An exploration of the tumultuous life of King Herod the Great, as well as the rise and fall of the kingdom of Judea under the Roman Empire, through the words of Titus Flavius Josephus, a Romanized Jewish historian.
The Howard Years was a documentary series about the prime ministership of John Howard produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was divided into four one-hour episodes - one episode for each term Howard served as Prime Minister of Australia - and originally broadcast on ABC1 from 17 November to 8 December 2008.
In this adaptation of the award-winning podcast, Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh excavates the strange subplots and forgotten characters of recent political history—and finds surprising parallels to the present.
A shepherd who is the son of a fugitive and killed scribe of the court of Mu'awiya, came to see and write about the encounter between Shimr and Umar ibn Sa'd's forces with the army of Imam Husayn on the afternoon of Ashura.
This is a story about the soldiers of a cannon battery in the First World War that, like hundreds of thousands of others, made the glory of the Serbian army become immortal.
Hosted by Ian Nathan, this series features the cinematic stories of the Cold War era: propaganda, nuclear fear, a change in the US society; the spy games; and the rise and fall of the USSR and East Germany (and everything in between). Film critics and historians examine the industry both as it was happening in real time, and how films from this period have become seminal classics.
When a nameless amnesiac wakes up in a bunker, they're immediately thrust into the trenches of an endless war. The Crown Army demands service from every soldier, regardless if you can remember your own name... or even how you got here at all.
A dual timeline follows wartime radio operators risking their lives to transmit warnings in 1939 and modern students using tech to rescue them across time.