Programme de Smithsonian Channel Selects

An unprecedented, colorful look at how Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and Thomas Edison reshaped America.

The story of Alaska's evolution, from isolated wilderness to America's 49th state, during the first half of the 20th century.

Revisit America during the turbulent 1960s, as we bring the dawn of modern America to colorful life.

A look at the immigrant experience in America during the early 1900s, told through colorized home movies and archival footage.

From the Black Sox Scandal to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, follow America's history of organized crime, in color.

Witness the highs and lows of 1950s America, from consumerism to McCarthyism and beyond: in color.

A look at Bonnie and Clyde, the Scopes "monkey" trial, and other crimes of the early 20th century in America, presented through colorized and remastered footage.

A look at some of the aerial emergency services and relief missions carried out to help Alaska's remote towns and villages make it through winter.

Hurricane Hunters fly into a storm to save lives in Alaska's bush. A rookie chopper pilot faces dangerous winds, snowstorms threaten vital combat training for the USAF in the Arctic Circle, and a vintage plane brings frontier aviation into the future.

Pilots and ground crews handle a series of emergencies, including a stranded homesteader, life-saving medications, and smuggled jewels.

A 747 mayday triggers an emergency on Anchorage runways. A young aviator learns to fly to feed her village, military pilots navigate Alaska's icy peaks to be combat-ready, and an extreme surfer flies high to find waves at America's coolest surf spot.

A pilot dreams big trying to move a 727 jet cross-country to build his business. Tourists fly into Homer's fishing festival, and the bar owner takes to the air for an Alaskan beer run. Engineers fight to stop the corrosion aboard a veteran cargo plane.

Witness the events that turned ace U-boat commander Otto Kretschmer from Nazi idol to prisoner of war.

Enter The Devil's Gorge with two Allied convoys on a collision course with the largest Nazi wolf pack ever assembled.

Man the battle stations with Commander O'Kane as we track the famous last patrol of America's deadliest sub, USS Tang.

Seven Seas Explorer's first-ever voyage up the western coast of South America brings luxury and adventure to guests and unexpected challenges to the crew.

We hop aboard a seven-day cruise to the Canary Islands and Madeira aboard the first large liner to run purely on cleaner-burning liquefied natural gas.

A voyage aboard Norwegian Joy treats passengers to adventures along Alaska's Inside Passage, while posing challenges to its captain and crew.

The Last 747 captures the emotion around the build of Boeing's last 747 jumbo jet and also tells the story of how this one airplane completely transformed the economics of air travel - with huge implications for globalization, trade and geopolitics.

Hear the airmen's stories as only they can tell them, with interviews from the 50th reunion of the mission crews, rare archival footage, and invaluable personal recollections.

How did POWs isolated in Vietnam communicate with the CIA, the Pentagon, and even the White House?

We finally reveal an unnamed hero using modern science to examine the iconic photo in ways that we have never seen before.

See rare color footage of Pearl Harbor, internment camps, the Manhattan Project, and other seminal moments of the 1940s: in color.

Visit Coney Island, Disneyland, the Kentucky Derby, and Notre Dame football, in their infancy and in color.

See Prohibition end, the New Deal begin, and the Great Plains turn to dust, as you've never seen it before: in color.

Watch the Model T roll out, the Jazz Age erupt, and the market crash, as it has never been seen before: in color.

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