Sky History 2 HD Saturday

Experts visit a cemetery in Texas said to contain the body of an alien who crash-landed on Earth in 1897

Experts examine an ancient Hindi scripture about a giant flying creature landing on Earth, and consider if this could be a description of an alien spacecraft

Strategic catastrophes and doomed military decisions, beginning with those whose rampant egos and misguided belief in their own abilities led to fatal mistakes

How the seeds of Japan's Second World War defeat in 1945 were sown a decade earlier with the occupation of Manchuria in China

A look at the Battle of Kursk from the Russian perspective. More than two million men fought in the biggest tank battle of the conflict, which unhinged the German war machine

Alice Roberts travels to Bamburgh, Northumberland, to learn about the generations of Anglo Saxons who lived there, and visits a pioneering project in Kent

Alice Roberts finds out about discoveries that shed light on the Tudor Age, including an excavation at Shakespeare's first theatre in London's Shoreditch

Andy McGrath explores Devon's pre-history in an ancient cavern and takes a crime-through-time tour of Dartmoor's prison museum

Experts visit a cemetery in Texas said to contain the body of an alien who crash-landed on Earth in 1897

Experts examine an ancient Hindi scripture about a giant flying creature landing on Earth, and consider if this could be a description of an alien spacecraft

The covert operations and secret missions of revolutionaries in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829

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

A look at some of the most famous missions in modern history. Special operations require skilful people, but as this documentary reveals elite technology plays a part too

Andy McGrath explores Wiltshire's mysterious megaliths and barrows, attends a druidic ceremony and encounters a religious pilgrimage at the site of a freshly made crop circle

The legends of ancient giants surrounding a mysterious monument in the Holy Land. Plus, how satellite images help with the investigation into a missing boy

How Claudius became emperor in 47AD without the respect of the people - many of whom considered him the village idiot - and chose to prove himself by conquering Britain

The life of Trajan, who ruled from 98 to 117AD, setting out to rebuild the troubled empire and seeing it reach its most powerful

Experts visit a cemetery in Texas said to contain the body of an alien who crash-landed on Earth in 1897

Experts examine an ancient Hindi scripture about a giant flying creature landing on Earth, and consider if this could be a description of an alien spacecraft

As long as there has been espionage, sex and the promise of it have been powerful tools of persuasion and blackmail - practices that continue today

Sightings of unexplained 'aerial phenomena' and reports of so-called 'first contact' moments, which are supported by credible eyewitness accounts or clear video footage

The covert operations and secret missions of revolutionaries in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829

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

It's a fiery fight when the glassblowers are challenged to pinch, pluck and perfect molten glass into a sculpture that shows the body in movement

The two finalists compete in a final challenge gallery showing, and one will be named the Blown Away Champion and receive a $60,000 prize package