TV Schedule

  • 00:10

    22 Mar

    From the Ashes of WWII - Season 1

    The scars of centuries of conflict are etched into Italy's ancient landmarks; this episode explores how it rose from the devastating failure of fascism to the rebirth of its identity.

  • 01:30

    22 Mar

    Bomber: Terror of WWII - Season 1

    The firebombing of Tokyo signalled the power of the B29 bomber, the development of which exceeded in cost the Manhattan Project that produced the A-bomb.

  • 02:20

    22 Mar

    The Giza Pyramid: Reaching For The Stars

  • 03:15

    22 Mar

    Secret Lives of the Roman Emperors with Mary Beard

  • 04:15

    22 Mar

    Crucifixion Bones

  • 05:10

    22 Mar

    The Mystery of the Holy Lance

  • 06:05

    22 Mar

    Cursed Bloodlines - Season 1

    Like the Kennedy dynasty in the US, the Agnelli story is marked by an over-sized influence on the history of their country and by a succession of tragedies that has spanned generations.

  • 06:30

    22 Mar

    Secret Lives of the Roman Emperors with Mary Beard

  • 07:45

    22 Mar

    Crucifixion Bones

  • 08:55

    22 Mar

    The Mystery of the Holy Lance

  • 10:00

    22 Mar

    WWII: Frontlines - Season 1

    December 1944: with Europe in the grip of a terrible winter, Hitler's Panzers spearhead an attack on the Allied frontline in the Ardennes; they are to break through and re-capture the port of Antwerp.

  • 11:05

    22 Mar

    WWII: Frontlines - Season 1

    June-July 1944: three weeks after D-Day, the Allied advance has stalled; the killing fields around Hill 112 become the start of a brutal war of attrition that the Nazis cannot afford to wage.

  • 12:10

    22 Mar

    WWII: Frontlines - Season 1

    February 1945: a quarter of all US Marines who died in WWII were killed in Iwo Jima; the Leathernecks were forced to re-think their tactics as one in three of them became a casualty.

  • 13:20

    22 Mar

    WWII: Frontlines - Season 1

    April 1945: Stalin's generals compete to raise the Red Flag over the Reichstag; a Panzer Army, two army groups, and the home guard are locked in a desperate battle with the encircling Red Army.

  • 14:25

    22 Mar

    Deception WWII - Season 1

    WWII began with a deadly deception inside a Polish radio station; the early years of the war saw deception in its infancy, from code-breaking and spies to fake bombing sites and even inflatable tanks.

  • 15:30

    22 Mar

    World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

    June 1944: the British and Canadians are still short of the objective they planned to capture on D-Day: the city of Caen. This episode tells the story of the bloody fighting for the city.

  • 16:35

    22 Mar

    World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

    July 1944: American forces plan a major offensive named Operation Cobra. They would attack near St Lo, achieve a breakthrough, then unleash General Patton and the US Third Army to exploit the opening.

  • 17:40

    22 Mar

    World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

    September 1944: Montgomery proposes a bold plan to cross the Rhine and encircle Germany's industrial heartland. If successful, his plan could end the war by Christmas.

  • 18:50

    22 Mar

    World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

    October 1944: the Allies face a major supply crisis - vital fuel and ammunition still has to be landed at the D-Day beaches. When the port of Antwerp is liberated, it seems the crisis might be over.

  • 19:55

    22 Mar

    World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

    November 1944: as the Allies advance into Germany, they run into concrete bunkers, pillboxes, minefields and tank traps. German soldiers fight tenaciously to defend their homeland.

  • 21:00

    22 Mar

    No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank's Story

  • 22:05

    22 Mar

    Women Under Hitler's Flag - Season 1

    This first episode, which begins with Hitler's arrival in power in 1933, goes back to the roots of the indoctrination of young German girls within the female branch of the Hitler Youth (BDM).

  • 23:10

    22 Mar

    Women Under Hitler's Flag - Season 1

    Women were far from mere witnesses or accomplices by 1942 - and played a role as important as it was deadly. After the war, the women of the Reich simply slipped through the judicial net.

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