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- A weekly documentary in which two Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk urban legends by directly testing them.
- Centers on the Shannons, an ordinary family from 2149 when the planet is dying, who are transported back 85 million years to prehistoric Earth where they join Terra Nova, a colony of humans with a second chance to build a civilization.
- British comedy duo Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their simple and closed-minded friend Karl Pilkington on a trip around the world to experience a variety of people and cultures.
- A users guide to the cosmos from the big bang to galaxies, stars, planets and moons. Where did it all come from and how does it all fit together. A primer for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered.
- Television series that documents how various everyday products are made.
- The world's most incredible engineering projects are revisited to uncover why places full of mysteries and untold secrets are now abandoned ruins.
- Hosted by Morgan Freeman, Through the Wormhole will explore the deepest mysteries of existence - the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity. What are we made of? What was there before the beginning? Are we really alone? Is there a creator? These questions have been pondered by the most exquisite minds of the human race.
- Documentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.
- BattleBots is a robot combat competition that takes place in an elimination style tournament. Designers build, operate and battle their destructive robots until a champion is crowned.
- Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challenger's 1986 disintegration.
- No food, no shelter, no fresh water - one man alone in the wild for seven days with only his wits and stamina to sustain him.
- Exploration of great archaeological discoveries, fascinating ancient civilizations, forgotten architectural marvels and tantalizing historical mysteries.
- The nation's most talented kids have a chance to show off their amazing ingenuity and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) skills.
- Follows intelligence experts who offer an look behind the CIA's most secretive operations throughout history and the devices that made them possible.
- Karl is faced with the different aspects of life by travelling around the world and discovering how different people face life's challenges.
- New York City's Obscura Antiques & Oddities ain't your grandmother's antique shop unless your grandmother is an eccentric. Oddities follows this unique store as it deals in the strange and the bizarre, item-wise and client-wise.
- Looking at raw footage and firsthand accounts of unexplained phenomena, join renowned scientists and eyewitnesses.
- In Strange Evidence, a team of experts analyses footage that seems to defy explanation, including levitating cars on a freeway, a statue that appears to move on its own, and a spontaneous burst of flames.
- Contestants are pitted in a race to the finish against an expert wilderness tracker.
- They are some of the biggest and busiest super systems ever built and Nerve Center offers unprecedented access to the people and places that keep them ticking 24/7. Every episode is filled with stats, stakes and stories of how complex mechanisms work, as seen through the experiences of the front line workers. Go inside the hidden places that keep these super systems operating around the clock.
- Jeff Goldblum, the star of Jurassic Park (1993), narrates this five-part documentary about the dinosaurs of North and South America, Europe, Africa and Australia and Antarctica.
- The great follow-up to 'Walking with Dinosaurs' and 'Walking with Beasts', presented by Professor Robert Winston, explains the story of human evolution.
- A four-episode animated series charting the adventures of four dinosaurs - each on a different continent in the prehistoric world: a lone female Velociraptor in Asia; a young male Daspletosaurus in North America; a South American female Saltasaur; and a young adult Pyroraptor in Europe. Narrated by Christian Slater and hosted by paleontologist Scott Sampson.
- A series that explores engineering mega projects worldwide, and relates them back to the original scientific discoveries that made these modern day projects possible.
- Every year, the government funds clandestine programs collectively called the black budget. But what's exactly behind these secretive missions operating around the globe?
- Host Adam Savage collaborates with notable experts to build some of the most ambitious projects in his career.
- A reality competition show that aims to find the next stars to continue the popular MythBusters (2003) series.
- Delves into the most unusual research ever conducted, including attempts to crossbreed humans and apes, actual zombie investigations and head transplantation studies. Cutting-edge CGI recreations enable viewers to witness the pivotal moments when brilliant minds face controversy or ethical crossroads on the fringes of science.
- With access to all phases of design and a large cast of experts, some of the great failures of engineering history are uncovered.
