Sky History 2 HD Saturday

How many ancient architectural wonders bear similarities despite being built by different civilisations, questioning whether aliens could have designed them

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

Documentary highlighting what life was like during the Second World War, featuring the personal stories of soldiers from both sides of the conflict

How rookie platoon leader Charles Scheffel suffered his first losses as he battled Rommel's Afrika Korps in Tunisia

Battles on the Normandy beaches become increasingly ferocious, especially for Lt Charles Scheffel, who is hit early on

Tony Robinson traces the childhoods of the Brontë siblings on a four-day trek through West Yorkshire, exploring the harsh reality of life in the 1820s for the literary family

Alice Roberts witnesses the uncovering of a Roman mosaic on farmland in Rutland, and visits the site of a saintly hermit's hovel discovered in the Lincolnshire fens

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs in the north of Britain, including Scotland's oldest railway, and one of the best-preserved Norman castles

Nations all over the world are rumoured to have found metal debris from UFO crashes. This edition investigates these alleged wreckages

Reported accounts of genuine alien encounters, with specific regard to the so-called flying saucer, which has become synonymous with UFO terror

From mid-air abductions to near-disasters caused by unseen enemies, experts examine if humans are alone in the skies over Earth

A look at the mounting evidence that suggests UFOs are able to penetrate the world's most closely guarded airspace at will

The story of Sgt Jack Werner, who helped storm the beaches of Leyte in the Philippines in an effort to liberate the PoWs who had been stranded there

Reporter Robert Sherrod accompanies Marines on their assault of Iwo Jima and witnesses the horror of the fight, as well as the flag raising

Tony Robinson embarks on a four-day walk tracing the story of the Norman invasion of Wales, which he discovers was very different from the victory at Hastings

Tony Robinson heads to Guernsey and Jersey to tell the story of the islands' surrender to Nazi Germany during the Second World War

Three Portuguese girls claimed to have been visited by the Virgin Mary in 1917, before two of them died. The survivor reveals her long-kept secret

An examination of the suggestion that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was the third antichrist predicted by Nostradamus

The crime documentary continues, shedding light on rumours that Princess Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, managed to escape death at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1918

How many ancient architectural wonders bear similarities despite being built by different civilisations, questioning whether aliens could have designed them

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

The presenter explores some of the most valuable treasures found in the most unlikely of ways. They include a priceless Ancient Roman mosaic hiding in a New York city apartment

Startling discoveries that shocked and terrified the world, from a mythical monster that turned out to be real, to a deadly prehistoric animal

The Heraklion Operation, carried out in June 1942 when Major Georges Bergé's team landed in Crete intending to destroy Luftwaffe planes at Heraklion airfield

Garth Barnard investigates how thousands of soldiers during the Second World War died in catastrophic air accidents and tragic training crashes

The story of Sgt Jack Werner, who helped storm the beaches of Leyte in the Philippines in an effort to liberate the PoWs who had been stranded there