TV Schedule for Docubox
Tuesday, April 7th TV listings for Docubox
A look at communities among wild animals, both big and small, and their struggle to survive in hostile environments.
A look at communities among wild animals, both big and small, and their struggle to survive in hostile environments.
Domesticated elephants are released into the wild.
The Polar School of Nomad Children
The Nenets, the last true nomads on earth, on their remote Russian peninsula. Every August, on the Russian polar peninsula of Yamal, children of reindeer shepherds await a helicopter that will bring them back to school after the summer holidays.
Dolphins: Beauty Before Brains?
The complex world of the dolphin; investigating a professor's assertion that these animals are not as smart as previously thought.
Invisible War: Depleted Uranium
Depleted uranium Iraq War shows consequences on Armed Forces and civilians.
Taipan, the Most Dangerous Snake in the World
Professor Brian Grieg Fry catches the most dangerous snake in the world for his research; the taipan is said to be the most venomous in the world; its venom can be used as a medicine and can save lives.
Conservation efforts are undertaken to protect rare Scottish wildcats affectionately known as "Highland Tigers" due to their size and striped fur.
Cuba, decades after the revolution. Reforms are encouraging new business ideas and a large number of licenses have been issued for independent enterprise. The sale of real estate and cars has been legalized.
Paranormal adventures to unexplored places.
Inside one of the fastest growing cities in the world.
Inside one of the fastest growing cities in the world.
With a population of 24,000 and just two cars, Lamu is known as Donkey Capital, for this animal is the main means of transport on this island of Kenya.
Exploring life from ocean depths to mountain peaks; this is a journey around Earth to discover extraordinary beauty of the world, helping to understand how living environments function, and ponder the great challenges that mankind faces.
Colossal experiments to capture a particle of dark matter have had no success to date.
Saint Pierre and Miquelon: Archipelago in Isolation
The environmental activist and passionate naturalist Roger Etcheberry has lived on St. Pierre and Miquelon, a French overseas collectivity, since childhood; he explores the few pristine places on the archipelago and fights for their conservation.
The presenters shed light on some of the deadliest creatures in Africa that have adapted to their conditions with an array of complex weapons for battle.
New Zealand's Race of Excesses
55-year-old Lilac Fley is an athlete and many times winner of New Zealand's Ultramarathon, a tradition that comes from a Maori legend; runners follow the footsteps of a boy in legend who once stole some sweet potatoes from a neighboring tribe.
The international scientific community is called on to take sides and provide solid answers.
Mental health series.
Still today, there are no phones, no Internet and no newspapers in the remote areas of Azerbaijan. The newsman or Ashig has always played an important role in this Eastern culture over the centuries.
The Arctic, a Boy Becomes a Hunter
On the North-Western tip of Greenland, fathers give their boys small dog sledges as soon as they can walk. The toy is meant to teach them hunting, a survival skill for Polar Inuits. Increasingly fewer boys, however, want to become hunters.
Grosslockner King of the High Alps
Following Austrian farmers on the highest mountain of the country, the Glossglockner, from July until Christmas, throughout the changing seasons.
Looking past the rhetoric and emotional arguments to find the real issues involved in hydraulic fracturing, the opportunity, and the potential health and environmental issues that will affect everyone.
A look back at the emergence of Internet freedom defense movements that have sprung up in reaction to growing regulation of the Web by governments and multinationals.
Millions of sea birds nest on the Peruvian coastline. Their excrement, guano, is highly valuable, and is exported as fertilizer all over the world.