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Buster Baxter travels the country with his airline pilot father, recording his adventures on a video camera for his friends back in Elwood City. Featured here are all 40 episodes from the first season such as: Meet Me at the Fair; Among the Hmong; Buster and Beatrice; A Sense of Direction; The Giant Pumpkins; Up the River; Buster's Buffalo Roundup; and many more.

In 1906 in America it was first discovered that humans could transmit typhoid fever. This is a dramatization of the outbreak and a profile of Irish cook Mary Mallon, known as 'Typhoid Mary'. Quarantined against her will, the story reveals the newfound power of health officials to protect the masses, often at the expense of personal liberties.

Examines the most critical health threats facing the world today by portraying conditions in over twenty countries, examining why diseases that are curable still persist, the efforts to treat them, and the dangers of new "superbugs."

Four segments on the topic of origins, exploring questions like the conditions that first created life, the precursors to DNA, the birth of our solar system as we know it, the role lice played in the story of human evolution, and the medical erasure of memories.

In Season Two, follow celebrity chef Pete Evans on a culinary journey across America as he teams up with the countryb2ss most innovative chefs including Susan Feniger, Mary Sue Milliken, Donald Link, and Marco Canora, to source the finest regional ingredients and create a multicourse feast for friends. Learn cooking tips and techniques from our chefs, and how you can interpret their flavorful dishes in your own kitchen.

Follows businessman Peter Robbins' quest to emulate Jules Verne's Captain Nemo and build his own submarine with a panoramic view. Shows how he and his helpers experience challenges, setbacks, and triumphs as they build their submarine without the resources of a big shipyard and using only scavenged or off-the-shelf parts. Shares the thrill of the sub's maiden voyage, an expedition to the depths of the English channel to find the sunken remains of...

1st episode: "The magnificent Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, houses over two million works spanning over 5,000 years of human history. Overflowing with definitive examples of medieval, European, Egyptian, Asian and American masterworks, the Met is one of New York's most renowned art muesums. Join Sister Wendy as she reveals surprising details behind one of the museum's finest paintings, Juan de Pareja by Velázquez, shares the daring and subtlety...

Master carpenter Norm Abram shows viewers the skills required to master the table saw in a two part program

Pope Benedict made history when he announced his resignation. In his wake he left a bitterly divided Vatican mired in scandals. Frontline goes inside the Vatican to unravel the remarkable series of events that led to the resignation that shook the world. Frontline gives a first-hand account of the final days of Benedict's papacy and the current battle to set the Church on a new path under Francis.