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Set in Houston, Texas in the shadow of the nation's oil industry, HOT GREASE tells the surprising story of how the biodiesel industry is turning an ostensibly worthless raw material - spent kitchen grease - into a renewable energy source capable of fueling cars, buses and fleets of trucks throughout the country. But, powerful forces are working to stop that from happening.

Narrated and executive produced by Emmy,(R) Golden Globe(R), and Critics Choice(R) winning actor Jim Parsons ('The Big Bang Theory,' 'Hidden Figures,') FIRST IN HUMAN is a three-part, six-hour medical documentary series taking viewers inside the crucial beginning phase of scientific research. T

Narrated and executive produced by Emmy,(R) Golden Globe(R), and Critics Choice(R) winning actor Jim Parsons ('The Big Bang Theory,' 'Hidden Figures,') FIRST IN HUMAN is a three-part, six-hour medical documentary series taking viewers inside the crucial beginning phase of scientific research. T

As many in the region prepare for the warm summer months, Discovery will use its global reach to focus the world's attention on the single greatest agent of death in modern human history: the mosquito. The global crisis is highlighted in the worldwide premiere of the Discovery Impact film MOSQUITO, Thursday, 6 July at 21:50 KSA, on Discovery Channel and Discovery networks around the world.

Discovery Channel's summer schedule is jam-packed with a wide variety of both fan favorites and all-new programming.

SACRED COD, premiering Today, April 13, at 9PM ET/PT on Discovery, chronicles the collapse of America's oldest fishery.

Directed and produced by Academy Award(R)-nominated and Emmy(R)-winning filmmaker Rory Kennedy ('Last Days of Vietnam'), the documentary feature, NASA: 60 YEARS AND BEYOND, will air on Discovery in 2018.

SACRED COD, premiering Thursday, April 13, at 9PM ET/PT on Discovery, chronicles the collapse of America's oldest fishery.

Narrated by Grammy®- and Emmy®-winning and Oscar®-nominated artist Sting THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN, premieres Today, February 11 at 10pm ET/PT. Science Channel will broadcast the film the following evening at 9pm ET/PT.

Narrated by Grammy®- and Emmy®-winning and Oscar®-nominated artist Sting THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN, premieres Saturday, February 11 at 10pm ET/PT. Science Channel will broadcast the film the following evening at 9pm ET/PT.

Emmy(R) and Peabody Award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw will lend his voice to Discovery Channel's RANCHER, FARMER, FISHERMAN.

The followup to watershed environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth will make its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festivalas a Day One screening, part of The New Climate, a program dedicated to conversations and films about environmental change and conservation.

RATS, a horrormentary, premieres October 22 at 9PM on Discovery Channel and October 30 at 9PM on Animal Planet.

RATS, a horrormentary, premieres October 22 at 9PM on Discovery Channel and October 30 at 9PM on Animal Planet.

Animal Planet will premiere the award-winning film, THE MILLION DOLLAR DUCK, on Wed., Sept. 14 at 9PM ET/PT as part of Animal Planet Presents, the network's programming event featuring the best of films from top filmmakers that explores a wide range of topics that include animal rights, conservation and animal welfare.

Discovery Channel announced the purchase of global rights of the revealing documentary SACRED COD. The film will make its world premiere at the 2016 Camden International Film Festival and debut on Discovery in 2017 under the Discovery Impact banner.

Animal Planet Presents will premiere TOUCAN NATION, the story of Grecia, the toucan in Costa Rica whose unconscionable abuse sparked international outrage and inspired a national animal welfare campaign, on August 24 at 10 PM ET/PT.

Discovery Channel has scooped up U.S and international rights of HUNTWATCH it was announced today by John Hoffman, EVP Documentaries and Specials, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Science Channel.

From Academy Award(R)-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Barbara Kopple, Alan and Susan Raymond, and Sundance Award-winning director Jesse Moss, KILLING THE COLORADO is a glimpse into the serious manmade water shortage that threatens the very existence of the American West.

Animal Planet will premiere the award-winning film, THE MILLION DOLLAR DUCK, on Wed., Sept. 14 at 9PM ET/PT as part of Animal Planet Presents, the network's programming event featuring the best of films from top filmmakers that explores a wide range of topics that include animal rights, conservation and animal welfare.