One of the most deadly places on earth is the "Ring of Fire," a roughly 25,000-mile-long chain of volcanoes and earthquake zones that surrounds the Pacific Ocean. Now, NGC reveals some startling new evidence that suggests it may be getting more dangerous. With more than 1 billion people under threat from explosive volcanic eruptions and devastating mega-earthquakes, NGC follows the scientists racing to understand the danger and what we can do to protect ourselves against its future fury.
Naked Science: Landslides
Landsides are one of the worlds most costly natural disasters, yet as seen in California, people still continue to build homes and damage landscapes in landslide prone areas. What determines why one area is more susceptible to landslides than another? Naked Science digs deep to discover what really triggers deadly landslides.
MEGA weather: Killer Ice
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Everything You Need to Know About: Hurricanes
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Naked Science: Glacial Meltdown
Imagine a world where melting ice caps have raised sea levels by 20 feet and where the great coastal cities of the world could be under water. It is a nightmare scenario that could one day turn into reality. Now, Naked Science separates fact from fiction to discover the real science behind climate change, the melting ice caps and why powerful hurricanes have doubled in number in the past 30 years.
Naked Science: Death of the Sun
We think of the sun as a permanent fixture, but the truth is very different. As our sun gets older, it will become more violent, bigger, hotter and brighter, eventually evaporating our oceans and melting the surface of our planet before it dies. Scientists, who monitor the sun daily, explore just how and when the sun will die and want to understand how the Earth will fare during this hellish process?
K-19: The Widowmaker
Based on an incident that was officially suppressed for 28 years, K-19: The Widowmaker is a fine addition to the "sub-genre" of submarine thrillers. The first major American film about Russian cold war heroes, it re-creates the nightmare endured in 1961 by the crew of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-19, when an exposed reactor core nearly resulted in a nuclear catastrophe.
Monsters, Inc.
The giant, blue-furred James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (wonderfully voiced by John Goodman) is a scare-monster extraordinaire in the hidden world of Monstropolis, where the scaring of kids is an imperative in order to keep the entire city running.
Earth Science in Action Rocks
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Earth Science in Action: Minerals
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Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Drowned a City (NOVA)
The narration is melodramatic, some of the interviews feel stagy--but the footage of Hurrican Katrina and its horrendous aftermath is staggering. Hurrican Katrina - The Storm That Drowned a City, a NOVA special, begins a year earlier, when a team of scientists created a computer simulation of the destructive effect a powerful storm could have on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Web of Life: Exploring Biodiversity
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Weather: Wind
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Weather Fundamentals: Clouds
Grade 4-7-Hosted by Spencer Christian, weather forecaster for ABC's Good Morning America. Through live-action footage, archival images, animation and interactive experiments, students learn how to observe and think about the weather.
Weather Fundamentals: Climate & Seasons
Grade 4-7-Hosted by Spencer Christian, weather forecaster for ABC's Good Morning America. Through live-action footage, archival images, animation and interactive experiments, students learn how to observe and think about the weather.
Voyage to the Planets and Beyond
Think of this BBC two-part TV special as Walking with Planets. One of the makers of the excellent Walking with... dinosaur programs looks forward--into the future--and upward--into space--for another presentation of story-driven science. This fake documentary follows an international crew of five on an extraordinary six-year spaceflight. We hear from Mission Control and view footage of the astronauts in training along with the flight photography and "TV broadcasts" (perfect for quickly explaining facts via Q&As).
NOVA: Tornado!
This PBS documentary tells the true story of storm chasers, the men and women who risk their lives to record the power of dangerous tornadoes at close range (dramatized in the 1996 blockbuster Twister). Here, though, the special effects are real. Dedicated scientists from the National Severe Storms Laboratory, located in the heart of "Tornado Alley".
NOVA: Magnetic Storm
What is weakening Earth’s invisible shield? Magnets have the power to attract and repel—sometimes on a massive scale. The Earth’s molten core—a violent mix of searing heat, crushing pressure, and a billion trillion tons of liquid iron—creates an invisible shield that surrounds the globe, guarding against a constant barrage of deadly radiation from space.
Forces of the Wild: Perpetual Motion
"Perpetual Motion," discover how the atmosphere and the oceans form patterns of life, from rainforests to deserts, and produce life-destroying storms like hurricanes and tornadoes.
Everest (IMAX)
Relive a breathtaking journey to the top of the world with EVEREST, the spectacular giant-screen motion picture for IMAX theatres! Filmed during the infamous 1996 storm that claimed eight lives, EVEREST documents the filmmakers' harrowing rescue efforts to help surviving members of the ill-fated group.