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31 Dec
Cnut won the English throne; now he must win their hearts. With the help of his new wife - Queen Emma of Normandy, the widow of the former king - Cnut quickly becomes a skilled Christian ruler.
31 Dec
The kingdom is in mourning at the death of Cnut the Great; Cnut did not have time to name an heir and left behind two powerful widows both determined to place their own son on the throne.
31 Dec
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.
31 Dec
We track the life of Ivan the Terrible as we investigate if he set the tone for future rulers of Russia; was he a merciless murderer or no more than expected in a time when violence was the norm?
31 Dec
A seafaring people called the Rapa Nui flourished on Easter Island hundreds of years ago, but they succumbed to a series of deadly events that saw the entire civilisation destroyed.
31 Dec
The Vikings from Scandinavia establish two successful outposts along the fjords of Southern Greenland and thrive for more than four hundred years before suddenly and mysteriously disappearing.
31 Dec
The remains of 7,000 humans were discovered in the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta's Neolithic temple; could the temple reveal the mystery of who they belonged to and what happened to its owners?
31 Dec
How could a nobody become a dictator and bring down a democracy in just a few years, what crucial events helped Hitler gain respectability and influence, and who were his supporters?
31 Dec
How did Hitler succeed in transforming a republic into a 'Führer state' in such a short time, how did the 'enforced conformity' of society take place, and how willingly did the Germans fall in line?
31 Dec
Hitler had outwardly emphasised his will for peace, yet he committed his top commanders once he came to power to a war of extermination that would secure the German Reich's supremacy in Europe.
31 Dec
June 1944 - American, British and Canadian troops stormed the Normandy beaches along a 50-mile stretch. We look at the amphibious tanks and the heavy kit that weighed them down as they waded ashore.
31 Dec
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.
31 Dec
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.
31 Dec
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.
31 Dec
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.
31 Dec
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.
31 Dec
December 1944: Hitler has picked the Ardennes sector for a major offensive. The surprise attack, spearheaded by elite divisions, initially sends American units reeling.
31 Dec
March 1945: the Allies have reached the River Rhine. Montgomery plans a giant operation to cross the river in the north, but luck hands the Americans a bridge over the Rhine at Remagen.
31 Dec
Cnut won the English throne; now he must win their hearts. With the help of his new wife - Queen Emma of Normandy, the widow of the former king - Cnut quickly becomes a skilled Christian ruler.
31 Dec
The kingdom is in mourning at the death of Cnut the Great; Cnut did not have time to name an heir and left behind two powerful widows both determined to place their own son on the throne.
31 Dec
We track the life of Ivan the Terrible as we investigate if he set the tone for future rulers of Russia; was he a merciless murderer or no more than expected in a time when violence was the norm?
31 Dec
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.
31 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.
31 Dec
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