Browse all episodes of National Geographic Specials

Americans on Everest

Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees

Savage World of the Coral Jungle

Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West

Ambassador: Inside the Embassy

Alaska!

Yankee Sails Across Europe

Grizzly!

Winged World

Amazon

The Lonely Dorymen: Portugal's Men of the Sea

America's Wonderlands: The National Parks

Reptiles and Amphibians

Australia: The Timeless Land

Polynesian Adventure

The Mystery of Animal Behavior

Siberia: The Lost Horizon

Wild River

Holland Against the Sea

Zoos of the World

The Great Mojave Desert

Journey to the High Arctic

Monkeys, Apes & Man

The Last Tribes of Mindanao

Man of Serengeti

The Last Vikings

Strange Creatures of the Night

The Violent Earth

The Haunted West

Wind Raiders of the Sahara

Journey to the Outer Limits

The Big Cats

Bushmen of the Kalahari

The Incredible Machine Human Machine

This Britain: Heritage of the Sea

Examines efforts to discover new facts about the behavior of gorillas and orangutans.

Search for the Great Apes

Explores how animals such as the coyote, rattlesnake, and wild mustang are feared and hated by some but loved by others.

The Animal Nobody Loved

A crew is searching for millions in gold and silver that sank when a hurricane seized a Spanish galleon in 1622.

Treasure!

Voyage of the Hokule'a

The New Indians

Describes the heartland of the former Soviet Union including the villages and cities along the Volga River.

The Volga

Follows adventurers as they travel through Canada and Alaska along the Yukon River into the Arctic Circle.

Yukon Passage

Covers the life and career of anthropologist Louis Leakey.

The Legacy of L.S.B. Leakey

Deals with Whales all over the world, their lives, habits, and man's relationship with them.

The Great Whales

Explores a remote coastal desert and teaches about the amazing survival techniques of the wasps, geckos, and plants.

The Living Sands of Namib

Shows how gold is mined and how it affects our lives.

Gold!

Hong Kong: A Family Portrait

Shows how drought, poachers, and conflict have forced the elephants of east Africa to migrate.

Last Stand in Eden

Follows explorer Thor Heyerdahl's crew as they sail their reed boat over routes believed to have been followed by Sumerian traders 5000 years ago.

The Tigris Expedition: In Search of Our Beginnings

1 hour-long TV special about deep sea exploration of the Galapagos Rift (1980).

Dive to the Edge of Creation

Examines the chemical and genetic components of mental disorders and shows some of the latest biomedical research into the mysteries of the brain.

Mysteries of the Mind

There are invisible things that the human eye cannot perceive because they are too small, too large, too fast, too slow, or beyond the spectrum of visible light.

The Invisible World

A look to the past when ocean liners such as the Queen Mary and the Normandie ruled the Atlantic, setting standards of taste, luxury, and efficiency.

The Superliners: Twilight of an Era

Filmed at Namibia's Etosha National Park this video takes a look at a wide selection of wildlife, including zebras, cheetahs, wildebeest, lions and elephants.

African Wildlife

Etosha: Place of Dry Water

Profiles 9 Japanese artisans who are charged with teaching and exhibiting their works.

Living Treasures of Japan

Presents both sides of the ongoing debate over the use of the national parks.

National Parks: Playground or Paradise

Calls attention to the gorilla, which is on the verge of extinction. Profiles a team working on the mountain gorilla project.

Gorilla

A special expedition to study these fish of legend and challenge myths surrounding them. Journeys in a specially designed cage to observe sharks at close range, experimenting with a stainless steel suit to survive a shark attack.

The Sharks

Documentary about ancient Egypt, its temples, paintings and art, and how these old treasures are being endangered by modern civilization. Also shown are the Nile river, the Luxor and Karnak temples, the Sphynx, the Great Pyramids of Giza, the river path to the Land of the Dead, the pharaohs and queens' tombs, as well as egyptologysts' interpretation of Ancient Egypt mysteries.

Egypt: Quest for Eternity

Shows how Canadians learn to coexist with the polar bears that migrate each year through their town.

Polar Bear Alert

Deals with the history of England as seen through places located near the Thames River.

The Thames

Covers the wonders of the rain forests of Costa Rica such as basilisk lizards, leaf-cutting ants, and howler monkeys.

