UPCOMING EPISODES

On a sunny October day in 1997 music legend John Denver hopped into a small and sleek aircraft to go for a pleasure flight off the California coast. After his aircraft suddenly and mysteriously crashes into the Pacific Ocean some suspected the singer may have committed suicide or given his history of DUI’s he may have been intoxicated. The last man to see Denver alive gives his first-ever TV interview and recalls Denver in the minutes before he died – a personal and detailed account that has never been told. It’s revealed that Denver was neither drunk nor suicidal – the shocking cause of the accident comes down to a tiny mechanical detail that took the life of one of the world’s first celebrity activists.

On March 20, 1990, a tour bus carrying Gloria Estefan, the singer star of the Miami Sound Machine, and her husband, son and two of her crew, was travelling through Pennsylvania’s snowy Poconos when a tractor-trailer had just jack-knifed across the icy road in front of Estefan’s bus. Her driver Ron Jones stopped in time to avoid collision but another 18-wheel truck slammed into them from behind once he had stopped. Gloria was thrown to the floor of the bus, her spine shattered. What caused the horrific crash and how did she manage to not only survive, but to get back on her feet?

Justin Bieber is one of the top-selling musicians in history and boasts more than 78 million Instagram followers and a global fan base—but he’s also one of the most polarizing stars in entertainment. In this episode viewers will see Bieber’s dangerous relationship with cars that give him a fast escape to privacy but also makes him a target as paparazzi hunt him down wherever he goes in easily identifiable and rare automobiles. We track Bieber’s rise, fall and rise through a series of accidents and incidents that reveal his change from a sweet and innocent young talent to headline-grabbing celebrity whose driving history is putting him on a collision course.

On the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, collided with an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic and sank within a few hours, drowning 1500 of its 2,200 passengers. The theories on how she sank are numerous. Was it the smouldering fire in the ship’s coal bunker that accelerated the ship’s sinking? Perhaps the ship was built from brittle and inferior steel? Was the rapid sinking caused by weak rivets, or a fatal design flaw in the ship’s watertight compartments? Collision Course: Titanic explores all the theories, no matter how incredible and leads to the final determination that the real cause of the accident is over-confidence in technology and arrogance that any ship could be “unsinkable.”

Why did Evel Knievel, a daredevil performer who was famous for spectacular, airborne, motorcycle stunts, crash during his famous Caesars Palace, Las Vegas stunt?

On February 18, 2001, NASCAR superstar Dale Earnhardt Sr. was killed in a crash on the Daytona 500 racing track in front of 250,000 people. How could this fearsome and fearless driver, driving a car he knew, on a track he knew, die in an accident that looked minor by NASCAR standards? Investigators wanted to know how a seemingly mild crash killed Dale Earnhardt. The ensuing investigation revealed a shocking case file that rocked NASCAR to its core.