Bill Nye "The Science Guy" hosts a new series that highlights the greatest scientific discoveries of all time, from the earliest time to the present day. The series features nine episodes: Evolution, Earth Sciences, Medicine, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Genetics and Biology, plus a wrap up episode featuring the top 10 discoveries of all time. This is a fun and instructive series, with a lot of historical re-creations, archival footage, visits to interesting scientific research facilities and interviews with present-day scientists including several Nobel laureates - all presented with the flair and humor associated with television's "Science Guy" Bill Nye.

From the techniques used to perfect the sleekest sports cars on the road to the initiatives developed to keep Venice above water, “MegaWorld: Italy” reveals the ground-breaking strides scientists, engineers, inventors and designers are making in their respective fields. Join these experts as they reveal the secrets behind Italy’s latest achievements. Then, step inside the state-of-the-art facilities where leading experts reveal how Italy’s coolest and fastest exports are developed, manufactured and tested for use.

A glass a day is said to keep the doctor away. A defeated Napoleon drowned his sorrows in it; Thomas Jefferson became obsessed with it. Wine is an integral part of our culture and more wine is consumed today than ever before. Supermarket shelves that once carried only box wine and jugs are now lined with wines from Australia, Chile, and South Africa. Aerial imaging and infrared photography once used by NASA to map the moon is now employed by wineries to analyze soil, vine vigor, and even disease. Paying tribute to wine’s unique history we will travel the world over to explore wineries, the worlds’ most historic wine cellar and the oldest restaurant in Paris.

The TOP GUNS series once again puts you inside the cockpit of some of the US's most advanced aircraft. This time the viewer is put inside some of the finest fighter planes around, courtesy of Madacy's patented first-person camera view.

Undeniably essential to modern life, the telephone is the most important, influential, and effective communication tool ever developed. Stay on the line with THE HISTORY CHANNEL® to witness this invention’s unbelievably dramatic true story – one of false starts, close calls, and a bitter rivalry.
All his life, Alexander Graham Bell was driven by a desire to create a machine that would make it easier for the deaf to speak and hear. Using an actual human ear from a cadaver to understand the nature of sound, Bell even enlisted a young Thomas Edison to help invent what would become the telephone.

The Antonov An-225 Mriya (NATO reporting name: 'Cossack') is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft, designed by the Soviet Antonov Design Bureau. It is the world's heaviest fixed-wing aircraft. The design, built to transport the Buran orbiter, was an enlargement of the successful An-124 Ruslan. The An-225's name, Mriya (Мрiя) means "Dream" (Inspiration) in Ukrainian.
The An-225 is commercially available for flying over-sized payloads due to the unique size of its cargo deck. Currently there is only one aircraft in operation.

The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" was an advanced, long range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft. It was developed from the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft in the 1960s by the Lockheed Skunk Works as a black project. Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was responsible for many of the design's innovative concepts. During reconnaissance missions the SR-71 operated at high speeds and altitudes to allow it to outrace threats; if a surface-to-air missile launch was detected, standard evasive action was simply to accelerate.

Ross Kemp In Afghanistan shadows the first battalion Royal Anglians and offers an extraordinary insight into life on the front line with unprecedented access granted by the MoD.

The human race is one of the wonders of the universe. We may be unique. But why are we here? What is the purpose of life? To professor Clinton Richard Dawkins science can tell us why are we here, tell us the purpose of human existence.
There are some ten million species on Earth. But before Charles Darwin no one knew how animals came to be so varied, so complex.
For centuries people try to understand why animals was so perfectly equipped for their tasks. They assumed there was only one explanation: Natural world was designed. The designer was God. Reverend William Paley, writing half a century before Darwin, put the case with his famous watchmaker argument.
If there is no designer how did the complexity and variety of life come about?
Learn the secrets of life with Richard Dawkins

Find out how Millefiori glass paperweights, road salt, nutcrackers and car doors are made.

The latest "super copters" are an advanced breed of machines - built to fly fast and silently on an incredible range of missions. Just about anything a helicopter can do, the newest "super copters" can do better. One such "super copter," known as EH101, carries an array of high-tech features including three computer-controlled engines and a five-bladed rotor that offers extra maneuverability in flight and excellent visibility when landing. New copter designs will also be much more impervious to attack, with Kevlar and other advanced composite materials strengthening the body - while keeping it lightweight. Using live action, re-creations, amazing archival footage and advanced CGI, we marvel at the creation of today's "super copters" - extraordinary multi-purpose helicopters for the twenty-first century.