Sky History 2 Today

A think-tank of top global experts examines whether America's founding fathers hid extra-terrestrial secrets in their documents, buildings and symbols

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

Experts visit a cemetery in Texas said to contain the body of an alien who crash-landed on Earth in 1897

A chronological appraisal of the dramatic D-Day story, focusing on the vessels that made the landings on the beaches of Normandy possible

From the trench to the home-front hospital, a medical historian retraces the train journey made by wounded soldiers during the Second World War

The stories of remarkable feats of military engineering, featuring how an American GI and his Harley motorbike became a legend

A think-tank of top global experts examines whether America's founding fathers hid extra-terrestrial secrets in their documents, buildings and symbols

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

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

Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941, which led to campaign of unparalleled barbarism, on a scale of destruction unmatched in history

Douglas Latchford was regarded as a go-to expert in Khmer antiquities. However, an investigation saw his world crumble

A look at how Marine Corps dogs would put their training to use in the absence of their masters, and experts estimate how the passage of time will threaten humanity's relics

Examining how a huge force of water would affect an unpopulated planet, with the Sydney Opera House collapsing and famous paintings being destroyed

Audacious jail and prison breaks, with insight from Hayes, whose legendary escape from a Turkish prison was the basis for the Oscar-winning movie Midnight Express

The Hollywood actor marvels at the ambitious construction and at the determination of the people who built Stonehenge and the Moai statues of Easter Island

How ancient cultures around the world have aroused fascination and provoked fear with curses and objects used to conjure them, such as rings, tablets and stones

The myriad of rumours, theories and disputed historical accounts of Adolf Hitler's sexual psychology, exploring the impact of his alleged and proven sex life on his behaviour

A think-tank of top global experts examines whether America's founding fathers hid extra-terrestrial secrets in their documents, buildings and symbols

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

Experts visit a cemetery in Texas said to contain the body of an alien who crash-landed on Earth in 1897

Bettany Hughes recalls the moment that marked Rome's symbolic break with its pagan past - the day that Emperor Constantine the Great was baptised a Christian

Sacred relics believed to be imbued with mystical powers. The veteran actor contemplates whether it is possible that these items really can possess the ability to perform miracles

Examining the execution of German spies captured in the two world wars, how suffragette Leonora Cohen highlighted her cause, and cameras follow a new recruit for the Beefeaters

Liza Tarbuck tackles the national obsession with all things weather-related, visiting the Greenwich Maritime Museum and a deserted forest, and meeting an Earth mother