Competitors re-create weapons from historical periods ranging from Japanese katanas to medieval broadswords to ancient throwing blades. Each entry is judged on its artistry as well as its functionality and accuracy.

The country's most experienced bladesmiths, martial artists and knife experts slice, stab and chop their way through a blade-shattering gauntlet for a chance at winning a $20,000 grand prize.

In each episode, the best bladesmiths from all over the country come to the forge for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to square off against our renowned Forged in Fire Masters in the highest stakes forging competition yet! If the challenger can find a way to prevail against our judge in an intense bladesmithing showdown, they'll walk away with $10K and eternal bragging rights.

A film about the development of ironwork in Iceland. An old forge in Árbaer is visited where ancient handcraft is demonstrated. Also shown are a machine shop and a metal casting shop in Thingeyri, dating from the beginning of the century, that are still being used.

After getting cancer, how do different people, including the film maker’s family, two young women at their end of life, a surgeon battling it alone, and two men who have lost their spouses to cancer, confront the pain, fears, anxieties, stresses of treatment, the strain on, and often rupture of close relationships that follows, to find strength, grace and transformation?

Eight new entrants from five different countries – Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Spain – will compete to see who will receive the title of best forging and the $10,000 prize.

The history of The Ashes, the Test cricket series played between Australia and England. Its history goes back to the 1880s but this series focuses largely on the 1970s to the present day.