Cameras roll as Nazi Germany launches an all-out assault on the Soviet Union.

Footage of life and death on the battlefield of El Alamein and behind the lines in the African desert.

The story of the greatest tank battle the world has ever seen.

Eyewitness accounts from those who fought in the US military's bloodiest battle on the European front in World War II.

Incredible footage, colorized for the first time, chronicles the final days of the Third Reich and the brutal battle for Berlin, though German defeat looked certain. Nazi soldiers persisted in fighting despite the inevitability of their downfall.

Personal accounts of the atomic attack on Hiroshima in 1945; the comprehensive story of the bombing of Hiroshima, from those who built it, dropped it, and survived it.

An inside look at the USAF's bombing operation over North Vietnam in the late 1960s and each pilot's goal to reach 100 missions to earn his ticket home.

Colorized home movies from the early 20th Century reveal day-to-day life in small towns across the country.

In the early 20th century, new leisure and recreation opportunities transform American lives; includes color footage of early amusement parks, campgrounds and sports arenas.

Rare footage tracks different immigrant families searching for the American dream, including Albert Einstein in Germany, a Russian-Jewish family in Maine, a Mexican-American family in Texas, and a child of Italian immigrants, Frank Sinatra.

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, industrialists and inventors revolutionize every aspect of American life; the stories of the Ford, Firestone and Edison families become intertwined in a way that drives America's transformation.

Cutting-edge archaeology reveals little-known stories about Jamestown, specifically events that took place in the seminal year of 1619; excavations uncover the presence of a skeleton that may belong to a controversial founding father.

Archival footage shows how technological innovations, two world wars and consumerism helped build the richest economy in the world.

America undergoes its greatest period of change and unprecedented growth; the 1920 Wall Street bombing; the Greenwood massacre.

The Great Depression dominates the decade; Franklin Roosevelt's Presidency; the White House fire of 1930; home movies filmed by Lou Hoover.

America as the leader of the free world; Pearl Harbor; a new era of consumerism; the birth of suburbia.

Racial unrest divides the nation; Russia has a nuclear bomb; the Cold War; the brutal murder of 14-year-old black Chicagoan Emmett Till.

Rare archival films, iconic news footage and home movies during a decade of revolution; the first televised Presidential debate.

A minute-by-minute description of what happened on the day when American astronauts walked on the lunar surface; includes firsthand accounts from astronauts, Mission Control members and other key figures from the Apollo 11 mission.

The story of JFK's assassination through rare footage and unheard testimonies.

Recently declassified U.S. government documents reveal hidden secrets about the nuclear arms race.

Television and radio broadcasts from local affiliate stations around the country.

Never-before-seen tapes capture the Tet Offensive, the military campaign launched by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in January 1968, an event that shocked and horrified the American public and put a devastating face to the Vietnam War.

A look at the U.S. clandestine intelligence team of the 1980s called FOG (Field Operations Group) and how it paved the way for today's special ops forces.

New evidence supports a Civil War legend that a freed female slave and a society lady in Virginia acted as spies for the Union.

An exploration of the little-known stories and contributions of black cowboys, marshals and soldiers of America's Wild West, told in their own words.

The discovery of a pre-Civil War cemetery of enslaved ironworkers provides new insights into the role African-Americans played in the Industrial Revolution.

Colorized home movies from the early 20th Century reveal day-to-day life in small towns across the country.

In the early 20th century, new leisure and recreation opportunities transform American lives; includes color footage of early amusement parks, campgrounds and sports arenas.

Challenges beset a sculptural new transportation hub for New York's World Trade Center; Amsterdam gains a building inspired by a mountain valley; a new launchpad for space travel prepares for liftoff in the New Mexico desert.

Visiting the Hearst Tower in Manhattan and Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore to understand how they were built; covering how designers and engineers attempt to create a museum worthy of Salvador Dalí in Florida.

An unstable high rise, an otherworldly museum, and a towering cliffside elevator.

A Manhattan high-rise; an Athens cultural center; a Singapore university.

Traveling to New York, Denver and Nice, France to visit Little Island, the Denver Museum of Art and La Tête Carrée; the secrets to how they were built are revealed.

Mike Davidson heads to Brazil, where an offshore crew is racing the clock to set up giant power ships to deliver electricity to a country in desperate need.

Mike joins the U.S. Marines' Heavy Haulers helicopter squadron and gets inside their battle to keep a fleet of souped-up Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion choppers flying as they prepare for intense war games in the desert and mountains.

