A new National Geographic documentary premiering tonight on the NatGeo Channel hopes to quell long held public misunderstandings about the strange and wonderful world of the Midget.

Sometimes called Dwarves, Little People or Middle Eastern Scavenger Elves, Midgets have a long held public fascination with an almost mythical lore that has spanned for centuries.

Interest in the little creatures have spiked in the recent years after the finding of the New York Tunnel Dwarf, an often talked about but rarely seen nocturnal creature.

National geographic spent almost four years filming the three part documentary.

The first part is a showcase on the thirty different types of midget, which, amazingly enough, live in every part of the world, even the water, such as the Water Crested Doodle Dwarf.

The show lets viewers see firsthand some of the dangers that some of the more vicious types can bring.

A prime example of this would be the Drunken Pool Midget, who is found in parts of Nebraska, and attacked some of the camera crew during the shoot. For the course of a day the Pool Midget seemed hellbent on destroying the entire production, even sending one woman to the infirmary.

Along with the aggressiveness there is gentleness as well.

The show will have a very touching and sometimes hilarious conception to birth segment of the Alaskan Wooded Little Person. The trials and tribulations those adorable Little People go through during mating season are well worth your viewership alone.

Part two showcases the efforts and frustrations to stop the illegal poaching of the Lithuanian Little Foot, which has seen its once flourishing population dwindle to only 300 in just three years time. The Little Foot is prized in Chinese medicine for its genitalia which is ground up to a powder and then eaten .

The long held belief in Chinese culture is that consuming the powder helps fight back age and erectile dysfunction but there is no proof that this is true. Poaching of the little foot is a billion dollar industry and the ones fighting for the Little Foot are far outgunned sadly.

Highly recommended and informative.

It starts tonight at 8, 7 central.