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Mighty Cruise Ships
S3, EP4 "Viking Star"We follow passengers and crew aboard Viking Star during its two-week tour from Barcelona to its home port in Bergen, Norway.
Mighty Planes
S3, EP2 "T-38 Talon"The T-38 jet trainer is the ultimate test for any pilot wanting to join the world's elite club of fighter jet pilots.
Mighty Trains
S4, EP7 "Coastal Pacific"Travelling up the coast of New Zealand in style aboard the Coastal Pacific, a train that embodies the nation's spirit of grit and determination; for two years, this ride was shut down due to an earthquake in 2016.
Mighty Cruise Ships
S3, EP1 "Koningsdam"Set a course for breathtaking sights on Koningsdam's 15-day voyage from Amsterdam to the northern tip of Norway.
Mighty Cruise Ships
S3, EP2 "Viking Long Ship Gefjon"Take a river tour through some of Europe's greatest cities--Budapest, Vienna, and Amsterdam--on Viking Longship Gefjon.
Mighty Trains
S2, EP4 "AVE 103"On Europe's high-speed rail network, between Barcelona and Madrid, crews work to expand the infrastructure for a new train.
Mighty Trains
S1, EP1 "Glacier Express"The Glacier Express features cutting-edge technology to pull the train up the steepest slopes on its route across the Swiss Alps.
Mighty Cruise Ships
S4, EP4 "Diamond Princess"Japan's largest cruise ship brings East and West together on a cruise featuring cherry.
Make It Out Alive
S1, EP2 "San Francisco Quake"When a magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes San Francisco in 1989, the city is thrown into chaos.
Ten Steps to Disaster
S1, EP4 "Deepwater Horizon"Investigators, oil workers and residents of the American Gulf Coast reveal the cascading problems and deadly mistakes that led to the worst marine oil spill of all time.
Disasters at Sea
S2, EP6 "Death On The Staten Island Ferry"The MV Andrew J. Barberi ferry boat is traveling to Staten Island with 1,500 passengers; as it nears its destination, the ship continues full steam ahead and slams into the maintenance pier, killing 11 on board and injuring 57 others.
Air Disasters
S4, EP2 "Fire in the Hold"Moments after takeoff, a plane sustains electrical failures and crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 110 people on board.
Bird vs. Plane: Miracle on the Hudson
An exploration of the threat posed by bird strikes in commercial and military air accidents as well as a closer look at the day when US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canadian geese and lost engine power over the Hudson River.
Crash of the Concorde
An inside look at the July 2000 crash of an Air France Concorde jet and series of events that caused the accident.
Air Disasters
S20, EP20 "Take Off Tragedies"Three flights ending in tragedy, prove that minor missteps during takeoff can have disastrous consequences.
Air Disasters
S18, EP17 "Lost"Investigators struggle to determine why a 757 strayed off course during its final approach to a Colombia airport and crashed into a mountain.