Video documentaries about history of the world
In the dying days of World War II, a secret organisation (Nakam) of Holocaust survivors plans a terrible revenge. Six million Jews are dead but, by 1946, just a handful of Nazis face trial. Most of the guilty will never face justice. For many of Hitler’s victims, this is not enough. Based on previously unheard recordings and exclusive […]
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Dachau Concentration Camp, was situated 12 miles northwest of Munich in Bavaria. Built in the early days of the Nazi regime it was one of three camps set up in 1933 to form the basis for a concentration camp system, initially filled with communist and Jewish inmates Dachau’s doors were soon opened to many other “undesirables” that the Nazis wanted
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Between 1941 and 1945, the little fortress town of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia was the transit camp to the death camps in the East for thousands of Czech, German, Austrian and Dutch Jews. This documentary contains disturbing images !! The Jews deported there from 1941 onwards were led to believe it was an ‘end camp’ from where they would
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Buchenwald Concentration Camp: After being established in the Summer of 1937, Buchenwald soon developed into one of the largest concentration camps in Germany, in its eight years of existence,approximately 250,000 inmates from 35 countries were imprisoned here. More than 50,000 of them died during the camps reign of terror. They were systematically culled.The inmates were submitted to the life of
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Holocaust: The Yellow Star – With a great archive footage coming from 16 countries, this Oscar nominated documentary briefly presents some of the most important facts about the Nazist persecution against Jews in Europe, starting with Hitler’s rise to the power. Dieter Hildebrandt’s documentary is an interesting and overviewed source with plenty of unseen footage, sound clips and
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Bettany Hughes explores the day in 80AD when the Colosseum opened its gates for the first time.
Eight Days that Made Rome: Theatre of Death Read More »
In a two-part series, Rob Bell explores the work of Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, exploring his complex personality as well as his prolific achievements.
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Join us in this Smithsonian Channel documentary as we detail a devastating natural disaster and the cataclysmic events that changed history and inspired a myth.
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At the height of its power, the Roman Empire extended the benefits of its civilization to a 60 million citizens and subjects in a swathe of territory that extended from Hadrian’s Wall to the banks of the Euphrates.
Ancient Worlds – City of Man City of God ep.6 Read More »
How did an insignificant cluster of Latin hill villages on the edge of the civilised world become the greatest empire the world has known?
Ancient Worlds – The Republic of Virtue ep.5 Read More »
In Richard Miles’s epic story of civilization, there have been plenty of examples of the great men of history, but none came close to the legend of Alexander of Macedon, known to us as ‘Alexander the Great’.
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Richard Miles explores the power and the paradox of the ‘Greek Thing’ – a blossoming in art, philosophy and science that went hand in hand with political discord, social injustice and endless war.
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