American Heroes Channel TV Guide — Today's TV Listings & Schedule

Browse the full American Heroes Channel TV guide for today. 24 programmes listed , including 6 tonight. US listings updated daily — scroll down to tonight's highlights or use the day tabs above to browse the weekly schedule.

Early Morning

00:00 1h

Weaponology

S2 · E2 · USMC True

USMC

The United States Marine Corps is a world famous all-purpose, combined arms unit that is hunting down insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

01:00 1h

Weaponology

S1 · E12 · Armored Personnel Carriers True

Armored Personnel Carriers

The correspondents take time to examine the family trees of the preeminent fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers throughout history.

02:00 1h

Weaponology

S1 · E13 · Tanks True

Tanks

An incarnation of the modern offensive spirit, the tank is a lethal machine that has transformed from a lumbering steel box to an instrument of destruction.

03:00 1h

Weaponology

S2 · E1 · Navy SEALs True

Navy SEALs

The elite special operations forces of the U.S. Navy SEALs have developed diverse tactics for unconventional warfare since the unit was created in the 1960s.

04:00 1h

Weaponology

S2 · E2 · USMC True

USMC

The United States Marine Corps is a world famous all-purpose, combined arms unit that is hunting down insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

05:00 1h

Weaponology

S1 · E10 · Frags, Pineapples, and RPG's True

Frags, Pineapples, and RPG's

This episode focuses on hand-carried weapons; it discusses the varieties of hand and rocket-propelled grenades available to the modern soldier.

Morning

06:00 1h

Weaponology

S1 · E11 · Fire Weapons True

Fire Weapons

Fire's history as a weapon, from the times of the ancient Greek navies through the bombs of World War II and the Vietnam War and today's thermobaric bombs.

07:00 1h

Alcatraz: Beyond the Rock

True Special

An examination of a conspiracy which allowed three inmates to escape an impenetrable fortress, revealing hidden secrets of the dungeon of Alcatraz.

08:00 1h

Coast Guard at War

True Special

A few untold stories of the U.S. Coast Guard are shared, featuring footage and personal accounts from members who performed a combat role in the Vietnam War.

09:00 1h

Bullet Points

S1 · E1 · Battle For the Pacific Documentary

Battle For the Pacific

The battles that turned the tide in the Pacific and led America to naval supremacy over the Japan in the year following the attack on Pearl Harbor are featured.

10:00 1h

Bullet Points

S1 · E2 · America's First War on Communism Documentary

America's First War on Communism

The story of America's three-year war against communist giants in Korea is told, highlighting the battles that turned the tide away from a communist victory.

11:00 1h

Bullet Points

S1 · E3 · The Vietnam War Documentary

The Vietnam War

The heroics, key technologies and defining battles of the Vietnam War are broken down, from the first shots fired in the Gulf of Tonkin to the fall of Saigon.

Daytime

12:00 1h

Bullet Points

S1 · E4 · Operation Desert Storm Documentary

Operation Desert Storm

The key things that led to the U.S. and its allies claiming victory over dictator Saddam Hussein as he attempted to conquer Kuwait in 1991 are highlighted.

13:00 1h

Against the Odds

S1 · E2 · Those Damned Engineers Documentary

Those Damned Engineers

In December of 1944, the seemingly defeated Germans launch a secret offensive to capture the city of Antwerp, the heart of the Allied supply chain

14:00 1h

Against the Odds

S1 · E3 · The Heroes of Tarawa Documentary

The Heroes of Tarawa

The U.S. had to test whether the Japanese-held islands of the Pacific Ocean could be captured, and the testing ground would be heavily fortified Tarawa.

15:00 1h

Against the Odds

S1 · E1 · The Marines at Hue Documentary

The Marines at Hue

Three understrength United States Marine battalions, consisting of fewer than 2,500 men, lay attack and soundly defeat enemy troops at Hue, South Vietnam.

16:00 1h

Against the Odds

S1 · E5 · Bloody George at the Chosin Reservoir Documentary ▶ Now

Bloody George at the Chosin Reservoir

An in-depth look is taken into "Bloody George," the undermanned marine rifle company that was called up in 1950 at the beginning of the Korean War.

17:00 1h

What History Forgot

S2 · E5 · Breaking the Rules Documentary

Breaking the Rules

An accounting of the rules that were bent and broken pertaining to the Civil War, the CIA, the American Civil Rights movement, and the advent of flight.

Tonight's Highlights

18:00 1h

What History Forgot

S2 · E6 · Top Secret World War II Documentary

Top Secret World War II

Classified operations of World War II, including covert units, unbreakable codes, underground operation centers, and super-human Navy SEALS, are studied.

19:00 1h

What History Forgot

S1 · E1 · Icons of Freedom Documentary

Icons of Freedom

Exploring the lesser-known side of American history in the Star Spangled Banner, Statue of Liberty, Monopoly board game and pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart.

20:00 1h

What History Forgot

S1 · E4 · Secret Weapons Documentary

Secret Weapons

In the Cold War, U.S. military buried nukes near the USSR and had a double agent, weaponized weather in the Vietnam War, and used magic and inflated WW2 tanks.

21:00 1h

What History Forgot

S1 · E5 · Verge of Destruction Documentary

Verge of Destruction

Viewed are fallout shelters in World War II as refuge in the firebombings of Tokyo and the D-Day invasion, and the war's best kept secrets are revealed.

22:00 1h

What History Forgot

S1 · E6 · Rebels With a Cause Documentary

Rebels With a Cause

Overlooked facts on how Parks wasn't the first black woman to keep her bus seat, the Berlin Airlift had candy for kids, and a moonshiner made a war rifle.

23:00 1h

What History Forgot

S2 · E1 · Defying the Nazis Documentary

Defying the Nazis

The stories behind some of the biggest deceptions, the most classified secrets, and the covert weapons utilized to help defy the Nazis in World War II.

Early Morning

Morning

Daytime

Tonight's Highlights

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