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Investigating claims that China, with its history of technological advancement and isolationism, could have been the home of alien beings

The Apollo 11 mission to the moon and the suggestion that the moon is actually a giant spacecraft allowing extraterrestrials to monitor Earth

Investigating cosmism - a belief that human civilization originated in the cosmos. This train of thought is widely held throughout Russia

The stories of remarkable feats of military engineering, featuring how an American GI and his Harley motorbike became a legend

Documentary series exploring the role of trains in the major conflicts of the past 150 years. This instalment considers the Second World War of 1939 to 1944

Germany continues to build its empire in Europe, and Hitler seeks to crush Britain with the Luftwaffe

Documentary examining how the attack on Pearl Harbour saw the Japanese armies celebrate their victory, only to have their confidence shaken by the Battle of the Coral Sea

The naval attack on the Solomon Islands, which was the first American invasion of the Second World War, is reconstructed using CGI technology

A CGI reconstruction of the Second World War battle of Santa Cruz, in which the USS Hornet was sunk and her sister ship the USS Enterprise suffered heavy casualties among the crew

Operation Husky, a massive amphibious invasion of the island of Sicily carried out by Allied Forces in July 1943

The events of December 1941 when under cover of a fierce naval bombardment, a taskforce of elite British commandos sailed toward the Norwegian town of South Vaagso

The Ghost Ship of Northumberland Strait, a ghost ship said to sail ablaze within the Northumberland Strait, a body of water in eastern Canada

The shocking facts behind battles that were fought covertly. This episode focuses on events in Syria

Kevin Sempé dives in search of wrecks harking back to the Roman Empire's greatness. The journey begins with the Nave Romana

A trip to Harvard University's Warren Anatomical Museum, where one of the displays is the shattered skull of a 19th-century American railway worker

Documentary following marine salvage teams as they race against the clock to recover ships, beginning with the retrieval of 80-year-old hardwood logs

The revolutionary war gaming tactics to defeat Admiral Karl Dönitz and his Wolf Pack fleets of U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War

The British Empire from its peak in the early 20th century through uprisings, wars and inevitable decline. Including early colour home movies from the Raj

Investigating claims that China, with its history of technological advancement and isolationism, could have been the home of alien beings

The Apollo 11 mission to the moon and the suggestion that the moon is actually a giant spacecraft allowing extraterrestrials to monitor Earth

Investigating cosmism - a belief that human civilization originated in the cosmos. This train of thought is widely held throughout Russia

Part two of two. Alice Roberts revisits the death of Queen Elizabeth I, calling upon forensic pathologist Dr Brett Lockyer to discover the medical facts regarding her final days

Ross heads to New York, where he discovers the connection between USA and Britain in the rise of the Mafia. Plus, the exploits of the infamous Kray twins

A trip to Harvard University's Warren Anatomical Museum, where one of the displays is the shattered skull of a 19th-century American railway worker

The US military has denied that the infamous 1947 Roswell crash was anything other than a weather balloon, but FBI files include a memo to J Edgar Hoover