Sky History 2 Thursday

Marty Lagina joins Giorgio Tsoukalos to explore the statues, pyramids and structures left behind by one of the most mysterious cultures in the ancient world in Sardinia, Italy

Experts scrutinise the paintings, journals and technical drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci to establish whether they hide evidence of extra-terrestrial beings

Garth Barnard investigates how thousands of soldiers during the Second World War died in catastrophic air accidents and tragic training crashes

Lacking in speed and might, the SS Andrea Doria more than made up for it in beauty, but on the night of 25 July 1956 - the Italian liner met a disastrous fate

After the end of the Battle of Britain came the bombing of German cities. In the war in the Pacific, the US and Japan successfully bombed naval and land targets

Giorgio Tsoukalos takes a look back at the most compelling investigations of all, and events that he believes represent real encounters with extraterrestrial visitors

An investigation into whether Earth's deepest caves could contain secret conduits to other worlds, or harbour evidence that aliens once visited the planet

Suggs and Stephen Taylor investigate the remains of an RAF Fairey Battle bomber plane shot down a few days after the Dunkirk evacuation

Dan Jones explores the history of Warwick Castle, which was established by William the Conqueror in 1068 and transformed into a stone fortress two centuries later

Alice Roberts explores Cardiff's Edwardian past, discovering how the coal industry transformed the Rhondda Valley and brought immigrants from across the world to Wales

How British ships led the way allowing international trade in the 18th century, paving the way for the Industrial Revolution, which occurred in Britain first

The SS Rex, an Italian ocean liner launched in 1931. She held the westbound Blue Riband between 1933 and 1935 and later saw action in the Second World War

The Flashback team finds some mint vintage boot-making salvage at an old factory that could be perfect for one of Ted's favourite clients

Garth Barnard examines the event that ended the life of Prince George the Duke of Kent in 1942, questioning whether his death was an accident

How the bombing of Tokyo demonstrated the power of the B-29 bomber. The cost of creating this machine exceeded that of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bomb

The real story of Russia's first tsar, who has become synonymous with despotism and tyranny, despite being remembered in his own land as a statesman who held the country together

An attempt to discover hidden meanings behind Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, to see if the artist was also a prophet, as well as one of history's great philosophers and engineers

Drama-documentary telling the story of the Roman Empire. Emperor Trajan throws his great games of AD 107, and the crowd is treated to a rare spectacle - female gladiators

Giorgio Tsoukalos takes a look back at the most compelling investigations of all, and events that he believes represent real encounters with extraterrestrial visitors

An investigation into whether Earth's deepest caves could contain secret conduits to other worlds, or harbour evidence that aliens once visited the planet

The Flashback team finds some mint vintage boot-making salvage at an old factory that could be perfect for one of Ted's favourite clients

After thriving for three centuries, the Celts turned from traders into proven warriors, weapon-masters and metal artists in a time that became their golden age

How British ships led the way allowing international trade in the 18th century, paving the way for the Industrial Revolution, which occurred in Britain first

Alice Roberts explores Cardiff's Edwardian past, discovering how the coal industry transformed the Rhondda Valley and brought immigrants from across the world to Wales

Giorgio Tsoukalos explores a Polynesian land of bizarre figures and forbidden places in search of what could be the ultimate evidence of mankind's extraterrestrial origins