TV Schedule

  • 00:05

    27 Jan

    Escaping Hitler - Season 1

    Monty treks one of the toughest and most famous trails out of Nazi occupied France, taking him through the valleys and passes of the Pyrenees mountain range and into Spain.

  • 01:05

    27 Jan

    Escaping Hitler - Season 1

    Monty travels to Rossano in Italy - a gathering point for escaped POWs at the start of the Operation Galia exfiltration - and meets up with some of the last local eyewitnesses to the operation.

  • 01:55

    27 Jan

    Escaping Hitler - Season 1

    Monty heads to Slovenia to retrace one of the most daring - yet unknown - mass escapes of Allied prisoners during WWII, which was only made possible with the help and kindness of ordinary people.

  • 02:45

    27 Jan

    Escaping Hitler - Season 1

    Monty tells a story of evasion and escape through hostile territory in Italy. He follows the route taken by Len Harley - who spent months on the run - to escape over the mountains of the Majella.

  • 03:35

    27 Jan

    Turkish Passport

  • 05:10

    27 Jan

    Wicked Inventions - Season 2

    Like it or not, warfare, conflict and the need to explore the unknown is the catalyst for human progress in technology. The fact is that mankind is at its most inventive when it's being destructive.

  • 05:30

    27 Jan

    A Stitch In Time - Season 1

    Ninya and her team recreate the scandalous gown worn by Marie-Antoinette in Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun's portrait La Reine en Gaulle. Amber visits Paris to learn more about the woman behind the portrait.

  • 06:00

    27 Jan

    A Stitch In Time - Season 1

    Fusing biography, art and the history of fashion, Amber Butchart explores the lives of historical figures through the clothes they wore. In this episode, she examines a rare portrait of a working man.

  • 06:35

    27 Jan

    Museum Secrets - Season 2

    The Imperial War Museum tells the story of Britain at war - from WWI to the present - through a collection of 10 million items at five English locations visited by over two million people every year.

  • 07:25

    27 Jan

    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.

  • 08:35

    27 Jan

    Mysteries Decoded - Season 1

    Jennifer teams up with cryptozoologist Andrew Sanford to investigate newly-surfaced evidence of Bigfoot.

  • 09:30

    27 Jan

    History of Weapons - Season 1

    Speed becomes a decisive feature of warfare throughout history. A team of experts presents the most significant weapons where speed made a difference: the chariot, the revolver, and the sling.

  • 10:35

    27 Jan

    Escaping Hitler - Season 1

    Monty treks one of the toughest and most famous trails out of Nazi occupied France, taking him through the valleys and passes of the Pyrenees mountain range and into Spain.

  • 11:35

    27 Jan

    Escaping Hitler - Season 1

    Monty travels to Rossano in Italy - a gathering point for escaped POWs at the start of the Operation Galia exfiltration - and meets up with some of the last local eyewitnesses to the operation.

  • 12:40

    27 Jan

    Escaping Hitler - Season 1

    Monty heads to Slovenia to retrace one of the most daring - yet unknown - mass escapes of Allied prisoners during WWII, which was only made possible with the help and kindness of ordinary people.

  • 13:40

    27 Jan

    Escaping Hitler - Season 1

    Monty tells a story of evasion and escape through hostile territory in Italy. He follows the route taken by Len Harley - who spent months on the run - to escape over the mountains of the Majella.

  • 14:45

    27 Jan

    The Republic of Children

  • 15:55

    27 Jan

    Turkish Passport

  • 17:55

    27 Jan

    Royals: The Lost Letters - Season 1

    George V has changed the royal family's name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor, so deploys his five surviving children as part of a charm offensive to woo the public.

  • 18:55

    27 Jan

    World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

    June 1944: the British and Canadians are still short of the objective they planned to capture on D-Day: the city of Caen. This episode tells the story of the bloody fighting for the city.

  • 20:00

    27 Jan

    Mysteries Decoded - Season 1

    Jennifer heads to New Orleans and teams up with vampire/writer Vincent Curiel to investigate whether an ancient vampire has cracked the code on immortality.

  • 21:00

    27 Jan

    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.

  • 22:00

    27 Jan

    End of Empire - Season 1

    Attila the Hun built an empire that spanned Europe through political guile, masterful deal-making and war, only for his sons to lose it all within fifteen years.

  • 23:00

    27 Jan

    Inventors Under The Swastika

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Brings history to life with captivating documentaries that take a fresh, modern look into history. We take our viewers on a powerful journey through time with intelligent, well researched programmes that entertain and challenge their minds. The focus is on european history, revealing the secrets of the past and how it defines us today.

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The arrests, trials, and deaths of many innocents –this was the largest witch-hunt in American history!…

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In May of 1692, an affluent New England Salem community convicted 20 young women of being possessed…

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