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2. Nature (1982– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Family
Documentary series exploring various global wildlife issues and subjects.
Stars: F. Murray Abraham, George Page, Chris Morgan, David Attenborough
Votes: 840
3.
Savage Builds (2019– )
Episode:
Building Iron Man
(2019)
TV-PG | 41 min | Documentary
Adam teams up with Gravity Industries founder Richard Browning and 3D printing experts from Colorado School of Mines to 3D print a real-life Ironman suit out of titanium and make it fly.
Director: Jacquelyn Marker | Stars: Adam Savage, Craig Brice, Richard Browning
Votes: 74
4. Riders on the Storm (2023)
101 min | Documentary
A young horseman battling to make his name and keep a family tradition alive in the ancient sport of buzkashi learns that fame is a gift and a curse as the Taliban take control of Afghanistan and threaten his life.
Directors: Jason Motlagh, Mark Oltmanns | Stars: Khaiber Akbarzada, Faisal Hassan, Gulbuddin Mulakhil, Gulbuddin Tashkargani
Votes: 17
5.
Mythbusters Jr. (2019)
Episode:
Duct Tape Special
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Reality-TV
Adam Savage and a team of 6 kids put duct tape to the test and find out if the magnificent material can be used as a viable parachute and as a fix for a flat tire.
Directors: Jacquelyn Marker, Yvette Solis | Stars: Adam Savage, Allie Weber, Cannan Huey-You, Elijah Horland
Votes: 38
6.
Nature (1982– )
Episode:
Ocean in Glass: Behind the Scenes of the Monterey Bay Aquarium
(2006)
TV-PG | 55 min | Documentary, Family
Imagine standing on the bottom of the ocean and looking up into a glittering kelp forest alive with darting fish, or watching five-foot-long sharks and giant tuna whiz by at arm's length, ... See full summary »
Stars: Barbara Block, Peter Coyote, Gil Falcone, Scott Greenwald
Votes: 21
7.
Undercover History (1997– )
Episode:
The Hunt for the Boston Strangler
(2007)
Documentary, History
Police closed the case of the infamous Boston Strangler when Albert De Salvo confessed to the murder of 13 women. Recent forensic evidence reveals that in at least one of the murders police may have had the wrong man.
Director: Noel Dockstader | Stars: Tim Thunderhorse Halpin, Jo Adell, Liz Anderson, Tim Brazil
Votes: 9
8. The Shift (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
In this compelling film, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer explores the spiritual journey from ambition to meaning.
Director: Michael A. Goorjian | Stars: Wayne Dyer, Portia de Rossi, Edward Kerr, Michael DeLuise
Votes: 1,121
9. Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures (2006– )
360 min | Documentary
A generation ago, Jacques-Yves Cousteau revealed the oceans' mysteries to millions of landlocked PBS viewers and inspired a groundswell of public awareness of the unique problems faced by ... See full summary »
Stars: Fabien Cousteau, Celine Cousteau, Pierce Brosnan, Robert Redford
Votes: 72
10.
Mythbusters Jr. (2019)
Episode:
Battery Blast
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Reality-TV
Testing myths: Does an arrow fly straight? Can you start a garbage truck fire with tossed batteries?
Directors: Jacquelyn Marker, Yvette Solis | Stars: Adam Savage, Allie Weber, Cannan Huey-You, Elijah Horland
Votes: 26
11.
Mythbusters Jr. (2019)
Episode:
Breaking Bad Blow-Up
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Reality-TV
Adam Savage and the team are challenged by Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan to prove just how destructive a giant magnet can be, and later, the team investigates how everyday furniture ... See full summary »
Directors: Jacquelyn Marker, Yvette Solis | Stars: Adam Savage, Allie Weber, Cannan Huey-You, Elijah Horland
Votes: 22
12. $avvy (2021)
79 min | Documentary
With incisive humor and captivating honesty, $avvy questions why women often take a backseat to their finances and why it's so important now more than ever for women to take control of their financial futures.
Director: Robin Hauser | Stars: Grace Anjorin, Apollo Baldoz, Caitlin Boston, Bev Collard
Votes: 17
13.
