Smithsonian Channel Uncovering the inspiring stories of the U.S. Army's 761st Tank Battalion; descendants and historians discuss the honor of the first armored unit of its kind, entirely composed of African-American servicemen. 2026-06-04 Revisit Colditz Castle, a Nazi fortress where breakouts featured human catapults and clever disguises; meet the pilots who staged the famed Great Escape from a Polish stalag; see how 32 POWs pulled off the Warburg Wire Job in just one minute. 2026-06-04 Relive the Flight of the Crow, a trek across Nazi-occupied Europe; find out how two Austrian mountaineers hiked their way out of the Himalayas, then learn why 378 Japanese POWs risked it all in Australia's bloody Cowra Breakout. 2026-06-04 Examine how German soldiers used an erotic painting and other decoys to distract their captors as they tunnelled out of Island Farm POW camp in Wales; see how American bombardiers were smuggled out of Russia, and study a wartime Trojan Horse plot. 2026-06-04 A mass uprising that shows the world the truth about the Nazis' secret Sobibor death camp; learn how the Davao Dozen break out of a harsh Japanese penal colony and explore how two plucky German pilots plot to get out of Britain. 2026-06-04 Discover the German submarines that caused havoc in the American desert, the playboy pilot they couldn't cage, and the young lovers whose escape defied all odds. 2026-06-04 Track German tank commander Georg Gaertner, vanishes from a U.S. POW camp and eludes the FBI for 40 years; learn how two escaped Auschwitz prisoners help save countless lives and how Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann is finally brought to justice. 2026-06-04 Uncovering the inspiring stories of the U.S. Army's 761st Tank Battalion; descendants and historians discuss the honor of the first armored unit of its kind, entirely composed of African-American servicemen. 2026-06-04 Revisit Colditz Castle, a Nazi fortress where breakouts featured human catapults and clever disguises; meet the pilots who staged the famed Great Escape from a Polish stalag; see how 32 POWs pulled off the Warburg Wire Job in just one minute. 2026-06-04 Relive the Flight of the Crow, a trek across Nazi-occupied Europe; find out how two Austrian mountaineers hiked their way out of the Himalayas, then learn why 378 Japanese POWs risked it all in Australia's bloody Cowra Breakout. 2026-06-04 Navigating the historic Potomac River from West Virginia to Chesapeake Bay, passing through Washington, D.C. and the national monuments and ending at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate. 2026-06-04 Zoom in on some otherworldly sights; spot a giant glacier on the Red Planet, let the milky seas off the coast of Java bathe your vision, ponder a huge hexagon floating above Saturn and take a spin around a doughnut-shaped lake in Saskatchewan. 2026-06-04 A salvage maestro returns to raise more valuable tropical hardwood trying not to wreck his own boat in the process; the multimillion dollar operation to salvage America's biggest shipwreck. 2026-06-04 Examining the science behind the birth of the universe. 2026-06-04 Paid programming. 2026-06-04 Zoom in on some otherworldly sights; spot a giant glacier on the Red Planet, let the milky seas off the coast of Java bathe your vision, ponder a huge hexagon floating above Saturn and take a spin around a doughnut-shaped lake in Saskatchewan. 2026-06-04 A salvage maestro returns to raise more valuable tropical hardwood trying not to wreck his own boat in the process; the multimillion dollar operation to salvage America's biggest shipwreck. 2026-06-04 After the landing on Normandy Beach, the Battle of Carentan breaks out and an American unit launches a desperate bayonet charge. 2026-06-04 After months of fighting in Europe, U.S. troops finally enter Germany; with their sights set on the city of Aachen, the Americans must break through two rows of bunker fortifications to capture the old capital. 2026-06-04 A Japanese American regiment fights through darkened forests, heavy rains and entrenched Nazis to reach a lost U.S. battalion in the Vosges Mountains. 2026-06-04 During the Battle of the Bulge, a young U.S. scout gets trapped behind enemy lines. 2026-06-04 A United States Army cook manages to stall Himmler's attempt to recapture Strasbourg. 2026-06-04 A platoon of Canadian tank hunters engages a column of Nazi Panther tanks at nighttime. 2026-06-04 In July 1944, French resistance fighters called Maquisards declared a Free French Republic on the remote Vercors plateau in eastern France to support the Allied invasion of Normandy. 