History's greatest mysteries are revisited and reexamined, using modern research and cutting edge technology.

Secrets Unlocked

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

China's Emperor of Evil

An in-depth look at how things are repaired.

How Did They Fix That?

On D-Day, Allied forces land in Normandy, France, to beat back the German troops and liberate France; previously unseen archival footage captures the 85-day struggle to liberate Europe and includes rare images of the battle itself.

The Battle of Normandy: 85 Days in Hell

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

Mighty Trains

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

Million Dollar American Princesses

The Big Dry

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

Accounts of the Civil War from different perspectives.

Civil War 360

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

Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong'o

Footage of the Pacific campaign during World War II and Japan's downfall.

Fall of Japan: In Color

An account of the high-risk operations to find Hitler and turn the tide of the WWII.

WWII's Most Daring Raids

The near extinction and rescue of the American bison through the efforts of William Temple Hornaday, a taxidermist at the Smithsonian Institution who headed west to hunt bison for the museum but ended up saving the species instead.

The Last Buffalo

Scientists enter the rainforests of Barro Colorado Island, Panama to study its wildlife and the worst drought in ages.

Mysteries of the Rainforest

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

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

Mighty Cruise Ships

A comprehensive look at the events leading up to the Battle of the Little Bighorn as well as the myths and legends it spawned, and its impact on history.

Battle of Little Bighorn

Exploring high-octane aviation stories across Southern Africa.

Extreme Airport Africa

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

The dramatic history of Princess Fu Hao, who rose from the leader of a warrior clan, to then become a key advisor, general and wife of King Wu Ding of the Shang Dynasty.

China's Warrior Queen

First-person accounts and rare color footage detail the final 100 days of World War II in Europe.

Race to Victory: WWII Europe

The triumphs and horrors of the Pacific War are traced using rare and never-before-seen color visuals from every corner of the conflict.

The Pacific War in Color

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?

The war was over in Europe but in the Pacific one of the bloodiest battles was being fought; a look at the bloody and history-altering final 100 days of the Pacific War, shown through rare war footage and first-person accounts.

Race to Victory: WWII Pacific

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

Exploring the stories behind mankind's greatest engineering disasters through archives and expert interviews.

Disasters Engineered

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

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

Mystic Britain

Smithsonian gardeners share their experience and knowledge.

Garden Secrets

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

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

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