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AERIAL BRITAIN
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SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL UNVEILS THE EPIC HISTORY AND MODERN MARVELS OF BRITAIN FROM A BIRD’S EYE VIEW IN AERIAL BRITAIN
Spin-Off of Acclaimed Series AERIAL AMERICA Explores the Places and People that Have Made the United Kingdom a Global Attraction Premieres Sunday, April 28 at 8 PM ET/PT NEW YORK – March 27, 2019 – The hit aerial exploration series from Smithsonian Channel, AERIAL AMERICA, expands across the pond with the debut of AERIAL BRITAIN. This newest installment takes viewers on a journey to four regions of Britain, discovering the historical significance of the island from breathtaking heights. Filmed from helicopters and drones equipped with cutting edge 4K/Ultra High Definition cameras, A...
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INSIDE MIGHTY MACHINES
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SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL ROLLS UP ITS SLEEVES TO GET INSIDE MIGHTY MACHINES
NEW SERIES UNCOVERS INCREDIBLE ENGINEERING BEHIND THE 747, HOVERCRAFT AND OTHER MEGA MACHINERY – PREMIERES SUNDAY, APRIL 28 AT 9PM ET/PT NEW YORK – March 21, 2019 – Smithsonian Channel is delving deep into innovations that changed the world with INSIDE MIGHTY MACHINES. Hosted by ex-NASA jet engineer Chad Zdenek, the new six-part series scrapes away the grease and chisels through the rust to reveal the remarkable engineering principles that make great machines run. Working alongside salvage teams as they take these giants apart piece by piece – from a 747 jumbo jet to an oil rig in the N...
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A LIFE AMONG MONKEYS
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SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL UNVEILS A SIMIAN SOAP OPERA IN A LIFE AMONG MONKEYS
NEW SPECIAL EXPLORING THE LONGEST CONTINUOUS MONKEY STUDY OF ALL TIME PREMIERES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 AT 9PM ET/PT NEW YORK – March 19, 2019 – Smithsonian Channel will introduce viewers to a class-conscious community of Sri Lankan monkeys in a new documentary to air during the network’s Wild Wednesday lineup. The one-hour special draws upon the remarkable work of Dr. Wolfgang Dittus, who has spent over 50 years studying the charismatic toque macaques of Sri Lanka, constituting the longest continuous monkey study in the world. Centered in the stunning ancient kingdom ruins of Polonnaruwa, ...
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ROME'S CHARIOT SUPERSTAR
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ENTER THE FAST AND DEADLY TRACK OF THE CIRCUS MAXIMUS IN ROME’S CHARIOT SUPERSTAR
TWO-HOUR SPECIAL PREMIERES SUNDAY, APRIL 21 AT 8PM ET/PT ON SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL™ NEW YORK – March 14, 2019 – With new discoveries from the world of Roman chariot racing, ROME’S CHARIOT SUPERSTAR pieces together an epic view of the lost ancient sport – the most popular and longest-lived form of mass entertainment in the Roman world, yet also the most lethal. Smithsonian Channel’s new two-hour special offers a detailed account of the life of Flavius Scorpus, a real chariot star, and the racing contests he and other champions entered in the famed Circus Maximus arena. Drawing from expert k...
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WOLF VS. BEAR
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SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL HEADS TO THE FROZEN FORESTS OF NORTHERN EUROPE TO WITNESS A BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL IN WOLF VS. BEAR
NEW SPECIAL PREMIERES WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27 AT 9PM ET/PT NEW YORK – February 27, 2019 – Smithsonian Channel’s new special WOLF VS. BEAR brings two archenemies together in a fight for food and survival. Shot over the course of a full year across the far northern wild of Norway, Finland and Russia, this one-hour special follows the tracks of two of nature’s most formidable predators and shows what makes both creatures optimal predatory machines, albeit with remarkably different strategies. Their goals are the same and are driven by the most basic of primal instincts – to hunt and breed. Eac...
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EUROPE IN CHAOS
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SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL™ AND THE BBC EXPLORE THE ORIGINS OF BREXIT AND THE MIGRANT CRISIS IN EUROPE IN CHAOS
BACK-TO-BACK HOUR LONG SPECIALS PREMIERE THURSDAY, MARCH 28 AT 8PM ET/PT NEW YORK – February 25, 2019 – Smithsonian Channel and the BBC have teamed up on a riveting insider account of two forces that threaten to tear Europe apart: Brexit and the migrant crisis. Two hour-long specials reveal the fierce arguments and personality clashes among Europe’s leaders as they struggled over the past decade to find common ground amid intense political pressure, overwhelming waves of refugees and a referendum in Britain that shocked the world. The back-to-back specials of EUROPE IN CHAOS premiere o...
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EPIC YELLOWSTONE
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THREE YEARS IN THE MAKING, SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL™ REVEALS AN UNPRECEDENTED PORTRAIT OF EPIC YELLOWSTONE WITH HOST BILL PULLMAN
STRIKING ULTRA HIGH DEFINITION EXPLORATION OF THE WORLD’S FIRST NATIONAL PARK TO BOW MARCH 10 AT 9 PM ET/PT The eagerly anticipated series EPIC YELLOWSTONE is set to give audiences a front row seat to the extraordinary spectacle of wildlife and dramatic seasonal extremes in the iconic crown jewel of America’s national parks. Hosted by renowned actor and Montana local Bill Pullman, and filmed over the course of three years, the series delivers stories from Yellowstone never told before. The stunning four-part project, filmed throughout the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, uses state-of-the...
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MY JOURNEY WITH A POLAR BEAR
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FILMMAKER’S FOUR-YEAR OBSESSION WITH POLAR BEAR MOTHER REVEALS INTIMACY AND EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL™ SPECIAL MY JOURNEY WITH A POLAR BEAR
PREMIERES ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 AT 8PM ET/PT With climate change at the forefront of the world’s natural crises, Smithsonian Channel takes you on a dramatic adventure that reveals an ever-changing Arctic. In MY JOURNEY WITH A POLAR BEAR, viewers will get an intimate look at one polar bear mother’s struggle to raise her cubs as her home melts away under her feet. Norwegian filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad worked in the harshest of conditions to document the bear’s life over the course of four years, capturing her attempts to hunt and her interactions with other bears while experiencing unprece...
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AMERICA'S HIDDEN STORIES
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SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL UNEARTHS SECRETS FROM OUR NATION’S PAST IN AMERICA’S HIDDEN STORIES
NEW SERIES PREMIERES MONDAY, MARCH 4 AT 8PM ET/PT THE APRIL 8 EPISODE, THE GENERAL WAS A WOMAN?, INCLUDES DEFINITIVE PROOF THAT A REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO – GENERAL CASIMIR PULASKI – WAS INTERSEX The Salem witch trials. The Spanish influenza of 1918. The treason of Benedict Arnold. These events are notorious in American history, but new revelations suggest we don’t know their full stories. Smithsonian Channel’s new series AMERICA’S HIDDEN STORIES delves into hidden records to investigate what our history books may have missed: Is a British lord responsible for the Japanese attack on ...