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18 Mar
With the war swinging toward the Allies, both sides still used some masterful deceptions; the post-war era saw the US and Soviet Union in a deadly game of espionage in the race for atomic supremacy.
18 Mar
Newly-discovered secret files uncover the shocking extent of a Nazi drugs programme; from the start of WWII, the German blitzkrieg was fuelled by the powerful narcotic crystal meth.
18 Mar
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.
18 Mar
From tunnels excavated in total darkness to cities thriving against all odds in the desert, our ancient ancestors have built improbable structures that even rival the engineering marvels of today.
18 Mar
The last mention of the Ark of the Covenant was in 586 B.C. / B.C.E., just before the Babylonian sacking of Jerusalem - now a team of archaeologists search for the Ark beneath the city.
18 Mar
In the heart of the Peruvian Andes, the city of Machu Picchu remains the Inca's most breathtaking and enigmatic urban creation; today, experts investigate areas that were previously unknown.
18 Mar
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.
18 Mar
18 Mar
Don Wildman examines an action figure connected to a North Korean kidnapping, a gold ring that became the symbol of one slave's freedom, and a 19th-century board game which was the first of its kind.
18 Mar
Don Wildman examines a stone tablet which may hold the key to America's beginnings and a revolver that once belonged to the first American woman to lead an armed expedition into war.
18 Mar
Don Wildman examines the amazing discovery made during the search for the elusive Loch Ness Monster and a tone-deaf diva who took centre stage at Carnegie Hall.
18 Mar
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.
18 Mar
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?
18 Mar
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.
18 Mar
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.
18 Mar
Few know of the involvement of African-American troops in the Battle of the Bulge; experts retrace their journey to tell the story of those who fought a war against racism in a segregated army.
18 Mar
Equipped with cutting-edge drone technology, a team of battlefield experts set out to scan the site of one of the longest and bloodiest campaigns of World War II.
18 Mar
The fate of the tiny island of Malta hung by a thread during the war; using aerial and underwater drones, experts explore the defences of Malta to understand how the island survived.
18 Mar
Using drone-mounted radar, experts uncover a WWII German trench system revealing a daring commando raid to capture it; at sea, the remains of a tank show how dangerous the preparations for D-Day were.
18 Mar
For the first time in history, the theatre of war takes place mainly in the air; from the invention of radar to Hitler's 'Wonder Weapons', all means are good to bring the enemy to the ground.
18 Mar
Using cutting-edge drone technology, experts revisit some of the key sites across the former Third Reich to understand how the Nazi war machine operated.
18 Mar
In Turkey, investigators are unlocking remarkable new secrets that are transforming our understanding of the past; they're excavating the ruins of a city that many believe to be Troy itself.
18 Mar
Did the Trojan War really happen? In Amsterdam, a team examine the work of old explorers and uncover new clues; in Greece, archaeologists unearth the remains of a town that could be linked to Troy.
18 Mar
18 Mar
June 1940: Hitler sends armored divisions into France, Belgium and the Netherlands, yet Hitler's Germany in 1940 was broke. How could the Nazis embark on the cataclysm that was the Second World War?
18 Mar
Behind the victory of 1940 lay a country in financial tatters; we discover how the Nazi economy drew up the 'Hunger Plan', a vast project to starve 30 million Slavs so the Aryans could be fed.
18 Mar
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