Sky History 2 HD Friday

The theory that aliens might have told Joan of Arc how to beat the English army, and whether an American serviceman received a message when he touched a spaceship

A notion that the gods of Greece - including Zeus, Apollo and Poseidon from Mount Olympus - were actually extra-terrestrial visitors to Earth

Dan Jones explores the history of Carrickfergus Castle in Co Antrim, a stronghold key to understanding the relationship between Britain and Ireland

Laurence Fishburne explores the Nazca Lines. Dubbed 'the world's greatest archaeological enigma' these 2,000-year-old geoglyphs span over 50 miles of the Peruvian desert

How British battleships had to contend with a destructive new initiative invented by the Italian navy - deadly torpedoes steered by human pilots

Experts investigate human creation, asking whether unexplained advances in evolution could have been down to aliens

Throughout history, there have been stories of strange beings unlike anything known to exist on Earth This programme examines whether they could be more than just mythology

How Britain's influence began to shrink, as the Soviet Union and the United States grew into the most significant actors in the Second World War and beyond

The Supermarine Spitfire, a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after the Second World War

Part two of two. Adam, Gwen and Julie recall personal encounters with UFOs, before it is revealed that each individual has time missing from their plotted recollections

How Isis fighters detonated explosives under the Tomb of Jonah, only to reveal a 2,700-year-old temple complex

A strange set of objects were found in the Great Pyramid in Giza, including a two-pronged bronze hook with two pins sticking into it

Ancient mysteries, including the unusually shaped skull of the Star Child that seems to suggest that aliens once walked the planet

Rick Edwards and Beau Ouimette embark on an epic search through the River Ouse in Yorkshire, in a bid to find evidence of Viking life

The veteran actor digs deep into the ancient past to discover mankind's predecessors' epic feats of engineering, from the remarkable to the inexplicable

The billion-dollar horde buried deep beneath the deserts of Utah, the massacre so horrific it was captured from space and the ice cave of the Norse fire God

The controversy surrounding the death of Edward II, whose forced abdication preceded his mysterious demise while in custody

While the Illuminati secret order was disbanded in 1785, many believe this elite group still hold the power and pull strings from behind closed doors

Experts investigate human creation, asking whether unexplained advances in evolution could have been down to aliens

Throughout history, there have been stories of strange beings unlike anything known to exist on Earth This programme examines whether they could be more than just mythology

Dan Jones explores the history of Carrickfergus Castle in Co Antrim, a stronghold key to understanding the relationship between Britain and Ireland

Between December 1941 and May 1942, Singapore fell, the Wannsee Conference was held in Berlin and a single event in the Pacific transformed the war into a total global conflict

Lights above the Indian Ocean send a nation into panic, and on Lake Michigan a yacht vanishes. Plus, a small Newfoundland community is devastated by a mysterious explosion

A man who claims to have heard a loud hissing sound before seeing a saucer-shaped object rise out of his neighbour's lagoon

The police officer who alleges he heard a loud roar and saw a flame rising into the air, before witnessing an oval-shaped object take flight