The Most is a 2000-2004 History Channel television series, hosted and narrated by Mike Rowe, and produced by Weller/Grossman Productions. The show covered many subjects and has a "Most Moment" at the end of every episode. The subjects of the series had to do with the "Most" of something. For example, the most isolated place in space (Mir), the most infamous symbol (swastika), or even the "most" largest island (Greenland). In addition, the stories were arranged into categories such as "close calls".
The Most detailed the "most" in history—the people, places, and events of the past that had significant impact when they occurred, and how they stood the test of time.
Subjects
The Bubonic Plague
The Great London Fire
The Cross
Russia
Sovereign Military Order of Malta
The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
The Great Depression
Hoover ball
The Chernobyl reactor meltdown
Flying cars
The Mir space station
Olympus Mons
The Norwegian rocket incident
NORAD
The Swastika
Episodes
Season 1
Structures built throughout history
Astounding Structures (3/13/00) - Temple devoted to rats; Congressional bomb shelter; weird house; largest pyramid Extraordinary Nations and Places (3/14/00) - Mount Everest; the Mariana Trench; tallest waterfall; longest river; smallest country; coldest place Incredible Disasters (3/15/00) - Volcanic eruptions; plagues; hurricanes; earthquakes; avalanches; meteors Remarkable Battles (3/16/00) - Glorious moments and dark hours occur during war Leaders; Mystery; Spies; Earth Shapers; Moon Landing (10/6/00) Treasure; America's Deadliest; Creatures; Hoaxes; Tiananmen Square (11/3/00) Criminal Duos; Treason; Proof Positive; Inventions; Lindbergh's Atlantic Crossing (11/17/00) On the Move; U.S. Crime Fighters; Isolation; Spoils of War (12/1/00) - Ford's landmark vehicle America Under Siege; Let the Games Begin; Behind Bars; The Sea (12/8/00) - Nikita Khrushchev Speed; Destructive Innovations; Symbols; Subterranean (12/22/00) - The Space Shuttle Challenger explosion Technological Catastrophes; Justice; Space Cars; Fortifications (1/5/01) - The fall of Saigon Close Calls; Flights of Fancy; Give & Take; Water (1/12/01) - Iranian hostage crisis Demolition; Oil; Nature Run Amok; Amusement (2/2/01) - Little Rock Nine Earth-Shattering Events; Military Embarrassments; Working; Mammoth Monuments; Pearl Harbor (3/30/01) Collisions; Windows Into the Past; On That Note; In the Mountains; Bastille (6/29/01) - The storming of the Bastille Warships; Can't Take It With You; Animal Tales; Price of Freedom; Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand (7/16/01) - burial sites Digging It; Light; Horse Sense; Did They ... Or Didn't They?; Science vs. Rome (8/6/01) - Rome tries Galileo Survival; Fire; It's Mine, All Mine; Wind; Stock Market Crash of 1929 (8/20/01) Wastelands; Rock Legends; Sea Stories; Temples; Sutter's Mill 1848 (9/3/01) - Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848 Besieged; Heavy Metal; Family Business; Venues; Battles of Lexington & Concord (9/10/01) - Sieges; large trucks; theaters; American Revolution Bailing Out; Rebellion; Building Blocks; Quixotic Quests (10/1/01) - Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrates electronic transmission of speech Armor; Remarkable Relocations; Company Towns; Prisons (10/15/01) Missiles; Precision; Food; Robots; Jackie Robinson (12/24/01) Heists; Battlefield Innovations; Destruction; Home Sweet Home; Wright Brothers' First Flight (12/24/01)
Season 2
Devastating events of the natural world
Season 4
The most glorious moments and darkest hours of war
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