Lionsgate

Studies show that almost 20 percent of Americans believe in UFOs. And, as the much publicized Heaven's Gate incident pointed out, some of these people will go to extreme lengths in the name of their belief. UFO CULTS AND GROUPS traces the history of Heaven's Gate and compares it to another UFO group, the Unarius Academy, looking for insight into this growing phenomenon. Why do people join these groups, and why do some abandon all logic and reason in doing so? Interviews with former and current...

On April 21st, 2008, one of the most talked-about incidents in modern UFO history opened a new chapter - the Phoenix Lights. At approximately 8:00 PM, several residents reported seeing a formation of four lights that reminded them of the group of floating lights that appeared above Phoenix, Arizona on March 13, 1997. But few realize there was another event reported state-wide during that original evening - a huge triangular object observed by witnesses from the Nevada-Arizona border to as far...

On D-Day, small teams of specially trained soldiers and sailors were given secret and dangerous missions at the vanguard of the assault. The Airborne Pathfinders set up special radar beacons and lights to guide the main Paratrooper Units to drop zones. The outnumbered British 9th Parachute Battalion attacked a gun battery at Merville, a fortress said to be impenetrable. And Navy combat Demolition Units came ashore in the first assault wave to clear obstacles so invasion ships could land.

Since the ancient pharaohs' time, the Isthmus of Suez has been the gateway to trade between East and West. It's thought that the pharaohs could connect the Red Sea with the Mediterranean using a system of small canals; but the desert sands buried them. Not until mid-19th century did mankind readdress the problem. Since its completion in 1869, the Suez Canal has been a vital link in world trade and a point of controversy in geopolitics. Today, more than 20,000 ships transit the canal yearly.

Join an all-star cast including Julie Delpy, Georgina Cates, Daniel Baldwin, Patrick Dempsey and Seymour Cassel in this dark tale of survival of the fittest when three small-town prostitutes struggle to beat the game - and come out alive. Their one chance? An invitation to work at the mayor's birthday party. But a surprise visitor and an unexpected disaster turn the splashy party into a madhouse, and the women discover that getting out is no easy trick.

World premiere documentary that looks at the possibility of alien contact through the eyes of the UFO community, mainstream scientists and religious theologians.

Program #101: VICE DETAIL: Vice Det. Tim Louis leads an undercover operation against a massage parlor suspected of being a house of prostitution. In a second Vice operation, Louis himself is undercover at an X-rated theater where lewd acts are said to be taking place. Moving from the Morals Crew to gambling and bookmaking, Det. Louis successfully raids a bookie parlor. BOMB SQUAD: Bomb Squad Det. Silvia Faris, one of only a handful of women in the country chosen to do this dangerous job, must...

For years, the mysterious stone carvings of the Mayans remained impenetrable, preserving their secrets from archaeologists working to uncover the truth about the culture that once dominated Central America. VOICES IN THE STONES travels to Copan, Honduras to meet Dr. Linda Schele, who finally broke the code of these ancient etchings. An artist turned scientist, Dr. Schele reveals how she learned to "read" these ancient pictures. See how her team of archaeologists, anthropologists and...

Lightning strikes indiscriminately and without warning. Unsuspecting people are hit hundreds of times each year. THE UNEXPLAINED: STRUCK BY LIGHTNING examines the many experiences of lightning-strike survivors. Some victims tempted fate by hiking in the high Sierras or taking storm photos in an open field, but others were struck doing everyday activities such as talking on the phone, making dinner or walking to the post office. One survivor claims to have been healed by the experience. All the...

The serious consideration of UFO phenomena is too often clouded by the desire to believe, the overriding wish that there really is alien life and it has visited us. But in this exciting, all-new series from THE HISTORY CHANNEL(r), the UFO HUNTERS are unafraid of the possibility of alien life but unwilling to settle for hope, hoax and hunch. In every episode an authoritative team of experts from UFO Magazine and the scientific community go onsite to reconsider history's most significant UFO...

The serious consideration of UFO phenomena is too often clouded by the desire to believe, the overriding wish that there really is alien life and it has visited us. But in this exciting, all-new series from THE HISTORY CHANNEL(r), the UFO HUNTERS are unafraid of the possibility of alien life but unwilling to settle for hope, hoax and hunch. In every episode an authoritative team of experts from UFO Magazine and the scientific community go onsite to reconsider history's most significant UFO...

She was 19 when she arrived at the dreaded death camp of Auschwitz. But fate smiled on Luba Tryszynska, and after two years she was transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where she was put to work nursing injured German soldiers. Her life would take its most dramatic change when she heard children's voices near her barracks. THE ANGEL OF BERGEN BELSEN tells Luba's inspiring story. Follow her from her internment through the end of the war, and discover how she single-handedly saved 54 children from the...