TV Schedule

  • 00:05

    23 Feb

    D-Day: The Soldiers' Story - Season 1

    Giles Milton visits key D-Day sites along the Normandy coastline - including Omaha Beach and Pegasus Bridge - and we hear the stories of the men and women on both the attacking and defensive lines.

  • 01:05

    23 Feb

    D-Day: The Soldiers' Story - Season 1

    Giles Milton guides us round Normandy - the place where the D-Day invasion proved successful - from the gliders who went behind enemy lines to paratroopers who ambushed vital German generals.

  • 02:00

    23 Feb

    D-Day: The 80th Anniversary

  • 02:50

    23 Feb

    Who Wrote the Bible?

  • 03:45

    23 Feb

    Revolutions That Changed History - Season 1

    Russian officers sought to overthrow the Romanovs by planning a coup and assassination; betrayal and hesitation unravelled the revolt, but the failed attempt inspired future Russian revolutionaries.

  • 04:35

    23 Feb

    Forbidden History - Season 7

    The crucifixion of Jesus changed the world; how much of our understanding of this event is true, and what answers can be found in the Holy Land to back up the Bible's story?

  • 05:20

    23 Feb

    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?

  • 06:10

    23 Feb

    Cursed Bloodlines - Season 1

    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.

  • 06:40

    23 Feb

    Ancient Superstructures - Season 3

    Commonly known as Notre Dame, Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral is one of the most emblematic monuments of Paris and France; its construction began in 1163 and lasted for two centuries.

  • 07:45

    23 Feb

    Vikings: The True Story - Season 1

    This episode explores the 'Vikingopolis' - the mounds around the fjords at Borre - the truth behind the fabled 'Fimbulwinter', and whether Thor and Odin actually existed or not.

  • 08:45

    23 Feb

    Vikings: The True Story - Season 1

    In this episode, we discover more about the slave trade in the Viking age, a second female skeleton found in the Oseburg ship, and an account of a survivor of a Viking slave raid.

  • 09:45

    23 Feb

    Normandy: Land of Warriors - Season 1

    Normandy owes its name to terrible warriors coming from the North: the Vikings. These men ravaged the Norman lands until it was ceded to them and became their territory.

  • 10:50

    23 Feb

    From the Ashes of WWII - Season 1

    From the brutal devastation of WWII to the stoicism of Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, this episode explores the tension between Russia and Poland as they rebuilt their societies and cities.

  • 12:05

    23 Feb

    The Engineering That Built the World - Season 1

    After the London Underground becomes the first subway system in the world, visionary engineers in New York and Boston try to build the first one in America.

  • 13:00

    23 Feb

    The Engineering That Built the World - Season 1

    Two brave visionaries endure failure and heartache a century before the internet while risking everything to connect the United States to the rest of the world with a cable under the ocean.

  • 13:55

    23 Feb

    The Engineering That Built the World - Season 1

    Engineer Joseph Strauss and US President Herbert Hoover battle side by side to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time - the Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge - in San Francisco.

  • 14:45

    23 Feb

    The Engineering That Built the World - Season 1

    A hard-driving engineer with a reputation for excellence is on a quest to tame one of the wildest rivers in the United States to bring much-needed water to the arid American West.

  • 15:40

    23 Feb

    Greatest Events of World War II In Colour - Season 1

    Britain and France declare war when Hitler invades Poland; in May 1940, the Germans attack Holland and Belgium as a decoy. As the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe strike in force, the French seem trapped.

  • 16:40

    23 Feb

    Greatest Events of World War II In Colour - Season 1

    1940: France has fallen and Hitler orders Operation Sealion - the invasion of Great Britain - to commence, but first the Luftwaffe must defeat the RAF for seaborne landings to succeed.

  • 17:50

    23 Feb

    Greatest Events of World War II In Colour - Season 1

    When Japan's expansion in the Pacific reaches fever pitch, Roosevelt must act. Instead of having them back down by cutting off oil supplies, he pushes them to attack the US fleet in Pearl Harbor.

  • 18:50

    23 Feb

    Greatest Events of World War II In Colour - Season 1

    In the aftermath of Japan's attack at Pearl Harbor, the Navy moves in for a knockout blow. Japan's next strike is thrown into chaos when its plans are unearthed by an American codebreaker.

  • 19:55

    23 Feb

    Greatest Events of World War II In Colour - Season 1

    1942: Hitler pits the forces of the German Fatherland against those of the Soviet Motherland at Stalingrad. Stalin's fiercely patriotic army will fight the Nazis to the last drop of blood.

  • 21:00

    23 Feb

    Bronze-Age Apocalypse - Season 1

    Professor Salima Ikram shows us an extraordinary series of reliefs and inscriptions about Ramses' battles with the 'Sea People' at Ramses III's mortuary temple at Medinet Habu in Egypt.

  • 22:00

    23 Feb

    Bronze-Age Apocalypse - Season 1

    Around 1200 B.C. / B.C.E.: Bronze Age people are on the move across the Eastern Mediterranean and sacking and burning the great centres of civilisation as they go.

  • 23:00

    23 Feb

    Out of Europe

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