List of programs broadcast by Discovery Channel
Encyclopedia
This is a list of television programs formerly or currently broadcast by the Discovery Channel
.
Swamp Brothers
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...
.
A
- Adrenaline Rush Hour
- A HauntingA HauntingA Haunting is an American paranormal docudrama anthology television series that originally aired from October 28, 2005 to November 9, 2007 on the Discovery Channel. The program features narrations, interviews, and dramatic re-enactments based on various accounts of paranormal experiences at...
- Aircrash ConfidentialAircrash ConfidentialAircrash Confidential or Air Crash Confidential was a programme produced by WMR Productions and IMG Entertainment investigating air-disasters from around the world. Aircrash Confidential airs on Discovery Channel UK on a weekly-nightly basis and it also airs in Australia on Discovery Australia...
- Air Crash Investigation
- After the Climb
- The Alaska ExperimentThe Alaska ExperimentOut of the Wild is a Discovery Channel reality television series. The first and second seasons followed volunteers from urbanized backgrounds as they try to endure life in the back-country of Alaska during the fall and winter...
- Alien PlanetAlien PlanetAlien Planet is a 94-minute docufiction, originally airing on the Discovery Channel, about two internationally built robot probes searching for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV. It was based on the book Expedition, by sci-fi/fantasy artist and writer Wayne Douglas Barlowe, who was also...
- American CasinoAmerican CasinoAmerican Casino is an American reality television series which tracks the daily events of the managers and employees of the Green Valley Ranch Casino resort in Henderson, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas. The show originally aired on the Discovery Channel, but in June 2005, it was moved to the Travel...
- American ChopperAmerican ChopperAmerican Chopper is a reality television series that airs on Discovery Channel, produced by Pilgrim Films & Television. The series centers on Paul Teutul, Sr. and his son Paul Teutul, Jr. , who manufacture custom motorcycles. Orange County Choppers is in Newburgh, New York...
- American Hot RodAmerican Hot RodAmerican Hot Rod is a reality television series that originally aired between 2004 and 2008 on The Learning Channel and Discovery Channel. The show documented the crew at Boyd Coddington's car shop and their personal struggles to build hot rods and custom vehicles under extremely tight deadlines....
- Ancient Civilizations
- Animal Face-OffAnimal Face-OffAnimal Face-Off is a television program that aired on Discovery Channel and Animal Planet in 2004.-Synopsis:This program centers on a hypothetical battle between two animals that could possibly meet in the wild, or in some cases, have been compared to each other by scientists. CGI replicas and...
- Animal Games
- Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious UniverseArthur C. Clarke's Mysterious UniverseArthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe was a popular eighteen part television series looking at unexplained phenomena across the universe. It was first broadcast in 1994 in the UK by independent television network ITV. It was the sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World and Arthur C...
- Assignment Discovery
- A World Away
- AtlasDiscovery AtlasDiscovery Atlas is a documentary television series on the Discovery Channel and Discovery HD Theater which focuses on the cultural, sociological, and natural aspects of various countries by exploring their different peoples, traditions, and lands. The documentary follows the lives and individual...
- Atlas 4D
- Auction KingsAuction KingsAuction Kings is a reality television series produced by Authentic Entertainment for the Discovery Channel. The series premiered on October 26, 2010 and features the auction house Gallery 63 in Sandy Springs, Georgia, located on Roswell Road immediately north of the Atlanta city limit...
B
- Bad Universe
- BattlefieldBattlefield (documentary series)Battlefield is a documentary series initially shown in 1994 that explores the most important battles fought primarily during the Second World War but also the Vietnam War...
- The Battle for RomeAncient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an EmpireAncient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire is a 2006 BBC One docudrama series, with each episode looking at a different key turning point in the history of the Roman Empire.-Production:...
(2006) - Beachbody
- Before the Dinosaurs
- Beyond 2000
- Beyond TomorrowBeyond Tomorrow (TV series)Beyond Tomorrow is an Australian television series produced by Beyond Television Productions. It began airing in 1981 as Towards 2000, then in 1985 was renamed Beyond 2000, a name the show kept until its cancellation in 1999...
- Big!Big!Big! is a TV series in which an episode consists of a team of engineers manufacturing the world's biggest items for the sake of setting world records.The devices have to function to qualify.The series originally aired on Discovery Channel in...
- Biker Build-OffBiker Build-OffBiker Build-Off is a reality television series for the Discovery Channel. Created and narrated by Thom Beers, the series was originally conceived as a single special called The Great Biker Build-Off...
- Billion Dollar SecretBillion Dollar SecretBillion Dollar Secret is a 1999 TLC Video that was distributed by Discovery Channel Video. This film, written and narrated by Nick Cook, investigates military "black projects" in the United States as a possible explanation for many UFO sightings. The following refers to the approximately one-hour...
