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20 Mar
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 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.
20 Mar
A rushed investigation into the death of Hitler's niece Geli Raubal ruled that she had committed suicide. Did she die at her own hands, or was she a tragic victim of Hitler's overbearing affections?
20 Mar
The Nazis had plans for a gigantic mirror in space that could focus sunlight into a narrow beam capable of obliterating cities and armies from 5,100 miles above the Earth.
20 Mar
Explore the invasion of Poland at the start of World War II and the creation of the Underground Army, a resistance movement that became the most powerful of its kind in Europe.
20 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.
20 Mar
Imaginative animation and entertaining narrative combine in an extraordinary exploration of Greece and the rise of an ancient super-power that would leave a permanent mark on western society.
20 Mar
The ancient city of Petra, hidden in the barren desert of southern Jordan, has captured the global imagination; what could have led such a grand and elaborate city to be abandoned?
20 Mar
Hitler's audacious plan to turn the tide of the war; colourised archive depicts the Germans' opening salvo artillery barrage and George Patton's arrival in Bastogne to break the German siege.
20 Mar
July 1944: American forces plan a major offensive named Operation Cobra. They would attack near St Lo, achieve a breakthrough, then unleash General Patton and the US Third Army to exploit the opening.
20 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.
20 Mar
For most people, Vikings are known only as violent looters; we dig deeper and gain more insight into who the Vikings really were, and find out why they left Scandinavia to become pirates.
20 Mar
As the Vikings attack the coasts of the Frankish empire, they encounter a different resistance; the Frankish emperor Charlemagne has no plans to give up his Christian territory to heathens and pirates.
20 Mar
20 Mar
Imaginative animation and entertaining narrative combine in an extraordinary exploration of Greece and the rise of an ancient super-power that would leave a permanent mark on western society.
20 Mar
Can a shred of metal dug up on a 1,000-year-old native American site really be Viking, and is a strange fired clay disk discovered on Crete really the product of Europe's earliest civilisation?
20 Mar
The ancient city of Petra, hidden in the barren desert of southern Jordan, has captured the global imagination; what could have led such a grand and elaborate city to be abandoned?
20 Mar
Hitler's audacious plan to turn the tide of the war; colourised archive depicts the Germans' opening salvo artillery barrage and George Patton's arrival in Bastogne to break the German siege.
20 Mar
July 1944: American forces plan a major offensive named Operation Cobra. They would attack near St Lo, achieve a breakthrough, then unleash General Patton and the US Third Army to exploit the opening.
20 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.
20 Mar
A rushed investigation into the death of Hitler's niece Geli Raubal ruled that she had committed suicide. Did she die at her own hands, or was she a tragic victim of Hitler's overbearing affections?
20 Mar
The Nazis had plans for a gigantic mirror in space that could focus sunlight into a narrow beam capable of obliterating cities and armies from 5,100 miles above the Earth.
20 Mar
Explore the invasion of Poland at the start of World War II and the creation of the Underground Army, a resistance movement that became the most powerful of its kind in Europe.
20 Mar
December 1944: Hitler has picked the Ardennes sector for a major offensive. The surprise attack, spearheaded by elite divisions, initially sends American units reeling.
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