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Angola Horror

The accident was featured on the History Channel television series The Men Who Built America, and explained more in detail how John Rockefeller missed the train.

Archaeological Services Inc.

ASI is the only major Canadian archaeological consulting company to liaise on a regular basis with film and television producers, such as the History Channel, YAP Films and Ballinran Productions, for the production of popular historical documentaries, such as Death or Canada, Explosion 1812, Curse of the Axe, and Hangman's Graveyard, which feature ASI archaeological projects.

Boyd Estus

In addition to making films for the BBC and other overseas broadcasters, Estus has made many films for American broadcast television including the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and PBS television where he was a founding member of the film unit at WGBH Boston.

Caltrans District 7 Headquarters

The design and construction of the building was documented across four episodes on the History Channel series Modern Marvels, to demonstrate the unique challenges presented in the design and construction of large buildings over the past two centuries.

Catherine Clinton

She has written for the History Channel, consulted on projects for WGBH, and is a member of the Screen Writers Guild, and has authored, edited, co-authored or co-edited more than twenty books to date.

Denise Okuda

She was interviewed on her work for the project in the History Channel documentary Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier.

Finding the Fallen

Finding the Fallen is a UK-based documentary TV series by Yap Productions developed for the History Channel / Discovery Channel in which a team of archaeologists, historians and forensic experts work to identify unknown World War I soldiers and finally lay them to rest.

Gibsland, Louisiana

The festival has been featured on the television program Weird U.S. on the History Channel.

Hashem el-Tarif

The James Cameron-produced History Channel special, The Exodus Decoded, suggests that this location, now in an Egyptian military zone, is the best candidate for the Biblical Mount Sinai.

Ian Finney

Finney has written orchestral pieces used on the History Channel and contributed tracks to video games, including Niall Ferguson's and Muzzy Lane's Making History II: The War of the World.

Ian V. Hogg

Hogg was a frequent guest on the History Channel's Tales of the Gun, as well as other military-related television programs.

John Aaron

He was interviewed in the PBS documentary Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back, and in two History Channel documentaries about Mission Control, Failure Is Not an Option and Beyond the Moon: Failure Is Not an Option 2.

Lena, Illinois

A local opera house, constructed in 1879, was featured on the History Channel show American Pickers in February 2010.

Macuahuitl

On the History channel show Warriors, special forces operator and martial artist Terry Schappert injured himself while fencing with a macuahuitl, he cut the back of his left leg as the result of a back-swing motion, he replied: "I think I might need sutures, it's deep".

Mason Brothers

Other songs from The Sun, the Moon & the Sea have also been featured on a variety of television shows and documentaries, on networks including the CW (90210), CBS (Flashpoint), History Channel, Biography Channel, PBS documentaries; as well as various surfing broadcasts, films, and documentaries.

Michael Berenbaum

In 2001, Berenbaum was historical consultant for the History Channel's The Holocaust: The Untold Story, which won the CINE Golden Eagle Award and a Silver Medal at the US International Film and Video Festival.

Parallax Film Productions Inc.

Parallax Film documentaries have aired on several networks including Discovery Channels (US, Canada and International), National Geographic Channels (US, Canada and International), History Channel (US), Channel 4 (UK), FIVE (UK), DMAX (Germany), RAI (Italy), TV Asahi (Japan), PBS NOVA and Nature and History Television (Canada).

Paul Andrew Hutton

Dr. Hutton has appeared in, written or narrated over 150 television documentaries on CBS, NBC, PBS, Discover, Disney Channel, TBS, TNN, A&E, and the History Channel.

Pennhurst State School and Hospital

Pennhurst has been featured on the shows Ghost Adventures on Travel Channel, Ghost Hunters on SyFy, Celebrity Ghost Stories on BIO, Snooki & Jwoww on MTV, The Haunting Of... 'Beverley Mitchell' on BIO, Haunted History on History Channel, Ghosts of Mayflower: A Pennhurst Haunting (book), and the self-titled movie 'Pennhurst', featuring Beverley Mitchell and Haylie Duff.

Red Adair

The History Channel's Modern Marvels episode on "Oil Well Firefighting" was one of Adair's last interviews prior to his death.

Richard Guy Wilson

He has served as an advisor and commentator for a number of television programs on PBS, C-SPAN, History Channel and A&E; he frequently appeared on the program America's Castles.

Rohtang Pass

Several episodes of the History Channel's Ice Road Truckers series spinoff IRT Deadliest Roads dealt with truckers crossing the Rohtang Pass to deliver supplies.

Ron Magill

He has also appeared on several documentaries for the Discovery Channel and the History Channel, and, during the 1980s, handled all the animals used on the Miami Vice television series.

Ronald Dale Harris

Harris’ story can be seen on the Bio Channel, History Channel and Discovery Channel program Breaking Vegas, which features interviews and reenactments of some of Harris’ memorable moments in his casino-breaking scheme.

San Francisco Express Times

One member of the editorial collective of Good Times, a resident of the Good Times Commune named Richard Gaikowski (1936–2004), has been identified by the History Channel's 2009 television program MysteryQuest as a possible suspect in the unsolved San Francisco Zodiac Killer case, although there is only circumstantial evidence (including alleged clues planted in Good Times) tying him to the case.

Team Delta

Team Delta has provided expertise and reality sequences for We Can Make You Talk on the History Channel, Guantanamo Guidebook on Channel 4UK, and independent film maker Coco Fusco's Operation Atropos where Mr. Moore and Mr. Ritz are listed as co-directors.

