Take off on a thrilling flight across America. This epic series offers rare glimpses of the country's most treasured landmarks, all seen from breathtaking heights. From busy cityscapes to quiet landscapes, we capture the history and the pageantry of the U.S., which is as diverse as the people who occupy it.
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We bring you award-winning programming inspired by the world's largest museum and research complex. This is the place for fascinating stories, powerful documentaries and factual entertainment that explore air and space, history, science, nature and wildlife, pop culture and more.
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World War II's most legendary fighter. The world's first "invisible" plane. The Swiss Army knife of military aircraft. These are just some of the world's most iconic planes--past and present--that have pushed the boundaries of aviation, gravity, and warfare. Discover the inside stories of the F6F Hellcat, the F-22 Raptor, the Supermarine Spitfire, and more.
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From the 1920s through the 1960s, America transformed from a young country on the rise into a global superpower. It's a decisive period in America's history that most have only witnessed in black and white, until now. Using digital colourization technology, we present these formative decades as few have seen them. Join us as we revisit 50 vibrant years of good times and great despair, technological triumphs and natural disasters, and global villains and national heroes.
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For thousands of years, the Great Plains were home to countless numbers of American bison, but in the late 1800s, the number of bison dropped from nearly 30 million to just a few hundred in less than 100 years. What happened to place this iconic creature on the brink of extinction? Join us as we detail the events that led to this mass extermination. Then follow the story of William Temple Hornaday, a chief taxidermist at the Smithsonian Institution who headed west to hunt bison for the museum, but ended up saving the species instead.
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About the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian Institution was founded in 1846 by an Act of Congress with its mission as "the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Smithsonian Institution consists of 19 Museums (including the three most visited museums in the world) and the National Zoo. There are over 150 affiliated museums in 39 states, Panama and Puerto Rico, and traveling exhibitions throughout America that visit over 100 museums every year. Smithsonian has 700 world-class scientists on staff and nine research centers around the globe; and over 136 million artifacts - from Dorothy's ruby slippers to the Lunar Orbiter.
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