In the spring of 1943, Allied forces to begin preparations for a top secret Allied raid. Each aircraft carried a top-secret weapon — a newly-invented bouncing bomb — designed to shatter Germany’s major dams.

Under harsh conditions, POWs, along with thousands of Asian laborers, were ordered by the Japanese to complete a railway linking Thailand and Burma while the US military was developing a new weapon — a “smart bomb.”

In 1789, more than 200 female thieves, prostitutes, and con artists were shipped off to an Australian penal colony aboard the Lady Juliana. Onboard, The wily women turned their banishment into opportunity and helped guarantee a new world’s future.

The Andrea Doria was considered the most luxurious liner in the Italian fleet. So how did it become a relic at the bottom of the ocean?

In 1876, after 8 years of incarceration in Western Australia, 6 Irish political prisoners escaped on board the American whaler Catalpa.

Herculaneum Uncovered follows geo-archaeologists as they unearth what life was like before the eruption, and how the volcano devastated the town in a very different manner to Pompeii.

At the end of World War II, undercover Allied agents engaged in a desperate race against one another to capture the elite of Germany’s scientific community in an effort to gain a major advantage in the looming Cold War.

A grisly discovery of more than 400 mutilated bodies in Mexico is turning history on its head.