National Geographic: Pyramids of Death (2005)

Condenados por una bruja traidora a permanecer en muerte aparente para la eternidad, el despiadado emperador chino Dragón y sus diez mil guerreros han esperado en su amplia tumba de barro, olvidados de todos, durante cientos de años, cual ejército de terracota. Pero cuando el joven aventurero y arqueólogo Alex O'Connel es engañado para que despierte de su sueño eterno al temible gobernante, no le queda más remedio que pedir ayuda a las únicas personas que saben más que él acerca de los no muertos: sus padres.

Tres antiguos miembros de las fuerzas especiales son contratados por un jeque árabe para matar a tres miembros del SAS (Servicio Especial Aéreo británico), culpables de la muerte de tres de sus hijos durante unos disturbios en Omán diez años antes. Dos de ellos aceptan por dinero, mientras que el tercero (Jason Statham) lo hace para salvar la vida de un amigo. Pero llevar a cabo tan peligrosa misión no será nada fácil, pues, aunque son profesionales, están bajo el control de una organización formada por antiguos miembros del SAS, denominada The Feather Men.

Han pasado diez años, Rick O'Connell se ha casado con Evelyn, y ambos son padres del pequeño Alex, de ocho años. Cuando, tras una serie de acontecimientos, la momia del antiguo sacerdote egipcio Im-Ho-Tep es resucitada por una extraña secta en el British Museum, y la maldición milenaria del Rey Escorpión -que seis mil años atrás traicionó al dios Anubis- lo devuelve a la vida, el choque entre ambas fuerzas malignas desencadenará el caos en el mundo... si Rick y Evelyn no consiguen evitarlo.

El legionario Rick O'Connell y su socio descubren durante una batalla en Egipto las ruinas de Hamunaptra, la ciudad de los muertos. Pasado un tiempo, este descubrimiento le permitirá salvar su vida y volver al lugar con una egiptóloga y su hermano, donde coinciden con un grupo de americanos. Todos ellos, seducidos por la aventura, provocarán la resurrección de la momia de un diabólico sacerdote egipcio que intenta desesperadamente recuperar a su amada.

Tres amigos texanos dispuestos a disfrutar del verano antes de entrar en la universidad, deciden hacer una escapada a México en busca de drogas, mujeres y alcohol. Una vez allí, tropiezan con una secta satánica formada por narcotraficantes que se dedican a violar y mutilar salvajemente a mujeres. Los tres sufrirán en sus propias carnes las consecuencias de haber pasado al otro lado de la frontera...

Después de una larga racha de percances, decisiones erróneas y fracasos estrepitosos, los arqueólogos Max y Leo (Norris y Gossett) han decidido dejar su trabajo, pero se vuelven atrás cuando una bella mujer los contrata para buscar un tesoro azteca. Lo que ignoran es que un poderoso y vengativo espíritu sigue sus movimientos y, con tal de proteger el tesoro sagrado, no se detendrá ante nada.

Cinco años después de que la Tierra haya sufrido una invasión extraterrestre, un cínico periodista concuerda en escoltar a una turista desde una zona infectada en México hasta la segura frontera de Estados Unidos.

La acción gira en torno a la obsesión de un potentado terrateniente mejicano obsesionado por acabar con el hombre que ha dejado embarazada a su hija. No vacilará en ofrecer una generosa recompensa a quien le entregue la cabeza de quien ha mancillado el honor de su hija, cabeza que se convertirá en el centro de una amarga disputa a lo largo de toda la película.

Tras dar por muerto a un hombre que había desaparecido, su hija tendrá que ocuparse de organizar un funeral, en el que que las seis exmujeres de su padre siembran el caos.

Guy Carrell vive con su hermana Kate en la gran mansión familiar. Después de averiguar que su padre pudo haber sido enterrado vivo, Guy vive dominado por la obsesión de que a él le pueda ocurrir lo mismo, es decir, teme ser víctima de la catalepsia. A pesar de ello, decide casarse con su prometida Emily, la cual, no pudiendo soportar la fobia de su marido, decide pedir ayuda a Miles Archer, un científico amigo suyo.

En el marco de las fiestas del Bicentenario de independencia, Benjamín García, cómo miles de paisanos, regresa a su pueblo deportado de U.S.A. y encuentra un panorama desolador provocado por la crisis económica y la violencia demencial que azotan el lugar. Sin otra opción, y para salvar a su familia de la miseria, García se involucra en el negocio del narco en el que tiene, por primera vez en su vida, una fulgurante prosperidad, pero también un triste y dramático final. Sátira de cáustico humor negro, sobre el mundo del narco, la crisis económica, la corrupción y la violencia irracional que nos aquejan, EL INFIERNO nos lleva a preguntarnos: ¿Habrá este 2010, algo que celebrar?

Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers. A gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and Gustaf Skarsgard.

Un humilde campesino y leñador llamado Macario ("Ignacio López Tarso") vive obsesionado por la pobreza que sufre y el temor a la muerte. Debido a la precaria situación al borde de inanición que viven él y su familia comienza a anhelar poder disfrutar de un banquete sin tener que compartirlo con nadie.

