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17 Jan
20th-century battles have changed the course of history; the Battle of the Somme saw over 60,000 casualties on the first day alone and D-Day marked the beginning of Hitler's ultimate defeat.
17 Jan
The Nazis did all they could behind enemy lines to keep the Luftwaffe in the air and set up shop in Kamienna Gora; do the abandoned plants and tunnels here hide Hitler's ultimate revenge weapon?
17 Jan
Led by Spartacus, gladiator slaves escaped Roman rule and sparked a rebellion of thousands; despite victories, the Romans exploited their weaknesses and ended their uprising but their legacy remained.
17 Jan
Victoria presided over a period of history which saw huge industrial, social and territorial expansion; she reignited the public love of the monarchy and led the way for modern royals.
17 Jan
Don goes deep beneath the Great Lakes and explores flooded caves as he searches for evidence of a mysterious cave-dwelling society that may have been the first people to reach America.
17 Jan
The Lost Japanese Treasure is thought to have been buried under the Philippines by retreating Japanese forces at the end of WWII; it is said to include relics, artwork, and gold melted down into bars.
17 Jan
J. Paul Getty was renowned for his wealth and frugality as well as his lack of empathy and compassion for his family. He would marry four times and sire five sons, but he died old and alone.
17 Jan
The story of how Persia morphed into Iran is very much the story of one family, the Pahlavis. Their reign would prove short-lived for a dynasty, but it was the most tumultuous in the nation's history.
17 Jan
The Devil's Bible has long intrigued experts; who wrote it? In search of the truth, we visit a castle said to house a gate to Hell, huge rock-carved demons, and the palaces of heretical monarchs.
17 Jan
Is the 11,000-year-old heavily worked skull of a deer evidence of the earliest known religion, and is a Bronze Age disk covered in gold decoration the earliest representation of the cosmos?
17 Jan
We look at the US codebreakers who cracked Japan's seemingly unbreakable WWII code and turned the War in the Pacific in America's favour.
17 Jan
Don goes deep beneath the Great Lakes and explores flooded caves as he searches for evidence of a mysterious cave-dwelling society that may have been the first people to reach America.
17 Jan
They move under the cover of thick forests or hide in the icy snow and go by a number of different names from Bigfoot to Sasquatch to Yeti, but do these giant apelike creatures actually exist?
17 Jan
After a snub in Munich, the Soviets make a pact with the Germans; with the invasion of Poland, the pretence of peace is gone as France and the UK declare war on Germany.
17 Jan
How the Avro Lancaster played a large part in defeating the Nazis and how the Lancaster factory helped to create truly war-winning weapons.
17 Jan
Kraftwerk Nord West was one of the largest Nazi bunkers ever; constructed outside of the French town of Watten, it was a missile facility with storage for 108 missiles and two launch pads.
17 Jan
We look at the US codebreakers who cracked Japan's seemingly unbreakable WWII code and turned the War in the Pacific in America's favour.
17 Jan
Is the 11,000-year-old heavily worked skull of a deer evidence of the earliest known religion, and is a Bronze Age disk covered in gold decoration the earliest representation of the cosmos?
17 Jan
Don goes deep beneath the Great Lakes and explores flooded caves as he searches for evidence of a mysterious cave-dwelling society that may have been the first people to reach America.
17 Jan
They move under the cover of thick forests or hide in the icy snow and go by a number of different names from Bigfoot to Sasquatch to Yeti, but do these giant apelike creatures actually exist?
17 Jan
After a snub in Munich, the Soviets make a pact with the Germans; with the invasion of Poland, the pretence of peace is gone as France and the UK declare war on Germany.
17 Jan
The Nazis did all they could behind enemy lines to keep the Luftwaffe in the air and set up shop in Kamienna Gora; do the abandoned plants and tunnels here hide Hitler's ultimate revenge weapon?
17 Jan
How the Avro Lancaster played a large part in defeating the Nazis and how the Lancaster factory helped to create truly war-winning weapons.
17 Jan
Led by Spartacus, gladiator slaves escaped Roman rule and sparked a rebellion of thousands; despite victories, the Romans exploited their weaknesses and ended their uprising but their legacy remained.
17 Jan
Victoria presided over a period of history which saw huge industrial, social and territorial expansion; she reignited the public love of the monarchy and led the way for modern royals.
17 Jan
When Joseph Goebbles featured the luxurious SS Cap Arcona in a propaganda film about the Titanic, he never imagined that this German ocean liner would meet a similar tragic fate.
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