National Geographic Channel HD Friday

Documentary following a herd of desert-dwelling elephants in Mali, one of only two such groups in the world

A look how certain foods are made in factories, featuring marshmallows and broccoli slaw

A look how certain foods are made in factories, featuring soda and breakfast cereal

A thrilling day at a Reno air show turns into a chaos. Plus, a Learjet spirals into the heart of Mexico City, and a DC-9 nosedives into a Los Angeles suburb

Nautical archaeologist Andy Torbet explores an old sea fort crucial to Finland's defence, while historian Mika Kulju discovers how the Red Army was defeated in 1940

When a salmon truck crashes into a ditch, it kicks off a bad night for Thord. With truck drivers in trouble all over his territory, his team is pushed to the limit

Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw secretly restore a classic 1965 Mercedes-Benz 230SL, which the owner had to abandon as a project after suffering a heart attack

The various alarming ways in which weather is mutating, beginning with catastrophic wildfires and other anomalies such as firenadoes

The investigation into a plane that crashed into a mountain with a Brazilian football team on board, and the discovery of the deadly gamble that caused the tragedy

The Black Sea is a place of legend, and ships have sailed on its waters for millennia. Three wrecks unlock secrets of this mysterious sea

How the Japanese navy built the world's largest battleship, and how the changing course of the war led to it being redesigned to face new challenges from Allied aircraft

The boys take on a rundown Renault Alpine GTA belonging to David, a former computer technician suffering with ill health

Ben Horton explores one of the world's biggest sinkholes in Hanzhong, rappelling 180 metres down into a massive and barely explored underground cave system

When the cockpit window of Sichuan Airlines 8633 explodes, the crew somehow battles gale-force winds and oxygen deprivation to safely land the plane

The case of Luxair Flight 50, which fell out of the sky just a few miles short of Luxembourg airport while making a rushed approach through heavy fog

The case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared without a trace in March 2014, and why technology has so far been unable to find its wreckage

Cutting-edge visuals drain the water around Alcatraz to reveal why the infamous prison was so inescapable. Plus, what the bay's fault lines could mean for San Francisco's future

How Captain Frank Geib saved Northwest Airlines Flight 85 from a disaster in 2002 when the autopilot malfunctioned

Asbestos was a product that seemed too good to be true - because it was. Meanwhile, in New York, two buildings explode sending debris flying through the streets

The malfunction of US nuclear missiles after a UFO encounter leaves America defenceless. Three former Air Force officers tell their story

The making of over 120 million bottles of Jack Daniels whiskey a year, from the grains that turn into mash, the distilling process, and the charcoal mellowing and barrel storage

The team members salvage elegant furnishings and historic gems as they search a former bank that once held the fortunes of rich oil barons

A team of salvage experts explores abandoned buildings in the hope of finding items of high value or historical significance, beginning with a trip to Johnsonville, Connecticut

Discover how fruit leather, addictive cheese curds and zingy guacamole are created from raw materials to finished products

Discover how eco-friendly coffee pods, addictive gyoza dumplings and moon cheese are created from raw materials to finished products

The wildlife that live in the treetops of Borneo's rainforest

The struggles of baby animals to survive, relying on protective parents and sheer luck to make it to adulthood