Browse the full National Geographic Channel TV guide for Saturday, 5 September 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
An unidentified white powder causes problems during a busy Christmas period
01:00
1h
Alaskans learn to survive by their own rules in harsh climates
02:00
30m
The team suffers a setback
02:30
25m
Hazen Audel visits a village with a history of cannibalism
02:55
25m
Hazen Audel leads 200 reindeer to their spring habitat
03:20
25m
Baking tortilla chips in a tunnel oven
03:45
25m
How gourmet tofu and crispy sweet potato fries are made
04:10
25m
Out at the Wilds, vets tag newborn Pere David deer
04:35
25m
Babe the oryx rallies the troops to take a look at an ailing hoof
05:00
30m
05:30
30m
Morning
06:00
30m
06:30
30m
07:00
1h
08:00
1h
A captain tries to stop his plane from crashing into the South China Sea
09:00
1h
A crash during an air race
10:00
1h
How engineers learn from past disasters
11:00
1h
A visit to the Brenner Base Tunnel and Fehmarnbelt Link
Daytime
12:00
1h
A fire-damaged Great Lakes freighter arrives for its final job
13:00
1h
How Boeing dared to design the largest passenger aircraft of its time
14:00
1h
Documentary about rebuilding the cathedral after the 2019 fire
15:00
1h
Five years after the fire, Notre Dame Cathedral is finishing its restoration
16:00
1h
Experts investigate the fate of Port Royal
17:00
1h
A plane that burst into flames on the runway
Tonight's Highlights
18:00
1h
A reconstruction of the Nigeria Airways crash of 1991 in Saudi Arabia
19:00
1h 30m
Personal accounts of the World Trade Center attacks
20:30
1h
Personal stories of survivors who made it out of the south tower
21:30
1h
Personal accounts of the hijack of Flight 93
22:30
1h
The toxic dust cloud that surrounded the impact site
23:30
1h
A group of firefighters who survived the collapse of the north tower