Revelations: Unveiling the Hidden World - A Mystry Channel Documentary Odyssey

In this episode of Mystery Places, we visit the fascinating international kite festival in Gujarat, meet the man who paints Chinese cliffs bright green, and explore unusual houses around the world. We also travel to India to check out the biggest vegetable market, and visit China’s Dwarf Village.

What does it take to deliver millions of packages and documents every day right in time? You need a Giant Hub: UPS Worldport in Louisville is a technological marvel. It is the largest automated package handling facility in the world and the center point of UPS’s worldwide air network. More than 300 flights arrive and depart daily and the hub with its 250 kilometers of conveyors has a throughput of 500.000 packages per hour. Roughly two million packages a day increasing to more than four million during the peak season. 10 pm. The night rush hour begins. When frontline supervisor Tyler Sawvell and his crew unload and load the aircraft on the ground – guys like Terry Rigdon in the general operation center control every flight activity of the cargoplanes. The world’s leading logistics group UPS relies on their one airline. With its 244 aircraft, UPS Airlines is one of the biggest worldwide. Terry Rigdon’s goal is to get every aircraft with its cargo to its right destination – on schedule. But on this night, bad weather causes a lot of trouble and delays for the whole crew at Worldport. Due to thunderstorms, the whole area has been put on an operations ban for 30 minutes. That means the outbound crew is not allowed to work. They can not unload any airplane. So they can’t feed the hub. Are they able to recover lost time to get a very special package with a gas tank from Triumph motorcycle to his customer in Seattle overnight?

Between 1969 and 1972 twelve men walked on the surface of the moon. It was seen as the first chapter in an ambitious program of space exploration. But what started with NASA's Apollo missions ended with the Apollo missions. Humanity's boldest venture is now 50 years in the past. To The Moon - From Dream To Reality looks back at the people and the technology of the Apollo era.

00:00 Intro 00:07 Appice, the italian ghost town 14:29 Swallow nest harvesting in Borneo 27:07 The prison of a 1000 possibilities in Italy. 41:42 The Dr. Seuss tower of Alaska. Mystery Places - Abandoned Fake Pentagon, Luxury Survival Condo, Minefield:

00:00 Mars Early in the life of the solar system, Mars appears to have had Earth-like conditions. Planetary researchers have been targeting Mars to gain insight into how our planet developed. This episode looks at the work of the probes orbiting Mars and the rovers exploring its surface. 25:56 Saturn The ringed planet is of immense interest to researchers who believe that Saturn’s ring system will share similarities with the proto-planetary disc from which the solar system evolved. This episode reveals the work done by the Cassini probe which spent more than 13 years examining the Saturnian system.

Air and Naval forces team up to test weapons with a live fire attack on a modern day destroyer. Operation Trident Fury is a gathering of powerful Air and Naval forces for a live fire exercise off the Pacific coast. Weapons systems and settings are pushed to the limit with the goal of sinking the destroyer, HMCS Huron and results in fierce competition from air and naval forces to deal the fatal blow.

Space Science : On a Mission from Earth - Satellites (and How They Change Our Lives) In 2015, Nepal was hit by the strongest earthquake in the country's history. Images from radar satellites capture geological mapping and the impact of the quake - almost to the centimeter. In 1946, cameras delivered the first shots from space. Today, the continuous monitoring of Earth is already within reach. Modern telephony, television, and the internet are not possible without the technology in Earth’s orbit. Big data threat or telecommunications 2.0? Prof. Dr. Ulrich Walter explains in Space Science.

On this episode of “Mavericks Unlimited,” we join diamond hunters in the rough seas on the South African coast, risking their lives for a big find that will enable them to live a different life. Later, we visit men living with the most dangerous of animals - hundreds of scorpions or a polar bear. These men foster very special relationships with the wild animals that live with them. Finally, we go extreme slacklining at dizzying heights, balancing above an abyss with nothing but a small, thin belt under the feet.

Not until 2015 was this promising exoplanet tracked down by NASA telescopes. The geophysical characteristics indicate Earth-like temperatures and even water in liquid form is likely. Meanwhile, astrophysicists suspect a solar system similar to ours around each star; discovering more and more Earth-like celestial bodies. Physicist Prof. Dr. Ulrich Walter explains in this episode of Spacetime, the dynamics involved in the search for extraterrestrial life today.

