Smithsonian HD Network A flexible cargo aircraft in the U.S. airlift force; the C-17 Globemaster III specializes in quick delivery of troops and all types of cargo. 2026-06-24 The Indian Pacific is a four-day, 4,352-kilometer transcontinental journey across Australia, a trip which features the world's longest straight stretch of railway and steepest incline. 2026-06-24 Costa Diadema's seven-day cruise around the Mediterranean offers Italian delights to its passengers and challenges to its captain and crew. 2026-06-24 Norwegian Joy sails amid icebergs in Alaska's Inside Passage, treating guests to glaciers, humpback whales, and the largest zip line in the world. 2026-06-24 Go behind the scenes with NTV's two Italo trains - the AGV and the EVO - as they expand to cover more of the Italian railway network, connecting passengers from Turin to Venice, and Naples to Milan, on two of the world's fastest trains. 2026-06-24 The White Pass and Yukon route was built in 1869 to take miners and supplies to the Klondike gold fields. 2026-06-24 The world's latest, most-advanced expedition cruise ship Roald Amundsen whisks passengers on an adventurous voyage to Antarctica. 2026-06-24 The Sky Princess carries passengers from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to three Central American stops. 2026-06-24 The Paul Gauguin offers five-star luxury while sailing near the coral reefs, mountainous islands and tropical playgrounds of French Polynesia. 2026-06-24 New luxury liner Le Soleal navigates the uncharted waters of Indonesia to give her passengers one-of-a-kind encounters at exotic destinations. 2026-06-24 Exploring the design and engineering stories behind D.C.'s Museum of African American History, the Montreal Tower and the Equinor building in Oslo. 2026-06-24 Peek inside a cloud-inspired library in Canada that's built over a live railway; see how clever engineering helped a huge Seattle skyscraper go up without harming its iconic neighbour, then cross an Australian bridge that floats above a busy river. 2026-06-24 The engineering secrets behind a mobile research station in Antarctica, a gravity-defying concert hall on the Canary Islands, and a rotating boat lift in Scotland. 2026-06-24 Visiting the Hearst Tower in Manhattan and Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore to understand how they were built; covering how designers and engineers attempt to create a museum worthy of Salvador Dalí in Florida. 2026-06-24 The engineering secrets behind the world's steepest mountain railway, a remodeled 145-year-old museum and a futuristic condo. 2026-06-24 Building an eco-friendly visitor center in the permafrost on Colorado's Pikes Peak tests the team. A museum is constructed in a disused dry dock that's in danger of collapse. 2026-06-24 Diving into retrofits on the world's only underwater habitat, where NASA astronauts train for space missions; Mike joins a crack repair team who breathe new life into this oceanic environment after a global pandemic shut it down. 2026-06-24 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. 2026-06-24 Mike joins the Assault Craft Unit 5, the U.S. Navy's team for Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCACs); LCACs carry heavy vehicles and troops onto beaches; Mike helps fly & fix an overhauled LCAC during a U.S. Marines beach assault training mission. 2026-06-24 Nevada has over 40,000 abandoned mines posing dangers; Mike joins contractors for a week to secure five sites; alongside biologists, they explore and document wildlife; reaching these isolated mines requires barges, helicopters and bulldozers. 2026-06-24 Traveling from Canada to Belgium to the Southern U.S. to examine an eye-popping school, museum and railway station and reveal how they were built. 2026-06-24 Uncovering the design and engineering secrets behind the Grand Canyon Skywalk, the Audain Museum and more. 2026-06-24 The inside stories behind a new, horseshoe-shaped complex in Rotterdam, a rock-shaped opera house in China and a makeover of the British Museum. 2026-06-24 A museum building bends 1,100-glass tubes to form a facade and tunnels below the water table; a vast 11-storey glass atrium HQ is built on the former Berlin Wall site to represent unity. 2026-06-24 A 1966 landslide in Wales killed 116 children and 28 adults; a 2019 dam collapse killed 115 people in Brazil. 2026-06-25 Experts examine what caused the Zeebrugge ferry tragedy and the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster; what were the consequences, and how could they have been avoided? 2026-06-25 Experts examine how engineering failures allowed Hurricane Katrina to devastate New Orleans and cause the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. 2026-06-25 Solving the crash of China Airlines Flight 676 hinges on 11 baffling seconds when neither pilot controls the airplane. 2026-06-25 With flames emerging through the cockpit floor, the pilots of Pilgrim Airlines 458 manage a heroic landing on a frozen Rhode Island reservoir. 2026-06-25 After Colgan Air 9446 crashes off Cape Cod, investigators must determine what brought down a widely-used commuter aircraft in under three minutes. 2026-06-25 UPS Airlines Flight 1354 clips the tops of trees and crashes into a hillside about one nautical mile short of the runway during final approach to Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama. 2026-06-25 A design fault leads to an explosion on a DC-10 and two years later the same design fault causes another tragedy. 2026-06-25 A freight train carrying an excess of cargo loses its brakes while descending a mountain causing it to gain speed and derail into a neighborhood killing several people. 2026-06-25 With rising young football star Emiliano Sala on board, a chartered Piper Malibu suddenly disappears from radar over the English Channel. 2026-06-25 From tests in the River Thames, to the German's deadly U-boat attacks in World War II, this episode explores the silent threat of submarines. 2026-06-25 Stories of espionage at sea, including deadly U-boat cat-and-mouse games during WWI, the sinking of the Lusitania, a gun-smuggling private yacht that made history, and liners turned troopships. 2026-06-25 The legendary Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, which pitted Napoleon's French ships against a British armada under the command of Admiral Horatio Nelson. 2026-06-25 A look at how the art of deception was used by naval forces in the first half of the 20th century; in 1939, the German raider Atlantis was equipped with fake funnels, while its sailors dressed as women pushing strollers to fool Allied merchant ships. 2026-06-25 Revolutionary ship design helped Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake lead England to defeat the Spanish Armada and become a world power. 2026-06-25 A look at Naval warfare's fastest combat ships and how the advantage of speed determined the outcome of some of the great seas battles of the last 150 years. 2026-06-25 Bad design, human error and the enemy sent great ships to tragic ends, like Britain's K13 submarine and HMS Hood, Sweden's 17th century Vasa, and Kublai Khan's fleet, sunk by the original kamikaze. 2026-06-25 The evolution from wooden ships to metal ones in the second half of the 19th century is examined. 2026-06-25 The 200-year evolution of the submarine in wartime is examined, told by the designers and engineers behind the machines. 2026-06-25 An up-close look at the naval carriers, destroyers, and nuclear submarines of the Cold War. 2026-06-25 The Marine Corps' V-22 Osprey. 2026-06-25 The F-15 Eagle's conquests in Iraq, Yugoslavia and even space. 2026-06-25 An inside look at the Panavia Tornado's evolution from a Cold War low-level bomber to a high-level fighter-interceptor. 2026-06-25 The inside story of the Avro Lancaster, the British bomber that was rushed into service to fight back against Nazi Germany. 2026-06-25 Exploring the history of the F-18 and how the U.S. Navy's dual-role aircraft has dominated both the air and the battlefields for over three decades. 2026-06-26