TV Schedule

  • 00:05

    16 Nov

    Adolf Hitler: Decoding A Dictator - Season 1

    Architecture mattered a great deal to Adolf Hitler; his grandiose visions were not merely buildings, but symbols of a tyrannical vision intended to impose a sense of domination upon the the world.

  • 01:05

    16 Nov

    Hitler's Entourage - Season 1

    Eva Braun stands in the dictator's shadow - she is invisible to the public, irreplaceable in the inner circle, and loyal to the bitter end.

  • 02:10

    16 Nov

    Secret Nazi Science - Season 1

    WWII was a war in the skies; though the Treaty of Versailles had prevented the Germans from developing new weapons, they sponsored air clubs and pushed for supremacy in the air.

  • 03:00

    16 Nov

    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.

  • 03:45

    16 Nov

    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?

  • 04:30

    16 Nov

    Forbidden History - Season 7

    The location of King Solomon's Mines has been a mystery for hundreds of years; new evidence has led to an amazing discovery. Might Solomon's wealth have come from the copper mines of southern Israel?

  • 05:15

    16 Nov

    Cursed Bloodlines - Season 1

    One of the richest men on Earth, Aristotle Onassis left a string of broken hearts in his wake, but no romance would catapult him into the limelight like his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy.

  • 06:20

    16 Nov

    Cursed Bloodlines - Season 1

    The tragic histories of the political dynasties of the Bhutto family in Pakistan and the Nehru-Gandhi family in India are often compared to that of America's Kennedy family.

  • 06:50

    16 Nov

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

    In the aftermath of the Great War, the victors sign the Treaty of Versailles. We begin this series by exploring the 20 years after World War One and the events that led to the birth of World War Two.

  • 07:50

    16 Nov

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

    In this episode, we explore the first few years on the European battlefield, from the invasion of France and the subsequent Dunkirk evacuation to Hitler's betrayal of his pact with Stalin.

  • 08:55

    16 Nov

    Valley of the Kings: Secret Tomb Revealed - Season 1

  • 10:10

    16 Nov

    Valley of the Kings: Secret Tomb Revealed - Season 1

  • 11:25

    16 Nov

    Killer Kings - Season 1

    He famously tinkered as Rome burnt, but the legend of Nero commonly accepted as true is pure myth; he was, however, responsible for some of the worst crimes committed by a Roman emperor.

  • 12:30

    16 Nov

    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.

  • 13:35

    16 Nov

    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.

  • 14:35

    16 Nov

    World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

    Japanese troops occupy Southern Vietnam and Cambodia, but the day that changes the war comes on December 7th when Japanese aircraft attack the American Pacific Fleet at anchor in Pearl Harbor.

  • 15:40

    16 Nov

    Ancient Greece: The Dark Chronicles - Season 1

  • 16:45

    16 Nov

    Genghis Khan's Mongolia - Season 1

    The legend of the Mongols in popular imagination of being bloodthirsty marauders has been obliterated by a more nuanced reality of Mongol life where people were rewarded for talent and not status.

  • 17:40

    16 Nov

    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'.

  • 18:55

    16 Nov

    Titans of the Cold War - Season 2

    A turning point in the Cold War as the Rolling Thunder bombings and the devastating Tet Offensive shattered US morale, LBJ escalated the Vietnam War, and Ho Chi Minh led fierce resistance.

  • 19:55

    16 Nov

    Titans of the Cold War - Season 2

    In February 1972, Nixon made a ground-breaking trip to China to meet Mao; China had been slowly opening up to the West while their partnership with the Soviets had been souring for years.

  • 21:00

    16 Nov

    Killer Kings - Season 1

    He famously tinkered as Rome burnt, but the legend of Nero commonly accepted as true is pure myth; he was, however, responsible for some of the worst crimes committed by a Roman emperor.

  • 22:05

    16 Nov

    Conquistadors: The Rise and Fall - Season 1

    The ruthlessly ambitious Hernán Cortés travels deep into the Mexican interior to conquer the Aztecs, one of the greatest empires in the Americas.

  • 23:05

    16 Nov

    Lost Cities of the Bible - Season 1

    6000 years ago, Sumerians built the world's first cities in southern Iraq; the first Westerners to explore these ruins were inspired by Bible stories. What was the world of the Book of Genesis like?

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