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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 6

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 6

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 6: How did a weak emperor turn on his allies and bring about the collapse of the empire? In AD 410, the Goth hordes sacked the city. This event symbolised Rome’s collapse, but it should never have happened at all.       Dramatic reconstructions and computer graphics tell the […]

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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 5

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 5

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 5: Retelling the story of how Emperor Constantine brought Christianity to the western world. In AD 312, Rome was in crisis. The empire had been divided into four parts, each with its own emperor who fought one another. Constantine intervened and united Rome, using military might and a new religion –

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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 4

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 4

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 4: The Roman Republic survived for half a millennium, but when Tiberius Gracchus arrived on the scene, he unleashed the mob. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (c. 163 BC–133 BC) was a Roman politician best known for his agrarian reform law entailing the transfer of land from the Roman state and wealthy

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Ancient Rome The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 3

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 3

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 3: The Jewish Revolt, which swept through Judea in AD 66, was the biggest rebellion by a province in Roman history. For a while it threatened to destabilize the whole empire. Who was behind this rebellion and what happened?       Dramatic reconstructions and computer graphics tell the story

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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 2

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 2

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 2: This programme focuses on Nero, charting his obsession with becoming a god, how his plans to turn Rome into a glorious city bankrupted the Empire, how he married his slaveboy and killed his beloved wife in a frenzy, and how he was finally overthrown.       Dramatic reconstructions

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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 1

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 1

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire episode 1 – This programme focuses on Julius Caesar, charming, savage, power-crazed, opportunistic and brilliant, he overthrew a 500-year-old Republic and began the age of the emperors. What Caesar achieved, overthrowing a 500-year-old Republic and seizing power, is perhaps the single greatest turning point in the history of Rome. Dramatic reconstructions

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Secrets of Pompeii's Greatest Treasures episode 2

Secrets of Pompeii’s Greatest Treasures episode 2

Secrets of Pompeii’s Greatest Treasures episode 2: Bettany Hughes unearths some fascinating stories from the devastated city, from its famous villas to tragic human casts. The streets and houses of Pompeii offer a mesmerising window into the life and times of the ancient Romans.     Bettany Hughes heads to the Ancient Roman City of Pompeii. Once compounded by volcanic

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Secrets of Pompeii's Greatest Treasures episode 1

Secrets of Pompeii’s Greatest Treasures episode 1

Secrets of Pompeii’s Greatest Treasures episode 1: Bettany Hughes heads to the Ancient Roman City of Pompeii. Once compounded by volcanic ash, now a treasure trove of history. Almost 2,000 years on, Bettany explores the city to find remnants of the Roman empire, revealing the secrets of those who lived there, and really how different ancient Rome is to our

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Storm Over Europe episode 4 - The Heirs of Rome

Storm Over Europe episode 4 – The Heirs of Rome

Storm Over Europe episode 4 – The Heirs of Rome: Starting in the 5th century AD, the Franks migrated to France, the Anglo-Saxons to Britain, and the Goths to Spain and Italy. Europe and the Christian west grew out of their empires.     This documentary deals with the mass migration of Germanic tribes at the very beginning of European

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Storm Over Europe episode 2 - The Saga of the Goths

Storm Over Europe episode 2 – The Saga of the Goths

Storm Over Europe episode 2 – The Saga of the Goths: The Romans knew virtually nothing about Germanic tribes, but this was to change. “They found skulls nailed to trees and altars. Here the Cherusci had sacrificed the most high-ranking Roman prisoners to their gods.” When Roman power was at its peak, in the year 9 AD, Arminius chief of

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Storm Over Europe episode 1 - Cimbrians and Teutons

Storm Over Europe episode 1 – Cimbrians and Teutons

Storm Over Europe episode 1 – Cimbrians and Teutons: This documentary deals with the mass migration of Germanic tribes at the very beginning of European history, while Ancient Rome raced towards inevitable collapse and a new political centre developed in Northwest Europe. This period, from the invasion of the Huns in 375 to the conquest of Italy by the Lombards

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