Join Jackie, Matt, and Inez on exciting, math-based adventures! Students will learn how important and useful mathematics can be when solving everyday problems and how to apply their math skills to the real world.

Ravens are members of the crow family. They are found everywhere in the northern hemisphere and can adapt from deserts to mountains a feat requiring high intelligence. As scavengers, ravens know how and when to take advantage of other animals. In Yellowstone National Park, animals that don't survive the winters attract coyotes who rip open the hides, making the meat accessible to ravens. Ravens not only follow wolves, even flying ahead and leading...

Experience life behind the scenes at one of America's most renowned zoos. From a desperately ill baby gorilla to two un-amorous pandas, these stories witness the drama of zoo veterinary medicine. Meet the people who keep these animals alive and healthy.

[Program 1.] Following the comfortable 6-month hibernation taken by the grizzly, the hunt is now on for salmon. Yet the competition for food is fierce. This natural story of breathtaking beauty is an insightful look at the giant and aggressive loners. [Program 2.] When two naturalists head up to Siberia's Kamchatka Peninsula to prove that the naturally predatorial grizzly isn't instinctively hostile, they become unexpected foster parents to three...

Climb on board the cruise ship Oceanos as it rapidly sinks in tumultuous water near South Africa. Explore the treacherous boundary between oceans and land where wind surfers risk their lives in the shark-infested waters near Maui. Watch as U.S. Coastguard students are put to the test in the deadly waves of Cape Disappointment. Also, meet the terrifying tidal bore called the Black Dragon in China.

Beginning in the '50s, American and Soviet scientists engaged in a dangerous race to see who could build and detonate the world's largest bomb. The results exceeded all expectations about how big a bomb could be built. Following is an epic story where the United States led the way, but then left the field clear for the Soviet Union to break all records.

The life and legacy of Julia Child is remembered and celebrated in this special program. The film tells two love stories: one between Julia and Paul Child, the other between Julia and French food. It includes photos never before seen.

Contemporary Americans and Britons spend five months on an isolated stretch of the Maine coast recreating the life of American colonists in the year 1682. The modern colonists struggle to create a functioning and profitable colony using only the tools and technology of that era. Extensive research went into recreating this 17th-century environment in which the colonists negotiate personal and communal challenges as they deal with the demoralizing...

Biographical depiction of Cather's life and the influences of the Nebraska frontier on her work.