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A look at the case of Debra Jean Milke, on death row in Arizona for arranging the murder of her 4-year-old son. Prosecutors say Milke had the little boy killed because she considered him an "inconvenience". But Milke claims her conviction hinges on the...

In the wilds of the American West, average citizens often stepped into the fray to keep their towns from being taken over by society's dregs. It seemed like pickpockets and pimps rolled into main street the moment gold was struck. And often, it was...

From Tawanna Brawley to the famous Quiz Show Scandals of the 1950s, examine some of the most famous hoaxes in recent history. From simple greed to marketing strategies, a desire for fame or fear of getting into trouble, explore the surprising reasons these hoaxes...

THE ALLIES: In this episode we uncover Allied secrets off WWII, like a battleship made of ice, bat bombs, floating tanks, rocket-propelled wheels that would roll through enemy lines, pigeon-guided missiles, and earthquake bombs designed to penetrate the earth and shake structures to pieces....

September 14, 1944--the South Pacific. While clearing mines for the Allied invasion of the Palau Islands, the USS Perry is rocked by a huge explosion and immediately begins to list. All hands abandon ship into open waters, drawing enemy fire from shore. Two days...

The U-2513 is what's known as a Type 21 German U-boat. In the 1940s, the Type 21 was a secret weapon that threatened to change the course of two wars: WWII, and then later, the Cold War. During WWII, German hopes were riding on...

For more than a thousand years, the Taino people flourished on the islands comprising the Greater Antilles--modern-day Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Five centuries ago, they seemingly vanished--millions of people gone in the blink of an eye. The DSD team...

More than 1000 years ago in Mexico, the great temple-city of Palenque thrived as an important center of the Mayan world. Mysteriously abandoned in 835 AD, it has preserved countless secrets ever since. Journey to the Mexican jungle on a quest to unearth the...

In 1944, a Japanese plane carrying a copy of "Z-Plan" - Japan's strategy to win the war in the Pacific - went down in the Philippines. The papers fell into the hands of pro-American guerrilla forces, and US military officials desperately wanted to retrieve...

For more than a half-century, America's Central Intelligence Agency has systematically suppressed, distorted, and even fabricated reports of UFO sightings. With the assistance of the CIA's official historian and newly declassified documents, we provide anobjective, balanced, and at times, highly controversial examination of the...

The detectives who toil on the trail of murderers gaze into the depths of evil. The elite members of any department's team, they rarely stay in the position for their entire career it is simply too stressful, too emotionally harrowing for most. This in-depth...

A visit to "Supermax" high-security prisons to meet inmates who are isolated in tiny cells 23 hours a day. Includes interviews with penal experts who say that this extreme isolation is cruel and inhuman punishment.

Spartacus is one of the Ancient World's most famous figures. A Thracian soldier, Spartacus was captured by Romans and sold as a slave for training as a gladiator. With 70 other gladiators, he escaped and hid on Mount Vesuvius in 71 BC, where he...

Teutoburg Forest, 9 AD. According to the Roman historian Dio, Arminius (aka Herman), Chief of the Cherusci, and his father Segemerus, ambushed and wiped out three legions led by Quinctilius Varus. Not a good day to be out in the woods of Germany if...

In 197 BC, the classic military conflict between the Ancient World's two dominant military systems took place in a chain of hills called Cynoscephalae (Greek for "Dogs' Heads") in Thessaly, Greece. King Philip V led the Macedonian phalanx, the fighting force that conquered the...

Follows the revolutionary rise of the legendary blackjack team, the Tommy Hyland Team. Beginning with Hyland's bold decision to turn blackjack card-counting into a business venture, we follow as he implements a multi-person card-counting system. The well-oiled plan works without a flaw, and the...

The Nazca lines in Peru stretch for miles, forming perfect images of animals visible only from the air. Immense and precise, the pyramids remain among mankind's greatest accomplishments, and experts still debate how they were built. Span the globe in this riveting look at...

It was the most impressive fighting machine ever assembled. Its prowess on the battlefields of the ancient world was unmatched, and its power could challenge even that of the emperor. From its humble beginnings as a band of part-time soldiers to its ultimate evolution...

At the turn of the 19th century, upper-class men of Europe and America fought pistol duels to the death. The pistols created for these duels were some of the most beautiful ever made. We'll examine these magnificent weapons that gave this strange ritual its...

Born of immigrant parents in 1912, Phil Silvers grew up on the mean streets of Brownsville in Brooklyn. His talent and wit launched a show business career that culminated with the smash Broadway show, Top Banana, and the heights of TV stardom in the...

In 2002, a series of mysterious oil spills spread alarm up and down the Northern California coastline, when a 200-mile stretch of beaches became littered with the carcasses of oiled animals. Experts soon realized they had an escalating disaster on their hands. Finally, the...

When the tank first appeared on the battlefield in World War I, it was slow, clumsy and unreliable. But its potential was undeniable. By World War II, tanks developed into the most effective ground weapons the world had ever seen. HELL ON WHEELS is...

Ramses II was perhaps the greatest pharaoh to rule ancient Egypt. His reign lasted 67 years--it was one of the longest in Egyptian history. As king of one of the most powerful civilizations in the world--he possessed endless energy and a determination to insure...

It is one of the lowlights in the history of American government, an agency that almost immediately ran into problems and has since bounced from scandal to tragedy to the verge of bankruptcy. The Office of Housing and Urban Development was created to provide...

On November 29, 1992, 35-year-old Judy Blake Moilanen went walking with her five springer spaniels on Michigan's upper peninsula. When one of her dogs returned without her, Judy's mother went looking for her. She found her daughter's body in the woods, shot to death....

