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Christopher Columbus

Columbus is famous for reaching the Americas and opening a new world to European pioneers

• 46 mins

The Knights Templar

How did such a powerful international organisation suddenly find itself brought down?

• 51 mins

The Tudors, Part 1 of 2

Marked by political, religious, and cultural change, the Tudors shaped English history.

• 58 mins

The Vikings

Who were the mortal men and women behind the immortal legends of the Norsemen?

• 51 mins

The Tudors Part 2

The later Tudor years were marked by turmoil, intrigue, and national transformation.

• 55 mins

The Real Greatest Showman

Behind all the smoke and mirrors, was PT Barnum really the Greatest Showman on Earth?

• 56 mins

The Titanic

In 1912, a collision with an iceberg sent Titanic to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

• 44 mins

The Egyptian Sphinx

The Great Sphinx is one of Egypt’s most spectacular and mysterious monuments.

• 50 mins

Pearl Harbor, Part 1 of 3

In 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the course of the Second World War.

• 45 mins

The Salem Witch Trials

In 1692, the most infamous witch hunt in history took place in Salem, Massachusetts.

• 54 mins

Pearl Harbor, Part 2 of 3

Chaos reigns in the immediate aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

• 49 mins

VE Day

Amid the devastation of WW2, how do Europe's citizens look forward with optimism?

• 50 mins

Pearl Harbor, Part 3 of 3

As the smoke clears after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the blame game begins.

• 54 mins

The Anglo-Saxons

How did the Anglo-Saxon period shape England as we know it today?

• 58 mins

Henry VIII

In 1509, at just seventeen years old, Henry VIII was crowned King of England.

• 53 mins

The Romanovs

The Romanovs turned Russia from a fractured land into one of history's largest empires

• 56 mins

Chernobyl

1986. The Chernobyl power plant becomes the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.

• 54 mins

Alfred Hitchcock

How did an introverted working-class boy become Hollywood's ‘Master of Suspense’?

• 53 mins

The Terracotta Army

Discovered in 1974, the Terracotta Army became the unofficial eighth wonder of the world.

• 37 mins

Anne Frank

Anne Frank’s diary captured life in hiding during WWII, through which her story lives on.

• 48 mins

Queen Elizabeth the Second: Part 1 of 2

Queen Elizabeth II modernised her role while managing a family often thrown by scandal.

• 53 mins

First Emperor of China

How did a teenage king change the course of Chinese history forever?

• 53 mins

Queen Elizabeth the Second: Part 2 of 2

How will the era-spanning reign of Queen Elizabeth II be remembered?

• 50 mins

The Manhattan Project

The US Government race against Nazi Germany to harness the power of nuclear fission.

• 56 mins

Marco Polo

Why are Marco Polo's travels still remembered almost eight centuries later?

• 54 mins

The Spanish Flu

The influenza pandemic of 1918-20 killed at least 50 million people.

• 51 mins

Amelia Earhart

As one of the great pioneers, Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

• 51 mins

Arthur Conan Doyle

How did a young medical student from Edinburgh transform crime fiction forever?

• 53 mins

The Spanish Armada

Why did the 16th-century confrontation between England and Spain take place?

• 47 mins

The Shroud of Turin

The Shroud of Turin is believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth.

• 50 mins