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The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide: More than one million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1916 in massacres or brutal deportation programs.     It was one of the 20th century´s worst genocides, and one of its most controversial. It has been the subject of bitter legal battles, with Turkey still denying it ever happened. In an attempt to understand the origins, nature […]

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Pompeii - Life and Death in a Roman Town

Pompeii – Life and Death in a Roman Town

Pompeii – Life and Death in a Roman Town: one of the most famous volcanic eruptions in history. We know how its victims died, but this film sets out to answer another question – how did they live? Gleaning evidence from an extraordinary find, Cambridge professor and Pompeii expert Mary Beard provides new insight into the lives of the people

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The Real Doctor Zhivago

The Real Doctor Zhivago

The Real Doctor Zhivago: Dr Zhivago is one of the best-known love stories of the 20th century, but the setting of the book also made it famous. It is a tale of passion and fear, set against a backdrop of revolution and violence. The film is what most people remember, but the story of the writing of the book has

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Rich Hall's Red Menace

Rich Hall’s Red Menace

Rich Hall’s Red Menace: 2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and, ostensibly, the end of the Cold War. In light of this, Rich Hall embarks on an examination of the relationship between the West and the East, America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.     In his unique way, Rich looks at

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Viking Women

Viking Women

Viking Women: The Vikings changed Europe forever, yet half of them have almost completely disappeared from collective memory: the women. Quite unjustly so, as they played an important role in the world of the Vikings and performed extraordinary deeds.   Viking Women part 1: Sigrun’s Wrath and the Discovery of Iceland     Viking women commanded ships and settled colonies.

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Korea - The Never Ending War

Korea – The Never Ending War

Korea – The Never Ending War: between 1950 and 1953, more than 24 nations sent troops to Korea as the opposing ambitions and ideologies of the emerging Cold War superpowers – China, Russia and the USA – fought for supremacy on the peninsula.     With first-hand testimony and new historical material, Korea: The Never Ending War retraces the history

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First Horse Warriors

First Horse Warriors

First Horse Warriors: Horse riding played a key role in human expansion and civilization. But when and how did people first master these animals? Scientists use archaeology and genetics to uncover clues about the first horse riders and how they shaped the world.     The advent of horse riding was a momentous step in human history. But when and

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Caligula

Caligula with Mary Beard

Caligula – Professor Mary Beard delves deep into the enigmatic legacy of Caligula, a name that sends ripples through history even today. Was he Rome’s most whimsical despot, or is there more than meets the eye? Two millennia ago, Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, fondly remembered or infamously known as Caligula, stepped into the world’s theater. While his reign was

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Ancient God of War

Mars Uncovered: Ancient God of War

Mars Uncovered: Ancient God of War – Bettany Hughes investigates the enduring relationship between warfare and worship, by following the trail through time of the ancient god of war, Mars. She begins in Carthage, site of one of the most significant and bloodiest victories in the history of the Roman Empire and explores the vital role of Mars in Rome’s

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Marquess of Bute

Bute: The Scot Who Spent a Welsh Fortune

Documentary telling how the fabulously rich Scottish aristocrat, the 3rd Marquess of Bute, spent a Welsh fortune and left a dazzling architectural legacy in Scotland and Cardiff.     John Patrick Crichton Stuart, the 3rd Marquess of Bute, was one of the richest men in the British Empire in the late 19th century. With an annual income in excess of

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Lost Viking Army - Great Heathen Army

Lost Viking Army

Lost Viking Army – Great Heathen Army: Forty years ago, hundreds of skeletons were unearthed in a mass grave in an English village. Bio-archaeologist Cat Jarman believes these bones are the last remains of the “Great Heathen Army,” a legendary Viking fighting force that invaded England in the ninth century and has long been lost to history.     Armed

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The Deadly Race at Los Alamos

1000 Days of Fear : The Deadly Race at Los Alamos

The Deadly Race at Los Alamos: the triumphs and failures of the men and women who created the world’s first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. This the story of the men and women who worked on a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during the Second World War with First-hand

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