- Bizarre Dinosaurs
- The Blue PlanetThe Blue PlanetThe Blue Planet is a BBC nature documentary series narrated by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 12 September 2001.Described as "the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world's oceans", each of the eight 50-minute episodes examines a different aspect of...
- Blueprint for DisasterBlueprint for DisasterBlueprint for Disaster is a Canadian documentary television series that premiered in 2004 on Discovery Channel Canada. Produced by Temple Street Productions, the program investigates why and how various disasters have happened. Toronto-based Voice Artist Adrian Bell provided the narration for the...
- Bone DetectivesBone DetectivesBone Detectives is a television series that made its debut on The Discovery Channel on Saturday December 29, 2007, at 10 P.M. Eastern time. Afterward, its regular timeslot became Mondays at 10 P.M., starting on January 14, 2008. It is also shown on Discovery Channel Fridays at 9 P.M...
- BrainiacBrainiac: Science AbuseBrainiac: Science Abuse is a British entertainment TV show with a science motif. Numerous experiments are carried out in each show, often to verify whether common conceptions are true or simply to create impressive explosions...
- Breakout
- Brew MastersBrew MastersBrew Masters is a television series that was run weekly on Discovery Channel starting on Sunday, November 21, 2010. The show focused on Sam Calagione, the founder and head of Dogfish Head Brewery, and his staff as they scoured the world for new, ancient, and imaginative inspirations for...
- Building the Future
- Build It Bigger
- Built for Champions
C
- Canada's Worst DriverCanada's Worst DriverCanada's Worst Driver , is a reality television series first aired on Discovery Channel Canada, based on the UK Channel 4 Television Corporation's Britain's Worst Driver...
- Canada's Worst HandymanCanada's Worst HandymanCanada's Worst Handyman is the 2006 season of the reality television series Canada's Worst Handyman airing on Discovery Channel Canada, produced by Proper Television...
- Cash CabCash CabCash Cab is a TV game show devised by Adam Wood that originated in the United Kingdom and has been licensed to television networks in numerous other countries...
- Century of Warfare
- Chop Shop London
- Choppers
- The ColonyThe Colony (TV series)The Colony is a reality television program. The first season was filmed in an industrial area bordering the Los Angeles River on the edge of downtown Los Angeles, and follows ten cast members in an environment that simulates life after a global catastrophe. The series first aired on the Discovery...
- Connect
- Crash of the Century
- Crocodile HunterCrocodile HunterCrocodile Hunter may refer to:*Steve Irwin , star of The Crocodile Hunter*Malcolm Douglas , Australian wildlife documentary film maker and crocodile hunter*The Crocodile Hunter, TV nature program...
D
- Daily Planet
- Dangerman (Geoff Mackley)
- Darcy's Wild LifeDarcy's Wild LifeDarcy's Wild Life is an American-Canadian television series, filmed during 2004-2006, and broadcast on Discovery Kids and the Family Channel. The show revolves around Darcy Fields , the daughter of an eccentric actress who decides to move away from Malibu to raise her daughter in a more normal...
(kids) - Dark Fellowships: The Vril
- Deadliest CatchDeadliest CatchDeadliest Catch is a documentary/reality television series produced by Original Productions for the Discovery Channel. It portrays the real life events aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and C. opilio crab fishing seasons.The Aleutian Islands port of Dutch Harbor,...
- Deadly WomenDeadly WomenDeadly Women is a television series first aired in 2005 on the Discovery Channel, focusing on female killers. It was originally a mini-series consisting of three episodes: "Obsession," "Greed" and "Revenge". After a 2 year hiatus, the show resumed production in 2008 and began airing on the...
- Dead Men's Tales
- Deception with Keith Barry
- Decoding Disaster
- Designer GuysDesigner GuysDesigner Guys is a design show on HGTV starring Matt Davis, Allen Chan, and Anwar Mukhayesh. The show currently airs in five countries including New Zealand, South Africa, Israel, the United States and Canada...
- Destroyed in SecondsDestroyed In SecondsDestroyed in Seconds is a half-hour American television series that airs on Discovery Channel. Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, etc....
- The Detonators (television series)
- Diagnosis: UnknownDiagnosis: UnknownDiagnosis: Unknown is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from July 5 to September 20, 1960. Produced by Bob Banner, the series aired as a summer replacement for The Garry Moore Show, a variety program.-Synopsis:...
- Die Ludolfs – 4 Brüder auf’m SchrottplatzDie Ludolfs – 4 Brüder auf’m SchrottplatzDie Ludolfs – 4 Brüder auf’m Schrottplatz is a docu-soap by the German television channel DMAX. It is about the four brothers Uwe , Horst-Günter , Peter and Manfred "Manni" Ludolf.Günter Ludolf died on January 31, 2011...
