The Smithsonian Network Movies
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Picturing the Presidents
Picturing the PresidentsMOVIE
We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.
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Kennedy's Suicide Bomber
Kennedy's Suicide BomberMOVIE
In 1960, a lone assassin planned a deadly attempt on the life of President-Elect John F Kennedy. With a Buick packed with dynamite, nothing was going...
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Pride in Battle
Pride in BattleMOVIE
A documentary which follows two lion brothers as they become rulers of a pride in Botswana after a battle for dominance.
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Moby Dick: Heart Of A Whale
Moby Dick: Heart Of A WhaleMOVIE
Herman Melville's epic ocean adventure "Moby Dick" is an American masterpiece. But was this stirring tale of violence and revenge simply an allegory,...
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Wolf vs Bear
Wolf vs BearMOVIE
In the far reaches of the North, wolf and bear come head to head. Winter has been long. The melting ice reveal scattered carcasses in the Swamp: a fea...
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Surviving the Serengeti
Surviving the SerengetiMOVIE
20 years after the TV Mini-Series "Tales of the Serengeti", our crew reunites to truly explore the Serengeti, with no fiction. We almost didn't surviv...
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Monkeys of Bioko
Monkeys of BiokoMOVIE
Roughly 20 miles off the coast of west Africa, sits a volcanic relic now completely blanketed in equatorial rainforest: the island of Bioko. It's home...
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Survival Of The Snow Leopard
Survival Of The Snow LeopardMOVIE
Spend three years in China's remote and inhospitable Tibetan Plateau, home to nearly all the world's snow leopards.
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Mission Critical: Amphibian Rescue
Mission Critical: Amphibian RescueMOVIE
Smithsonian Institution scientists race against time to save endangered frogs from a deadly fungus that is ravaging amphibians worldwide.
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China's Emperor of Evil
China's Emperor of EvilMOVIE
In China's Valley of the Kings, there stands a tall, carved stone. It honors the resting place of a woman named Wu Zetian, who rose from concubine to...
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The Last Emperor of Mexico
The Last Emperor of MexicoMOVIE
In Austria, he was known as an art collector and idealist. In Mexico, he was a colonialist aggressor responsible for thousands of deaths. And in Franc...
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Samurai Warrior Queens
Samurai Warrior QueensMOVIE
The drama documentary tells the real life story of Samurai woman Takeko Nakano who in 1868 fights for her clans' independence in a final battle that m...
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Hannibal's March on Rome
Hannibal's March on RomeMOVIE
Even 2,000 years after his death, General Hannibal's battle strategies are still studied today. But of all his military feats, perhaps his greatest wa...
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iCrocodile
iCrocodileMOVIE
A high-tech autopsy on a Nile crocodile unlocks secrets behind its hunting prowess.
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Diving with Crocodiles
Diving with CrocodilesMOVIE
Documentary which follows crocodile expert Brad Bestelink on a quest to dive with crocodiles without a cage or any other protection.
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Darwin & the Beagle's Scandal
Darwin & the Beagle's ScandalMOVIE
Before he wrote the book that revolutionized the way people understood evolution, a young Charles Darwin found himself, by chance, on a strange sea vo...
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Shark Ganglands
Shark GanglandsMOVIE
Ascension Island, a remote Mid-Atlantic outpost famous for its big game fishing, is under siege. Tiger sharks, hammerheads, even great whites, lured h...
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Desert Lions
Desert LionsMOVIE
Enter the harsh and unforgiving Kalahari and follow a lion pride attempt to save their threatened bloodline.
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Cheetah: Race to Rule
Cheetah: Race to RuleMOVIE
This is the story of a cheetah born into the Linyanti cheetah coalition. He is the runt of the litter and will have to fight hard for every scrap of f...
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Volcanoes: dual destruction
Volcanoes: dual destructionMOVIE