D-Day: The Soldiers' Story - Season 1

Giles Milton visits key D-Day sites along the Normandy coastline - including Omaha Beach and Pegasus Bridge - and we hear the stories of the men and women on both the attacking and defensive lines.

D-Day: The Soldiers' Story - Season 1

Giles Milton guides us round Normandy - the place where the D-Day invasion proved successful - from the gliders who went behind enemy lines to paratroopers who ambushed vital German generals.

History Uncovered - Season 3

Who instigated the Cold War? We investigate the misunderstandings, false impressions and President Truman's anti-Communism that tipped the world into decades of belligerent peace and nuclear dissuasion.

Conquistadors: The Rise and Fall - Season 1

The accidental discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus sparked an age of exploration for the Spanish Empire - and a dark new chapter in the history of the Americas.

Forbidden History - Season 7

The remains of 7,000 humans were discovered in the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta's Neolithic temple; could the temple reveal the mystery of who they belonged to and what happened to its owners?

Forbidden History - Season 7

The crucifixion of Jesus changed the world; how much of our understanding of this event is true, and what answers can be found in the Holy Land to back up the Bible's story?

The Enigma of the Swamp Mummy

History Uncovered - Season 3

We often think of partisans struggling on their own during WWII, yet many clandestine networks were mobilised, organised and funded by a secret British organisation, the S.O.E.

History Uncovered - Season 3

We explore Austria's role as a testing ground for the Third Reich; Austria experimented with persecution and extermination policies that would go on to be generalised by the Germans.

The Rise of the Dictators - Season 1

A strong decisive leader will emerge when the conditions are right, but there's a process to winning over a population; they need to sell themselves and build a cult of personality.

Jesus' Family Secrets

Who Wrote the New Testament?

Who Wrote the Bible?

Bible Hunters - Season 1

We will examine the stories of people who travelled to Egypt in 19th-20th centuries to uncover the earliest Christian texts. Their discoveries shed controversial new light on the story of the Bible.

Bible Hunters - Season 1

Discoveries in Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries included strange zodiacs, hymns to Egypt's solar god, and heretical Christian texts. These threatened to shake the foundations of Christianity.

Rise and Fall: The Turning Points of World War II - Season 1

We examine key movements in the Pacific Theatre - the Fall of Singapore, the Battle of Midway and the Kokoda Campaign - Rommel's offensives in Africa, and the Allied bombing campaign over Europe.

Rise and Fall: The Turning Points of World War II - Season 1

The Axis forces begin to lose hold on their previous triumphs; between Japan's loosening hold on southeast Asia and Germany's growing defeats in Europe, we begin to see WW2's turning of the tide.

Rise and Fall: The Turning Points of World War II - Season 1

This episode explores moments of the war where Allied forces started to push back: the relief of Leningrad, the liberation of Paris, D-Day and the liberation of the Nazi extermination camps.

Rise and Fall: The Turning Points of World War II - Season 1

We witness the final moments and aftermath of World War II with the establishment of war crime trials - such as the ones in Nuremberg - and move towards peace with the creation of the United Nations.

World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

The inter-war years saw the rise of dictators, appeasement and the policies of the Third Reich until the invasion of Poland, and Japan's 1937 invasion of China escalated into a full-scale conflict.

Secrets of the Celtic Grave

Vikings: The Lost Kingdom

Female Spies of WWII - Season 1

As the Allies cornered the Nazis, D-Day loomed and the Russians dominated the East, the SOE deployed their best agents to help free France; these were the war's boldest and most dazzling heroines.