- Dinosaur Planet
- Dinosaur RevolutionDinosaur RevolutionDinosaur Revolution is a four-part American nature documentary produced by Creative Differences, although it was believed to be a Pixar project when it was first revealed to the public due to a press release saying so. The first two episodes aired on Discovery Channel on September 4, 2011. The...
- Dirty JobsDirty JobsDirty Jobs is a program on the Discovery Channel, produced by Pilgrim Films & Television, in which host Mike Rowe is shown performing difficult, strange, disgusting, or messy occupational duties alongside the typical employees. The show premiered with two pilot episodes in November 2003...
- Disaster Detective
- Discovery AtlasDiscovery AtlasDiscovery Atlas is a documentary television series on the Discovery Channel and Discovery HD Theater which focuses on the cultural, sociological, and natural aspects of various countries by exploring their different peoples, traditions, and lands. The documentary follows the lives and individual...
- Discovery Magazine
- Discovery News
- Discovery Profile
- Discovery Sport
- Discovery Sunday
- Doctorology
- Doing DaVinciDoing DaVinciDoing DaVinci was a popular science television program originally aired on the Discovery Channel in which the hosts attempted to create many of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions...
- Double Agents
- Download The True Story of the InternetDownload The True Story of the InternetDownload: The True Story of the Internet is documentary television series about Internet history. It is aired on Science Channel at US and Discovery Channel for other countries. It originally aired on March 3, 2008. The show was hosted by John Heilemann....
- Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real
- Dual SurvivalDual SurvivalDual Survival is a documentary television series on the Discovery Channel produced by Original Media. The program follows two survivalists showcasing contrasting wilderness survival skills: Cody Lundin, a minimalist and primitive skills expert, and Dave Canterbury, a military-style survival expert...
E
- Eco-ChallengeEco-ChallengeEco-Challenge: The Expedition Race is a multi-day expedition length adventure race in which teams of four compete. It aired from April 1995 to April 2002....
(2001) - Eco-Tech (2007)
- End DayEnd DayEnd Day is a 2005 docu-drama produced by the BBC and aired on the National Geographic Channel, on the TV series, National Geographic Channel Presents, that depicts various doomsday scenarios. The documentary follows the fictional scientist Dr...
- EnduranceEndurance (TV series)Endurance is an American reality television children's program, currently shown on the Discovery Kids cable network in the United States and also on networks in other countries. The show's format is somewhat similar to the CBS television series Survivor, though with a teenaged cast...
- Engineering Volcanoes
- EquinoxEquinox (television)Equinox was a long-running Channel 4 popular science and documentary programme. The series ran from 1986 to 2001, originally aired on a weekly basis....
- Everest: Beyond the LimitEverest: Beyond the LimitEverest: Beyond the Limit is a Discovery Channel reality television series about yearly attempts to summit Mount Everest organized and led by New Zealander Russell Brice.-Plot summary:...
- Everything You Need To Know
- Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science
- Expedition Borneo
- Explosions Gone Wrong
- Extreme EngineeringExtreme EngineeringExtreme Engineering is a documentary television series that airs on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. The program features futuristic and ongoing engineering projects. As of April 2011, the show is airing its ninth season. Danny Forster first hosted the series in season 4 and has been...
- Extreme MachinesExtreme Machines-Premise:The program feature some of the largest created man-made machines on earth. Like a container ship, Excavators, and Cranes.As taken from the official Canadian webpage for Discovery Channel:...
- Extreme Peril
- Extreme SurvivalExtreme SurvivalExtreme Survival is a survival television series hosted by Ray Mears. The series airs on the BBC in United Kingdom, it is also shown on Discovery Channel in the United States, Canada, India, Italy, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and Russia, where he...
F
- The FBI FilesThe FBI FilesThe FBI Files is an American television docudrama series that originally ran from 1998 to 2006. It was carried by the Discovery Channel cable network and produced by New Dominion Pictures of Suffolk, Virginia...
- Fearless PlanetFearless PlanetFearless Planet was a program broadcast by The Discovery Channel. It was hosted by Will Gadd. The series was a six-episode documentary, airing weekly on Sundays from November 11 to December 16, 2007, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The program was about the geology of the Earth and how some natural structures...
- The Feuding Tombs of Christopher Columbus
- Fields of Armor
- Fight or DieFight or DieFight or Die is a television show produced for the Discovery Channel.-Plot summary:The first episode, Valley of Death, tells the real-life story of a group of American soldiers whose lives were made famous in Randall Wallace's motion picture We Were Soldiers starring Mel Gibson...
- Fight QuestFight QuestFight Quest was a television show on the Discovery Channel that had a preview episode air on December 28, 2007 and began airing weekly on January 4, 2008...
