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A star duck has a mysterious leg injury. Meanwhile, Zucchini the beaver is overdue at the dentist and an unwell onager at the Wilds is in for an exam

What are the origins of society's most popular culinary commodities? Get a backstage pass to the mechanical wonders involved in creating a vast multitude of consumer goods

What are the origins of society's most popular culinary commodities? Get a backstage pass to the mechanical wonders involved in creating consumer goods

Experts investigate when a passenger plane slams into a fighter jet, and when two flights crash in the world's deadliest-ever mid-air collision

The career of a young U-Boat officer begins with promise when he is awarded command of his own submarine, but clashes over Nazi ideology cause tension

A divorced couple denies travelling together, but carry identical bags filled with cocaine, while another passenger is found with over 35 capsules of drugs in his belly

Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw secretly restore a Japanese rally car belonging to a man unable to work on it due to a degenerative back condition

The Coastguard encounter a potential suicide, drug traffickers carrying three tons of hashish, fishermen invading protected waters and a suspicious German sailboat

When a DC-8 with just three working engines crashes during take-off, killing all three pilots, the training simulator is found to have been fatally wrong

From a steamboat in a cornfield to the true story behind Hurricane Katrina's floods, new discoveries reveal how the Mississippi river shaped America

Archaeologist Tony Pollard explores Rochester Castle and an infamous medieval siege, while military historian Alex Churchill discovers how Britain tackled Napoleon

Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw come to the rescue of a Willys Jeep owned by a Second World War veteran, after it was targeted by arsonists

At Oxyrhynchus, a sealed sarcophagus reveals a stunningly preserved mummy, while a team searches for a long-lost burial chamber in Philadelphia

Investigating what caused John F Kennedy Jr's light aircraft to crash into the Atlantic Ocean in 1999, killing him, his wife Carolyn and his sister-in-law Lauren

To help celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, the Canadian Pacific Railway takes a perfectly restored, vintage train on an epic journey from coast to coast

Thord's skills are put to the test with the rescue of an excavator, but there is trouble when rookie Terje's reckless driving ends in disaster

Indigenous Alaskans use their connection to the land to showcase self-reliance, self-sustainability, and self-determination

Investigators can find nothing wrong with a plane that crashed moments after take-off - but the real cause has far-reaching effects for commercial aviation

A fatal collision at Los Angeles International Airport in 1991, when an air-traffic controller assigned an inbound flight to a runway where another plane was waiting to take off

Highlights from the series, featuring Pele dropping in to the VIP lounge and the staff discovering a stash of potentially lethal drugs

The team members suffer a setback when the house they have been asked to tear down is vandalised and its valuable contents removed

The team members find a valuable Windsor icebox, an Edison phonograph and a secret manual for the Boeing B-52 bomber in an old farmhouse

The team uncovers a Depression-era portrait, a Zenith radio and a home-made hot rod at a disused cotton factory in Georgia

A look at the production of Dijon mustard, coconut macaroons and hazelnut cream-filled wafers

A look at the production of fat-free Greek yoghurt, butter cream and Swiss roll cakes

Monkey the anxious bush baby has been harming his tail. Will Dr K have to amputate?

A baby skunk has a bloated belly, and a rabbit has severe swelling in his jaw which could kill him if left untreated