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In DEEP SEA DETECTIVES, follow a new breed of underwater detectives who use 21st century forensics and technology to solve the mysteries behind the dark underwater graves of ships, planes and submarines.

On September 11, 2001, 184 people lost their lives when American Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon. Today, people are surprised to hear that the Pentagon was ever a target. Few know about those who escaped, many terrifyingly close to the impact zone. This is the most complete telling of what happened at the Pentagon on a day that forever changed our world.

An in-depth dramatization of the story of the Pilgrims

Follows a spirited team of miners who are among the first Americans to prospect for precious metals and gems in parts of Greenland where humans never have set foot before.

A team of technicians and scientist undertake a thorough site survey of the Titanic shipwreck area to examine how the passenger ship sank.

This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh

See how America developed the most destructive invention in human history - the nuclear bomb - how it changed the world and how it continues to loom large in our lives. Hear from historians and those who experienced the dawn of the atomic age.

An amazing discovery has been made beneath a farm field in Northern France: a vast underground city where World War I soldiers, on both sides of the conflict, took refuge a century ago. Even more remarkable, it is one of hundreds of buried havens set up close to a 45-mile stretch of the Western Front. Follow American explorer and photographer Jeff Gusky as he documents one of these long forgotten shelters, and witness his attempts to connect the names of the American soldiers etched into the limestone walls to their living descendants.

The discoveries since 1984 of atypical human remains in the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in south-western Siberia, near the border with China and Mongolia, puzzled a Max Plack (Leipzig, Germany) researchers Johannes Krause and (Swede) Svante Pääbo enough in 2008 to mobilize an international multidisciplinary team. They found it was an unknown branch of early humans besides sapiens (us now) and Neanderthal, which they named Denisovan after the spot. Comparison with another mysterious type in China and Mongolia yielding no match, but DNA comparison suggests a spread from Siberia to Australia and Melanesia (Oceania) with center in SE Asia.

A history of the U.S. manned space program from Mercury to Apollo 17, as seen by the men of Mission Control.

2 hour special based on John Maclean's account of the Storm King Mountain

See what happens when two schools from two sides of the tracks settle their differences on one field.

An expedition looks into whether Titanic's hull had a construction design flaw that caused her to break apart.

A four-part chronicle of the exploration of North America profiles the men who led the expeditions.

Documentary about holocaust in Lithuania and the story of Lithuanian holocaust survivors of an escape tunnel they dug.

The 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic...a new look in 3-D.

Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces has made international headlines announcing their location of two new pieces of the legendary ship at 12,400 ft below the Atlantic, These pieces shed new light on the World's most famous ship wreck.

A caring team of idividuals run a exotic animal sanctuary in Maine.

In honor of the 70th anniversary, D-Day in HD compiles rare and newly uncovered footage from around the world. Using this footage as a backdrop, some of the last remaining survivors tell how Allied troops invaded Normandy to turn the tide of tyranny in one of the deadliest battles of World War II.

A diving team from the History channel go to the wreck and explore it. They want to know why she sank in 50 minutes, even with all the improvements done to her.

National Geographic Special The perils of working at sea: disaster and rescue stories.

Theatrical special drawn from the trial excerpts presenting new theories about the famous events in Salem Village

US soldiers operate covertly fighting a secret war in Laos as the pressure to withdraw form Vietnam increased

Documents the construction of the cutting-edge Discovery Channel Telescope, based in the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, from conception to first light.