- The Final 24
- Fireballs from Space
- Firehouse USA: BostonFirehouse USA: BostonFirehouse USA: Boston was a 2005 TV series on Discovery Channel. The series followed Engine 37 & Ladder 26 stationed out of Huntington Ave, Boston, Mass. Narrator was Mikey Kelley, executive producer was Mark Kadin. The series premiered Sept 20th, 2005 and was canceled later that year...
- Firepower
- Flying Heavy MetalFlying Heavy MetalFlying Heavy Metal was a 5-part British television series produced by Ricochet and broadcast in the UK and Europe on the Discovery Channel and subsequently repeated on Discovery Wings in the UK...
- Forensic Detectives
- Frontiers of Construction
- Frontiers of Flight
- Full Force NatureFull Force NatureFull Force Nature is a television series that premiered on January 15, 2006 on The Weather Channel. It showcases some of the most unbelievable weather moments caught on tape.-Plot:Full Force Nature focuses on extreme weather and weird weather on tape....
- Full Metal ChallengeFull Metal ChallengeFull Metal Challenge was a television series made by RDF Media for Channel 4 in the UK and the Learning Channel in the USA. Hosted by series creator Cathy Rogers and Henry Rollins, the show was very similar to Rogers' last show, Scrapheap Challenge...
- FutureCar
- The Future Is WildThe Future is WildThe Future Is Wild was a 2002 seven-part documentary television miniseries. Based on research and interviews with several scientists, the miniseries shows how life could evolve in the future if Homo sapiens became extinct; the Discovery Channel broadcast changed this outlook by stating the human...
- Futureweapons
G
- Garage Takeover
- GhosthuntersGhosthuntersGhosthunters was a British paranormal documentary television series that originally aired from 1996 to 1997 on the Discovery Channel. The four-season program was produced by Inca Productions of Covent Garden, London , hosted by Ian Cashmore, and narrated by William Woollard...
- Ghost LabGhost LabGhost Lab is a weekly American paranormal documentary television series that premiered on October 6, 2009 on the Discovery Channel. Produced by Paper Route Productions and Go Go Luckey Entertainment, the program is narrated by Mike Rowe...
- Giant Squid: Caught On Camera
- Going TribalTribe (TV series)Tribe is a documentary television series co-produced by the BBC and the Discovery Channel, and hosted by former British Royal Marine Bruce Parry....
- Gold Rush
- Gold Star Racing
- Grand DesignsGrand DesignsGrand Designs is a British television series produced by Talkback Thames and broadcast on Channel 4 which features unusual and often elaborate architectural home-building projects....
- The Great Biker Build Off
- Green Village
- Guinea Pig
- Gutbusters
H
- Hazard Pay
- Hijack El Al Flight 426
- The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions
- Hogs Gone Wild
- How Do They Do It?How Do They Do It?How Do They Do It? is a television series produced by Wag TV for Discovery Channel. Each programme explores how 2 or 3 ordinary objects are made and used...
- How It's MadeHow It's MadeHow It's Made is a documentary television series that premiered in 2001 on Science in the U.S., and Discovery Channel Canada in Canada. The program is produced in the Canadian province of Quebec by Productions MAJ, Inc...
- How to SurviveHow to SurviveHow to Survive is a survival television series that premiered on the Discovery Channel.-External links:*...
- Howe & Howe TechHowe & Howe TechHowe & Howe Tech is a reality television series produced by Authentic Entertainment for the Discovery Channel. It documents the day-to-day activities of identical twin brothers Michael "Mike" and Geoffrey "Geoff" Howe, who operate a small business out of Waterboro, Maine called Howe & Howe...
- Huge Moves
I
- Iditarod: Toughest Race on Earth
- In the Wild with Harry Butler
- Incredible India!
- India with Sanjeev BhaskarIndia with Sanjeev BhaskarIndia with Sanjeev Bhaskar is a four part documentary from the BBC in which Sanjeev Bhaskar travels to India with director Deep Sehgal. The documentary was created as part of the BBC's series of programmes on the 60th anniversary of the independence of India and Pakistan.-International...
- Inside Planet Earth
- Instinto AsesinoInstinto AsesinoInstinto Asesino is a series produced by Endemol Argentina for the Discovery Channel. Each episode portrays a notorious serial killer case occurred in a country from Latin America...
- Interior Motives
- Into Alaska with Jeff Corwin
- Into the Lion's DenInto the Lion's DenInto the Lion's Den is a Discovery Channel documentary about zoologist and big cat trainer Dave Salmoni, armed only with a camera on a pole, carefully conditioning a wild pride of lions to accept his presence....
- Into the Unknown with Josh BernsteinInto the Unknown with Josh BernsteinInto the Unknown with Josh Bernstein is a 2008 documentary television series hosted by American explorer Josh Bernstein and written by Bernadette McDaid. The series was created for Discovery Channel...
