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A two season series with 12 episodes that tell the in-depth story of high-profile catastrophic events while explaining the engineering failures that reveal what went wrong.

A 90-minute documentary film about the roots and rise of the most popular revolutionary song in the world.

One year after a massive explosion ripped through Lebanon's capital city, Beirut, the whole story can finally be told about how the blast in Warehouse 12 happened, what impact it had on the vibrant Mediterranean Middle East city and how Beirut is rising from the ashes once again. Featuring more than 35 interviews, including investigative journalists, firefighters, doctors, the families of victims, young activists, business owners and community leaders who lived through the trio of tragedies this year - the coronavirus pandemic, a deep economic crisis and the port explosion, and who are now helping rebuild Beirut once again.

It is a cold case that after 50 years still haunts Italy today - an epic travesty of justice shrouded in mystery and deception involving he ritualistic serial murder of eight young couples in the country lanes around Florence in the 1980s.

They were bloodthirsty Scandinavian warriors and fine craftsmen. From Newfoundland to the Caspian Sea they robbed and traded fine furs, jewelry, slaves or weapons: anything worth something. They opened new trade routes still used today, founded magnificent cities such as Kiev and Novgorod, and captured ancient hubs like York, Naples and Istanbul. This series follows the Vikings everywhere they went, revealing stunning new archaeological discoveries that turn Viking history on its head.

"The Salvagemasters" series follows salvage teams as they deploy to the scenes of maritime disasters to solve the biggest engineering challenges on the high seas today. A 3 - season (17 - episodes) series on ship wrecks, ship salvages and ship arechology.

While exploring the Baltic Sea in 2006, a Polish oil firm stumbled upon the remains of Germany's first - and last - aircraft carrier at 80 meters depth off the coast near Gdansk - The Graf Zeppelin.

Series on the great underground battles that characterized World War I.

Interactions with the local people will tell you the stories of what it is like to live in the shadow of five volcanoes.

On the night between November 12th and 13th, 2019, the ancient and beautiful city Venice very nearly drowned. Hundreds of businesses were destroyed. Even the ancient crypt of St. Mark's Cathedral was underwater. It was the worst flood since the Great Flood of 1966, which set in motion a worldwide effort to save the ancient city from the dual threats of sinking land and rising sea levels.

Illegal smuggling in the Mediterranean: arms, drugs, toxic waste, migrants.

This is the fascinating story of Europe's largest rehabilitation center for brown bears in the rugged Carpathian mountains. Our team embeds with the bear community in this isolated outpost to tell the little-known story of how Ukraine is managing to give back dignity to this community of exemplary, massive brown bears.

When the fifty year old Morandi bridge collapsed on the 14th August 2018 killing 43 people, the disaster cut Italy off from France and split the city of Genoa in two. This is the story of how a new bridge, from a world famous architect, rose from the ashes of one of Europe's worst infrastructure failures in history.

Constant high water has been eroding the city of Venice for decades. The plan to build a surge barrier against the tides that cause the so-called "Acqua Alta" has been underway for nearly forty years, but only now is the massive 7-billion-euro surge barrier nearing completion.

A look at the complex heavy lift process of enlarging ships in an operation called Jumboisation. The process is increasingly in demand in the lucrative cruise industry for bigger ships that can haul more and more passengers.

The story of the Antonov An-225, a relic of the cold war era aircraft made in the Ukraine, that still flies challenging missions today. It is the biggest airplane in the world and holds the most air records for cargo lift.

The tragic story of the worst train disaster in Greek history - the February 2023 collision between a passenger train and a freight train traveling between Athens and Thessaloniki. 57 people died.

One of the most serious accidents to happen in the Alps in decades, the Marmolada glacier collapse tells the story of the fateful day 11 people were killed when a section of glacier collapsed onto a hiking trail. A cautionary global warming tale about the disappearance of Europe's glaciers and the changing safety concerns for traversing them.

The fire that killed 140 passengers aboard the Moby Prince ferry in 1991 as it was navigating between Livorno and Sardinia was the worst disaster in the Italian merchant navy since World War II and is one of the worst environmental disasters in Italian history. A parliamentary commission is exploring new hypotheses for why the fire happened, in an investigation that could reveal uncomfortably new truths about how the disaster came about.

Two thousand years after it was built, the Colosseum is in dire need of repair. Imagine repairing centuries of damage...Scaffolding stretches 55 meters up to the top of one of the Eternal City's best viewpoints. Restorers work around the clock revealing new details of life in ancient Rome.

Two thousand years after it was built, the Colosseum is in dire need of repair. This two-part series takes a unique behind-the-scenes look at how the worlds of science, fashion, archaeology and culture are coming together for an epic renovation of this iconic Roman monument.