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Free Admission
Enjoy the best of National Geographic EXPLORER and TV Specials.
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February 3
Heart of Africa: Forest Primeval
The Zaire River Basin is home to exotic and elusive creatures such as the giraffe-like okapi, the armored pangolin, and the cat-like genet.
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February 10
A Wired World
An entertaining, educational look at how technological advances are changing the ways humans communicate.
Investigating Global Warming
As Earth’s climate continues to warm, scientists seek to determine how much of this climate change is due to human activity.
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February 17
Lords of the Everglades
The Florida Everglades are home to two extraordinary ancient cousins—the endangered American crocodile and the alligator.
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February 24
Man-Eaters of India
A series of grisly attacks on children sends a wave of terror through northeastern India as wildlife officials search desperately for the killer.
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March 3
Driving the Dream
“Art cars” such as filmmaker Harrod Blank’s “Camera Van” are as much a medium of self-expression as a means of transportation.
Route 66: The Mother Road
A photographer travels along America’s most legendary interstate and finds an eclectic assortment of people and places.
Harleys to Hanoi
Three Vietnam War veterans make an unforgettable road trip through the country they fought in three decades ago.
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March 10-24
No presentations due to the JASON Project, live from Monterey Bay, California.
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March 31
Don’t Say Goodbye
Two intrepid photographers travel back and forth across America to document our country’s endangered plant and animal species (presented as part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital).
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April 7
Looters!
Dedicated Navajo rangers fight an uphill battle to protect their people’s cultural heritage from illegal artifact hunters.
Stolen Treasures of Cambodia
A survivor of Cambodia’s killing fields now fights to preserve his country’s magnificent and endangered temple of Angkor Wat.
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April 14
Killer Whales of the Fjord
A marine biologist and a wildlife photographer get up-close-and-personal with killer whales who gather together each year to hunt off the coast of Norway.
Deep Flight
A British engineer designs and tests a winged craft in which humans can “fly” underwater.
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April 21
Death Zone
A pair of mountain climbers struggles to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and one of them must make an agonizing life-or-death decision on the way back down.
Arctic Crossing
Two British explorers attempt the first unsupported crossing of the Arctic Ocean via the North Pole.
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April 28
Snow Monkey Roundup
Threatened by overpopulation and loss of habitat, a troop of Japanese snow monkeys finds a new home—on a ranch in South Texas.
Mountain Gorillas
A family of gorillas in Africa’s Virunga National Park is threatened as refugees from the Rwandan civil war are forced to invade the forest kingdom.
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May 5
Multi-Image Spectacular: Headlines
In its 110-year history, the National Geographic Society has made news by supporting important research projects and daring expeditions into the unknown.
Exploration
Three modern explorers—paleontologist Paul Sereno, oceanographer Robert Ballard, and polar explorer Will Steger—reflect upon the meaning of exploration in today’s world.
Cultures
Despite the incredible diversity of the world’s peoples, humans everywhere share in the cycle of life.
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May 12
Savage Garden
Comedian Leslie Nielsen discovers a fierce struggle for survival being waged in his apparently peaceful backyard garden.
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