When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world piece together the clues to his murder and expose a global cover-up.

A Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.

In August 2008, 22 climbers met on High Camp of K2, the last stop before the summit. 48 hours later, 11 had been killed. At the heart of the film is a mystery about one extraordinary man–Ger McDonnell, the first Irishman to summit K2.

In 1999, Billy Mitchell set a record score in "Donkey Kong" that many felt would never be broken. In 2003 Steve Wiebe set out to beat it. Watch as both men battle for the title of the supreme king of gaming.

A look at how Sir Alex Ferguson became one of the greatest football coaches of all time while recovering from a cerebral hemorrhage.

Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers.

A deep-sea diver is stranded on the seabed with 5 minutes of oxygen and no hope of rescue. With access to an amazing archive, this is the story of one man's impossible fight for survival.

Watch acclaimed food writer Michael Pollan explore how cooking transforms food and shapes our world. Each episode focuses on a different natural element and its relationship to both ancient and modern cooking methods.

Born in 1990, Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen became a grandmaster at age 13 and world champion at 23. This is his journey to greatness.

A stunning look into how a nation prioritizes its national agenda over human life and tells the truth about China's "population war" and its one-child policy.

As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time, or perhaps their greatest failure.

Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing.