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- The life and career of Little Richard, the one-of-a-kind rock 'n' roll icon who shaped the world of music.
- Follow the Indianapolis Star reporters that broke the story about USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's abuse and hear from gymnasts like Maggie Nichols.
- After rigorous testing in 1961, a small group of skilled female pilots are asked to step aside when only men are selected for the spaceflight.
- Interviews with former children who survived the Holocaust concentration camps and who were rehabilitated in a disused aircraft factory overlooking Lake Windermere in the UK, and whose experiences in adjusting to freedom in a foreign country were dramatised in The Windermere Children (2020). It also describes their experiences as they were rounded up by the Germans in their home towns and taken by cattle train to concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
- Designer, architect and town planner, Charlotte Perriand marked the 20th century. A pioneer of social and committed architecture, this collaborator at Le Corbusier has created furniture with sober elegance that has become icons.
- Over fifty years ago there was a concerted effort by the elected leaders of many southern states to oppose racial desegregation of public schools. Following a mandate by the U.S. Supreme Court to desegregate, Virginia's government instead chose to lead a movement called Massive Resistance that affected the lives of school children across most of the South and left a permanent scar.
- Using strong body of evidence and expert analysis, journalists expose Qatari program of proselytizing political Islam in Europe
- Paris unter deutscher Besatzung: Während die Franzosen im Alltag vom Nazi-Terror bedroht sind, herrscht auf dem Kunstmarkt Hochstimmung. Was sich in dem berühmten Aktionshaus Hôtel Drouot vollzieht, ist ein unheilvoller, skrupelloser Handel: Unzählige der dort eingehenden Werke stammen aus dem Besitz jüdischer Familien, die durch deutsche An- und Verordnungen beraubt wurden. Unter der NS-Besatzung erlebte der Kunstmarkt in Frankreich einen unerhörten Boom. Zwischen 1940 und 1944 sollen etwa 100.000 Kunstwerke, Kunst- und Kulturgegenstände von Frankreich nach Deutschland gebracht worden sein. In langjähriger Arbeit hat die französische Autorin und Kunsthistorikerin Emmanuelle Polack diesem gigantischen kriminellen Kunsttransfer nachgespürt und neue Ergebnisse zutage gefördert. Ihre Indizien führen zu Galeristen, Sammlern, Händlern, Vertretern des NS-Regimes, Versteigerern, Konservatoren und einfachen Mittelsleuten. Den historischen Hintergrund bilden die von der Vichy-Regierung unter Marschall Pétain erlassenen antisemitischen Gesetze, die im besetzten Frankreich galten und von den französischen Behörden durchgesetzt wurden. Tausende von Kunstwerken aus dem Besitz verfolgter und deportierter Juden wurden geraubt oder zu Spottpreisen erworben. Ein blinder Fleck des kollektiven Gedächtnisses, der an die aktuelle Restitutionsdebatte anknüpft. Erst 2020 begann der Louvre genauer zu überprüfen, welche Kunstwerke während der Okkupation vom Museum erworben wurden. In Deutschland wurden, ebenfalls 2020, drei Werke der Sammlung Dorville an die Familie von Armand Dorville zurückgegeben, aufgefunden bei Cornelius Gurlitt (1932-2014), dem Sohn und Erben von Hildebrand Gurlitt (1895-1956), der ab 1940 vor allem in Paris einer von Hitlers Haupteinkäufern für das geplante Führermuseum ("Sonderauftrag Linz") im damals zum Großdeutschen Reich gehörenden Linz gewesen war. Linz ist gut hundert Kilometer von Braunau am Inn entfernt, wo Adolf Hitler 1889 geboren wurde.
- January 1943. With defeat in Russia and North Africa, Hitler now has to face a new battlefront: the fight for the skies above the Fatherland itself.
- Hitler plans to destroy Britain's air power and land troops in southern England.
- 2019– 43m7.4 (6)TV Episode
- Japan's do-or-die struggle to create and control an airfield in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is chronicled. A succinct historical summary of the American vs Japanese Battle of Guadalcanal.
- The battle for Saipan is the ultimate test of the megastructure underpinning Japanese forces.
- Hitler and Erwin Rommel take on the Allies in the epic Desert War.
- The Nazis make use of Sicily's rugged landscape to evade the Allies' vast invasion force.
- A look at the origins of rail transport during the Industrial Revolution.
- A look at how the railroad ended slavery in the United States, whilst the British Empire used them to oppress and enslave people under their rule in India and Africa.
- The steam train reached its zenith in the Old World, and in the New World trains like the Burlington Zephyr were part pf the race for modernity.
- The fast advancement of freight trains, that can haul heavy weights across thousands of miles, and are the leviathan that keep the world on track.
- Travelling between cities around the world becomes easier, and the solution in the United Kingdom became steam that ran under the city - the London Underground.
- The modern supertrains of Mainland China.
