TV Schedule

  • 00:15

    14 Jun

    Female Spies of WWII - Season 1

    As the Allies cornered the Nazis, D-Day loomed and the Russians dominated the East, the SOE deployed their best agents to help free France; these were the war's boldest and most dazzling heroines.

  • 01:20

    14 Jun

    Conquistadors: The Rise and Fall - Season 1

    Columbus' return voyage to the Americas began with bloodshed when he discovered that the Spanish left behind at Hispaniola were killed by the indigenous Taíno.

  • 02:15

    14 Jun

    Normandy: Land of Warriors - Season 1

    William the Conqueror becomes Duke of Normandy and attracts the wrath of envious barons; he has to fight his enemies to conquer an even larger land across the English Channel.

  • 03:05

    14 Jun

    Abu Simbel: Giants of the Nile

  • 04:00

    14 Jun

    The Giza Pyramid: Reaching For The Stars

  • 04:55

    14 Jun

    The Black Pharaohs

  • 06:05

    14 Jun

    Cursed Bloodlines - Season 1

    No other family in 20th-century America has held higher status than the Kennedys, but as blessed as they seemingly were, they were also cursed by a series of tragic and bizarre events.

  • 06:25

    14 Jun

    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?

  • 07:25

    14 Jun

    Abu Simbel: Giants of the Nile

  • 08:30

    14 Jun

    The Giza Pyramid: Reaching For The Stars

  • 09:35

    14 Jun

    The Black Pharaohs

  • 10:40

    14 Jun

    Secrets of the Nazi War Machine - Season 1

    At the outbreak of World War II, the Nazis had the finest airforce in the entire world; James Holland learns how internecine squabbles led the Nazi High Command on the catastrophic road to defeat.

  • 11:40

    14 Jun

    Secrets of the Nazi War Machine - Season 1

    James Holland uncovers the truth behind Hitler's feared Panzer divisions and explores how the German obsession with over-engineering their armoured vehicles brought about their downfall.

  • 12:40

    14 Jun

    Secrets of the Nazi War Machine - Season 1

    James Holland explores the U-boat fleet - from one-man torpedoes to the Type XXI - and uncovers how Hitler's failure to understand maritime warfare held the key to the outcome of World War II.

  • 13:40

    14 Jun

    Secrets of the Nazi War Machine - Season 1

    From Lugers to MG42 machine guns and the Pak40 anti-tank gun, James Holland uncovers how the craftsmanship of German weapons engineering was totally unsuited to fighting a long attritional war.

  • 14:40

    14 Jun

    Secret Nazi Science - Season 1

    What secrets did the Nazis hope to find inside the cells and DNA of the human body? Some of the most nauseating Nazi experiments were performed in the name of creating a pure Aryan race.

  • 15:40

    14 Jun

    World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

    The inter-war years saw the rise of dictators, appeasement and the policies of the Third Reich until the invasion of Poland, and Japan's 1937 invasion of China escalated into a full-scale conflict.

  • 16:45

    14 Jun

    World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

    The invasion of Poland forces even resistant nations into declaring war, Chamberlain is replaced by Winston Churchill, and hardly-remembered early naval encounters start to shape the war.

  • 17:50

    14 Jun

    World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

    War explodes across Western Europe. The Germans' mobile armour, airborne troops and airpower on the battlefield makes their assault unstoppable. France is ready to fall to the Nazis.

  • 18:55

    14 Jun

    World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

    Germany seeks to neutralise British strength from the air in the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe has been deterred but the Blitz begins. The Germans move to support their allies in North Africa.

  • 19:55

    14 Jun

    World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

    The war in Europe is transformed when, on 22nd June 1941, Hitler unleashes Operation Barbarossa. The Nazi invasion of The Soviet Union has begun.

  • 21:00

    14 Jun

    The Masters of the Reich - Season 1

    Hitler used confrontations between economic crises and street violence to provoke the need for more authoritarian power; the 'ordinary man with political genius' became the 'Chancellor of Peace'.

  • 22:05

    14 Jun

    Working for the Enemy - Season 1

    1943: British and American bombers liberating Germany from the Nazis are also killing thousands of forced labourers. This final episode deals with the trauma of the labourers that survived.

  • 23:10

    14 Jun

    Secret Nazi Science - Season 1

    The Nazis built a number of radar stations and systems harnessing the power of frequencies to help them plot their next move; were they also harnessing the power of the Sun itself?

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Brings history to life with captivating documentaries that take a fresh, modern look into history. We take our viewers on a powerful journey through time with intelligent, well researched programmes that entertain and challenge their minds. The focus is on european history, revealing the secrets of the past and how it defines us today.

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