The Most (History Channel)

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The Most is television series hosted and narrated by Mike Rowe that ran on the History Channel from 2002 to 2004. It had many subjects and a "Most Moment" at the end of every show that included the Tienanmen Square Massacre and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The subjects of the show had to do with the "Most" of something, that is, for example, the most isolated place in space (Mir), the most infamous symbol (swastika), or even the "most" largest island (Greenland). Also the stories were put into categories such as "close calls"

Some subjects included: the bubonic plague

the great fire of London

the cross

Russia

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

the atomic bombing of Hiroshima

the Challenger Explosion

Tienanmen Square

the Great Depression

"Hoover ball"

Chernobyl reactor meltdown

flying cars