TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific

Aerial America Iowa

A sky-high tour over Iowa explores its vast stretches of farmland, covered bridges and evolution from wilderness to statehood.

Aerial America Montana

An aerial journey across Montana celebrates the Treasure State's adventure-filled history while showcasing its sprawling farms and rugged terrain.

Aerial America Minnesota

A sky-high tour over Minnesota reveals the state's ancient, glacial landscapes and tells the stories of the pioneers who helped build the nation.

Aerial America Oklahoma

Viewing Oklahoma from the sky reveals a state filled with tall-grass prairies and man-made wonders; the Dust Bowl, Tornado Alley and buffalo-filled plains; it also shows a history steeped in tragedy and devastation.

Aerial America Ohio

An aerial journey over Ohio showcases the Buckeye State's autumnal vistas, majestic rivers, epic skyscrapers and battlegrounds.

Aerial America Illinois

A high-flying tour over Illinois; the Windy City, prairies and rivers; the state's dramatic history of great fires, crime and historic battles; Chicago's unique skyscrapers and the Lincoln Tomb.

Aerial America Washington

Home to some of America's highest mountains; Mount St. Helens.

Aerial America The Great Plains

An aerial tour over America's Great Plains tracks the prairies, farms, oilfields and wildlife.

Aerial America Alabama

Vast cotton fields, Gulf coast beaches; famous Civil Rights marches; NASCAR's most dangerous track; steel factories.

Aerial America South Carolina

White sand beaches; Blue Ridge Mountains; Charleston's Rainbow Row.

Aerial America Roadside Attractions

A cross-country aerial journey over America's most majestic and unique roadside attractions.

Aerial America New England

An aerial tour over New England captures its beauty while celebrating its rich history; from the Massachusetts harbors, where Americans rebelled against the British, to the autumn colors that blanket the mountains of Vermont.

Aerial America Kentucky

An aerial tour over Kentucky reveals a state of racetracks, country music highways, bourbon distilleries and a history of feuds and traditions.

How Did They Build That? Tricks & Trains

A new Olympic and Paralympic museum tests engineers with its trailblazing accessible design. A dazzling curved glass skyscraper battles gravity in Milan. And a student center built under a noisy railroad.

How Did They Build That? Steep & Stunning

The engineering secrets behind the world's steepest mountain railway, a remodeled 145-year-old museum and a futuristic condo.

How Did They Build That? Cantilevers & Lifts

An unstable high rise, an otherworldly museum, and a towering cliffside elevator.

How Did They Build That? Upside Down & Under Sea

Visiting the Vancouver House, Norway's Under restaurant and the Seattle Central Library to discover how these visionary buildings were created.

How Did They Build That? Riverparks & Artworks

Traveling to New York, Denver and Nice, France to visit Little Island, the Denver Museum of Art and La Tête Carrée; the secrets to how they were built are revealed.

How Did They Build That? Towers & Roofs

A Manhattan high-rise; an Athens cultural center; a Singapore university.

Air Disasters Training Ignored

Kobe Bryant dies when a high-tech helicopter crashes on a routine L.A. route-training ignored with deadly results; in Missouri, cockpit chatter dooms Corporate 5966; in Lexington, a twin-engine jet crashes after taking off from the wrong runway.

Air Disasters Pressure Point

Investigators race to determine the cause of the deadliest single aircraft accident in history: the 1985 crash of Japan Airlines 123, which claimed 520 lives.

Air Disasters Head-On Collision

With its conductors sound asleep, a freight train fails to stop and collides with an oncoming passenger train, resulting in tragedy.

Air Disasters Who's In Control

Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 stalls and crashes less than a mile from the runway while approaching Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

Air Disasters Deadly Space

In the skies above the Mojave Desert, the VSS Enterprise accelerates toward the outer reaches of Earth's atmosphere, guided by test pilots; the aircraft breaks apart and falls from the sky, killing the flight's co-pilot.