Mythbusters Jr. (2019)
Episode:
Gravity Busters
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Reality-TV
Adam Savage and the team put a Slinky to the test and try to use it to hoist a car, and meanwhile, they investigate if an ordinary pencil can really draw a line that's 35 miles long.
Directors: Jacquelyn Marker, Yvette Solis | Stars: Adam Savage, Valerie Castillo, Lenore Edman, Elijah Horland
Votes: 12
14.
Mythbusters Jr. (2019)
Episode:
Bug Special
(2019)
TV-PG | 44 min | Reality-TV
Adam and the team tackle some insect-themed tall tales. They test whether a scaled-up bug trap can trap a human, and also see if spider silk is stronger than steel.
Directors: Jacquelyn Marker, Yvette Solis | Stars: Adam Savage, Allie Weber, Cannan Huey-You, Elijah Horland
Votes: 16
15. Savage Builds (2019– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
Host Adam Savage collaborates with notable experts to build some of the most ambitious projects in his career.
Stars: Adam Savage, Jon Marcu, Marcos Ramirez, Jen Schachter
Votes: 371
16.
Mythbusters Jr. (2019)
Episode:
Demolition Dominoes
(2019)
TV-PG | 44 min | Reality-TV
The team tackles two tabletop gaming myths. Is it possible to pull off the impossible Jenga move and can the domino effect lead to a car-crushing catastrophe?
Directors: Jacquelyn Marker, Yvette Solis | Stars: Adam Savage, Valerie Castillo, Elijah Horland, Cannan Huey-You
Votes: 26
17. National Geographic Explorer (1985– )
120 min | Documentary, History
A weekly series of short documentary segments funded by the National Geographic Society and done in the style of the National Geographic Specials. In 2003, the show was re-branded National ... See full summary »
Stars: Salvatore Vecchio, Peter Coyote, Lisa Ling, Ryan Duffy
Votes: 316
18. Resilience (III) (2016)
60 min | Documentary
An exploration into the developments of medical studies where conditions like heart disease can be linked to childhood experiences.
Director: James Redford
Votes: 51
19. National Geographic Investigates (2011– )
Documentary
Stars: Lisa Yamada, Alpha Takahashi, Waymond Lee, Marcus Natividad
Votes: 28
20.
Mythbusters Jr. (2019)
Episode:
Deep Space Hollywood
(2019)
TV-PG | 44 min | Reality-TV
The team investigates two film-inspired myths. Can a fire extinguisher be used as a jetpack in a vacuum? And, in space, is it true no one can hear you scream?
Directors: Jacquelyn Marker, Yvette Solis | Stars: Adam Savage, Allie Weber, Cannan Huey-You, Elijah Horland
Votes: 17
21.
Nature (1982– )
Episode:
Salmon: Running the Gauntlet
(2011)
TV-PG | Documentary, Family
This film investigates the parallel stories of collapsing Pacific salmon populations and how biologists and engineers have become instruments in audacious experiments to replicate every ... See full summary »
Star: Jay O. Sanders
Votes: 23
22.
Mythbusters Jr. (2019)
Episode:
Dynamite Air Freshener
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Reality-TV
Adam Savage and team put an explosive myth to the test to find out if a single spark and air freshener can create a catastrophic car calamity. Meanwhile, they investigate an age-old dog ... See full summary »
Directors: Jacquelyn Marker, Yvette Solis | Stars: Adam Savage, Allie Weber, Cannan Huey-You, Elijah Horland
Votes: 28
23.
Mythbusters Jr. (2019)
Episode:
Shredder Explosion
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Reality-TV
Adam Savage and team investigate if the office paper shredder can cause a dangerous explosion when sprayed with canned air and then test if it is impossible to make mayonnaise during a lightning storm.
Directors: Jacquelyn Marker, Yvette Solis | Stars: Adam Savage, Allie Weber, Cannan Huey-You, Elijah Horland
Votes: 22
24. The Game Changers (2018)
86 min | Documentary, Sport
A UFC fighter's world is turned upside down when he discovers an elite group of world-renowned athletes and scientists who prove that everything he had been taught about protein was a lie.
