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Border Wars

July 19, 2011 – 11:03 am

Season 5 follows officers and agents of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the roughest and most challenging terrain yet, and delves even deeper into the fight against the drug-smuggling crisis plaguing this country.

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Brain Games

July 19, 2011 – 11:38 am

In this entertaining and informative three-hour special, David Copperfield and a team of experts entertain our brains as they help reveal the science of illusion. The program uses fun, interactive experiments to hack into the human brain. Each episode focuses on a different topic — attention, sensory perception and memory.

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George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview

August 12, 2011 – 1:57 pm

In his own words, in an exclusive sit-down interview, former President George W. Bush recounts what he was thinking and experiencing in the hours during and following the devastating terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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How Hard Can It Be?

July 19, 2011 – 11:44 am

This miniseries follows three ultra-ambitious hosts as they tackle fascinating engineering tasks with nothing more than ordinary materials and their infectious, boundless enthusiasm. Their first assignment — figuring out how to fly a house using only balloons, like in the Pixar movie “Up.”

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Knights of Mayhem

July 19, 2011 – 12:04 pm

This series follows Charlie Andrews and his group of real-life “knights,” for whom the medieval sport of jousting is no dinner show. They hope to turn their passion into the next extreme sport that sweeps the globe.

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Mad Scientists

July 19, 2011 – 10:57 am

Is the next Edison or Einstein at work in the garage next door? In this new half-hour series, host John Bowler meets a lineup of amateur inventors, weekend scientists and eccentric engineers, each with an idea that may be crazy enough to work — or just plain crazy.

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Rock Stars

July 19, 2011 – 11:59 am

Now, this docu-series has nothing to do with music. It chronicles the lives of a tight-knit company of rock technicians as they trek all over North America to stop nature in its tracks and prevent treacherous rock slides with the potential to kill unsuspecting travelers or even destroy entire communities.

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Rocket City Rednecks

July 19, 2011 – 10:53 am

The self-proclaimed “rednecks” who are the subjects of this new reality series are five “backwoods” guys from the rocket city — Huntsville, Ala., home to NASA’s Marshall Flight Center and the birthplace of the U.S. space program. In each episode, they use redneck ingenuity, along with their PhDs and advanced degrees, to creatively solve real-world problems and conduct tests — all while having a little fun.

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