Sky History 2 HD Sunday
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Virgin
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6:00 AM
Ancient Aliens
The suggestion society is merely following the path of its alien creators
As science turns towards augmenting humanity with technology, theorists suggest that society is merely following the path of its alien creators
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7:00 AM
Ancient Aliens
Whether extraterrestrials landed on Earth thousands of years ago
Ancient astronaut theorists who suggest that aliens have been guiding mankind in secret to bring about huge leaps in technological advancement
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8:00 AM
Ancient Aliens
Investigating claims that China could have been the home of alien beings
Investigating claims that China, with its history of technological advancement and isolationism, could have been the home of alien beings
![](https://tv.assets.pressassociation.io/bf8bd535-39b5-5d56-ab0a-bb27f02fec04.jpg)
9:00 AM
WW2 Air Crash Detectives
The Turweston Wellington Collision of July 8, 1944
Garth Barnard investigates the Turweston Wellington Collision of July 8, 1944, when two bombers collided killing 13 soldiers, before the war for them had even begun
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10:00 AM
Digging for Britain: WWII Special
The team follows the search for artefacts from the Second World War
The team follows the search for artefacts from the Second World War, joining marine archaeologists in the Solent as they raise a Fairey Barracuda divebomber
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11:00 AM
Ancient Aliens
Investigating a belief that human civilization originated in the cosmos
Investigating cosmism - a belief that human civilization originated in the cosmos. This train of thought is widely held throughout Russia
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12:00 PM
Ancient Aliens
The infamous 1947 Roswell crash
The US military has denied that the infamous 1947 Roswell crash was anything other than a weather balloon, but FBI files include a memo to J Edgar Hoover
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1:00 PM
WWII's Most Daring Raids
Operation Husky, a massive amphibious invasion of the island of Sicily
Operation Husky, a massive amphibious invasion of the island of Sicily carried out by Allied Forces in July 1943
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2:00 PM
Strangest Things
A tiny metal cube with a connection to Adolf Hitler is studied
A tiny metal cube with a connection to Adolf Hitler is studied, along with the 300-year-old 'Berlin Gold Hat', a late Bronze Age artefact made of thin gold leaf
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3:00 PM
River Hunters
Artefacts from William the Conqueror's era in the River Avon
Beau Ouimette and Rick Edwards seek artefacts from William the Conqueror's era in the stretch of the River Avon near Salisbury
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4:00 PM
River Hunters
A bid to find evidence from one of Scotland's bloodiest eras
The team finds evidence from one of Scotland's bloodiest eras as they wade through the waters of the River Garry in the stunning Scottish Highlands
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5:00 PM
Digging for Britain
The discovery of an 8,000-year-old Neolithic underwater settlement
How a lobster led archaeologists to the discovery of an 8,000-year-old Neolithic underwater settlement and the team who excavated an Iron Age crouched burial in Dorset
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6:00 PM
Digging for Britain
A Roman mosaic found on farmland in Rutland
Alice Roberts witnesses the uncovering of a Roman mosaic on farmland in Rutland, and visits the site of a saintly hermit's hovel discovered in the Lincolnshire fens
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7:00 PM
Winston Churchill's War
The crucial decisions made by the wartime leader
The crucial decisions made by the wartime leader and how he had to navigate big changes and negotiate Britain's relationship with a powerful ally, as the conflict raged on
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8:00 PM
Ancient Aliens
An assessment of whether past plagues have been brought to Earth by aliens
An assessment of whether past plagues have been brought to Earth by aliens and whether the planet is prepared for an extraterrestrial invasion of disease
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9:00 PM
Ancient Aliens
Possible alien interference with human DNA
A look at suggestions that extraterrestrials could be altering human DNA and repopulating the Earth with alien-human hybrids
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10:00 PM
History's Greatest Mysteries
The notion that Hitler may have survived the Second World War
How not everyone believes there's sufficient proof that Hitler died in the final days of the Second World War. Questions have swirled for decades about his possible escape
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11:00 PM
Deadly Standoff
A standoff between an independence group and FBI agents in 1996
How Leroy Schweitzer 'broke away' from the US and took advantage of everyone who decided to follow him, resulting in a prolonged armed standoff with the FBI in 1996
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12:00 AM
Ancient Aliens
The Apollo 11 mission to the moon
The Apollo 11 mission to the moon and the suggestion that the moon is actually a giant spacecraft allowing extraterrestrials to monitor Earth
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1:00 AM
Ancient Aliens
Investigating a belief that human civilization originated in the cosmos
Investigating cosmism - a belief that human civilization originated in the cosmos. This train of thought is widely held throughout Russia
![](https://tv.assets.pressassociation.io/2c919875-a5a0-5f23-aa6a-cc418c52960e.jpg)
2:00 AM
Ancient Aliens
The infamous 1947 Roswell crash
The US military has denied that the infamous 1947 Roswell crash was anything other than a weather balloon, but FBI files include a memo to J Edgar Hoover
![](https://tv.assets.pressassociation.io/341f4859-060b-591e-91b4-5789601c8289.jpg)
3:00 AM
Behind History
The stories of some of history's most notable leaders
The stories of some of history's most notable leaders, from Sir Winston Churchill to Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela
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4:00 AM
WWII Battles in Colour
Life and death on the battlefield of El Alamein
Extraordinary footage, colourised for the first time, shows life and death on the battlefield of El Alamein and behind the lines in the north African desert
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5:00 AM
Ancient Aliens
An assessment of whether past plagues have been brought to Earth by aliens
An assessment of whether past plagues have been brought to Earth by aliens and whether the planet is prepared for an extraterrestrial invasion of disease
![](https://tv.assets.pressassociation.io/160af7c8-cc7e-515e-b001-8f102d4faebd.jpg)
6:00 AM
Ancient Aliens
A Russian politician who claims to have been abducted by aliens
The cases of people who have reported being abducted by aliens. They even include one-time Republic of Kalmykia president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
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