HISTORY highlights december 2020

THE CARS THAT MADE THE WORLD

Saturdays from 12 December at 21.25

The Cars That Made The World tells the story of a group rival engineers who created a revolution in transportation and forever changed the world in the process. Driven by innovation and rivalry, their genius created the most transformative invention of the 20th century, spawning new industries and bringing about a freedom never imagined before the birth of the car. Exploring over a century of innovation and covering Honda, Toyota, Mercedes, Ford, Porsche, Rolls Royce and more, these are the dramatic stories behind the biggest names in the auto industry. You know their names, but you don't know their stories. (4x60”)

COUNTING CARS (S8)

Saturdays from 5 December at 20.30

Counting Cars returns! Most people in Las Vegas bet with chips, but Danny “The Count” Koker bets with cars. This Sin City legend walks, talks and breathes cars and bikes. When he sees a car he wants, he will do whatever it takes to get his hands on it—including making on-the-spot cash offers to unsuspecting owners. On the HISTORY series Counting Cars, Danny and his team restore, customize and sell cars in a hurry, scrambling to keep their Las Vegas shop in the black. From classics to exotics, from hotrods to choppers, Danny and the crew of Count’s Kustoms will stop at nothing to find and flip the greatest rides of all time. (6x60”)

AMERICA’S BOOK OF SECRETS: SPECIAL EDITION

Tuesdays from 5 January at 21.25

While much of American history is widely available, there is another deeper history lingering in the shadows. Stories and places that have been shrouded in secrecy and hidden from public view…will once again be revealed. Each two-hour episode will give viewers secret access to some of America’s most iconic locations and organizations. Past episodes have gone inside the Pentagon, Area 51, the FBI, and even the White House. Now America’s Book of Secrets: Special Edition will go deeper, farther and wider than ever before in an unceasing effort to bring viewers the truth behind today’s all new, shocking headlines. (6x120”)

CITIES OF THE UNDERWORLD (S3)

Mondays from 7 December at 18.40

In major cities around the world today, skyscrapers loom overhead, taxis honk their horns and street vendors peddle their wares. But below lies city upon city - each with its fascinating and unknown history. This series will explore these layers, which are often hundreds of feet deep, and examine a city's ancient cisterns, dank dungeons, eerie tombs, clandestine hideouts, and even underground shipwrecks that have been lost for hundreds and hundreds of years. What are the underground layers of the most populated cities on earth? And how did (and do) engineers build layer upon layer up to today's city streets? This series will reveal the technological marvels that allowed the construction of one city upon another - literally. (13x60”)