The Discovery Channel on Wed. Aug. 25 aired an episode of “Surviving the Cut”, this one being the Extended Training Day for Air Force Pararescue. The motto for the group is “so another may live."

The Discovery Channel on Wed. Aug. 25 aired an episode of “Surviving the Cut”, this one being the Extended Training Day for Air Force Pararescue. The motto for the group is “so another may live.”

Did Atlantis really exist? For thousands of years the legend of the lost city remained an obscure, yet tantalizing fable -- until an American named Ignatius Donnelly drew worldwide attention to the mystery.

From the worlds oldest mummies, to Lego robots, to monster fish, National Geographic is taking you on an adventure to explore our sometimes wacky, often whimsical, always wild, wonders of the world.

From a fight festival, to microscopic masterpieces, to the science of avalanche survival, National Geographic is taking you on an adventure to explore our sometimes wacky, often whimsical, always wild, wonders of the world.

Federal agent Billy Queen spends a harrowing year undercover riding, drinking and fighting along side the Mongols, one of America's most violent motorcycle gangs.

A seven-year-old girl suffers from seizures from a pork tapeworm after being adopted at the age of three from Nepal. A forty-five-year-old machinist deals with blurry and double vision, leaving him legally blind in his left eye, from a raccoon roundworm that he picked up from his turkey hunting. A forty-one-year-old anaethesiologists, along with twenty-eight other anaethesiologists from two different counties, suffer from stomach cramps and crippling diarrhea from the Cyclospora parasite after eating raspberries infected with human feces.

The Travel Channel's Man Vs. Food is at the Jersey Shore in the episode airing on Wednesday night. They visit three spots at the North Jersey Shore. While I don't mean to bash our northern brothers, I'm annoyed.

Human Sacrifice is a brand new three-part series that examines this terrifying practice through the lenses of history, science, forensics, and psychology. How did ancient peoples regard human sacrifice? What were the principal reasons behind it? Was there a common vein leading to it that ran through each religion? And most disturbingly, we’ll explore why human sacrifice seems to be re-appearing, not only in Third World villages, but in industrialized cities around the globe.

Documentary series examining the global story of drugs, from Afghanistan's poppy fields to the streets of New York and the estates of Edinburgh.

The Normans, a three-part series on BBC that will examine the extraordinary expansion and unchecked ambition of this warrior race between the 10th and 13th centuries.

The Normans, a three-part series on BBC that will examine the extraordinary expansion and unchecked ambition of this warrior race between the 10th and 13th centuries.

The Normans, a three-part series on BBC that will examine the extraordinary expansion and unchecked ambition of this warrior race between the 10th and 13th centuries.

The Normans, a three-part series on BBC that will examine the extraordinary expansion and unchecked ambition of this warrior race between the 10th and 13th centuries.

The Normans, a three-part series on BBC that will examine the extraordinary expansion and unchecked ambition of this warrior race between the 10th and 13th centuries.