Himalayas Science Of The Mind

Buddhism asks the fundamental question: What is life and what is the point of existence? Wade Davis goes on an anthropological and spiritual journey into the Himalayas of Nepal to learn the deepest lesson of Buddhist practice.

46 min 18 sec

Special forces Royal Dutch Marines

50 min 13 sec

The Rivals of Jesus

NGC examines those competing faiths and rival prophets that challenged early Christianity, such “lost” Messiahs as Mithras, Simon Magus, and Apollonius of Tyana. Some of these Messiahs and their faiths were once more popular than Christianity but their beliefs and practices were borrowed from the growing Christian movement. With historical re-enactments and interviews with Biblical scholars, theologians and historians, Rivals of Jesus presents a lost chapter of religious history.

46 min 58 sec

The Moon

Moon documentary

57 min 52 sec

The Six Billion Dollar Experiment

In the coming months the most complex scientific instrument ever built will be switched on. The Large Hadron Collider promises to recreate  the conditions right after the Big Bang. By revisiting the beginning of time, scientists hope to unravel some of the deepest secrets of our Universe.Within these first few moments the building blocks of the Universe were created. The search for these fundamental particles has occupied scientists for decades but there remains one particle that has stubbornly refused to appear in any experiment. The Higgs Boson is so crucial to our understanding of the Universe that it has been dubbed the God particle. It explains how fundamental particles acquire mass, or as one scientist plainly states: “It is what makes stuff stuff

48 min 52 sec