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S1 E3 Treacherous Traps Whether they're used to stop treasure hunters, body snatchers, or wartime enemies, booby traps are diabolical devices just waiting to kill.

S1 E9 Tolkien's Monsters Enter creator J.R.R. Tolkien's fantastical world of hobbits, orcs and wizards, and uncover the real life influences that shaped his epic fantasy, `The Lord of the Rings'.

S1 E4 Rome's First Emperor Exploring 32BC when Octavian stole the secret will of Mark Antony, his most dangerous political rival. The document's release gave Octavian crucial support in the civil war that followed and allowed him to establish himself as Rome's first emperor.

S4 E4 Aliens and Mega-Disasters Did Mother Nature cause the volcanoes, earthquakes and floods of ancient times? Or could aliens have been responsible? Experts investigate.

S4 E5 The NASA Connection Research into alien contact in the recent past including evidence from former astronauts, secret government files, and NASA scientists.

S2 E5 Plantagenet Canterbury Alice visits Canterbury for the story of Plantagenet England. Canterbury is steeped in history and the era of the Plantagenets - the strong house that held the English throne from 1154 until 1485 - saw the most dramatic episodes in the city's story.

S1 E1 The Birth of Industry Tony Robinson goes for a walk through some of Britain's beautiful and historic landscapes. Tony kicks off the series with a 40-mile walk through the glorious Peak District, along the Derwent Valley, where the world's industrial revolution was born. This is a journey that reveals how Britain transformed itself from a nation of farmers into the industrial powerhouse of the world.

S1 E1 A window washer falls nearly 50 stories and rocks and boulders move on their own.

S1 E9 Stephenville In January 2008, a shadow was cast over the town of Stephenville, Texas, when a UFO passed overhead at supersonic speed. Craig and Sarah speak to an eyewitness and investigate a possible military cover-up of the incident.

S5 E1 Secrets of the Pyramids Researchers explore the strange similarities among pyramids in Egypt, Central and South America, China, Africa, and Indonesia, including a possible extraterrestrial link connecting these structures.

S4 E7 Aliens and Bigfoot While ancient myths and legends speak of an ape-like giant stalking the earth, theorists speculate that Bigfoot creatures belong to an alien species that once visited Earth in the distant past.

S1 E1 Submarines War Beneath The Waves Featuring several ships and providing new perspective on the military including political and domestic issues of the time. Revealing human stories and engineering marvels.

S1 E10 The Reckoning 1945-1948 In 1945, WWII was over but the violence had not ended. The survivors want to blame the Germans. The reckoning with National Socialism is ambivalent.

S4 E11 Hitler's Lost Gold Can satellite images help identify the hiding place of the Nazi Gold Train? Also, a blood-red river in Siberia points to pollution on a catastrophic scale and a discovery of a long-lost settlement rewrites the history of the Vikings in North America.

S5 E1 Secrets of the Pyramids Researchers explore the strange similarities among pyramids in Egypt, Central and South America, China, Africa, and Indonesia, including a possible extraterrestrial link connecting these structures.

S4 E7 Aliens and Bigfoot While ancient myths and legends speak of an ape-like giant stalking the earth, theorists speculate that Bigfoot creatures belong to an alien species that once visited Earth in the distant past.

S2 E4 Civil War Oxford Professor Alice Roberts explores the English Civil War through the history of Oxford, the city at the heart of a battle between an autocratic king and his rebellious parliament. Oxford became the powerbase for Charles I and his royalist supporters.

S2 E4 Leeds Castle With the aid of dramatic reconstruction, Dan Jones explores the 900-year history of the beautiful Leeds Castle in Kent, from its origins as a royal Saxon family's manor and Norman stronghold to the private property of six medieval queens, a Tudor palace, a Jacobean country house, a Georgian mansion and an elegant 20th-century retreat for the rich and famous.

S1 E10 The Reckoning 1945-1948 In 1945, WWII was over but the violence had not ended. The survivors want to blame the Germans. The reckoning with National Socialism is ambivalent.

S1 E7 Rescue Ships Delving beneath the surface to discover the crucial role ships have played in international conflict over the past 500 years.

S3 E1 Modern Day Dinosaur Sighting, Mysterious Lights Above Norway and Girl Punches Down Tree Did a Japanese film crew discover proof of a dinosaur living in the African Congo? Are reports of the strange lights above the Hessdalen Valley in Norway a sign of extraterrestrial activity?

S4 E17 Hunting the Ark of the Covenant New discoveries lead to a crypt rumoured to hold the Ark of the Covenant. When a great white shark is killed in the ocean, experts suspect an ocean monster is lurking beneath the waters.

S1 E5 Scotland Central Scotland has its own Area 51, known as the 'Falkirk Triangle', encompassing the now infamous village of Bonnybridge, which claims the highest concentration of the region's UFO activity. Craig and Sarah examine the Scottish UFO phenomenon.

S5 E1 Lost Cities For centuries archaeologists and explorers have been obsessed with locating ancient cities lost to time. Some of these places are recorded in historical texts, while others are part of oral traditions and folklore.