- Into the Universe with Stephen HawkingInto The Universe with Stephen HawkingInto the Universe with Stephen Hawking is a 2010 science documentary television mini-series written by British physicist Stephen Hawking. The series was created for Discovery Channel by Darlow Smithson Productions and features computer generated imagery of the universe created by Red Vision...
- Invention
- Is BornIs BornThe Is Born collection of Television series produced for the Discovery Channel in the UK, presented by Mark Evans.Each series follows Mark Evans through either the building or restoring of a vehicle- Cars :...
- Is It Possible?Is It Possible?Is It Possible? is a three-episode documentary television series on the Discovery Channel that features people, animals, technology, and other things that are real, but so unusual and surprising that they seem impossible....
- I Shouldn't Be AliveI Shouldn't Be AliveI Shouldn't Be Alive is a documentary television series that airs on multiple networks in the United States, Canada, the U.K., Australia, India and Pakistan...
- It Takes a Thief
- I, VIDEOGAME
- I Was BittenI was bittenI Was Bitten is a television program which airs on the Animal Planet in the US and the Discovery Channel in the UK.-Format:The show tells stories of people who were previously bitten by deadly animals. Viewers discover the science behind the bites and see the devastating effects of venom on the...
J
- JFK: The End Of Camelot
- Jon and Kate Plus 8Jon & Kate Plus 8Jon & Kate Plus 8, named Kate Plus 8 from the sixth season on, is an American reality television series airing on TLC. It is produced by Figure 8 Films about the Gosselin family, consisting of parents Jon and Kate and their eight children: fraternal twins and sextuplets...
- Junkyard Wars
- Justice Files
L
- Last Day of the DinosaursThe Last Day of the DinosaursLast Day of the Dinosaurs is a 2010 Discovery Channel television documentary about the extinction of the dinosaurs. It portrays the Alvarez hypothesis as the cause of extinction.-Production:...
- Last One Standing
- Licence to DrillLicence to DrillLicence to Drill is a documentary television series produced by the Montreal based Pixcom for Discovery Channel Canada. The series documents the activities of two teams of Natural Gas drillers in the Canadian North in the Winter of 2008.- Format :...
- Life
- Little Parents, Big CharlieLittle Parents, Big CharlieLittle Parents, Big Charlie is a reality television series starring Craig and Becky Hennon on TLC and the Discovery Health Channels. The show is produced by Kirschenbaum Productions and was first broadcast on March 30, 2010...
- Lobster WarsLobster WarsLobster Wars, also known as Deadliest Catch: Lobstermen in the United Kingdom, is a documentary television series on the Discovery Channel. It documents men and one woman fishing for lobsters off the Georges Bank near the northeastern coast of North America...
- Lost Animals of the 20th CenturyLost Animals of the 20th CenturyLost Animals of the 20th Century is a documentary series shown in Discovery Channel in the 1990s. It features animals that have become extinct throughout the 20th century. Animals are adjudged as such when the last specimen of the species dies sometime from 1901 to 2000...
- The Lost Tomb of JesusThe Lost Tomb of JesusThe Lost Tomb of Jesus is a documentary co-produced and first broadcast on the Discovery Channel and Vision TV in Canada on March 4, 2007, covering the discovery of the Talpiot Tomb. It was directed by Canadian documentary and film maker Simcha Jacobovici and produced by Felix Golubev and Ric...
M
- Mammals Vs. Dinosaurs
- Man vs. WildMan vs. WildMan vs. Wild, also called Born Survivor: Bear Grylls, Ultimate Survival, or Survival Game, is a survival television series hosted by Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel. In the United Kingdom, the series was originally shown on Channel 4, but later series were broadcast on Discovery Channel UK...
- Man, Woman, WildMan, Woman, WildMan, Woman, Wild is a cable television reality series which airs on the Discovery Channel. The show features former US Army Special Forces survival expert, Mykel Hawke, and his television journalist wife, Ruth England, who must survive a half week with limited supplies in wild and inhospitable...
- MaydayMayday (TV series)Mayday, also known as Air Crash Investigation in the United Kingdom, Australia and Asia and Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television programme produced by Cineflix investigating air crashes, near-crashes and other disasters...
- Megabuilders
- Mega Engineering
- Miami InkMiami InkMiami Ink is an American reality show on TLC that follows the events that took place at a tattoo shop in Miami Beach, Florida. The show premiered in July 2005 and has finished broadcasting its fourth season...
- Miracle PlanetMiracle PlanetMiracle Planet is a six-part documentary series, co-produced by Japan's NHK and the National Film Board of Canada , narrated by Christopher Plummer , which tells the 4.6-billion-year-old story of how life has evolved from its humble beginnings to the diversity of living creatures today.Filmed...
