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Season 4 – Explorer

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This award-winning series presents compelling untold stories and covers a wide array of provocative subjects. "Explorer" aired for 25 years -- the longest-running documentary series in cable TV history -- before being relaunched in 2015 after a five-year hiatus. Each monthly episode of the new "Explorer" takes a similar deep dive inside a story from the pages of a recent National Geographic magazine issue, taking viewers not only to the most remote corners of the globe but also to the furthest reaches of the mind and deepest crevices of history -- on urgent missions of discovery.

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Explorer — Season 4

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Lisa Ling

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Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Jan 9, 2008 Science of Evil Religious, political and scientific methods of confronting and understanding man's inhumanity to man; the Stanford Prison Experiment. Details Episode 2 Aired Jan 30, 2008 Inside Sumo The 1,500-year-old Japanese tradition of sumo wrestling is a closed world. Details Episode 3 Aired Feb 13, 2008 Testosterone Factor Testosterone affects men's strength, status, sex, life expectancy and way of thinking. Details Episode 4 Aired Mar 12, 2008 Alaska's Last Oil The battle for oil in Alaska, the home of the nation's largest wildlife preserve. Details Episode 5 Aired Mar 26, 2008 Border Wars Mexican drug smugglers and job seekers who succeed in crossing the border into the U.S.; Border Patrol officers attempt to stem the tide of illegal immigrants. Details Episode 6 Aired Apr 1, 2008 Death of the Iceman Three possible motives emerge in a 5,000-year-old murder on a glacier in the European Alps, illuminating the origins of conflict in the Copper Age. Details Episode 7 Aired Jun 3, 2008 Tunnel to a Lost World An archaeological discovery holds up the greatest engineering project in Istanbul's history. Details Episode 8 Aired Jun 4, 2008 Mystery of the Mummy Murders Advances in forensic science give solid answers to questions about bog mummies that have confounded scientists for decades. Details Episode 9 Aired Jun 10, 2008 Science of Cats Scientific evidence of how the cat became the most popular pet on earth. Details Episode 10 Aired Jun 17, 2008 Finding Anastasia It remains uncertain whether Russian Romanov Princess Anastasia survived the 1918 Bolshevik firing squad or perished along with her brother and father. Details Episode 11 Aired Aug 10, 2008 Zoo Tiger Escape A Siberian tiger escapes her enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo, injuring two and killing one before being shot. Details Episode 12 Aired Sep 2, 2008 Moment of Death Death, with its ever-changing definition, affects humans' bodies and minds. Details Episode 13 Aired Sep 16, 2008 Congo Bush Pilots Congo bush pilots traffic everything from humanitarian relief supplies to weapons despite the inherent danger in flying in and out of Africa's most politically volatile and remote areas. Details Episode 14 Aired Nov 20, 2008 Lost Cities of the Amazon Scientific explorers examine evidence that during the 16th century the rain forest was far more populated with villages and towns than formerly believed. Details Episode 15 Aired Nov 25, 2008 Secret History of Gold Exposing the underbelly of the modern gold trade with a treasure hunter and an illegal miner. Details Episode 16 Aired Dec 2, 2008 Marijuana Nation Marijuana, the most widely used illicit drug on the planet, is intertwined with culture, economics, law enforcement and perhaps medical miracles. Details Episode 17 Aired Dec 9, 2008 Guns in America A police officer returns to the job after being shot while on duty; a young mother considers joining the 80 million Americans who own a gun. Details
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Season Info

Network
National Geographic
Rating
TV-14
Genre
Documentary, Nature
Original Language
English
Release Date
Jan 9, 2008