Un científico planea la vuelta del pueblo azteca sacrificando doncellas que tengan una marca en la mano pero que solo la puede ver un brujo. Esto surge a partir de la interpretación que éste hace de un antiguo códice. Cantinflas es su despistado secretario que posee poderes sobrenaturales.

A troubled sheriff, a failure at everything in his life, tries to redeem himself by extraditing a popular gunfighter from Mexico to stand trial for murder.

Una reportera televisiva y su novio luchan por su vida al mismo tiempo que intentan resolver el misterio del ataque de los pájaros.

Ocho directores mexicanos se unen para traer a la vida cuentos de las más terribles tradiciones y leyendas mexicanas, historias inquietantes tejidas en la cultura de una nación, algunas transmitidas a través de los siglos y algunas nuevas, pero todas igualmente aterradoras. Historias sobre hombres del saco, trolls, fantasmas, monstruos, sacrificios aztecas y, por supuesto, el Día de los Muertos.

Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.

Feature length documentary examining the troubled life and tragic death of college football standout and talented NFL running back Lawrence Phillips, whose scars of childhood abuse and abandonment haunted him throughout his career.

Gary is turning into a dinosaur, and Eric must find the cure. This becomes a globetrotting journey into everything dino while searching for the magic waters needed to stop Gary's odd transformation. Will Eric be too late? Get ready to meet the Garysaurus!

Weaponology looks at the genealogy of Israel's Elite Commando Unit from the Israel Defense Forces which specialize in hostage rescue missions and pre-preemptive strikes against terrorists.

Nazis-the occult conspiracy is a documentary about how the Hitler and the Nazis made use of occultism to win the war, and to remind the Germans that they were the best humans on the planet, the master-race. There are better documentaries around, but this is a solid documentary. There are many rare pictures from Nazi-Germany to be seen here, and you get to learn more about the religious beliefs of Nazi-leaders like: Hitler, Goebbles, Göring, Hess and Himmler.

In 1970, a picture of a snow monkey bathing in a hot spring graced the cover of Life Magazine. Ever since, Japan's hot-tubbing primates have been protected and well fed for the enjoyment of tourists and photographers - they have become international superstars of the natural world. But while their unique lifestyle has brought fame, the rest of Japan's snow monkeys lead very different lives, enduring incredible hardships as they fight for survival in their beautiful but unforgiving mountain home.

Jonathan Scott narrates the extraordinary story of the leopard - the one big cat that still survives across half the world while tigers, cheetahs and lions are all struggling. By following the lives of leopard mothers and their cubs in East Africa the film investigates what it is about the natural history of these cats that makes them born survivors. Perhaps the most extraordinary revelation is that leopards are living undercover on farms and even in cities across Africa and Asia.

Was Adolf Hitler influenced and motivated by the occult? Through the years, historians have debated the mysterious connection between the occult, Hitler and the Nazi party, including some who maintain that Hitler killed others to keep his occult beliefs a secret. NGC examines how Hitler's involvement with the German Worker's Party brought him face-to-face with occultists who may have influenced his beliefs.

A credible investigation of possible connections between UFO sightings in the past half century and secret flying saucer technologies developed by the Nazis in WW2

Covering the domestic cat in great detail, The Ultimate Guide: House Cats is both informative and humourous. Illustrated in detail are how man and cats have become companions over the last 4,000 years and how the cat has never really been domesticated even though we think they’ve been. The familiar Ultimate Guide techniques are used to demonstrate why they can see in the dark, why they can jump so high and why they land on their feet. Also, explore a house with a 150 foot cat path that runs through the entire house, hanging from the ceiling.

Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Focusing on the industry's marketing practices, media scholars and health professionals help viewers understand the ways in which direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use of prescription medication, and works in tandem with promotion to doctors. Combined, these industry practices shape how both patients and doctors understand and relate to disease and treatment. Ultimately, Big Bucks, Big Pharma challenges us to ask important questions about the consequences of relying on a for-profit industry for our health and well-being.

Aminatta Forna tells the story of legendary Timbuktu and its long hidden legacy of hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts. With its university founded around the same time as Oxford, Timbuktu is proof that the reading and writing of books have long been as important to Africans as to Europeans.

The Aryan Brotherhood is a secretive criminal gang that began inside California's maximum-security penitentiaries and expanded rapidly into dozens of state and federal prisons across the nation. Outwardly a white power group, its real interest is in controlling drug and extortion rackets. Now, Explorer unveils this underworld society and comes face-to-face with some of the gang's most infamous members, including a former Aryan Brotherhood leader who, by his own count, has killed 22 men.

En las montañas Chiricahua, al sur de Arizona, las hormigas de miel del desierto luchan ferozmente por la supervivencia y por mantener el dominio de esta pequeña porción de erial que conforma su mundo. Todo comienza durante las lluvias torrenciales en el desierto de Sonora, cuando una nueva reina surge, encuentra a un compañero y sale volando para fundar un nuevo imperio. Con el paso de las estaciones, a medida que se suceden los ataques de otras hormigas y de animales incluso más grandes, la reina y sus súbditos se hacen cada vez más fuertes. La gran prueba final, la que marca su supervivencia, se produce cuando se tropiezan con otra colonia de hormigas de la misma especie.

