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- A series of colorized archive footage of important events during World War II.
- The real-life pirates of the Caribbean violently plunder, stealing and form a surprisingly egalitarian republic in this documentary series.
- Recounts the events of world War II in color.
- This is the story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich told like the drama it really was: through the personal relationships of the movers and shakers of the Nazi Party.
- Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous Nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer.
- Told by those who brought them to justice, this takes you through the rise and fall of some of the mafia's most notorious outlaws.
- In the Second World War, German U Boats became a threat to all Allied shipping. By using under utilised resources like the WRENS and other experienced Naval staff, a solution was developed.
- Vera Atkins' files were kept sealed until after she died, but the story of the female spies and the spy-mistress who led them, which has remained secret for over fifty years, can now be revealed.
- From Ancient Greece to the frozen North, rulers have always needed their elite troops. Each episode details the intricate complexity of the elite troops who performed the assassination missions and how they worked.
- Every air crash is a catastrophe, leaving behind bereaved families and ruined lives. But each air crash is also a lesson. From each disaster, we have learned how to build safer planes, evacuate passengers with greater speed and improve systems to avoid collisions. Lives have been saved because of what these tragedies have taught us.
- They are a rogues gallery of the most notorious despots in recent history. From Hitler to Saddam Hussein, from Stalin to Kim Jong-il of North Korea, from Chairman Mao to Colonel Gaddafi these are the psychopaths, the heartless ideologues, the greedy, the cruel and sometimes the just plain mad individuals who have seized control of their country and inflicted appalling suffering on their people.
- Stories of operations by special forces with reenactments, archival footage, narration, and interviews with those who took part. Some operations are famous while others are lesser known.
- This documentary series highlights the lives of extraordinary women through history. Women of different backgrounds, cultures, and industries.
- From Ancient Greece to the Italian Renaissance, rulers have always needed elite combat troops - trained to perfection, skilled with devastating weaponry and able to disrupt and defeat their enemies. These are their stories.
- Royals: Keeping The Crown charts the rise, fall, and rebranding of royal families across the globe from the First World War to the present day. From the murder of the Romanov family in 1918 to Prince Harry's marriage to the American actress Meghan Markle in 2018.
- How did Adolf Hitler and his small band of criminal conspirators persuade the German people to follow him into a nightmare of brutality, genocide, and military defeat? This 10-episode documentary chronicles how Hitler and his inner circle rose to power by exploiting the economic turmoil of their time. The National Socialists created an illusion of justice and legality, but behind the scenes they subverted democracy and planned a monstrous secret conspiracy. Their gangster regime not only used violence and suppression but also groomed the German people into willing complicity in history's worst crimes. Through archival film footage, interviews, and dramatic reconstructions, this series tells the true story of the rise and fall of the Nazis, from Hitler's recuperation in a hospital bed at the end of World War I to his dramatic final days in a Berlin bunker.
- Go behind the headlines and behind closed doors to learn how the CIA brought justice to those responsible for attacks against our nation. From drone technology to Seal Team 6 to the 'Hollywood' plan to rescue hostages in Iran, see how the CIA tracked down key targets such as Osama bin Laden and enemies behind the attacks on the USS Cole, the US Embassy in Kenya and more.
- How did the supermarket come into being and where is it heading? A selection of designers, scientists, historians, and psychologists along side rarely seen archive footage, describe the emergence and evolution of the supermarket concept. An invention that has already fundamentally shaped our everyday lives, further advances in technology look set to further revolutionize how and what we consume.
- No roof, only three wheels and rather uncomfortable - that's how you could describe the first petrol-driven car. Developed in 1885-86 by the German Karl Benz, it was far too expensive for most people. The American Henry Ford changed all that a few decades later. He revolutionised the production process and made cars affordable for almost anyone, with his Model T. Few inventions have had such a profound effect on the world as the car. Great Inventions celebrates this unique invention and looks into the future of mobility.
- How do you manage to generate the thrust necessary to keep a plane in the air without one of the engines exploding due to the amount of heat generated? The solution was to use ten combustion chambers instead of just one big one. This was the idea of Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine. Initially used by the military in jet fighters, after World War II jet aircraft enabled millions of people to travel the world. Great Inventions takes a very special flight through the history of aviation.
- Bridges are symbolic of all sorts of interpersonal and other connections. But they are also the physical connection between land masses, connecting different parts of a city, people and continents. Sometimes delicate in appearance, sometimes mighty, they are structures that have to meet the most stringent requirements. Great Inventions takes a journey through their history, from the simple plank over a stream to the suspension bridge that is over a kilometer long, and explains what aircraft have to do with bridges and how the tensile forces are kept under control.
- Meat from the butcher, bread from the bakery, vegetables from the greengrocer - fresh food, personal service, but very time-consuming. This is what shopping looked like until the birth of the supermarket. After some initial difficulties, the new shopping experience got an unexpected boost due to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Today, supermarkets are an indispensable part of our daily lives. Great Inventions explores the link between the history of the supermarket and that of the car and highlights other inventions that have made large shops big business.
