"These are the fascinating stories of three of the most important commercial aircraft ever to take to the skies: The Douglas DC3 was the first truly successful passenger aircraft, a plane that shrank America and established flying as the way to travel. The SR71 Blackbird re-invented the cutting edge of aviation technology with speeds of March 3 system. The Airbus A380 is the biggest commercial plane of all time, using revolutionary new technologies to take more people further than ever before. These three episodes are stories of engineering ingenuity and visionary leadership. We follow every twist and turn of their origins, design and life in service."

"First Contact shines a light on the deep divide between Indigenous Australians and the rest of the nation by taking six non-Indigenous people and immersing them into Aboriginal Australia for the first time."

"No other person in the twentieth century has triggered more discussions among biographers and historians than Adolf Hitler. More than 120.000 books and articles on the dictator that have appeared in the past 50 years have documented the full extent of the most horrible crimes in history that were committed by him and his followers. Developed with the assistance of internationally renowned historians, using newly discovered documents, films, sound recordings and interviews with eye-witnesses, relatives, and victims, 'Hitler - A Profile' is the first comprehensive television portrait of the German dictator. Each episode focuses on one character aspect of the man who plunged an entire nation into collective madness and unparalleled savagery."

"August 1963. Sears Crossing, Buckinghamshire. Fifteen men pull off "The Great Train Robbery", netting today's equivalent of 45 million pounds. Over 50 years after the heist, one of the robbers, Gordon Goody, has finally agreed to go fully on record and reveal all the unknown facts about that fateful night and his life of crime, including the identity of the mythical Ulsterman."

"On the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, SBS ONE will premiere this documentary special about the events in the lead up to this historical moment. While many saw the fall of the Berlin Wall, few were present at its birth in August 1961. But one westerner was: Reuters' journalist Adam Kellet-Long, having received a tip off that evening, discovers thousands of men working to seal off West Berlin by dawn. The film follows the events of the night the communists played one of the biggest bluffs of the 20th Century."