Fatal Approach

A false warning in the cockpit triggers a series of pilot errors, sending a commuter plane crashing by the runway of an Amsterdam airport.

A false warning in the cockpit triggers a series of pilot errors.

Air Disasters

Borderline Tactics

When a DC-8 cargo jet crashes on approach to a U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, investigators wonder if Cuba played a role.

A DC-8 cargo jet crashes on approach to a U.S. naval base in Guantanamo.

Deadly Pitch

An anonymous tip helps uncover the cause of a cargo plane crash in Miami.

Fatal Climb

A commercial airliner crashes minutes after taking off from an airport in Bucharest causing suspicions to rise.

A commercial airliner crashes minutes after taking off from an airport in Bucharest.

Runway Runoff

A passenger plane veers off the runway in Denver sparking an investigation into the airport's proximity to the Rocky Mountains.

Investigators research an airport after a passenger plane veers off the runway.

Lethal Limits

An investigation into a jet crash from 2008 leads to a drastic change into the Russian aviation system.

An investigation into a jet crash from 2008 leads to a change into the Russian aviation system.

Transcantábrico Clásico

A trip aboard the luxury tourist train, Transcantábrico Clásico through Northern Spain along a historic 19th century rail line.

Departamento de Justiça, Classificação, Títulos e Qualificação

A trip aboard a luxury tourist train through Northern Spain along a historic 19th century rail line.

Mighty Trains

Viking Long Ship Gefjon

Gefjon joins a Viking longship crew through Danube, Main and Rhine Rivers.

Mighty Cruise Ships

Singapore

Discovering where to get a Michelin star meal for less than three dollars and learning the amazing history of Hawker Food; touring Singapore with "Toilet Man" to find out how beautiful gardens and obsessively clean toilets made the city rich.

Touring Singapore with "Toilet Man" to find out how gardens and clean toilets made the city rich.

Searching for Secrets

Hero Pilots

Three flights headed for disaster are saved at the last moment by heroes in the cockpit.

Rise of the Greeks

The discovery of a burial shaft filled with priceless gilded coffins provides insights into what happened when Greek rulers took over ancient Egypt.

A burial shaft filled with priceless gilded coffins provides insights into Egypt under Greek rule.

Tomb Hunters

The Hero's Voyage

Bettany begins her odyssey through the Greek islands, embarking from the site of the Trojan War, with stops at Fourni, Chios, Lesbos, and Samos.

Bettany sails across Greece, with stops at Fourni, Chios, Lesbos, and Samos.

A Greek Odyssey With Bettany Hughes

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Birthplace of the Gods

Traveling to the sacred island of Delos and the enchanted Ikaria before enduring a stormy ride to Mykonos.

Bettany takes a predawn trip to Delos, an island so sacred that no one was permitted to live there.

Made in the USA

Aerial America

Beyond Hollywood

Best Small Towns

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

Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft

A coast-to-coast aerial tour celebrates the best small towns in the United States.

Great Cities

An aerial journey over America's most spectacular and fascinating cities, including Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and Boston.

An aerial journey over America's most spectacular and fascinating cities.

Amazing Destinations

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

Wilderness

Land protected by the Wilderness Act of 1964.

On the Water

Taking flight for a bird's eye tour of America's rivers, lakes, and canals.

Paris

Discovering how the key to Paris's revolutionary past is hidden in cobblestones and street design; skipping the Eiffel tower to climb the ugliest skyscraper in Europe instead.

Discovering how the key to Paris's revolutionary past is hidden in cobblestones and street design.

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