Thursday, June 4th TV listings for Smithsonian Channel Canada
Cosmic Vistas The Big Bang
Examining the science behind the birth of the universe.
Paid programming.
Mysteries From Above Out of This World
Zoom in on some otherworldly sights; spot a giant glacier on the Red Planet, let the milky seas off the coast of Java bathe your vision, ponder a huge hexagon floating above Saturn and take a spin around a doughnut-shaped lake in Saskatchewan.
Extreme Weather Salvage The Moment of Truth
A salvage maestro returns to raise more valuable tropical hardwood trying not to wreck his own boat in the process; the multimillion dollar operation to salvage America's biggest shipwreck.
Hitler's Last Stand Killer Causeway
After the landing on Normandy Beach, the Battle of Carentan breaks out and an American unit launches a desperate bayonet charge.
Hitler's Last Stand Bunker Blitz
After months of fighting in Europe, U.S. troops finally enter Germany; with their sights set on the city of Aachen, the Americans must break through two rows of bunker fortifications to capture the old capital.
Hitler's Last Stand Suicide Hill
A Japanese American regiment fights through darkened forests, heavy rains and entrenched Nazis to reach a lost U.S. battalion in the Vosges Mountains.
Hitler's Last Stand Panzer Rush
During the Battle of the Bulge, a young U.S. scout gets trapped behind enemy lines.
Hitler's Last Stand Himmler's Folly
A United States Army cook manages to stall Himmler's attempt to recapture Strasbourg.
Hitler's Last Stand Nazi Tank Hunters
A platoon of Canadian tank hunters engages a column of Nazi Panther tanks at nighttime.
Hitler's Last Stand Resistance Revenge
In July 1944, French resistance fighters called Maquisards declared a Free French Republic on the remote Vercors plateau in eastern France to support the Allied invasion of Normandy.
Hitler's Last Stand Artillery Showdown
In August 1944, when Hitler launches Operation Lüttich to retake the port city of Avranches, German panzer and SS troops quickly overrun the French town of Mortain and encircle a battalion of US soldiers who hold the high ground on Hill 314.
Hitler's Last Stand Fortress Fury
In the autumn of 1944, Patton's Third Army approaches the heavily fortified region of Metz; after being turned back from Fort Driant, Patton's men target Fort Koenigsmacker a month later.
Hitler's Last Stand Guard the Rhine
In February 1945, Allied forces lead an attack out of the Netherlands and onto German soil west of the Rhine; a Canadian battalion administrator must assume command of a company and lead it into battle.
Hitler's Last Stand Forest Hell
When his company attempts to capture a small village, an American soldier, born in Mexico but raised in Texas, must crawl through an enemy minefield to capture two German machine gun nests holding up his unit.
Hitler's Last Stand Audie Murphy's Finest Hour
An American 2nd lieutenant sends his company back during an enemy counterattack during the Allied bid to clear the Colmar Pocket; he tries to hold off the German soldiers with his carbine rifle and calling in artillery but runs out of bullets.
Hitler's Last Stand Killer Causeway
After the landing on Normandy Beach, the Battle of Carentan breaks out and an American unit launches a desperate bayonet charge.
Hitler's Last Stand Bunker Blitz
After months of fighting in Europe, U.S. troops finally enter Germany; with their sights set on the city of Aachen, the Americans must break through two rows of bunker fortifications to capture the old capital.
Hitler's Last Stand Suicide Hill
A Japanese American regiment fights through darkened forests, heavy rains and entrenched Nazis to reach a lost U.S. battalion in the Vosges Mountains.
Hitler's Last Stand Panzer Rush
During the Battle of the Bulge, a young U.S. scout gets trapped behind enemy lines.
Hitler's Last Stand Himmler's Folly
A United States Army cook manages to stall Himmler's attempt to recapture Strasbourg.
Hitler's Last Stand Nazi Tank Hunters
A platoon of Canadian tank hunters engages a column of Nazi Panther tanks at nighttime.
World's Most Scenic River Journeys The Yukon
A journey down one of the wild rivers in the world, the Yukon; the unusual trip starts in an aircraft piloted by a painter and the odyssey ends with a visit to a graveyard of disintegrating rear-wheel steamers.
Mysteries From Above The Deserted
Explores strongholds abandoned by their architects; a lost city in the Amazon jungle; a desert fortress made by humanity's most notorious empire; explores a city of identical castles; examines a Greek isle's bloody history from the air.
Extreme Weather Salvage Bladerunner
The team must remove thousands of wrecked cars from the hull before it becomes an environmental disaster; repairing a vessel before the waters of the River Solent flood the hull.