Smithsonian TV Guide — Sunday, 7 June 2026

Browse the full Smithsonian TV guide for Sunday, 7 June 2026. 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

Mighty Cruise Ships

S4 · E2 · MSC Regal Princess Travel

MSC Regal Princess

A detailed look is taken at a cruise of the Baltic Sea on the Regal Princess ship, and how the captain and crew deliver memorable experiences to passengers.

01:00 1h

Mighty Cruise Ships

S1 · E6 · Marco Polo Travel

Marco Polo

The Marco Polo delivers travelers to cities such as Copenhagen, St. Petersburg and Helsinki in late autumn, when crowds are smaller but travel is riskier.

02:00 1h

Mayday: Air Disaster

S23 · E5 · Control Catastrophe Documentary

Control Catastrophe

A team of experts investigates a string of unfortunate events which caused the Air Astana Flight 1388 to become completely uncontrollable.

03:00 1h

Mayday: Air Disaster

Splash Down True

Splash Down

An investigation of three aircraft landing on open water in emergency situations.

04:00 1h

Mayday: Air Disaster

Maintenance Mistakes True

Maintenance Mistakes

A team of aerial investigators investigates a trio of crashes and learns that the nuts and bolts of each plane went unchecked, which spells catastrophe.

05:00 1h

Mayday: Air Disaster

S18 · E4 · Deadly Airspace Documentary

Deadly Airspace

On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the Ukraine-Russia border, killing all passengers and crew aboard.

Morning

06:00 1h

Mayday: Air Disaster

S4 · E6 · Panic Over the Pacific Documentary

Panic Over the Pacific

A China Airlines Boeing 747 encounters a patch of turbulence so strong that parts of its tail are torn off and its number four engine flames out.

07:00 1h

Aerial America

S1 · E21 · Michigan Travel

Michigan

Michigan's elements changed the world, from assembly lines that made it possible for everyone to own a car to a record company that shaped popular culture.

08:00 1h

Aerial America

S1 · E56 · Southern California Travel

Southern California

An aerial tour of Southern California reveals towering mountains, a valley with Earth's hottest recorded temperatures, and some of the world's largest cities.

09:00 1h

Aerial America

S1 · E62 · Man-Made Marvels Travel

Man-Made Marvels

Aerial views of iconic American landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty, New York City's Central Park and the Gateway Arch reveal their impressive beauty.

10:00 1h

Aerial America

S1 · E3 · Virginia Travel

Virginia

A flyover of the Old Dominion provides stunning views of America's capital city and its first European settlement as well as the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains.

11:00 1h

Aerial America

S1 · E4 · Connecticut Travel

Connecticut

A tour of the historic state by air shows towns with colonial-era churches and meeting houses built around village greens as well as a 17th-century university.

Daytime

12:00 1h

Aerial America

S1 · E5 · Tennessee Travel

Tennessee

An aerial tour of the width of the state reveals mountains and rivers, Civil War battlefields, and the cities where country music and the blues were born.

13:00 1h

Aerial America

S1 · E6 · Vermont Travel

Vermont

A helicopter view of the state provides a look at its famous scenery, with maple trees, classic red barns and green forests as far as the eye can see.

14:00 1h

Aerial America

S1 · E7 · Arkansas Travel

Arkansas

From the air, the green forests and the spectacular terrain of the Ozark Mountains and the wide Arkansas and Mississippi rivers are impressive sights.

15:00 1h

Aerial America

S1 · E66 · The South Travel

The South

An aerial tour of America's South encompasses the site of an infamous prisoner-of-war camp and the home of a colony of English settlers who vanished.

16:00 1h

Aerial America

Florida Travel

Florida

Narrator Jim Conrad goes on an aerial tour of the Sunshine State, explores the beaches of Miami and explores the hotels and homes of Palm Beach.

17:00 1h

Aerial America

S1 · E38 · Texas Travel

Texas

Thousands of square miles are explored to reveal the great sites in the state of Texas, from lush forests to forbidding deserts to modern cities.

Evening

18:00 1h

Aerial America

S1 · E67 · The Wild West Travel

The Wild West

From the skies, the American West is full of natural and man-made wonders such as St. Louis' Gateway Arch and the vast, pristine Alaskan wilderness.

19:00 1h

Mayday: Air Disaster

S9 · E6 · Cold Case Documentary

Cold Case

An Air Ontario flight crashed in 1989 because wing icing kept it from taking off properly; three years later, a USAir flight failed in the same manner.

20:00 1h

Mayday: Air Disaster

S1 · E2 · Racing the Storm True

Racing the Storm

An American Airlines captain tried to land in a thunderstorm in Little Rock, Arkansas and failed to engage its ground spoilers, losing control of the craft.

21:00 1h

Mayday: Air Disaster

S7 · E3 · Blown Apart True

Blown Apart

In 1989 a Convair 580 has a structural failure off the coast of Denmark after substandard replacement parts were used to couple the tail section to the fuselage

22:00 1h

Mayday: Air Disaster

S14 · E10 · Death in the Arctic Documentary

Death in the Arctic

A Boeing 737 crashes while approaching the runway in bad weather at a remote Inuit village in the Northwest Territories, and three people survive.

23:00 1h

Mayday: Air Disaster

S6 · E3 · Science of Disaster: Who's Flying the Plane? True

Science of Disaster: Who's Flying the Plane?

The interface between the flight crew and the airplane's onboard avionics can go wrong in a variety of ways, including instrument failure and pilot error.