The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific

The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific is a historical first-person shooter video game developed by Magic Wand Productions with Kynogon's AI middleware Kynapse, and released on November 30, 2007 by Activision and the History Channel for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360.

William C. Patrick III

He appeared on all of the major U.S. television networks as well as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, PBS, the History Channel, The Learning Channel, and the Discovery Channel.

Zorats Karer

In December, 2010 Carahunge was featured in an episode of the History Channel show Ancient Aliens, in episode 14 titled "Unexplained Structures".


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Barry Downing

In 2009, Downing appeared in a History Channel television series called Ancient Aliens.

Bertrand Le Gendre

Presenter (with Marc Ferro) of the weekly program "From Current Events to History" on the History Channel (1997-1999)

Breaking Vegas

The series was inspired by the two-hour History Channel documovie entitled Breaking Vegas: The True Story of the MIT Blackjack Team (see MIT Blackjack Team) written and directed by Bruce David Klein and produced by Atlas Media Corp.

Brian Riordan

In June 2009 Levels Audio completed their work on Expedition Africa, Mark Burnett’s latest production for the History Channel as well as Season 8 of American Idol.

C. Wade McClusky

In the 2008 History Channel's American television documentary Battle 360°, Wade McClusky is mentioned in Episode 2 - Vengeance at Midway.

Christopher L. Hodapp

In 2010, Hodapp and Von Kannon developed episode outlines for the History Channel program, Brad Meltzer's Decoded, and contributed material on conspiracies and secret societies for TruTV.

Daniel Lessner

Their work together has included film scores, broadcast game show themes for the NBA Phoenix Suns and MLB's Tampa Bay Rays, commercials, music for The Museum of Terror, and the History Channel series That's Impossible.

Diogo Morgado

He is best known in for his portrayal of Jesus Christ in 20th Century Fox's feature film Son of God to be release in February 28, 2014 and in History Channel's Emmy nominated miniseries, The Bible, which was the highest rated cable show of 2013.

Dublin, Texas

Dublin is the site of the January 2008 UFO sightings as featured on various national media networks and has been featured on the History Channel's UFO Hunters Episode 110.

Eric Metaxas

Metaxas has been featured as a cultural commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and the Fox News Channel; and has discussed his own books on The History Channel, C-Span's Book TV, the Glenn Beck Program, and Huckabee.

Flometrics

UFO Hunters, a History Channel "Hoax or History?" show about the science of UFO's, aired an episode about possible underwater alien bases that featured Dr. Harrington and the Flometrics team.

FMJ

Full Metal Jousting, an American reality television show that debuted on the History Channel

Georgia Guidestones

The monument is also featured in the "New World Order" episode of the History Channel series America Unearthed.

Hunter Ellis

In 2005, he began hosting another show on The History Channel, called Man, Moment, Machine.

József Mikó

They have been featured on numerous television shows including The Twentieth Century with Walter Cronkite and the History channel’s Caught on Film and in recently completed documentaries; Freedom's Fury and Torn from the Flag.

Just Another Day

Just Another Day (2007 TV series), a TV program on the History Channel UK presented by Adam Hart-Davis

Kevin Sites

In 2009, Sites was one of four cast members of the reality television series Expedition Africa on the History channel.

LAPD: Life on the Beat

In 2006, History tried to set the record straight regarding the North Hollywood shootout as it remains to this day as one of the most influential events of modern American history, ranking third overall of documented U.S. events of recent years behind 9/11 and the War on Terror according to the History Channel.

Limburger sandwich

During the filming of a show for the History Channel, Daniel Lawrence Whitney ("Larry the Cable Guy") stated that the Limburger sandwich he was eating tasted "like a dead possum" after he spat it out.

Lois H. Gresh

They have been reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Science News, National Geographic, Physics Today, New Scientist, and US News and World Report, as well as by National Public Radio, the BBC, Fox News, the History Channel, and other television and radio programs.

Richard D. Hansen

Hansen worked as a historical consultant on the 2006 Mel Gibson film, Apocalypto, and has appeared in 25 film documentaries including several National Geographic specials, the Discovery Channel, CNN, CNN International, Koch Television, British Broadcasting Corp, Sixty Minutes Australia, CBS, History Channel, ABC 20/20, ABC Primetime Live, ABC Good Morning America, Russia 1 Television, Alstom Foundation Films, TimeLine Films of London,Guatevision, and the Learning Channel.

Robert Bauval

He has also recently been a featured commentator on the History Channel show, Ancient Aliens.

The Men Who Killed Kennedy

The History Channel responded by assembling a panel of three historians, Robert Dallek, Stanley Kutler, and Thomas Sugrue.

The Naked Archaeologist

# "Moses vs Akhenaten (US premier: 8 November 2010 (History Channel International))

Tom Pistone

In April 2011, Pistone appeared on an episode of The History Channel's American Pickers in which he sold items to be placed in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Tribulus

>Battle of Alesia (Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul in 52 BC)), Battlefield Detectives program, (2006), rebroadcast: 2008-09-08 on History Channel International (13;00-14:00 hrs EDST); Note: No mention of name caltrop at all, but illustrated and given as battle key to defend Roman lines of circumvallation per recent digs evidence.

Yvonne Latty

She also appeared in two documentaries, the Emmy award-winning A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day and "Honor Deferred", a History Channel documentary about African Americans serving in World War II.