Donner Pass is one of the deadliest stretches of roads in the US. A small group of tow drivers risk their lives rescuing stranded motorists.
A mechanical delay keeps Wicked Pissah at the dock, and the fleet tries to launch ahead.
En route to Perm, Russia, Aeroflot Nord Flight 821 is on final approach when the plane crashes.
En route to Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific Flight 780 is high over the South China Sea when both of the plane's engines fail, turning the Airbus A-330 into a 200-ton glider. The captain takes over manual control and manages to power up one engine.
Scientists search the Nile delta for wonders of the ancient Egyptian world.
The heaviest trucks are the hardest wrecks for Norway's Ice Road Rescuers.
Follow father and son Christian and Alex Cranmer, two of the world's leading military antiques dealers, as they scour the US in search extraordinary souvenirs of war, and butt heads over how to advance their business.
With the quota almost caught, the fleet fights to gain ground in a fierce competition.
Former NASA engineer Chad Zdenek joins an aircraft-dismantling team in Mississippi as a Boeing 747 lands on the runway for the last time; Zdenek cuts his way through the cabin, cockpit and four jet engines to strip the plane into six million parts.
Chad Zdenek heads to North Carolina to dismantle and then implode the Buck Steam Station, a nearly 100-year-old coal power plant built in the 1920s, which, at its peak, burnt up to 20,000 tons of coal per day and powered up to a 1,000 homes.
Chad Zdenek joins a salvage team to tear apart the world's biggest hovercraft and reveal the engineering innovations that made it a legend of its time; Chad joins the crew of an LCAC, the U.S. Navy's state-of-the art military hovercraft.
With Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team on board, LaMia Flight 2933 is on its final approach to Medellin, Colombia when the crew suddenly declares a fuel emergency. Before air traffic control even has time to clear a path, the plane crashes.
United Express Flight 6291 is on its approach when the high-performance twin turboprop crashes.
The boys head to Essex to secretly fix up a real 70s supercar, famous for turning into a submarine in a James Bond film. But it hasn't been started in 20 years.
Discover just how many ways there are to humiliate yourself when attempting a slap shot in ice hockey or going for gold in the high jump.
Discover just how many ways there are to humiliate yourself when jumping into a bin, trying to breathe fire or firing paintballs at each other.
WWII aviation mysteries are brought to the surface for the first time.
Explore your brain and how it doesn't always act its age through a series of games and experiments; discover how daily routines could be affecting and rapidy ageing your brain... and learn how to slow it down.
Astounding experiments and interactive games reveal that colours may be nothing more than illusions created in the brain.
Some boats are on a blue fin hot streak, while others try to break their slump.
As autumn wanes across the Arctic, the next generation of Alaskans prepare for dark winter.
The story of the largest wildfire in Portugal's history and how it devastated a rural community. Fire fighters tried to bring it under control, but it became unstoppable and fleeing locals were caught in the inferno.
To survive Alaska in dark winter and its freezing hardships, the next generation must use the waning winter sun to their full advantage.
Some boats are on a blue fin hot streak, while others try to break their slump.
As autumn wanes across the Arctic, the next generation of Alaskans prepare for dark winter.
The story of the largest wildfire in Portugal's history and how it devastated a rural community. Fire fighters tried to bring it under control, but it became unstoppable and fleeing locals were caught in the inferno.
To survive Alaska in dark winter and its freezing hardships, the next generation must use the waning winter sun to their full advantage.
Former NASA engineer Chad Zdenek joins an aircraft-dismantling team in Mississippi as a Boeing 747 lands on the runway for the last time; Zdenek cuts his way through the cabin, cockpit and four jet engines to strip the plane into six million parts.
Chad Zdenek heads to North Carolina to dismantle and then implode the Buck Steam Station, a nearly 100-year-old coal power plant built in the 1920s, which, at its peak, burnt up to 20,000 tons of coal per day and powered up to a 1,000 homes.
Chad Zdenek joins a salvage team to tear apart the world's biggest hovercraft and reveal the engineering innovations that made it a legend of its time; Chad joins the crew of an LCAC, the U.S. Navy's state-of-the art military hovercraft.
The boys head to Essex to secretly fix up a real 70s supercar, famous for turning into a submarine in a James Bond film. But it hasn't been started in 20 years.
Discover just how many ways there are to humiliate yourself when attempting a slap shot in ice hockey or going for gold in the high jump.
Discover just how many ways there are to humiliate yourself when jumping into a bin, trying to breathe fire or firing paintballs at each other.
The heaviest trucks are the hardest wrecks for Norway's Ice Road Rescuers.