Nasa Rocket Tower Demolition: Blowdown is an explosive four-part building demolition series profiling some of the most challenging projects of Controlled Demolition Inc. of Phoenix, Maryland. Each of the structures, some notable, others notorious is unique and presents the team with challenges ranging from structural, to explosive and bureaucratic. In this episode, the team from CDI travels to Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral, Florida to take down an obsolete rocket launch tower. Mobile Station Tower 40 (or MST 40) was once the largest mobile structure in the world. Built during the early 1990s MST 40 was 265 feet tall, and had 20 working stories. It launched both the prestigious Mars Observer as well as the Cassini mission to Saturn. During the late 1990s, the Air Force phased out the rocket type that was launched from the tower, and in 2005 MST 40 was retired. The demolition team has just 30 days to prepare the tower for explosives and bring her down safely. They struggle to work in a brush fire hazard area where frequent electrical storms and high winds heighten the risk of working on the tower. Adding to their challenges are two sets of lightning towers that lie close to the tumbling tower’s intended path and a subterranean control bunker that lies beneath it. So that neither be harmed during the implosion the demolition team must pull off a precise drop. To achieve the precision they need CDI uses over 700 powerful steel-cutting explosives called shaped charges. These incendiary devices are high-velocity explosives – they employ the same technology as armor-piercing shells and warheads. The team uses the charges to cut through the tower’s entirely metal structure. CDI comes in to work on MST 40 during the cusp of hurricane season. They have just one month to prepare, load, and implode the tower. Major concerns are undermining the hurricane-proof rocket tower’s integrity, gutting hundreds of thousands of structural steel while remaining on schedule, and manually moving the tower 75 feet.

The Executioner’s Shadow casts a penetrating look at the consequences of the death penalty through three powerful stories – a former state executioner who comes within days of executing an innocent person, a Boston Marathon bombing victim who struggles to decide what justice means, and the parents of a murder victim who choose to fight for the life of their daughter’s killer. As the battle over capital punishment heats up, this provocative film challenges viewers to question their deepest beliefs about the meaning of justice.

In this episode of Mystery Places, we travel to the richest country in the world, visit a mind-blowing hotel in Italy, and visit the USA in Germany. We also check out a chicken-shaped church in Indonesia and discover the unknown world under Moscow.

Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries looks at extraterrestrials. It first looks at (10) mysterious disappearances of ships and aircraft, (9) ancient texts offering information on alien encounters, (8) the top secret military base Area 51, (7) strange ancient artifacts like the Antikythera mechanism and the Iron pillar of India, (6) crop circles, (5) close encounters of the third kind, (4) top secret projects, (3) the high probability of life in the universe, (2) encounters during space missions, and (1) unidentified flying objects.

What would happen if, tomorrow, every single person on Earth simply disappeared? Not dead, simply gone, just like that. A world without people, where city streets are still populated by cars, but no drivers. A world where there is no one to fix bridges or repair broken windows… After being on the receiving end of humanity for millennia, nature would finally be given a chance to take the world back. But how would it work? How long would the skyscrapers and houses last if they were abandoned? How would suburban pets fare without people to feed them? How would the forests, the oceans, and the wildlife react if there was suddenly an end to all the hunting, fishing, and farming? “Aftermath” is the astounding story of a world that humans will never see. The two-hour special examines the impact of human beings on this planet by proposing what the Earth might be like without people.

The Russian high-speed train Sapsan is the longest of its kind. Based on the ICE 3, this gigantic machine travels at over 250 kilometers per hour. Sapsan means “peregrine falcon” in Russian. Both, the falcon and the train are true long-distance-specialists. However, after 1.2 million kilometers, each Sapsan is due for its big R3-revision. Since the Sapsan trains have only been launched in 2009, for the first time now a Russian high-speed train returns to the depot for the biggest overhaul in its entire life span. Every single part of the train is inspected and, if necessary, replaced. A highlight of the revision: disassembling and replacing the bogies. A critical part of the procedure - they are essential to passenger safety. Each of them weighs around 8 to 12 tons and yet has to be handled by hand! To do so, the massive train is separated into two halves. Now, 5 coaches (which means: 125 meters!) have to be lifted at a time. A delicate maneuver! All of the massive carriage jacks have to work accurately to a millimeter so that the heavy train won´t buckle sideways. To meet the incredibly tight schedule of only 34 days, every little detail of the R3 needs precise planning beforehand. “Smaller” repairs such as the change of pantographs or substitutions of the interior can be quite time-consuming. To double-up the speed of the R3, the engineers work parallel on both halves of the train, before the Sapsan gets a brand new painting in the end.

