Sky History 2 HD Thursday

The skies of a post-apocalyptic world, as Air Force One suffers an explosive malfunction, and a swarm of locusts invades the American Midwest

The fate of homes in a world without people, where suburbs turn into mass infernos, and a famous castle topples, owing to a hidden flaw

Actor Laurence Fishburne explores the Hindenburg airship disaster of May 1937, when the craft caught fire during landing in New Jersey

A computer generated re-creation of the events of 1944, in which the US Carrier Task Force forged a path through the Pacific to assault enemy bases at Kwajalein and Truk Lagoon

Experts reconstruct the struggle faced by American forces, led by the USS Enterprise, to reclaim the Marianas Islands from enemy forces

Experts investigate why so many UFOs have been spotted near remote islands, and consider whether the remote outposts could be the earthly homes of aliens

Investigations into whether the religious relic the Ark of the Covenant could hold connections to an extraterrestrial past

Craig Charles and co-host Sarah Cruddas investigate a UFO spotted at Stephenville, Texas, in January 2008, apparently travelling at supersonic speed

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs in the east of Britain, where finds include new revelations from a 3,000-year-old preserved village in Cambridgeshire

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs around the UK, starting with the west of Britain, where finds include a Viking camp and ancient gold

The skies of a post-apocalyptic world, as Air Force One suffers an explosive malfunction, and a swarm of locusts invades the American Midwest

The fate of homes in a world without people, where suburbs turn into mass infernos, and a famous castle topples, owing to a hidden flaw

Actor Laurence Fishburne explores the Hindenburg airship disaster of May 1937, when the craft caught fire during landing in New Jersey

A computer generated re-creation of the events of 1944, in which the US Carrier Task Force forged a path through the Pacific to assault enemy bases at Kwajalein and Truk Lagoon

Experts reconstruct the struggle faced by American forces, led by the USS Enterprise, to reclaim the Marianas Islands from enemy forces

The Battle of Thermopylae, fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I

The Battle of Teutoburg Forest. Rome's defeat not only stopped the growth of its empire, but also created the Latin-Germanic divide that persists in Western Europe to this day

Experts investigate why so many UFOs have been spotted near remote islands, and consider whether the remote outposts could be the earthly homes of aliens

Investigations into whether the religious relic the Ark of the Covenant could hold connections to an extraterrestrial past

Craig Charles and co-host Sarah Cruddas investigate a UFO spotted at Stephenville, Texas, in January 2008, apparently travelling at supersonic speed