American Heroes Channel Schedule

2:00 AM, Today

Apocalypse: Stalin

The Soviets continue on the path to towards liberation. On the road to Berlin, they discover the horror of Hitler's extermination camps. Fifteen years earlier, Stalin transformed his country using every means at his disposal.

3:00 AM, Today

Project Nazi: The Blueprints of Evil

Hitler is determined to rebuild Germany's military strength after the destruction of almost all its weaponry in the First World War. To overcome his country's dire shortage of raw materials, he plans to steal them from other countries.

4:00 AM, Today

Chasing Conspiracies

History tells us that Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin. However, some dissenting voices disagree.

5:00 AM, Today

Chasing Conspiracies

Reinhard Gehlen was the head of Nazi Germany's intelligence operation against the Soviets. That made him invaluable to the West during the Cold War but he could have told his new allies what they wanted to hear and fuelled the arms race.

6:00 AM, Today

Weaponology

In the air, on land, at sea - the United States Marine Corps is the ultimate combined arms unit. World famous for winning the Pacific War, today's USMC is hunting down insurgents in Iraq. Weaponology uncovers the Corps' evolution.

7:00 AM, Today

Weaponology

Follow the history of armour protection from medieval knights to the latest revolutionary invention called dragon skin. Find out how a priest invented the first bulletproof vest, and how a pizza boy came up with concealable body armour.

8:00 AM, Today

Triggers: Weapons That Changed the World

For today's elite warriors, their last line of defence is the spec ops pistols. Wil tests the Navy Seal Sig Sauer P226, then fires the greatest forerunners like James Bond's Walther PPK, the Soviet Tokarev and the massive Desert Eagle.

9:00 AM, Today

Triggers: Weapons That Changed the World

The aerial Gatling gun has the highest rate of fire of any military machine gun in the world. Host Wil Willis flies in an F16 to see the six thousand round a minute Vulcan rip apart targets and fires the minigun from a helicopter at exploding cars.

10:00 AM, Today

Weaponology

Centuries of technological innovation have resulted in the creation of rifles that can kill a man from 2,000 yards. The history of bullets, guns, sights, mechanisms, camouflage and tactics is revealed.

11:00 AM, Today

Triggers: Weapons That Changed the World

The M1 Abrams tank is the world's most potent armored vehicle. Track its development through such forerunners as the WWII-era M18 Hellcat and the Cold War-era Soviet T-55 tank and see why these 'beast-boxes' have ruled ground warfare for decades.

12:00 PM, Today

CIA Declassified

In 1998 the bombers of the US Embassy in Nairobi started a trail of destruction that the CIA had to stop. It's Al Qaeda's first attack. The trail leads to Somalia and Mogadishu. The CIA bribes warlords and use drones to track and kill an untried man.

1:00 PM, Today

CIA Declassified

America is at its knees as the infamous US Embassy Hostage crisis begins, but then the CIA discovers that six diplomats have secretly escaped. When they recruit in their ace 'rescue' agent Tony Mendez to get them out, he devises a 'Hollywood'- plan.

2:00 PM, Today

CIA Declassified

The CIA use psychological warfare in Guatemala, 1954, as part of the coup d'état which changed history. In a top-secret operation using covert radio broadcasts to create a 'phantom' army, combined with a guerilla invasion trained by a top agents.

3:00 PM, Today

Spies Declassified

KGB Colonel turned Double Agent Oleg Gordievsky has spent ten years spying for Britain's secret service, MI6. Now the Soviets are on to him. His only hope for survival is to attempt a daring exfiltration plan.

4:00 PM, Today

Spies Declassified

Vladimir Vetrov was a top KGB spy until he betrayed his country and became a secret agent for the West. Codenamed 'Farewell,' he would become America's single greatest asset in the US-Soviet Spy war.

5:00 PM, Today

Spies Declassified

Martha Peterson is a CIA secret weapon, operating as a woman in the man's world of espionage in Cold War Moscow. TRIGON is a KGB turncoat; ready to hand over top secret intelligence to bring down the Soviet Union from within.

6:00 PM, Today

Apocalypse: Hitler

See how Hitler succeeded in conquering Germany. Nothing predestines this mediocre student and failed artist to become dictator of Germany the Führer.

7:00 PM, Today

Apocalypse: Hitler

1929. Germany, harshly affected by the worldwide economic crisis, is sinking into despair. Bloody street fighting between Nazis and Communists is raging. Fear of the 'Red peril' will push millions of voters into Hitler's arms. Democracy is at risk.

8:00 PM, Today

World War II in Color

By the spring of 1943, the Pacific war had reached a turning point. The United States had stopped the Japanese advance, now it launched a two-pronged attack to drive it back. To achieve this, the U.S. Navy had to pioneer new forms of warfare.

9:00 PM, Today

World War II: Witness to War

Experience the event that changed the war's course, hear the stories of those who were there and feel the momentum behind the attack that provoked the world's greatest superpower to join the Allied forces.

10:00 PM, Today

World War II: Witness to War

Devastation touches the civilians of Germany. With the U.S. as a newly engaged Ally, western forces bring the war to the Axis front, but at extreme costs.

11:00 PM, Today

World War II in Color

Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini dreamt of recreating the Roman Empire. The Mediterranean would become Italy's lake with a great new colonial empire on its southern shore including British-controlled Egypt and Sudan.