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April 1945. In a dramatic operation the SS transports 139 special prisoners, and kin of the prisoners, into the Alps. The plan: to use the ...

During the 1970s the Middle East was a battleground for the Cold War; liberal pro-Western forces battled with pro-Soviet Arab Nationalists and ...

Our cities, transformed a mere century ago to accommodate cars, now want to rid their streets of them. Countries go to war over fuel shortages, ...

Using modern forensic science techniques and criminalistics to revisit the violent murder of an Egyptian pharaoh, the inexplicable disappearance ...

Join Stewart McPherson on a journey around the UK on the spectacular ship Pelican of London, to discover the wildlife and secrets of the most ...

Low on inspiration for his second book, a gloomy novelist agrees to write a memoir for a dying man — and swiftly becomes part of his bloodstained past.

On the shores of the five great lakes of northern Italy, nature and man have lived in close harmony for millennia. Where landscapes change with ...

When two of his countrymen – arms dealers – are kidnapped, a German police investigator is sent to Algiers in search of them. ...

June 1940: Hitler launches tanks and troops across France, Belgium, and Holland. Germany is impoverished, has few raw materials, and no oil or ...

Secrets to Civilisation is a groundbreaking History series which explores the recent explosion in data about our planet’s past, offering a ...

A team of scientists face a test of faith and survival when they discover a mysterious rope in the middle of a forest, in this riveting French ...

Life in Berlin in 1945 before, during and after the battle of Berlin seen through the eyes of those who were there at the time from common ...

With unique personal archive from civilians and soldiers from both sides of the conflict, this series takes viewers closer to the realities of ...

In the early 1900s, Albert Einstein developed an idea – called Relativity – that changed our understanding of reality. It explained ...

In 1968, young people from Berkeley to Paris and from Prague to Tokyo rose up against the world they were being offered. In this sprawling but ...

Alain Delambre, unemployed and 57, is lured by an attractive job opening. But things get ugly when he realizes he’s a pawn in a cruel corporate game.

Afghanistan is at a crossroads between traditions and a contemporary lifestyle.

This series explores the history of drug trafficking from a political perspective and reveals the murky role played by many states which have ...

A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system, ...

Cuba’s revolutionary story is one of much fervor. Fidel Castro had one objective: the liberation of a Communist Cuba. Castro’s ...

One month after the outbreak of World War I, Paris is bombarded by German airplanes. Parisians witness a whole new type of warfare. Five pilots ...

Stories from the perspective of some of the world’s oldest living creatures – trees. Each tree is located in a completely unique ...

How, from 1974 to 1993, Totò Riina (1930-2017), supreme boss of the Corleone family, ruled by blood and terror over the Sicilian Mafia. An ...

With breath-taking CGI, beautiful landscape footage and some of the world’s most important astronomical artifacts, Ancient Skies looks at ...

Burned out and taken for granted, a working mom suspects her partner is cheating, so to win back his attentions, she feigns a medical diagnosis.

Where do insects, birds, and mammals come from? Thanks to new technologies and recent discoveries, scientists can now recreate the missing ...

Our planet’s lakes make up a huge freshwater reserve delicately balanced between the water that feeds them and the rivers they feed.

Ambitious Jana is confronted with the unscrupulous machinations of the world of finance. Her working life is determined by egotism, the pressure ...

Our History is no more than a series of incredible events. From the birth of a thousand-year-old empire to the death of a flourishing ...