Conoce como esta droga peligrosa es capaz de deshacer vidas de jóvenes y adultos su nombre científico es (desoxiefedrina), es un potente psicoestimulante. Es un agente agonista adrenérgico sintético, estructuralmente relacionado con el alcaloide efedrina y con la hormona adrenalina.

Unlike other great civilizations such as the Romans and the Ancient Egyptians, the Mayan empire did not arise from the banks of a mighty river. Much of the Mayan world is in fact devoid of even the smallest river or lake. Then why did they populate Yucatan? The Maya believed that the freshwater pools, ‘cenotes’, dotted across the area were sacred portals to the underworld. They are indeed portals, but rather to an incredible underground labyrinthine systems of rivers. Only now being properly explored and understood, this secret world was created by nature in a unique chain of dramatic events. Underneath the jungle-clad Mayan temples of Yucatan lies a world even more mysterious, even more incredible than the Maya could have ever imagined. A whole food chain has been found in the cenotes deepest recesses — over 20 species that have never seen the light of day. Some of the underground caverns are not totally full of water… incredibly, they are home to thousands of bats.

As Brazil prepares to host the next World Cup, it's people are confronted with the growing problem of child prostitution. The country's relaxed attitude to buying sex has long attracted millions of tourists, particularly men. But now the world's oldest industry is recruiting the world's youngest workers. UNICEF estimates there are 250,000 children forced into prostitution across Brazil. In this shocking episode of Our World, Chris Rogers goes undercover, posing as one of the millions of so-called sex tourists who visit the South American country in search of cheap sex, often with children as young as seven years old.

In this fascinating documentary, historian Bettany Hughes travels to the seven wonders of the Buddhist world.Her journey begins at the Mahabodhi Temple in India, where Buddhism was born; here Hughes examines the foundations of the belief system - the three jewels.At Nepal's Boudhanath Stupa, she looks deeper into the concept of dharma - the teaching of Buddha, and at the Temple of the Tooth in Sri Lanka, Bettany explores karma, the idea that our intentional acts will be mirrored in the future.At Wat Pho Temple in Thailand, Hughes explores samsara, the endless cycle of birth and death that Buddhists seek to end by achieving enlightenment, before travelling to Angkor Wat in Cambodia to learn more about the practice of meditation.In Hong Kong, Hughes visits the Giant Buddha and looks more closely at Zen, before arriving at the final wonder, the Hsi Lai temple in Los Angeles, to discover more about the ultimate goal for all Buddhists - nirvana.

You'll learn how to strike safely and effectively, and how to defend against common chokes, headlocks, and other assaults. -- You'll also learn to deal with knife attacks, and you'll learn gun defenses that have been praised by civilians and law enforcement around the world. -- Instructional DVD's: Line of Fire, Basic Combatives, Self Defense, and On the Edge show you the techniques in dramatized true-to-life situations. -- To easily master the exercises you are then taken into the training studio to examine the techniques as they are explained and analyzed by Krav Maga's highest level instructors: U.S. Chief Instructor Darren Levine and International Krav Maga Federation Head Instructor Eyal Yanilov. * Krav Maga's battle-tested techniques emphasize simple, practical movements, based on the body's natural instincts that can be performed by people of all levels of ability.

Where do dogs in all their amazing diversity come from? Tradition says that thousands of years ago someone tamed a wolf pup, thus creating the first of our best friends. But many scientists disagree. On "Dogs and More Dogs," NOVA goes to the dogs—and to leading researchers—to find out the truth. Narrated by John Lithgow, the program ranges from a wolf research facility in rural Indiana to the Westminster Dog Show in New York's Madison Square Garden. NOVA makes a fascinating detour to the city dump in Tijuana, Mexico, where viewers get surprising insight into the origin and evolutionary strategy of our canine companions.

Ice is one of the strangest, most beguiling and mesmerising substances in the world. Full of contradictions, it is transparent yet it can glow with colour, it is powerful enough to shatter rock but it can melt in the blink of an eye. It takes many shapes, from the fleeting beauty of a snowflake to the multi-million tonne vastness of a glacier and the eeriness of the ice fountains of far-flung moons. Science writer Dr Gabrielle Walker has been obsessed with ice ever since she first set foot on Arctic sea ice. In this programme she searches out some of the secrets hidden deep within the ice crystal to try to discover how something so ephemeral has the power to sculpt landscapes, to preserve our past and inform our future.

Orange-and-black wings fill the sky as NOVA charts one of nature's most remarkable phenomena: the epic migration of monarch butterflies across North America. To capture a butterfly's point of view, NOVA’s filmmakers used a helicopter, ultralight, and hot-air balloon for aerial views along the transcontinental route. This wondrous annual migration, which scientists are just beginning to fathom, is an endangered phenomenon that could dwindle to insignificance if the giant firs that the butterflies cling to during the winter disappear.