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Combat Ships

S4, EP2 "Explosion!"

Recounting some of maritime warfare's explosions, from world wars and Vietnam to the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll.

Combat Ships

S2, EP1 "Viking Longships"

The story of one of the world's most effective war machines: the Viking longship, seeing how its design evolved from swift war canoe to versatile and feared ship that would change the course of history.

Combat Ships

S1, EP9 "Wooden Warships"

A look at the most famous wooden warships over the course of 500 years.

Combat Ships

S2, EP4 "Destroyers and Cruisers"

The ships that made mighty empires, from the lone wolves that patrolled the high seas for imperial Britain to the USS Laffey's heroic WWII battle against kamikazes at Okinawa.

Combat Ships

S1, EP7 "Rescue Ships"

A look at some of the rescue ships of the past 200 years of wartime and the brave men and women who risked their lives to save others.

Combat Ships

S3, EP1 "Game Changers"

A look at experimental ships and revolutionary designers that have changed the tide of war through the centuries.

Air Warriors

S9, EP6 "Galaxy"

An inside look at the U.S. Air Force's largest aircraft, the C-5 Galaxy; its most dramatic combat and peacetime missions over the last 50 years.

Air Warriors

S6, EP5 "OV-10 Bronco"

The Vietnam-era OV-10 Bronco is pulled out of retirement to join the fight against ISIS.

Air Disasters

S24, EP2 "Disaster At Dutch Harbor"

While landing at a notoriously tricky Alaskan island airport, the pilots of a twin turboprop can't stop their plane.

Air Disasters

S24, EP3 "Deadly Departure"

After a DC-8 cargo plane with only three working engines crashes on takeoff in Kansas City, investigators uncover a flaw in the pilots' training.

Air Disasters

S7, EP10 "Ghost Plane"

Investigators try to solve the mystery of a plane whose captain and co-pilot are missing.

Air Disasters

S17, EP4 "Double Trouble"

Trans-Air Service Flight 671 suffers an in-flight separation of its two right engines while en route to Kano, Nigeria, forcing the pilots to make an emergency landing at Istres-Le Tubé Air Base in France.

Air Disasters

S13, EP4 "Borderline Tactics"

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

Air Disasters

S16, EP9 "Seconds From Touchdown"

Facing a cascade of failures and a fire on board, a turboprop is just seconds from landing when it flips over and crashes.

Air Disasters

S24, EP8 "Under Fire"

Three hundred people are killed in one of the deadliest aviation accidents of all time after a fire breaks out on board Saudia Flight 163.

Air Disasters

S4, EP6 "Grand Canyon"

United Airlines Flight 718 and Trans World Airlines Flight 2 collide midair over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing all 128 people on both aircraft in 1956.

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