TV Schedule

  • 00:20

    01 Feb

    Adolf Hitler: Decoding A Dictator - Season 1

    Was Adolf Hitler a master of war or a maker of war? His obsessive quest for territorial domination led to early triumphs, but his refusal to listen to his generals led to catastrophic failures.

  • 01:30

    01 Feb

    The Masters of the Reich - Season 1

    We look at the Nazi hegemony from 1941 to its decline in 1945; deciphered archives show us the greatest offensive of the 20th century in the East as well as the apocalypse of a ruined Germany.

  • 02:30

    01 Feb

    Ancient Superstructures - Season 3

    The Mayan city of Chichen Itza was the capital of a powerful civilisation - the 'water wizards' of the Itzas - but was mysteriously abandoned between the 11th and 13th centuries.

  • 03:20

    01 Feb

    The Black Pharaohs

  • 04:15

    01 Feb

    The Secrets of Hieroglyphics - Season 1

  • 05:00

    01 Feb

    The Secrets of Hieroglyphics - Season 1

  • 06:20

    01 Feb

    Cursed Bloodlines - Season 1

    It is said that the Winchester family was haunted by the souls of those who were killed by the Winchester rifle. A series of personal misfortunes seemed to confirm the family was struck by a curse.

  • 06:45

    01 Feb

    Strangest Things - Season 1

    Can a 3,000-year-old solid gold hat really see into the future? How could a tiny metal cube have won the war for Hitler? How could an intricate and complex clock have solved a billion-pound problem?

  • 07:40

    01 Feb

    The Secrets of Hieroglyphics - Season 1

  • 08:40

    01 Feb

    The Secrets of Hieroglyphics - Season 1

  • 09:40

    01 Feb

    The Black Pharaohs

  • 10:50

    01 Feb

    The World War: 1914-1945 - Season 1

    Hitler and Stalin begin to shape the course of history. President Roosevelt attempts to raise his country out of the Depression, and the world teeters on the brink of yet another World War.

  • 11:50

    01 Feb

    The World War: 1914-1945 - Season 1

    Hitler's invasion of the Rhineland was a gamble that paid off as his push west remained unchecked; while the leaders of Europe attempt 'peace', Kristallnacht signalled the horrors yet to come to many.

  • 12:50

    01 Feb

    The World War: 1914-1945 - Season 1

    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.

  • 13:50

    01 Feb

    The World War: 1914-1945 - Season 1

    Operation Barbarossa's endgame does not come to fruition; with the world distracted, Japan launch their attack on Pearl Harbor, forcing American isolationists to join the war in earnest.

  • 14:55

    01 Feb

    The World War: 1914-1945 - Season 1

    War in Europe ends with Soviet and American troops surrounding the German army; in the Pacific, it takes the devastating nuclear bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force the Japanese surrender.

  • 15:55

    01 Feb

    War Factories - Season 3

    The key machine in the Blitzkrieg was the GM Opel Blitz; this episode tells the story of the Blitz and the American-owned war factories that would produce them and put business before country.

  • 16:50

    01 Feb

    War Factories - Season 3

    March 1915: a unit of 90 German infantrymen are armed with two MGo8 Maxim-style machine guns. In just 90 minutes, they inflict 1,000 casualties upon advancing British infantry.

  • 17:50

    01 Feb

    Secret Weapons: WWII - Season 1

    The struggle for victory necessitated development of gun technologies; new inventions would emerge on the battlefields and at times surprise soldiers on both sides of the fight.

  • 18:55

    01 Feb

    Secret Weapons: WWII - Season 1

    World War II fostered the emergence of both iconic and unusual tanks that were each engineered with distinct aims; we explore diverse tank innovations and the overall trajectory of armoured warfare.

  • 19:55

    01 Feb

    Secret Weapons: WWII - Season 1

    World War II ignited a fierce battle for aerial dominance and drove nations to pioneer secret aircraft technologies; this episode explores the development of early jet fighters.

  • 21:00

    01 Feb

    Battle of Crete - Season 1

    In May 1941, 14,000 German paratroopers supported by nearly a thousand aircraft were dropped on the island in a unique blitzkrieg operation; an airborne invasion of this scale would never be repeated.

  • 22:05

    01 Feb

    Battle of Crete - Season 1

    Protected by a series of actions to slow down the German advance, thousands of Allied soldiers embarked on a march across Crete to meet the Royal Navy, taking them 400 miles across the Mediterranean.

  • 23:15

    01 Feb

    Battle of Crete - Season 1

    Crete was one of the last places surrendered by the Nazis; it took more than 30 years for 4,000 Germans to be buried on the island, and claims for reparations drag on even to this day.

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