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Eleven Deadly Seconds

Air Disasters

S24, EP5 "Eleven Deadly Seconds"

Solving the crash of China Airlines Flight 676 hinges on 11 baffling seconds when neither pilot controls the airplane.

Air Disasters

S24, EP6 "Fight For Survival"

With flames emerging through the cockpit floor, the pilots of Pilgrim Airlines 458 manage a heroic landing on a frozen Rhode Island reservoir.

Aerial America

S1, EP12 "Massachusetts"

A flight over Massachusetts explores the sites; the Bay State, from Martha's Vineyard to the Bambino's Curse, seen from the air.

Aerial America

S1, EP58 "Natural Wonders"

America's most remarkable natural wonders are explored including the Grand Canyon, the Great Lakes and more.

Aerial America

S1, EP3 "Connecticut"

A high-flying tour of Connecticut; exploring the safe harbors, buildings and rich maritime history; the home state of Mark Twain, PT Barnum and Katharine Hepburn; the exclusive Gold Coast, the Thimble Islands and the historic cities.

Aerial America

S1, EP5 "Tennessee"

From battlefields where hundreds died to Beale Street where musical legends were born.

Aerial America

S1, EP7 "Arkansas"

An aerial view of Arkansas, where settlers' westward journeys began and the scene of Bonnie and Clyde's most serious crime; a view of the land of raging rivers, vast wilderness and legends of the Wild West.

Aerial America

S1, EP17 "North Carolina"

The Wright Brothers gave the state its slogan "First in Flight"; civil rights leaders in Greensboro; NASCAR.

Air Disasters

S3, EP2 "Mayday Munich"

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

Air Disasters

S4, EP8 "Focused on Failure"

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.

Combat Ships

S4, EP3 "Hidden Figures"

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.

Combat Ships

S4, EP7 "Record Breakers"

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

Combat Ships

S3, EP4 "Gulf War Warriors"

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.

Combat Ships

S1, EP8 "The Smallest Ships"

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.

Combat Ships

S3, EP5 "Sunk"

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.

Combat Ships

S3, EP6 "Top Guns"

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

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