- They stare at the screen spellbound, move their fingers around the keyboard at lightning speed, communicate worldwide via a headset, and move around and fire with unerring accuracy using a joystick. They are game-rs. It is a world where teenage programmers are as rich as rock stars, professional game-rs become icons and fill huge stadiums around the world, and people play for nights on end to advance to the next level. Great Inventions takes viewers into the world of Marios and monitors, conventions and consoles.
- "I have seen my death." These were the words of a woman when she saw an image of her hand. The woman was Anna Rontgen and the image was the first X-ray of a part of the human body. It was made by her husband, the German physics professor Wilhelm Rontgen. He had previously invented the X-ray while experimenting with so-called Crookes tubes. Great Inventions charts this revolutionary technology, including bizarre images of X-ray equipment in shoe shops, the importance of electron beams in medicine and their connection with space.
- Initially ridiculed, underground railways are now a success around the world. The era of underground passenger transport began more than 150 years ago in London with steam locomotives. The smoke was even "sold" as a cure by the operators. The tunnel network was gradually expanded using the shield tunnelling method and electric trains replaced the steam locomotives. Great Inventions ventures underground around the world, watches giant drills cut their way through the earth and takes a look into the future of the subway.
- We can now enjoy music, a heated seat and even a perfectly targeted spray jet while spending a penny. The history of the toilet goes back a long way and even the ancient Romans built latrines. But a special place to answer the call of nature is not enough. The result also has to be transported away. Great Inventions follows the path of this bodily waste through the sewage system to the treatment plant and beyond - and explains why the concentration of drugs in our rivers is increasing.
- Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, was launched into space on a rocket by the Soviet Union in 1957. A year later, the USA followed suit with Explorer. Today there are more than 2,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth, used mainly for telephony, television, radio and digital data transmission. A large number are also used for scientific research and meteorology. Great Inventions explains the technology without which modern communication and many of the amenities we now take for granted would not be possible.
- TV is a medium that stimulates the imagination, arouses curiosity, promotes education and allows millions of people to participate in major events. Three men were involved in the invention, a farm boy who produced an electronic image, Charles Jenkins from San Francisco who used moving silhouette images and the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird, known by historians as the father of modern television. Great Inventions brings the story of television to life with spectacular images such as the moon landing in people's living rooms.
- The war of Spanish succession ends leaving thousands of Caribbean privateers unemployed, when the wreck of a treasure fleet creates new opportunities.
- Tensions rise between Benjamin Hornigold and Henry Jennings; their rivalry takes a new direction when Hornigold declares Nassau a pirate republic.
- Nassau comes under the control of Rogers and the era of the pirate kingdom comes to a bloody end.
- Hornigold's crew deposes him for his refusal to attack English ships; but one man, Edward Thatch, remains loyal. Pirate raids on British slaves provokes outrage.
- English authorities tap Woodes Rogers to put a stop to the pirate attacks. Black Sam Bellamy suffers a cruel fate at the height of his success.
- Rogers' campaign begins with the offer of a pardon, which Hornigold and Jennings accept; but not all Nassau pirates agree.
- Sodom stood for 1000s of years as a powerful lesson of the perils of wickedness. According to the Bible, the men of Sodom were so wicked that God destroyed the city in a shower of fire and brimstone. But did the city of Sodom ever exist?
- 8000 years ago, a lush paradise, home to mammoth, deer, and hunter-gatherers connected Britain and mainland Europe - Doggerland. It was wiped out by a single devastating event, leaving it hidden beneath the waves of the North Sea.
- In 373 BCE the Greek city of Helike disappeared beneath the waves. In myths, Poseidon destroyed it. It's hauntingly similar the story of Atlantis. Could it be possible to rediscover the lost city and could Helike actually be Atlantis?
- In 2334 BCE the Akkadians conquered and united the Sumerian city state kingdoms to create the world's first empire. After only 140 years the Akkadian Empire fractured. Why did they collapse?
- In 1,200 BCE the Hittite Empire, the Mycenaeans, and the Egyptian Empire imploded and the Bronze Age period of history collapsed. What, or who, was to blame? Evidence points to what is known as the Sea People. Were they responsible?
- Between 250 and 900 CE the Maya civilization perfected mathematics, astronomy, architecture and the calendar. From around 900 CE the Maya's luck ran out and their great cities were largely abandoned. Why?
- Queen Victoria attempts to create peace in Europe through royal marriages; when three cousins linked by Victoria's royal blood turn against each other, and plunge Europe into the First World War, the Queen's dream of peace turns into a nightmare.
- Royals across Europe embrace fascism; King George V knows he must keep his country safe from the dangers of Nazi Germany, but when his eldest son Edward VIII abandons royal duty for love, the Crown is thrown into a deep crisis.
- World War II may be over, but it still casts a long shadow over royal families, particularly those with links to fascism; in Britain, King George VI works to keep his brother's closeness to the Nazis away from the British people.
- Royals discover that breaking with tradition can get them in deep water, while other royals embrace change; during the 60s and 70s, royal culture meets celebrity culture, giving the Crown a popularity boost.