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Browse - Most popular history shows
Tony Robinson's Gods and Monsters
Tony Robinson explores the weird and wonderful history of belief, superstition and religious experience in Britain.
For 2000 years, Britain has been a Christian country. Or has it? In fact, our ancestors actually kept many other dark, fantastical beliefs alive.
It was a world underpinned by outlandish, dangerous and plain weird beliefs. Ideas that today seem unbelievable, but were seen as uncontroversial and hugely influential, with some having shaped our history as much as mainstream religion.
Cleopatra
Cleopatra reveals how this capable sovereign survived a murderous and incestuous dynasty, securing her future by seducing one of Rome's greatest leaders, and how her fall from grace and ultimate death meant history would never forget her legacy. The series draws on dramatic reconstructions and evidence from key experts to tell the real story behind Egypt's most well-known, enigmatic ruler.
Patton 360
As the United States enters World War Two, General George S. Patton sees the opportunity to fulfill his destiny. This series illustrates his combat exploits. But at times it seems he faced greater challenges with his superiors and his off the field behavior than the potent German army.
Napoléon
For the first time ever, Napoleon the man and legend is depicted on screen in all of his facets: as a man of human needs and desires, strengths and weaknesses; as a soldier, politician and visionary who raised himself above his fellow mortals and transformed himself into a myth.
"Napoleon" sweeps away the pathos of previous portrayals and presents its subject in all of his complexity and contradictions. It provokes questions and challenges common assumptions. It paints a portrait of Napoleon that respects the facts and depicts him as a man whose life can still move and inspire all of us today.
This 4 part mini-series won the 2003 EMMY AWARD for outstanding costumes, along with 6 further nominations.
The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements
"The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements" is an exciting PBS series about one of the great adventures in the history of science: the long (and continuing) quest to understand what the world is made of-to identify, understand and organize the basic building blocks of matter. Three hour-long episodes introduce viewers to some of history's most extraordinary scientists: Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier, whose discovery of oxygen-and radical interpretation of it-led to the modern science of chemistry; Humphry Davy, who made electricity a powerful new tool in the search for elements; Dmitri Mendeleev, whose Periodic Table brought order to the growing gaggle of elements; Marie Curie, whose groundbreaking research on radioactivity cracked open a window into the atom; Harry Moseley, whose discovery of atomic number redefined the Periodic Table; and Glenn Seaborg, whose discovery of plutonium opened up a whole new realm of elements, still being explored today.
The Color of War
At its core, World War II was a black-and-white struggle between good and evil. But the everyday scenes of carnage, human resistance, and guttural warfare were much more complex. A striking assemblage of color footage and photographs from national archives and private collections, The Color of War delivers striking perspectives on the day-to-day experience from every imaginable angle. From the first draftees thrown into the breach to the sheer boredom between battles to the uniforms worn and the objects carried, this unparalleled collection of voices is further illuminated by letters and diaries, communiques from the battlefield and the sounds and songs of the era.
Eternal Egypt
Explore the history of the Ancient Egyptians and how their culture had a lasting effect on those who live there today. Dive into the importance of the great Nile River, their unique view on death, the desert that defines the area, and the legacy that has been left behind. This cradle of humanity seems to be a never-ending wealth of insight to our past.
Roman Megastructures
50 BC: Julius Cesar reigned supreme over Gaul. But this was no simple military conquest.
Rome wanted to spread its greatness, bringing civilization to the defeated barbarians now part of the Empire. Rome's new territory was transformed through huge construction projects, involving aqueducts, roads, baths, amphitheaters, and arenas.
This series explores three cities that today are home to the vestiges of this industrious civilization. Through the use of CGI, archive footage, aerial imagery, and expert testimony, this trilogy unveils the secrets of these wonders of Roman engineering.
Filles Du Feu
In 1609, in the Basque Country. Coming from a long line of healers, three sisters see their lives put in danger by the arrival in the region of judge Pierre de Lancre, a demonologist commissioned by King Henry IV. Hostile and terrified by the freedom and knowledge of the women, he will lead what will be one of the deadliest witch hunts in France. Plunged into the middle of a nightmare, the three sisters find themselves having to fight, each in their own way, to try to survive.
Casualty 1909
CASUALTY 1909 is the latest 6-part series for the highly successful CASUALTY 1900s strand on BBC ONE. It follows on from CASUALTY 1907 and CASUALTY 1906
Dramatised from original hospital records, private papers and newspaper stories CASUALTY 1909 is set in the London Hospital in the dangerous, desperately poor East End. Revolution is in the air. Anarchists are suspected of 'outrages', Suffragettes are violently protesting, the hospital itself is under attack from animal rights activists. The London is on the frontline in an age of radical change.
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