How was it possible that a cultured nation at the heart of Europe ever allowed Hitler and the Nazi party to come to power?

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This special explores six of the most notorious mafia killings of all time and the everlasting effects these murders had on organised crime.

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This series of thirteen one-hour films tells the tale of that extraordinary group of people, the Nazi Hunters. They chased some of the most hated and reviled people on earth. Sometimes they did it for the highest of motives. Sometimes in ways that, w

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Wemyss Caves, on the shore of the Firth of Forth, have been a famous landmark for centuries. Legend has it that they were occupied by the mysterious Pictish people who scared the Romans into building Hadrian's Wall; that subsequently they were home t

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In the 7th Century Viking pirates sailed up a muddy Essex creek. Legend has it they captured a lonely nun who when offered her modesty or her mortality, chose to die. The nun then carried her severed head up the hill to her church where she collapsed

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Time Team heads to South Perrott in Dorset, inspired by the intriguing discovery of Roman brooches and coins in a hilltop field. The Team are pretty sure they're going to uncover a Roman Temple, but the search gets off to a bad start when all the pot

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For billions of people across the globe, Jerusalem is considered ground zero for Armageddon and while most of the world's population considers it a holy land, it's also one of the bloodiest cities the world has ever known. From a hidden occult city b

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In a gravel pit in Essex the remains of a cloaked and jewelled figure emerge from the ground. He's surrounded by sophisticated iron and copper surgical instruments, leading archaeologists to think at first that he's a Roman doctor. But then, they dis

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Sexpionage tells the stories of two women who were seduced by secret agents working for the East German intelligence service, the Stasi. At the height of the Cold War the Stasi would regularly despatch their agents to the West German capital, Bonn, a

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Reveals the latest discoveries in the deadly world of asteroids. Will a recently returned Japanese spacecraft become the first to bring an asteroid sample back to our planet? What would happen to America's east coast if the massive asteroid impact th

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How was it possible that a cultured nation at the heart of Europe ever allowed Hitler and the Nazi party to come to power?

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This special explores six of the most notorious mafia killings of all time and the everlasting effects these murders had on organised crime.

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The History Channel presents Series 2 of its highly acclaimed series Australian Icon Towns, hosted by Scott McGregor. In each episode, Scott and his team set out to discover the history behind Australia's most quintessential towns. A fun and entertai

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Traces the lives of Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt through their historic homes. Includes the New York City brownstone in which Theodore was raised and his Oyster Bay retreat in Sagamore Hill. Franklin's life focuses on his time in Hyde Park and

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Julia Bradbury travels to the Continent to explore the landscape of Germany and the cultural movement that made it famous, Romanticism. The Germans enjoy a relationship with walking that has lasted over 200 years. The exploration of their landscape h

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Known in Eastern Europe as the "Queen of Castles", Malbork Castle was a renowned military prison during WWII. In 1309, it served as headquarters to the Teutonic Knights, an organisation which grew out of the Crusades and was dedicated to war against

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John James Audubon, whose name became synonymous with American conservation, killed thousands of birds during his quest to create Birds in America. Audubon was at once entrepreneur, artist, scientist, husband, father, legend, and walking contradictio

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Across the moors of northern Europe, peat-cutters digging into the soil for fuel have unearthed hundreds of well-preserved mummies. Investigators puzzled for decades over the victims' disturbing injuries - slit throats, decapitation, disembowelment,

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Many people have big dreams, but only a few bold adventurers live them. Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell took a wild idea - retrace Marco Polo's entire 25,000-mile, land-and-sea route from Venice to China and back - and spent two incredible year

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Today's world has troubles unique to its time in history, from the global financial crisis to technological meltdowns to full scale, computerised global war. Observing the convergence of such events, contemporary prophets have begun to emerge from ob

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In this four-part series, see how a series of bombing missions utilising make-shift rope slings to carry Russian 500 pound bombs under war-weary aircraft, in historical retrospect, prevented the fall of China and the linking up of Japan's Army with N

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In the critical battle for North Africa, German General Irwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, seemed unstoppable, a warrior with a mystical feel for the battle. But how did he really get his intelligence? The British countered with secrets of their own; phon

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It was the biggest evacuation of World War Two - three times bigger than Dunkirk. Over 800,000 civilians and 350,000 soldiers were spirited away from under the noses of the Red Army and the Royal Navy in an extraordinary German operation. It lasted f

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This episode suggests that various sites around the world - such as Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, the Incan ruins of Sacsayhuaman in Peru, the Carnac stones of France and Zorats Karer in Armenia - show construction techniques and mathematical concepts that

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Across the moors of northern Europe, peat-cutters digging into the soil for fuel have unearthed hundreds of well-preserved mummies. Investigators puzzled for decades over the victims' disturbing injuries - slit throats, decapitation, disembowelment,

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Many people have big dreams, but only a few bold adventurers live them. Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell took a wild idea - retrace Marco Polo's entire 25,000-mile, land-and-sea route from Venice to China and back - and spent two incredible year

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Today's world has troubles unique to its time in history, from the global financial crisis to technological meltdowns to full scale, computerised global war. Observing the convergence of such events, contemporary prophets have begun to emerge from ob

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