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Historian Richard Holmes brings us the extraordinary story of America's first civil war. We've been told that the War of Independence was the American people's struggle for liberty against an oppressive colonial power. However, many Americans were loyal to the British Crown throughout the war; men and women often chose sides not because they wanted freedom, but because they wanted their neighbour's land. Using vivid reconstruction, eye-witness accounts, original documents and paintings, and Richard's proven story-telling skills, this film overthrows traditional perceptions about these compelling years. As the story unfolds, the truth emerges - a truth far more fascinating than we were ever led to believe.

The first impression of Khoa and Truong about each other was not very good, both sides did not want to see each other's faces anymore, but the flow of life pushed them both to appear in the same extra class and from here many situations played out. It caused both of them to change from hate to love at any time.-Prequel of "You are my stupid boy" and Sequel of "Stupid boys, stupid love".

For three-and-a-half long years, the small town of Market Wetherby has been doggedly getting on with the war; contending with ration books and shortages, of 'Digging for Victory' and news on the 'Wireless'. Into this quiet corner of wartime tranquillity arrive the 525th Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Group. Consequently, welcoming 'Flying Fortress' bombers and 2,500 officers and men does not come easy to the inhabitants of this sleepy village... Made by London Weekend Television for the ITV Network.

Two women, young and beautiful, form a strong friendship. Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse, lively and cheerful, free in body and mind, who collects adventures, and Anne of Austria, Queen of France, prudish and shy who, married too young and abandoned by her husband the king Louis XIII suffers from neurasthenia.

The story follows the female author Hua Qingge as she unexpectedly enters the world of her own novel, taking on the role of a supporting character destined for failure. Armed with the script, she anticipates turning the tide, but instead, her journey takes a series of unexpected turns as she becomes entangled in a tale of love and hate with Ji Chu.

Ray Mears explores Britain's distant past, from the earliest evidence of people in Britain, right up to the moment that everything would change.On his journey, Ray discovers how our ancestors survived, from hunting and gathering, to raising crops on agricultural farms. Ray will discover the technologies they used, the knowledge they passed down and the traces they left behind.

Exploring the eerie, puzzling and unnerving historical elements, places, icons, or events that seem to be plagued by what can only be described as a 'curse'.

Filmed over 5 years, this series will trace the enormous engineering challenges faced by what is the greatest public transport project in Australia's history: a brand new, state-of-the-art metro system through, beneath and above the streets of this iconic city of five million people.

The extraordinary biography of Annie Silva Pais, daughter of the director of Salazar's portuguese political police, of remarkable beauty and sensuality but also with an enormous spirit of rebellion. In 1965, at the age of 30 while married to a swiss diplomat and living in Havana, leaves her husband and family to commit herself to the cuban revolution, being secretly in love with Che Guevara.

The drama portrays the destined romantic tale of the cold and aloof Prince Jiang Xinbai, who suffers from prosopagnosia, and the spirited female physician Yan Nanxing, who transforms each month. Together, they embark on a journey through love and adventure, uncovering their fated bond in the martial world. The story also follows their strong and solitary characters as they overcome numerous obstacles to uphold justice, offering viewers a glimpse into the true essence of love. While external appearances matter, this drama underscores the importance of a heart-to-heart connection. Love isn't about possession or conquest; being "captivated by love" isn't merely focused on superficial attributes. True love transcends appearances, social status, grudges, and other external factors. It perseveres in pursuing justice and willingly assumes a lifelong responsibility for that love, even extending to safeguarding the world.

During the late Ming dynasty, a time when the nation faced enemies externally and within, the young hero Geng Yu Jing discovered that his birth parents' death was due to a conspiracy which snared the martial world. As he embarked on a journey of self-discovery traveling back to his birthplace at Northeast frontiers of China, he uncovered dark secrets of the past, found warm friendship and romance but also sorrow and enmity. These adventures eventually shaped him to became the legend known as the 'First Sword of Wudang'.

A comprehensive picture of the faith of mankind - this series features the origins and mutual impact of 5 world religions, and gets behind their festivals, traditions and the challenges of today.

Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons stars in this sweeping adaption of Dava Sobel's best-selling book of high seas adventure and political intrigue. Determined to stop shipping losses on the oceans of the 18th century, Britain's Parliament offers a fabulous cash award to anyone who can devise a way to determine longitute at sea. Convinced he can solve the problem that has defeated England's best minds, rural clock maker John Harrison (Michael Gambon) begins an obsessive, 40-year struggle to claim the Longitude prize with his ingenious marine clock. 200 years later, naval officer Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons) stumbles across Harrison's forgotten chronometers and devotes himself to restoring these long-neglected mechanical masterpieces.

This show is a documentary series that looks at the earliest examples of human ingenuity and examines their relationship to today's popular inventions. The focus of the show is the historical context of man's earliest works of ingenuity.

A poor, black immigrant woman is shot and killed in Madrid. The crime triggers an unprecedented social reaction. Who killed Lucrecia? Why? The first clues point to far-right groups. Three decades after the crime, Lucrecia's story stands as a journey to the roots of hatred. With previously unpublished footage, this moving narrative brings to light a crime that goes down in Spanish history as its first racist murder.

Compiled from video footage and eyewitness accounts to the headline making events and attempts to educate the viewer as to what really happened in a particular event.

Summer 1945. An iron curtain comes down, separating the Communist Eastern bloc and the West, led by the Americans. And nuclear weapons leaves mankind under perpetual threat of a new Apocalypse.

In 1940s Amsterdam, Jewish Council co-chairman David Cohen and his daughter Virrie have their bond tested as they pursue increasingly opposing ways of safeguarding their community under Nazi rule.

Through the story of 65 million years of evolution around a volcanic hotspot in the Indian Ocean, the two-part A Volcano Odyssey discovers how a lava gush flooded an area as large as France, partially caused the demise of dinosaurs but also helped the emergence of mammals and new life forms.

The legacies of history's most notorious cult leaders.

Anchors of the program during the early 1960s, sometimes for short periods, included Alex Dreier, John Secondari, Fendall Winston Yerxa, Al Mann, Bill Shadel, and the three-person team of John Cameron Swayze (formerly of NBC), Bill Lawrence, and Bill Sheehan.

The end of the thirteenth century. The envoy of the Golden Horde - Mengu-Temir, a handsome and connoisseur of female beauty arrives in the capital of Russia. He came to steal thousands of Russian soldiers into the Horde, but he is ready to be content with only a part if Grand Duke Yaroslav returns the princess Ustinia, the wife of his brother Boris. Yaroslav is not ready to violate the laws of Faith and Honor, but Boris himself is taking this step, hoping that this sacrifice will ensure him a princely throne. Ustinya with a caravan goes to a foreign land. Mengu leaves Yaroslav a "gift" from the Great Khan - young Nargiz, who awakens the prince to life and puts him before a fateful choice. On one side of the scales - love and passion, on the other - the throne and the life of Nargiz herself, which neither the people nor the lawful wife of Yaroslav accepts.

Host Knute Berger mines the Pacific Northwest's historical and cultural nuggets. Learn hidden backstories behind the region's most interesting treasures and discover why they're still relevant today.

This six-part series presents the definitive history of archaeology, a 250-year worldwide odyssey that began with the unearthing of the ruins of Pompeii buried beneath the ash of Mt. Vesuvius. In a short time, archaeologists started pursuing very different objectives: some were treasure-seekers hoping to plunder antiquities of the ancient world; others sought to prove theories about the origins of civilization or the historical accuracy of Homer or the Bible; still others focused on humans themselves, trying to determine the age of the species. The series also looks at how archaeology has been misused as an instrument of foreign policy and where the study is going in the future with new technologies and methods.

10th century, the most powerful state in Europe rests on a terrible secret that may threaten the very foundations of Christianity. Captured between political intrigues and warrior battles the young prince Bayan is searching for an ancient alphabet that could save his doomed love or his kingdom. A medieval mystery drama about the birth of the Cyrillic alphabet.