A sweeping worldwide look at the inventive genius of ancient people. Features a ride in a balloon designed a thousand years ago. A 2-hour special presentation.

Was Leonardo Da Vinci, one of history's great philosophers, artists and engineers, a secret prophet? And did he envision world destruction of such biblical proportions that it haunted him until the end of his days? Clues hidden in Da Vinci's paintings, his re-discovered prophetic "riddles" and the events of his life now suggest that he, too, was influenced by the Nostradamus Effect. 400 years ago, Da Vinci may have intercepted signs and warnings as early as his boyhood. He witnessed a devastating flood that ravaged his city and that seems to have haunted him with depictions of a watery apocalypse similar to the biblical great flood. Are the clues Da Vinci hid within his writings, his sketches and his masterpieces, all a secret code pointing to a great deluge that will wipe out all mankind?

In October 1888, two struggling artists joined forces in a tiny yellow house in the South of France. This is the story of the tense friendship between Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and their "Studio of the South". Though it lasted only 9 weeks and revealed their radically different approaches to painting, their short collaboration proved critical to the development of each artist's work, identity, and destiny, and produced works that helped set the stage for much of modern art.

Whether it's overcoming the sophisticated multi-layered security of a diamond vault, using the deep web to take drug dealing into the 21st century, training with high tech gear to beat a casino, or most nefarious of all, employing software tricks to spread terrorism around the world - these master criminals are on the cutting edge of technology.

Whether it's overcoming the sophisticated multi-layered security of a diamond vault, using the deep web to take drug dealing into the 21st century, training with high tech gear to beat a casino, or most nefarious of all, employing software tricks to spread terrorism around the world - these master criminals are on the cutting edge of technology.

In a 2-hour study of a rare human trait, we learn how to define the seven types of recognized genius, and meet medical experts and geniuses as they measure and demonstrate this largely misunderstood phenomenon.