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Air Disasters
S21, EP8 "Frozen in Flight"A design flaw sends American Eagle Flight 41-84 smashing into a cornfield outside of Chicago, killing all 68 people on board.
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.
Combat Ships
S4, EP5 "Mutiny"A look at how technological advances over the centuries have transformed maritime warfare.
Air Disasters
S10, EP1 "Deadly Silence"Investigators try to figure out why a private Learjet carrying Payne Stewart went rogue before crashing in a South Dakota hayfield.
Air Disasters
S9, EP1 "Fatal Transmission"A runway collision at a small airport turns tragic when passengers cannot escape the burning aircraft.
Air Disasters
S20, EP20 "Take Off Tragedies"Three flights ending in tragedy, prove that minor missteps during takeoff can have disastrous consequences.
Air Disasters
S18, EP17 "Lost"Investigators struggle to determine why a 757 strayed off course during its final approach to a Colombia airport and crashed into a mountain.
Air Disasters
S19, EP5 "Control Catastrophe"Experts investigate an unfortunate string of events that caused the freshly serviced Air Astana Flight 1388 to become completely uncontrollable.
Air Disasters
S20, EP29 "Splash Down"Three last-resort water landings, all handled differently yet each one crucial to improving the outcomes of ditching on open water.
Air Disasters
S20, EP19 "Maintenance Mistakes"A trio of crashes reveals that when the nuts and bolts of maintenance go unchecked, it can spell catastrophe.
Air Disasters
S12, EP4 "Deadly Airspace"When a commercial airliner goes down in eastern Ukraine in 2014, examiners must conduct an investigation in the middle of a war zone.