The Smithsonian Channel features a wide array of programming covering science, nature, culture, history, air and spacecraft, and documentaries. They create everything from long-running series to one-off, in depth specials. •
9/11: Stories in Fragments talks about the events of 9/11 being released in 2011 and is 52 minutes long. •
9/11: The Heartland Tapes talks about the events of 9/11 being released in 2013 and is 46 minutes long. •
A-Bombs Over Nevada tells of the events of the atomic bombings over the
Nevada Test Site. It released on December 5, 2016. •
Aboard Air Force One is a documentary about
Air Force One, an American aircraft that has carried the president of the US since 1954 and became official in 1962. This documentary was released in 2021 and is 44 minutes long. •
Adolf Island - Released in 2019 and is 51 minutes long.
Caroline Sturdy Colls looks for a
Nazi SS camp constructed on
Alderney during the
Second World War. •
Aerial America showcases each of the 50 states from the air, with special episodes devoted to small towns, the wilderness, etc. Narrated by Jim Conrad. Related shows are
Sky View, featuring areas in
western Europe;
Aerial Ireland;
Aerial New Zealand;
Aerial Africa;
Aerial Britain;
Aerial Greece;
Aerial Argentina;
Aerial Italy;
Aerial Australia;
China From Above;
Aerial Cities, featuring selected American cities; and
Aerial Adventures, with each episode focusing on a different part of the US. •
Soul Revolution hosted by
Morgan Freeman premiered November 16, 2008. • Season two of
Stories from the Vaults starring
Tom Cavanagh premiered July 12, 2009. •
Mystery of the Hope Diamond – On August 19, 2009, the
Smithsonian Institution announced that the
Hope Diamond was to get a temporary new setting to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of
Harry Winston's donation of the
gemstone to the
National Museum of Natural History. Starting in September, the diamond would be exhibited as a stand-alone gem with no setting. From August 19, 2009, through September 7, 2009, the public was invited to vote online for their favorite Harry Winston designed setting, at SmithsonianChannel.com/hope. The winning setting would be announced this fall and the gem would be shown in the setting starting in May, along with a Smithsonian Networks documentary. • ''Soul of a People: Writing America's Story'' – A
National Endowment for the Humanities-funded documentary about the
Federal Writers' Project featuring interviews with notable project alumni
Studs Terkel,
Stetson Kennedy, and American historian
Douglas Brinkley. Premiered September 6, 2009. •
MLK: The Assassination Tapes produced by 1895 FILMS for Smithsonian Channel premiered on February 12, 2012, and received a
Peabody Award. The winner's citation for the Peabody Award describes the documentary as "[p]ainstakingly configured from rare footage collected at the
University of Memphis in 1968...leading up to the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and its aftermath." •
Terror in the Skies is a four-part British/American television series which premiered on September 29, 2013. The show uses amateur video and photos as well as eyewitness accounts to investigate air disasters and the response to them to make flying safer. •
Air Disasters is a Canadian documentary television program examining air crashes, near-crashes, hijackings, bombings, and other disasters. The series features re-enactments, interviews, eyewitness testimony, computer-generated imagery, and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) transcripts to reconstruct the sequence of events for the audience. The show explains how the emergencies came about, how they were investigated, how they might have been prevented, and any changes that have come about as a result. The series has been airing since 2003, although Smithsonian Networks only began airing the show starting with season 5. Previously, National Geographic had exclusive rights to air the show in the United States. •
Air Warriors is a series covering the
F-15 Eagle, the
V-22 Osprey, and the
AH-64 Apache and the stories of the dedicated
pilots and teams who fly and
maintain these ultimate air warriors. It premiered on November 9, 2014. •
The Real Story goes behind the scenes of some of Hollywood's biggest movies and displays true stories that inspired some of Hollywood's most famous blockbusters. (Also known as
The True Story in the United Kingdom.) •
Secrets is a documentary series airing since 2013 Smithsonian Channel's programming library is currently distributed by
Paramount Global Distribution Group. == Carriage ==