When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it’s essential that we understand it. Yet simple questions often get overlooked – questions like: Where does money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how it gets used? And what does that mean for the millions of ordinary people who suffer when money and finance break down? 97% Owned is a new documentary that reveals how the creation of credit and the mystery that surrounds it, is at the root of our current social and economic crisis. Referring to the 97% of the world’s money supply that is represented by credit this thought-provoking film presents serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system and is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK perspective Featuring frank interviews and commentary from economists, campaigners, and former bankers, it exposes the privatized, debt-based monetary system that gives banks the power to create money, shape the economy, cause crises, and push house prices out of reach. Fact-based and clearly explained, 97% Owned demonstrates how the power to create money is the piece of the puzzle that economists were missing when they failed to predict the crisis.

Billion Dollar Base: Dismantling Camp Bastion tells the story of the team dismantling the British Army base in Afghanistan. For eight years it’s been the powerhouse of UK and US military operations. Now Britain’s biggest overseas base since World War II is closing down for good. This documentary was given exclusive access to the men and women whose job it was to pack up this giant jigsaw puzzle, ending one of the longest wars in British history. A town bigger than many in Britain, with a massive infrastructure – airport, hospital, fast food restaurants – is being dismantled bolt by bolt and sent back to the UK. What is left will be handed over to the Afghans. But with defenses and manpower depleting daily, in the face of a constant threat from the Taliban, it’s a dangerous race against time to close this city in the sand.

This episode of Desperate Hours is all about disasters at sea. The long saga of death and misadventure at sea is as much a record of human folly as it is of nature’s fury. When you start charting a course through the choppy seas of maritime disasters, the effect can be quite sobering. From the loss of the Titanic, a supposedly unsinkable luxury liner; to a routine ferry trip in South Korea that ended with the heart-breaking loss of so many young lives. Or how about the Exxon Valdez oil spoil, which pumped millions of gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, one of the last pristine environments on earth? Then there is the return of piracy to the high seas – not as a masquerade, but as a clear and present danger. That old saying “worse things happen at sea”? Well, it turns out, they really do.

In Britain today, over 100 women are married or engaged to prisoners on America’s Death Row. This is Sandie’s story – she is 47 and a twice-divorced mother of 2 from Somerset in England. In February 2008, Sandie married Charles ‘Chucky’ Mamou. Her wedding video shows her in a white gown with a veil and a beautiful bouquet, but there is something missing – the groom. He is on Death Row for a double murder during a drug deal, a crime for which he insists he is innocent. Texas Death Row is strictly non-contact so Sandie had to get married with a stand-in – it was her new father-in-law who presented her with the ring and stood by her side in front of the pastor. After just 4 months Sandie discovered Chucky had been writing sex letters to a married woman in the UK – so ended the relationship. Sandie has had up to 30 prison penpals, and recently she has fallen in love. 28-year-old Reginald Blanton proposed and she said yes. Reginald is also on Death Row, found guilty of shooting his friend in the head. He too says he is innocent. Despite their 19-year age gap, they both profess this is true love, but their relationship is confined to annual visits and hundreds of letters. Reginald has lost his final appeal and his execution is imminent. Sandie will be there.

Somewhere on Earth is setting sail for the Aegean Sea. A natural boundary between Europe and the Near East, this interior sea of the Mediterranean Basin has been inhabited since prehistoric times. An unpredictable sea surrounded by rugged mountains, it has given birth to great myths and fired many an imagination. Peter Nicolaides is a collector of tales. Fascinated by the ruins and legends of the Cyclades, he has appointed himself guardian of these treasures. He’s constantly discovering relics and works tirelessly toward creating Maritime Protected Areas. Hortense Le Calvez left her native France to lead a nomadic life. On board her sailboat, she follows the whims of the sea. This artist has created a world of her own, a dream world where the earthly laws of gravity have given way to poetry. Michaelis Styllas, an accomplished climber, has found his equilibrium on the most mythical of mountains. He lives year-round on the peaks of Mount Olympus, the abode of the Ancient Greek gods, where unspoiled Nature guides his footsteps and nourishes his soul.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner: it’s pizza pizza pizza for Dan Jansen. We asked ourselves: isn’t this unbalanced diet really unhealthy? We visit the passionate pizza guy in, where else, the USA.

