Schedule for CURIOSITY Now
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Battleships & Flotillas
Since the 2nd millennium BC, ships have been used for trade, exploration, piracy, and transporting troops, with formal navies appearing from the 6th and 7th centuries.
Tanks & Armored Vehicles
Tanks were invented as an extension of armory to protect soldiers from enemy fire, but as personal armor became too heavy, tanks became globally accepted in warfare.
Fortification: Bollards to Bunkers
Since the earliest civilizations in Assyria, Egypt and Greece, man has erected forts, barricades and battlements to protect his personal property.
Artillery: Bombard to the Howitzer
Artillery has a long and distinguished history going back to the dawn of gunpowder. Witness the destructive power of the first 280mm Howitzer and other heavy artillery.
Rifles & Machine Guns
After firearms evolved from a rifle to a shotgun, Walter Hunt developed the concept of a "magazine" for easier loading of semi-automatic and automatic weapons.
Flint & Steel
Through centuries of armed conflict, weapons have evolved from arrows to swords to gunpowder. Recent advances in weaponry have been both awe-inspiring and frightening.
Nuclear Weapons
Despite recent attempts to stop nuclear proliferation, countries such as North Korea, China and Pakistan continue to develop their own nuclear missiles.
Air Defense & Surveillance Helicopters
Originally inspired by Da Vinci's "aerial screw" design, the helicopter has become a versatile war machine used for combat, troop transport and airlifting the wounded.
Fortification: Bollards to Bunkers
Since the earliest civilizations in Assyria, Egypt and Greece, man has erected forts, barricades and battlements to protect his personal property.
Artillery: Bombard to the Howitzer
Artillery has a long and distinguished history going back to the dawn of gunpowder. Witness the destructive power of the first 280mm Howitzer and other heavy artillery.
Rifles & Machine Guns
After firearms evolved from a rifle to a shotgun, Walter Hunt developed the concept of a "magazine" for easier loading of semi-automatic and automatic weapons.
Flint & Steel
Through centuries of armed conflict, weapons have evolved from arrows to swords to gunpowder. Recent advances in weaponry have been both awe-inspiring and frightening.
Part 2: Underwater Wonders Of The National Parks
December 7th, 1941 - a day that altered human history. Relive the attack on Pearl Harbor through survivor interviews and new underwater imagery of the USS Arizona.
Part 1: Underwater Wonders Of The National Parks
The USS Arizona is more than a memorial to America's past - it is a scientific treasure with immense value due to the marine environment which formed around it.
Hunt for the U-576
A team of maritime archaeologists descends 700 feet off the coast of North Carolina in search of the U-576, a German submarine that went down in a historic 1942 battle, possibly trapping 45 Nazi sailors inside.
A Bond Unbroken
Decades on, Navy SEALs search for their combat interpreter, Nguyen Hoang Minh. Their reunion, captured through archival footage, reveals unbreakable loyalty.
Vietnam Nurses
This film tells the story of six Australian Army nurses who served in a field hospital in Vietnam between the years 1962 and 1972.
Secrets from the Deep
A Japanese balloon bomb, U-boat sightings and eerie sea phenomena make this one of the strangest chapters in wartime naval history.
Above and Beyond
Shot down over Nazi territory, Jewish-American pilot Bruce Sundlun fights to survive and resist in one of WWII's most daring escape stories.
Part 2: Underwater Wonders Of The National Parks
December 7th, 1941 - a day that altered human history. Relive the attack on Pearl Harbor through survivor interviews and new underwater imagery of the USS Arizona.
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