National Geographic On Demand

National Geographic on Demand is the home for the best animals, nature, history, science, engineering, people, and places content.

Cutting edge science and Arctic adventure come alive in this story of a unique discovery: a perfectly preserved baby woolly mammoth that suddenly appears on a Siberian riverbank.Documentary charting the story of Jake Libbon who travelled to Mexico in search of adventure but ended up being shot and imprisoned in the aftermath of a disastrous drug deal.Chronicling the story of church volunteer Greg Williams, who was kidnapped and tortured by an Islamic terrorist group in 1996, but managed to escape his captors.The story of four friends who in 1993 tried to smuggle cocaine out of Brazil but were put behind bars in Carandiru prison, where just a year earlier a riot had caused 111 dead.The stories of battle behind the Allied victory of WW2.The tallest man-made structure on Earth towering nearly half a mile into the sky is the Burj Dubai Skyscraper in the Persian Gulf. This film reveals how seven ingenious technological breakthroughs enabled engineers to build this super-structure.The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan is the longest suspension bridge in the world. See how technological breakthroughs led to the development of this supersized bridge.Heathrow Airport in London is the busiest international airport in the world. This film reveals how seven ingenious technological breakthroughs enabled engineers to build the most modern terminal of this super-structure Terminal 5.The surface of our planet is made up of 71% water, yet few of us stop to think about where this amazing life-giving substance comes from or how it got here.From a classic Routemaster bus to a Vulcan bomber, Chris takes a ride on some of the greatest British machines of the 1950s.1 2 next