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Air Disasters
S16, EP3 "Tragic Takeoff"When a twin-engine jet careens off the runway in Kentucky, investigators must determine why the plane failed to take off.
Air Disasters
S7, EP5 "Hidden Danger"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.
Air Disasters
S10, EP7 "Murder in the Skies"When Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps, investigators discover shocking truths about the co-pilot's mental health.
Air Disasters
S5, EP8 "Imperfect Pitch"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.
Air Disasters
S6, EP8 "Death and Denial"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.
Air Disasters
S2, EP5 "Alarming Silence"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.
Air Disasters
S20, EP22 "Engine Gone"Three crews experience the same devastating event; with radically different outcomes when an engine falls off their commercial airplane.
Air Disasters
S17, EP3 "Stealth Bomber Down"When a USAF stealth bomber crashes after takeoff, investigators search for a reason.
WWII Battles in Color
S1, EP2 "Barbarossa"Cameras roll as Nazi Germany launches an all-out assault on the Soviet Union.
WWII Battles in Color
S1, EP3 "El Alamein"Footage of life and death on the battlefield of El Alamein and behind the lines in the African desert.
WWII Battles in Color
S1, EP5 "The Bulge"Eyewitness accounts from those who fought in the US military's bloodiest battle on the European front in World War II.
WWII Battles in Color
S1, EP6 "Berlin"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.
Battle of Okinawa in Color
Military cameramen's footage of the Battle of Okinawa shows the intensity of the battle, on land and sea, in vivid color.
Fall of Japan: In Color
Footage of the Pacific campaign during World War II and Japan's downfall.
Race to Victory: WWII Pacific
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.