Witness amazing buildings, bridges, lifts, and other structures that pushed structural concrete engineering to the edge.

Visiting the Vancouver House, Norway's Under restaurant and the Seattle Central Library to discover how these visionary buildings were created.

Exploring behind-the-scenes of design and construction of revolutionary buildings in Spain, New York and a university campus in Florida.

The engineering secrets behind the world's steepest mountain railway, a remodeled 145-year-old museum and a futuristic condo.

A new Olympic and Paralympic museum tests engineers with its trailblazing accessible design. A dazzling curved glass skyscraper battles gravity in Milan. And a student center built under a noisy railroad.

Examining the breaking of the sound barrier, why the British canceled its research and why the United States tried to hide the reason for its success.

An unprecedented look at the world's most famous aircraft: how it was born, how it has developed over the years, and the role it has played in historic events.

The planning and building of One World Trade Center.

Challenges beset a sculptural new transportation hub for New York's World Trade Center; Amsterdam gains a building inspired by a mountain valley; a new launchpad for space travel prepares for liftoff in the New Mexico desert.

Visiting the Hearst Tower in Manhattan and Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore to understand how they were built; covering how designers and engineers attempt to create a museum worthy of Salvador Dalí in Florida.

An unstable high rise, an otherworldly museum, and a towering cliffside elevator.

At Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, Mike embeds with the talented teams that maintain the amazing machines behind Cirque du Soleil's stage shows.

Traveling to New York, Denver and Nice, France to visit Little Island, the Denver Museum of Art and La Tête Carrée; the secrets to how they were built are revealed.

The engineering secrets behind a massive sky garden in Singapore, the world's most slender tower in Brighton, and a railway station in the shadow of Vesuvius.

Mike Davidson goes to the biggest automated package sorting facility in the world, UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky; two million packages go through here every day.

A new performance center with a tent-like glass-and-steel lobby tests engineers in Kansas City; two twisting apartment towers make heads spin in Ontario.

Mike helps fix the vessels that the U.S. Coast Guard use to keep the oceans safe; he replaces key parts of ship engines, removes a large crane from a buoy tender, and fixes a helicopter for a critical exercise.

How the legendary "Dambuster" bomber squadron of WWII fooled Nazi Germany into believing the Allied invasion was going to be at Calais, rather than Normandy, and went on to destroy Hitler's super weapons.

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.

In 1944, the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe brings the hope of freedom and the devastation of war to the people of France.

New colorized footage and testimony reveal the cost paid by the Allies and civilians to free Belgium and the Netherlands from Nazi occupation.

In late 1944, Hitler forces the Americans into their biggest battle of the war when he launches a surprise attack into liberated Belgium.

New colorized footage and testimony reveals the cost of victory, the aftermath of war and the liberation of the camps and the destruction of Germany.

Newly restored film footage uncovers the story of the iconic B-17 and its contribution to the victory during World War II, including first-hand tales from veterans and the restoration of the plane for the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.

Personal accounts of the atomic attack on Hiroshima in 1945; the comprehensive story of the bombing of Hiroshima, from those who built it, dropped it, and survived it.

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

For the first time in 70 years, forensic archaeologists have been granted access to the Treblinka death camp, which suddenly disappeared in 1943, along with some 900,000 victims.

World War II and its aftermath plays a huge role in the civil rights movement in the U.S.

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

As the war continues into 1941, the conflict goes truly global with the savage battle for Moscow and Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

America joins the war; the conflict rages in South-East Asia, North Africa and Russia; the Nazis instigate The Final Solution.

The death toll rises as the war reaches its conclusion.

The Allies' heroics keep Hitler from advancing; the Red Army arrives in Berlin.

An elite group of British paratroopers launch a midnight raid in order to capture Hitler's unusual radar equipment.

American paratroopers are dropped behind German lines on D-Day in order to secure territory behind the beaches.

British Commandos raid two occupied Norwegian islands to wipe out fish oil factories used to make explosives.

The first invasion of the Italian Campaign of WWII: Operation Husky.

A secret British regiment in 1942 led a daring raid on a Nazi-occupied Libyan harbor.

An elite squad of Norwegians destroy a power plant in 1943 that the Nazis may have been using for nuclear weapons research.

The story of Nazi Germany's unprecedented aerial assault on Britain's major cities and how the resilience of its citizens became a news event.

