Nick Baker is in the Appalachian mountains of the USA on the hunt for the hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) - a rare giant salamander with a sinister reputation and an uncertain future.
Descent Into the Ice
The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off
Cracking the Maya Code
The story of American missionary workers Martin and Gracia Burnham, who were abducted from a beach resort in the Philippines by Islamic militants
Documentary tracing the stories of two men backpacking independently through India in 1994. British-Australian Rhys Partridge and American Bela Nuss were taken within weeks of each other by Islamic fundamentalists and were threatened with beheading during their ordeal.
This is an awesome documentary......If you've seen the 1992 film Alive, you'll know the story of the 1972 Andes flight disaster. But no movie could match this thrilling, profound documentary, in which the survivors tell their own tale.The survivors of this famous plane crash relive their experiences 30 years later.
A close-up look at the world of spiders, including the trapdoor spider, and the red-back spider.
History Channel - Modern Marvels - Deadliest Weapons
Hornets From Hell
When 45-year-old yachtsman Donald MacNeil had a call from two acquaintances offering him a month's freelance teaching in the Mediterranean he couldn't believe his luck. But as the month drew to an end, Donald's suspicions that this trip was not all that it seemed became terrifyingly real. Threatening that there was nowhere to hide should he turn on them, Donald was given a new course - Venezuela, to collect £30 million pounds worth of cocaine. Donald's good fortune was about to become a nightmare that would change his life forever.
The story of Camilla Carr and Jonathan James, a pair of British aid workers working in Chechnya to set up a rehabilitation clinic for children traumatised by war. Taken hostage by guerrillas fighters, the couple endured a 14-month incarceration, and were subjected to intense emotional and physical torture.
When Mark Knowles ran into trouble in Taiwan, he thought his only way out was to smuggle cocaine. After swallowing half a kilo inside condoms, he was just hours from death.
Lucy Baker and Scott Campbell were working little and playing hard in Ibiza for the summer season. Out of luck and out of money, the offer of the holiday of a lifetime and a healthy reward seemed just too good to be true… All they had to do was bring back a little cannabis into Amsterdam.
This is the well-known story of Sandra Gregory, author of 'Forget you have a daughter'. At 25, Sandra left a happy middle class upbringing to go on holiday to Thailand for a few months. When Sandra fell ill she found herself without any money - not even enough fare for the flight home. Then she met Robert Locke who seemed to offer her a way out of her predicament. Robert offered to pay her £1000 plus a flight to Tokyo if she would smuggle into Japan his personal heroin stash...
Documentary series profiling true-life stories of abductions abroad. In 1999, a group of 14 tourists and their guide were kidnapped by guerillas while on safari in Uganda. The brutal kidnappers were part of a Hutu death squad fleeing from the Rwandan civil war. The tourists found themselves fighting for survival as they were marched through impenetrable jungle to the Congolese border, where they attempted to negotiate their release.
Drama-documentary series telling the gripping real-life stories of travellers who find themselves incarcerated overseas. American martial-arts teacher and bike enthusiast Glen Heggstad recounts his experience of being kidnapped by rebels in Colombia. Forced to make long marches through the jungle and subjected to constant interrogations, Glen hoped to secure his release by claiming he was seriously ill.
Drama-documentary series telling the gripping real-life stories of young travellers who find themselves incarcerated overseas. This programme focuses on two American teenagers who were sentenced to ten years in a Peruvian prison after being caught attempting to smuggle cocaine back into the United States.
Drama-doc series telling the gripping real-life stories of young travellers who find themselves incarcerated overseas. This program tells the cautionary tale of Leicester teenagers Jim and Paul, who ended up in a Venezuelan prison for smuggling drugs. They spent four and a half years in a living nightmare before seizing the opportunity to escape.
Drama-documentary series telling the gripping real-life stories of young travellers who find themselves incarcerated overseas. Piers Hernu's thirst for adventure landed him in a Nepalese jail for gold smuggling. After being convinced to carry a gold-filled waistcoat through customs, Piers found himself in deep trouble when his illegal load was found by a metal detector. Facing four years in jail, Piers launched a campaign to convince the King of Nepal to pardon him.
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