World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

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.

World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

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.

World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

December 1944: Hitler has picked the Ardennes sector for a major offensive. The surprise attack, spearheaded by elite divisions, initially sends American units reeling.

World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

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.

Forbidden History - Season 7

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?

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.

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

We examine key movements in the Pacific Theatre - the Fall of Singapore, the Battle of Midway and the Kokoda Campaign - Rommel's offensives in Africa, and the Allied bombing campaign over Europe.

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

The Axis forces begin to lose hold on their previous triumphs; between Japan's loosening hold on southeast Asia and Germany's growing defeats in Europe, we begin to see WW2's turning of the tide.

Alexander the Great: Legendary Conqueror - Season 1

Alexander confronts the final unravelling of Darius' power; determined to secure his place as Darius' successor, he adopts the administrative strengths of the Persian Empire.

Vikings: The True Story - Season 1

In this episode, we discover more about the slave trade in the Viking age, a second female skeleton found in the Oseburg ship, and an account of a survivor of a Viking slave raid.

Titans of the Cold War - Season 1

We explore the post-WWII years as Truman and Stalin emerged as rivals; from the Berlin Airlift to NATO and the Marshall Plan, early Cold War decisions shaped a tense and divided global order.

Titans of the Cold War - Season 1

Eisenhower and Khrushchev rising to power marked a shift in the Cold War steering tensions through coups, summits and Space Race drama; this led to the U-2 crisis and a breakdown in diplomacy.

Titans of the Cold War - Season 1

In one pivotal moment, global power moved from crumbling empires to rising nationalist forces as Nasser and Eden clashed in Suez, the Soviets crushed Hungary, and the Cold War world was redrawn.

Titans of the Cold War - Season 1

JFK and Castro entered the stage as Cold War conflict hit the Western hemisphere; from the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban Missile Crisis, a standoff nearly sparked nuclear war before uneasy deescalation.

Ancient Apocalypse - Season 3

The Great Pyramids stand as a testament to Egypt's power, but the Old Kingdom collapsed by 2200 B.C. / B.C.E; what caused the fall of the Pyramid Age?

The Black Pharaohs

Adolf Hitler: Decoding A Dictator - Season 1

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.

Adolf Hitler: Decoding A Dictator - Season 1

From his troubled childhood in Austria to his meteoric rise as Führer of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler's ruthless personality and distorted worldview were shaped by his daily life.

Adolf Hitler: Decoding A Dictator - Season 1

To determine how Der Führer's secrets may have shaped the man behind the tyrant, we need to examine his troubled childhood and sociopathic personality.

The Lost World of the Hanging Gardens

Alexander the Great: Legendary Conqueror - Season 1

Alexander confronts the final unravelling of Darius' power; determined to secure his place as Darius' successor, he adopts the administrative strengths of the Persian Empire.

Vikings: The True Story - Season 1

In this episode, we discover more about the slave trade in the Viking age, a second female skeleton found in the Oseburg ship, and an account of a survivor of a Viking slave raid.