Gordon Welchman's top-secret work helped defeat the Nazis and impacted modern codebreaking.

Hitler unleashes the full wrath of his military might.

The darkest days of the war are covered; Germany conquers France; British civilians endure the Blitz.

As the war continues into 1941, the conflict goes truly global with the savage battle for Moscow and Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

America joins the war; the conflict rages in South-East Asia, North Africa and Russia; the Nazis instigate The Final Solution.

The death toll rises as the war reaches its conclusion.

The Allies' heroics keep Hitler from advancing; the Red Army arrives in Berlin.

The story of Nazi Germany's unprecedented aerial assault on Britain's major cities and how the resilience of its citizens became a news event.

Rare archive footage charts the German Army in 1940 as it unleashes a new Blitzkrieg tactic.

Cameras roll as Nazi Germany launches an all-out assault on the Soviet Union.

Footage of life and death on the battlefield of El Alamein and behind the lines in the African desert.

British Commandos raid two occupied Norwegian islands to wipe out fish oil factories used to make explosives.

The story of the greatest tank battle the world has ever seen.

Eyewitness accounts from those who fought in the US military's bloodiest battle on the European front in World War II.

America's first victory in the Pacific during World War II is retold from the vantage point of the three U.S. attack planes as they overcame the enemy ambush to face off against the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long-range fighter, in the air.

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.

In 1944, the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe brings the hope of freedom and the devastation of war to the people of France.

New colorized footage and testimony reveal the cost paid by the Allies and civilians to free Belgium and the Netherlands from Nazi occupation.

In late 1944, Hitler forces the Americans into their biggest battle of the war when he launches a surprise attack into liberated Belgium.

New colorized footage and testimony reveals the cost of victory, the aftermath of war and the liberation of the camps and the destruction of Germany.

Personal accounts of the atomic attack on Hiroshima in 1945; the comprehensive story of the bombing of Hiroshima, from those who built it, dropped it, and survived it.

President Harry Truman decides to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Emperor Hirohito surrenders, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrives to oversee the country's occupation; mortal enemies must now become partners in Japan's rebirth.

Hitler unleashes the full wrath of his military might.

The darkest days of the war are covered; Germany conquers France; British civilians endure the Blitz.

As the war continues into 1941, the conflict goes truly global with the savage battle for Moscow and Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

Zoom above, and below, some of the Golden State's greatest monuments.

An aerial tour of the world's first national park showcases Yellowstone's diverse wildlife and rich history.

An aerial tour of Kansas shows a state with varied landscapes, scenic areas and historical conflict sites.

An aerial exploration of Wyoming reveals the Cowboy State's controversial history while highlighting its breathtaking canyons and volcanic formations.

A coast-to-coast aerial journey across America, visiting locations made famous by movies such as Rocky, Citizen Kane, Forrest Gump and others.

An aerial tour of New York City, spanning the city's five boroughs, capturing man-made and natural wonders; revealing the ways its citizens live, work and play.

Explore the forests, shores, bridges and tunnels of one of American's 13 original states, New Jersey.

A high-flying tour of Pennsylvania.

An aerial tour of Florida's peninsula and panhandle celebrates the state's sights, unique history and lavish lifestyles.

Great mountain ranges; coal-based economy.

Louisiana's wetlands and underwater oil fields.

A flight over Arizona explores the state's storied past, architectural achievements and landscapes, including America's natural wonder, the Grand Canyon.

A flight over Northern California explores ancient forests, timeless coasts, golden cities and the region's pioneering spirit.

A flight over North and South Dakota reveals the shared history and the vast differences of these sibling states.

A soaring tour over Washington, D.C. explores the unique landscape, rich history and colorful story of the Nation's Capital.

An aerial tour of Nevada; the state's deserts, ghost towns, neon cities and Hoover Dam; its history built on epic booms and busts.

A cross-country flight across America reveals the nation's most iconic industries, the people behind them and the stories of how they came to be.

The world's largest volcanic island; Iceland's landscapes, forged by fire and ice; a tour over Alaska, the residents it attracts and the wildlife that thrives in these unique surroundings.

The Lone Star's rugged canyons, historic ranches and modern cities.

Northern state's green forests; red-painted barns and sugar maples.

A cross-country flight over icy landscapes in Alaska's Denali, vast wetlands in Florida's Everglades, and over 100 million acres of badlands, deserts, and mountains.

