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Expand your horizons with powerful and insightful news and information documentaries from the worlds of science, nature, medicine and outdoor adventure.

Josh Gates explores how club members' swashbuckling exploits inspired Hollywood; a bullwhip-cracking archaeologist may be the real-life Indiana Jones; a Nazi mountaineer's life-changing "Seven Years in Tibet" became a Brad Pitt star turn.

Tales From the Explorers Club

Explorer's Club at the Movies

Josh recounts a Himalayan mission to find the yeti and a filmmaker's pursuit of the dangerous elephant king; the starving crew of an Antarctic expedition makes difficult choices to survive.

Monsters and Myths

Josh Gates explores daring journeys, including the Kon-Tiki balsa raft crossing the Pacific, NASA's lunar rover making tracks on the moon and an airplane flying around the world without the use of fuel.

Wild Rides

Josh Gates boldly explores members' most heart-pounding journeys into space; Apollo 13 astronauts fight to bring their crippled spacecraft 238,000 miles back to Earth and futuristic SpaceShipOne could give others a chance to travel to space.

The Race to Space

Josh Gates tackles history's most chilling polar adventures, including Robert Peary and Matthew Henson's brave push to the North Pole as well as Ernest Shackleton's epic survival in Antarctic ice.

Polar Extremes

Josh Gates recounts the death-defying exploits of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, who summit Mount Everest; two submariners plunge seven miles under the Pacific; a pilot skydives from the edge of space.

Highest Highs, Lowest Lows

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At the world-famous Explorers Club, a gathering place for trailblazers, club member Josh Gates recounts the greatest adventures of all time; probing the club's vast archive, he sheds new light on expeditions that test the limits of human possibility.

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Explore your world with powerful and insightful news and information documentaries from the worlds of science, nature, medicine and outdoor adventure.

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