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*The Most*
The Most
Genre	Documentary
Presented by	Mike Rowe
Narrated by	Mike Rowe
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5
Production
Production company	Weller/Grossman Productions
Original release
Network	The History Channel
Release	2000 –; 2004

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.

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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)