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Subjects: Technology

  • How Tech Works

    How Tech Works

    How Tech Works is a host-driven magazine show that takes viewers around the world to meet the inventors and innovators behind the planet’s most cutting edge science and technology.

    We’re high in the sky with the world’s newest and largest military plane, the A400M. We’re in the depths of the Pacific Ocean with robots, as they explore previously unreachable parts of the ocean. Wherever we go, dynamic host Dr. Basil Singer introduces us to an array of fast-paced and visually stunning stories in every episode.

    Our stories feature an eclectic mix of science: profiles in future tech; behind the scenes with the military; the fastest, newest and strangest vehicles in the world; and a focus on gadgets like you’ve never seen.

  • MegaSpeed

    MegaSpeed

    MegaSpeed is a one-hour Discovery Channel Canada documentary series focusing on fast vehicles and the people who race them. MegaSpeed is a high-adrenaline magazine show that puts the pedal to the metal in search of the fastest and most powerful vehicles, gadgets and gear around the world. From souped-up dragsters on the strip, to customized ‘street legal’ roadsters on the street, this show is all about our need for speed: how we find it, how we use it, and the price we pay for our obsession.

  • Mighty Cruise Ships

    Mighty Cruise Ships

    Following the international hit, Mighty Ships, this series features the most dynamic passenger vessels in the world. From floating resorts, to luxury expedition ships, to boutique hotels at sea, Mighty Cruise Ships follows them on dramatic voyages to exotic locations: the tropical refuges of the South Pacific; Old World waterways and cities; the sublime coastlines of southeast Asia. Mighty Cruise Ships profiles the vessel ideally suited for each amazing destination, with unprecedented access to the high-wire act that goes into providing the vacation of a lifetime on the high seas.

  • Mighty Trains

    Mighty Trains

    From the locomotive to rail traffic control to the maintenance depot, Mighty Trains takes audiences on a journey riding the rails around the world. We will follow the engineers and conductors as they navigate their way through busy rail yards, vie for priority departures and deal with the unexpected, oftentimes on railways designed almost 200 years ago. Train managers, load-masters, head chefs, track inspectors, rail traffic control officers and passengers move us through the train, as well as outside of it, in order to experience an in-depth journey into the heart of our train.

  • Nerve Center

    Nerve Center

    They are some of the biggest and busiest super systems ever built – and NERVE CENTER offers unprecendented access to the people and places that keep them ticking 24/7. NERVE CENTER begins from the high-pressure moment of peak operations. We meet the key personnel that drive the momentum from behind the scenes. And we see how the course of 24 hours everything interconnects seamingless, and sometimes not so seamlessly, to deliver the goods. This is 24 hours in the day of a life of an icon.

  • Mighty Planes

    Mighty Planes

    Building on Discovery Channel Canada’s internationally renowned home-grown hit series MIGHTY SHIPS, Exploration Production Inc. (EPI) extends the “MIGHTY” franchise, trading the sea for the sky in this new high-octane, high-energy, and high-altitude thrill ride. MIGHTY PLANES delivers unprecedented access to the planet’s most impressive aircraft featuring the world’s only flying hospital, the world’s first superjumbo passenger aircraft, the world’s biggest seaplane and more… buckle up and prepare to take-off!

    MIGHTY PLANES explores the art and science of aviation, on planes that soar to faraway places on astounding missions. From preparation, loading and take off, through the journey and to the landing and unloading, viewers will experience the high-stakes and high-stress jobs through the eyes and lives of the characters that make it all happen. Featuring the genius of flight technology with the aid of high-end CGI, MIGHTY PLANES captures all the action as it happens.

  • Mighty Ships

    Mighty Ships

    Mighty Ships reveals the secret mechanics behind the world’s most sophisticated vessels. Each episode provides unprecedented access to everything above and below deck, from the mechanics of modern sea-going to the human dramas facing seafarers. Whether it’s cargo container ships, ice-breakers or livestock carriers, Mighty Ships is as much about what happens inside the ship as the journey each vessel makes.

  • Discovery Specials

    Discovery Specials

  • Ultimate Access

    Ultimate Access gives you an exclusive look at how things work from the inside out. In each episode one story leads to an amazing tour of the logistical and technical aspects of some of the most amazing things on the planet.

  • Tokaido Shinkansen

    Tokaido Shinkansen

    Japan’s Tokaido Shinkansen, known as the bullet train, operates on a dedicated railway line at up to 285 km/h.