Unravelling the histories and legends that unleashed a wave of misfortune into the world, these tales of intrigue, heartbreak, and deception are so tragic people still speak of the sinsiter forces surrounding the cursed...
Engineering Evolved takes you on a captivating ride through the evolution of transportation. From high-speed trains to submarines, each episode uncovers the engineering marvels that shape our world.
Death... What happens after? This question has plagued humanity since the very beginning. Now, we investigate the secrets of ancient civilizations using their approach to death and the hereafter to shed new light...
WWII. The Nazis create an elite team of scientists to scour the globe and mount expeditions to extreme and harsh locations. Their mission: rewrite history and collect ancient artifacts in the name of the thousand-year Reich.
When the war ends in 1945, the Allies and Soviets sweep across former Nazi territory, freeing Europe from the clutches of the Axis. As the threat of the Nazis recedes, it leaves behind artefacts of a dark science geared towards world domination.
Secret rituals. Blood oaths. Dark ceremonies. Fraternal orders. Around the world, and throughout history, secret societies have bubbled under the surface. Do they pull the levers of power or set out to destroy the ones in charge?
Using experts and scientists, rare archive footage and cutting edge CGI animation, Secrets in the Ice features the mysteries and lost relics from the coldest places on earth.
Few defining moments can change the outcome of war. But when the outnumbered Royal Air Force defied insurmountable odds in engaging the German Luftwaffe, they may well have altered the course of history...
Chappaquiddick examines the infamous 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and the moral and legal complexities that play out over the following week...
Ripe for a moneymaking scheme, the demoralized Chicago White Sox agree to throw the World Series. When they're defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix, and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp. In doing so, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history, who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted.
A searing Australian revenge tale, and a stark revisionist Western, that offers a powerful new interrogation of Australian history and a universal story of what a mother will do to protect her children.
Michael is wounded in France during WWI, and returns home scarred. While in the hospital, he meets Sarah, but when her younger brother signs up to go to war, Michael feels compelled to return to Europe to protect him...
A slave turned gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.
Touzhalem examines Cowichan Chief Tzouhalem, the account of his life from historians and First Nations Elders, the folkloric tales concerning him, and his impact on the modern relationship between the Crown and First Nations...
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Gustav Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.
For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden.