TV Schedule for Docubox
Thursday, July 24th TV listings for Docubox
How is life on the city's roofs? This series scales new heights, exploring apartment buildings, towers and monuments to discover a world full of unsuspected treasures : our rooftops. By day and night, the population changes on these heights.
Wow, I Never Knew That! Sweet 'N Low; Riding Shotgun; Potato Chip
How Sweet 'N Low got its name; opening an umbrella in a house; why women's shirts button on the left and men's on the right; what the word "zip" in zip code means; how potato chips were invented out of anger.
Wow, I Never Knew That! Grand Central Terminal; 120 Volts; Nachos
Behind the scenes at Grand Central Terminal; the invention of the corkscrew; dry cleaning; how cats land on their feet after falling.
Travelling by boat bears a priceless sense of freedom and offers endless new vistas to all passengers; boats are an essential tool of daily life whether they carry goods, serve as utilities or services in remote areas.
China Uncovered: A City Transformed
From the skyscrapers of Shanghai to the mountainous peaks of The Last Shangri-La, the breathtaking landscape of China is revealed along with the people that infuse China's everyday life with flavor, passion and prosperity.
China Uncovered: The Need for Speed
A driver of one of the world's fastest trains and two pilots of one of the world's biggest airlines are seeing the effects modernization and globalization have on their journey.
Exploring chemistry in everyday experience, showing the connection to the chemicals and elements of the world and examining the matter that built skies and seas.
Exploring chemistry in everyday experience, showing the connection to the chemicals and elements of the world and examining the matter that built skies and seas.
Animals migrate and fight to survive.
Capture Wild School Introduction
A look at the course history and the lecturers; darting practice and drug theory.
Capture Wild School Giraffe Capture
Students learn to dart a giraffe from a helicopter.
The Early Bird (Catches the Worm)
With predators practically always on the lookout for a meal, prey must constantly avoid being eaten; any defensive adaptation that prey can utilize adds to the chances of survival for its species.
Race of Life Reptillian
A look at the crocodile and its ancestors that roamed Earth millions of years ago; how snakes rely on the heat of the sun to regulate their body temperature.
Speed Kills Savannah
The battlefield of the African savannah; cheetahs, lions, crocodiles and hawks.
Exploring how dogs perceive, understand and experience the world around them; accompanying Daisy, a Jack Russell Terrier, through an average day; exploring the widely assumed facts that may actually be based on faulty and outdated research.
Deep Blue Dive Freediving
The ethos of freediving is simple. The challenge: to dive as deep as possible on just one breath. The drive: to explore the ocean in the purest way. The goal: to make it back to the surface in a coherent state.
Battered by strong winds and seen as a grazing land, Mongolia is the kingdom of steppes; with mineral resources like copper, uranium, coal and rare soil, the economy shows a significant growth rate, but most of the population has unfulfilled needs.
Starting at the beginning of September, the Northern Lights unveil their magical patterns on Iceland's starry skies; at the same time, Icelanders celebrate the Retir, when sheep and horses are herded to the lowlands.
Illustrating the human consequences of global economic inequalities and human rights violations, by focusing on how people encounter these issues on a daily basis; featuring prisons in El Salvador, still birth in South Sudan and much more.
Music Voyager Miami: The Magic City
Miami's electronic dance music scene; Latin and Haitian music with Afrobeta, the Spam Allstars, T-Vice and Locos Por Juana; a tour of the mural district.
Music Voyager Pueblo, CO
Inaiah Lujan, founder of The Haunted Windchimes; a journey across Pueblo, Colo.; Pueblo chili peppers.
Exploring how modern military, police, terrorist and criminal organizations conduct urban combat.
Illustrating the human consequences of global economic inequalities and human rights violations, by focusing on how people encounter these issues on a daily basis; featuring prisons in El Salvador, still birth in South Sudan and much more.
Past Hunters Mill Street Barracks
Based in the heart of St Helens, formally used during the wartime, these barracks promise to deliver untold secrets from ghostly children haunting the base, to a nun still wandering the morgue in the basement.
Past Hunters Knutsford Crown Court Part 1
The team travel to Knutsford and investigate a former crown court where multiple people have been sentenced to death and life in prison.
The R.I.P. Files Haunting Memories
The intuitive ghost hunting team visits a house in Virginia which they believe is a portal for ghosts to travel between our world and theirs.
The R.I.P. Files Haunted Heritage
The team investigates a former fire department and police station that is the home of creepy dolls; they also discover the infamous Moaning Statute that is still on display despite having terrified dozens of people.
Travel Thru History Las Vegas
Exploring Las Vegas' lesser known past.
Africa's unique culture, history, architecture and wildlife.
Journeys in Africa Kilimanjaro -- Roof of Africa
Altitude, cold and wind threaten the crew as they ascend Mount Kilimanjaro -- the highest mountain in Africa.
Around the World in 80 Islands Uninhabited Paradise (Fanjove)
Adventures in Tanzania; on board of a Cessna plane to reach the Songo Songo archipelago; arrive at the final destination: Fan Jove, an island in the middle of nowhere; once inhabited by sea nomads and today the realm of an eco-lodge.
Around the World in 80 Islands Between Nature and Tradition (Greece)
The Mediterranean Sea; the beautiful Navarino Coast; historically important archeological sites and breath-taking beaches; a small eco-friendly paradise and the ideal place for scientific research; Loggerhead sea turtles.
Travel Thru History Nashville
Standing on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry; visiting the home of the 7th US President Andrew Jackson; visiting the largest recreation of the Parthenon outside of Greece.
Travel Thru History Minneapolis
Why they called Minneapolis the `Mill City' when we visit the Mill City Museum.
Outta Town Adventures Palm Springs Area Hiking: Lace Up and Discover 140 Hikes
Hiking a few of the promo trails in Coachella Valley.
Outta Town Adventures Guadalajara: Shake it U p: The Birthplace of Mexico's Mariachi and Tequila
Exploring the birthplace of traditions such as mariachi and tequila.
Show Me Where You Live Sweden, Malmö, the Green Renaissance
Show me where you live is a documentary series that aims to answer the following question: How can human beings claim ownership to a space so that they can live safely within it, function as a society, and above all be in harmony.
Show Me Where You Live Svalbard, Ny-åLesund, a Scientific Village
Show me where you live is a documentary series that aims to answer the following question: How can human beings claim ownership to a space so that they can live safely within it, function as a society, and above all be in harmony.
The New Frontier The Sun
The sun powers the machinery of nature, our weather, and encourages and sustains life.
The New Frontier Exo Planets
With technological advances and improved techniques scientists are discovering more and more worlds every day.
On the Cities' Rooftops Los Angeles
How is life on the city's roofs? This series scales new heights, exploring apartment buildings, towers and monuments to discover a world full of unsuspected treasures : our rooftops. By day and night, the population changes on these heights.
On the Cities' Rooftops Bangkok
How is life on the city's roofs? This series scales new heights, exploring apartment buildings, towers and monuments to discover a world full of unsuspected treasures : our rooftops. By day and night, the population changes on these heights.