This week's goodies for your Blu-ray home entertainment system will have you cowering behind your bowls of popcorn. (Come to think of it, it'll be a good idea to watch these with a very very jittery girl friend or boy friend.) Curious? We've got The Orphanage, One Missed Call, Sublime, and Six Degrees Could Change the World lurking at the full article.

Remember Koko, the gorilla who could communicate through sign language? One interesting story about Koko that really stuck in our minds was that she kept cats. A primate caring for a feline like it was her own baby isn't something you see everyday, but what would happen if the roles were switched?

At the Okavango Delta of Botswana, camera crew filming a leopard during a kill got more than what they came for. The crew had been following a female leopard (whom they dubbed as "Legadema") for three and a half years now. All if this was for the National Geographic wildlife documentary "Eye Of The Leopard", and on that particular day of filming, they happened to have caught her as she finished a kill. The prey happened to be a baboon, one of the leopard's main food sources and their natural enemy.

Legadema stood over the baboon's corpse when something stirred and called out. A newborn baboon crawled toward the leopard as the crew watched, fully expecting Legadema to pounce at it. But after a moment's hesitation, the leopard picked up the baby, carried it to safety, and proceeded to care for it like it was her own cub.

Legadema even carried the baby up a tree to protect it from hyenas, and the baby fell off the tree a number of times but the leopard quickly came after it. Dereck Joubert, one of the filmmakers, has remarked that Legadema was "like a cat looking after her own kitten, rather than predator and prey. She was part inquisitive cub, part mother - and forgot momentarily that she was a hunter. It was quite extraordinary and very moving to watch."

Sadly, Legadema's efforts were in vain as the baby simply couldn't survive without it's mother. When the feline realized that the baby baboon had died, she moved on. The filmmakers still check up on Legadema from time to time and there's news that she would soon be able to care for her own cub.

Awww.

The pristine unborn, still pulsating in its mother's womb - images not too many of us have ever seen, except maybe during our last visit to our high school Biology lab. Given the various leaps we have had into viewing the vast reaches of space, maybe it's about time we took a look into the inner universe of the uterus.

First the first time, a lot of us will be taking our first glimpse of animals before birth, still growing in the wombs of their mothers thanks to a combination of ultrasound scans, micro cameras, and computer images brought together by Jeremy Dear's film team for Pioneer productions.

"The images in the film are a testament to the ingenuity and patience of the production team led by Yavar Abbas and Dr David Barlow, who worked with some of the world's leading vets to obtain these pictures." As Dear said, "Animals were trained to sit still near the scanners and we also inserted cameras into the womb via the elephant's rectum-But it has been worth it. In one sequence we follow an elephant developing. When it is finally born, there is not a dry eye in the house."

The pictures taken from a total of three different animals in different stages of development: An elephant, a golden retriever, and a dolphin. These pictures are going to be featured in the two-hour National Geographic Channel program "Animals In The Womb", which will be expected to air in North America some time next month, and also on Channel 4 in the UK by next year.

The 1960s space competition between the United States of America and the former Union of Soviets Socialists Republics (U.S.S.R) takes an intimate turn in National Geographic Channel's new mini series, "Space Race: The Untold Story", which will air this coming Sunday.

Instead of focusing on the involved astronauts, the series put the spotlight on two scientists: NASA's Wernher von Braun and Soviet Union's chief designer Sergei Korolev (left pic). These two thinkers play a major role in harnessing the potentials of rocket technology from its ballistic missiles roots to becoming a major component of the space race. The series was based on Deborah Cadbury's book of the same name.

The series gives a lot of focus on the personal lives of the said scientists such as Korolev's rise from being a lowly prisoner to chief rocket designer and von Braun's history as an S.S. officer with the Nazi Party during the World War 2. The series will also feature some unclassified documents from both countries that would aim to give a balanced account of the nations' space efforts.

Unlike other series that are heavy in U.S. accounts, this series will feature Korolev’s personal history obtained from the family his former biographer, as well as actual video of Russia’s first R-7 rocket launches, failures, and successes. Plus, the series will feature von Braun's alleged use of slave labor to make the V2 rockets designed designed by his team during the war. Cadbury also adds that some concentration camp survivors actually saw von Braun and the V2 slave labor use.

The "space race” stops just as the U.S. reaches the Moon and the Soviet Union – bogged down by multiple failures if its N-1 rocket – bows out of the lunar competition. The joint Apollo-Soyuz project in 1975 finally saw the two former enemies together in space for the first time during an orbital docking.

"Space Race: The Untold Story” will air June 4-5 at 9 p.m. ET/PT (check local listings) on the National Geographic Channel.