A coast-to-coast tour over America's man-made structures, old and new; the Statue of Liberty and the Golden Gate Bridge.

A cross-country flight over the nation's mountains, beaches and national parks; visiting other sites that attract adventurers and tourists.

Natural wonders, manmade marvels, hidden treasures and places of inspiration.

A flight over Indiana explores the Hoosier State's rich agriculture, busy highways and basketball legends; exploring the War Memorial and the Angel Mounds of the southwest.

An aerial view of major cities in the United States, including Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and Boston.

An aerial tour over Dallas and Fort Worth highlights the cities' differences while showcasing their shared contributions to the Texas narrative.

Mississippi from above; the state's unique beauty and history; mighty waters, ancient trails and the birth of the Delta Blues.

A soaring tour over Southern California explores the stunning beaches, vast deserts, sprawling city and unique culture.

A coast-to-coast tour over America's man-made structures, old and new; the Statue of Liberty and the Golden Gate Bridge.

A sky-high tour over Iowa explores its vast stretches of farmland, covered bridges and evolution from wilderness to statehood.

An aerial journey across Montana celebrates the Treasure State's adventure-filled history while showcasing its sprawling farms and rugged terrain.

A sky-high tour over Minnesota reveals the state's ancient, glacial landscapes and tells the stories of the pioneers who helped build the nation.

Viewing Oklahoma from the sky reveals a state filled with tall-grass prairies and man-made wonders; the Dust Bowl, Tornado Alley and buffalo-filled plains; it also shows a history steeped in tragedy and devastation.

An aerial journey over Ohio showcases the Buckeye State's autumnal vistas, majestic rivers, epic skyscrapers and battlegrounds.

A high-flying tour over Illinois; the Windy City, prairies and rivers; the state's dramatic history of great fires, crime and historic battles; Chicago's unique skyscrapers and the Lincoln Tomb.

Alpine valleys; Rocky Mountains; Denver's towering skyscrapers.

Soaring above the Cornhusker State's vast farms, towering spires, desolate badlands and gleaming cities.

Tour the Wisconsin State Capitol and Milwaukee City Hall, once the tallest building in the world.

The stories and sights of Hawaii's major islands.

A tour over two U.S. territories, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A flying tour of Michigan's cultural landmarks, including Motown, the Great Lakes, the automobile industry and more.

A journey over America's western landscape featuring "wild" history and stories of colorful characters.

The South's famous landmarks, historical milestones and unique culture.

A coast-to-coast aerial tour celebrates the best small towns in the United States and tells stories about the men and women who called them home.

A sweeping tour over popular destinations in America, including the Badlands, Nantucket, the National Mall and more.

One of the most beautiful states on the Atlantic Coast.

Taking an aerial tour of Virginia.

On August 22nd, 1985, 55 people died aboard British Airtours flight 28M when its engine caught fire as it accelerated.

Investigators struggle to understand the unusual flight path and Himalayan crash site of Thai Airways Flight 311.

A helicopter carrying oil workers to an offshore drilling platform crashes.

Mistaken identity and hostile fire over enemy territory are among the many risks that pilots face in war zones around the world.

From corrosion and metal fatigue to faulty repairs, three doomed airlines are brought down by gradually deteriorating parts.

Polish Air Force Flight 101, carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński, his wife Maria Kaczyńska and other top officials, crashes in a wooded area while on final approach to Smolensk North Airport in heavy fog and low visibility.

A billion-dollar Stealth Bomber crashes at a U.S. Air Force base-the costliest aviation disaster ever; bad data misleads a charter flight into a Portuguese mountain; conflicting alarms send a cutting-edge jetliner plunging into the Atlantic.

With hidden flaws buried in their navigation systems, three planes suffer catastrophic computer errors that force investigators to dig deep for clues.

Caught in a major tropical storm, a 737 crashes just short of the runway on a Caribbean island, but the accident may not have been weather-related.

Air France Flight 296 fails to regain altitude after performing a fly-by during an air show at Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport.

A bomb explodes on Air India Flight 182 en route from Canada to India causing it to disintegrate over the coast of Ireland.

If pilots aren't prepared when the runway is in sight, a landing can quickly become a tragedy.

An elite group of British paratroopers launch a midnight raid in order to capture Hitler's unusual radar equipment.

American paratroopers are dropped behind German lines on D-Day in order to secure territory behind the beaches.

British Commandos raid two occupied Norwegian islands to wipe out fish oil factories used to make explosives.

