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Lost and found: Kidnapped by a starship bound for deep space, Marcus Walker learns that he is to be sold to a wealthy collector as a native from a primitive planet and befriends a talking dog named George, who becomes an ally in their plan to escape--Novelist. Light-years beneath my feet: Kidnapped by aliens to be sold as a pet in a distant part of the galaxy, young Chicago commodities broker Marcus Walker and his companion, George, a speech-enhanced...

Dallas Campbell strips away the surface to reveal a hidden Britain as you've never encountered it before.

This program takes viewers underground with a look at sewer pipes and the growing problem of gas lines punched through them. It's called a cross-bore, and it's usually out-of-sight and out-of-mind, unless someone makes the potentially explosive mistake of cutting through it. Speaking to Trista Meehan, a Minnesota woman who lost her home when it blew up after a plumber tried to clear the main sewer line, the program demonstrates why cross-bore awareness...

Until very recently the vast area under the world's ocean surfaces was virtually unknown and unreachable by humans. However, groundbreaking technologies and cutting edge research have opened the doors to the deepest and most well-kept secrets of the sea. In Beneath the Sea, a part of the PBS Scientific American Frontier series, viewers will take stock in the big unknowns of the sea and see how modern scientists are exploring life in the undersea world...

Can Antarctica's climate past offer clues to what may happen to our warming planet? To gather crucial evidence, NOVA follows an ambitious Antarctic investigation - a state-of-the-art drilling probe known as ANDRILL. Drilling deep beneath the Antarctic ice, down through the sea and three-fourths of a mile into the seafloor, ANDRILL recovers rock cores that reveal intimate details of climate and fauna from a time in the distant past when the Earth was...

The Romans were one of the most intriguing and powerful civilizations to have ever lived. Now, building on the extraordinary techniques used in Egypt, Dr Sarah Parcak and her team re-harness space-archaeology to discover what the glory of the Roman Empire was really like. With satellite archaeology and high-tech remote-sensing tools at its heart, this epic film peels back the layers of history to literally see Rome in all its magnificence. Culminating...

For Pakistani girls who suffered spinal injuries in the devastating 2005 earthquake, two big questions hang over their futures. Will I ever walk again? And will I ever marry? While most Pakistani girls are destined from birth to be wives and mothers, Khalida and Ruqiya's injuries have just have opened the doors to a life less ordinary. Shot over 4 years, we follow the pair as they come of age in a country that prizes marriage above all else.