Tag: History
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...
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...
The Empire in Africa
The story of the war the international community waged against civil war stricken Sierra Leone.
Who Killed Rasputin?
The death of Rasputin, the infamous Russian spiritual advisor, has long been shrouded in mystery and speculation. But a recent BBC Timewatch investigation has...
Great Escape
New secrets revealed about World War II's most daring prison escape. The movie The Great Escape captured the courage and remarkable genius behind World...
Arctic Manhunt
Arctic Manhunt is a dramatic forensic documentary that attempts to identify the mystery man at the center of one of the biggest manhunts in...
Snowball Earth
Over 650 million years ago, our entire planet existed in a frozen state. So speculates the hypothesis known as Snowball Earth. The mounting evidence...
