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06 Apr
The final hours of WW2 change the course of history; as the Americans inch closer to Japan, the Japanese fight with greater intensity. The question now is how to force capitulation.
06 Apr
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.
06 Apr
Germany seeks to neutralise British strength from the air in the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe has been deterred but the Blitz begins. The Germans move to support their allies in North Africa.
06 Apr
From around 900 CE, the Maya's luck ran out and their great cities were largely abandoned; archaeologists are looking for any clues to help explain the spectacular collapse of the Maya civilisation.
06 Apr
We reveal America's top-secret team of codebreakers who cracked the Soviet Union's unbreakable code to unmask spies at the very highest levels of government.
06 Apr
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.
06 Apr
How did a faked human fossil fool experts for half a century, and how did a lump of wood and some bits of bent metal become one of Russia's most dangerous weapons?
06 Apr
In 1950, three Danish farmers came across a grizzly find - a body buried in a peat bog. Instances of this became known as 'bog bodies', naturally mummified corpses buried during Europe's Iron Age.
06 Apr
The final hours of WW2 change the course of history; as the Americans inch closer to Japan, the Japanese fight with greater intensity. The question now is how to force capitulation.
06 Apr
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.
06 Apr
Germany seeks to neutralise British strength from the air in the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe has been deterred but the Blitz begins. The Germans move to support their allies in North Africa.
06 Apr
King George V knew he had to keep his country safe from the dangers of Nazi Germany, but when his eldest son Edward VIII abandoned royal duty for love, the crown was thrown into a deep crisis.
06 Apr
There are private and public pressures on the Windsors; on a visit to the East End, Bertie and his wife are shouted at: 'We don't want no royal parasites, give us food!' The Great Depression has hit.
06 Apr
Henry breaks with the Roman Catholic Church to marry Anne Boleyn, but he grows tired of her and falls for Jane Seymour. Anne's fate is sealed; when she is executed, Henry marries Jane immediately.
06 Apr
We investigate grim evidence of human sacrifice at Copán in Honduras, and experts brave an erupting volcano in Guatemala to search for clues explaining why the Maya abandoned their cities.
06 Apr
How did a faked human fossil fool experts for half a century, and how did a lump of wood and some bits of bent metal become one of Russia's most dangerous weapons?
06 Apr
In 1950, three Danish farmers came across a grizzly find - a body buried in a peat bog. Instances of this became known as 'bog bodies', naturally mummified corpses buried during Europe's Iron Age.
06 Apr
The final hours of WW2 change the course of history; as the Americans inch closer to Japan, the Japanese fight with greater intensity. The question now is how to force capitulation.
06 Apr
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.
06 Apr
Germany seeks to neutralise British strength from the air in the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe has been deterred but the Blitz begins. The Germans move to support their allies in North Africa.
06 Apr
From around 900 CE, the Maya's luck ran out and their great cities were largely abandoned; archaeologists are looking for any clues to help explain the spectacular collapse of the Maya civilisation.
06 Apr
We reveal America's top-secret team of codebreakers who cracked the Soviet Union's unbreakable code to unmask spies at the very highest levels of government.
06 Apr
It is believed that British decolonisation was a peaceful process, but with violent repression, internment camps, and civil wars, the British crown didn't let go of its colonial jewels easily.
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