Thursday, June 12th TV listings for Smithsonian Channel Canada HD
Cosmic Vistas Borderland: Red Dawn
Earth's closest neighbor, the moon, is the cosmic stepping stone to a future with the planets.
Paid programming.
History by the Numbers The Amazon
The Amazon rainforest is one of the enduring mysteries of the natural world.
Abandoned Engineering Silent Cities
Stories of ghost towns, including Pripyat and Hashima Island.
The Real Mad Men of Advertising The 1980s
The 1980s were a time when greed was good, 24-hour sponsored programming was legal, and advertising became entertainment.
Epic Warrior Women Gladiatrix
Ancient Rome encourages gladiator women to fight to the death in the arena; these young women cultivate the skills they need to survive these gladiatorial games but sometimes die for the sake of public entertainment.
Impossible Repairs The Potash Express
Going on a journey across Lithuania on big trains packed to the brim as massive ships wait to collect their bounty and take it across the ocean.
The Real Mad Men of Advertising The 1980s
The 1980s were a time when greed was good, 24-hour sponsored programming was legal, and advertising became entertainment.
Epic Warrior Women Gladiatrix
Ancient Rome encourages gladiator women to fight to the death in the arena; these young women cultivate the skills they need to survive these gladiatorial games but sometimes die for the sake of public entertainment.
Combat Ships Doomed Vessels
Bad design, human error and the enemy sent great ships to tragic ends, like Britain's K13 submarine and HMS Hood, Sweden's 17th century Vasa, and Kublai Khan's fleet, sunk by the original kamikaze.
Pompeii: The New Dig The Bodies
The excavation begins with the discovery of a large brick-built oven; further investigations reveal it was part of a thriving commercial bakery.
Sacred Sites Egypt
A 4,000-year-old leather manuscript at the Cairo Museum sheds new light on The Book of the Dead from ancient Egypt.
Mysteries of the Abandoned Arctic Hell Pit
Traces of a Russian hole to hell in the Arctic, a military base in America's wild west, and a strange looming tower are mysterious deserted engineering projects, and new discoveries reveal how they were built and why they were abandoned.
Aerial Australia The Extreme Center
The hot, dry Extreme Center of Australia is home to landscapes like nowhere else on Earth, fearsome apex predators, a town built by opals, and Uluru, the cultural and spiritual heart of a nation.
Unearthed Seven Wonders of America
Seven American engineering marvels are among the modern wonders of United States, and now, investigators use hidden records to decode and reveal the mysteries behind these historic American icons.
Aerial Australia The Extreme Center
The hot, dry Extreme Center of Australia is home to landscapes like nowhere else on Earth, fearsome apex predators, a town built by opals, and Uluru, the cultural and spiritual heart of a nation.
Unearthed Seven Wonders of America
Seven American engineering marvels are among the modern wonders of United States, and now, investigators use hidden records to decode and reveal the mysteries behind these historic American icons.
Mysteries of the Abandoned Arctic Hell Pit
Traces of a Russian hole to hell in the Arctic, a military base in America's wild west, and a strange looming tower are mysterious deserted engineering projects, and new discoveries reveal how they were built and why they were abandoned.
Unearthed Seven Wonders of America
Seven American engineering marvels are among the modern wonders of United States, and now, investigators use hidden records to decode and reveal the mysteries behind these historic American icons.
Cosmic Vistas Lords of Gravity: Outer Limits
A fleet of spacecraft orbits, and sometimes lands on the surface of, Mars.
Cosmic Vistas Hidden Havens: Icy Gems
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all have exotic atmospheres, liquid interiors and rings.
Mysteries From Above Ocean Mysteries
An underwater discovery from a violent past; strange open ocean spirals off the coast of Australia; a mysterious concrete ghost island; never-seen-before tracks discovered along the seabed.