On April 7, Discovery Channel and Animal Planet will release five new Blu-ray titles, covering topics ranging from Elephants to Abraham Lincoln.

Africa’s Elephant Kingdom features an extended elephant family that embarks upon a life-and-death journey across the vast African plains.

Mars: The Quest For Life is an all-new, one-hour behind-the-scenes look at the Phoenix lander. The documentary follows the man in charge, Peter Smith, as he and his team struggle to defy the odds and get Phoenix safely onto the surface of Mars.

Gettysburg: The Battle And The Address: As the Civil War raged on, how did Abraham Lincoln find a way to guide the nation through its darkest hour? This is the story of the most famous speech in American history: Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

The Beauty of Snakes celebrates some of the world’s most spectacular snakes from the majestic king cobra to the tiny thread snake, the desert horned viper to the banded sea krait.

The World’s Biggest And Baddest Bugs, hosted by entomologist Ruud Kleinpaste, follows Ruud as he embarks on an entomological odyssey around the globe in search of the ultimate biggest and baddest bugs.

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