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Homicide detective Rod Demery and famed scientist Professor Turi King team up to investigate history's most intriguing murders using modern investigation techniques. Demery visits crime scenes and interviews archaeologist witnesses, while King, best known for leading the DNA verification of Richard III of England, examines the latest forensic evidence.

Recounts the story of the extended royal family that once ruled the whole of Europe. Told through the eyes of Queen Victoria's granddaughters, the series will combine premium scripted drama with a host of expert historians to tell the tale of one of the most compelling, powerful yet dysfunctional families in history.

How the trade in stolen antiquities and art has become a major source of income for criminal syndicates, gangs, and terrorists across the globe.

The release of this documentary series will mark the year WWII became the most catastrophic conflict in human history. From the 1920s a detestation of the Soviet Untermenschen had been a central part of Hitler's ideology. A war with Soviet Russia was always a precondition for the success of his racial vision; for the flourishing of Aryan man.

The Guilty Innocent with Christopher Eccleston is a gripping new series that explores some of the biggest miscarriages of justice in history. Each meticulously researched episode will see EMMY award-winning actor Christopher Eccleston lead an in-depth contemporary investigation into some of the world's most infamous cases of wrongful convictions. Using archive footage, talking head interviews with historical experts and reconstruction, each exciting close-ended episode will bring to life these fascinating stories and explore why and how the system got the wrong person and what it says about our world today.

Craig Charles, the BBC 6 Music Radio DJ, star of Red Dwarf and Coronation Street, hosts the show alongside world renowned space journalist astrophysicist, and award-winning author Sarah Cruddas. Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies follows sci-fi favourite and long-time UFO enthusiast Craig and astrophysicist Sarah as they scrutinise compelling evidence relating to some of the most perplexing UFO encounters of recent years, revealing never before heard testimony to separate fact from fiction and ask: are the unexplained aerial phenomena prowling our skies extra-terrestrial?

Discover the key turning point in history - which started in June 1944 - through personal witness testimony and colourised archive footage.

With exclusive access to unprecedent archeological discoveries, Field of Vampires travels throughout Eastern, Central and Western Europe and the US to understand how the myth of vampires began, unlock the secrets of the extraordinary ritual burials of those suspected of vampiric behaviour, and explore why some dead people were singled out as being vampires.

Series delving into strategic catastrophes and doomed military decisions.

Retelling history through the eye of a camera lens, this documentary series explores the stories behind some of the most impactful photographs of all time.

Retrace the 100 days of battle as the Allies liberated Normandy, broke through the German line and paved the way towards victory.

The shocking facts behind battles that were fought covertly. Digging deep into archives and quizzing experts and journalists, this series uncovers some of the most controversial, covered up and shocking military operations since the Second World War.

This is a story of greatness - the story of how a man, matched to a moment in history, becomes a giant. For Winston Churchill, the war made the difference. And what a difference it made.