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Bruce Crompton and his team embark on a tour across Europe to buy and restore some of the Second World War's rarest tanks

How submarine crews survive being submerged beneath the ocean for months at a time. Plus, how crash test dummies make driving safer

How the world's biggest land vehicle extracts thousands of tonnes of coal from the ground each day. Plus, the creation of air boats and fireproof clothing

Bruce Compton dives into the murky secrets of Second World War spies. In Italy, he unearths an iconic code-breaking machine. In the UK the lads revive two rocket launchers

With special access to a hi-tech archaeological investigation, experts reveal why Egypt's Black Pyramid collapsed before its pharaoh was buried there

A cutting-edge archaeological investigation uses hi-tech methods to scan the ocean floor in search of sunken sphinxes, temples and shipwrecks

Josh Gates dives into a mystery below South America's Lake Titicaca where he discovers ruins from the ancient Tiwanaku people hidden in the lake's depths

Josh Gates heads to the Highlands, where his search focuses on a vast gold reserve that was hidden after the Jacobite uprising of 1745 and never recovered

A potentially disastrous fuel leak forces three astronauts to make a risky return to Earth, and a Nasa lunar probe reveals a mysterious craft that crashed on the moon

How the movement of Uranus and Neptune may have influenced the development of life on Earth

A team begin to construct one of the most futuristic designs by Da Vinci. If successful, the machine envisioned in the 15th century could rival modern day inventions

Don Wildman investigates an adventurous young man's daring escape from Cuba, a murder revealed by a shark, and a duel that took place in a hot-air balloon

Don Wildman investigates a former first lady's campaign to save a New York landmark, a bouncing bomb that turned the tide of the Second World War, and an unusual voyage

Gravitational waves are helping scientists explore the cosmos in new ways. How are these discoveries helping to reveal the universe's mysteries?

Bruce Crompton and his team embark on a tour across Europe to buy and restore some of the Second World War's rarest tanks

Astronauts and mission-control staff share details of an incident in which a deadly collision punctured the hull of the Mir space station, causing vital oxygen to leak into space

Navigating the world's largest cruise ships under low bridges, the methods used to find white truffles in Alba, Italy, and how Trinidad's natural asphalt lake is mined

Transforming the sap from rubber trees into chewing gum, how fish hooks strong enough to catch a shark are made, and the construction of Legoland models

A case from 1955 in which respected judge Curtis Chillingworth and his wife Marjorie vanished after attending a dinner party and were later determined to have been murdered

Photographic evidence captured by forensic experts who are the first to the scene of a crime

With special access to a hi-tech archaeological investigation, experts reveal why Egypt's Black Pyramid collapsed before its pharaoh was buried there

How the movement of Uranus and Neptune may have influenced the development of life on Earth

Josh Gates dives into a mystery below South America's Lake Titicaca where he discovers ruins from the ancient Tiwanaku people hidden in the lake's depths

Josh Gates heads to the Highlands, where his search focuses on a vast gold reserve that was hidden after the Jacobite uprising of 1745 and never recovered

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