Lionsgate

In the pre-dawn darkness of December 14, 1986, a peculiar aircraft lumbers down an immense runway in the California high desert. With a wingspan larger than a 727, it weighs scarcely 2000 pounds when empty. Maverick aircraft designer Burt Rutan has designed this plane to fly nonstop around the globe. With his brother, decorated fighter pilot Dick Rutan at the controls, this is the moment of truth--the culmination of six years of work. The bizarre craft, Voyager, is like no flying machine ever...

June 15, 1944. Just over a week after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, on the other side of the world, 70,000 US Marines storm ashore on the Pacific island of Saipan. For the first time in the war, American fighting men stand on Japanese soil. Facing themare 30,000 Japanese soldiers, with massed tanks and artillery, who have sworn to defend the island to the death. We offer extraordinary insight into this climactic battle and follow the men of the invasion force as they fight their way to...

A month after the D-Day Invasion, when the Allies believed all was safe off the beaches of Normandy, the Minesweeper YMS-304 was blasted out of the water--with 100% casualties. The initial detonation tore apart the minesweeper, taking her down in only 63seconds--the fastest sinking of WWII. What happened was a secret hidden for more than 60 years. Deep Sea Detective John Chatterton travels to Normandy to dive the remains of this tragic wreck with the help of French diver Bertrand Sciboz.

He was one of the fastest-rising politicians in the country when he was suddenly stricken with polio. Although the debilitating disease robbed him of the power to walk, Franklin Delano Roosevelt refused to succumb to despair.Join BIOGRAPHY for the remarkable story of FDR's decade-long battle with polio and his quest to return to political prominence. Biographers and historians describe his ambitious journey, from his rehabilitating bid for governor of New York to his rivalry with a fellow...

Though she is rarely mentioned in the Gospels, she is perhaps the most important and the most revered woman in history.Shortly after 13-year old Mary of Nazareth became engaged to Joseph, the fate of the world changed. Inexplicably pregnant, the frightened teenager faced the possibility of being stoned to death and she endured ridicule that continued even after the birth of her son. But Mary vigilantly stood by Jesus throughout years of scorn and prejudice, even as he was dying on the cross at...

The Pacific Ocean is a vast emptiness, where World War Two is fought on tiny specks of land. As the big battles unfold, soldiers come face- to-face at close quarters with their enemies. In this episode, we head right into the middle of a daring raid on the Makin Atoll; on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands, a solo machine gunner is outnumbered; two dozen Marines face hundreds of Japanese on Peleliu; and a single rifleman holds off two companies in the Philippines. Sometimes they took minutes,...

A woman who had been married 10 times, sometimes committing bigamy, goes on trial for murdering her last husband. In court, the prosecution produces a surprise witness who says he saw the victim alive at the time the prosecution said he was dead. Will the jury buy his story?

Travel high into the Andes to a road that has more deaths per mile than any other byway in the world. This steep and bumpy road plunges almost 2.5 miles in the four hours it takes to drive it, and those who choose to make the journey will endure an oftenextremely narrow path that hugs the mountain as it snakes through dramatic, verdant scenery. Twisting between waterfalls and rocky overhangs, the road is unprotected, making near death an almost constant travel companion. A fatal accident every...

In Miami, Ricardo John catches his first case as lead detective: a young woman apparently raped and murdered in a vacant lot. In Dallas, Detectives Scott Sayers and Kenneth Penrod investigate a home invasion that left one man dead and his fiancee critically wounded. The case hangs on whether the surviving witness can identify her attackers.

The patients can't tell the doctors what is wrong in fact, they're quite likely to bite. And the only thanks they might offer is a wagging tail, but the men and women who minister to sick and injured animals are among the most dedicated healers in the world. This one-of-a-kind program goes behind the scenes at New York City's ASPCA veterinary clinic for an up-close look at animal medicine today. It's a hectic place, where the howls and cries of injured animals mingle with the emotions and...

Dogfights between early jetfighters like the F-80 and F-84 before the arrival of the F-86 and MiG-15 in the skies of Korea.

Cincinnati Homicide Detective Kurt Ballman investigates a brutal beating death in the close-knit East End neighborhood. In Memphis, Lieutenant Toney Armstrong and Sergeant Mason use surveillance footage to track down the killer of local teenager.