War Factories 2019
The untold secret story of war production that shaped the Second World War.
The untold secret story of war production that shaped the Second World War.
This drama-documentary series takes us back in time to the most shocking and surprising murder cases in London, England's history. Nicholas Day guides us into the world of the killer as we see how police ingenuity and early forensics helped bring them to justice.
Investigating the most notorious murders ever to take place on the British railways. The cases start from 1864 with the the first murder on a British railway.
While the battlefields of WWII were a stage for acts of heroism, strategic cunning, and horrific atrocities, conditions on the home front seemed more stable. Yet from bombed-out London to occupied France, the war enabled one thing to flourish - crime.
The extraordinary story of how the Allies turned the tide in the final months of 1918 to win the First World War.
Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin will forensically examine events that started in August 2000 after an explosion onboard the Kursk submarine trapped a group of Russian submariners at the bottom of the Barents Sea.”
Exploring the eight days in May 1941 when Britain, and Liverpool in particular, was subjected to one of the most intense bombardments of the entire war. Featuring eyewitness accounts and recollections from many whom have never spoken out before.
Jungle Warfare in the 20th century, from WW2, to Malaya and Indonesia, to Vietnam and Cuba.
Amidst the backdrop of the 1979 Iranian revolution, Jimmy Carter's failure to free American hostages sets the stage for Reagan's own hostage crisis.
Christianity slowly emerged from being a persecuted minority to the state religion of the Roman Empire. This episode is a history of the ways believers grappled with a way to depict Jesus. Simple symbolic meaning developed into splendid art and churches.
Witness iconic assaults, intense battles, and intimate moments of the Pacific War, in color.
The Nazi era from 1993 to 1945 is illustrated through archived material, with insights and anecdotes provided by world-leading experts and commentators.
Modern historians, equipped with state-of-the-art technology and newly discovered evidence, rewrite the nation's most iconic stories.
A documentary that explores the dim world of illicit trade in antiquities, as well as the long and hard struggle for the repatriation of all stolen treasures.
Historian James Holland goes inside the Nazi war machine, exploring the extraordinary weapons produced under the Third Reich, in a series that includes rare archive material
Documentary using recorded figures and statistics to outline the full extent of the conflict, explaining the horrors of war and how it ever came to take place.
Daniel Costelle and Isabelle Clarke have found at the NARA (National Archives in Washington DC) almost four hours of footage, mostly in colour, filmed by Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun between 1938 and 1944. It's an unbeleivable eyesight on Hitler's private life from the happy life in the "Eagle's nest" till his suicide in his bunker.