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The story of the only German submarine captured by the US Navy during the Second World War, examining the battle and its aftermath using archive footage and eyewitness accounts

Salvage aficionado Drew Pritchard and Turbo Pickers' Paul Cowland head to Somerset to hunt down a 1970s VW Type 3 Fastback

At Biggin Hill, south-east London, military equipment collector Bruce Crompton views a collector's haul of Second World War Spitfires

Experts use high-tech underwater archaeology to explore the world's oldest sunken city and reveal new discoveries about one of the first great empires

Experts digitally examine the Sumerian ziggurat of Ur in Iraq. Built 4000 years ago, it was the heart of one of the world's first civilisations

In Siberia, Josh Gates investigates the strange and brutal cold case of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, where nine Soviet hikers died suspiciously in 1959

Josh Gates heads to Florida to look for the long-lost treasure of pirate Jose Gaspar, joining marine archaeologists and treasure hunters in the search

How as the Soviet Union unveiled its own space shuttle, the CIA hatched a revenge plot. Plus, a missing nuclear weapon that could threaten a Nasa base in the Arctic

The solar system is different to others in the Milky Way, but it hides a violent past. Scientists examine the clues to reveal its secret history

Darrell Miklos finds the final piece of Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper's code, but hiring a crew to pursue the treasure presents a new danger - that of sharing his secrets with others

Don Wildman examines an unlikely alliance between the military and a mob boss, a death-defying voyage on the high seas and a high-flying heroine

Don Wildman examines a dinosaur skeleton, the golden cover of a record that contained the sounds of Earth and a medicine ball used by a president.

Some of the brightest minds and theorists on the planet explore the limits of human knowledge and explain the science behind the rules of the universe.

The story of the only German submarine captured by the US Navy during the Second World War, examining the battle and its aftermath using archive footage and eyewitness accounts

Astronauts and mission-control staff describe how a power failure on the ISS forced the crew to consider abandoning the station. Plus, a suit malfunction puts a cosmonaut in danger

The supply of vanilla to make the world's top ice-cream flavour. Plus, how as many as 12 million cigarette lighters are made each year, and the production of anchors for ships

A look at how footballs are crafted, how mussels are farmed, and how to design the ultimate fighter pilot's helmet

A case from 1966, when Richard Speck entered the home of nursing students and systematically tortured, raped, and murdered eight women, before disappearing into the night

How murder investigation experts reconstruct crimes from the remains of burnt evidence when the body of the victim has yet to be identified

Experts use high-tech underwater archaeology to explore the world's oldest sunken city and reveal new discoveries about one of the first great empires

The solar system is different to others in the Milky Way, but it hides a violent past. Scientists examine the clues to reveal its secret history

In Siberia, Josh Gates investigates the strange and brutal cold case of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, where nine Soviet hikers died suspiciously in 1959

Josh Gates heads to Florida to look for the long-lost treasure of pirate Jose Gaspar, joining marine archaeologists and treasure hunters in the search

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