The Smithsonian Network Popular Movie

We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Salvatore Vecchio

Documentary which follows crocodile expert Brad Bestelink on a quest to dive with crocodiles without a cage or any other protection.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Brad Bestelink

A documentary which follows two lion brothers as they become rulers of a pride in Botswana after a battle for dominance.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dave Birch

20 years after the TV Mini-Series "Tales of the Serengeti", our crew reunites to truly explore the Serengeti, with no fiction. We almost didn't...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Krass

It lasted only one day on a small piece of land, but the impact the Battle of Waterloo had on history is massive and far-reaching. This is the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nicholas Farrell

In Austria, he was known as an art collector and idealist. In Mexico, he was a colonialist aggressor responsible for thousands of deaths. And in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Sklar

The drama documentary tells the real life story of Samurai woman Takeko Nakano who in 1868 fights for her clans' independence in a final battle that...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shoka Oshima

In the far reaches of the North, wolf and bear come head to head. Winter has been long. The melting ice reveal scattered carcasses in the Swamp: a...

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A high-tech autopsy on a Nile crocodile unlocks secrets behind its hunting prowess.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gregory Erickson

Herman Melville's epic ocean adventure "Moby Dick" is an American masterpiece. But was this stirring tale of violence and revenge simply an allegory,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ben Miles

Ascension Island, a remote Mid-Atlantic outpost famous for its big game fishing, is under siege. Tiger sharks, hammerheads, even great whites, lured...

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Even 2,000 years after his death, General Hannibal's battle strategies are still studied today. But of all his military feats, perhaps his greatest...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: J.V. Martin

In China's Valley of the Kings, there stands a tall, carved stone. It honors the resting place of a woman named Wu Zetian, who rose from concubine to...

Genre: History

Cast: Eric Meyers

In 1960, a lone assassin planned a deadly attempt on the life of President-Elect John F Kennedy. With a Buick packed with dynamite, nothing was going...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter McHugh

Enter the harsh and unforgiving Kalahari and follow a lion pride attempt to save their threatened bloodline.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nigel Barber

Smithsonian Institution scientists race against time to save endangered frogs from a deadly fungus that is ravaging amphibians worldwide.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Allen Farmer

Honeybees are in crisis – but there is hope. Biologists are studying the estimated 20.000 bee species in the world to look for viable...

Genre: Documentary

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Roughly 20 miles off the coast of west Africa, sits a volcanic relic now completely blanketed in equatorial rainforest: the island of Bioko. It's...

Genre: Documentary

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Genre: Documentary

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Spend three years in China's remote and inhospitable Tibetan Plateau, home to nearly all the world's snow leopards.

Genre: Documentary

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