- The search follows explorer Steve Elkins and a team of archaeologists, anthropologists, scientists and filmmakers in this true-life adventure, to search one of the last unexplored places on Earth for a lost Maya city.
- Turning over every stone, testing evidence, and applies scientific reasoning to the most popular conspiracies.
- Scientist explore some of Earth's phenomenons.
- In this spellbinding series Professor Brian Cox visits the most extreme locations on Earth to explain how the laws of physics carved natural wonders across the solar system.
- Explore a hypothetical scenario of human's first-contact with alien intelligence. Scientists hypothesize how an encounter might unfold, what technologies might enable our communication and the possible nature of their intentions.
- The science-fiction imaginings of the writers of the past are now becoming the science realities of our day.
- Each episode counts down 20 popular Internet videos and explains the science behind them.
- Richard Hammond travels around the world exploring how engineers have designed and built some of the planet's largest structures and machines.
- The team investigates a variety of mysteries and attempts to determine whether these stories of strange mishaps are purely coincidence, or if there's an explanation - scientific or supernatural - hidden beneath the surface.
- Led by archaeologist Ciprian Ardlean, this groundbreaking special unearths fresh archaeology that is transforming the understanding of when and who the earliest humans traveled to the Americas.
- The life of American dinosaurs is seen in amazing detail. The Feathered Dromeosaurs (Raptors) debut on this film along with the bizarre Therizinosaur. Each story is compelling and well-written. From a Coelophysis exploring the world around him to a teenage Tyrannosaurus learning from his mother how to hunt and even a love story between two Stegosaurus. This film also shows audiences real fossil finds and museum displays to show the researcher's work. This is educational, thrilling, and is a well-executed Discovery Channel response to BBC's ground-breaking "Walking with Dinosaurs" miniseries.
- (Toronto, ON - February 27, 2023) - With the recent shootdowns of mystery crafts over American and Canadian airspace, the mania for extraterrestrials and Unidentified Flying Objects has been reignited, with everyone asking: what's going on up there? Cottage Life's latest original series Mission Unexplained hopes to provide some answers with accounts from Military Police Officers, Staff Sergeants, US Marines, Lance Corporals, US Air Force medics and more; who have come forward to share the terrifying, unexplained events they witnessed on the front lines. A monumental moment in the series occurs when the highest-ranked military official to ever share his story, Air Force veteran Gary Kent Carroll, breaks his silence after 55 years of secrecy. The eyewitnesses in this series felt compelled to speak up and change the stigma surrounding U.F.O.s due to the recent declassification of military records. From mystifying lights to vanishing civilians, frightful apparitions to mechanical mysteries, the series provides a front row seat to the action as veterans recount their harrowing experiences. The world broadcast premiere of Mission Unexplained airs on Cottage Life on March 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT during the channel's eight-week nationwide free preview event, happening now until April 30.
- A documentary series following various prehistoric creatures, depicting their way of lives as well as their lust for survival.
- A mysterious informant investigates each disaster-in-the-making via a wide range of experts who've studied some of science's most unbelievable wonders.
- It follows a joint team of investigators from the US and UK as they make new discoveries and piece together clues to reveal what really happened to the settlers of The Colony of Roanoke.
- Physicist and professor Brian Cox travels across the globe to uncover the secrets of the most extraordinary phenomenon in the universe: life.
- A documentary on the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait of Indonesia, bringing tsunamis, rains of pumice and ash, and a deadly flow of hot steam, sulfuric acid, and ash. More than 36,000 died; survivors had bad burns.
- Using cutting-edge technologies such as ground penetrating radar (GPR), LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), and 3-D imaging, scientists research fascinating underworlds of secret tunnel networks, ancient structures, and bizarre geological occurrences that offer glimpses into our history.
- Discussion with architects, historians, engineers, and builders to find out if we could use modern day innovations to recreate these iconic masterpieces, or if fundamental techniques have been lost to time.
- Mega Machines unlocks the secrets of iconic machines, such as roller coasters, bullet trains, and cargo planes. This series goes inside the machines, revealing how they were built, how they work, and more.