Why does our modern world remain so violent? Explorer’s Inside the Warrior Gene examines the work of a new breed of scientists who believe the answer may lie not in society, but in our DNA.
It’s a legendary disappearing act—and one of the most complex prison breaks in history. On June 11 1962, Frank Lee Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin managed to break out of fortress-like Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary.
Etched, as if by giants, onto the arid moonscape of Peru’s southern desert lies one of man’s greatest mysteries; the Nasca Lines. More than 15,000 geometric and animal-like patterns have been discovered.
It remains one of the greatest stories of heroism of World War II. Seventy-five men tunneled out of the Nazi’s most secure POW camp to wreak havoc on the German countryside.
On the eve of Thanksgiving, 1971 a man calling himself Dan Cooper leapt out of the back of a commercial jet with a parachute, $200,000 in ransom money and was never seen again dead or alive.
The Amazon is the largest tropical rain forest on the planet that until the twentieth century seemed untouched by man. But today, science is pealing back the canopy to reveal an untold history.
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