The Greco-Persian War was pivotal in the creation of the modern world - yet all that is generally remembered are the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. This documentary examines the whole history, from the Ionian Revolt (497BC) to the Peace of Callias (449BC), and also covers the legacies of the war - including Democracy.
Zhao Kuangyin was the founding emperor of imperial China's Song Dynasty, reigning from 960 until his death. During his reign, he conquered the states of Southern Tang, Later Shu, Southern Han and Jingnan, thus reunifying most of China proper and effectively ending the tumultuous Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He was succeeded by Emperor Taizong, his younger brother who possibly murdered him for the throne.
The Battle of the Rhineland was one of the largest WW2 battles the Allies fought on German soil and part of the critical final campaign against Nazi Germany on the western front.
The Battle for the Rhineland was a series of operations in early 1945, the dramatic finale of the Allied advance from the coast of Normandy to the borders of the Reich. The desperate German forces had managed to form a last line of defence with their backs to the Rhine – the famous river that stood between the Allies and the heart of the German Reich.
After Japan announced its unconditional surrender in 1945, news spread that a batch of Japanese arms had been hidden in Longcheng. The Communist Party, the Kuomintang, and local warlords launched a desperate struggle for this. Gao Fei was ordered to go to Longcheng to search for clues for his dead brother. He led Jin Xiaoban, He Min and others, with the help of the Communist Party, together with Shen Bing sent by the Kuomintang, Lu Dingjun, a local warlord who dominated one side, and the Japanese squad who were unwilling to surrender.
The Normandy landings of 1944 were pivotal to the outcome of WW2. Discover when Churchill and Roosevelt first proposed the operation and how preparations started, finishing with the key events of D-Day and the far-reaching effects of its outcome.
In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers' class revolt.
Hitler’s Secret Sex Life exposes the myriad of rumours, theories and disputed historical accounts of Adolf Hitler's sexual psychology. There is no shortage of experts on Hitler's sex life who consider his predictions to be a barometer of the dictator's twisted psyche. Each episode will address a specific time period of Hitler's alleged and proven sex life and explores the role it played in shaping his behaviour.
The decades during the Cold War were one thing above all: a race between scientists. Researchers, engineers and experts from the USA and the Soviet Union not only drove the space program, but also experimented in the fields of atomic energy, weapons technology and meteorology. The documentary highlights the technological advances from 1947-1991 in four episodes.