F. Murray Abraham

Follows the adventures of an aspiring teenage singer who is accepted to a prestigious musical boarding school, where he discovers a gateway into the world of Mozart's opera "The magic flute."

Polar bears are living on borrowed time. They are the descendents of grizzlies, long ago evolved to live and hunt on the frozen ice of the Arctic. Winters have become warmer, the ice is disappearing, and food is scarce. Bonus program spotlights a mother grizzly bear teaching her cub how to pluck salmon from near the McNeil River Falls in Alaska.

In Hawaii, a baby humpback enters the world and joins the 3,000 or more whales that congregate in the warm waters off Hawaii each winter to mate and give birth. This is the story of her first year of life. Over twelve months she will learn many skills from her mother, and eventually they will make the several-thousand-mile journey together to Alaska's southeast coast. Though fiercely competitive during the breeding season in Hawaii, the whales cooperate...

When Gonzo's extraterrestrial relatives plan a visit, the government captures him in order to find out when his relatives will arrive.

The loneliest animals: Follows the plight of several unique, charismatic species and the struggles of the dedicated conservationists who fight for them. Frogs: the thin green line: Frogs, existing on this planet for more than 250 million years, are today considered to be at the center of a great mass extinction of amphibians. A fungus called chytrid has been identified as the major culprit, but no methon has yet been found to stop it.

In the early 1900s, San Francisco stood as a proud and flourishing symbol of America's recent conquest of the once-wild West. But on April 19, 1906, the city would experience an awesome reminder of the uncontrollable forces lying dormant just beneath the splendors of its cosmopolitan surface. Thirty times more powerful than the temblor that decimated northern California in 1989, this earthquake measured a ground-wrenching 8.3 on the Richter scale,...

Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, Scarface follows the violent career of a smalltime Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire.

Fifteen thousand years ago, wolves stepped out of the forest and began one of the most remarkable journeys in evolutionary history. Within only a few hundred years, these wolves changed from deadly predators into man's best friend. How did it happen? And where will it end? This two-part mini-series explores the origins of dogs, their place in our history, and our place in theirs.

(Hummingbirds): "Hummingbirds represent one of nature's most interesting paradoxes-they are the tiniest of birds, yet they qualify as some of the toughest and most energetic creatures on the planet. Stunningly beautiful high-definition, high-speed footage of hummingbirds in the wild combined with high-tech presentations of their remarkable abilities help us to understand the world of hummingbirds as we never have before."-- (Birds of the gods): "The...