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- 24-year-old Freud is a free spirit known for his unorthodox methods. He knows how to make war criminals talk. So he comes across a crime that has hardly been known before, the murder of 20 children in Hamburg in the last days of the war.
- A documentary that looks at the World War 2 deception of 1943. British Naval intelligence devised a plan so ludicrous that Churchill loved it, the German High Command fell for it, and Allied forces acted on it, allowing them to invade southern Europe via Sicily. A plot so far fetched, you'll think it was fiction. Not since the Trojan horse has a military deception had such an impact on the world.
- Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous Nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer.
- Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of one of the most daring operations of World War II - the Commando raid on the German occupied dry dock at St. Nazaire in France on 28th March 1942. It was an operation so heroic that it resulted in the award of five Victoria Crosses and 80 other decorations for gallantry.
- Thanks to the movie "The Imitation Game" many people know that Alan Turing was one of the men behind breaking the german coding machine Enigma during World War II. But an equally important person was Gordon Welchman, who invented the socalled traffic analysis. This movie tells the story of Gordon Welchman.
- Adventurer Charley Boorman embarks on another epic trip, this time across Canada from east to west coast on a motor bike.
- A look at the life of Ian Fleming from when he was in Naval Intelligence as a Commander until his death in 1964. This docudrama gives an insight into what Fleming was really like and how he wrote the Bond novels.
- A documentary series on the history of submarines, from their first development in the mid-19th century to the modern nuclear-powered leviathans, armed with nuclear missiles.
- Documentary about the Battle of Jutland, a naval battle during World War I between the British and German fleets, which took place on 31 May and 1 June 1916 in the North Sea, off the west coast of Denmark. It re-creates the events of the battle and examines why the number of British warships that sank was so much higher than the number of German ships that were lost. Shown to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the battle.
- The story of Naval Party 8901, the token British peace-keeping force which was already stationed on the Falkland Islands when the Argentinian forces invaded on 2 April 1982 and who fought the first battle of the Falklands War.
- Documentary looking at the work of the U.S. government department the Advanced Aerospace Threat Indentification Program, which investigates sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena.
- The introduction of world trade in Tudor England inadvertently introduces foreign poisonous substances. One such case is sugar and the subsequent rotting of teeth.
- A look inside the private world of Japan's famous geisha.
- Born in 1859, William Henry McCarty never knew his father. As a teenager, he followed his mother in a convoy of pioneers on their way west. Once in New Mexico, his mother died and the young man was left to fend for himself at the age of 15. He became a cowboy in Arizona and killed a man in self-defense. Convicted of murder, he escapes. From homicides to stories of cattle rustlers and bounty hunters, the whole mythology of the Wild West is embodied in Billy the Kid. Since King Vidor's "Billy the Kid" in 1930, the outlaw has fueled the imagination of some fifteen directors, the most memorable film being Sam Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" in 1973.
- Investigating the history and modern face of Holocaust denial.
- British actor Martin Shaw takes viewers on a tour and tale of the RAF Dam Buster mission of World War II. He points out the few fictional aspects in the 1955 movie, "The Dam Busters." This film has interviews with relatives and friends of the men in the Dambuster Squadron. It visits various sites that were part of the WW II mission. The film culminates with Shaw and former RAF pilot Chris Norton retracing the exact route of the May 16, 1943, attack. They leave RAF Scampton in east-central England on a bright, clear day. They fly their twin-engine light aircraft 100 to 200 feet above the water and ground for 400 miles to the Möhne Dam in Germany's Ruhr Valley.
- It's the bloody coronation of the Queen!!!
- The untold story of a legendary cinema.
- Resistance work at Helgeland was characterized by expectations of the invasion. Extensive weapons transport and intelligence work became part of "Operation Jupiter", the Allies' plan for the recapture of Northern Norway. Oladalen's Friends have collected materials from archives at home and abroad, and have this put together into a documentary that deals with dramatic events in the southern part of Helgeland. War veterans, who participated in the resistance work, the weapons transport and the Linge company, take us back to the war years. The film is divided into three parts; The weapons transport, the shots in Stavassdalen, and the reopening of the cabin in Oladalen.
- Is it Real looks at the case of Jack the Ripper and examines suspects of two recent theories: the artist Walter Sickert and the occultist Robert D'Onston Stephenson.
- Grace Dieu was Henry V's flagship. Deliberately beached in the mud of river Hamble, upriver from Bursledon. Divers dig across the stern to discover length and size of the ship.
- Bone and pottery suggest a butchery rather than a dwelling. But experts differ.
- Barristers Sasha and Jeremy revisit a seaside murder case from 1900 and catch up with the relative of the convicted man, who is now on the trail of a mysterious brother-in-law.
- Daniel find out his Jewish ancestor was accused of fraud at a time when being Jewish, was seen as an outsider though out Europe hate speech was on the rise. He's grandfather on his mothers side owned a jewelry shop in London and after fire his grandfather was main suspect making him feel like there was not was out he wrote a note and took his own life. He also follows up on Irish ancestry.
- George lends a hand with the restoration of an Edwardian arts-and-crafts terraced house where the amazing original features are in need of some TLC.
- In the common imaginary, Portugal had nothing to do with World War I. But as the Portuguese troops fought in Africa and Flanders, the German sunk a Portuguese navy boat right outside of Lisbon. German families, some long positioned in Portugal, fought for survival in Portuguese prisoner camps. An unknown episode of Portugal's part in World War I.
- 1994– 1hNot Rated7.6 (10)TV EpisodeEdward III wanted loyalty from his knights, which he got through tournaments. He also built a round chamber to meet in, modeled on one's he had seen elsewhere. But why was it built?
- How the fear of hospitals among elderly patients and the idea of a 'good death' enabled Dr Harold Shipman to murder patients in their own homes and remain undetected for nearly 30 years.
- Did Harold Shipman begin killing patients when he was working as a junior doctor in Pontefract? Did preconceptions about the elderly victims allow him to to get away with murdering hundreds of people, in plain sight, for nearly 30 years?
- Actress and screenwriter Ruth Jones returns to her Welsh seaside hometown to explore the fascinating family line of her great great great grandfather on her mother's side, a hardworking 19th century merchant ship captain from New Quay, and the highly successful and noble, yet cruelly ironic career of her grandfather on her father's side who worked as the secretary for the Medical Aid Society, a self-financed workers' healthcare organization which directly inspired the formation of the NHS only to eventually end up getting disbanded by the government as superfluous.
- It is etched in the Dutch collective memory: the gruesome murder of Johan and Cornelis de Witt in the disaster year of 1672. Anyone who reconstructs the events surrounding the lynching party is still amazed at what happened in The Hague that 20th of August. How is it that two such respected regents, who have spent nearly twenty years serving the Republic, are so dishonored?
- At the end of the 18th century, the Netherlands fell under the spell of revolution. Inspired by the American Revolution and even before the French, the so-called patriots want to get rid of the corrupt administration of the House of Orange and pave the way for reforms. Their most powerful representative is Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (1761-1825). His great legal and political talent is recognized by the man who decided the fate of Europe at that time: Napoleon.
- Takes a look at contemporary America, and how it has become nothing like the vision of the new world first imagined by the founding fathers.
- Josh discovers the reality of a family legend claiming connections to a famous banking family. He also learns of how his ancestors had close connections to royalty.
- Comedian Joe Lycett learns about his funny and not so funny ancestors.