The first invasion of the Italian Campaign of WWII: Operation Husky.

A secret British regiment in 1942 led a daring raid on a Nazi-occupied Libyan harbor.

An elite squad of Norwegians destroy a power plant in 1943 that the Nazis may have been using for nuclear weapons research.

Flydubai Flight 981 enters a rapid descent and crashes nose-first at Rostov-on-Don Airport in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, after aborting its second landing attempt in poor weather conditions.

Moments before Pacific Southwest Flight 1771 crashes on a cattle ranch in California, gunshots are heard in the cabin.

When a twin-engine jet careens off the runway in Kentucky, investigators must determine why the plane failed to take off.

In 1991, a Boeing 737 operating as United Airlines Flight 585 suddenly rolls into a dive and crashes within eight seconds, killing all 25 people on board.

When Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps, investigators discover shocking truths about the co-pilot's mental health.

On 27 November 2008, an aircraft on a post-maintenance test flight operating as XL Airways Germany Flight 888T stalls and crashes into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of France, killing all seven people on board.

Cruise among the icebergs of Greenland and the Canadian High Arctic aboard the expedition cruiser Ocean Endeavour.

Experience romance on a mega cruiser that pampers its guests with the best of Italian design and American convenience.

Set a course for breathtaking sights on Koningsdam's 15-day voyage from Amsterdam to the northern tip of Norway.

Take a river tour through some of Europe's greatest cities--Budapest, Vienna, and Amsterdam--on Viking Longship Gefjon.

Japan's largest cruise ship brings East and West together on a cruise featuring cherry.

One of Holland America Line's largest cruisers makes its debut in the Caribbean, highlighted by a visit to an exclusive private island resort.

Hector Rail's trains haul timber to a pulp mill in Ostrand, Sweden on some of the most difficult railways in the country.

A trip through Lima details the voyage's breathtaking scenery and engineering challenges.

VIA Rail's passenger train travels between Vancouver and Toronto on four-day, four-night journey that cater to everyone.

The maiden voyage of the Oasis of the Seas, the largest, most revolutionary cruise ship in the world.

The Norwegian Epic is a billion-dollar showboat with more than 20 bars and restaurants and pool decks that transform into nightclubs.

The world's top cruise ship, the Crystal Serenity visits Sydney harbor, the port of Melbourne, Bali, a large-scale furniture load in Semarang, Indonesia and the port of Singapore.

Costa Diadema's seven-day cruise around the Mediterranean offers Italian delights to its passengers and challenges to its captain and crew.

Norwegian Joy sails amid icebergs in Alaska's Inside Passage, treating guests to glaciers, humpback whales, and the largest zip line in the world.

The C-5 Galaxy is the U.S. Air Force's largest and most powerful plane; follow its mission to Afghanistan.

Travel aboard the colorful trains of the State Railway of Thailand and explore the famed Death Railway; the trains travel through ancient areas, historic tunnels, and raging rivers.

The world's latest, most-advanced expedition cruise ship Roald Amundsen whisks passengers on an adventurous voyage to Antarctica.

The Sky Princess carries passengers from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to three Central American stops.

The highly-specialized North Rail Express container train travels from Narvik to Oslo, delivering cargo of fish as quickly as possible.

Two magnificent journeys with New Zealand's KiwiRail: the TranzAlpine, a five-hour journey across 223 kilometers, and Northern Explorer, an 11-hour trip through five unique regions of the North Island.

The Paul Gauguin offers five-star luxury while sailing near the coral reefs, mountainous islands and tropical playgrounds of French Polynesia.

New luxury liner Le Soleal navigates the uncharted waters of Indonesia to give her passengers one-of-a-kind encounters at exotic destinations.

Follow mega cruiser Regal Princess as she whisks guests to Germany, Russia, and Scandinavia in style.

We follow passengers and crew aboard Viking Star during its two-week tour from Barcelona to its home port in Bergen, Norway.

Engineers grapple with an apartment building, ripped apart by a man-made canyon; the Gateway Arch takes shape in St. Louis; an unpromising plot in Copenhagen, Denmark, is transformed by a gleaming new triangular office.

Alien port authority in Belgium; ultrathin skyscraper in Manhattan; hanging museum in Scotland.

The American Museum of Natural History in NYC gets a cave-like extension; an arts center inspired by migrating birds is built on a lake in China; Boston University gains a fossil-free, Jenga-like tower.

