Sky History 2 HD Tuesday

A team of experts looks into the Orion constellation to investigate whether this could have been an entry point for aliens visiting Earth

Experts investigate the similarities in burial tombs from distant cultures, and question whether aliens could have influenced their complicated designs

The design, service and loss of some of the world's greatest ocean liners. The Normandie was set alight while being converted for wartime use as a troopship

Archaeologists conduct a dig at Auckland Castle in Co Durham, which 700 years ago was home to a group of power-crazed bishops who behaved more like warriors than religious leaders

The smallest ships of war, such as the tiny canoes of the Cockleshell Heroes who led an audacious attack on German ships, and the boats that rescused soldiers from Dunkirk

A team of experts looks into the Orion constellation to investigate whether this could have been an entry point for aliens visiting Earth

Experts investigate the similarities in burial tombs from distant cultures, and question whether aliens could have influenced their complicated designs

The Queen Elizabeth, which came to an undignified end in Hong Kong Harbour after catching fire while undergoing refurbishment

The team seeks artefacts from the country's first superhighway - the Bridgewater Canal - that linked the coal mines of Worsley with Manchester and powered the Industrial Revolution

The events of 1944, when the USS Enterprise led the Carrier Task Force in a charge through the Pacific, hammering the enemy bases at Kwajalein and Truk Lagoon

Dr Fern Riddell and Dr Karen Bellinger examine how myths passed down through time have become some of the greatest mysteries known today. They begin with pyramids

How Elizebeth Friedman cracked the codes that brought down the Mob and saved countless lives in the Second World War, armed with just a pencil and paper

Exploring reports of sinister flying objects that were allegedly seen above secret military bases during the Cold War

Documentary series exploring anomalies appearing on satellite images to try and get a better understanding of unexplained phenomena

How earlier civilisations - such as Inca, Persian, Greek, Egyptian and Roman - still exert deep influences on modern life. This episode focuses on architecture

Fritz Todt was the man tasked with the Nazis' engineering projects, including the autobahn and the West Wall defences. He died, mysteriously, in 1942

Ross heads to New York, where he discovers the connection between USA and Britain in the rise of the Mafia. Plus, the exploits of the infamous Kray twins

Surveillance footage from China records a man surviving a lightning strike - twice. In a remote Norwegian valley, cameras track mysterious lights darting across the sky

A team of experts looks into the Orion constellation to investigate whether this could have been an entry point for aliens visiting Earth

Experts investigate the similarities in burial tombs from distant cultures, and question whether aliens could have influenced their complicated designs

How earlier civilisations - such as Inca, Persian, Greek, Egyptian and Roman - still exert deep influences on modern life. This episode focuses on architecture

The events of 1944, when the USS Enterprise led the Carrier Task Force in a charge through the Pacific, hammering the enemy bases at Kwajalein and Truk Lagoon

Dr Fern Riddell and Dr Karen Bellinger examine how myths passed down through time have become some of the greatest mysteries known today. They begin with pyramids

How Elizebeth Friedman cracked the codes that brought down the Mob and saved countless lives in the Second World War, armed with just a pencil and paper

Investigations into whether prophets such as Elijah and Joseph Smith communicated with a heavenly source, or came into contact with extraterrestrials