The dramatic landings at Anzio, the drive north, the harrowing story of the fight for Monte Cassino, the fall of Rome, it's all in this episode which charts the all important capture of Italy. It was perhaps not the greatest example of Ango-British c

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Britain and Ireland, island nations, have the richest of maritime histories. Thousands of vessels lie wrecked off their shores. Many sank in time of World War and are yet to be discovered. Deep below the surface of the sea, they remain silent witness

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Tony Robinson and the team are invited to dig up the lawns of one of Britain's grandest stately homes, Castle Howard in Yorkshire. When the house was built, a medieval village was unceremoniously razed to the ground. Now the owners are keen to find o

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Ogling a Grade One listed 15th-century manor would be enough for most people, but not for the Time Team. They have to rip up the floorboards and look underneath, because somewhere around this Northamptonshire house there should be a fine Saxon hall t

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Treasure hunting begins at home. Host John Sencio ventures into homeowners' attics, basements and garages searching for those not-so-obvious family antiques that they sell at auction.

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Conventional wisdom has recently changed as more and more secrets have been revealed, particularly in the last five to 10 years as documents, files and photographs have been released. Code-breaking revelations and newly released government papers on

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At 4.6 billion years old, the Solar System is our solid, secure home in the Universe. But how did it come to be? In this episode we trace the system's birth from a thin cloud of dust and gas. Shocked by a nearby supernova, the pull of gravity and nat

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Britain and Ireland, island nations, have the richest of maritime histories. Thousands of vessels lie wrecked off their shores. Many sank in time of World War and are yet to be discovered. Deep below the surface of the sea, they remain silent witness

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When it entered service in 1938, the twin-engine Vickers Wellington began an operational career that spanned the whole of the Second World War. Rugged and reliable, it was operated by Bomber Command, Coastal Command and Transport Command, it possesse

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American pilots fought the enemy and their own political leaders in the skies over Vietnam. See exclusive interviews with North Vietnamese veterans, secret American operations in Laos and Cambodia, and the Navy's classified programme to counter heavy

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Treasure hunting begins at home. Host John Sencio ventures into homeowners' attics, basements and garages searching for those not-so-obvious family antiques that they sell at auction.

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Some startling aerial photos of fields outside Sedgefield look like a lost Roman town, a town that would be the most northerly Roman civilian settlement. Can Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, Phil Harding, Carenza Lewis and the team of excavators and expert

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Back in the 1940s, Basil Brown, the man who discovered Sutton Hoo, uncovered enough Roman remains in an Ipswich suburb to believe he had found the largest villa in East Anglia. But the plans are tantalisingly vague and, what's more, the site of the v

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The Thames has been the lifeblood of London for thousands of years; as a major site for trade, crime, industry and war. For food, drink, death, debauchery and even as the capital's giant rubbish bin. Britain's most iconic river is one of the world's

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A three-mile wide comet, crashing at 100,000 mph into the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco, could cause millions of casualties. It would generate a thermal radiation wave, a massive earthquake and a lethal mega-tsunami that could desolate coastal com

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When it comes to working in extreme environments Mega Movers are ready. In this episode we travel from Hawaii to North Carolina where Mega Movers confront two different working conditions that both are considered danger zones. In Hawaii an old planta

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He has long ranked as a hero throughout the world: Erwin Rommel, also known as the Desert Fox. This three part documentary series shows us everything about the rise and fall of the famous General Field Marshal and the African battle during World War

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September 15th 1944. 17,000 US Marines hit the beaches of the tiny coral island of Peleliu. They have been told that this will be a three day operation at most. But six days later an entire regiment has been destroyed and the remaining units are trap

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The Allied invasion of Italy began in September 1943 and the operation remains one of the most controversial of all the campaigns of WWII. It was fought against the background of bitter Anglo-American disagreements over strategy, indeed had Mussolini

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Catherine the Great of Russia lost her famous treasure ship in the Finnish archipelagos. Many have searched for the ship, but the Finnish Marine Museum now believes they have located it. The show travels with them to help identify the ship and begin

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The Thames has been the lifeblood of London for thousands of years; as a major site for trade, crime, industry and war. For food, drink, death, debauchery and even as the capital's giant rubbish bin. Britain's most iconic river is one of the world's

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What is the meaning behind secret messages found throughout Washington, DC? Could these have been incorporated into the symbols, architecture, and even the founding documents of the United States of America?

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A three-mile wide comet, crashing at 100,000 mph into the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco, could cause millions of casualties. It would generate a thermal radiation wave, a massive earthquake and a lethal mega-tsunami that could desolate coastal com

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