Rain Forest

Watch some of the creatures unique to Australia's shores as investigators and scientists probe the secrets of this infinitely varied wildlife.

Australia's Animal Mysteries

Track the elusive and endangered giant panda and learn how man can increase its chances of survival.

Save the Panda

Born of Fire

Follow two landmark decades of Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees.

Among the Wild Chimpanzees

Covers the history of trains from steam engines to diesels, nostalgically remembering the days when trains bridged the continents, empowered the pioneers, and ferried troops. Also follows the iconic Orient Express on one of its routes.

Love Those Trains

Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay return to Everest to celebrate their historic ascent.

Return to Everest

Shows the endangered whooping crane's perilous migratory path.

Flight of the Whooping Crane

Gives an intimate portrait of the tiger in India.

India: Land of the Tiger

Documents four Americans who work or study in China after the resumption of diplomacy between the United States and China.

Four Americans in China

Focuses on the horses of Ireland and their role in the history, culture, and tradition of the Irish people.

Ballad of the Irish Horse

Presents current trends in computers, robotics, and experimental programs.

Miraculous Machines

Consists of historical photos and footage of the massive steamer, the exploration by Dr. Robert Ballard, and a look inside the ship itself.

Secrets of the Titanic

Observes the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States. Shows how the region's main industry, crabbing, shapes lives.

Chesapeake Borne

Shows the ecosystem of mangrove trees, including fiddler crabs, proboscis monkeys, and mudskippers.

Creatures of the Mangrove

A view of Jerusalem and its people, a product of 3000 years of history and religious faith.

Jerusalem: Within These Walls

A search for the treasure of the Spanish galleon Atocha.

Quest for the Atocha

A swampland on the Georgia-Florida border is ruled by the fearsome alligator.

Realm of the Alligator

Captures lion behavior such as care of the young, struggle for food, and interplay with other animals.

Lions of the African Night

Documentary explores the history surrounding the destruction of Pompeii and its inhabitants in 79 A.D. by the volcano Vesuvius.

In the Shadow of Vesuvius

The Grizzlies

Reclaims history with talented artisans, collectors, and dreamers who restore masterpieces of the past century.

Treasures from the Past

A pursuit of scientific studies of lions and brown hyenas.

African Odyssey

Covers a spiritual culture based upon reverence for the land and the spiritual dimension known as the Dreamtime.

Australia's Twilight of the Dreamtime

How Kenya and Zimbabwe wage war against heavily armed gangs that have swept through Africa destroying the black rhino population.

The Rhino War

Covers Moscow's Circus School and the magic of the performances that delight millions.

Inside the Soviet Circus

Investigation about the origin of Man and his evolutionary process, taking into account the new techniques that allow to determine the age of fossils, bones and footprints, and reconstruct a face from its skull.

Mysteries of Mankind

Australia's Aborigines

The Explorers: A Century of Discovery

Australia's Improbable Animals

Documents cameramen who risk their lives in order to capture deadly animals, combat, and natural disasters.

Cameramen Who Dared

Baka: People of the Forest

An in-depth look at the magnificent elephant, the largest and strongest land animal.

Elephant

Dogs have served humankind in more ways than any other animal. You'll see loyal canines at work as they search for buried victims of an earthquake disaster, assist the physically disabled, and pull sleds in the blizzard conditions of Alaska. Find out how dogs are trained to "act" on the Lassie television show, and meet dogs that served as messengers on the battlefields of WWII.

Those Wonderful Dogs

Serengeti Diary

Search for the Battleship Bismarck

When seasonal rains come to South America, the Amazon River overflows to create an ecosystem unlike any other.

Amazon: Land of the Flooded Forest

National Geographic Documentary about Bali the tiny island in the Indonesian archipelago. Exploring the extraordinary culture of this island paradise that is made up of two thousand square miles of spectacular mountains, enticing beaches, and flourishing rice terraces.

Bali: Masterpiece of the Gods

For decades, the National Geographic Society has presented specials on nature, foreign culture, scientific breakthroughs, and things which fall under the general category of "neat stuff." Each special is self-contained.

All Episodes of National Geographic Specials

All Episodes of National Geographic Specials

Season 1

Americans on Everest

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1965

Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/22/1965

Savage World of the Coral Jungle

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/22/1965