of living. They had the first shells, the first back bones, the first legs and the first teeth. They were the first swimmers, the first parasites and the first predators, some of which grew to immense sizes, even bigger than a man. Many died out, but the successful ones became the blueprints of all modern life on Earth, from the tiniest ant to the largest mammal — they were even the first ancestors of you and me. David Attenborough is synonymous with the Natural World. From bacterium to blue whale, he has seen it all for himself. But now he embarks on the journey he always wanted to make but never thought possible — a voyage back in time to see how the first animals evolved and how they lived. Recent discoveries at fossil sites around the world over the last twenty years have propelled our understanding of the first life forms to new heights and with the emergence of ground breaking ways of visualizing them, including state of the art CGI, Attenborough will finally realize his dream and see for himself the animals that laid the foundations for all life on Earth.
#7 - My Sex Robot
Season 2010 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/17/2010
Our world is about to change. Academics believe that within 40 years humans will be having sex with robots and even falling in love and marrying their android companions! In this extraordinary shock-doc we meet three robot fetishists who talk openly and for the first time about their passion for fembots and the inventors vying to bring them the world's first sex robot.
#8 - Finding Amelia
Season 2010 - Episode 35 - Aired 12/11/2010
In July 1937, Amelia Earhart vanished from the skies and entered the realm of myth and mystery. Most people believe that she ran out of fuel and crashed in the sea. But one man is convinced she met a different fate, and he believes he is on the verge of proving it. Follow Ric Gillespie and his team as they travel to Nikumaroro, a remote Pacific island 350 miles from Amelia's last known location. That's where he believes Amelia landed her plane, struggled to survive as a castaway and finally died. He has found new clues and compelling evidence during his past expeditions, but no hard proof — yet. This time, he and his team are returning with the latest in scanning technology and an ambitious plan. They'll be deploying an advanced submersible to search the island's reef for wreckage from Amelia's plane. On land, they'll look for artifacts that may carry her DNA too. Will Ric, after 22 years of searching, solve the greatest of all aviation mysteries...finding Amelia?
#9 - James Bond: A True Story
Season 2010 - Episode 34 - Aired 12/21/2010
Takes a look at Ian Fleming & the real-life story behind James Bond. Author Ian Fleming wanted his suave secret agent to be the ultimate spy - but who provided the inspiration for Bond? This film reveals Fleming's wartime service in naval intelligence and profiles two men who could have supplied the basis for Bond's character.
#10 - Shaken and Stirred: Racing Classic Astons at Spa
Season 2010 - Episode 33 - Aired 12/19/2010
Follows vintage Aston Martin racing teams as they compete in endurance races at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. "Shaken and Stirred" also acted as the pilot for "GT Racer: The Series".
#11 - Deception with Keith Barry
Season 2010 - Episode 32 - Aired 7/14/2010
‘Deception with Keith Barry' is a one-hour programme focusing on Keith Barry, a mentalist, illusionist, and expert in the fields of perception and deception. Over the course of this special, Keith will demonstrate some amazing skills but these are not "magic tricks". Rather, Keith uses his powers of perception and persuasion to read his subjects' thoughts and control their behaviours.
#12 - World's Most Expensive Rides: Pagani Zonda
Season 2010 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/21/2010
The supercar you never heard of; extreme, exotic, Italian. The Pagani Zonda. A hot rod that helped write the history books and one of the rarest racecars on the planet -- only 50 ever sold.
#13 - Alien Storms
Season 2010 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/21/2010
Although we have extreme weather on earth, it is nothing in comparison to the wettest, dustiest and most brutal 'Alien Storms.' Radical weather is not uncommon in the solar system and storms on other planets are bigger, more powerful and stranger than their counter-parts on earth. This program is an in-depth investigation into the source of such dramatic weather in the solar system and why it is so different from the weather we experience on earth. Watch how once the incredible dust storms on Mars have started, it can take months for the skies to clear and learn how Neptune's extreme winds can reach speeds of 2,500 an kilometers an hour.
#14 - Track Me If You Can
Season 2010 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/12/2010
We live in a world where we are being constantly watched and monitored. What would it take to wipe the slate clean and live a life free of big brother? Security expert Aton Edwards takes the viewer on an amazing journey off the grid and under the radar.
