The BEST episodes of Discovery Channel Documentaries season 2000

#1 - 95 Worlds and Counting

Season 2000 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/30/2010

Go where the real action is... the moons! Once dismissed as insignificant ice balls, we now know they are anything but boring. Imagine the most explosive world in the solar system, producing more heat than anything but the sun. That's Jupiter's fireball of a moon Io, which is exploding before our eyes. Try to picture a geyser blasting 5 miles high in the furthest reaches of the solar system, a geyser not of steam but of liquid ice. Visit Neptune's moon Triton, a world so piercingly cold that everything familiar to us on Earth, including the air, is frozen solid. And then there is Europa; a moon that may harbor the only other liquid water ocean in the solar system, an ocean that may even harbor life. There are moons out there with atmospheres so thick, you can strap on wings and fly. There are moons so small that you wouldn't stand on them, you'd hover! Moons where you'd weigh no more than a mouse, where you can throw a ball around the entire body, and where a good jump sends you a mile and a half into the air. Imagine spelunking on a world called Phobos, scuba diving on Europa, or bungee jumping off one the solar system's largest cliffs. Spend an hour exploring the moons, and you'll never ignore them again!

#2 - Inside the Space Station

Season 2000 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/10/2000

Through the use of extensive computer animation, this video offers an update on the construction of the International Space Station some 220 miles above the surface of the earth. The only major international program of its type, the implications of the station are immeasurably important to the viability of human habitation in space. This glance into the possible future of the human race is hosted by Liam Neeson.

#3 - Raising the Mammoth Part 1

Season 2000 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/12/2000

A scientist wants to recover some mammoth DNA to clone a live mammoth. So he finds a buried mammoth in the vast, rock hard permafrost of Siberia, digs it out in the middle of a blizzard and flies it home. Of course he needed a little help. So he befriended an arctic nomad who knows ever rill, rock, pond and stream in the entire region. As background to the quest, National Geographic relates the migratory history of the mammoth family.

#4 - Raising the Mammoth Part 2

Season 2000 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/12/2000

#5 - From Remagen to the Elbe: Surrender of the Third Reich

Season 2000 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/12/2013

In this remarkable full color film, we relive the last months of the war, with scenes from the heady drive of the U.S. Army across Germany. In the final days of WWII, as American armies closed in on the remaining German troops scattered throughout the country, Eisenhower executed a sweep of the German countryside. The First Army's push towards the Rhine yielded the capture of Cologne and an intact bridge in the city of Remagen, which signaled the beginning of the end for the Nazi regime. As Allied troops closed in on all sides, the American president maintained his objective of capturing or destroying all remaining armed German forces, flushing out isolated pockets of resistance. This culminated in the meeting of British, American, and Soviet forces near the Elbe and Mulde Rivers, as Berlin fell to the Russians. Hitler's suicide on April 30, 1945, foretold the end of the Nazi regime, the final days of which are captured in this illuminating documentary, which includes footage of the Allied advance that has never before been seen. Get behind the glossy images of war put forth by Hollywood studios, and experience the true story behind its closing days.

#6 - Rage to Revenge: The Science of Violence

Season 2000 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/16/2000

Exploring the biological, sociological and psychological responses to anger and hatred. Included: physiological changes to the human body during extreme anger; how people deal with the consequences of violent acts.

#7 - Real M.A.S.H.: The World of Combat Medicine

Season 2000 - Episode 18 - Aired 7/27/2015

What is it like to be a soldier who goes to war to heal? Lt. Diane Carlson Evans, who served as a nurse in Vietnam, responds, "Think of having a plane crash every day." This gritty program presents the history of the modern medic while tracking a class of prospective corpsmen training to earn the nickname "Doc" at the Navy’s Field Medical School. Archival photos and rare film footage document hard-minded innovations of medical expediency from the Civil War to today, such as triage, field hospitals, and prosthetics. Pararescuemen and combat medics who served in Vietnam and Somalia talk about their experiences. Produced by Hoggard Films for Discovery Channel

#8 - Quest for the Giant Squid

Season 2000 - Episode 22 - Aired 12/15/2000

The Discovery Channel and Smithsonian Institute team up to find the bus-size marine monster alive in its habitat. Sonar, a manned submersible and high-tech cameras are used to search as record numbers of dead giant squid are raised by fishing trawlers.

#9 - The Ultimate Guide: Planes

Season 2000 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/22/2000

The airplane has developed at almost warp-speed in less than a century. Get up close and personal to trace the story of the ever evolving airplane to see how, where, when and why they fly.