The Smithsonian Network Movies
- 2009
Picturing the Presidents
Picturing the Presidents72009HD
We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.
- 2015
Moby Dick: Heart Of A Whale
Moby Dick: Heart Of A Whale62015HD
Herman Melville's epic ocean adventure "Moby Dick" is an American masterpiece. But was this stirring tale of violence and revenge simply an allegory,...
- 2013
Kennedy's Suicide Bomber
Kennedy's Suicide Bomber02013HD
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...
- 2019
Wolf vs Bear
Wolf vs Bear82019HD
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...
- 2015
Surviving the Serengeti
Surviving the Serengeti02015HD
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...
- 2010
Pride in Battle
Pride in Battle92010HD
A documentary which follows two lion brothers as they become rulers of a pride in Botswana after a battle for dominance.
- 2016
China's Emperor of Evil
China's Emperor of Evil102016HD
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...
- 2019
Darwin & the Beagle's Scandal
Darwin & the Beagle's Scandal02019HD
Before he wrote the book that revolutionized the way people understood evolution, a young Charles Darwin found himself, by chance, on a strange sea...
- 2014
The Last Emperor of Mexico
The Last Emperor of Mexico02014HD
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...
- 2020
Shark Ganglands
Shark Ganglands02020HD
Ascension Island, a remote Mid-Atlantic outpost famous for its big game fishing, is under siege. Tiger sharks, hammerheads, even great whites, lured...
- 2015
Napoleon's Waterloo
Napoleon's Waterloo02015HD
It lasted only one day on a small piece of land, but the impact the Battle of Waterloo had on history is massive and far-reaching. This is the...
- 2010
Diving with Crocodiles
Diving with Crocodiles02010HD
Documentary which follows crocodile expert Brad Bestelink on a quest to dive with crocodiles without a cage or any other protection.
- 2018
Volcanoes: dual destruction
Volcanoes: dual destruction72018HD
- 2014
Cheetah: Race to Rule
Cheetah: Race to Rule02014HD
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...
- 2018
Hannibal's March on Rome
Hannibal's March on Rome5.22018HD
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...
- 2015
Samurai Warrior Queens
Samurai Warrior Queens82015HD
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...
- 2017
Desert Lions
Desert Lions02017HD
Enter the harsh and unforgiving Kalahari and follow a lion pride attempt to save their threatened bloodline.
- 2020
Survival Of The Snow Leopard
Survival Of The Snow Leopard102020HD
Spend three years in China's remote and inhospitable Tibetan Plateau, home to nearly all the world's snow leopards.
- 2020
Monkeys of Bioko
Monkeys of Bioko82020HD
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...
- 2015
Goshawk - Soul of the Wind
Goshawk - Soul of the Wind02015HD
A visually stunning portrait of one of nature's most agile and fearsome predators, the Goshawk. This secretive bird of prey can be hard to see in the...