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Sahara

Michael Palin's epic voyage of the Sahara Desert.

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Salvage Code Red

Meet the elite salvage teams who battle extreme conditions to rescue stricken vessels.

Saxon Gold: Finding The Hoard

Nothing like this has ever been found in Britain before – sixteen hundred pieces of bejewelled gold and silver, buried, lost then forgotten.

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Science Of Evil

Three front-line practitioners confront evil with very different sets of tools.

Sea Of Fire

On May 25 1982, HMS Coventry came under attack from two Argentine planes each armed with three 1000lb bombs.

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Seconds From Disaster

CGI, forensic science and eyewitness accounts combine to re-enact some of the world’s worst disasters.

Secret Bible

A team of scientists joins forces with religious scholars to take a look at biblical tales of murder, miracles and mystery.

Secret Shark Pits

Why do dozens of sharks converge on underwater caves off the coast of Mauritius and why do they act so strangely while there?

Secrets Of The Cross

This series investigates the suppressed and fascinating secrets at the heart of the Christian tradition.

Secrets Of The Moon Landing

NGC reveals the make-or-break moments you didn't see.

Secrets Of The Parthenon

Find out why countless banks, museums have been modelled on the ancient Greek temple.

Secrets Of The Sphinx

Forces of man and nature are threatening to destroy the Great Sphinx.

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Seed Hunter

Unless answers are found quickly to strengthen the genetic base of our food in accelerating climate change, our world could face mass starvation.

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Shark Eden

Sharks reign in the southern Line Islands, where humans rarely visit and survival is still of the fittest.

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Shark Men

Shark Men boldly unmasks the mysteries of the world’s largest predatory fish.

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Shark Month

Swim into a month of razor sharp encounters with the world’s most feared predators.

Shot Down Over Soviet Union

Uncover the secret aerial war between the Cold War's superpowers in this forgotten chapter from the 1950's.

Sinking Of The Andrea Doria

The definitive truth behind the tragic fate of Italy's luxury cruise liner, the Andrea Doria.

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Situation Critical

Go to the front line of some of modern history’s most violent face-offs, terrifying battles and death-defying disasters.

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Six Degrees

As the volume of greenhouse gases increases yearly, scientists are warning that the global average temperature could increase by as much as 6 degrees over the next century.

Space Crab

Scientists have discovered from fossils that the ancestors of the modern horseshoe crab were living on Earth during the Devonian Period of the Paleozoic Era, 400 million years ago.

Space Shuttle Challenger

Shuttle Challenger lifts off. 73 seconds later however, onlookers and the nation watch in horror when the shuttle is suddenly engulfed in flames and breaks apart in the sky.

Space Shuttle Columbia

Travelling at 22 times the speed of sound, a few seconds after 9 am, February 1 2003, the Columbia breaks up in a shower of molten metal. Painstaking analysis solves the mystery. C...

Spacemen

One day the population may face no choice but to leave. Discover the challenges humankind must overcome before journeying to distant stars.

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Stonehenge Decoded

British archaeologist Professor Mike Parker Pearson unearths surprising evidence supporting a radical new vision of Stonehenge.

Storm Worlds

The wildest weather rages in outer space. What would happen if it came down to Earth?

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Strange Days On Planet Earth

Unrelated events and issues are bubbling up from the depths of the world’s water supply, forcing scientists and investigators to find solutions to some bizarre mysteries.