Modern Marvels

1. Poison

Forged in Europe’s shadow, Russian small arms were once dismissed as crude co...

2. Car Tech of the Future

A look at the future of transportation, including Hydrogen power, advanced el...

3. The Arch

The Arch is a civilization game changer. Explore the ways in which this humbl...

4. More Nature's Engineers

For 25 years, construction crews dug, blasted, tunneled, and bridged their wa...

5. World's Biggest Machines 3

Travel over land and sea to find more of the biggest, baddest, most audacious...

6. The Butcher

The history of how man has prepared meat since prehistoric time. Modern tools...

7. George Washington Carver Tech

A look at the many inventions and the technology derived from them of George ...

8. Desert Tech

The technology that makes desert living possible is featured including water ...

9. Sub Zero Tech

“Centcom” in Doha, Qatar represents everything a modern military command post...

10. The Great Bridge: 8 Miles of Steel

In March 2003, embedded civilian correspondents rolled along with the U.S. mi...

11. Howard Hughes Tech

A look into how the inventions of Howard Hughes and his companies changed the...

12. Edwards Air Force Base

A look at the pioneering aviation history of Edwards Air Force Base in Calofo...

13. Taxidermy

The history of taxidermy includes a look at the use of humans as subjects.

14. SWAT

From tub to toilet to toothpaste, here's everything you ever wanted to know a...

15. Deadliest Weapons

History's greatest killing machines including the machine gun, thermonuclear ...

16. The Doomsday Clock

The story behind the "doomsday clock" of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

17. The Basement

From Pompeii to Pittsburgh. subterranean rooms help human beings to live comf...

18. Paint

From the Impressionist canvas to the Space Shuttle...from customized hotrods ...

19. Mega Movers

When the most sophisticated machines fail, they do so horrifically, plunging ...

20. Bricks

21. A-10 Tankbuster

22. Rubber

The story of rubber is more than tires, toys, gloves, and gum–it’s imbedded i...

23. City Water

When you tap your faucet does clean, pure water flow? Can your city supply en...

24. Greatest Movies Gadgets

Cars that fly and drive themselves. Spiffy spy tools that see under doors and...

25. Robots

26. The Cape Cod Canal

In a battle against the ferocious Atlantic or safe passage through waters whe...

27. The Cape Cod Canal

In a battle against the ferocious Atlantic or safe passage through waters whe...

28. Private Collections

Looks into the lives of Private collectors and their toys

29. Future Tech

A paper-thin, wall-sized holographic television...a car that runs on processe...

30. Edison Tech

The complete story of the ingenuity and the successes that made movies possib...

31. Athens Subway

Under Athens' bustling metropolis, an unique engineering project transformed ...

32. Mountain Roads

Join us for a supersonic look at some of the most cutting-edge aircraft ever ...

33. Engineering Disasters 7

Engineers and architects reveal what went wrong in five engineering disasters...

34. George Washington Bridge

When opened on October 25, 1931, the George Washington Bridge was the longest...

35. Building a Skyscraper: The Skeleton

What does it take to construct a building that will cover an entire city bloc...

36. Challenger Tank

For two years, we’ve followed construction of the new California Department o...

37. World's Biggest Machines 4

An enormous hydraulic machine press that stamps out a pickup truck's doors in...

39. The Sears Tower

Some 23,000 people walk through the Sears Tower’s domed entrances daily. 104 ...

40. St. Lawrence Seaway

The St. Lawrence Seaway is a monumental stairway in water, lifting massive sh...

41. Route 66

Known as 'the mother road' Route 66 pioneered many of today's methods in road...

42. World's Fastest

43. Police Pursuit

Join us for a high-speed look at police pursuits in an adrenaline-filled hour...

44. High Risk: Helicopter Linemen

One of the most dangerous jobs in the world, electrical lineman who do there ...

45. Wiring America

A look at the equipment that was used in the past, present, and future to kee...

46. Firefighting: The Arson Detectives

Meet crime fighters who take on fiery killers. In Houston, visit the site of ...

47. Coffee

Trace the origins of this tasty drink from over 1,000 years ago. Discover how...

48. Sugar

This program describes the production of sugar from sugarcane, sugar beets an...

49. Harvesting

Cutting, digging, picking, stripping, shaking, and raking–whatever the crop, ...

50. German Small Arms of WWII

What happens when the calculations of builders and engineers prove wrong and ...

51. The Auto Store

Learn about the USA auto parts industry, from the history of The Pep Boys to ...

52. Secret Allied Aircraft of WWII

Disasters investigated include: the 1984 Union Carbide debacle in Bhopal, Ind...

53. Engineering Disasters 17

Engineering disasters featured include a plane crash in 1931, a Marine Electr...

54. Brewing

Modern Marvels: Brewing, a one-hour History Channel documentary, traces the t...

55. The Lumberyard

Disasters profiled are a liquid natural gas explosion in Cleveland, the colla...

56. DaVinci Tech

Bridges are the lifeline of Japan. Since the 1930s, the island nation has dre...

57. Custom Cars

The history of custom car culture including hot rods and tuners.

58. Hardware Store 2

Join us as we penetrate the history of the world’s most sophisticated tank–th...

59. More Snackfood Tech

More of our favorite snack foods are profiled. They include dog hunts, soft d...

60. Walt Disney World

Journey underground and backstage at the technological marvel that is Walt Di...

61. Nature Tech: Hurricanes

In this hour, death seeps out of the ground into a neighborhood sitting on a ...

62. Submarine Disasters

When the men and women aboard a modern submarine hear the command to dive, th...

63. Engineering Disasters 14

In this hour, we examine a massive oil tanker explosion that killed nine; a s...

64. Movie Theaters

65. Washington Monument

The US capital boasts many memorials, but none with a more bizarre history th...

66. Engineering Disasters 15

A series of construction errors causes a devastating flood that brings Chicag...

67. Snack Food Tech

Extruders, molds, in-line conveyor belts. Are these machines manufacturing ad...

68. More Dangerous Cargo!

It comes in many deadly shapes and sizes, and the transportation of dangerous...

69. Commercial Fishing

Battered and fried or simply raw–seafood is a popular dish, no matter how you...

70. Ancient Discoveries (1)

71. Ancient Discoveries (2)

72. Ancient Discoveries (3)

73. Engineering Disasters 16

Chaos in Guadalajara, Mexico, when the city streets explode; an airplane cras...

74. Doomsday Tech

Doomsday threats range from very real (nuclear arsenals) to controversial (gl...

75. More Doomsday Tech

Examine more threats - both natural and man-made - that may endanger civiliza...

76. The Computer