Archaeologists use modern technology to determine the validity of the reputation of China's only female emperor.

China's Emperor of Evil

Follow engineers and conductors as they navigate their way through busy rail yards.

Mighty Trains

An in-depth look at how things are repaired.

How Did They Fix That?

A look back at some of President Obama's speeches and statements.

The Obama Years: The Power of Words

Argentina, a land of extremes, homes some of Earth's highest mountains, largest waterfalls, and driest places, as well as a people and history as varied and remarkable as the land itself.

Aerial Argentina

In late-Victorian England and early 1900s, wealthy young U.S. belles often married into the peerage.

Million Dollar American Princesses

Actress Lupita Nyong'o journeys across Benin, West Africa, to learn about African female fighters.

Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong'o

As they wore skirts and hats, made signs and sewed sashes, they were imprisoned, tortured with forced feedings and beatings; 100 years ago women finally won the right to vote.

She the People: Votes for Women

At the National Portrait Gallery's America's Presidents exhibit, visitors get up close and personal with the people who shaped the country's history.

Picturing the Presidents

An inside look at the making of a groundbreaking album that revisits and re-imagines early minstrelsy and American slave narratives.

Reclaiming History: Our Native Daughters

Exploring the African-American experience through music, dance, sci-fi and film; influential Black creators have an electrifying conversation that celebrates the afrofuturism movement's combination of technology, history and artistic expression.

Afrofuturism: The Origin Story

TV presenter Clive Anderson and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota explore Britain's ancient places and rituals.

Mystic Britain

A look at the US military's ultimate flying war machines and the airplanes used by American forces through the years as pilots and other team members look back on their experiences.

Air Warriors

Notable individuals share powerful stories about their personal Black experiences and the legacy of slavery.

One Thousand Years of Slavery

The workers who serve the President inside the White House.

White House Revealed

Take to the skies and explore the most impressive aircraft in the world. Each episode highlights one incredible plane, from the world's only flying eye hospital to the largest passenger jet ever built.

Mighty Planes

Animals, insects, birds and environmental elements create their roots in and around five infamous trees in South Africa.

Rooted

James Meredith was a civil rights hero unlike any other; he took on the University of Mississippi and the state's governor to desegregate the school; a fight that triggered the largest mobilization of federal troops on U.S. soil since the Civil War; he began a one-man Walk Against Fear to encourage Black Mississippians to register to vote, which became a national event after he was shot; despite his monumental achievements, few people know who he is.

Walk Against Fear: James Meredith

Modern historians, equipped with state-of-the-art technology and newly discovered evidence, rewrite the nation's most iconic stories.

America's Hidden Stories

Exploring high-octane aviation stories across Southern Africa.

Extreme Airport Africa

A behind-the-scenes look at the voyages of a variety of cruise-ship voyages.

Mighty Cruise Ships

Experts analyze various plane crashes with an aim to figure out how these disasters occurred; they also shed light on how such accidents shaped the aviation industry and improved safety standards.

Air Disasters

Robert Powell, who portrayed Jesus Christ in 1977's Emmy-nominated "Jesus of Nazareth," takes a journey through modern Israel in an attempt to reconstruct the story of the man who changed history.

The Real Jesus of Nazareth

Mighty Ships

In celebration of Black History Month, Smithsonian Channel has compiled a thought-provoking series of original programs that explore important milestones made by African Americans throughout history.

Black History Month Collection

Four young men who stood up to racism and social injustice.

Seizing Justice: The Greensboro 4

An intimate look into the private life and public career of the queen on her 90th birthday.

The Queen at 90

Documentary series that tells the story of the evolution of maritime conflict.

Combat Ships

Exploring the engineering and architectural masterpieces like The Copper in Manhattan to Gardens By the Bay in Singapore.

How Did They Build That?

Remembering one of the most adventurous female explorers and botanists of all time in a story of obsession, tragedy and ultimately triumph in Victorian England.

Victorian Rebel: Marianne North

Revisiting the life of a legendary woman whose story continues to gain new resonance over time, even now on the 400-year anniversary of her death in March 1617.

Pocahontas: Beyond the Myth

Sir David Attenborough explores the mysteries of the Great Barrier Reef.

David Attenborough's Great Barrier Reef

History's most iconic female fighters from the Roman Empire to Central Asia and West Africa; Lynda Carter narrates.

Epic Warrior Women

Picturing the President

Beginning in 1936, Victor H. Green produces a travel guide known as the Negro Motorist Green Book for African Americans who face indignities and dangers while on the road during the era of Jim Crow laws.

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

Abraham Lincoln's final hours and John Wilkes Booth's plot to kill him.