TV Schedule

  • 00:40

    22 Dec

    Hitler: Countdown to War - Season 1

    In this episode, we reveal how Hitler manipulated and played games with the Czechs and the western powers of Britain and France to achieve his ends.

  • 01:40

    22 Dec

    Hitler: Countdown to War - Season 1

    In this episode, we explore how Adolf Hitler dragged the world ever closer to war by attacking Jewish people in his country and launching another military invasion abroad.

  • 02:30

    22 Dec

    Hitler: Countdown to War - Season 1

    In the final episode, we explore how Hitler dragged the world to war; fresh from invading Czechoslovakia, Hitler now turned to his next target - Poland.

  • 03:15

    22 Dec

    History Uncovered - Season 3

    We often think of partisans struggling on their own during WWII, yet many clandestine networks were mobilised, organised and funded by a secret British organisation, the S.O.E.

  • 04:10

    22 Dec

    Conquistadors: The Rise and Fall - Season 1

    The ruthlessly ambitious Hernán Cortés travels deep into the Mexican interior to conquer the Aztecs, one of the greatest empires in the Americas.

  • 04:55

    22 Dec

    Forbidden History - Season 7

    Thousands of people were dosed with LSD by the CIA; did the CIA murder its own people, poison a whole French town, experiment on New Yorkers and assassinate Bobby Kennedy?

  • 06:00

    22 Dec

    Secret Lives of the Roman Emperors with Mary Beard

  • 07:10

    22 Dec

    The Rise of the Dictators - Season 1

    Dictators often want to extend their power beyond their country's borders; this generally means military aggression and the deaths of vast numbers of soldiers and civilians.

  • 08:15

    22 Dec

    The Rise of the Dictators - Season 1

    Dictatorships are almost universally unsustainable; a dictator's thirst for power invariably leads to greater and greater oppression, leaving a nation broken and so all dictatorships eventually fall.

  • 09:20

    22 Dec

    JFK: 24 Hours That Changed The World

  • 10:15

    22 Dec

    The Secret Story of the Knights Templar - Season 1

    The Knights Templar were established as a special religious-military order within the tradition of medieval knighthood, but the rise and fall of the Order involves several secrets and mysteries.

  • 11:20

    22 Dec

    The Secret Story of the Knights Templar - Season 1

    Discover the developments that led the famous Knights Templar to extreme power; they subsequently became the target of specific accusations arranged by the French court.

  • 12:30

    22 Dec

    The Secret Story of the Knights Templar - Season 1

    The Knights Templar left a legacy both visible - with castles, villages, and abbeys - and invisible through long-lasting traditions claiming the survival of individuals belonging to the Order.

  • 13:35

    22 Dec

    World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

    Japan's escalation of the War in the East is devastatingly effective, but despite their success it is possible to see their inevitable defeat, and they have roused the military might of the USA.

  • 14:40

    22 Dec

    World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

    The war turns in favour of the Allies. Montgomery turns the tables on the Afrika Corps at El Alamein, the Japanese are defeated at Guadalcanal and the Germans are defeated at Stalingrad.

  • 15:40

    22 Dec

    World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

    The Allied leaders meet for their first conference to discuss the coordination of their efforts, a Japanese Division is destroyed at sea, and the Red Army begins its advance towards Berlin.

  • 16:50

    22 Dec

    World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

    The Germans continue their retreat from Russia, but the most significant event at this stage of the war is the second front in Europe with the D-Day landings on June 6th - Operation Overlord.

  • 17:50

    22 Dec

    World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

    The Allies continue their eastward push from Normandy and close on the German border. In the east the Soviet Union unleashes the greatest offensive of the war, Operation Bagration.

  • 18:55

    22 Dec

    World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

    The Allies succeed in crossing the Rhine and fight their way through Germany as the Red Army finally forces Axis troops from Soviet territory and closes on the capital, Berlin.

  • 19:55

    22 Dec

    World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

    Berlin falls and the war in Europe ends. Okinawa falls with terrible losses on both sides as each prepares for the invasion of the first of the major home islands - but a new weapon is unleashed.

  • 21:00

    22 Dec

    Pompeii: The New Dig - Season 1

    Italian archaeologists begin the biggest dig in a generation at Pompeiil; they find a bakery, a wealthy house, and a fresco of a so-called 'pizza' before making a grisly discovery.

  • 22:15

    22 Dec

    Pompeii: The New Dig - Season 1

    A new excavation at Pompeii continues to unearth rich discoveries while a pioneering new investigation finds evidence that some Pompeiians survived the eruption of A.D. / C.E. 79.

  • 23:30

    22 Dec

    Pompeii: The New Dig - Season 1

    The excavation of a wealthy villa, bakery and laundry in Pompeii reaches its climax with chilling revelations about what people were doing in the final terrifying hours in A.D. / C.E. 79.

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