Smithsonian Channel

In the wilds of Southern Africa, aviation takes over where roads don't go. Extreme Airport Africa brings you into the world of high-octane, high-risk bush flying where pilots brave rough runways, wildfires and wild animals.

Climbers landing on a glacier at the foot of Mount Denali, follow in the footsteps of aviation pioneers. A swarm of 600,000 bees threatens the plane's structural integrity and veterinarians battling a rabies epidemic go up agai.

Viewing Southern Italy from the air; Greek temples on the Mediterranean; cities that just seem to float above the sea; one of the most powerful volcanoes on Earth.

Allied convoys resupplying the Soviet Union navigate the Arctic, infested with U-boats and enemy aircraft.

A look at key naval battles that have taken place in the Persian Gulf over the last 50 years and the warships involved, from both sides of the conflicts.

Dictators are characterized as charismatic, narcissistic and sadistic, but most of all by their thirst for power; once in power, holding on to it requires negotiation, coercion and force.

Allied convoys resupplying the Soviet Union navigate the Arctic, infested with U-boats and enemy aircraft.

A look at key naval battles that have taken place in the Persian Gulf over the last 50 years and the warships involved, from both sides of the conflicts.

Dictators are characterized as charismatic, narcissistic and sadistic, but most of all by their thirst for power; once in power, holding on to it requires negotiation, coercion and force.

Exploring the final building phase of the Great Pyramid of Giza and the rituals that took place after a pharaoh dies.

A look at key naval battles that have taken place in the Persian Gulf over the last 50 years and the warships involved, from both sides of the conflicts.

Dictators are characterized as charismatic, narcissistic and sadistic, but most of all by their thirst for power; once in power, holding on to it requires negotiation, coercion and force.

Exploring the final building phase of the Great Pyramid of Giza and the rituals that took place after a pharaoh dies.

Traveling the Dordogne River via traditional boats through the green heart of southwest France; drinking wine and hunting for truffles; riding a luxury cruiser to a lighthouse built for a king.

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.

Bundles of cedar wood tree trunks are smashed apart, releasing thousands of logs on the shoreline; Jeremy and his crew must work fast to recover the cargo.

The Northern Lights tells the story of the makeup of the planet, the sun and possibly life on other planets.

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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.

Bundles of cedar wood tree trunks are smashed apart, releasing thousands of logs on the shoreline; Jeremy and his crew must work fast to recover the cargo.

In the wilds of Southern Africa, aviation takes over where roads don't go. Extreme Airport Africa brings you into the world of high-octane, high-risk bush flying where pilots brave rough runways, wildfires and wild animals.

A different view of the events in the Arctic during World War II, with unknown details; a focus on the struggle of the great powers for control of the area and its natural resources.

Forensic archeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls goes in search of a Nazi SS camp constructed on the British Channel island of Alderney during World War II; clues emerge leading Sturdy Colls to suspect that Alderney was the scene of Nazi mass murders.

Viewing Southern Italy from the air; Greek temples on the Mediterranean; cities that just seem to float above the sea; one of the most powerful volcanoes on Earth.

Dictators are characterized as charismatic, narcissistic and sadistic, but most of all by their thirst for power; once in power, holding on to it requires negotiation, coercion and force.

Allied convoys resupplying the Soviet Union navigate the Arctic, infested with U-boats and enemy aircraft.

A look at key naval battles that have taken place in the Persian Gulf over the last 50 years and the warships involved, from both sides of the conflicts.

Dictators are characterized as charismatic, narcissistic and sadistic, but most of all by their thirst for power; once in power, holding on to it requires negotiation, coercion and force.

The engineering secrets behind the world's steepest mountain railway, a remodeled 145-year-old museum and a futuristic condo.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, built for Khufu over 4,500 years ago, is the last standing Wonder; exclusive access unveils secret chambers, aiming to unravel its many mysteries.

On the site of Dahshur, south of Cairo, are two revolutionary monuments which seem to be the first real pyramids.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, built for Khufu over 4,500 years ago, is the last standing Wonder; exclusive access unveils secret chambers, aiming to unravel its many mysteries.

On the site of Dahshur, south of Cairo, are two revolutionary monuments which seem to be the first real pyramids.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, built for Khufu over 4,500 years ago, is the last standing Wonder; exclusive access unveils secret chambers, aiming to unravel its many mysteries.

On the site of Dahshur, south of Cairo, are two revolutionary monuments which seem to be the first real pyramids.

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.

Peek at landmarks in places where they shouldn't be; wing your way over an imperial pyramid in the Netherlands, a metal sphere in remote Russia, a lion shape carved into an English hillside and a bare swath cut through an Austrian forest.

Traveling the Dordogne River via traditional boats through the green heart of southwest France; drinking wine and hunting for truffles; riding a luxury cruiser to a lighthouse built for a king.

The second largest planet is also a mini-solar system with 60 moons and those crazy rings.

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Peek at landmarks in places where they shouldn't be; wing your way over an imperial pyramid in the Netherlands, a metal sphere in remote Russia, a lion shape carved into an English hillside and a bare swath cut through an Austrian forest.

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.

The story of the greatest tank battle the world has ever seen.

The scale of World War II grows as the United States joins the war; explore the operations where Allied commando troops raid the Norwegian coast.

The North American F-100 Super Saber, also known as the Hun, becomes a supersonic powerhouse after initial difficulties; it was used primarily in the Vietnam War.

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.

The engineering secrets behind the world's steepest mountain railway, a remodeled 145-year-old museum and a futuristic condo.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, built for Khufu over 4,500 years ago, is the last standing Wonder; exclusive access unveils secret chambers, aiming to unravel its many mysteries.

On the site of Dahshur, south of Cairo, are two revolutionary monuments which seem to be the first real pyramids.

The hot, dry extreme center of Australia is home to landscapes like nowhere else on Earth; fearsome apex predators, a town built by opals and Uluru, the cultural and spiritual heart of a nation.

Exhume chilling insights into ancient rituals, legendary warriors, and brutal deaths; investigate dozens of childrens skeletons in Peru, find out if Amazon warriors once lived in Russia, and see what a UK cave full of butchered remains reveals.

Contemplate the strange disappearance and reappearance of the master of macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, just before his death in 1849; explore the chilling rumour that Shakespeares grave was robbed, then chase down thieves who stole the Mona Lisa in 1911.

The hot, dry extreme center of Australia is home to landscapes like nowhere else on Earth; fearsome apex predators, a town built by opals and Uluru, the cultural and spiritual heart of a nation.

Exhume chilling insights into ancient rituals, legendary warriors, and brutal deaths; investigate dozens of childrens skeletons in Peru, find out if Amazon warriors once lived in Russia, and see what a UK cave full of butchered remains reveals.