TV Schedule

  • 00:20

    23 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).

  • 01:25

    23 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.

  • 02:15

    23 Mar

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

  • 03:10

    23 Mar

    Cursed Bloodlines - Season 1

    The Habsburgs were the most powerful family in Europe for centuries; why was their destiny so fatal, and were all their tribulations connected to some kind of curse?

  • 03:35

    23 Mar

    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.

  • 04:00

    23 Mar

    Treasures with Bettany Hughes - Season 4

    Bettany travels into the eastern Mediterranean to explore the countries around the Levantine Sea as we learn more about the region's rich history, its people and its cultural significance.

  • 04:45

    23 Mar

    Forbidden History - Season 6

    The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt is a wonder of the world, but when was it built, for what purpose, and by who, and what can the earliest pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara add to the argument?

  • 05:30

    23 Mar

    Forbidden History - Season 6

    How great was the Nazi belief in the occult? Was Hitler behind it, or was this mostly Himmler's doing, and did Nazi generals believe in the occult and attend secret ceremonies?

  • 06:30

    23 Mar

    Queens That Changed The World - Season 1

    Eleanor became Queen of France whilst still a teenager; after that marriage was annulled, she married English heir Henry and had a strong influence on both the king's and her son's reigns.

  • 07:30

    23 Mar

    Queens That Changed The World - Season 1

    Boudica's husband Prasutagus, who was chief of the Iceni, died before Roman invaders beat her and had her daughters raped; in revenge, Boudica and her army razed Roman cities to the ground.

  • 08:30

    23 Mar

    The True Story of the Tattooist of Auschwitz

  • 09:35

    23 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.

  • 10:50

    23 Mar

    Roman Megastructures - Season 1

    Lyon is the third-largest city in France; in ancient times it was the largest. At the time, the capital of the Gauls was called Lugdunum, a showcase for Rome in lands conquered by Julius Caesar.

  • 12:00

    23 Mar

    Roman Megastructures - Season 1

    During the Gallic Wars, Arles in the south of France fared really well. The most beautiful Roman monuments were built there, hence Arles was nicknamed 'the little Rome of Ancient Gaul'.

  • 13:05

    23 Mar

    Roman Megastructures - Season 1

    Using 3D imagery, reconstitutions and interviews with historians and archaeologists, this episode tells the story of Gallo-Roman Paris and uncovers the vestiges of ancient Paris: Lutetia.

  • 14:15

    23 Mar

    Secret Lives of the Roman Emperors with Mary Beard

  • 15:50

    23 Mar

    Rise and Fall: The Turning Points of World War II - Season 1

    This episode explores moments of the war where Allied forces started to push back: the relief of Leningrad, the liberation of Paris, D-Day and the liberation of the Nazi extermination camps.

  • 16:50

    23 Mar

    Rise and Fall: The Turning Points of World War II - Season 1

    We witness the final moments and aftermath of World War II with the establishment of war crime trials - such as the ones in Nuremberg - and move towards peace with the creation of the United Nations.

  • 17:55

    23 Mar

    The World War: 1914-1945 - Season 1

    In June 1914, the first steps towards war were made when Archduke Franz Ferdinand, from the house of Habsburg, was assassinated by Slav nationalist Gavrilo Princip.

  • 18:55

    23 Mar

    The World War: 1914-1945 - Season 1

    During WWI, men had to endure combat and extreme conditions; civilians dealt with food shortages and raids. The insidiousness of ethnic cleansing raised its head, and a young Adolf Hitler took note.

  • 20:00

    23 Mar

    The World War: 1914-1945 - Season 1

    Stalin rises as the leader of the Bolsheviks, and in Munich, the German Workers Party takes a new name: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter, or 'Nazi' as it would come to be called.

  • 21:00

    23 Mar

    Waco: Untold Stories - Season 1

    In 1993, 82 members of a religious sect called the Branch Davidians died due to a fire and an infamous 51-day siege by the FBI; many of these were British, and these are their stories.

  • 22:00

    23 Mar

    Waco: Untold Stories - Season 1

    The concluding episode of the series. As operations to enforce the law on the Branch Davidians begin, the siege ends with the deaths of men, women and children in a fire.

  • 23:00

    23 Mar

    Why Planes Vanish: The Mystery of Flight MH370

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