Movies: Discovery

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Self-discovery and introspection...

As Christmas nears, a young orphan, haunted by his father's suicide, embarks on a soul-searching journey. Guided by hidden memories, he forms a bond with a kindred spirit, sparking a quest for healing and self-discovery....

Frank Latimore is cast as Balboa, the heroic Spanish explorer who discovers the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, he must pacify the wrath of his enemies and battle his way through a forest inhabited by savage natives. This one features some really nic...

During a thunderstorm, a young boy's effort to capture lightning in a glass bottle as part of a science fair project succeeds beyond his wildest expectations, but is shocked when he discovers the consequences of this unnatural feat....

An old widower, Jasper, routinely makes coffee in two mugs and picks up trash around his community. Some of his more interesting finds speckle his home. His neighbors mostly disregard him. On one of his regular hunts, he chances upon an envelope. To ...

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The death of a young girl's cat provokes a self-discovery journey of what it means to accept the inevitability of change....

Explores the plans for the construction of the monumental dam on China's Yangtze River, the structure that when completed in 2009 will become the Three Gorges Dam. It is slated to be 610 feet high, 1.3 miles across, creating a reservoir 400 miles and...

A look back at the origins of rocket science and forward to the cutting edge technology of reusable rockets and shuttles. Using computer animation, the program also explores the future of space travel that may some day carry commercial passengers or ...

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This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short dramatizes how the work of Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman, who searched for a cure for beri-beri on the island of Java in the 1890s, led to the discovery of vitamins....

The complex engineering challenges that make re-entry into the earth's atmosphere so dangerous. Scientists have labored for years to bring a crew safely home in what is essentially a meteorite, wrapped in a cocoon of fire, hurtling towards earth six ...

Documentary looking at the ways which computer on-line services and the Internet have evolved, how they have been applied and the problems they can cause....

Three young people journey to a mystical Oracle living outside their small town in a search for identity....

On December 21, Nicolas Vanier will set off with his pack on a new expedition called L’Odyssée sauvage (The Wild Odyssey). He will travel nearly 6,000 kilometers to connect the Pacific Ocean to Lake Baikal, crossing Manchuria, Mongolia, and part of s...

By the end of the Ice Age - only ten thousand years ago - many great mammals had died out. The woolly mammoth, the dire wolf, the saber-tooth cat and others disappeared as a result of severe climatic changes that engulfed the planet. And yet other an...

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Documentary that takes a scientific and historical look at the story of Moses. Uses archaeological evidence from the stables of Ramses II to little-known Egyptian texts to seek answers to questions about Moses and his origins....

Adelina, going for the first time to a museum, discovers her artistic side....