Browse the full National Geographic Channel TV guide for Friday, 5 June 2026. 30 programmes listed , including 6 tonight. UK 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
Highlights from the series, featuring an appearance by Pele
01:00
1h
Cocaine in shapeware and an undercover bust
02:00
30m
Hazen Audel leads 200 reindeer to their spring habitat
02:30
25m
The making of Jack Daniels whiskey
02:55
25m
The story of how space rockets are built by US company ULA
03:20
25m
How spicy Montreal coffee is made
03:45
25m
How Shanghai dumplings are produced
04:10
25m
A hedgehog needs a manicure
04:35
25m
A python is attacked by its own prey
05:00
30m
05:30
30m
Morning
06:00
30m
06:30
30m
07:00
1h
08:00
1h
Aerial footage of the Polish Riviera
09:00
1h
Three mid-air collisions that seem to defy logic
10:00
1h
The widow of a CIA officer goes undercover in Moscow
11:00
1h
Archaeologists investigate the queens of ancient Egypt
Daytime
12:00
1h
As the war reaches its endgame, Allies and Soviets race to seize Berlin
13:00
1h
A 1998 train disaster in Germany
14:00
1h
A discovery that had far-reaching effects for commercial aviation
15:00
1h
A look at how the Nazis faced a vast Soviet army bent on revenge
16:00
1h
Rasputin's visions earned him a sinister reputation
17:00
1h
Dangerous weapons concealed in luggage test airport security
Tonight's Highlights
18:00
1h
Climbers Tagir Izmailov and Xiao Ting explore Zhangjiajie's otherworldly landscape
19:00
1h
The 1999 plane crash that killed John F Kennedy Jr and his wife
20:00
1h
A military cargo plane that crashed seconds into a flight
21:00
1h
A collision between two aircraft that killed 21 passengers
22:00
1h
History's 10 most devastating dam collapses
23:00
1h
A plane that nosedived into the runway at Russia's Rostov airport