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30 Jan
This episode reveals how the Roman Army turned its attention to Britain - an island of resources, powerful tribes, and advanced military equipment - and the homeland of Queen Boudicca.
30 Jan
June 1944 - American, British and Canadian troops stormed the Normandy beaches along a 50-mile stretch. We look at the amphibious tanks and the heavy kit that weighed them down as they waded ashore.
30 Jan
November 1944: as the Allies advance into Germany, they run into concrete bunkers, pillboxes, minefields and tank traps. German soldiers fight tenaciously to defend their homeland.
30 Jan
Don Wildman examines a statue created by the world's best-known art forger, a mysterious cache of buried gold coins, and a woman whose sales technique made Tupperware a household name.
30 Jan
Don Wildman examines the chilling stories behind an eccentric motorised expedition to the North Pole, a frozen feat of nautical engineering during World War II and a carnival creature in an ice block.
30 Jan
Amber delves into the history of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate daughter to a British captain and an enslaved African woman. The recreation of a dress worn by Dido on a painting proves tricky.
30 Jan
How great was the Nazi belief in the occult? Was Hitler behind it, or was this mostly Himmler's doing, and did Nazi generals believe in the occult and attend secret ceremonies?
30 Jan
Don Wildman examines a statue created by the world's best-known art forger, a mysterious cache of buried gold coins, and a woman whose sales technique made Tupperware a household name.
30 Jan
Amber delves into the history of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate daughter to a British captain and an enslaved African woman. The recreation of a dress worn by Dido on a painting proves tricky.
30 Jan
In this episode, archaeologists begin a pioneering experiment to build a replica Aztec pyramid and investigate the mysterious pyramid ruins being unearthed in the heart of Mexico City.
30 Jan
Archaeologists investigate the discovery of over 100 ancient skeletons buried in a hillside outside Mexico City and manage to complete their experiment to build a replica Aztec pyramid.
30 Jan
The 7th of December, 1941: the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii is attacked by 350 Japanese planes that sink four American battleships, destroy 188 aircraft, and kill more than 2,000 Americans.
30 Jan
The 13th of April, 1943: corpses of more than 4,000 Polish military officers are discovered by German forces; we now know they were victims of the Soviet Union's brutal takeover of Poland in 1939.
30 Jan
Tehran, the 29th of November, 1943: 'The Big Three' are meeting. The leaders seem to be in support of one another, but they also have their own interests at heart; how will they work together?
30 Jan
The 6th of June, 1944 - D-Day: more than 156,000 British, American, and Canadian soldiers are transported across the English Channel in the largest seaborne invasion ever attempted.
30 Jan
February 1945: the Allies can almost taste victory. 'The Big Three' come face to face for the last time in Yalta to decide what the future will look like after the war finally comes to an end.
30 Jan
War at sea was a new form of warfare with exceptional challenges. Expert Stephen Bull tests the most significant weapons of the sea; one of the most devastating missiles ever invented is the torpedo.
30 Jan
Attacking the enemy in an ambush is a devastating advantage at war. Weapons that stayed undetected until their very strike - the caltrop, the rifle, and the land mine - revolutionised warfare.
30 Jan
November 1944: as the Allies advance into Germany, they run into concrete bunkers, pillboxes, minefields and tank traps. German soldiers fight tenaciously to defend their homeland.
30 Jan
December 1944: Hitler has picked the Ardennes sector for a major offensive. The surprise attack, spearheaded by elite divisions, initially sends American units reeling.
30 Jan
March 1945: the Allies have reached the River Rhine. Montgomery plans a giant operation to cross the river in the north, but luck hands the Americans a bridge over the Rhine at Remagen.
30 Jan
30 Jan
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.
30 Jan
Jennifer teams up with cryptozoologist Andrew Sanford to investigate newly-surfaced evidence of Bigfoot.
30 Jan
During the first century BC, how did the Gallic warrior Vercingetorix unite the Celtic front and challenge Julius Caesar in an epic battle that would shape the future of Europe?
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