#15 - NYC Inside Out: Power
Season 2010 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/10/2010
Explore the largest and most complex power system on the planet, consuming more energy in a single day than the entire nation of Greece in one year.
#16 - NYC Inside Out: Water And Waste
Season 2010 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/9/2010
Go inside New York City's water and waste system that produces 1.2 billion gallons of water and produces 1.3 billion gallons of waste a day.
#17 - God's Wrath
Season 2010 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/12/2010
The Bible contains some of the greatest stories of mass destruction to ever befall mankind, where God's Wrath set off disasters from Noah's Flood to Sodom and Gomorrah and the Ten Plagues of Egypt. While scientists now believe they can explain the natural forces behind these Biblical tales, that does not mean the modern world can escape from the kind of events that decimated the ancient world. In fact, now they might bring even greater destruction upon us. ‘God's Wrath' explores what the repercussions might be if these events were to occur again.
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#18 - Secret History of the Freemasons
Season 2010 - Episode 16 - Aired 9/5/2010
Documentary about an unprecedented inside look into one of the world's most private mysterious secret organizations, the Freemasons. Their inner workings, secret rituals, revelations of the 33rd-degree Master Mason is also to be revealed, history, and secrets will be uncovered. Centuries old rituals are filmed for the first time ever and to be showcased aswell.
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#19 - Angels vs Demons: Fact or Fiction
Season 2010 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/10/2010
The Vatican has condemned it. Readers around the world love it. And now we separate the fact from the fiction in Dan Brown’s controversial bestseller Angels & Demons. We examine the cutting-edge science of anti-matter and question the historical accuracy of theology, conspiracies, symbolism and cults as described by the The Da Vinci Code author.
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#20 - The Universe: Alien Galaxies
Season 2010 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/17/2010
Galaxies, home to stars, planets and us, come in all shapes and sizes. Witnesses the evolution of galaxies; from clouds of cold gas floating in the voids of space 13 billion years ago, to the magnificent spirals that fill our night sky.
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#21 - Last Day of the Dinosaurs
Season 2010 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/29/2010
'Last Days of the Dinosaurs' takes an unprecedented look at the lives of dinosaurs - a species that ruled the earth for 150 million years, then suddenly vanished. Their disappearance is one of the planet's greatest mysteries - unimaginable, until now. Combining the latest science, geology and palaeontology, it all comes down to one cataclysmic day. With ground-breaking photo-realistic animation this unique television event reconstructs the dinosaur world of the late Cretaceous period, and re-imagines the colossal fireballs, devastating blast-waves, giant earthquakes and mega tsunamis that changed life on the planet forever; ultimately setting the stage for the next species to rule the earth - mankind.
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#22 - Da Vinci's Machines: Scythe Chariot
Season 2010 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/10/2010
A team of expert builders will try to construct this unique invention using only materials available in da Vinci’s own time. It’s a modern twist on the classics, but will these outrageous machines work? Scythe Chariot The danger level hits a new high when the team devotes their talent to re-creating Leonardo’s deadly bladed chariot. But instead of horsepower, the team updates da Vinci’s 15th-century design with robot power.
#23 - Secrets of the Secret Service
Season 2010 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/13/2010
This is a no-holds-barred investigation of America's most mysterious law enforcement agency. Classified technology, secret strategies, deception, and human courage combine to provide the best protection possible.
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#24 - Scandals of the Ancient World: Egypt
Season 2010 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/27/2010
Scandals of the Ancient World digs up the juiciest "dirt" of Ancient Egypt. In a centuries-long romp through sex, drugs, celebrity scandals, military mishaps, and murders, this show is the Vanity Fair of the Ancient World. New technology, recently discovered writings and fresh theories will explain once and for all the how and why behind the most salacious events of ancient civilizations, through the use of stylized dramatizations and active on site interviews. Scandals of the Ancient World will highlight topics that you won't find in the typical "how the pyramids were built" program. This isn't your father's Egypt.
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#25 - Atlas 4D: Hawaii
Season 2010 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/14/2010
Hawaii - a magical place steeped in mystery. Discover why Hawaii exists, how it affects a huge slice of the globe, and why the surf is always up. From blind spiders to the active volcanoes, this iconic island chain has many stories.
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