Burning deserts and massive mountain ranges: the state of Nevada in the American West is an uncompromising land. In this rugged landscape, Men with their original, rough-hewn characters live out their purest aspirations. Nevada is the site of the Burning Man Festival, a utopian space of ephemeral creations in the heart of the desert. The cowboy tradition is still alive and well in this state that can seem like a page out of the Old West. While in Las Vegas, the world’s most intrepid daredevils vie with the eagles. For several years now, Matt Schultz has been creating works of art that he installs and exposes during the Burning Man, this music and contemporary art festival off-the-wall. Matt lives in Reno, situated in a mountainous region in the northwest of Nevada near California. He often heads to the Black Rock desert. Black Rock is not your ordinary desert. In this season it’s empty and barren like any other desert. But for one week a year, at the end of August, a huge crowd gathers here for an off-the-wall music and arts festival: Burning Man. Andy Hedges is a musician from Texas. He’s 35 and is part of a young generation captivated by The Cowboy Culture. Now, he’s touring Nevada, driving on Highway 50, which Life magazine once called, “The Loneliest Road in America.” Traveling this route, Andy is sure to find the genuine America, the America that he recaptures in his songs. Tex Coe runs an airline that is nothing like other companies. It’s specialized in aerobatics. Las Vegas International Airport. 8 A.M. The entire crew is out on the tarmac to prepare the aircraft for the day’s flights… with tender loving care! Tex Coe heads this gang of daredevils. For 11 years he was part of the Air Force’s elite corps of fighter pilots. Today for Tex and his crew, aerobatics is their way of defying death, but they do it with a laugh. A dangerous game but so very exciting!

The most modern warship in the Danish Navy - the HDMS Absalon needs a major overhaul. Every 5 years, the warship is docked and checked to the bones. This happens in Orskov Yard in Frederikshavn, North Denmark. The flexible support ship is 137 meters long and equipped with high-precision weapon systems: From torpedoes to machine guns to anti-missile weapons. Thanks to its smooth and angled outer skin, the Absalon reflects only a fraction of radar radiation, making it extremely difficult to detect. The tracking systems of the warship itself, on the other hand, are highly sensitive. Space for two helicopters, two separate engines, bulletproof steel, and the most sophisticated technology – all of this is due to be inspected. The most complex of all the processes is checking the marine shaft device. Which, in effect, means cutting a hole in the ship to remove the rudder and propellers. The bow thruster is removed and maintained, as well as the sonar – a top secret mission. And then there are the upgrades: The technicians install a brand new UV filter system for cleaning the ballast water; the painters give the entire ship a new look. All of this happens under extreme time pressure: the team has only 5 weeks. But unexpected problems, as well as the special construction of the highly highly-equippen vessel push the engineers to their limits. In this MEGA PIT STOP.

The legend of “El Dorado” was brought to the American conquerors in search of unknown treasures. The gold rush is still alive today, creating new crime Cartels that devastate the land with the greatest biodiversity in the world. "Illegal Gold: Operation Exodus" provides exclusive access to the first Colombian Military Brigade. Its only mission is to fight Illegal Mining. This unit of the Colombian Army tackles an enemy that has no boundaries and destroys the environment with a speed and magnitude never seen before. The brigade´s military operations take the viewers to the real life of this elite team in their fight against illegal mining. The planning, training, and what they go through before a mission. In this episode, the Brigade deployed a large contingent of more than 200 elite commandos, using black hawks, drones, and zodiac boats. “Operación Exodo” objective is to prevent mercury spills into the second largest river of Colombia.

Forget about life-work-balance: A new generation of drugs promises unlimited increases in productivity without the need for rest or sleep. “Brain doping” is the latest trend among high flyers. Move over, Aldous Huxley: Pharmaceutical companies work on a Brave New You by developing pills that increase mental capability, stimulate desire, and heighten the mood. A meaningful life full of happiness and success – without side effects. The industry hopes for fantastic profits if the pretty pills become socially acceptable. Do we find ourselves at the dawn of a new era, in which cosmetic neurology is an everyday phenomenon?