A 1.2-million-square-foot office building balances precariously on a 39-foot wide base in Chicago; a building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage; the world's longest suspension footbridge.

A sculptural high-rise with rippling balconies breaks the mold in Chicago; Mammoth machines bore 26 miles of tunnels for an underground railroad beneath London's city streets.

Visiting Australia's One Central Park, the Oslo Opera House and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco to reveal their architectural secrets.

A ride on the Panama Canal Railway reveals the track repairs, engine overhauls and dangerous searches involved in keeping vital freight runs rolling.

A crew and its massive air crane helicopter haul millions of pounds of timber while battling the elements and handling emergency repairs.

A ride through Eastern Europe aboard heavy-hauling trains shows the logistical and mechanical challenges of making a multimillion-dollar cargo delivery.

Following a million-dollar freight run across four European countries and meeting the drivers, engineers and maintenance teams who keep the train running.

A dazzling new 1400 foot tapering skyscraper is built right next to New York's Grand Central. A curving wine museum requires ingenious engineering in Bordeaux, France. And possibly the world's most glamorous parking garage.

A 284ft wooden skyscraper built from 1,200 bespoke pieces tests fire safety limits in Milwaukee; a decaying Amsterdam crane track transforms into glass offices; a needle-thin tower stacks 28 apartments onto a 21ft-wide plot in Melbourne, Australia.

Paying tribute to the brave, gravity-defying design of the U.S. National Medal of Honor Museum; traveling to Singapore for a look at a leaning tower of gambling, then exploring a New York City office building that lets the sun shine through.

Celebrating one of humanities biggest engineering achievements, the International Space Station, a meteor proof lab bigger than a football field, constructed by astronauts traveling 250 miles above us at 17,500 miles an hour.

On inadequate foundations, San Francisco's MoMA triples in size creating an exterior light enough to prevent collapse; a 1970s Sydney skyscraper is recycled into a 21st century tower; in Dallas, a five-acre park is created.

A London railway station; giant Singapore biodomes; eye-catching hospital in Las Vegas.

Visiting London's Gherkin, Seattle's Evergreen Point Floating Bridge and Lyon's Musée des Confluences to uncover how and why they were built.

In 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while flying from New York City to Cairo, killing all 217 people on board; the cause of the crash is disputed.

Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes shortly after take-off in Detroit in 1987; a fatal preflight error caused the second-deadliest plane crash in the U.S. history.

Three crews experience the same devastating event; with radically different outcomes when an engine falls off their commercial airplane.

When a USAF stealth bomber crashes after takeoff, investigators search for a reason.

When a turboprop stalls and crashes into a North Carolina forest, investigators resort to a risky test flight-and uncover an industry-wide safety problem.

A plane with members of the Manchester United football team crashes while heading home from Yugoslavia, killing 23 aboard.

On 28 December 1978, the crew of United Airlines Flight 173 are preoccupied with a landing gear problem as the aircraft circles in a holding pattern in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon; it runs out of fuel and crashes in a sparsely populated area.

Stories of historic Black struggle for equality in maritime combat; an enslaved powder boy who served during the French and Indian War; a Civil War gunner; the first African American to command a vessel with a fully integrated crew: Hugh Mulzac.

A look at how technological advances over the centuries have led to bigger and faster combat ships and transformed maritime warfare.

A look at key naval battles that have taken place in the Persian Gulf over the last 50 years and the warships involved, from both sides of the conflicts.

A look at the smallest ships of war and the major roles they've played over the centuries, including the 1776 gunboat built to stop a British invasion and the HA-19 sub.

New high-tech investigations uncover what sunk a World War I cruiser, a World War II submarine, a British destroyer from the Falklands War, and more.

A look at how navy weapons have evolved over the centuries, from cannons to gun turrets to nuclear missiles and beyond.

Exploring maritime heroes who left their mark on history through their bravery and skill, including Larry Chambers, Ernest Evans, and Robert Smalls.

A look at riverine warfare from the Civil War to Vietnam and small but powerful combat ships.

It is considered the largest sea battle in history: the Battle of Leyte Gulf in WWII was three days of ingenious strategy and white-knuckle combat between warships, aircraft and kamikazes.

A portrayal of a crucial September 1950 military operation that helped the UN and ROK gain the upper hand over North Korea in the Korean War.

The rapid evolution of drones and how they're changing the future of aviation.

The inside story of the ultimate stealth fighter, the F-22 Raptor, and its predecessors.