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Investigators find evidence suggesting that ancient aliens saved humanity from great floods

Experts explore the disappearance of civilisations throughout time and across the globe, wondering if clues left in their wake point to an otherwordly explanation

Archaeologists conduct a dig at Auckland Castle in Co Durham, which 700 years ago was home to a group of power-crazed bishops who behaved more like warriors than religious leaders

The team seeks artefacts from the country's first superhighway - the Bridgewater Canal - that linked the coal mines of Worsley with Manchester and powered the Industrial Revolution

Raksha Dave and Alex Langlands search for the remains of a First World War stable at Catterick Garrison, where thousands of horses would have been housed

Experts revisit the events of May 2013 when soldier Lee Rigby was murdered by two Islamic extremists close to his barracks in Woolwich, south-east London

Caroline Roberts, a surviving victim of serial killers Rose and Fred West, revisits the horrific murders committed by the couple during the 1970s

Rob Bell visits the site of the Battle of Naseby in 1645, revealing the events that led up to the English Civil War. The battle resulted in a decisive victory for the Roundheads

Investigators find evidence suggesting that ancient aliens saved humanity from great floods

Experts explore the disappearance of civilisations throughout time and across the globe, wondering if clues left in their wake point to an otherwordly explanation

Raksha Dave and Alex Langlands join a team from Reading University at a site in Silchester, near Reading, as they examine one of the best-preserved Roman sites in Britain

The history of HMS Invincible, a ship that was captured from the French in 1747 and helped transform the Royal Navy with the lessons it taught about organisation and ship design

An epic journey through the birth of the American West, examining the relentless competition for land, power, and identity that forged a nation's history

Hunter and explorer John Colter, who was one of the first Americans to explore the West. He later entered the booming fur trade

The case of Jeremy Bamber, who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his family in 1985, but decades later still maintains his innocence

A documentary on the death of Rhys Jones, an 11-year-old who was shot and killed while walking home from football practice in Croxteth, Liverpool, in August 2007

Documentary examining the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old motorist Stephen Cameron during an escalated occurrence of road rage on the M25 in 1996

Investigators find evidence suggesting that ancient aliens saved humanity from great floods

Experts explore the disappearance of civilisations throughout time and across the globe, wondering if clues left in their wake point to an otherwordly explanation

A computer generated re-creation of the events of 1944, in which the US Carrier Task Force forged a path through the Pacific to assault enemy bases at Kwajalein and Truk Lagoon

The bombing of Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior in July 1985, which resulted in the death of photographer Fernando Pereira

The evolution of amphibious assault crafts, including the restoration and story of Britain's last surviving LCT 7074 landing craft, designed to carry six Churchill tanks

Documentary following the events that led to some of the country's most heinous crimes, continuing with doctor Harold Shipman, who was convicted of killing 15 patients in 2000

Featuring a mythical sculpture unearthed by an Indian tsunami, a 12th-century temple in quake-prone Mexico and a sunken ship in Utah's Great Salt Lake

Ten of history's most compelling - and covert - projects that study the UFO phenomenon, including clandestine government organisations to agents that silence UFO witnesses