National Geographic Channel TV Guide — Saturday, 16 May 2026

Browse the full National Geographic Channel TV guide for Saturday, 16 May 2026. 21 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

Drain the Lost War Ships

Documentary Special

Sunken ships decisively influenced World War I, and the impacts even changed the course of the Second World War.

01:00 1h

Hidden Beneath the Cities

Buried Battleship and Viking Victims Documentary

Buried Battleship and Viking Victims

A buried ship, wartime cellars, jar burials and mass graves are excavated.

02:00 1h

Hidden Beneath the Cities

Bones Beneath and Coffins and Coins Documentary

Bones Beneath and Coffins and Coins

Old tombs, buried coins, and a 4,000-year-old oak log coffin are discovered.

03:00 1h

National Parks: USA

S1 · E4 · Olympic Nature

Olympic

From glacial peaks to coastal rainforests, Olympic National Park, on Washington's Olympic Peninsula in the Pacific Northwest, has rich biodiversity.

04:00 1h

National Parks: USA

S1 · E1 · Katmai Nature

Katmai

From its volcanic origins, the lush expanse of Katmai National Park and Preserve National park in southern Alaska boasts more than just bears.

05:00 1h

National Parks: USA

S1 · E3 · Yellowstone Nature

Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park is an American trailblazer, as it spreads nearly 3,500-square-miles from Wyoming and into parts of Montana and Idaho too.

Morning

06:00 1h

National Parks: USA

S1 · E2 · Everglades Nature

Everglades

The Everglades National Park National park in Florida is an ecological treasure of North America, which brims with life.

10:00 1h

Inside Cocaine Wars

S1 · E4 · Drug Mules True

Drug Mules

Two DEA agents join a team that is working on a major cocaine bust in Bogota, Colombia's El Dorado airport as they risk their lives to take down the cartels.

11:00 1h

Inside Cocaine Wars

S1 · E3 · Narco Sub Mystery True

Narco Sub Mystery

The DEA's specialized team of submarine hunters goes to Cartagena, Colombia, to intercept a cocaine-carrying sub before it can get to open water.

Daytime

12:00 1h

Inside Cocaine Wars

S1 · E2 · Drug Speedboats True

Drug Speedboats

A special force of DEA agents patrols the central Caribbean, looking for cocaine transporters who use 100-plus-mph boats that no one else can catch.

13:00 1h

Inside Cocaine Wars

S1 · E1 · Airport Sting True

Airport Sting

The DEA investigates a ring of American servicemen that is smuggling cocaine out of Colombia; a citizen is caught with cocaine pellets in his stomach.

14:00 1h

To Catch a Smuggler

S4 · E12 · Six Million Dollar Seizure Documentary

Six Million Dollar Seizure

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations takes down a multi-million-dollar, transnational smuggling ring of airline employees.

15:00 1h

To Catch a Smuggler

S4 · E13 · Drug Boat Bust Documentary

Drug Boat Bust

U.S. Customs and Border Protection seizes counterfeit medications; Homeland Security Investigations pursues a series of maritime smuggling cases.

16:00 1h

To Catch a Smuggler

S4 · E10 · Million Dollar Ride Documentary

Million Dollar Ride

Homeland Security Investigations seizes counterfeit cash and vaccination cards; Customs and Border Protection pulls 205 kilos of methamphetamine out of one car.

17:00 1h

To Catch a Smuggler

S4 · E23 · Meth in the City Documentary

Meth in the City

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations attempts a controlled delivery of meth in NYC; Customs and Border Protection seizes party drugs in Florida.

Evening

18:00 1h

To Catch a Smuggler

S4 · E24 · Guac and Coke Documentary

Guac and Coke

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection finds 142 kilos of cocaine that is worth over $7 million in a shipment of avocados in Florida.

19:00 1h

To Catch a Smuggler

S4 · E22 · MDMA on the Move Documentary

MDMA on the Move

Customs and Border Protection discovers abandoned fentanyl in Texas; U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations tracks an ecstasy package in Chicago.

20:00 1h

Amsterdam Narcos

S1 · E1 · The Godfather Documentary

The Godfather

1970s Amsterdam's tolerance of soft drugs drew in opportunistic traffickers who opened the floodgates to bloodshed and organized crime.

21:00 1h

Amsterdam Narcos

S1 · E2 · Bonnie and Clyde Documentary

Bonnie and Clyde

With a pipeline into British ports in full flow, Amsterdam's ecstasy makers began to fuel the UK's dancefloors and lust for drugs.

22:00 1h

Amsterdam Narcos

S1 · E3 · The Kingpins Documentary

The Kingpins

With the criminal underworld booming, Dutch law enforcement took a dramatic gamble in a bid to take down the bosses, with devastating consequences.

23:00 1h

Amsterdam Narcos

S1 · E1 · The Godfather Documentary

The Godfather

1970s Amsterdam's tolerance of soft drugs drew in opportunistic traffickers who opened the floodgates to bloodshed and organized crime.

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Evening

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