2026-06-04 In August 1944, when Hitler launches Operation Lüttich to retake the port city of Avranches, German panzer and SS troops quickly overrun the French town of Mortain and encircle a battalion of US soldiers who hold the high ground on Hill 314. 2026-06-04 In the autumn of 1944, Patton's Third Army approaches the heavily fortified region of Metz; after being turned back from Fort Driant, Patton's men target Fort Koenigsmacker a month later. 2026-06-05 In February 1945, Allied forces lead an attack out of the Netherlands and onto German soil west of the Rhine; a Canadian battalion administrator must assume command of a company and lead it into battle. 2026-06-05 When his company attempts to capture a small village, an American soldier, born in Mexico but raised in Texas, must crawl through an enemy minefield to capture two German machine gun nests holding up his unit. 2026-06-05 An American 2nd lieutenant sends his company back during an enemy counterattack during the Allied bid to clear the Colmar Pocket; he tries to hold off the German soldiers with his carbine rifle and calling in artillery but runs out of bullets. 2026-06-05 After the landing on Normandy Beach, the Battle of Carentan breaks out and an American unit launches a desperate bayonet charge. 2026-06-05 After months of fighting in Europe, U.S. troops finally enter Germany; with their sights set on the city of Aachen, the Americans must break through two rows of bunker fortifications to capture the old capital. 2026-06-05 A Japanese American regiment fights through darkened forests, heavy rains and entrenched Nazis to reach a lost U.S. battalion in the Vosges Mountains. 2026-06-05 During the Battle of the Bulge, a young U.S. scout gets trapped behind enemy lines. 2026-06-05 A United States Army cook manages to stall Himmler's attempt to recapture Strasbourg. 2026-06-05 A platoon of Canadian tank hunters engages a column of Nazi Panther tanks at nighttime. 2026-06-05 A journey down one of the wild rivers in the world, the Yukon; the unusual trip starts in an aircraft piloted by a painter and the odyssey ends with a visit to a graveyard of disintegrating rear-wheel steamers. 2026-06-05 Explores strongholds abandoned by their architects; a lost city in the Amazon jungle; a desert fortress made by humanity's most notorious empire; explores a city of identical castles; examines a Greek isle's bloody history from the air. 2026-06-05 The team must remove thousands of wrecked cars from the hull before it becomes an environmental disaster; repairing a vessel before the waters of the River Solent flood the hull. 2026-06-05 A journey down one of the wild rivers in the world, the Yukon; the unusual trip starts in an aircraft piloted by a painter and the odyssey ends with a visit to a graveyard of disintegrating rear-wheel steamers. 2026-06-05 Explores strongholds abandoned by their architects; a lost city in the Amazon jungle; a desert fortress made by humanity's most notorious empire; explores a city of identical castles; examines a Greek isle's bloody history from the air. 2026-06-05 The team must remove thousands of wrecked cars from the hull before it becomes an environmental disaster; repairing a vessel before the waters of the River Solent flood the hull. 2026-06-05 First-hand accounts, recreations and expert interviews of the battle of Dunkirk, and how soldiers were trapped on the French beach by German forces. 2026-06-05 First-hand accounts, re-creations and expert interviews of D-Day in 1944, where the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. 2026-06-05 The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor triggers the U.S. entering WWII; we reveal the secret stories behind the battle such as that of Dorie Miller. 2026-06-05 There are many stories behind the 1940 Battle of Britain, like pilot Bill Millington who sacrifices himself to save civilians. 2026-06-05 The tales behind the Blitz; the employment of German speaking radio controllers to confuse Luftwaffe pilots; the French spy who helped the RAF. 2026-06-05 Exploring the many battles fought out on the banks of the Rhine in 1944 and the secrets behind the lines of the battleground. 2026-06-05 First-hand accounts, recreations and expert interviews of the battle of Dunkirk, and how soldiers were trapped on the French beach by German forces. 2026-06-05 First-hand accounts, re-creations and expert interviews of D-Day in 1944, where the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. 2026-06-05 Germany's selection of strange bedfellows in the form of despots and dictators comes back to haunt them. 2026-06-06