Director: Louie Psihoyos | Stars: James Wilks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrik Baboumian, Dotsie Bausch
Votes: 21,847 | Gross: $0.74M
25. Shark Week (1987– )
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary
Documentary following sharks and shark attacks.
Stars: Andy Casagrande, Paul de Gelder, Chris Fallows, Jason Hildebrandt
Votes: 421
26. Panic 9-1-1 (2012–2022)
Crime, Drama
This one hour program features real audio recordings between a 911 dispatch operator and a victim who is in imminent danger and has called 911 for police assistance. The real audio calls ... See full summary »
Stars: Victor Dobro, Deaundre Wallace, Juan Szilagyi, Eugene G. Swiss Thomas
Votes: 149
27.
Savage Builds (2019– )
Episode:
Nitro Explode-aganza
(2019)
TV-PG | 41 min | Documentary
Adam and a demo expert team up to test one of the most dangerous and explosive substances on the planet, and cutting-edge science and tech will reveal if nitroglycerine really deserves it's notorious reputation.
Directors: Jacquelyn Marker, Yvette Solis | Stars: Adam Savage, Jesse Taylor, Jon Marcu
Votes: 34
28.
Savage Builds (2019– )
Episode:
Dogfight Derby
(2019)
TV-14 | 41 min | Documentary
Adam Savage teams up with Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson to restore a deadly fleet of fighter planes, and using cutting-edge tech, they stage a high-flying dogfight straight out of WWI.
Director: Yvette Solis | Stars: Adam Savage, Peter Jackson, Gary Yardley, Bevan Dewes
Votes: 26
29. Otter 501 (2012)
G | 85 min | Documentary
A storm grows, a sea otter pup is separated from her mother, and a young woman bound for adventure blows in to town. On a wild and windswept beach these lives collide and an entire species'... See full summary »
Director: Bob Talbot | Star: Katie Pofahl
Votes: 43 | Gross: $0.02M
30. John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020)
PG | 96 min | Documentary
The film explores Georgia representative's, 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration.
Director: Dawn Porter | Stars: Elijah Cummings, Anthony Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Ayanna Pressley
Votes: 1,055
31. Toxic Hot Seat (2013)
TV-PG | 91 min | Documentary
TOXIC HOT SEAT follows a courageous group of firefighters and mothers, journalists and scientists, politicians and activists as they fight to expose a shadowy campaign of deception that ... See full summary »
Directors: James Redford, Kirby Walker
Votes: 173
32. Strange Days on Planet Earth (2005– )
240 min | Documentary, History, Mystery
Around the globe, scientists are racing to solve a series of mysteries. Unsettling transformations are sweeping across the planet, and clue by clue, investigators around the world are ... See full summary »
Stars: Edward Norton, James Oqwang, Claudia Riegel, David Duffy
Votes: 221
33.
Savage Builds (2019– )
Episode:
Mega Food Fight
(2019)
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary
Adam stages an epic food fight with his Mythbusters pal, Tory Belleci. They build a rapid-fire weapon that turns hot dogs into destructive projectiles.
Director: Jacquelyn Marker | Stars: Adam Savage, Tory Belleci, John Duncan
Votes: 34
34. Paper Tigers (2015)
PG-13 | 102 min | Documentary, Family
Paper Tigers follows a year in the life of a high school that has radically changed it's approach to disciplining its students, becoming a model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affects families.
Director: James Redford
Votes: 148
35. Undercover History (1997– )
52 min | Documentary, History
Stars: John Benjamin Hickey, Tim Thunderhorse Halpin, Will Rosser, Jordan Romano
Votes: 31
37. The Campaign (2013)
60 min | Documentary
Follows the people behind California's historic No-on-8 campaign to defend same-sex marriage through exclusive behind the scenes footage, interwoven with the national history of marriage equality since the 1950s.
