Sky History 2 Saturday

Startling evidence suggesting that the Ancient Maya conspired with aliens, as experts hypothesise that they acquired extraterrestrial knowledge of astrology

Experts scrutinise the Maya calendar, which predicted the world would end in 2012, and try to determine whether it could have anticipated the arrival of an extraterrestrial god

The story of Britain's first female agents sent to the front line during the Second World War and spymistress Vera Atkins, who led them

After the liberation of Paris, operations of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) dwindled, prompting spymistress Vera Atkins to confront the harm done to her agents

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

Alice Roberts and the team examine a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall, evidence of early writing by the Picts in Scotland, and a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age coffin

Alice Roberts visits digs in southern England that reveal a previously unknown Roman town, a Tudor ship and evidence of Henry VIII's financial forgery

Alice Roberts visits more archaeological digs, including a spectacular monument older than Stonehenge, a 200-year-old mine trapped in time and a lost medieval friary

Startling evidence suggesting that the Ancient Maya conspired with aliens, as experts hypothesise that they acquired extraterrestrial knowledge of astrology

Experts scrutinise the Maya calendar, which predicted the world would end in 2012, and try to determine whether it could have anticipated the arrival of an extraterrestrial god

A chronological appraisal of the dramatic D-Day story, focusing on the vessels that made the landings on the beaches of Normandy possible

From the trench to the home-front hospital, a medical historian retraces the train journey made by wounded soldiers during the Second World War

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

The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, fought in 451, between the Huns under Attila and a mixed Roman and Visigoth force under Aetius and Theodoric I

The Battle of Sekigahara, which saw Tokugawa Ieyasu emerge victorious over his rival Ishida Mitsunari, uniting Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate

The defeat at Stalingrad in 1943, which was the turning point of the Second World War and convinced the Nazi leadership to intensify their terror and propaganda campaigns

The survivors and the winners of the Second World War wanted to blame the Germans. At the time, no one knew whether the Germans had really broken with the Nazis

Startling evidence suggesting that the Ancient Maya conspired with aliens, as experts hypothesise that they acquired extraterrestrial knowledge of astrology

Experts scrutinise the Maya calendar, which predicted the world would end in 2012, and try to determine whether it could have anticipated the arrival of an extraterrestrial god

Washington State holds the United States' highest rates of UFO sightings per capita. With a new report made every 55 hours, why are UFOs choosing to hover here?

How people continued to unleash their imaginations on the skies, including wondering whether humans are truly alone in the universe

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

A look at perplexing and unusual objects. This episode focuses on a lost language, a beauty machine and something called the Disk of Strangeness

The Castle of Chambord, the largest, most iconic and most visited castle in France. In this royal palace of excess, every dimension is breathtaking

Experts investigate mysterious beings with big heads and eyes, whose images were found carved into rocks. Known as the 'greys', they are rumoured to be alien life forms