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Was Adolf Hitler a master of war or a maker of war? His obsessive quest for territorial domination led to early triumphs, but his refusal to listen to his generals led to catastrophic failures.
25 Dec
We trace the story of Troy back 150 years to follow Heinrich Schliemann's quest to find a lost city and prove that the Trojan War really happened.
25 Dec
How new discoveries and breakthroughs in the 20th and 21st centuries have offered more clues to the truth behind the legend of the Trojan War.
25 Dec
The Grimaldi family has held their posts as sovereigns of Monaco with the utmost grace, but one thing they have missed time and again is good luck in the love department.
25 Dec
From around 900 CE, the Maya's luck ran out and their great cities were largely abandoned; archaeologists are looking for any clues to help explain the spectacular collapse of the Maya civilisation.
25 Dec
This episode immerses us in the Peloponnesian War, a decades-long fratricidal conflict between Athens and Sparta that shook democracies and ended Greece's golden age.
25 Dec
The House of Romanov had imposed 300 years of strict Imperial rule, but royal authority was in question for the first time. The future of the Romanov dynasty was in danger.
25 Dec
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?
25 Dec
Nineveh and Babylon were two superpowers of the ancient world, but they were the cities of sin for the writers of the Bible; why do they have such poor reputations in the Old Testament?
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As Whitechapel reels from three brutal murders, Fred Best and colleagues at the Star spin a lone killer theory to sell papers.
25 Dec
Amid Whitechapel's panic, the Star stirs antisemitic violence; as the killer strikes again, journalist Fred Best forges a letter from the murderer.
25 Dec
As fear grips London, the Star fuels panic with Fred Best forging letters to fuel the Ripper myth; when the murders stop, the paper faces a reckoning.
25 Dec
After driving his father off the throne of Denmark, Sven Forkbeard resumes the traditional Viking activities that his father had abandoned for a time: bloody raids on England.
25 Dec
Sven dies suddenly less than five weeks after claiming the English throne; his son Cnut the Great believes he can succeed his father as king, but the English people decide otherwise.
25 Dec
The ruthlessly ambitious Hernán Cortés travels deep into the Mexican interior to conquer the Aztecs, one of the greatest empires in the Americas.
25 Dec
Following the success of Hernán Cortés over the Aztecs, conquistador Francisco Pizarro sets his sights on conquering the Incas, the largest civilisation in the Americas.
25 Dec
Historians and archaeologists set off in the footsteps of Genghis Khan in Mongolia; thanks to exceptional excavations in the field, they are rediscovering the lost cities of the Mongol empire.
25 Dec
This episode immerses us in the Peloponnesian War, a decades-long fratricidal conflict between Athens and Sparta that shook democracies and ended Greece's golden age.
25 Dec
We trace the story of Troy back 150 years to follow Heinrich Schliemann's quest to find a lost city and prove that the Trojan War really happened.
25 Dec
How new discoveries and breakthroughs in the 20th and 21st centuries have offered more clues to the truth behind the legend of the Trojan War.
25 Dec
25 Dec
Albert Speer presents himself as an architect with style and decency, but his career leads deep into the centre of a murderous regime.
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