Director: Christie Herring | Star: Patricia Castelo Branco
Votes: 20
38. Mythbusters Jr. (2019)
TV-PG | 60 min | Reality-TV
The nation's most talented kids have a chance to show off their amazing ingenuity and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) skills.
Stars: Adam Savage, Allie Weber, Cannan Huey-You, Elijah Horland
Votes: 347
39. Inside (2007– )
Documentary
National Geographic goes inside and undercover to reveal the secrets and inner-workings of a myriad of topics.
Stars: Nicholas Schatzki, David Jeremiah, Brett Beyer, John Benjamin Hickey
Votes: 42
40. Is It Real? (2005– )
Documentary, History
Pre-Monster Quest, this series attempts to debunk some of histories greatest legends. Ranging from mysterious crop circles to the infamous legend of The Russian Bigfoot, are these myths escalated from legendary folklore - Or are they real?
Stars: Will Lyman, Ian Gregory, Joe Nickell, Benjamin Radford
Votes: 301
41. All Eyes and Ears (2015)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History, News
Interweaving the stories of U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, his adopted Chinese daughter Gracie Mei, and blind legal advocate Chen Guangcheng, the documentary is a timely exploration... See full summary »
Director: Vanessa Hope | Stars: Gracie Mei Huntsman, Jon Huntsman, Guangcheng Chen, Jerome A. Cohen
Votes: 29
42.
Savage Builds (2019– )
Episode:
Wheel of Death
(2019)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
Adam joins forces with a NASA engineer to rebuild a rocket-propelled super weapon called Panjandrum. Originally built to breach barbed wire in WWII, they aim to fix its fatal flaws.
Director: Jacquelyn Marker | Stars: Adam Savage, William Walby, Jon Marcu, Adam Steltzner
Votes: 55
43. Bias (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
Bias' challenges us to confront our hidden biases and understand what we risk when we follow our gut.
Director: Robin Hauser | Stars: Mahzarin Banaji, Iris Bohnet, Joanna Bryson, Angèle Christin
Votes: 36
44.
Is It Real? (2005– )
Episode:
Monsters of the Deep
(2005)
TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary, History
Is it Real investigate underwater monsters. It looks at the evidence for Ogopogo in Lake Okanagan and interviews eyewitnesses of a sea monster in San Fransisco Bay.
Director: Noel Dockstader | Stars: E.L. Bousfield, Bill Clark, Bill Clark, Bob Clark
Votes: 27
45.
National Geographic Explorer (1985– )
Episode:
Marijuana Gold Rush
(2011)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History
Despite the fact that cultivation of cannabis remains a federal offense, a new generation of "ganja-preneurs" hopes to cash in on the growing market for medical marijuana. In California, ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Shaffer
Votes: 7
46.
Mythbusters Jr. (2019)
Episode:
Countdown to Gas-Tastrophe
(2019)
TV-PG | 43 min | Reality-TV
The team test the combustible power of Adam Savage's gassy emissions to see if his flatulence has enough fuel to launch a rocket!
Directors: Jacquelyn Marker, Yvette Solis | Stars: Adam Savage, Allie Weber, Cannan Huey-You, Elijah Horland
Votes: 20
47. Prototype This! (2008– )
Reality-TV
A group of inventors create contraptions to solve life's first-world problems.
Stars: Joe Grand, Andrew Zoz Brooks, Mike North, Terry Sandin
Votes: 186
48.
Shark Week (1987– )
Episode:
Great White Highway
(2012)
TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary
Discover the secret lives of great white sharks living off the coast of California. Shark scientists use the latest tagging technology to "wire the Pacific" and reveal astonishing facts about the great white.
Director: Robert Nixon
Votes: 17
49. In the Flesh (1998)
Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama
A mature but uneasy cop takes in a young gay hustler following a knifing death in the area. A personal relationship wants to form but both are leery of it.
Director: Ben Taylor | Stars: Dane Ritter, Ed Corbin, Shimley Reynolds, Randy Cohlmia
Votes: 603
50. Secret Access: Gang War USA (2011 TV Movie)
46 min | Documentary
Director: Marc Shaffer | Star: Jonny Davila
Votes: 8