National Geographic Explorer Season 25 Episodes

Episode 1

Can the Gulf Survive?

Tue, Nov 9, 201046 mins

With exclusive access to BP's clean up operations, National Geographic investigates what happened to the 4.9 million barrels of oil that poured from the sea floor in one of the worst environmental disasters of all time. From the front lines of the cleanup efforts, National Geographic follows the first two months after the spill, tracking cleanup efforts as experts seek to learn the ongoing effects and BP battles the spill and the public's outcry.

Episode 2

Lost Mummies of New Guinea

Tue, Nov 16, 201045 mins

In Papua New Guinea, there are people who may be the last on Earth with living memory of a practice most of the world believes to be long vanished--human mummification. In a search for the last mummy made in the region, National Geographic's team of anthropologists and researchers trek through caves, villages, and mountains to uncover the secrets of the ancient tradition. At the heart of their quest is an aging tribal leader named Gemtasu who wants to revive the practice--with his own body.

Episode 3

How Man Tamed the Wild

Tue, Nov 23, 201045 mins

Animal domestication was a major prerequisite for human civilization to evolve. Join National Geographic as we explore how a dramatic shift from wild to tame happened by investigating foxes, chickens, dogs and rats. Travel to Siberia to see how the physiology of foxes changes when only friendly foxes are bred. In Georgia, follow a scientist as he decodes the DNA of a special population of chickens. And in Moscow, a researcher gains insight into domestication by studying a group of stray dogs.

Episode 4

Born to Rage?

Tue, Dec 14, 201060 mins

Ex-punk rocker, turned commentator, Henry Rollins has struggled with feelings of aggression his whole life. Hes on a mission to find out if his rage is the product of his upbringing or if its in his genes. Henry recruits a colorful cast of characters in his quest for the truth: Outlaw bikers, mixed martial arts fighters, Buddhist monks, gang-bangers and the most aggressive NFL linebacker of them all, Dick Butkus. A DNA test reveals which of them carries the Warrior Gene and the results provide an extraordinary insight into the human psyche. This gripping human journey seeks to answer some of mans oldest questions like who are we and who controls our destiny?

Episode 5

American Hostage

Mon, Jan 17, 201146 mins

Journalist Terry Anderson was kidnapped and then held prisoner by Muslim extremists for seven years. On the 20th anniversary of his eventual release, National Geographic investigates his near-death ordeal as a hostage. American Hostage reveals Terry Anderson's harrowing experience from the man himself: "They beat on me. They threatened me.... They would come and sit on my chest and poke guns into my neck and say, 'We kill you, we kill you.'" Hear how the loneliness, boredom and feelings of total helplessness nearly drove Anderson over the edge. And hear from Anderson's fellow hostages, his family--who spent seven long years uncertain of his fate--and the man who risked everything to free him.

Episode 6

Lost Cannibals of Europe

Mon, Jan 24, 201146 mins

Cannibalism has long been considered a dark chapter in man's history. Yet we think of it only as isolated occurrences. Now a Neolithic burial pit in Germany, found filled with expertly butchered human remains, challenges those assumptions. Archaeologists have never seen anything like it--the deeper they dig, the more bizarre the scene becomes. National Geographic joins an international team of experts as they reopen the earth to understand violent events as they played out seven thousand years ago.

Episode 7

How to Build a Beating Heart

Wed, Feb 2, 2011

Episode 8

Clash of the Americas

Mon, Feb 14, 2011

Episode 9

The Real George Washington

Tue, Apr 12, 2011

Episode 10

Mystery of the Murdered Saints

Tue, Apr 19, 2011

For the first time, the Catholic Church will allow scientific experts and historians to openly test the veracity of the remains of reported saints. NGC has exclusive access to the forensic investigation. Deep in the crypt below the Cathedral of Reggio Emilia lie a set of bones believed to be those of two ancient saints, Chrysanthus and Daria. For more than 1,500 years they've been hidden away ... until now.

Episode 11

The Angel Effect

Tue, Apr 26, 201145 mins

Episode 12

Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes

Tue, May 10, 201145 mins

The discovery of a human skull in the depths of Lake Superior begins a story that will take historian and author Brendon Baillod across two Great Lakes and a century of history. It takes him and a team of elite technical divers more than 20 miles off Milwaukee where they discover the wreck of one of Lake Michigans lost queens. It takes them to the remote waters of Lake Superior where they risk their lives to determine the identity of yet another lost ship. And it takes us into the forgotten life of a brave and stubborn woman who lived, and died, on these wild waters. Whether her presence cursed these lost ships, or a more earthly explanation can be found, the Great Lakes reputation as a graveyard for mariners stands firm.

Episode 13

Megapiranha

Tue, May 3, 2011

Episode 14

Stormageddon

Sun, May 29, 2011