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Race to Victory: WWII Europe
Special • 2020
First-person accounts and rare color footage detail the final 100 days of World War II in Europe.
Race to Victory: WWII Pacific
Special • 2020
A look at the bloody and history-altering final 100 days of the Pacific War.
Air Disasters
Series • 2024
Season 20 • Episode 27
Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question.
Air Disasters
Series • 2019
Season 12 • Episode 6
The aircraft breaks apart and falls from the sky, killing the flight's co-pilot.
Air Disasters
Series • 2019
Season 12 • Episode 3
A 1988 commercial flight crashes just moments after liftoff and erupts in flames.
Air Disasters
Series • 2023
Season 20 • Episode 8
JFK Jr. disappears on the way to Martha's Vineyard; a captain loses his bearings and crashes.
Air Disasters
Series • 2023
Season 20 • Episode 9
The deadliest aviation accidents in both Greek and Taiwanese history.
Air Disasters
Series • 2023
Season 20 • Episode 10
Former race car driver Niki Lauda's planes nosedives into a Thai jungle.
Air Disasters
Series • 2013
Season 3 • Episode 9
A Korean Air Cargo flight crashes in a field moments after takeoff from England's Stansted Airport.
Air Disasters
Series • 2013
Season 3 • Episode 10
Arrow Air Flight 1285 with 248 American soldiers on board crashes after refueling in Newfoundland.
Air Disasters
Series • 2012
Season 1 • Episode 6
Pilots of Southern Airways Flight 242 must try to land on a Georgia highway after the engines die.

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Reality Series• 2020
A Greek Odyssey with Bettany Hughes

Reality Series• 2023
Aerial Adventures

Reality Series• 2010
Aerial America

Docuseries• 2018
Aerial Cities

Docuseries• 2021
Aerial Greece

Series• 2011
Air Disasters

Docuseries• 2019
Amazing Dogs

Docuseries• 2017
America in Color

Series• 2019
America’s Hidden Stories

Series• 2020
An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates

Reality Series• 2018
Animals Decoded

Documentary• 2020
Battle of Little Bighorn

Documentary• 2019
Battle of Midway: The True Story

Movie• 2017
Battle of Okinawa in Color

Series• 2001
Big Cat Country

Documentary• 2020
Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier

Docuseries• 2018
Carriers at War

Documentary• 2023
Cassius X: Becoming Ali

Reality Series• 2017
Combat Ships

Docuseries• 2017
Deadly Australians

Movie• 2017
Diana and the Paparazzi

Reality Series• 2018
Disasters at Sea

Docuseries• 2019
Dogs with Extraordinary Jobs

Docuseries• 2018
Elizabeth

Reality Series• 2024
Extreme Airport Africa

Docuseries• 2021
Fever Pitch: The Rise of the Premier League

Reality Series• 2017
First Ladies Revealed

Docuseries• 2023
Genghis Khan’s Mongolia

Reality Series• 2022
Great Lakes Untamed

Docuseries• 2016
Hell Below

Series• 2021
How Did They Build That?

Docuseries• 2019
Hunt for Eagle 56

Reality Series• 2020
Ice Airport Alaska

Reality Series• 2021
Impossible Repairs

Reality Series• 2015
Inside the Factory

Series• 2021
Inside the Tower of London

Docuseries• 2021
Legends of the Pharaohs

Documentary• 2022
Master of Glass: The Art of Dale Chihuly

Reality Series• 2014
Mighty Cruise Ships

Reality Series• 2012
Mighty Planes

Reality Series• 2016
Mighty Trains

Reality Series• 2015
Million Dollar American Princesses

Series• 2019
Mystic Britain

Docuseries• 2023
On the Fly: Adventures at Altitude

Series• 2018
Orangutan Jungle School

Miniseries• 2017
Over Australia

Documentary• 2022
Picturing the Obamas

Reality Series• 2015
Polar Bear Town

Movie• 2017
Princess Diana’s ‘Wicked’ Stepmother

Docuseries• 2017
Private Lives of the Monarchs

Docuseries• 2019
Private Lives of the Windsors

Documentary• 2022
Project Artemis: Back to the Moon

Series• 2016
Sacred Sites

Docuseries• 2021
Searching for Secrets

Series• 2013
Secrets

Documentary• 2015
Siege of Masada

Series• 2019
Spy Wars

Miniseries• 2021
Stormborn

Series• 2020
Supersenses

Reality Series• 2021
Ten Steps to Disaster

Documentary• 2022
The Color of Care

Miniseries• 2019
The Commons

Reality Series• 2020
The Curious Life and Death of…

Series• 2018
The Pacific War in Color

Docuseries• 2017
The Real Jesus of Nazareth

Docuseries• 2009
The Real Story

Docuseries• 2021
Tomb Hunters

Documentary• 2019
Warrior Women With Lupita Nyong’o

Miniseries• 2021
Wild Tales From the Farm

Docuseries• 2020
World War II: Race to Victory

Series• 2021
WWII Battles in Color
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