Smithsonian Channel 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. 2026-06-01 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. 2026-06-01 Going on a journey across Lithuania on big trains packed to the brim as massive ships wait to collect their bounty and take it across the ocean. 2026-06-01 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. 2026-06-01 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. 2026-06-01 Going on a journey across Lithuania on big trains packed to the brim as massive ships wait to collect their bounty and take it across the ocean. 2026-06-01 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. 2026-06-01 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. 2026-06-01 Going on a journey across Lithuania on big trains packed to the brim as massive ships wait to collect their bounty and take it across the ocean. 2026-06-01 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. 2026-06-01 Rumoured to be the cleanest river in Europe, few dispute it's the coldest; cascading down from the Dinaric Alps in Serbia, it soon crosses the border into Bosnia-Herzegovina, where marine biologist and fisherman Sanel Riđanović casts for salmon. 2026-06-01 Exploring some of the most cavernous places on the planet, including an expansive Siberian crater with no explainable origin, Greenland's bizarre black holes, an ancient forbidden well in the Yemeni desert, and a voluminous void in Antarctica. 2026-06-01 Salvor and treasure seeker Phil Risko sets out to retrieve valuable 80-year-old hardwood logs from the bottom of the sea; a multi-million dollar cruise vessel undergoes emergency repairs in Panama. 2026-06-01 Rumoured to be the cleanest river in Europe, few dispute it's the coldest; cascading down from the Dinaric Alps in Serbia, it soon crosses the border into Bosnia-Herzegovina, where marine biologist and fisherman Sanel Riđanović casts for salmon. 2026-06-01 Exploring some of the most cavernous places on the planet, including an expansive Siberian crater with no explainable origin, Greenland's bizarre black holes, an ancient forbidden well in the Yemeni desert, and a voluminous void in Antarctica. 2026-06-01 Salvor and treasure seeker Phil Risko sets out to retrieve valuable 80-year-old hardwood logs from the bottom of the sea; a multi-million dollar cruise vessel undergoes emergency repairs in Panama. 2026-06-01 An elite group of British paratroopers launch a midnight raid in order to capture Hitler's unusual radar equipment. 2026-06-01 American paratroopers are dropped behind German lines on D-Day in order to secure territory behind the beaches. 2026-06-01 British Commandos raid two occupied Norwegian islands to wipe out fish oil factories used to make explosives. 2026-06-01 The first invasion of the Italian Campaign of WWII: Operation Husky. 2026-06-01 A secret British regiment in 1942 led a daring raid on a Nazi-occupied Libyan harbor. 2026-06-01 An elite squad of Norwegians destroy a power plant in 1943 that the Nazis may have been using for nuclear weapons research. 2026-06-01 An elite group of British paratroopers launch a midnight raid in order to capture Hitler's unusual radar equipment. 2026-06-01 American paratroopers are dropped behind German lines on D-Day in order to secure territory behind the beaches. 2026-06-01 British Commandos raid two occupied Norwegian islands to wipe out fish oil factories used to make explosives. 2026-06-02 The first invasion of the Italian Campaign of WWII: Operation Husky. 2026-06-02 A secret British regiment in 1942 led a daring raid on a Nazi-occupied Libyan harbor. 2026-06-02 An elite squad of Norwegians destroy a power plant in 1943 that the Nazis may have been using for nuclear weapons research. 2026-06-02 An elite group of British paratroopers launch a midnight raid in order to capture Hitler's unusual radar equipment. 2026-06-02 American paratroopers are dropped behind German lines on D-Day in order to secure territory behind the beaches. 2026-06-02 British Commandos raid two occupied Norwegian islands to wipe out fish oil factories used to make explosives. 2026-06-02 The first invasion of the Italian Campaign of WWII: Operation Husky. 2026-06-02 A secret British regiment in 1942 led a daring raid on a Nazi-occupied Libyan harbor. 2026-06-02 An elite squad of Norwegians destroy a power plant in 1943 that the Nazis may have been using for nuclear weapons research. 2026-06-02 Tackling the grade 6 rapids and untamed waters of the Buller River on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island, blessed by a Māori elder of the Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō. 2026-06-02 A perfect circle carved around an ancient peak; a scary phenomenon in the Pacific; strange shapes in a Middle Eastern desert; a formation below the ocean's surface. 2026-06-02 Responding to an emergency call, Northstar marine sets out to salvage a sunken tug in the Delaware Bay; following the devastation caused by Hurricane Sally, Capt. Chris Ward and his crew work to salvage sunken sailboats and wrecked powerboats. 2026-06-02 Tackling the grade 6 rapids and untamed waters of the Buller River on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island, blessed by a Māori elder of the Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō. 2026-06-02 A perfect circle carved around an ancient peak; a scary phenomenon in the Pacific; strange shapes in a Middle Eastern desert; a formation below the ocean's surface. 2026-06-02 Responding to an emergency call, Northstar marine sets out to salvage a sunken tug in the Delaware Bay; following the devastation caused by Hurricane Sally, Capt. Chris Ward and his crew work to salvage sunken sailboats and wrecked powerboats. 2026-06-02 Rare archive footage charts the German Army in 1940 as it unleashes a new Blitzkrieg tactic. 2026-06-02 Cameras roll as Nazi Germany launches an all-out assault on the Soviet Union. 2026-06-02 Footage of life and death on the battlefield of El Alamein and behind the lines in the African desert. 2026-06-02 The story of the greatest tank battle the world has ever seen. 2026-06-02 Eyewitness accounts from those who fought in the US military's bloodiest battle on the European front in World War II. 2026-06-02 Incredible footage, colorized for the first time, chronicles the final days of the Third Reich and the brutal battle for Berlin, though German defeat looked certain. Nazi soldiers persisted in fighting despite the inevitability of their downfall. 2026-06-02 The crew of the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier prepares to give air support to ground troops battling ISIS in Iraq. 2026-06-02 A behind-the-scenes look at the operations of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier; the dedicated sailors who keep it running at maximum efficiency. 2026-06-02 Investigating how early concepts of armoured fighting vehicles influenced the creation of the very first tank prototype; seeing how the muddy battlefields of WW I became a crucial testing ground for a machine that would soon change military history. 2026-06-03