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Season Premiere of ABC 20/20 Season 47, now streaming on Hulu. In Ketchikan, Alaska, a series of concerned calls lead police to the home of respected surgeon Dr. Eric Garcia. When Ketchikan Police finally enter Dr. Garcia’s home, they make a startling discovery, leaving the community shocked and in search of answers.

 

On Nov. 13, a killer broke into a three-story, six-bedroom home in Moscow, Idaho, and stole the lives of four promising young University of Idaho students.

This 2-hour special for ABC News 20/20 focuses on all of the harrowing details that have been uncovered during the investigation. It’s available to stream on Hulu.

 
National Geographic Photographer Paul Nicklen braves rough ocean waters and sub-zero temperatures to return to Antarctica and dive beneath the ice for a close-up encounter with a twelve-foot-long leopard seal. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe #NationalGeographic #Antarctica #360Video About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure.

National Geographic Photographer Paul Nicklen braves rough ocean waters and sub-zero temperatures to return to Antarctica and dive beneath the ice for a close-up encounter with a twelve-foot-long leopard seal. Nominated for a 2019 NEWS and DOC EMMY and won 2 WEBBY AWARDS.

 

A series for Netflix, released September 2022, where homeowners from across America come to sell their properties, on the spot, to one of four real-estate tycoons. Incredible and unique homes are up for grabs as the owners share heartfelt backstories and engage in heart pounding negotiations with the tycoons.

 

One of the most popular shows on Primetime TV where well-known celebrities perform in head-to-toe costumes to conceal their identities. Featuring host Nick Cannon and judges Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Nicole Scherzinger, and Robin Thicke.

 

HERE. IS. BETTER. is the first feature length documentary gaining unprecedented access to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It interweaves the inspiring stories of four veterans undergoing the most effective trauma psychotherapies for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Directed by Emmy®-winning filmmaker Jack Youngelson and produced by Emmy winner Sian Edwards Beal and David Beal.

 
Fly side-by-side with astronauts in this the first ever 3D Virtual Reality film shot in space. Now YOU can experience weightlessness... hurtle around the globe at 17-thousand miles per hours...and take in an impossibly stunning view of our home that just might change how you think about Earth.

Fly side-by-side with astronauts in this the first ever 3D Virtual Reality film shot in space. Received a 2019 WEBBY PEOPLE’S VOICE AWARD and 2019 LUMIERE AWARD for Best Educational VR.

 
This riveting short film features Haida/Tlingit leader Marina Anderson on Prince of Wales Island reflecting on the need for national Roadless Rule protections for the Tongass National Forest. Producer: Marina Anderson Director: Xander Samaras Director of Photography: Michael Ryan Clark Aerial cinematography: Phillip Gladkov Editor: Matthew Sanchez Assistant editor: Shannon Shikles

A short film featuring Haida/Tlingit leader Marina Anderson on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, as part of a campaign to protect the Tongass National Forest, the largest intact temperate rainforest on Earth. The project is in collaboration with SEACC, Pew, ACF, Peak Design & TWS.

 
Step inside the mind of SGT Carl Wild in virtual reality - as he dives deep inside his broken memories of Black Sunday in the search for answers.

A virtual reality series taking viewers inside the first-person accounts of the real soldiers portrayed in National Geographic’s scripted global miniseries The Long Road Home. The series won two 2018 WEBBY AWARDS and a 2018 CINE GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD

 
Featuring one of the amazing women of the Mlabeni Basket Weavers, a group of mostly single mothers in rural Kenya who are using basket weaving as an alternative, empowering source of income. Produced for the charity, Save the Elephants. Produced, Shot and Edited by Xander Samaras.

Featuring one of the amazing women of the Mlabeni Basket Weavers, a group of mostly single mothers in rural Kenya who are using basket weaving as an alternative, empowering source of income. Produced for the charity, Save the Elephants.

 
give.undp.org/nepal Only when she heard her mother's screams did Sabita feel the ground beneath her trembling. The hills convulsed on 25th April 2015, as the 7.8 magnitude earthquake rumbled across the valley where Sabita lives. It snapped trees like toothpicks, pried huge boulders, and turned her home to rubble.

This United Nations VR film, Ground Beneath Her, follows 14-year-old blacksmith's daughter and aspiring doctor Sabita's life in a rural Nepal village still reeling from the 2015 earthquake that left nearly 9,000 people dead, 22,000 injured, and 3,000,000 displaced.

 
A father and son finally strike their luck, but it comes at a cost when the father has to decide between his new fortune or his son. AWARDS: 2018 HollyShorts OFFICIAL SELECTION 2018 PushPlay Best Narrative Film WINNER 2018 LA Film Awards Best Western WINNER 2018 Southern Short Awards WINNER 2018 Jim Thrope International Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION 2018 NYU First Run Film Festival Best Cinematography NOMINATION CAST: Father CHRISTOPHER HIRSH Son MATT LELUC Miner CHRIS CHIRDON CREW: Written & Directed by BEN MIDDLEKAUFF Producers MELISSA G. GARCIA, HANNAH MIDDLEKAUFF, RICHARD KIM Cinematographer TSUBASA MATSUMOTO Production Designer EMMELINE WILKS-DUPOISE Unit Production Manager HANNAH MIDDLEKAUFF Assistant Director MELISSA G. GARCIA Casting ALEXANDER SHAPIRO Art Director RACHAEL BROWN Art Assistant PAUL OLVIGA 1st Assistant Camera STEPHANIE GUZMAN 2nd Assistant Camera YUXIN HUANG Key Grip AMAAL MUSTAFA Best Boy TIM TODA Gaffer HAMILTON YU Electric OMAR NASR Sound Mixer BRIAN BLUM Boom Operator BRAULIO LIN Costume Design BRENNAN O'ROURKE, KELSEY HINE Hair/Make-up ANGELA McCOLGAN Editor ALEX SAMARAS Visual Effects WILD UNION POST VFX Artist ALEX NOBLE, DULANY FOSTER IV Color Correct THE MILL Colorist JOSH BOHOSKY Color Producer EVAN BAUER Composer AARON DANIEL JACOBS Sound Supervisor and Design TRAVIS FORDOR ADR and Mixer MATT KULEWICZ Foley Artist JOANNA FANG

A father and son finally strike their luck, but it comes at a cost when the father has to decide between his new fortune or his son. Accolades received: 2018 HollyShorts OFFICIAL SELECTION, 2018 PushPlay Best Narrative Film WINNER, 2018 LA Film Awards Best Western WINNER, 2018 Southern Short Awards WINNER, 2018 Jim Thrope International Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION, 2018 NYU First Run Film Festival Best Cinematography NOMINATION