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Why Ships Crash

Why Ships Crash

Season 49 Episode 8
53:20
Ice Age Footprints

Ice Age Footprints

Season 49 Episode 9
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Rebuilding Notre Dame

Rebuilding Notre Dame

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Nazca Desert Mystery

Nazca Desert Mystery

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Hidden Volcano Abyss

Hidden Volcano Abyss

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Your Brain: Perception Deception

Your Brain: Perception Deception

Season 50 Episode 9
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Your Brain: Who's in Control?

Your Brain: Who's in Control?

Season 50 Episode 10
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Ancient Earth: Birth of the Sky

Ancient Earth: Birth of the Sky

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Ancient Earth: Frozen

Ancient Earth: Frozen

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Ancient Earth: Life Rising

Ancient Earth: Life Rising

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Ancient Earth: Inferno

Ancient Earth: Inferno

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Ancient Earth: Humans

Ancient Earth: Humans

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Great Mammoth Mystery

Season 49 Episode 3

Sir David Attenborough investigates a unique site in southern England where amateur fossil hunters uncovered giant mammoth bones and evidence of Neanderthals. A team of paleontologists and archaeologists soon discover that the site preserves rare evidence of the extinct beasts and early human inhabitants of Britain dating to over 200,000 years ago.

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