- Mongrel NationMongrel NationMongrel Nation is a 3-part series made in 2003 and hosted by Eddie Izzard on the Discovery Channel, examining the ethnic origins of the English.The three programmes were titled: Invasion, Immigration, and Innovation.- External links :*...
- Moments of Impact
- Monkey BusinessMonkey Business (TV series)Monkey Business is a long-running TV series about the exploits of various primates who reside at Monkey World, a rescue centre and sanctuary for primates in Dorset, United Kingdom. The series features Jim and Dr. Alison Cronin, directors of Monkey World, as they travel around the world rescuing...
- Monster: A Portrait Of Stalin In Blood
- Monster GarageMonster GarageMonster Garage is a television show for the Discovery Channel hosted by Jesse G. James. Each episode is an hour in length and was conceived and produced by Thom Beers.The show aired the series finale on June 12, 2006. Jesse G...
- Monster House
- Monsters ResurrectedMonsters ResurrectedMonsters Resurrected is an American documentary television series that premiered on September 13, 2009, on the Discovery Channel. The program reconstructs extinct animals...
- Most EvilMost EvilMost Evil is an American forensics television program on Investigation Discovery presented by forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone of Columbia University. On the show, Stone rates murderers on a scale of evil that he has developed...
- Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends RevealedMostly True Stories: Urban Legends RevealedMostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed is a docudrama about urban legends and re-enacting them and researching their credibility. It aired on The Learning Channel from 2002 until 2004. It ran for four seasons. Early episodes were hosted by Natasha Henstridge...
- Movie Magic
- My Shocking StoryMy Shocking StoryMy Shocking Story is a documentary television series originally broadcast on Discovery Channel UK. It was broadcast by The Learning Channel in the United States, Discovery Channel Australia and Seven Network in Australia and Discovery Channel Italy in Italy...
- MythBustersMythBustersMythBusters is a science entertainment TV program created and produced by Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The series is screened by numerous international broadcasters, including Discovery Channel Australia, Discovery Channel Latin America, Discovery Channel Canada, Quest...
N
- Nature's Deadliest
- Nature’s Most Amazing Events
- The New Al-Qaeda
- The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science
- The Next Step
- NextWorld
- Normandy: The Great Crusade
O
- OdditiesOddities (TV series)Oddities is a half-hour documentary/reality television program which follows the operation of an East Village, Manhattan shop which trades in antiques and other rarities...
- One Step Beyond
- One Way OutOne Way Out (TV series)One Way Out is an American reality television series that was produced by NorthSouth Productions for the Discovery Channel. The program stars escape artist Jonathan Goodwin, who performs difficult escape stunts...
- On the Run
- Out In The Cold
- Overhaulin
P
- Pagans
- Passport to Space
- Patent BendingPatent BendingPatent Bending is a Canadian reality television series that premiered August 22, 2006, on the Discovery Channel. The series is based on building some of the weird, fantastical ideas inventors have patented over the last century. Once physically realised, the flaws in these ideas tend to be...
- Perfect DisasterPerfect DisasterPerfect Disaster was a one-hour American documentary television mini-series that premiered in 2006 on the Discovery Channel. The program depicted the worst-case scenario that major cities could expect in the near future if hit by extreme disaster...
- PitchmenPitchMenPitchMen is a docudrama television program produced for the Discovery Channel in the United States. The show followed infomercial producers and talent Billy Mays and Anthony "Sully" Sullivan as they attempted to sell various inventions through direct-response marketing. The series was narrated by...
- Planet EarthPlanet Earth (TV series)Planet Earth is a 2006 television series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit. Five years in the making, it was the most expensive nature documentary series ever commissioned by the BBC, and also the first to be filmed in high definition...
- Planes That Never FlewPlanes That Never FlewPlanes That Never Flew is a Discovery Channel documentary series about experimental aircraft projects that never flew. Over four one-hour episodes, the series examined the history behind aborted projects to build two jet fighters, a supersonic transport , and a nuclear powered long range...
- Pop Nation
- Portraits
- Profiles of Nature
- The Prosecutors: In Pursuit of Justice
- Prototype This!
- Prehistoric PlanetPrehistoric PlanetPrehistoric Planet is a re-version of the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs and Walking with Beasts series, done by Discovery Channel and NBC for the Discovery Kids network...
- Prehistoric ParkPrehistoric ParkPrehistoric Park is a six-episode mockumentary television mini-series that premiered on ITV on 22 July 2006 and on Animal Planet on 29 October 2006. The program was produced by Impossible Pictures, who also created Walking with Dinosaurs. In 2007, ITV cancelled Prehistoric Park, but introduced the...
- Prehistoric
R
- Rally Round the House
- Raging PlanetRaging PlanetRaging Planet is an American documentary television series that originally aired in 1998 and 2008 on the Discovery Channel. The program focuses on natural disasters...
