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UPS Worldport

How Did They Fix That?

S2, EP7 "UPS Worldport"

Mike Davidson goes to the biggest automated package sorting facility in the world, UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky; two million packages go through here every day.

How Did They Build That?

S3, EP9 "Curved & Cables"

A new performance center with a tent-like glass-and-steel lobby tests engineers in Kansas City; two twisting apartment towers make heads spin in Ontario.

How Did They Fix That?

S3, EP1 "US Coast Guard: Safeguarding The Seas"

Mike helps fix the vessels that the U.S. Coast Guard use to keep the oceans safe; he replaces key parts of ship engines, removes a large crane from a buoy tender, and fixes a helicopter for a critical exercise.

D-Day and the Dambusters

How the legendary "Dambuster" bomber squadron of WWII fooled Nazi Germany into believing the Allied invasion was going to be at Calais, rather than Normandy, and went on to destroy Hitler's super weapons.

The Battle of Normandy: 85 Days in Hell

On D-Day, Allied forces land in Normandy, France, to beat back the German troops and liberate France; previously unseen archival footage captures the 85-day struggle to liberate Europe and includes rare images of the battle itself.

Liberation: D-Day to Berlin

S1, EP1 "France"

In 1944, the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe brings the hope of freedom and the devastation of war to the people of France.

Liberation: D-Day to Berlin

S1, EP2 "Belgium and the Netherlands"

New colorized footage and testimony reveal the cost paid by the Allies and civilians to free Belgium and the Netherlands from Nazi occupation.

Liberation: D-Day to Berlin

S1, EP3 "Hitler Strikes Back"

In late 1944, Hitler forces the Americans into their biggest battle of the war when he launches a surprise attack into liberated Belgium.

Air Disasters

S20, EP18 "Courage in the Cockpit"

Devastating failures in the air put pilots to the test and shine a light on three feats of flying.

Air Disasters

S12, EP9 "Deadly Go Round"

When an A300 stalls and crashes just before landing in Japan, fears arise about the plane's complex automated systems.

Air Disasters

S8, EP2 "Testing the Limits"

On 26 May 1991, the thrust reverser on the number one engine of Lauda Air Flight 004 deploys in flight without being commanded, causing the aircraft to spiral out of control, disintegrate, and crash about 100 miles northwest of Bangkok.

WWII Battles in Color

S1, EP1 "Blitzkrieg"

Rare archive footage charts the German Army in 1940 as it unleashes a new Blitzkrieg tactic.

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, EP4 "Kursk"

The story of the greatest tank battle the world has ever seen.

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.

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