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A weekly series of short documentary segments funded by the National Geographic Society and done in the style of the National Geographic Specials. In 2003, the show was re-branded National Geographic Ultimate Explorer. A news-style journal format is now used instead of the more traditional format of the specials.

Host Ali Wentworth sits down with civil rights pioneer the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.; and meet an Indian endurance runner who may be 119 years old.