Following an elite crew of workers-- brakemen, engineers, construction crews, mechanics and train drivers – Railroad Alaska illustrates the battle against ferocious weather and treacherous terrain to keep the State of Alaska’s critical 500-mile long railroad rolling to deliver life sustaining supplies. From controlled avalanches to prevent catastrophe, to fascinating characters, like Jim James, the one-handed handy man, learn what it takes to keep this train on track.
In Alaska is a region known as the Triangle - 200,000 unforgiving miles where more people go missing...
In the desolate outreaches of Bristol Bay, Alaska, the most competitive fishing season on Earth take...
In 1980, the U.S. government banned new human occupation in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in A...
Restoration experts restore iconic rail carriages back to their former glory
Railway program focused on riding experience. Cameras fixed on a train show surroundings in three di...
Deep in the Alaskan wilderness lives a newly discovered family who was born and raised wild. Billy B...
Professor Alice Roberts gets exclusive access to some of the most recently uncovered archaeology in ...
Three-part series that looks at a year in Alaska, revealing the stories of pioneering Alaskans, both...
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Scotland's rail network crosses a landscape voted the best in the world. This series follows the sta...
Follow the lives of ambitious miners as they head north in pursuit of gold. With new miners, new cla...
Viewers go deep into an Alaskan winter to meet six tough and resilient residents as they try to stay...
Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured i...
Documentary series revealing the inner workings of Britain's railways, introducing the track-workers...
Michael Portillo heads for the Last Frontier of the United States armed with his 1899 Appleton's Gui...
Michael Portillo explores Canada, armed with his Appleton's Guidebook.
Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. P...
Profiles of some of the men who choose to live off the grid in the unspoiled wilderness, where dange...