Hop in the cockpit for a daring century-long ride through the history of aircraft weaponry--from the first handgun fired from a biplane. Features interviews with Chuck Yeager, Korean ace Major Frederick Blesse, and pilots from Desert Storm and Kosovo, and historic footage of "Red...

Traces the marriage of firepower and the versatile chopper. From early testing in the 1950s to deployment in Vietnam and beyond, the helicopter has proven to be the most elusive weapons platform ever.

For centuries, popular culture has depicted Captain Kidd as an illiterate, devious, merciless pirate. But we turn the tables on accepted fact to uncover a different story. Kidd was an intelligent, well-read businessmen living in New York, when English King William III commissioned him...

Host Bill Kurtis explores the new, high-pressure world of children's sports where kids no longer play for fun, but for the dream of a lucrative professional career. Meet a 14-year-old girl besieged by college basketball recruiters, and a 12-year-old figure skater who spends two...

A day in the life of the New York Police Department's Emergency Services Unit as it saves lives and captures crooks around the clock. Viewers will see these elite cops stop a suicidal man from jumping off a bridge, nab dangerous drug dealers, and...

World premiere documentary that looks at the possibility of alien contact through the eyes of the UFO community, mainstream scientists and religious theologians.

Where other pilots try to survive by staying away from enemy guns, the men who fly ground support spend much of their buzzing just above the infantry and tanks they attack. One tiny mistake can slam them into the ground in a split second....

On the Hawaiian island of Oahu is a remarkable building, the Iolani Palace. Built in 1882 by King Kalakaua, it is the only royal residence ever to stand on American soil. But when a group of young sugar barons took over the Hawaiian government...

In 1943, the USS Murphy, along with seven other destroyers and two battleships, left New York Harbor to accompany a supply convoy headed to England. The convoy sailed dark on that moonless night--not even a cigarette could be lit on deck. Suddenly, the Murphy...

So what does a bondsman do when he learns that the felon he's bonded out is booked on an afternoon flight to Florida? Especially when over $140,000 is at stake? If you're Dog, you 911 the team and race to Honolulu International. But things...

In the 11th hour Corey Haim questions whether he is going to do Lost Boys 2 which leads to an argument with Feldman - who helped Haim get the role in the first place. Haim really wants Feldman to stop worrying about his career...

Trent, 33, is a four-star chef who's served U.S. presidents and Hollywood stars. But as the child of alcoholics, Trent's formative years were marked with violence and abuse. He ultimately turned to drugs to cope, and today he is homeless, sick, battling freezing temperatures,...

In Detroit, Lead Detective Lance Sullivan investigates the murder of a woman shot in her home. Police catch their suspect driving the victim's car, but don't have enough to charge him. Now Sullivan must race to collect evidence for a murder warrant before his...

Adventure has a new name! Host, explorer and survival expert Hunter Ellis takes a fresh look at the world's greatest ancient mysteries and puts adventure back into history as he travels to some of the most intriguing, remote and physically challenging locations in the...

Adventure has a new name! Host, explorer and survival expert Hunter Ellis / Zay Harding takes a fresh look at the world's greatest ancient mysteries and puts adventure back into history as he travels to some of the most intriguing, remote and physically challenging...

Join an all-star cast including Julie Delpy, Georgina Cates, Daniel Baldwin, Patrick Dempsey and Seymour Cassel in this dark tale of survival of the fittest when three small-town prostitutes struggle to beat the game - and come out alive. Their one chance? An invitation...

Chris Martin has a problem: his impending marriage. Like any other man about to enter into the holy vows of matrimony, Chris has begun to second-guess himself. Is married life what he really wants? While his bride-to-be takes care of the wedding plans, Chris...

Not So Hot for Teacher: The Bratz are put to the test when they enroll in a fashion course tought by Burdine, who is determined to give the Bratz so much work, they'll have to give up their magazine. After Cloe learns their final...

Captain Mattei (Auteuil) is about to arrest a gang of bank robbers when a sniper watching from a rooftop singlehandedly decimates a whole army of cops, allowing the gang to escape. Unfortunately, one of the members of the gang is wounded, and their plan...

Determined to surmount the history of unsuccessful South American mining expeditions, Tim Nelson and his 12 tough-as-nails 'Bama boys venture into the unpredictable interior of Guyana on a quest for gold in Bamazon. Inside virgin Amazon territory, HISTORY follows the team as they trek...

CA$H: THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL is a psychological thriller that explores the lengths to which humans will go in pursuit of money. Suffering the economic crunch, faced with losing their home to foreclosure, Sam Phelan (Chris Hemsworth) and his wife Leslie (Victoria Profeta)...

The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton was truly a once in a lifetime event with people all over the world tuning in to witness the celebrated union of the charismatic prince and the beautiful commoner, the first royal affair since Princess Diana...

The Aztecs were the largest civilization to ever rule Mesoamerica. Archaeology and modern science are now shedding new light on the blood rituals they practiced. Join host Josh Bernstein as he travels to Mexico City to investigate and use forensic science to examine the...

Profile of the notorious serial killer who murdered two children in Watertown, N.Y., and 11 women in Rochester, N.Y. Shawcross was captured when he was seen standing next to one of his victims, and was sentenced to 250 years in prison.

Was Ramesses II Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh? He built soaring statues, grand temples, and monuments to himself throughout Egypt. He even declared himself a living god. What forces drove him to be the greatest pharaoh? Join host Josh Bernstein as he travels to Egypt to...