Mighty Ships

The untold story of how the Space Race became a competition between two superpowers to put the first black man in space.

Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier

Exploring the engineering and architectural masterpieces like The Copper in Manhattan to Gardens By the Bay in Singapore.

How Did They Build That?

Documentary series that tells the story of the evolution of maritime conflict.

Combat Ships

A chronicle of the daily challenges of the airport staff who manage to keep the facility open, freight flowing and passengers flying all despite weather that regularly dips to -36 degrees and wind speeds that typically exceed 100 mph.

Ice Airport Alaska

Experience the liberation of Western Europe from every angle, as astonishingly colorized and expertly restored footage bring the historic turning point of World War II back to vivid life.

Liberation: D-Day to Berlin

At the National Portrait Gallery's America's Presidents exhibit, visitors get up close and personal with the people who shaped the country's history.

Picturing the Presidents

Exploring the African-American experience through music, dance, sci-fi and film; influential Black creators have an electrifying conversation that celebrates the afrofuturism movement's combination of technology, history and artistic expression.

Afrofuturism: The Origin Story

A look at the US military's ultimate flying war machines and the airplanes used by American forces through the years as pilots and other team members look back on their experiences.

Air Warriors

Exploring the transformation of Cassius Clay, World Heavyweight Champion, into international boxing icon and activist, Muhammad Ali.

Cassius X: Becoming Ali

Take to the skies and explore the most impressive aircraft in the world. Each episode highlights one incredible plane, from the world's only flying eye hospital to the largest passenger jet ever built.

Mighty Planes

A behind-the-scenes look at the voyages of a variety of cruise-ship voyages.

Mighty Cruise Ships

Exploring high-octane aviation stories across Southern Africa.

Extreme Airport Africa

Statistically, traveling by airplane is safer than driving and other forms of transportation, but when something goes wrong during a flight, it can be catastrophic with potentially hundreds of lives at stake. This series examines some of the world's worst air disasters, using official reports, transcripts and interviews with people involved to tell the stories of midair mishaps and discover what went wrong in each case. Episodes include a discussion of how the weather affects flights -- including stories of aviation disasters and near-misses -- and a New Year's Eve flight that fell from the sky into the Florida Everglades.

Air Disasters

The Last 747 captures the emotion around the build of Boeing's last 747 jumbo jet and also tells the story of how this one airplane completely transformed the economics of air travel - with huge implications for globalization, trade and geopolitics.

The Last 747

History's most iconic female fighters from the Roman Empire to Central Asia and West Africa; Lynda Carter narrates.

Epic Warrior Women

Abraham Lincoln's final hours and John Wilkes Booth's plot to kill him.

Lincoln's Last Day

The story of African-American aviators told through first-person interviews; the stories include the Tuskegee Airmen, Bessie Coleman, and other modern aviators.

Black Wings

Follow engineers and conductors as they navigate their way through busy rail yards.