- The Real American Cowboy
- The Reagan Legacy
- Really Big ThingsReally Big ThingsReally Big Things is a documentary series about massive man-made marvels like big machines, giant telescopes, skyscrapers and other massive structures...
- Rides
- Rise of the Video GameRise of the Video Game"Rise of the Video Game" is a five part series on The Discovery Channel about the history of video games. The first episode aired in November of 2007. The series ran under the tile "I, VIDEOGAME" in Europe.-Episodes:Taken from...
- Road Trip USA
- RoboticaRoboticaRobotica is a robot combat show produced for the American television cable channel TLC, a subsidiary of the Discovery Channel. Three seasons of Robotica were produced. The shows first aired in April 2001, with the final season beginning in late 2002. Show hosts for the first season were Ahmet...
- Rocket ScienceRocket Science (TV series)Rocket Science is a BBC television documentary series, first broadcast in March 2009 on BBC Two, exploring new ways to teach science to children...
S
- Sasquatch: Legend Meets ScienceSasquatch: Legend Meets ScienceSasquatch: Legend Meets Science was a documentary film which originally aired on the Discovery Channel on January 9, 2003. The program features scientists from various disciplines analyzing the most compelling evidence for the existence of Bigfoot, including the Skookum cast and the...
- The Science of Sex Appeal
- The Science of Star WarsStar WarsStar Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
- Sci-Fi Saved My Life
- Sci-Trek
- Scrapheap challengeScrapheap ChallengeScrapheap Challenge is an engineering game show produced by RDF Media and broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK. In the show, teams of contestants have 10 hours in which to build a working machine that can do a specific task, using materials available in a scrapheap. The format was exported to the...
- Seven Wonders Of ...
- Shark WeekShark WeekThe Discovery Channel's Shark Week, which first aired on July 27, 1987, is a week-long series of feature television programs dedicated to sharks. Shark Week is held annually, normally running in July or August. Shark Week was developed to help the average person have a greater respect for sharks....
(annual program) - The Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at SeaThe Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at SeaSinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea is an English-German Docu-drama produced in 2007. This 90-minute film is a dramatization of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915 by a German U-boat, U-20...
- Smash LabSmash LabSmash Lab is a reality television series that premiered on December 26, 2007, on the Discovery Channel. The idea of the show is to take everyday technology and test it in "extraordinary ways."-Cast:...
- Solving History with Olly SteedsSolving History with Olly SteedsSolving History with Olly Steeds is a weekly American documentary adventure reality television series that premiered on January 13, 2010 on the Discovery Channel...
- Some Assembly RequiredSome Assembly Required (TV series)Some Assembly Required is a Discovery Channel TV series which premiered in the United States on December 27, 2007 and originally aired in 2007 and 2008. Hosts Brian Unger and physicist Lou Bloomfield explain how various things are manufactured and participate in the manufacturing process.-Season 1:...
- Storm ChasersStorm Chasers (TV series)Storm Chasers is a weekly American documentary reality television series that premiered on October 17, 2007 on the Discovery Channel. Produced by Original Media, the program follows several teams of storm chasers as they attempt to intercept tornadoes in Tornado Alley in the United States...
- Storm Warning
- Story of India
- Stranded: With Cash Peters (Travel ChannelTravel ChannelThe Travel Channel is a satellite and cable television channel that is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, US. It features documentaries and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world. Programming has included shows in African animal safaris,...
) - Strange Days at Blake Holsey HighStrange Days at Blake Holsey HighBlack Hole High is a Canadian science fiction television program which first aired in North America in October 2002 on NBC and Discovery Kids...
- Stunt JunkiesStunt JunkiesStunt Junkies was a Discovery Channel show that showed professional athletes performing dangerous stunts. The show showed all the steps the athlete must do to successfully complete the stunt. The series spanned 2 seasons of 43 episodes...
- The Sun
- SuperstormSuperstorm (docudrama)Superstorm is a three-part British docudrama miniseries written and directed by Julian Simpson, about a group of scientists that try to divert and weaken hurricanes using cloud seeding....
- SupervolcanoSupervolcano (docudrama)Supervolcano is a science docufiction disaster television film that originally aired on 13 March 2005 on BBC One, and released by the BBC on 10 April 2005 on the Discovery Channel. It is centered on the speculated and potential eruption of the volcanic caldera of Yellowstone National Park. Its...
- Surprise by Design
- Survive ThisSurvive ThisSurvive This is a Canadian reality TV show on which eight teenagers with limited survival skills training are taken into a forest and confronted with a number of survival challenges to test their skills and perseverance. The series airs on YTV in Canada and Cartoon Network in the United States...
- SurvivormanSurvivormanSurvivorman is a Canadian-produced television program, broadcast in Canada on the Outdoor Life Network , and internationally on Discovery Channel and Science Channel...
