Flood in the Desert

Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands...

The rock pocket mouse is a living example of Darwin's process of natural selection. Evolution is happening right now everywhere around us, and...

The mavericks who pioneered the modern pit stop made it a raceday staple that takes less than two seconds.

The De Havilland Comet was the world's first passenger jet airliner. But less than two years into service, two aircraft blew up in mid-air, killing...

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

There are endless gruesome ways that the world could end; through nasty, natural disasters or because of some man-made abomination. From maniac...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

This is the extraordinary true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel. Through the steadfast support of her...

Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's...