The Story of Capital Punishment
Today there in the world there are over 50 countries which still enforce the death penalty, individuals who break the law can face a firing squad...
Prisoners of War Betrayed
The fate of prisoners of war and missing in action is one of the darkest chapters of the Cold War. Tens of thousands of...
Stalingrad
No single event in the history of the Second World War has left such a traumatic mark on German consciousness as the catastrophic defeat...
Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire – The Barbarian...
By the end of the fourth century, Romans and barbarians live together uneasily in the empire, a situation that often explodes into violence. When...
Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity: The Age of Invention
Professor Jim Al-Khalili takes viewers on an electrifying journey through the history of our quest to master nature’s most mysterious force - electricity. From...
Heroes Of The Enlightenment: The Power of Knowledge
The Power of Knowledge explores the fact that from Google, and Facebook and Wikipedia to the systems of democracy, finance, manufacture and the law...
They Choose China
In this feature documentary, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Shuibo Wang (Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square) aims his camera at the astonishing story of 21 American soldiers who...
Italian Renaissance
Presented by Peter Weller. The great roman empire has collapsed, ending its period of domination. Italian merchants rise up to run cities. Wealth bought...
Bugging Hitler’s Soldiers
Spied upon by MI19 in a bugging operation of unprecedented scale and cunning, 4,000 German POW’s revealed their inner thoughts about the Third Reich...
The Empire in Africa
The story of the war the international community waged against civil war stricken Sierra Leone.
