In this series about average people making perilous bids for freedom, we return to the divided Germany of the Cold War. One fateful night, an East German boy tries to sneak across "no man's land" to see his sister. When he trips a landmine, a West German border patrol risks international crisis to save the injured youth.

During the anti-American inferno after the fall of the Shah of Iran, two employees of Ross Perot's computer company are trapped. Perot, impatient with slow government negotiations, recruits a team of commandos led by former Green Beret Colonel "Bull" Simons to rescue them. We revisit their amazing escape mission inside Iran.

In 1997, 14 Cubans fled for Florida traveling on a stolen boat and carrying what little provisions they could gather. After two days, the group made it to tiny coral outcroppings known as "Dog Rocks." For the next two weeks, they struggled to survive. Two adults and two children died before the group was finally spotted and rescued.

August 1949. 16 men parachuted into Mann Gulch, Montana, to fight a forest fire. Only three left alive. A mixture of heat, wind patterns, and atmospheric conditions caused a "blow-up," and the resulting fireball chased the men in a race they couldn't win. The lessons learned in Mann Gulch led to new, scientifically-based methods.

Robert Burns, a shell-shocked WWI vet, was shackled to a Georgia chain gang for a petty robbery. Dodging armed guards and bloodhounds, he made a daring escape. A fugitive for seven years, he built a new life in Chicago--until his vengeful wife betrayed him. Against all odds, he escaped again, then embarked on a crusade to expose the chain gang's atrocities. While on the run, he wrote a best-selling book and worked on an Oscar-nominated film...then was recaptured three weeks after the film's release.

Two fishing boats and their Coast Guard rescuers face the same fate exactly 30 years apart in the deadly waters of the Graveyard of the Pacific...A team of Green Berets confronts a gut-wrenching moral dilemma.

A fishing boat is trapped in icy seas off the coast of Alaska...A team of Navy Seals must rescue an injured civilian mariner thousands of miles from the nearest hospital in the vast Pacific Ocean.

Rescue personnel are tested as never before during 1993's Storm of the Century...The Coast Guard's first female rescue swimmer must save a badly injured pilot in the waters off the Pacific Northwest.

In this series about average people making perilous bids for freedom, we return to the divided Germany of the Cold War. One fateful night, an East German boy tries to sneak across "no man's land" to see his sister. When he trips a landmine, a West German border patrol risks international crisis to save the injured youth.

During the anti-American inferno after the fall of the Shah of Iran, two employees of Ross Perot's computer company are trapped. Perot, impatient with slow government negotiations, recruits a team of commandos led by former Green Beret Colonel "Bull" Simons to rescue them. We revisit their amazing escape mission inside Iran.

In 1997, 14 Cubans fled for Florida traveling on a stolen boat and carrying what little provisions they could gather. After two days, the group made it to tiny coral outcroppings known as "Dog Rocks." For the next two weeks, they struggled to survive. Two adults and two children died before the group was finally spotted and rescued.

August 1949. 16 men parachuted into Mann Gulch, Montana, to fight a forest fire. Only three left alive. A mixture of heat, wind patterns, and atmospheric conditions caused a "blow-up," and the resulting fireball chased the men in a race they couldn't win. The lessons learned in Mann Gulch led to new, scientifically-based methods.

Robert Burns, a shell-shocked WWI vet, was shackled to a Georgia chain gang for a petty robbery. Dodging armed guards and bloodhounds, he made a daring escape. A fugitive for seven years, he built a new life in Chicago--until his vengeful wife betrayed him. Against all odds, he escaped again, then embarked on a crusade to expose the chain gang's atrocities. While on the run, he wrote a best-selling book and worked on an Oscar-nominated film...then was recaptured three weeks after the film's release.

Two fishing boats and their Coast Guard rescuers face the same fate exactly 30 years apart in the deadly waters of the Graveyard of the Pacific...A team of Green Berets confronts a gut-wrenching moral dilemma.

A fishing boat is trapped in icy seas off the coast of Alaska...A team of Navy Seals must rescue an injured civilian mariner thousands of miles from the nearest hospital in the vast Pacific Ocean.

Rescue personnel are tested as never before during 1993's Storm of the Century...The Coast Guard's first female rescue swimmer must save a badly injured pilot in the waters off the Pacific Northwest.

In this series about average people making perilous bids for freedom, we return to the divided Germany of the Cold War. One fateful night, an East German boy tries to sneak across "no man's land" to see his sister. When he trips a landmine, a West German border patrol risks international crisis to save the injured youth.

During the anti-American inferno after the fall of the Shah of Iran, two employees of Ross Perot's computer company are trapped. Perot, impatient with slow government negotiations, recruits a team of commandos led by former Green Beret Colonel "Bull" Simons to rescue them. We revisit their amazing escape mission inside Iran.

In 1997, 14 Cubans fled for Florida traveling on a stolen boat and carrying what little provisions they could gather. After two days, the group made it to tiny coral outcroppings known as "Dog Rocks." For the next two weeks, they struggled to survive. Two adults and two children died before the group was finally spotted and rescued.

August 1949. 16 men parachuted into Mann Gulch, Montana, to fight a forest fire. Only three left alive. A mixture of heat, wind patterns, and atmospheric conditions caused a "blow-up," and the resulting fireball chased the men in a race they couldn't win. The lessons learned in Mann Gulch led to new, scientifically-based methods.

Robert Burns, a shell-shocked WWI vet, was shackled to a Georgia chain gang for a petty robbery. Dodging armed guards and bloodhounds, he made a daring escape. A fugitive for seven years, he built a new life in Chicago--until his vengeful wife betrayed him. Against all odds, he escaped again, then embarked on a crusade to expose the chain gang's atrocities. While on the run, he wrote a best-selling book and worked on an Oscar-nominated film...then was recaptured three weeks after the film's release.

Two fishing boats and their Coast Guard rescuers face the same fate exactly 30 years apart in the deadly waters of the Graveyard of the Pacific...A team of Green Berets confronts a gut-wrenching moral dilemma.

A fishing boat is trapped in icy seas off the coast of Alaska...A team of Navy Seals must rescue an injured civilian mariner thousands of miles from the nearest hospital in the vast Pacific Ocean.

Rescue personnel are tested as never before during 1993's Storm of the Century...The Coast Guard's first female rescue swimmer must save a badly injured pilot in the waters off the Pacific Northwest.