- Swamp LoggersSwamp LoggersSwamp Loggers is an American reality television series on the Discovery Channel that follows the crew of Goodson's All Terrain Logging as they log the swamps of North Carolina .-Episodes:...
- Swords: Life on the Line
Swamp Brothers
U
- Ultimate Cars
- The Ultimate Guide
- The Ultimate Ten
- UnderstandingUnderstanding (TV series)Understanding was a documentary television series that aired from 1994 to 2002 on TLC. The program covered various things understood from a scientific perspective and was narrated by Jane Curtin and Peter Coyote. It originally aired on TLC and is currently being shown on the Science Channel...
- UniverseUniverseThe Universe is commonly defined as the totality of everything that exists, including all matter and energy, the planets, stars, galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space. Definitions and usage vary and similar terms include the cosmos, the world and nature...
- Unsolved HistoryUnsolved HistoryUnsolved History is an American documentary television series that aired from 2002 to 2005. The program was produced by MorningStar Entertainment, Termite Art Productions, and others for the Discovery Channel. The series lasted over three seasons and had a total of 47 episodes, in which a team of...
- Untold stories of the ER
- Ultimate Car Build-Off
W
- Walking with BeastsWalking with BeastsWalking with Beasts is a 2001 six-part television documentary miniseries, produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom, narrated by Kenneth Branagh. In North America it has been retitled Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, and the original Discovery Channel broadcast was narrated by Stockard Channing...
- Walking with CavemenWalking with CavemenWalking with Cavemen is a four-part television documentary series about human evolution produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom. It was originally released in April 2003. It was subsequently presented in the United States as a two-part series by the Discovery Channel and its affiliates...
- Walking with DinosaursWalking with DinosaursWalking with Dinosaurs is a six-part documentary television miniseries that was produced by BBC, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, and first aired in the United Kingdom, in 1999. The series was subsequently aired in North America on the Discovery Channel in 2000, with Branagh's voice replaced with that...
- Walking with MonstersWalking with MonstersWalking with Monsters is a three-part British documentary film series about life in the Paleozoic, bringing to life extinct arthropods, fish, amphibians, synapsids, and reptiles...
- Weaponizers
- Weapon MastersWeapon MastersWeapon Masters is a television show that premiered on the Discovery Channel on December 31, 2007. It is currently airing on the Military Channel....
- Weapons of Combat
- What's That About?
- Wheeler DealersWheeler DealersWheeler Dealers is a British television series produced by Attaboy TV for the Discovery Channel, fronted by Mike Brewer and mechanic Edd China with assistance from technical advisor Paul Brackley...
- When Dinosaurs Roamed AmericaWhen Dinosaurs Roamed AmericaWhen Dinosaurs Roamed America is a two-hour American television program that first aired on Discovery Channel in 2001. It was directed by Pierre de Lespinois and narrated by actor John Goodman...
- When Dinosaurs Ruled
- When We Left Earth: The NASA MissionsWhen We Left Earth: The NASA MissionsWhen We Left Earth: The NASA Missions or NASA's Greatest Missions: When We Left Earth in the UK is a Discovery Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting American human spaceflight, spanning from the first Mercury flights through the Gemini program to the Apollo moon...
- Why Didn't I Think of That?
- Wild DiscoveryWild DiscoveryWild Discovery was a television series that aired on the Discovery Channel between 1995 and 2002. It was an educational program in a documentary format showcasing animals as the main theme. The show featured a wide range of animals, in locations from around the world, including Brazil and the...
- Wild Pacific
- Wildlife Chronicles
- WingsWings (Discovery Channel TV series)Wings was an educational television program aired on the Discovery Channel.Episodes were one hour long, minus commercials. Each episode consisted of a documentary about one airplane model or closely related series of models, typically an American airplane or helicopter built in large numbers and...
- Wreckreation NationWreckreation NationWreckreation Nation, a production of True Entertainment, is a travel/reality television show on the Discovery Channel, highlighting unusual recreational activities and amateur competitions across the United States. It is hosted by Dave Mordal....
- World of WonderWorld of WonderWorld of Wonder is an international media production company based in Hollywood and London. Founded in 1991 by producers-cum-auteurs Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, the company creates reality and documentary television programs, feature films, and Internet video content...
- World Class CuisineWorld Class CuisineWorld Class Cuisine is an American television program created by Jason Vogel and Arna Vodenos and co-produced by the Discovery Channel between 1993 to 1997 featuring the talents of professional chefs from around the globe. John Kavanaugh was a camera man for the show's duration and directed part...
- The World´s Strangest UFO Stories
- World's Toughest FixesWorld's Toughest FixesWorld's Toughest Fixes is an American reality series that premiered on the National Geographic Channel on September 28, 2008. It features Sean Riley participating in various "tough fixes"; repairs and renovations done on equipment that is very large or dangerous...