- Speeding at 430 km/h, a futuristic levitating train makes the 30 km journey from the Pudong to Shanghaiin in just 8 minutes. As the world's first operating electromagnetic levitation train system, the MAGLEV travels at lightning speed and could change the way we look at travel technology forever.
- 202146m8.4 (10)TV EpisodeIn 1932 the NSDAP became the strongest party in the parliament then President Hindenburg and the conservative parties undermine the remnants of democracy.
- 202145m8.0 (12)TV EpisodeIn seemingly open elections Hitler secures the approval of the people, President Hindenburg suspends freedom of speech. Then the first concentration camps are set for Hitler's political opponents.
- 202145m8.1 (10)TV EpisodeIn 1934 with Hitler's government firmly in control the regime's terror escalates while the majority of Germans support Hitler's anti-Jewish policy.
- 202145m8.2 (11)TV EpisodeAt the end of 1939 the Wehrmacht invade Poland, closely followed by the SS who are there to murder thousands of the Polish intelligentsia.
- 202144m8.6 (9)TV EpisodeIn mid 1941 Hitler invades the Soviet Union to gain living space in the east for the Germans. Meanwhile the Nazi regime gradually advances its "final solution to the Jewish problem", culminating in the Holocaust.
- 202144m8.3 (7)TV EpisodeThe Nazi murder plan, "Operation Reinhardt", took nearly two million lives within a few months in 1942/1943 of those held in Sobibor, Treblinka and Majdanek concentration camps.
- 202145m8.5 (7)TV EpisodeThe defeat at Stalingrad in 1943 was the turning point of the war and convinced the Nazi leadership to intensify their terror and propaganda campaigns, a horrific chapter of the Holocaust begins with the death marches of surviving concentration camp prisoners from the battlefields to the Reich.
- 202146m8.4 (7)TV EpisodeWhen the war ends in 1945 the violence is not over. The survivors and the winners want to blame the Germans. The reckoning with National Socialism is ambivalent.
- 202257m7.3 (18)TV Episode
- Death in Paradise star Ralf Little leaves the sun-drenched Caribbean well behind as he heads to the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland to investigate his grandfather Arthur's experiences during World War II.
- As Nasa prepares space shuttle Columbia for its 28th mission, excitement and trepidation build amongst the astronauts and their families while they count down to launch.
- Nasa engineers spot a piece of debris striking the shuttle during launch. In space, the crew continue their mission, unaware of the concerns, but the clock is ticking to re-entry.
- Alfred Kinsey's book 'Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male' (1948) was credited with kickstarting the sexual revolution. What many people don't know about Kinsey is that Chapter 5 of his book, which dealt with child sexuality, was compiled from the diaries of a paedophile.
- In retaliation for devastating Allied bombing raids on German cities, Hitler orders the development of a groundbreaking weapon. This is the story of one of the most ambitious projects of the Third Reich: Hitler's Vengeance weapon, the V1. Though it was ready too late to make a difference to the outcome of the war, its legacy is the cruise missile -- a weapon that changed the face of war forever.
- As European countries fall like dominoes to the all-conquering German armies, Hitler becomes convinced of his own military genius. He plans to invade Russia and orders the construction of a huge, heavily protected command complex of bunkers and buildings named the Wolf's Lair. But as he isolates himself in his concrete city, the war begins to slip from his grasp and a conspiracy is hatched to make the secret base his tomb.
- As Hitler's power grows within Nazi Germany, so does that of the SS. From its humble beginnings as Hitler's personal body guard, the SS under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler becomes a terrifying cult that engineers Hitler's vision for a new Germany. By the start of the war, the SS holds sway in politics, police and security and is responsible for the creation of the concentration camps. Its power, influence and terror spread with the creation of a military wing: the Waffen SS. By the end of the war, the SS has grown into a machine that controls of every aspect of the Third Reich and brutally disposes of any opposition to Hitler.
- The formidable Seigried line, didn't come into play prior to Nazi Germany's invasion of France so it was substantially disassembled to build the Atlantic Wall. Five years later after D-Day Germany desperately attempted to refortify the decayed, disassembled and somewhat obsolete defenses. Battle focuses on Aachen where the allies employ withering fire power but become stalled leading Germany to squander its remaining military strength in the Battle of the Bulge leaving the Sigfried line open to a rapid crossing by the allies.
- In violation of the Treat of Versailles Hitler embarked on a program to build massive battleships but was only able to produce two; Bismarck and Tirpitz. To the frustration of his naval commanders Hiller found the ships far more valuable as propaganda weapons then warships. But they were obsolete almost as soon the they were launched and both succumbed to the emerging dominance of air power.
- The design, construction and use of Hitler's retreat in the Bavarian Alps, Eagle's Nest.
- In yet another example of Hilter's folly he orders impregnable fortresses built on the Channel Islands. Despite the incredible expense of construction the fortifications prove useless when the Allies go on the offensive on D-Day. But , it was a safe, if dull, place for a few German soldiers to wait out the war.
- U-boat innovations that were advanced well beyond any other submarine designs of WW2, including the Walter propulsion system, the Type XVII the Type XXI.