Sky History 2 HD Saturday

Experts examine an ancient Hindi scripture about a giant flying creature landing on Earth, and consider if this could be a description of an alien spacecraft

Experts examine evidence that aliens may have visited Mecca's Grand Mosque and Jerusalem's Temple Mount

Experts investigate stories of a French church that supposedly contains a gateway to another universe and an alien library believed to be hidden underneath the Great Sphinx of Giza

The story of the prolonged development and the initially troubled operational history of the Boeing B29 Superfortress

The Industrial Revolution changed it all when it came to cannons, as they evolved from wholly inaccurate and immobile to deadly killing machines

The actor explores the King's Cross underground station fire of November 1987, which ignited under a wooden escalator and claimed 31 lives

The Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017, in which an estimated 70 residents died. The rapid spread of the fire is thought to have been aided by the building's exterior cladding

How six men, led by the mastermind, Nuno Pontes, escaped Pittsburgh State Penitentiary. They made it as far as Texas, before being caught and returned to prison

The actor tells the story of one of the largest escapes in British history when 38 prisoners fled Co Antrim's high-security Maze prison in a food truck. Some were never seen again

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

Beau Ouimette and Rick Edwards search the River Tees, searching for lost Tudor relics from a gruesome 16th-century siege at Barnard Castle and secrets of this ancient borderland

An exploration of an atomic tomb, multi-million dollar wacky races and a vision of the countryside on fire

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

Marty Lagina and Matty Blake return to the eerie waters surrounding Poverty Island in Lake Michigan to search for a lost Civil War treasure worth an estimated $400million

A look at some outlandish inventions, including a full-body gas mask for babies, Smell-o-Vision, a robot powered by slugs and inflatable airplanes

The actor-presenter examines the notion of using human bones as a 'miracle cure' for gout and learns of a truly bizarre Victorian way to lose weight - with tapeworms

The story of royal doctor Bertrand Dawson, who admitted to performing euthanasia on a dying George V, and may have had a connection to a subsequent royal death

Experts question whether the moon is just a rock floating in space, or whether it holds profound secrets and perhaps even possesses incredible powers

A look at the Petrozavodsk incident of 1977 - one of the key moments that helped to determine the official Soviet response to the UFO phenomenon

Experts examine evidence that aliens may have visited Mecca's Grand Mosque and Jerusalem's Temple Mount

Experts investigate stories of a French church that supposedly contains a gateway to another universe and an alien library believed to be hidden underneath the Great Sphinx of Giza

A look at the historical significance of an alien presence, as well as three specific paradigms - biblical, ascension and colonisation - that attempt to define the alien agenda

Ancient alien theorists explore the origins of mythical gods, and examine whether the tales of superhuman beings could be based on sightings of extraterrestrials