Alexander the Great & Siege of Tyre

Today on Discovery Enterprise we voyage back in time to witness Alexander the Great lay siege to one of the most heavily fortified city’s of classical antiquity - Tyre.

The Siege of Tyre was orchestrated in 332 BC by Alexander the Great who set out to conquer Tyre, a strategic coastal base in the war between the Greeks and the Persians. 

The Universe - The Moon

Today on Discovery Enterprise we visit our alluring companion in space – The Moon.

The Moon has always played a substantial role in humankind’s history. It's been everything from a god to a compass, and the only cosmic body human beings have ever visited. Discover how the moon came to be.

Brave New World with Stephen Hawking Episode 1 - Machines

Today on Discovery Enterprise we are proud to present another exciting documentary series hosted by Professor Stephen Hawking – Brave New World.

Professor Stephen Hawking presents a global exploration of the scientific breakthroughs that are transforming our lives in the 21st century.

With the help of some of the world’s leading scientific figures, including Sir David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Aarathi Prasad, Lord Winston and Maggie Aderin-Pocock, this five-part series reveals how science is striving for humankind’s next leap forward.

 

In the first episode, entitled Machines, of this exciting new series the team showcases breakthroughs in technology and engineering that are creating a new generation of machines. 

Crash Landing on Mars

Today on Discover Enterprise we explore the scenario of what might happen if the first manned mission to Mars crashes hundreds of miles from the rocket that would take them back home?

The latest instalment of the History Channel’s acclaimed documentary series The Universe explorers this dire possibility.

Could they survive the crash, and travel across the brutal Martian surface to their home ship? We’ll show what the astronauts would have to do to survive dust storms and space radiation, while extracting vital resources like water from the Martian soil itself. It’s a dramatic vision of the very near future, where survival can depend on pre-industrial technology and human ingenuity.

The Universe is available on DVD from Amazon.com and the History Channel’s online store.

The Universe - Crash Landing on Mars 

Star Trek Tech

For forty five years Star Trek has engulfed our imagination and sent us on voyages to brave new worlds across the galaxy.

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present another outstanding episode from the acclaimed documentary series Modern Marvels that focuses on the technology of the iconic science fiction series Star Trek.

Thomas Edison and Electric Lighting

Today on Discovery Enterprise we look at the life and work of the Wizard of Menlo Park in  - Thomas Alva Edison. 

This episode of Modern Marvels looks at Edison’s work on the development of electric lightning.

Observatories - Stonehenge to the Space Telescopes

Hale 200 inch Telescope

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present an exciting episode from the fourth season of the acclaimed documentary series Modern Marvels that looks at the history of Astronomical Observatories, the building of the 200 inch telescope, the establishment of the Palomar Observatory and the work of George Ellery Hale.

Humankind has always been a race of stargazers. Even before the invention of the wheel, primitive cultures built great stone monuments to record the movements of the heavens. But in the last century, a handful of pioneers have learned more about the wonders of the universe than all the dreamers before them could have ever imagined. 

The Riddle of Antimatter

Today on Discovery Enterprise we explore one of the deepest mysteries about the origin of our universe. According to standard theory, the early moments of the universe were marked by the explosive contact between subatomic particles of opposite charge.

Scientists are now focusing their most powerful technologies on an effort to figure out exactly what happened. Our understanding of cosmic history hangs on the question: how did matter as we know it survive? And what happened to its birth twin, its opposite, a mysterious substance known as antimatter?

The Riddle of Antimatter 

How the Solar System was Made

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the third episode of the sixth season of the acclaimed documentary series – The Universe. 

At 4.6 billion years old, the Solar System is our solid, secure home in the Universe. But how did it come to be? 

Large Dangerous Rocket Ships

Today on Discovery Enterprise we join a new breed of rocketeers as they fly their homebuilt Large, Dangerous Rocket Ships.

Human Planet –Arctic: Life in the Deep Freeze

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the third episode of a breathtaking documentary series entitled the Human Planet that explores how humans have learned to adapt in the frigid wastes of the Arctic North.

Human Planet is an eight part British television documentary series produced by the BBC with co-production from Discovery and BBC Worldwide.

The Blue Planet

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the first episode of the acclaimed documentary series The Blue Planet narrated by David Attenborough.

The first instalment of The Blue Planet looks at how ocean life is regulated around the globe by currents and the varying position of the sun. 

Nemesis: The Sun's Evil Twin

Artist's conception of Nemesis as a red dwarf seen from a nearby debris field with the Sun visible in the center.

Today on Discovery Enterprise join the hunt in search of the Sun’s evil twin – Nemesis. The second instalment of the sixth season of the acclaimed documentary series The Universe explorers the possibility that an unseen companion orbits the Sun.

Could there be a monstrous, undiscovered star orbiting our own Sun beyond the Kuiper belt? Could it be scattering killer comets throughout our Solar System like clockwork every 26 million years? 

New scientific surveys are probing the edges of our Solar System, a realm populated by giant worlds and giant icy planetoids in the hunt for Nemesis, the Sun's purported evil twin. 

Catastrophes that Changed the Planets

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the first episode of the sixth season of the acclaimed documentary series – The Universe.

This season opener investigates tumultuous birth and adolescence of our solar system.

Deep Sea Under the Pole

Today on Discovery Enterprise we take another foray into the polar regions of our planet. This time we explore the North Pole with eight intrepid explorers.

Deep Sea Under the Pole is a revolutionary pioneering expedition and an innovative human adventure that combines ski trekking and scuba diving in one of the toughest climates on the planet.

Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure

Today on Discovery Enterprise we explore the frigid wastes of Antarctica with Sir Ernest Shackleton and the intrepid crew of Endurance.

Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure is a documentary film that tells the extraordinary true story of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s now-legendary 1914-1916 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. While never accomplishing its goal of the first crossing of the Antarctic continent, this expedition has become a larger-than-life testament to heroism and human endurance, with all 28 men surviving nearly two years in the barren, frigid Antarctic when their ship, Endurance, was caught in pack ice and eventually crushed.

Weirdest Planets

As of November 12, 2011, 697 extrasolar planets (in 573 planetary systems and 81 multiple-planet systems) have been identified. Today on Discovery Enterprise we are going to explore some these exotic worlds.

Aftermath - World Without Oil

Today on Discovery Enterprise we take a glimpse into our collective future and ask the question – What would our world look like if we ran out of oil?

Doodlebugs - Hitler's Terror Weapon

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present a documentary that examines the German deployment of Hitler’s first ‘Vengeance Weapon’ (Vergeltungswaffen), the V1 nicknamed the Doodlebug by the British.

The V1 and later the V2 rockets marked a stunning new development in German military capabilities. 

Can We Live Forever?

Today on Discover Enterprise we join Neil deGrasse Tyson for a very provocative episode of NOVA scienceNOW which examines whether we can slow down the aging process and increase human life expectancy.

Lost At Sea - The Search for Longitude

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present Lost At Sea - The Search for Longitude an episode of the highly acclaimed PBS science documentary series NOVA.

This instalment of NOVA follows the search for the key to navigating the seas. It is based on the best selling book Longitude by Dava Sobel.

 

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude, begins with the story of Will Andrewes, as he joins a crew to try out and replicate a typical log and line method of the early 1700s to determine the speed and course of a sailing ship. 

How Star Trek and Captain Kirk Changed our World and Cosmos

Today on Discovery Enterprise we join veteran actor William Shatner in a light-hearted look at how the “Star Trek” TV series has changed our world and influenced and inspired today’s technological innovation.

Everything from cell phones to iPads,  medical imaging to personal computers and cutting edge software can trace their origin to that landmark television series. 

And, Star Trek has also proven influential in inspiring today’s scientist to actually explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before by developing new advance spacecraft propulsion systems. 
 

How William Shatner Changed The World is available on DVD from Amazon.com.

How William Shatner Changed The World 

Human Planet - Deserts: Life in the Furnace

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the second episode of a breathtaking documentary series entitled the Human Planet that explores how humans have learned to adapt to life in desert environments.

Human Planet is an eight part British television documentary series produced by the BBC with co-production from Discovery and BBC Worldwide.

We can survive for weeks without food, but only days without water: it is the essential element of life. Yet many millions of us live in parched deserts around the world. In the second episode of Human Planet, we discover how the eternal quest for water brings huge challenges – and ingenious solutions – in the driest places on Earth.

Engineering an Empire - Egypt

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the second episode of the acclaimed documentary series Engineering an Empire that highlights the engineering and architectural achievements of some of history’s greatest civilizations and the empires they created.

Twenty-five hundred years before the reign of Julius Caesar, the ancient Egyptians were deftly harnessing the power of engineering on an unprecedented scale.

Engineering an Empire - Rome

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the first episode of the acclaimed documentary series Engineering an Empire that highlights the engineering and architectural achievements of some of history’s greatest civilizations and the empires they created.

This first instalment of this series chronicles Rome’s spectacular architectural accomplishments from the rise of Julius Caesar in 55 BC to the Empire’s eventual collapse in c. 537 AD.

Look, Up in the Sky

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the story of the most iconic superhero in comic book history.  Look, Up in the Sky its Superman!

H.G. Wells' First Men in the Moon

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present H.G. Wells’ First Men in the Moon.

The First Men in the Moon is a 2010 made for TV drama written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Damon Thomas. It is an adaptation of H. G. Wells’ science fiction novel First Men in the Moon.

The film’s setting begins in July 1969 as ninety year old Julius Bedford tells young Jim the story of how two men made the first journey to the Moon back in 1909.

Voyage to the Center of the Earth

Today we join a group of latter day scientists who are following in the steps of Jules Verne’s Otto Lidenbrock on a Journey to the Center of the Earth.

For centuries we have dreamt of reaching the center of the Earth. Now scientists are uncovering a bizarre and alien world that lies 4,000 miles beneath our feet, unlike anything we know on the surface. It is a planet buried within the planet we know, where storms rage within a sea of white-hot metal and a giant forest of crystals make up a metal core the size of the Moon.

Secrets of the Stone Age 2- Frozen In Time

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the second episode of the acclaimed three-part documentary series "Secrets of the Stone Age" in which anthropologist and author Richard Rudgley sets off on an epic journey back in time and around the world to discover the real roots of civilization.

Neolithic Life

Çatal Höyük

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present a documentary concerning the Neolithic Revolution entitled “Neolithic Life”.

The Neolithic Revolution was the first agricultural revolution. It was the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement. Archaeological data indicates that various forms of plant and animal domestication evolved independently in 6 separate locations worldwide circa 10,000–7000 years BP (8,000–5,000 BC). The earliest known evidence exists in the tropical and subtropical areas of south-western/southern Asia, northern/central Africa and Central America.

Ancient Inventions - War And Conflicts

Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the final episode of Terry Jones’ acclaimed documentary series Ancient Inventions.