
Air Disasters
Air Florida Flight 90 stalls, strikes a road bridge and crashes into the Potomac River.

Air Florida Flight 90 stalls, strikes a road bridge and crashes into the Potomac River.

The crash of a small commuter jet in Switzerland has plenty of clues but not enough answers.

Uncovering how a fighter jet could collide with a civilian flight.

A poisonous cockpit may have caused the 1972 crash of British European Airlines Flight 548.

Criminals build a vast empire that exploits political corruption and reaches across the country.

Industrialists and inventors revolutionize every aspect of American life.

The legend of the American West as a feral and untamed land persists as a potent myth.

Rare archival films, iconic news footage and home movies during a decade of revolution.

Racial unrest divides the nation; Russia has a nuclear bomb; the Cold War.

America as the leader of the free world; Pearl Harbor; a new era of consumerism.

The Great Depression dominates the decade; Franklin Roosevelt's Presidency.

America undergoes it's greatest period of change and unprecedented growth.

A mission to rescue fellow soldiers trapped behind enemy lines.

The identity of an unnamed hero in the flag-raising on Iwo Jima is revealed by modern science.

Top-secret communications between POWs and U.S. intelligence in the Vietnam War.

The Last 747 captures the emotion around the build of Boeing's last 747 jumbo jet.

A look at key naval battles that have taken place in the Persian Gulf over the last 50 years.

A crucial September 1950 military operation carried out by the ROK and UN amid the Korean War.

The Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 pitted Napoleon's French ships against a British armada.

Experimental ships and revolutionary designers that have changed the tide of war.